luke vibert Remix of Vordhosbn by Leila, and Milkman/To Cure A Weakling Child by Born Ruffians

hmm sounds like a cop out!

booo

it's a cover version, not a remix

  On 9/7/2009 at 11:07 PM, thief said:

read in this month's Wire that leila's take on vordhosbn is beatless*

 

* no/little drums

this makes a lot of sense to me. if you had any beat in it at all one would just be thinking "man, the original's beats were so much better". a deconstruction was the only way to handle it.

meltphace edit in Aphex_Twin_-_2009-08-07_Summersonic_10th_Anniversary.mp3 = fuking win

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlIUIIeJZVw

absolute shit.

*immediately turns off clip and goes back to yellow submarine,... yes yellow submarine*

  On 9/8/2009 at 9:31 AM, thanks robert moses said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlIUIIeJZVw

 

absolute shit.

....oh my

Leila's version will be decent I reckon, definitely better going down the beatless route, gonna be some great detuned analogue melodies. The Born Ruffians track is blatantly going to be a waste of space, what on earth even inspired them to cover that song is beyond me.

Leila - a recent defector to Warp form Rephlex - performs "Vordhosbn" from Aphex Twin's under-appreciated Drukqs album entirely on a creaky piano with some subtle processing. Shorn of its frenetic drum programming, the piece is revealed to be as elegantly composed as anything on Richard D. James's Ambient Works albums.

Mira Calix's recreation of Boards of Canada's "In a beautiful place out in the country" all but does without percussion too, replacing misty synthetic drones with with Oliver Coates's cello, and programmed drums with the sparsest of synthetic ticks, and hisses counterpointing rural field recordings. Finding highest common factors between BOC's non-specific nostalgic bliss-out and Mira Calix's compositional rigour and pinpoint production clarity, this manages to surpass the original's powers of uncanny emotive evocation by QUITE SOME WAY.

Jimi Tenor covers Elecktroids' "Japanese Electronics" in a style suggesting YMO playing Afrobeat.

  On 9/8/2009 at 9:31 AM, thanks robert moses said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlIUIIeJZVw

 

absolute shit.

"Leila - a recent defector to Warp form Rephlex - performs "Vordhosbn" from Aphex Twin's under-appreciated Drukqs album entirely on a creaky piano with some subtle processing. Shorn of its frenetic drum programming, the piece is revealed to be as elegantly composed as anything on Richard D. James's Ambient Works albums.

Mira Calix's recreation of Boards of Canada's "In a beautiful place out in the country" all but does without percussion too, replacing misty synthetic drones with with Oliver Coates's cello, and programmed drums with the sparsest of synthetic ticks, and hisses counterpointing rural field recordings. Finding highest common factors between BOC's non-specific nostalgic bliss-out and Mira Calix's compositional rigour and pinpoint production clarity, this manages to surpass the original's powers of uncanny emotive evocation by QUITE SOME WAY.

Jimi Tenor covers Elecktroids' "Japanese Electronics" in a style suggesting YMO playing Afrobeat. "

  On 9/8/2009 at 9:31 AM, thanks robert moses said:

 

absolute shit.

I wish the milkman would deliver my milk....WHOAAAAAAAINTHEMOARNING

  On 9/8/2009 at 9:31 AM, thanks robert moses said:

 

absolute shit.

for once I agree with WATMM.

"Warp's 00s dilettantism showed its limits the following night at the chic West Village club Le Poisson Rouge with an annoying appearance from Canadian indie rockers Born Ruffians. Led by singer-guitarist Luke LaLonde's whiny, hi-pitched croon, the edgeless band broke out a cover of Aphex Twin's skewed lullaby "Milkman", but watching the adolescent-looking frontman deliver the refrain "I would like some milk from the milk man's wife's tits" was uncomfortable in a bad way."

For once I agree with pitchfork.com

holy shit why would you actually want to perform that?

like, does it sound good? to who? i'm in an "indie" band and i think that's a smelly piece of shit

I kind of liked ergo phizmiz's remix/cover of vordhosbn.

*ducks*

that remix of Afx237 V7 Chris Cunningham has in his media set is pretty fucking amazing

I'd like to know who's behind that one but I can pretty much guess

Karen Foreskin?

my god the Born Ruffians cover is bad. gonna be a bitchy little fanboy here, but covering an electronic song, emphasis on production and sound and all that, and just singing the lyrics of a particular song that happens to have lyrics. has so very little to do with the original (has NOTHING to do with the original!?). terrible.

The Leila remix is good, the Born Ruffians remix is really bad

  On 9/9/2009 at 7:20 AM, Renivatio said:

  On 9/8/2009 at 9:31 AM, thanks robert moses said:

 

absolute shit.

 

I wish the milkman would deliver my milk....WHOAAAAAAAINTHEMOARNING

 

FUCKING HORRIBLE *GOES BACK TO THE SHIMMERING HOUR

Leila's remix is nice, I like it.

  On 9/9/2009 at 6:39 PM, soundwave said:

that remix of Afx237 V7 Chris Cunningham has in his media set is pretty fucking amazing

 

I'd like to know who's behind that one but I can pretty much guess

You mean the Rubber Johnny short film? I actually believe that it's Cunningham himself doing the remix/editing on that one.