Clark - Totems Flare

  On 6/29/2009 at 12:07 AM, Awepittance said:

i like listening to Totems flare better on laptop speakers than real ones. does that make me a dick head?

That's how i am with songs I think are good but have been poorly produced, the instances where I'd rather just hear the song and not the botched mix job. I think this just means you really don't like things that are overcompressed. Of course, you already knew that heheh. So no, I don't think it makes you a dickhead. I can get behind Clark's brickwalls every now and again. I do miss the dynamics of his older albums, especially since it was something he did particularly well when he was doing it. But I dig the polar opposite too, definitely fits what he's doing the past few years. Haven't heard this one yet.

i'm not an audiophile at all. i think the production on this sounds incredible.

This is wow.

rainbow voodoo. best shit ever.

  On 7/7/2009 at 2:50 PM, Stickfigger said:

So ive had this release for a couple of weeks now and am really appreciating it. So much so that its enabling me to get a little more into turning dragon... an album which i never fully gave much of a chance. the mastering/mixing of totems flare is far superior to TD... and the tunes sounded very full and lush at Koko on the weekend. I was a bit disappointed that he opened the set with Future Daniel tho... i thought he'd drop that in a little closer to the end of the set. Anyone know who the other guy was with him on stage? no one seems to know....

yeah Koko was just fucking LOUD.

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did you notice if he played any unreleased stuff? A friend mentioned a few songs he didnt know to be on totems flare.. but could've been wrong that night too : )

  On 7/7/2009 at 8:44 PM, plstik said:

yeah Koko was just fucking LOUD.

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did you notice if he played any unreleased stuff? A friend mentioned a few songs he didnt know to be on totems flare.. but could've been wrong that night too : )

thanks for the vid. who's that guy on the right? was he just dry humping his side of the idm desk?

Awesome. Anyone know what Moog model he's got there?

  On 7/7/2009 at 10:21 PM, Deepex said:

Awesome. Anyone know what Moog model he's got there?

Rogue?

  On 7/7/2009 at 11:11 PM, WWBJD said:

Rogue?

Prodigy...? Think you can make out the Prodigy under the MOOG logo.

what exactly goes into playing a live show like that? what are they actually doing? i'm not being critical i'm just wondering

The guy on the left was responsible for the visuals, someone said it was Flat-E but I've never seen him before so wouldn't know. There was a lot of unreleased material played and older tracks extended and mutilated. It was good but there was a lot of waffle and he cut tracks off at odd points where it seemed as though he might bring them in again and smash it, but instead he changed tracks with no concern for any fluidity.

If Clark had cut the crap and made a slightly more cohesive set it would have been immense, the stuff that was good was incredible.

The sound for Tim Exile and Plaid was terrible and the DJ who played inbetween acts was awful, he sped up everything he played to breakcoresque speeds with no regard for the originals, he even managed to make Aphex sound appauling.

Vibert was pretty good from what I saw but because of the previous acts problems and other issues that night I left before the end of his set. He did drag out a Kraftwerk track for too long (with his own Kraftwerk sampling track intertwinned) and start with a Michael Jackson track which at first seemed like a bad choice but it did lift the mood after Clark's mostly apocalyptic sounds.

  On 7/8/2009 at 2:23 AM, vamos scorcho said:

what exactly goes into playing a live show like that? what are they actually doing? i'm not being critical i'm just wondering

ive always been so curious about this myself. seems like a whole lot of useless knob twisting but i have no idea.

  On 7/6/2009 at 6:20 AM, olson said:

Awesome. Where did you get this or how did you do it? I'd love something like this for the "falling man"

found it on his myspace (myspace.com/throttleclark). i really had no reason for posting it here but i'm glad you liked it ha. also heres a falling man png for you i just ripped off the cover of ETBOY

actually heres a somewhat cleaner version. photoshop is a bitch with a trackpad

any guess yet to the lyrics in suns of temper?

You're the man olson!

more from koko

Got my CD from Bleep today, pretty basic Digipack CD with no book or lyrics or anything =/

  On 7/11/2009 at 2:37 PM, Grizz said:

Got my CD from Bleep today, pretty basic Digipack CD with no book or lyrics or anything =/

In case you havent noticed, all of clark's cds/singles are like that. very basic.

Thank god the musics are excel, if he/warp were depending on album sales from the artwork/booklet

they would be in the dumps.

P.s. those videos are to die for !!!

i don't see all the hype over seeing electronic musicians live. why would i want to pay to watch a guy twiddle knobs for an hour+? for all we know in those clark videos he's just got itunes open and hes sittin there twittering like damn i cant believe these fools think i'm actually doing something

Yeah, he doesn't seem very active. He holds the pad down and triggers a wash of filtered noise and tweaks the cutoff lol. oh well. I would still love to see Clark live to hear that shit banging out of a proper system.

And while Clark's cases are always sort of disappointingly minimal, I really like the material his digipacks are made from.

  On 7/12/2009 at 3:02 AM, Deepex said:

And while Clark's cases are always sort of disappointingly minimal, I really like the material his digipacks are made from.

paper and plastic?