THE OTHER PEOPLE PLACE - Lifestyles Of The Laptop Café REISSUE!!!

I always thought it was :/

got it off juno the nanosecond it was available there before it went out of stock. PSYCHED.

so much hype for music we already have, what am i missing??

Vinyl fetishists.

  On 2/12/2017 at 4:03 AM, ieafs said:

 

  On 2/11/2017 at 2:25 PM, Extralife said:

 

  On 2/11/2017 at 5:56 AM, ieafs said:

interesting that they're calling this a james stinson solo project now?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5_gG_clpWU

Who is?

 

"Originally released back in 2001 as part of the Drexciyan off-shoot Storm Series, Lifestyles was one of the various projects of one-half of deep sea electro pioneers Drexciya, James Stinson.[...] Where Drexciya's sound was focused in the deepest corners of the ocean, James's work as The Other People Place was a solo project that turned its gaze elsewhere, most notably in the direction of love."

- Bleep

 

“...arguably the most complete transmission from Drexciya's James Stinson [...] a yardstick by which pretty much every electronic music album should be measured.”

- Boomkat

 

"The much sought-after LP from Drexciya’s James Stinson has been hard to come by for many years, with prices for secondhand copies fetching up to £185.79 on Discogs."

- Fact

 

Well yeah TOPP is a Stinson solo project whereas Der Zyklus is one of Gerald Donald's side projects isn't it ?

I don't understand why you linked a Zyklus track with press talk about the Laptop Cafe reissue

  On 2/12/2017 at 4:03 AM, ieafs said:

 

  On 2/11/2017 at 2:25 PM, Extralife said:

 

  On 2/11/2017 at 5:56 AM, ieafs said:

interesting that they're calling this a james stinson solo project now?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5_gG_clpWU

Who is?

 

"Originally released back in 2001 as part of the Drexciyan off-shoot Storm Series, Lifestyles was one of the various projects of one-half of deep sea electro pioneers Drexciya, James Stinson.[...] Where Drexciya's sound was focused in the deepest corners of the ocean, James's work as The Other People Place was a solo project that turned its gaze elsewhere, most notably in the direction of love."

- Bleep

 

“...arguably the most complete transmission from Drexciya's James Stinson [...] a yardstick by which pretty much every electronic music album should be measured.”

- Boomkat

 

"The much sought-after LP from Drexciya’s James Stinson has been hard to come by for many years, with prices for secondhand copies fetching up to £185.79 on Discogs."

- Fact

 

Sorry. I knew that already.  I read your comment as Der Zyklus being the Stinson solo project.  Does sound like Stinson.

Just picked this up at the record store. Feels so good to finally be listening to these on wax. One of my all-time favorite albums.

I hadn't  heard of this till the reissue announcment so i had a little listen last night and...sorry guys, it isn't doing much for me at all. I guess you had to have an attachment to it from 2001, it sounds ok but it's pretty basic

is the packing the same and how does this one sound on vinyl? I heard it is hit or miss. any truth to that or people just trolling - warp is usually on point so I'm curious 

  On 2/13/2017 at 1:10 AM, Schlitze said:

I hadn't  heard of this till the reissue announcment so i had a little listen last night and...sorry guys, it isn't doing much for me at all. I guess you had to have an attachment to it from 2001, it sounds ok but it's pretty basic

drexciya universe is an acquired taste for sure but it rewards discerning listeners. i first listened to this album probably about 7 years ago so w/e nothing to do with time mate. 

pretty basic hurts a little - its charm and skill are in its simplicity. give it another go

  On 2/13/2017 at 1:10 AM, Schlitze said:

I hadn't  heard of this till the reissue announcment so i had a little listen last night and...sorry guys, it isn't doing much for me at all. I guess you had to have an attachment to it from 2001, it sounds ok but it's pretty basic

No love, you serious?

  On 2/12/2017 at 7:22 AM, Ivan Ooze said:

so much hype for music we already have, what am i missing??

