Melbourne Direct
 

http://www.saucerlike.com/

Melbourne Direct
August 17, 2006



Saucerlike Recordings has released “Melbourne Direct" – a double LP with four tracks of improvised noise-scapes by Thurston, Lee, Steve and Jim. Kim, who did not attend the recording, designed the artwork for the cover. The album that was recorded direct to acetate is limited to 800 copies. After getting your copy here, you can check out some music from The Stabs which are the guys who run saucerlike recordings.




Moshe

Thanks Moshe!

Very cool.

Nelson says Sonic Youth plan to sell 100 copies of the record on website sonicyouth.com and keep 100; he has some copies for a US distributor, and the remainder will go to local record shops.

^From the "Vinyl's last stand" article. I guess you can buy it direct from Saucerlike as well.

i checked. it's not available yet.

Well when it is released I meant.

Thanks, Moshe. You won't be surprised to know I've ordered my copy :)

so, did anyone manage to grab it?

Thanks Moshe, but I can't order it in your link?

yeah. it seems to be sold out...

Noooooooo!!!!!

Melbourne Direct

[ Genre = noise rock ]

[(Sorry, this item has availability issues and so cannot be ordered.)

it's gone.

A copy is in my grubby paws right now :D

Sir, we are waiting to hear the first review.

I haven't the time to post a lengthy review at the moment, but on first listen, it's fantastic. Quite melodic. There's even acoustic guitars on there occasionally, which makes me very happy.

Niiiiice. Some acoustic sounds very good.

Wholy fuck, I recieved this fucker today!!!

My firstr listen right now is the side with thurston's picture on it and yes sir it delivers... what springs to mind right know is Dean Roberts' White-Winged Moth back in the days --- and that's a good thing. Oh shit and it keeps getting better apparently.

Will report again on full listen!

I'm still waiting for my copy :(

Well, I never expected it to arrive at all. i hadn't heard anything from saucerlike recordings. Yours will arrive as well Moshe, I'm pretty sure you ordered it on time.

Meanwhile I'm on side three which is quite melodic indeed as sonicl mentioned so i'm guessing that this side is one of the first to be played as there is no indication of side 1 2 3 or 4. Just a picture of each player respectively.

Ok just finished listening to the record.
Some notes after a first listen, the order in which I listened to it.

Thurston side A:
Starts of with the chiming strings and cymbal rufflings you can hear in White Whinged moth records with the pace picking up and going into full throttle. Sounds from Thurston's disk Pillow Wand with Nels Cline spring to mind as well.

Jim side B:
This one starts off with gnarls of feedback which reminded me somewhat of the Bad Moon Rising era (to me at least) with Steve Shelley holding a steady rythm. Occasional plonks behind the bridge marking the SY sound.

Lee side C:
(This one is my favourite) The melodic parts are really soundtracky and totally groove and sway around - man i could shoot a flick around these sounds. Some more arranged sounding sounds evolve into heavier wrecking and turn into more noise.

Steve side D:
Starts pretty much like the first Dyskaholics track with one guitar strums and then the behind the bridge droney sound. This evolves into somewhat louder riffs as they interlock into each other throughout this track only to ease down the pace and pick it up again. At the very end the sounds fade out leaving some silent resonating sounds and I could swear I heard people clapping at the end.

sonicl? weren't you gonna do a review?



EDIT - there is a A B C D marked on the LP's, just so big I didn't see them.
Funny enough the order in which i heard the LP was the correct one.

just get an email from saucerlike rec. that's siad that they have still copies!!! i'll get it. really excited, it sounds so good
so try, maybe they have still copies.
for info:i send them an email thursday and they replys today

I only had time for a brief listen before having to put my turntable into storage, so I'm afraid I can't really post much of a review beyond "It's brilliant".

aghrrrr!
how come you knew where and when to order it?

Good lord, it finally surfaces.

This is the one for which the members of the message board were promised first crack.

missing link records in melbourne has more copies, i just got mine! you can order online if you're from overseas.

i got mine from saucerlike a week and a half ago

so i've ordered it (aghrrr, o i hate buying on the internet!!!). seem that it's available. i should get a confirmation email shortly.

Good lad! It's worth it.

got it today too. the sleeve was a messed up :(
I had another surprise in the mail. A mint copy of the coachmen's LP - it was a gift fro dear mr. sonicl :)

guys i think i have to buy a record player now (when it arrives).

How's the coachmens lp?

hehe.... highly recomended.

Somewhere between early Talking Heads and late VU.

so i got melbourne direct in my mail today and i'm really excited. that was fast. can't listen to it right now, coz i've no turntable. want to buy some.

i'd like to rip vinyl to my laptop. do i need only software or also hardware? how do you connect turntable with yr. laptop? through mic in like? thanks.

thanks very much for yr. advice hypertonic, appreciate it, but i'm still little confused about yr. last sentence.


usb audio interface?

oh, i see. thanks.

So what do you guys think of it?
I think that this is priceless piece.
One of best improvisations from SY i heard lately.
Love it.
Well done.

This is awesome, just what I've wanted to hear from them for awhile...I put it on CD and my buddy processed the CDr to take out the crackle and pop from the turntable (is it just me or is this kind of a dirty pressing?). So I listen to it at work with headphones over and over....

its also the first SY lp I've wanted to frame! There's something really appealing about Kim's painting here (and then I get the Thurston solo lp wih the Kim poster insert from Blossoming Noise which is similarly appealing!)

I would assume that the "dirty pressing" is because it was recorded direct to acetate?