Saturday, August 23, 2003
Promos of the new Luke Vibert and Plaid albums arrived this morning, and the Vibert album has a run of tracks (6 through 10) that is fucking perfect in the way that Reynolds said the first four (or was it six) tracks of the last Daft Punk was. If I was a fool I'd say that Vibert's done to dance music what The White Stripes have done to rock music, stripped it back to a point somewhere in the past where there was less to it, aesthetically, metaphysically, not quite started from scratch but rather reduced focus to a tiny, intense dot. But Vibert's new record is more complicated than that. In a good way. "I Love Acid" and "Acidisco" are the most tightly wound, switch-your-ass dance tunes I've heard in a long time, dripping with delicious acid squelch and with eyes firmly planted on the dancefloor, and yet still in control and with a degree of subtlty that makes them listenable as well as danceable, taking a step to the side of what Medicine8 did so well on :ironstylings. Vibert's new one is maybe not as consistent as the Medicine8 record, but the peaks are way higher.
"Lions may mate 150 times in three days," announced David Attenborough mere seconds ago.
Keep up, keep writing, try not to worry, keep listening, keep doing stuff, lose focus, regain focus, feel a pang of guilt, feel a touch ashamed. My first email address was he_bangs_the_drums@yahoo.com - what does that say about me? About you? It says we all do it, and it doesn't matter. It says you're getting better. And don't worry about the girls. Worry about the boys and the girls. But don't worry about anything. Download "I Love Acid" and dance.
8/23/2003 11:35:00 am
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