From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #206 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Friday, September 7 2007 Volume 07 : Number 206 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Despite my poor track record in predicting loudfan fan-favorites... ["Dave Walker" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Despite my poor track record in predicting loudfan fan-favorites... Yeah, his name's Dan Snaith, and he started out making shoegazer-influenced electronica under the name Manitoba (if you're familiar with the Morr Music label and artists like Ulrich Schnauss, Guitar, Lali Puna, Manual, etc., you're in the right ballpark.) Handsome Dick Manitoba threatened legal action over the name, so he switched to Caribou an album back. -d.w. On 9/5/07, outbound-only email address wrote: > > The new album from Caribou (Andorra) is exactly the sort of thing I would > expect many loud-fans to embrace. > > I gather the guy has an electronica sort of background, but what this > sounds > like to me is slighty wispy helium-voiced pop (think Shins) with a liberal > dose of slighty psychedelic /musique concrete sonic adventurousness (think > "Vaccuum Genesis" and the odd-numbered tracks on "Days for Days") and an > intermittent injection of krautrock drone (think Neu!). I could wish it > was > a little hookier, but it's certainly an intriguing listen. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 22:29:30 -0700 (PDT) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: [none] > She played some funky stuff when she DJd on World Cafe--all cool chick >stuff (no testosterone allowed). I feel compelled (and it's probably just me) to point out that the Shocking Blue's classic lineup consisted of one female, three males. Maybe Testosterone God Only Half-Angry, Andy "I think I know that tune..." - --Mom musing from the living room as Haysi Fantayzee's "John Is Big Leggy" plays through the computer speakers ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #206 *******************************