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Mar. 6th, 2003 01:45 pm
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I'm just taking a very brief break (from rewriting my scribblings into coherent sentences) to say:

Velvet Acid Christ - Collapsed
May 19th

Right. That's that. Back to the scribblings :)

Date: 2003-03-06 06:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nevla.livejournal.com
As in a new albumn?
How many have VAC done? I only have one on tape...

Date: 2003-03-06 07:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiaransalyn.livejournal.com
To my knowledge at least six.
What have I got of theirs. *remembers*
Church of Acid (which is a complilation of early releases).
Calling ov the Dead
Fun with Knives and the Fun with Drugs EP
Twisted Thought Generator

There's probably more but thoseare what I can remember at the moment.

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Date: 2003-03-06 07:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nevla.livejournal.com
cheers Patrick!
I have Church of Acid, but have listened to it to death. Can u reccomend the later stuff?
I may have to get a stack of new CDs at Whitby...

Date: 2003-03-06 07:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiaransalyn.livejournal.com
The CD's I'd recommend are:
Fun with Knives and Twisted Thought Generator. Fun with Knives has the rather excellent Fun with Drugs track and there is also a hidden remix of "Futile". I enjoy listening to TTG but I wouldn't say there were many dancy tracks on it. The instrumental "MDMA - Hypersphere" is my favourite track there.

In my opinion VAC are consistantly good quality and their later stuff is more polished then their earlier stuff. Although that doesn't mean they lose their edge.

Helps?

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Date: 2003-03-06 08:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nevla.livejournal.com
aye. cheers.
I'll see if i can find them at Whitters....

Date: 2003-03-06 08:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrph.livejournal.com
New single, actually - but there's supposed to be an (as yet untitled) album a month or two later. :)

Date: 2003-03-06 08:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sogoth.livejournal.com
followed by a (again, unnamed) single afterwards.
'parently it was going to be an EP, but for "money" reasons it was split into two singles. They thought people would by the ep and then get annoyed at buying an album a month or so later (or not buy the ep). they figured two singles would sell better.

Pah to that I say!!

rumour has it that the new album is moving back to Calling ov the dead stylee :)

(the version of Futile on the Tyranny compilation is one of my all time faves :)

Date: 2003-03-06 07:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiaransalyn.livejournal.com
Excellent, I'll have to get that then.

Date: 2003-03-06 07:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] taoist-goth.livejournal.com
Mmmh VAC are OK I guess, never found them to be particularly special, especially live.

It's difficult to fill a dancefloor by playing VAC, for sure.

Date: 2003-03-06 07:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiaransalyn.livejournal.com
I dunno about that. I always found "Fun with Drugs" to be quite a good floorfiller and "Futile" worked quite well as well.

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Date: 2003-03-06 07:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] taoist-goth.livejournal.com
It prolly depends on the venue, the crowd familiarity and what you play before it.

It just doesn't have the oomph factor of, say, IOC or Rammstein...

But then neither do Front 242 unless you're playing HeadfriggingHunter.

Date: 2003-03-06 08:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiaransalyn.livejournal.com
I think it is mostly a regional thing and as you say it is mostly down to the taste of the crowd. If folks don't know VAC then they'll not dance. Of course, top quality DJ's like ourselves would remedy that gap in their education I'm sure. ;)

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Date: 2003-03-06 08:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] taoist-goth.livejournal.com
Rest assured crowd education is near the top of my Agenda.

Am still trying to teach those ruffians the delights of Industrial Power Noize. Some of them are starting to respond with twitches and occasional head nodding.

Date: 2003-03-06 08:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrph.livejournal.com
Actually, I'd say that same about IOC. It took ages before anyone here would dance to Shallow Nation or Regret - Spiky Dave kepy playing 'em at Disassembly until it finally got through to people. And you'd still have trouble now getting Cov goths on the dancefloor to anything from The Soul is in The Software.

Regional variations are weird.

Date: 2003-03-06 08:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrph.livejournal.com
Hmm, I'll disagree about the live show - only seen them once, at M'era Luna 2000, but I was definitely impressed.

As for playing 'em on CD - I think you and [livejournal.com profile] lhiss have pretty much covered that subject, but I should mention that Futile reliably filled dancefloors at Coventry's Damnation and Disassembly nights. I'm not sure it'd still go down so well here, as a lot of the people who liked it have moved on (or dropped out), and I'm not sure the newcomers know it, but...

Date: 2003-03-06 08:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mhw.livejournal.com
Velvet Acid Christ

Sounds suspiciously close to Velvet Crisis, if you ask me.

Date: 2003-03-06 08:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] taoist-goth.livejournal.com
Well Velvet Crisis obviously pinched their name from Velvet Underground and China Crisis ;) So it's just as well they didn't call themselves Underground China

Date: 2003-03-07 04:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiaransalyn.livejournal.com
So we should expect a cover of "African and White" soon then should we?

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