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From:
nat hawks
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Date:
Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:15:01 -0400
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Re: [idm] Telefon Tel Aviv / Yesterday's New Quintet (with funny IDM content)
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anyone know where some Telefon Tel Aviv mp3s reside?
quoted 49 lines From: Aaron D Meyers <adm226@nyu.edu>>From: Aaron D Meyers <adm226@nyu.edu> >To: idm@hyperreal.org >Subject: [idm] Telefon Tel Aviv / Yesterday's New Quintet (with funny IDM >content) >Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 01:21:04 -0400 > >Ok... so today I picked up the Telefon Tel Aviv album everyone is >raving about. I'm happy to say that it does live up to all the stuff >I'd heard and I really like it. Especially that second track (am I >right?)! Its very good. Kind reminds me of parts of Savath & Savalas >except better (and I liked S&S). So is all the stuff on Hefty all >pretty and rhodesy like S&S and TT? > >Also I picked up the new Madlib instrumental disc, Yesterdays New >Quintet. Its good stuff definitely. Madlib's infinite knowledge of >soul jazz definitely goes the distance on this one, but on first >impression, I still think the Quasimoto album is better. I think an >instrumental version of the Quasimoto album might even be better. But >I really liked that album. This one is really good too and sort of >keeps with the assload-of-short-and-sweet-tracks theory that The Unseen >had going on. > >Anyway, the real reason I wanted to mention the Yesterday's New Quintet >album is because of something I found in the liner notes. In the liner >notes, some guy, Dave Tompkins, is writing about some fictitious >Yesterday's New Quintet gig. Its fictitious because the five alleged >members of the YNQ are all Madlib. Anyway I'll just quote the >pertinent portion from here: > >"Some kid pops his calculatedly mussed head in the door, 'Is this the >Tyrese Two Step night?' Pickle slick rocking pleather Eurow >mandals. 'I've got this ace lounge record by Jan Stenereud, the >Japanese dealers are mad for it.' His sleeveless vintage T-shirt >reads, 'My High School Football Team Kicked My IDM Ass!' > >Quintet bassist Monk Hughes smack him with a hand-me-beatdown flip- >flop." > >So there you have it. In Madlib's stony worldview, IDM kids come out >for 2-step night and get beat the fuck down with flip-flops. What the >hell does that mean anyway? > >-Aaron > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org >For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org >
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