He is excited about the new album.
That's all.
Posted 29 April 2007 - 1:52 PM
I heard Do it again for the first time last night, in a club that is. I was like "wow the new chemical brothers" my mates were like "what is this??" and the club didn't seem to know they were dancing on a Chems track but they kept on dancing. It was good, not super, great but just good.
Posted 29 April 2007 - 6:40 PM
I heard Do It Again (the extended dealie-oh) through a pair a exceptionally nice, noise cancellation, audiophile headphones last night. Thank you to my brother-in-law who's 1337 uber geek enough to carry noise cancellation headphones with him wherever he goes.
Listening on higher quality noise cancellation headphones - I highly recommend it. It's probably the closest we'll get to knowing what it sounds like right there in the studio (or in Tom and Ed's own heads, haha)
I think my ears had an orgasm. The song came to full life on a good set of plugs. The vibrancy which became crystal clear, the vibrancy of each and every noise in the song reached up and tickled the farthest reaches of my brain. Subtleties brought more to the forefront. The song is a freaky head fuck, and hearing it last night again was like hearing it as it was intended. It was incredible and no, that's not just the ecstasy/morning after talking.
There's so much talk here in this thread that this song is minimal. I still don't hear that, because wouldn't minimal imply there's not a whole lot going on in a song, or there's gaps in sound and movement?
I'm sort of reminded by what soundertow said when he differntiated between what's minimal or simple and I think he brough up a good points worth further discussion at some point (where is the quote button when you need it??) I'm still not hearing this minimal thing.
It makes me wonder why this term minimal is is being so casually thrown around here, the same way I casually threw around the word "pop" and applied it to Do It Again a few pages and posts back. I'm just going to have to ditch the labels, and stop associating the Chems with being tied down to any style, because something always comes along in a Chems song, these ear opening revelations when I hear something in their songs for the first time, and turns my world upside down. Looking back, since hindsight is 20/20, I was severely misguided in my past judgment when I was talking out my ass and throwin the word "pop" around. Thank you Tom and Ed for making me eat my words again!! :P I am happy to do so.
Anyway. Of course liking/not liking the song is up to the individual listener and that's fair enough. But what about production values? What really opened up my ears last night, what really struck me when listening was the production in Do It Again is so tight, it is so flawless. I think they took great care and countless hours in crafting and perfecting this song. You can hear the pride taken in production, and you can tell they use really, really fucking good equipment to generate such a headfuck.
So... yeah...
Now I have to find out where my bro-in-law put those headphones because I'm itching to do it again...
Posted 29 April 2007 - 7:03 PM
the whole audiophile stuff i hate them. i think it's just a new way of making huge profits from idiot people . no offence pls. i don't think even The Chemical Brothers use that audiophilic stuff.only idiots do. it's just waste of money.
and whirlygirl i want to ask you a question : what was the quality of the music you were listening with that audiophilic headphones. to be able to listen crystal clear music ( if there is smthng like that ) you have to have a good source of good quality music. but i think that is impossible right now since there is no vinly of this track. the only place you can listen "do it again" i think this site and other sources which copied from this site. so with this quality you can't have cyrstal clear music i think.
and to be able to feel the music , i mean to wear the music like some kind of clothe you don't have to have audiophilic stuff ( which is waste of money ) all you have to have is 4 hi-fi speakers( mid-quality will be far more enough) located four corners of your room and a clear mind.
i still think this track is the most minimal track of The Chemical Brothers ever. but minimal tracks i think is very useful when making dinner or cleaning your room etc.
and final thing i want to mention is that there is this audiophilic software called "Monkey's Audio" which can play audiophilic quality music . but isn't that obviuos from the name that only MONKEYS listen to that type of stuff . ( no offence plssss )
Posted 29 April 2007 - 6:16 PM
Hey whirly, it was a pleasure reading all these enthusiastic words. They made me extatic to listen to it again and in a full technical clearness as you had. I'm dying to hold that shit in my own hands and torturing my neighbours by belting out every single note in max. volume!
There's this little sound of a guitar which I adore so much because it givss the whole song a dark drive.