[Interview] NY Times (June 12th, 2013)

bluesky · Post by **Fredd-E** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:28 pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/arts/ ... anada.html

harpoon dodger · Post by **harpoon dodger** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:29 pm

Yay!!! Another interview

Ottomatik · Post by **Ottomatik** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:30 pm

New picture too? Liking that one a lot!

tripone · Post by **tripone** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:30 pm

Excellent, thanks for the link!

harpoon dodger · Post by **harpoon dodger** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:32 pm

A couple of years ago we decided to start collating and cataloging all our early recordings, just for ourselves really, to know that we could tidy it all up and hand it on to our kids someday, but there are literally thousands of tracks going way back into the ’80s.

Well, guess that joking in another thread about their kids trading off old tapes in the lunchroom is a little more valid now...

bdzz · Post by **bdzz** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:32 pm

"A couple of years ago we decided to start collating and cataloging all our early recordings, just for ourselves really"

Box set debunked

harpoon dodger · Post by **harpoon dodger** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:35 pm

If I had to pick something in particular, maybe the texture of the strings in “Semena Mertvykh.” It was performed into a dissected VHS deck with the motor running super slowly, so you can hear all the pockmarks, the dropouts on the tape. It’s mono, too, which gives it something special. More people should record in mono these days.

HOLY CRAP

My first thought hearing this track, was that it had some sort of VHS-related processing thrown into it. I am quite pleased with myself at the moment.

EDIT - I also support recording in mono

Techboy · Post by **Techboy** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:43 pm

bdzz wrote:"A couple of years ago we decided to start collating and cataloging all our early recordings, just for ourselves really"

Box set debunked

looks like it anyway

orazioblur · Post by **orazioblur** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:44 pm

Techboy wrote:
bdzz wrote:"A couple of years ago we decided to start collating and cataloging all our early recordings, just for ourselves really"

Box set debunked
looks like it anyway

Yes but "JUST FOR OURSELVES REALLY"

deadfly · Post by **deadfly** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:48 pm

harpoon dodger wrote:
If I had to pick something in particular, maybe the texture of the strings in “Semena Mertvykh.” It was performed into a dissected VHS deck with the motor running super slowly, so you can hear all the pockmarks, the dropouts on the tape. It’s mono, too, which gives it something special. More people should record in mono these days.
HOLY CRAP

My first thought hearing this track, was that it had some sort of VHS-related processing thrown into it. I am quite pleased with myself at the moment.

EDIT - I also support recording in mono

Yeah, it sounds exactly like the end credits to some 80's scifi film on VHS.

Also:

"More people should record in mono these days."

made me laugh

d e n · Post by **d e n** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:48 pm

that portrait is ILL.

Opothecary · Post by **Opothecary** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:54 pm

I've been listening to TH nonstop and love it very much, but it sounds like they are back into teasing the existence of their unheard tunes, Geogaddi era style. Hope dangling this over our heads like a juicy steak is preamble for a box set! Either that, or their kids will sign off on getting it released when we're in our 70s... :/

Techboy · Post by **Techboy** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:55 pm

Ottomatik wrote:New picture too? Liking that one a lot!

if that photo is taken in scotland im sure i recognise the location. very flat, only a small part of scotland is flat like that.

egbdf · Post by **egbdf** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:57 pm

"what are you plans for the future?"

Why isn't that question asked?

1. It's considered rude in the music press business for some reason
2. The interview made a massive, massive error by not asking a very important question
3. He asked, and they declined to answer and requested nothing about it was printed

thepastinsidepressant · Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:59 pm

recording audio signal into old vhs decks and back again... interesting wobbly mono hardcore

was just thinking there, this vhs theme etc. those clues from the cosecha trail etc, snow / synthesizer / etc etc wonder was 'snow' referring to the noise of no signal we get on tv screens?

i don't think any of those 6 clues were debunked or were they?

these lads have mountains of music, imagine hearing all of that

Spaced · Post by **Spaced** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:59 pm

trolling hard in this interview the rascals, love it.

purgruv · Post by **purgruv** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 11:00 pm

Extremely analytical? Us? Nooooo, never!

They are surely reading our analysis and tittering at our darkened fumblings for meaning and reason…

Helios · Post by **Helios** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 11:11 pm

Spaced wrote:trolling hard in this interview the rascals, love it.

"We have albums and albums worth of music that you will never hear!"

MindElevation · Post by **MindElevation** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 11:15 pm

Another great interview. Quite painful to read though. So many teasers!

Ender · Post by **Ender** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 11:15 pm

A couple of years ago we decided to start collating and cataloging all our early recordings,

At this point I was grinning ear to ear

just for ourselves really, to know that we could tidy it all up and hand it on to our kids someday, but there are literally thousands of tracks going way back into the ’80s.

Grin instantly disappeared. Oh well, still cool though.