Recordit v0.27/26/2023 ![]() The cautious observations and honest reveals that follow are literally and figuratively quieter moments than that initial blare. This study in contrasts pervades LCD Soundsystem's third, and possibly final, release-an album where Murphy refracts images of heartbreak and longing through the scattered light of a disco ball. The sudden shift is like the flicking on of a light, the perfect example of frontman-songwriter-mastermind James Murphy's effortless balance of restraint and release, organic rock and electro pop, and muted cool and vibrant emotion. Of the many arresting moments that fill LCD Soundsystem's This Is Happening, perhaps the most unexpected comes less than halfway through album opener "Dance Yrself Clean." The seemingly unassuming, low-key rumble of a song morphs from its mumbled beginnings into an outsized flash of synth ballast and wailing vocals. And yet! It’s also referencing all the records we love and know - Young Marble Giants, Postcard Records, early Cabaret Voltaire, and even contemporary local peers like Mathaverskan.īuy the ticket, take the trip. The music they make both together and separately is entirely their own, with its own rules of what instruments come and go when a song begins and ends or swells like a marshmallow. JJULIUS is Gotebörg’s Julius Pierstorff, who, with his partner Elin Engström aka Loopsel, also records as Monokultur and runs the tiny label Mamma’s Mysterious Jukebox. It will also re-arrive this summer on DFA this summer alongside its successor. 1, which is a little more raw, a little wilder in spirit and sold out at both source and every record store that managed to get its hand on a copy. ![]() 2 is, perhaps obviously, a continuation of the world-building JJULIUS did on Vol. Needle drop and a floaty, child-like piano sucks you into the post-punk papier-mâché world of JJULIUS, where everyone speaks Swedish, listens to Young Marble Giants and eats nothing but Twizzlers. Black Dice - Endless Happiness (EYE Remix).LCD Soundsystem - Beat Connection (Extended Disco Dub).Pixeltan - Get Up / Say What (DFA Remix).Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - El Monte.LCD Soundsystem - Yeah (Pretentious Version).Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Rise (DFA Remix).The Juan MacLean - Dance Hall Modulator Dub.13th St.) Of course, we somehow can’t stop ourselves from making labeling errors - Pixeltan’s “That’s the Way I Like It” somehow escaped the center labels on the fourth record. (Rob Carmichael re-did the original packaging, adding a new photo from DFA OG Tim Saccenti from one of the original parties at W. Because we felt like it was important and because we felt like some folks would really appreciate it. We tell you all of this to say: we took this shit pretty seriously. The lacquers Bob cut were plated and pressed at what we believe to be one of the best pressing plants in the country: QRP in Salina, Kansas. We then rather painstakingly resequenced and remastered it with the guy we trust with such things: Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service. We went back and found the master tapes or files for each song - a not insignificant effort given our habit of disorganization. ![]() Now, in the spirit of time not really being much of a linear thing anymore, and for our own selfish desire to have this version of Liquid Liquid’s “Bellhead,” produced by the DFA, finally committed to wax, we have reverse engineered this thing back onto vinyl and presented it as a four-record boxed set. 13th Street (with some notable exceptions), released as 12-inches and then compiled onto a 3xCD set for convenience because, at the time, people actually bought CDs more than vinyl. A compendium what are arguably the best prime-era DFA cuts, mostly all recorded and/or remixed at the old DFA Studios on W. This is a label that balances its musical and commercial aspirations with an earthy, no-bullshit disposition and- let's say it- the world's best fucking handclaps.” - Nick Sylvester, Pitchfork, in the heady days of 2004.īehold, Compilation #2. “ What could have been a mere anthology of the label's uniformly excellent 2004 output is, additionally, a meticulously assembled personal narrative. ![]()
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