who handles the production on this stuff?

I take it you mean musical production. If so, I do.

Most Impressive

Most Impressive

It's well done, though the genre is not really my cup of tea. I think the nearest comparison to stuff I've listened in the past few years would probably be the High Llamas.

In any case, all the best with your album.

Weirdly, I think that's the first Marxy track I've heard. Yes, High Llamas do spring to mind. And maybe Etienne Charry

http://www.tricatel.com/site/who/whoetien.htm

Hey, what do you make of Of Montreal?

I don't listen much to High Llamas, but I understand the comparison. If you use harmonies, you "love the Beach Boys."

Hey, what do you make of Of Montreal?

I only started listening to them after being compared to them for the 1290th time. I think Kevin Barnes does very interesting stuff, although I can kind of do less "wackiness" at this point in my life.

I also wouldn't take too much out of this one track seeing that every track on the album is totally different.

Kevin sent me his stuff a couple of months ago and suggested we do some sort of collaboration, but my sound project has intervened. And although I could hear that the songs were very... elaborate, clever, rich, inventive, etc, I couldn't see where on earth I could take them. Apart from maybe put in some space! It could be 'Songs by Kevin Barnes, space by Nick Currie'!

congrats, david.

I vaguely recall an mp3 on this blog of you singing in Japanese. Was that a dream?

I vaguely recall an mp3 on this blog of you singing in Japanese. Was that a dream?

Regrettably, I occasionally sing in Japanese. Check the my free downloads here.

As a person who owns everything that Sean O'Hagen has put out, I'm not sure if I hear that much High Llamas in Marxy's songs. But then again, I've only heard two of his songs. I think Momus has an interesting idea about Etienne Charry. Perhaps not musically, but there is a similar vibe - a lone person constructing songs with a certain pop sensibility. And I also hear a certain "Japaneseness" in his sense of melody. Anyway, I'm not trying to give back-handed compliments by comparing the songs only to that of others.

Well done.

And I totally agree with the "If you use harmonies, you 'love the Beach Boys' knee-jerk reaction.

i don't see the high llamas comparison. i completely see the etienne charry comparison.

where would this blog be without knee jerk reactions?
of montreal is a solid knee jerk reaction, and you could really argue it all day. making it not so much a knee jerk, but a first impression, that may, or may not be right.

Regrettably, I occasionally sing in Japanese. Check the my free downloads here.

I had a listen and found two tracks that I really enjoy and which would catch my interest if I happened to hear them on the radio - NvdS and your remix of Digiki's Daikoro. I like the mix of Japanese and English lyrics and sensibilities. Hat's off, for these!

The Cornelius influence is clearer here than in the one you linked the other day. That's why it's nostalgia for nostalgia?

Isn't Cornelius a FOAF? ;-)

re: Music for Robots

album title suggestion Music for Spiders and Robots

The Cornelius influence is clearer here than in the one you linked the other day. That's why it's nostalgia for nostalgia? Isn't Cornelius a FOAF? ;-)

Oh, no, Cornelius is a contemporary influence, but that's not what I'm nostalgic for. I grew up on The Wonder Years, Nickelodeon reruns of The Monkees and Lancelot Link and the Evolution Revolution, and Oldies radio, so I am nostalgic for my parents' nostalgia that clogged up the media in the late 80s, early 90s. There are certainly overlaps with Cornelius' own music, but I feel our overall aims are totally different.

Cornelius is a friend of a friend, but not really an acquantance or anything. I'm often in the same room as him, but too embarrassed to really say anything.

Ah, I see. I was trying to work Japan into the picture and imagining your 郷愁 for the 'old days' of late-mid nineties Japan.

I feel very nostalgic think back to the late spring/early summer of 98, lying in the sunshine on the tatami mats with a girl, with Fantasma blaring from the MD player.

Don't you make some direct references to Cornelius (or FG) in places eg. "Young, Alive, and in Love"?

I was operating under the name "Young Alive In Love" for a while, but then decided to get rid of that once my aspirations departed from Shibuya-kei revival.

By the way, what I'd meant to say was... I totally agree ABOUT (not with) the "If you use harmonies, you 'love the Beach Boys'" knee-jerk reaction. Totally overplayed, in my opinion.

By the way, do you follow the happenings of Game Boy Music Club?

By the way, what I'd meant to say was... I totally agree ABOUT (not with) the "If you use harmonies, you 'love the Beach Boys'" knee-jerk reaction. Totally overplayed, in my opinion.

I figured as such.

Beach Boys harmonies are so specific in my opinion with that Brian Wilson super high part. The Association, the Beatles, etc. all had as much harmony, and they were all very different in structure. I personally can't pull off the Brian Wilson lines, so I couldn't make something sound "Beach Boys" unless I faked it somehow.