gusgus

i remember liking their song 'believe' from the late 90s but judging from the video below, im not sure i should bother. the guy in the glasses.. his robotic dancing is just.... bad. the songs ok tho. and that woman is hot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBbF74JnKhI

gus gus had a song on the soundtrack to pi that i remember liking...

i usually confuse banco de gaia and gus gus

I saw them live at Iceland Airwaves this year. I left after 10 minutes.

was it a hipster passionately doing the robot or just general shittiness that made you leave?

  On 12/4/2009 at 5:27 AM, zaphod said:

gus gus had a song on the soundtrack to pi that i remember liking...

this be 100% of my gus gus knowledge entering the thread

  On 12/4/2009 at 6:43 AM, Z_B_Z said:

was it a hipster passionately doing the robot or just general shittiness that made you leave?

It was fucking cheesy plus I hate the singer's voice.

And yes, there were hipsters everywhere.

my final verdict on gusgus: meh.

ok delete thread please.

the woman decreased in hotness, if in fact thats the same one from the video

they're pretty rubbish.

i have an old album of theirs somewhere. it was alright. good even. haven't heard/seen it in 10 years

i actually just inferred about them recently altho i never really bothered following up

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/48080-gus-gus/page__view__findpost__p__1100241

looking into gusgus did turn me back on to FAITHLESS tho

  On 12/4/2009 at 6:47 AM, hahathhat said:

  On 12/4/2009 at 5:27 AM, zaphod said:

gus gus had a song on the soundtrack to pi that i remember liking...

 

this be 100% of my gus gus knowledge entering the thread

the new LP "24-7" is pretty groovy in parts. they abide by fairly standard techno rules for the most part, but mix it up just enough to keep in interesting, to my ears.

they're also fairly strict analogue purists, if i recall. that's fairly evident in the new disc... plenty of uneven squealy anomalies in the sounds. it can get a fair bit repetitive for some i'm sure, but also keeps the head bobbing.

also, you have to try pretty hard not to wince at the lyrics.

sneed.

one of my favorite electronic acts behind autechre and aphex.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVNJc4meSZc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBbF74JnKhI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjL6SWU7kP8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmw71hPR9Fg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bq-kaOJUm0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt8zOSLxRn4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6mD2lXV2so

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL1zv9JHKtg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9APOIBBpls8

but this gets a huge lol!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5AW_Gc9w1s

I think I made a topic on them not too long ago rich on watmm & nutrients.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtqkpPLd2uI

I like this remix

when they first started, there were like 9 people in the group. and only like 2 or 3 of them did the music. the rest were singers, performance artists, designers, photographers, video directors, etc.

Now there's only 3 official members. i do miss the dude that sang falsetto and the girl from the first couple of albums. and most recently the earth girl who was on the previous 2 albums is no longer with them, i liked her voice as well. but the new album is pretty tight. reminds me a little of a more upbeat "gusgus vs. t-world" with vocals.

its incredibly mainstream so many people here probably hate it, but I loved their track "David".

i love this live version of believe! i remember when they did this at the glass house years ago!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBbF74JnKhI

  On 12/4/2009 at 1:48 AM, Z_B_Z said:

i remember liking their song 'believe' from the late 90s but judging from the video below, im not sure i should bother. the guy in the glasses.. his robotic dancing is just.... bad. the songs ok tho. and that woman is hot

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBbF74JnKhI

that dude was actually the highlight of the show for me when i saw them at the first coachella... the girl had left the group about a month before the show. i was really looking forward to see her. it was basically the dude dancing weirdlike and singing occasionaly, daniel agust singing and strutting across the stage, and 4 dudes behind them doing the music and videos. and it was an awesome show and a highlight for me behind autechre's show.

  On 12/4/2009 at 7:34 AM, Z_B_Z said:

the woman decreased in hotness, if in fact thats the same one from the video

not the same girl. the two guys that does the music are basically the main members of gusgus. daniel agust was a founding member aswell. then left for a couple of albums but did guest vocals on a couple of tracks in the last few albums. and he is now back in the lineup full time again. it's just 3 of them now. they started out as a 9 or 10 piece on the first couple of albums. that robot dancing guy was one of the singers also on some of the tracks from the first 2 albums. he sang on VIP (one of my favorite gusgus tracks). i miss that dude, but i think he's doing his own thing in iceland now.

Z_B_Z: i'm not going to wonder why you wouldn't like that vid performance, to each their own. but i find that performance fantastic. especially around the 9 minute mark when they all go buck wild... i saw them do 2 different versions of this track as i seen them twice live and both times i was jumping around.

its a pretty sweet performance and i think it improves upon the original. i just think the guys dancing is goofy.

  On 2/26/2010 at 5:45 AM, Z_B_Z said:

its a pretty sweet performance and i think it improves upon the original. i just think the guys dancing is goofy.

you would probably dislike one of the videos at their last show i went to... during one of the techno style instrumentals, there was a video in the background of that dude walking around a supermarket doing all those random moves. i remember looking at people around me loling as did i.

  On 12/4/2009 at 8:55 PM, xxx said:

One more thing: here's the best track from that GusGus vs. T-World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV86me435Hw&feature=related

Earl Grey is my fav from that album. very minimal techno style. and esja is like epic and shit!

i must hear all of that gusgus vs t-world album. anthem is just fantastic

Their latest album is actually very decent if you like sparse analogue techno at all.

Some of it is fairly cheesy I guess but I'm willing to overlook it. I've seen vids of their live new live show as well and it looks cool as fuck.