machinefabriek

[edison]

Well, I assumed that you of all people had the Machinefabriek website bookmarked!

www.machinefabriek.nu for details and a short excerpt, then

edit: looking at the Discogs page for that record, it transpires that it is actually six minutes long.

edit 2: removed unnecessary and distasteful commas.

[coldforge]

Incidentally, gentlemen, in Dutch the IJ-digraph is treated as a single letter for the purposes of capitalization, and thus the name of the record is properly IJspret.

[coldforge]

or IJspret—I knew that unicode had a digraph for it.

[Nick Ink]

I want to say something but I just don't know what it is.

[edison]

Ah, thanks for the correction, coldforge

edit: xpost with Nickryptink

[narlus]

i'm guessing that there is no correlation:
http://433rpm.blogspot.com/2008/02/de-fabriek-four-very-early-tapes.html

[edison]

I am hopeless - just ordered Gris Gris from Norman Records along with the new Antony and A. Bird albums - I'll report in one or two weeks, I suppose.

[Nick Ink]

Coincidentally enough, I was watching a programme about voodoo gris gris practioces in Benin on the bus this morning.

[Nick Ink]

Well, I assumed that you of all people had the Machinefabriek website bookmarked!

www.machinefabriek.nu for details and a short excerpt, then

edit: looking at the Discogs page for that record, it transpires that it is actually six minutes long.

edit 2: removed unnecessary and distasteful commas.

I just bought the mp3s from boomkat - 2.95 for 6 minutes...hmm, not sure about that but never mind.

EDIT - Oh, arse - due to my malfunctioning computer the d/load froze up midway through and I had to cancel it. Does that mean I can't get what I paid for? Anyone had this experience before? I mean, it's easy to go and d/l it from somewhere for free, and I guess I've paid, so it doesn't matter, but still, seems odd...

[Andrew_TSKS]

See, once again, this is why I don't pay for downloads.

[alex]

That's a bit of a silly excuse, Andrew, because there's plenty of paid download sites that will let you re-download without a hassle. Emusic certainly does.

I'd just check with Boomkat, Nick, I'm sure there's going to be a way to try again.

Man, I really need to order a couple of Machinefabriek records, myself.

[Andrew_TSKS]

Oh, I know, it's not just the possibility of the download glitching that worries me. Computer crashes can wipe out hundreds of dollars worth of purchased music, etc. I'm very suspicious of computer files. I don't trust the permanence of anything I don't have a hard copy of. And even CD-Rs, DVD-Rs, etc, can get corrupted/scratched/worn out. If I had infinite resources I wouldn't even trust those.

[edison]

Sorry to hear about the failed download, Nick - but I have to concur with alex - I'm sure Boomkat can do something about this. Yeah, £3 is a bit steep for 6 minutes of music indeed - I'm still considering getting the physical object, though, since it looks nifty and I like the concept - it's barely more expensive (5 euros).

[Nick Ink]

Sorry to hear about the failed download, Nick - but I have to concur with alex - I'm sure Boomkat can do something about this. Yeah, £3 is a bit steep for 6 minutes of music indeed - I'm still considering getting the physical object, though, since it looks nifty and I like the concept - it's barely more expensive (5 euros).

If I had the merest scrap of my musical soul left intact, i would do this also, but having systematically sold off the better half of a 20 year record collection, I have psychologically forsaken the physical artefact when it comes to music. I see all the music I own as invisible and to some extent transient. I don't even worry about losing stuff, because a) in the future, I'll be more interested in listening to things that haven't been made yet, and b) everything will one day exist everywhere, simultaneously.

[edison]

I understand you and kind of envy you, but I'm far from being at that point yet. Still considering ordering IJspret and a couple of other releases (possibly Staub because I love the cover picture, and Vloed, both because I also like the cover a lot, and because of your description upthread).

I'm beginning to have a good grasp of both Marijn and Weleer - "Hieperdepiep" had me a bit bewildered at first, but I think it might actually be one of my favorite Machinefabriek tracks now. I definitely need to investigate Ranonkel further - for some reason it hasn't resonated as much as the others so far, but it might just be because I haven't devoted enough attention to it yet.

[Good Intentions]

everything will one day exist everywhere, simultaneously.

How Hegelian.

[edison]

Oh, and I originally came here to mention that Machinefabriek will be playing in London on May 12, apparently.

[edison]

After almost *gasp* three months of "waiting", there is at last a new Machinefabriek record available, called Shuffle, with an MP3 available here.

New collaboration with Peter Broderick out in the summer too, apparently.

[Nick Ink]

Good stuff!

[edison]

Machinefabriek's hit single "Dauw" now has a video!

[Nick Ink]

Machinefabriek's hit single "Dauw" now has a video!

Crikey. Thanks! That was interesting. I enjoyed that but I feel slightly annoyed to have someone else's images tacked on to that music for me. Not speaking Dutch, I have always listened to Machinefabriek's songs completely without context. Autechre for one deliberately named their tracks things like Piobmx19 and Vose In so that listeners would be able to do the same.

[Greg Nog]

Incidentally, that video marked the first time I listened to Machinefabriek, and I liked it quite a bit.

[edison]

Machinefabriek's hit single "Dauw" now has a video!

Crikey. Thanks! That was interesting. I enjoyed that but I feel slightly annoyed to have someone else's images tacked on to that music for me.

Yeah, that was my initial fear/reaction, too, and it didn't entirely disappear, but I did come to like the video after being initially unsure about the whole concept for about three or four minutes. It's quite beautifully done.

[Andrew_TSKS]

Incidentally, that video marked the first time I listened to Machinefabriek, and I liked it quite a bit.

Same here, on both counts. Cool stuff!

[Nick Ink]