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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