Had to post this picture of the anorexia sponsored heiress.
Check out what it is holding.
They actually showed her the video too
Yoof tv is a wonderful thing (ok, maybe that’s a lie).
Perfect chance to post this absolute classic, just in case you missed it.
Mu and Maurice Fulton-Let’s Get Sick
A tumbling barrage of drum patterns in a lesson for anyone trying to make beats. Still gives me a trouser tent the size of Jupiter every time I hear it, unlike Paris chicken features who makes me blow chunks.
We keep the beat-tastic (and robotic, or did you think that thing on top of the page was a woman, were you fooled by the plastic material that wraps her exo-skeleton?) theme today with this track off the rather beautiful debut by the Juan MacLean, ‘Less than Human’, out in DFA Records soon.
I could go on about how maybe Daft Punk are human after all and so on and so forth and maybe it’s better to be less than human but you have to leave the french daddies alone, Optimo DJ’s made my night at Primavera by playing a bit of ‘Technologic’ (they also dropped ‘Do it!’ by Plastique de Reve and I went yahoo-kazoo).
I’ll just say that those electronic albums with ‘human’ in their title out this year (any more?) have had awesome productions, in the case of Daft Punk you can say whatever you want about the songs themselves but it’s undeniable that the loops sound phat as fuck, meebee it’s a DJ album… after all.
Should mention again Out of Breach (Manchester’s Revenge) by Mu and her funky hubby Maurice Fulton, which could have been called ‘More than human’ cos that’s what she is.
Anyway, going back to that Juan we were talking about, I was going to post ‘Tito’s Way’, which is, with ‘Give Me Every Little Thing’ (out for a while in a split single with Killing by The Rapture), the dancefloor killer in ‘Less than Human’, but then I decided to go for this wonderful robo-love ballad (the vocals ain’t the vocals…) which reminds me a bit of the DFA’s remix of Rise by Delia & Gavin (btw included in Optimo’s Psyche Out mix which I would recommend highly as it’s got Hawkwind and the Silver Apples and Throbbing Gristle and many others in it and do you need to know any more?) but with an old skool house/I am the operator with the pocket calculator melodic flavour replacing the prog-goblin-kosmische spirit of that track, hit me!
The Juan MacLean – Shining Skinned Friend
An ace title for something lovely with synthetic melodies hovering on top of trademark Juan/DFA breakbeats, every pause, breakdown and note have been carefully engineered to please and excite the loyal jazzfunkgreatster, taking him or her in a walk up and down the avenues of Robot City where all sorts of mechanic delights can be voyeuristically enjoyed. Simply Beautiful (check Juan MacLean’s own analysis of the track here if you think that our usual robo-comment’s lame, you luddites, you!)
DFA do YMO!
PS.
We would like to congratulate our mates and fellow conspirators Matt and Andy on the highly positive review their band Raised by Wolves, which we already talked about here, received in this month’s The Wire. Cheers fellows!
PPS.
We would like to know, what’s everyone’s favorite music festival (not just this year) so we can plan holidays next year ???
Epilogue -This post is tagged with kosmische optimo prog
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Have a nice day!
Yours sincerely
Snake in Fall31st May 2005
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http://usa-pet.blogspot.com/
I hope it doesn’t get scared if you paly it mu, but if it does give it a tickle under the chin from me.
Yours sincerely
20jazzfunkgreats31st May 2005
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Woo-hoo! What a bunch of great tunes, and that video is fab.
Yours sincerely
Michael31st May 2005
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Thank you…I forgot the Juan Maclean album was coming out soon.
as for Festivals I highly recommend the Detroit Electronic Music Fest.
I did a small write up on this years DEMF(Fuse-IN) on my blog
http://www.funtimeok.blogspot.com
Yours sincerely
Brian31st May 2005
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Hola Juan.
I hate Paris Hilton but I love this “Paris Hilton”.
Best regards y tal.
Alergic Merrick.
P.S.’ P.S.: Did you see Genenesis’ brand new breast at (o era in?) the Psychic TV show? “I like you… your very nice!”
He is the mother of the world (despite whatever Bill Callahan says)
Yours sincerely
-merrick-1st June 2005
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I’ve been to a lot of festivals. Glastonbury is the best.
I agree with your comments on the majority of UK festivals… the likes of Reading & V are pretty awful. Loads of beered up teenagers & you get chucked out of the arena at 11pm.
I’ve always enjoyed myself at The Big Chill. Although i’m not sure it’d be up your street. A lot of babies and not enough freakazoid music.
I’ve heard that Burning Man in the Nevada desert is the thing to go to. I think there may be a lot of naked hippies there though.
I’m going to give Lowlands a bash this year I think. You can’t go wrong with a festival in Holland. Can you?
Yours sincerely
headphonesex1st June 2005
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Hey that is so unfair, Paris is not a Chicken she is an orange praying mantis.
Poor chickens, being compared to her…
From
Tina.
Yours sincerely
Anonymous1st June 2005
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hey J… I couldn’t see Psychic TV, I was lost somewhere as usual…my brother told me about it, though, he was completely blown away by thet ‘fat woman’ on stage he he he
CheersxJ
Yours sincerely
20jazzfunkgreats1st June 2005
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Me too… (s)he even pick a guitar (and i’m sure he really don’t play guitars… but we made a lot of pretty noise with it).
After thar Piano Magic.
Glenn Johnson’s quote: “Two hours of New Order… Fuckin’ ‘ell!”
nos vemos por aquí.
Yours sincerely
-merrick-1st June 2005
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…grew up in suburban Chicago & south Texas…once accidently attended multiple days of SONAR in Barcelona…['02!]. it was fun! not too many of my other American Hipster Friends have seen Yasunao Tone, Christian Marclay, FUCK I EVEN SAW BONOBO! last year or two years ago they had the FENNESZ w/ YMO collab. too! a bunch of cool Spanish kids thought I was TAN TAN LAME for not knowing who Jeff Mills was…AH, EUROPE!
Yours sincerely
stevee1st June 2005
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Nice pick on the Juan MacLean, that track is indeed fantastic (good work as usual). Now if only Gonzalez and Russom would release their album…
Yours sincerely
Kevin1st June 2005
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Sonar is a one off, easy to see why it was John Peels fav. Would have loved to see that YMO. Isn’t Jeff Mills slang for anything yet like Pete Tong?
Delia and Gavin are over in the uk – plug plug – 9th july
Kosmische Club’s 9th Birthday Party
LIVE:
Circle (Finland)
Jean-Herve Peron (ex Faust)
Delia and Gavin (DFA)
Amal Gamal (Shock-Headed Peters)
Now (Stuart’s mates from london)
secret venue,
Might be poping up for that i recon…
Can we stop discussing Genenesis’ tits please?
Let us know what Lowlands is like, and if its worth going next year please jw.
ATP obviously rules, but it always seems to fall in my exam time…bastards.
Yours sincerely
20jazzfunkgreats1st June 2005
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“Delia and Gavin are over in the uk – plug plug – 9th july”
Good lord, that’ll be a sweet show.
Yours sincerely
Kevin1st June 2005
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festivals for me this year:
http://www.nihe.ee/
http://www.klubbacc.nu/
http://www.plinkplonk.ee/
http://www.uudenmusiikinfestivaali.org/
if i had more money, i’d visit sonar in spain and koneisto in helsinki, finland
Yours sincerely
martin3rd June 2005
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Wowzers, thats one hell of a busy summer you got there martin.
Yours sincerely
20jazzfunkgreats3rd June 2005