That if you wanted the record before the repress you'd have to pay over 100 quid

https://www.discogs.com/sell/history/30845

  On 2/13/2017 at 8:02 AM, dr lopez said:

 

  On 2/13/2017 at 1:10 AM, Schlitze said:

I hadn't  heard of this till the reissue announcment so i had a little listen last night and...sorry guys, it isn't doing much for me at all. I guess you had to have an attachment to it from 2001, it sounds ok but it's pretty basic

 

The Drexciya universe is an acquired taste for sure but it rewards discerning listeners.

 

 Its charm and skill are in its simplicity. give it another go. 

 

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22869-lifestyles-of-the-laptop-cafe/

Not a huge fan of Pitchfork, but great reading provided by Andy Beta about the legacy of this album. Never seen it in this light before, but it makes sense. How disconnected are we 15+ years later?

The last 2 tracks always do me in in the most righteous of ways.

WRT whas been sed above, I agree this isn't the best entry point to the Drexciya and Stinson's work, but it's definitely lush AF and so fitting as a capstone to it all.  I always thought Neptune's Lair was a great place to start - first proper album, both immediately accessible and adventurous - and from there you could venture back into the earlier raw ish (singles compiled on The Quest, Deep Sea Dweller series) and onward through the Storms and to this.

  On 2/14/2017 at 4:16 AM, Bob Dobalina said:

The last 2 tracks always do me in in the most righteous of ways.

 

WRT whas been sed above, I agree this isn't the best entry point to the Drexciya and Stinson's work, but it's definitely lush AF and so fitting as a capstone to it all. I always thought Neptune's Lair was a great place to start - first proper album, both immediately accessible and adventurous - and from there you could venture back into the earlier raw ish (singles compiled on The Quest, Deep Sea Dweller series) and onward through the Storms and to this.

^Yup that's exactly how I got into all of it. The storms are my favorite but you really gotta listen to em all to get the full effect. Really couldn't go wrong with Harnessed the Storm as a starting point either, bit darker than the early stuff though.

12" up for preorder:

https://www.normanrecords.com/records/119590-other-people-place-mystic-tribe-ai-sunday-night-live-at-laptop-cafe

Grava 4 is up too!

  On 2/14/2017 at 7:55 AM, NI64 said:

 

  On 2/14/2017 at 4:16 AM, Bob Dobalina said:

The last 2 tracks always do me in in the most righteous of ways.

 

WRT whas been sed above, I agree this isn't the best entry point to the Drexciya and Stinson's work, but it's definitely lush AF and so fitting as a capstone to it all. I always thought Neptune's Lair was a great place to start - first proper album, both immediately accessible and adventurous - and from there you could venture back into the earlier raw ish (singles compiled on The Quest, Deep Sea Dweller series) and onward through the Storms and to this.

^Yup that's exactly how I got into all of it. The storms are my favorite but you really gotta listen to em all to get the full effect. Really couldn't go wrong with Harnessed the Storm as a starting point either, bit darker than the early stuff though.

 

Started with Neptune's Lair as well but it was Harnessed the Storm who really hit me HARD.

Digital Tsunami is one of my favorite tracks, so much emotion put in it...It started my love affair with Drexciya & Co. !

My first conscious meeting with Drexciya was Under Sea Disturbances on a good set of speakers. Needless to say it was love at first sight.

Listening to the repress and reminded how gooooood this album is. I totally agree it can take some one to settle into enjoying this properly. When I first heard it in 2001 I was super into my crazy IDM discovery mode and its simplicity actually turned me off. A couple years later and I felt like an idiot dismissing it before.

Legendary stuff, RIP James Stinson

For anyone who's an obsessive completitionist like me - the Transllusion 12" repress, Mind Over Positive and Negative Dimensional Energy, is becoming very difficult to find. Every other repress still seems to be in healthy stock, but they probably didn't press a lot of those.

looking at discogs there is apparently a load of distortion on side b? 

mine sounds good so far....

wait fuck it's on you said you want me.... boooo the nice quiet parts sound bad

  On 2/13/2017 at 1:10 AM, Schlitze said:

I hadn't  heard of this till the reissue announcment so i had a little listen last night and...sorry guys, it isn't doing much for me at all. I guess you had to have an attachment to it from 2001, it sounds ok but it's pretty basic

I know right? I can't understand the hype over this thing, other than it was released on Warp. It's just dull.