Be Excellent To Each Other

CD's have now, finally, been posted.

Apologies for rampant tardiness.

By my powers of deduction they must be for me and Zardoz! Wishful thinking?

You've jinxed it now!

Nah, cunning deduction, I think.

To be honest it's because I've had a bundle on my plate with this changing department malarky, Roald Dahl day, and learning to knit. Plus I am Mr Forgetful.

Ok, there's just one more thing...

I'll accept the lateness excuse because you were pretending to be a tiger.

I didn't do it. That's strange though isn't it... I wonder who did?

Anyway, in other news... I HAVE STILL ONLY RECEIVED ONE CD!!

(and also only heard one person say they've received mine. I sent it to the persons real name too so I don't know who it was)

\

That's not accurate - I have a beard.

better?

Bang on.

Really liking the Booka Shade tracks from Zardoz's CD. Just found the album (Movements) on Napster too so that's my afternoon sorted.

It's a stonking album Duds, there's some excellent stuff on there. The first album 'Memento' is a lot more sedate and the new one 'The Sun & The Neon Light' is kinda disappointing as they have used more vocals and tend to sound a little Royksoppy (still ok though there's a double cd with remixes which is far better).

The only Royksopp track I like is the Thin White Duke Remix of 'What Else is There?'

I like quite a bit of their stuff*, I just didn't want Booka Shade to turn into them.

*Remind Me is beautiful

Watch that remix if you can though, it's superb.

Will do at home.

I'm going to send you my mixes as well, as I promised you a CD ages ago and never sent it. The reason for the delay was that I wanted to figure out how to mix it properly. I never have.

I *think* I had a nice program that did this for you, very simple too... If I have, I'll let you know when I get chance to have a look.

This forum is the best.

It is except for the fact my gamertag doesn't seem to want to load today... Probably for the best, I don't really want people to know that Frogger and worms were the last game I played.

*Edit- It's working now it seems.

I'm getting a review copy of some spiffing audio software to have a tinker with a proper mix too.

I'll return the favour if you send me a CD Myps so remember to include your address.

I'll just pirate it instead.

hehe, that's ace - only in the large, beardless view could I see it was Columbo! Excellent work, Zardoz.

Only this moment is very sweet.

Christ just listened to that remix, that's an awful butchering of an excellent track and you need new ears.

It's a brilliant remix of a boring track, and you need a new face.

Largely repeating a single line over white noise is not even a remix.

Not a fan of dance music then.

To be fair, I've just listened to it back (I found it at work and linked to it without listening as YT is banned) and a Youtube vid of it doesn't really do it justice. You need some speakers with awesome bass and not crappily compressed like that.

No I actually am. That's dance music in the same way Sean Paul was hip-hop.

Hmm, I don't agree at all. You're saying that you think that sounds like commercialised dance music? Weird.

Yes that's all very well and good but why aren't you all proclaiming me the most wonderful genius in the history of mankind for my incredible selection of tracks? Hello? Anyone? Why are you all looking at me like that?

No I'm saying that sounds like the worst kind of lazy commercialised dance music.

Fair enough. We'll have to agree to disagree. I'm just glad that my mix cd went to someone who'd appreciate it.

Dude, I promise I'll do it in the next couple of days. In general: thumbs up.

Cleverly, I've uploaded mine, but I uploaded the .wav files without realising. I'll MP3-a-lise them tonight.

Okay, it's now uploading at a far more reasonable size of 66MB. You can download it from here from approximately 1am.
[edit]Alrighty, there you go.

And that's my morning at work sorted



It had Lauren Laverne.

Twice.

Of course it was awesome. No idea about specific tracks because it was a 1 mp3 lump but it was a veey nice drive home mix at 2am on Saturday.

I mean who wouldn't want a Lauren Laverne Sandwich?

Depends on who was the other slice.

Lauren Laverne and Lauren Laverne.

How about a Laverne, Emmy-Kate Montrose and Marie du Santiago "club sandwich"?

As long as Johnny X isn't involed I'm happy

A Lauren Laverne sandwich implies that she's the filling, you know like egg sandwich, bacon sandwich etc.

