So High Friday

February 17, 2006 11:46 AM

It wouldn't make sense if I explained it. Dogs go backwards slowly in Vitalic video. Vitalic 's last video was posted here, but this is better. (Vitalic is the last electronic artist I can remember being excited to find out more about. His Bjork remix, streamable though his site, is amazing).
posted by klangklangston (24 comments total)

I have this album and it is quite good.
posted by nitsuj at 12:05 PM on February 17, 2006

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/18242
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/29027
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/48975
and now...
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/49281
posted by mapalm at 12:08 PM on February 17, 2006

Someone posted this video a few days ago, but the thread was deleted since the link was to pleix.net, who made the video and who have been linked here several times.

I think the post should be left up, since the video and song are so damn cool people are just going to keep posting the link anyway.
posted by driveler at 12:15 PM on February 17, 2006

true 'nuf...the video is coolio. and those past posts were pleix-specific. just thought it was an interesting coinkydink.
posted by mapalm at 12:20 PM on February 17, 2006

Heh. Neat stuff. My searches were for Vitalic, so I had no idea...
posted by klangklangston at 12:24 PM on February 17, 2006

omg, awesome.
posted by tweak at 12:25 PM on February 17, 2006

where hte hell do I listen to the Bjork remix??
posted by tweak at 12:31 PM on February 17, 2006

On the main site, under "Latest Releases"
posted by klangklangston at 12:37 PM on February 17, 2006

klang, my man, you just made my weekend.
posted by NinjaPirate at 12:57 PM on February 17, 2006

Me likey the Vitalic album OK Cowboy and especially Poney Part 1. Hadn't seen the vid. Thanks Klang!
posted by shoepal at 1:21 PM on February 17, 2006

I've been waiting for the first Analord ripoff track. This is certainly it! The video's pretty sweet though.
posted by afx114 at 3:10 PM on February 17, 2006

afx114, the song may appear on the new Vitalic album, but it was originally on the Poney EP in 2001. I think that predates Analord by a bit.
posted by mikeh at 3:14 PM on February 17, 2006

Def. not an analord ripoff track... although I agree there are similarities. But that could be said of lots of great music. Electronic music, especially it seems, has a lot of interplay between different artists who hear each other's music (and spin it at DJ gigs) all the time.
posted by chaz at 3:48 PM on February 17, 2006

Brilliant video, but I had to mute the sound - admittedly it's a notch or two above your usual pill-head floor-filling fodder, but that song was so ubiquitous when it came out that it burns the ears to hear it again (probably a compliment - if a song can still get on my wick three - maybe four? - years on, it's at least memorable!) Really not getting the Analord comparison, the Twin would doubtless be gravely offended, too.
posted by jack_mo at 4:09 PM on February 17, 2006

You know in old Warner Bros. cartoons when the local drunk would see something completely impossible, like an elephant in a tutu — then looks at his bottle of bathtub gin incredulously for a second — and throws it over his shoulder? Yeah. I felt like that when I saw the word "Birds."
posted by steef at 5:06 PM on February 17, 2006

My bad, I stand corrected.
posted by afx114 at 5:08 PM on February 17, 2006

I've bookmarked the video for the next time my cat is being a whiny little attention whore. He's been all over my keyboard and in my face for half an hour, but when I clicked the link he SHUT.UP. and just watched the whole thing. I didn't know he found dogs so fascinating. Or maybe he's been hiding his ability to read English up to now.
posted by rosemere at 6:03 PM on February 17, 2006

I wouldn't be *too* hasty to class things as Analord ripoffs since they're pretty much retro acid pastiches as is....
posted by Jon Mitchell at 2:16 AM on February 18, 2006

electronic music, especially it seems, has a lot of interplay between different artists who hear each other's music

Is that another way of saying it all sounds alike? Because it all sounds alike.

You kids get your slow-motion dogs off my lawn.

I keed, I keeeeed
posted by ook at 9:15 AM on February 18, 2006

I saw this a few weeks ago... looked for that Vitalic Birds brand of dog food at my local pet store but couldn't find it. (This is an ad for dog food, right?)
posted by kindall at 9:22 AM on February 18, 2006

it's an ad alright. I call code blue; pepsi blue. Remixing Bjork? does that even count?
I dug through their samples and listened to that sampled track and dub it 'meh'.

on preview, what jack_mo said. (but with more feeling)
posted by ilovemytoaster at 4:35 PM on February 18, 2006

If you like this and/or LCD Soundsystem, be sure to check out The Juan Maclean.
posted by dhartung at 4:46 PM on February 18, 2006

Weird dhartung, I'd've thought folk who like DFA stuff would be the people most likely to utterly despise Vitalic. It's like saying 'If you like Arthur Russell and ESG, be sure to check out The Bee Gees.'
posted by jack_mo at 6:51 PM on February 18, 2006

Heh. I like DFA and Vitalic, but also ESG, Arthur Russell and the Bee-Gees. (I'd even take "Stayin' Alive" over "In The Light" any day).
posted by klangklangston at 8:00 PM on February 18, 2006