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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:

<i>"'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." </i>

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 <u>would not</u> 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:

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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:

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Posted by ConorClockwise on 2007-08-13 22:41:17 +0000

Caught the Kimmel a few days ago. Oddly nu metal, but still solid.