Super_Collider Guest Book / Personal Response Thread

[Tomoki]

I’ve read the review of „Raw Digits“ in the German Groove Mag. They praised the album!

I am trying to upload the review soon.
Perhaps it is online soon at

http://www.groove.de

Quote:"A genre-overlapping must have".

[Loz]

Great review, congratulations.

Reading it has got me more and more excited about the album.

[MUX]

great reviews!

so when do the rest of us get a preview Boss?

[splitrmx]

There's a review at here: http://www.skkatter.net.

-splitrmx

[Lady E]

nice splitrmx

thanks for that!

[mattp]

Also a good review in The Wire this month ...

Or at least I think it's a good review ... most of their reviews go right over my head ....

Have a look and see what you think.

[dwood]

http://www.overloadmedia.co.uk/cgi-bin/reviews/reviews.pl?date=2002-05&sort_a=label

RÂ* AlbumÂ*Â*SUPER_COLLIDERÂ*‘Ra w Digits’Â*(Rise Robots Rise) Â*2002-05Â*
Four years ago I watched a smashed Jamie Lidell roll around the floor in the back of a dingy club with a microphone, his crazed vocal outpouring really testing the bouncers’ patience. I knew then he’d go far. Playing in the other room that night was ex-Brighton cohort Cristian Vogel, and here, on their second long-player together as Super_Collider (Vogel living in Barcelona, Lidell in Berlin), the scruffy collaborators cement their internment in the realms of deranged genius with a classy set of sonic wobblers for No-Future’s new ‘Rise Robots Rise’ imprint. From the jerky strains of the opener, ‘Messagesacomin’, Jamie Lidell’s jaw-dropping smooth vocals cruise the glitchy soup of beats, bass, rattles and tones with a crazed confidence. ‘Closetails’ turns up the funk, injecting a more pronounced two-step twist and some gorgeously complex melodic arrangements before the next cut ‘Bug Trackir’ dubs out in to languid swooning beatscape. ‘Gravity Rearranging’, featuring Matthew Herbert on bass, is perhaps one of the finest moments - an easy-listening gem of modern music fusion combined with Lidell’s killer vox. Elsewhere, ‘Soily Soul’ presses delicate ghostly house rhythms against warming sound collages, ‘In The Beams’ goes midnight shufflin’ and stumbling, and ‘Conquer N Collide’ breathes the relaxed air of drunken futurism you’d only get from locking Subhead, Prince and Craig David in a studio full of Absinthe. It’s all a far, far cry from Lidell’s days of Subhead, or Vogel’s spiky early Tresor releases, embracing an understanding of soul that’d slap Jamiroquai back in his nappies. Super_Collider - purveyors of the skankiest, most soulful dirge ever to dribble out of the underground. Buy on sight.Â*Â*VS

[Tomoki]

For all the German readers out there, there’s an interview with Super_Collider at the new may issue from the Partysan. You can check it out online at www.partysanhomebase.net

There is also the critic of the new album (5 from 5 points) and the first single.

Here are two audio streams from the partysan-site:
Closetails
pnm://www.partysanhomebase.net/real/soundz/4538.rm

Messageacomin

pnm://www.partysanhomebase.net/real/soundz/4556.rm

[jamyna]

I just listened to the album today.
My flatmate, my girlfriend and I all loved it!!
It's warm and cozy in there.
Words mean nothing.

Good work lads keep it comin!

[Lady E]

thanks for posting all this cool stuff

its brilliant there's so much positive support

keeping us going...

[drichard]

Last Friday I discovered a new world. I went to see a band with a completely unknown name to me. They were playing in Ancienne Belgique (Brussels) and I just happen to live there and I was out to get pissed with a mate. Being a jazz piano player myself I have, until this historical change in my life, always been afraid of any music that is described in computer words and techno terms.
I am a happy man to have witnessed a concert by Super Collider. I have never seen nor heard anything like this. I especially like the funky groove that gives them such a solid basis that they seem to get away with anything they experiment with. i have never clapped for a vj before, let alone for one that gives a propellor solo.
Any tips for a newcomer in this spacy world?
Cheers, Daan

[lucid rinehead]

hello

cool! ...they're pretty special aren't they?

whats a propellor solo???

tips: get over to erutufon central; get a laptop

[Lady E]

daan thank you, that's really cool, especially because you were coming to it completely fresh. check out the album maybe and hopefully you will enjoy that too. thanks for taking the time to post

[Loz]

Just noticed a short but full of praise review in Mojo. Basic jist was they said by all rights it should sound rubbish, but instead it sounds great.

They even had a little picture of Cristian and Jamie. Which was nice.

[Lady E]

yes, i was happy about that one as i love mojo (sadly)

all reviews have been good so far apart from muzik (spit) and ministry, which i havent read but gave the album 3/10

apparently its in the times on saturday and might be in the independent too...

[darnymarfy]

boomkat, the online independent music shop has a review,

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?merchID=7712

[OCCU PINNE']

ME TOO,IVE IVE PICKED UP THE NEW LP,AND HAVE NO COMPLAINTS,IM ALREADY FOR THE NEXT.

[namshub]

hi super collider kids, we (4zzz-fm - the community station where i do a couple of shows) just recieved our copy of raw digits via inertia (oz's s_c distributor). its wikked and has only recieved positive feedback at tha station, there is even talk of it being album of tha week - pretty cool for a predominantly punk station. congratulations on a great release!!