It would be awesome if there were two me's though as the bread. We could always ditch the bint afterwards and have top fun with ourself.

Also: Still no second CD!

Ditto.

Only one CD for me, too. But it was a good one.

OK, here it comes. Brace yourself Gertie! I listened to this at least six times and the problem I had mainly was that I really didn't like the start of the mix which made it hard to get through. And even harder to write this as that involved me listening to it again...

1. I like the prodigy, I don't love them though, and wasn't knocked out by this remix as I think the concept of remixing something that wasn't fundamentally broken just smacks of ripping off a more talented artist. Not bad though

2&3 nicely mixed Grim..., but I really don't like repetitive club music that much and from my limited knowledge of the genre these two don't feel like anything other than parodies of what I assume would be good tracks. I found these two about as tuneful as someone digging the road up outside the house while I had a hangover. Sorry

4. Sounds like Poodle Rawk to me. Don't like this either.

5. This sounded quite promising after the dismal opening, but though I initially liked it, I grew to hate it like a squawking harridan by the fourth listen.

6. Iron Maiden... I'm quite a fan of classic rock, but Iron Maiden are a band that don't do a great deal for me. This is quite rousing and reminds me of my childhood - I can remember owning Iron Maiden when I was a kid of about ten. I've met Brucie quite a few times as well - he's a star, if very short and hairy. So this is an OK.

7. I'm not the world's biggest rap fan by any stretch and this doesn't change that. I don't like Eminem. I don't care how clever the words are because it just sounds like ranting to me, which equates to too far into the realms of noise rather than music for me. If he was in the room shouting at me I'd fucking lamp him like anybody else who shouted at me.

8. I have quite a few Primal Scream albums, but I've not heard this track before - it's not bad, but I've heard better Primal Scream stuff TBH.

9. I like this one. It's funky.

10. Linkin Park RAWK. This is OK, but truth be told I always find this stuff a bit unrefined and MOR. It's rock music with stabilisers on - it feels like a product being made for the money and not the love. The remix doesn't help at all.

11. Meh

12. Futurama theme. It's OK, I like the show, but wouldn't go out of my way to listen to the soundtrack, particularly as this seems to have been remixed as well and isn't better for it.

13. More Linkin Park. They feel like corporate rock to me - I'm sure they've done some good stuff, but this just feels like a poor imitiation of Faith No More or Pearl Jam - it's like they've deliberately discovered a winning formula and they just crank the music out cookie cutter style while wearing lots of eyeliner. Still, I prefer this to the remixed track a few back.

14. I like the calypso rhythm. I don't have any Fiddy, but I quite like this and contrary to what I thought with that catchy beat I didn't find it irritating after a few listens. Oooh, one I like

15. This feels like a remix of a gameshow title theme with lilting lyrics over the top. You may have come to the conclusion that I don't like these "bangin' choons" style tracks very much

16. Over produced acoustic guitar opening, nasally whiney voice with keyboard fills rising to a duetting crescendo. No

17. Oooh, opera. Quite a nice change of pace

18. Losing the will to live now.

19. Oh fuck off, not even the vision of Erin Grey springing into my mind in white spandex could rescue this!

20. Don't know what the fuck this is, but it sounds like you made it yourself.

So Grim..., sorry old bean but I didn't like this very much at all. I wish I could apologise more, but then I'm the one who had to listen to it about 7-8 times to do it justice, so I could argue that that was apology enough.

It was all a bit pop for me - it had a bright commercial sheen to it that I find uncomfortable to listen to - as I said earlier, it didn't feel as if (with the possible exception of one or two tracks) any of the artists on that mix were doing it for the love of music - they were doing it to pay the rent/mortgage, buy whores, drugs, bentleys, gucci, swimming pools - none of which is bad of itself, but it all feels a little bleak to me. So congrats, I'm now depressed.


No I'm not, I've just realised I can take this album off my iPhone now

I fail to believe anyone can call dance untuneful and then listen to "P-I-M-P" with a straight face.