Anyone heard anything from the avalanches?

kristoffer1989 · Post by **kristoffer1989** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:58 am

Bough the cd "since i left you" not to long ago and i really start digging the album. kind of remind me of the newest tape from LBJ just now that kung fu and not that hip hop. its a raw kind of trip-hop and it is absolutley amazing:D

so anyone heard the album? er something else by the group?

J.Daniels · Post by **J.Daniels** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:11 pm

yeh theyre massive here in australia(well they are from here(or nz?)). Apparently they are also quite fond of the 303 apparently as someone once told me, but i havent got anything to back that up..

kristoffer1989 · Post by **kristoffer1989** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:28 pm

nice nice. are all their music kind of the style they have on the since i left you album? ah would be cool if they liked the 303.

anyone know what gear they use? software or hardware?
i really dig flight tonight and frotier psyciatrist(sorry for my bad english:P)

cool that you've heard about them!

606man · Post by **606man** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:12 pm

I'm pretty sure they're aussie... their sound reminds me of oldschool coldcut. I've heard they like the sp-303 too, but only on forums (ITM Forums), so I dunno. Their sound is definitely the sound of hundreds of chopped samples though, so most people on these boards would like it, I reckon.

Huph · Post by **Huph** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:39 pm

Have you seen this yet?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8BWBn26bX0

I'm not sure about their production equipment, but I know that the group is made up of several turntablists. Since I Left You has been out for a few years, there's talk of a new album soon. I don't know if they'll be able to live up to their own hype; I heard "Since I Left You" (the song) was *massive* in Australia. I think it won the Grammy equivalent or something.

606man · Post by **606man** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:47 pm

They haven't been able to live up to the hype at all - their (mild) success was a few years ago now :lol:

This kind of music will never be mainstream in oz - if it's not guitars and skinny lead-singers it's seen as a 'novelty' and that's it.

Huph · Post by **Huph** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:17 pm

^^^ Kind of the same here. I still think a lot of people see sample-based music and turntablism as some sort of freak show novelty act. Little do they know how much of the music of the 80s and early 90s was sample based. Some friends and I went on an MTV nostalgia trip (powered by Youtube!) last week, and I couldn't believe how much mainstream stuff back in the time around 1990 was sampled. Forget about rap and dance music, I'm talking Madonna, Prince, Paula Abdul, Michael Jackson, etc.... I guess the real difference then was that those producers seemed to try really hard (and succeeded at) making their work sound like it was composed from scratch (and I know a lot of those samples were performed in house, and then edited, but it's still sampling nonetheless). Nowadays, it doesn't seem like samplists are so overly concerned with sounding "like a real band", which I think is definitely a good thing.

But the Avalanches weren't "tearing down the walls" in Australia? The indie (sic, ha!) press over here touted them like the second coming of... Beck or something? Of course, the next week I think they were talking Jens Lekman or Animal Collective, and now it's... oh yeah, Radiohead (again), obviously.

606man · Post by **606man** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:06 am

They never even got to play the big festivals afaik, so yeah, nothing but one-hit-wonders. Their music was cool though, so it's a pity.