Prog rockers need not apply - Def Jux sucka!
Does anyone know if this is out yet?
I heard the single with Trent Reznor - good, solid stuff..
"Tasmanian Pain Coaster", Anyone?
Posted by MF DU on 2007-03-30 13:08:38 +0000
A dystopic nightmare of an album.
Crushing, dense, throbbing, dissonant, droning, well paced, crazy samples.
yep - EL-P's 'I'll Sleep When You're Dead' delivers the goods.
I am busy that night, but if RSN'ers are not doing anything on the night of EL-P's Paradise performance, I would reccomend going to see the Steve Albini of Hip Hop for some sonic shrapnel.
From the Pitchfork review linked above:
"'Tasmanian Pain Coaster', the album's first track, kicks off with a sample from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. "Do you think that if you were falling in space that you would slow down after a while or go faster and faster?" the first voice (Moira Kelley's Donna Hayward) asks. "Faster and faster," heroine Laura Palmer replies. "For a long time, you wouldn't feel anything. And you'd burst into fire, forever."
Posted by Epoisses on 2007-03-30 14:47:55 +0000
"The Steve Albini of hip hop." Good lord.
Posted by ConorClockwise on 2007-03-30 14:49:48 +0000
Had it in my hands last week. Probably should have bought it.
Posted by MF DU on 2007-03-30 14:59:53 +0000
His sound cuts right through yr spinal cord - its good headphone stuff.
I can make you a mix if yr interested.
Posted by MF DU on 2007-03-30 15:05:30 +0000
If you were an extra (Re)fugee in the 'Children of Men' future London landscape, this album might be in yr headphones.
Posted by ConorClockwise on 2007-04-01 04:59:12 +0000
Picked it up today.
Wow, is it sinister. Not necessarily heavy, but fairly dark with lots of rap. Do know if I like it yet.
Posted by ConorClockwise on 2007-04-02 03:45:31 +0000
I think I like it:
'I know this times a fright/ we may have been born yesterday/ but we stayed up all night.'
Cannot call it bubblegum nor soft-shoe; from the gut stuff.
Ridiculous sound snippets.
Posted by MF DU on 2007-04-02 11:06:53 +0000
(Granted I didn't pick up the lyric sheet until yesterday, but):
It took me a full week and a half to figure out that 'Tasmanian Pain Coaster' is about a (not so?) casual exchange between two aquaintances on a subway train platform and the social awkwardness of said exchange on the platform and the deafening silence that ensues on the subway.
IMHO: This album is awesome.
Posted by ConorClockwise on 2007-04-04 04:39:56 +0000
Yep. It is between this and 'Relinquish the Dove' so far for me for albums of the year.
Is that really a sample of radiohead's Myxomatosis in the 3rd or 4th track?
Posted by MF DU on 2007-04-05 13:37:18 +0000
New Tour Date added to Middle East For Tue May 1st
$18 beans, but Im still going to go.
if this doesn't sell out I will be surprised.
this album is like a fungus.
"If you wanna hear some fly shit, some butterfly to the fire shit..."
Posted by MF DU on 2007-04-05 13:38:38 +0000
Love THE EMG sample: "We had some water, smoke and fire and that troubled us a lot: so now we're lowering our prices and they're really really HOT"
Posted by cdubrocker on 2007-04-05 13:45:44 +0000
I have jury duty the next day. I think I'll probably go.
Posted by cdubrocker on 2007-04-05 13:56:28 +0000
Although I'll have to hear more...just listened to "Flyentology," not overly excited about it.
Posted by MF DU on 2007-04-05 17:33:35 +0000
Fair enough.
Mebbe hang with Conor in a situation where you can listen to some of it wit a pair of muscular headphones?
It is stark and bleak - I think when I first bought his DEF Jux debut 'Fantastic Damage' it didn't do much for me for like 6 months or so, and then all of the sudden the song "Deep Space 9mm" grabbed me and would not let go.
I've pretty much been foaming at the mouth ever since.
Posted by MF DU on 2007-04-06 13:21:07 +0000
Tuesday May 22 2007 "Jimmy Kimmel Live"
Monday June 11 2007 "Late Night With Conan O'Brien"
Posted by MF DU on 2007-08-13 07:01:57 +0000
I missed both initially, but found the Conan on You Tube:
Kimmel had a rerun of the performance of a different tune on Friday ,but I am still seeking that out.
Quite a week for hip-hop on Kimmel - Chuck D / Flav Flav et. al were on the night before...
I was hoping the show I was at at the Middle East would have more real musicians as this performance does, but thats neither here nor there.
Posted by MF DU on 2007-08-13 07:03:45 +0000
Got it.
Moogs and Bass abound:
Posted by ConorClockwise on 2007-08-13 22:41:17 +0000
Caught the Kimmel a few days ago. Oddly nu metal, but still solid.