The Avalanches
 

So I found "Since I Left You" to be particularly awesome. I am just now discovering the mixes that they also put out(just got Gimix and it is amazing). They have another album coming soon also! Just waiting on permission for clips apparently. Anyone else dig them? I couldn't find a thread dedicated to them so here i am :dj:

AWESOME!

i remember really digging 'since i left you' when it came out a few years ago. had no idea they were putting together a new disc. hopefully the legal clearance for clips goes quickly.

I'm not really familiar with The Avalanches at all but I remember once thinking I should look into some of their stuff after hearing good things about them. Are they the ones who did that record which was a mash-up of heaps of old recordings and stuff or something? I thought that was pretty cool.

their website

The Avalanches

has a ton of mixes(FOR FREE), im just scratching surface.

yep that would be them.

this was the 'big' single from their full length

yea, Since I Left You

I find a lot of that cut & paste type of stuff dates really badly.

They were entertaining for a few minutes in 2001 but that's about it.

I absolutely LOVED Since I left You, and thought it was anamazing sampling feat, and would have taken painstaking sorting to get that thing legal... but still it sounds so freaking awesome as a finished package... so they're new album is supposedly coming out soon?
Ya know I thought they'd never make another album, considering the headaches and hurdles they had to confront... there's been talk of a new Avalances album for a long, long time, but if the rumour is correct we might be finally seeing it come to fruition and that would be amazing!

whens the last time you gave them a listen?

SINCE i left You is infintely interesting in my opinion... everytime I listen to it I hear some new layer or some new sound... that thing is a sonic delight.... always well worth a repeated listen...

but every now and again it's fun to dust off an old disc like that for a little run around memory lane.

That's why I enjoy listening to Since I left you...its so laid back relaxed, yet the vast array of sounds :/ recording / samples is simply mind bending...

I bought this album a few years ago (though I first heard tracks from it around the time it was released). Pretty good album I think.

Since I Left You has all the ingredients of something I would like, but it did surprisingly little for me. I think I tired of it before the album came to an end, which has kept me from going back to it. If it were more condensed it might feel more solid and get repeat listens. I just felt like it was too long with too much of the same.

I agree with that. I do like the album, but I don't often listen to it in it's entirety.

About 3 weeks ago, My local radio station played Frontier Psychiatrist. To be honest I found myself cringing that i'd bought this record.
Thats nothing against the band i'd say the same for DJ Shadow, Lemon Jelly or any other band who did this kind of stuff too. I used to like it, but listening to it around a decade or so later I just find all that cut & paste stuff a bit cheap & naff these days.

Of course it is, I won't argue with you there.

I think it's something very much of it's time. I thought that this album was the perfect description of bubblegum music. You chew on it a bit until it loses it's flavor, then you spit it out & move on to something else.
Which funnily enough is exactly what I did with this album.

Very good, though as far as cut and paste mix albums go i wouldn't say they're the main honchos for me, compared to DJ Shadow and right now J Dilla's Donuts album. Radio is a brilliant song though.

i prefer since i left you to endtroducing personally.

fair enough. i find i have to be in the right mood for cut & paste discs. personally it's the big beat electronica of the 90s that makes me cringe more than the stuff you mention. the prodigy / crystal method / chemical brothers *shudders* hahaha

Yeah, but do you remember how incredibly cool and cutting edge it all was back in the 90's.... man, it feels weird to say that. I feel kinda.... old...

do they have an album? ive never heard of them in my life :(

Totally agree. THAT's the stuff I call electronica.

Their album is called Since I Left You, was released early this decade (2000 I think, maybe 2001).

haha yeah wait until 30 finishes kicking your butt and you catch yourself saying 'i remember 25 years ago' a lot more often as an accurate reflection of time as opposed to turning a phrase hahaha.

and yeah the mainstream electronica stuff of the 90s was really good at the time. turned me onto all the good electro stuff i would have continued ignoring for years under the misguided impression it was just crappy house mixes.

thanks alot, i will download it :D

Oh trust me, I know all about the thirties kicking my butt right now... I am happy with my life now though, very happy, just acutely aware I'm not the blindly youthful and idealistic 20 something I was once...

I can't bear to listen to fatboy slim or the chem. bros anymore, but me getting into them has ramifications for my current taste in music as well.... without those big mainstream acts I might not have discovered Boards of Canada and the like, and my musical taste might have been all the poorer for it...

I totally agree with you two. Those guys were a gateway for me into various styles of electronic music...from house to IDM.

and what were your best discoveries?

best i got into from the 90s stuff was amon tobin - by far.

other notables are squarepusher, aphex twin, boards of canada, jega.

and still, those names are dated and well established within the style at this point.

Yeah Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Wagon Christ, µ-Ziq, Autechre, Plaid, Boards of Canada, etc. which led to many many more lesser known but still amazing electronic acts.

best amon tobin album to start with?

It's weird that generally, when talking about who is the best electronic artist around, most people name people from the '90s and not the '00s. Well, not weird exactly, just proof that the '00s have been relatively disappointing in comparison.

i think it's because electronic music tends to move at a difference pace than the pop/rock most people are used to dealing with. the artists aren't pushed for commercial success nearly as much and can take more time between releases leading to longer careers and greater time spent within the collective attention span of the music listening public.

just like any other 'new' thing the first thing to crop up are the imitators who will eventually fall to the side. striking the proper balance when making electronic music is also very crucial, too much hard rock and you sound like a NIN / ministry clone. not enough variation to your beat and you sound like any other faceless house DJ from any dance hall out there.

it's not so much that the 00s are disappointing so much as they haven't become distinguished yet. then again it's hard to distinguish yourself when absolutely everything is now available at your fingertips. musical obscurity only exists as a reflection of a listener's desire for attention.

Yeah, you're probably right.

I mean, most of the big '90s names in Electronic music are still making brilliant music this decade too (Boards Of Canada with Geogaddi for example), and I suppose most decent Electronic musicians tend to have longer careers than those of Rock or Pop musicians.

And who knows, maybe in the next decade we might look back at this decade's artists with more affection.

i think another big factor is the distribution method. by going online first and foremost the odds of being a wide scale commercial success are pretty much nil, but at the same time there aren't the ostentatious costs involved with large scale material distribution. you don't need to spend millions hyping up something you made in your bedroom to recoup the studio costs.

on the other hand, sticking to online / small scale independent distribution makes it harder to find physically, but requires less sales to break even or make a small profit, so you don't need to be the next big thing to really 'make it'.

could you just recommend an album please sir?

I agree. I don't think I have heard the album in years and despite some odd gems, the album was largely forgettable.

permutations

thanks much!