funny had THD - We Got A Love on last night, such a great record!
On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 3:03 AM Brian Boyer wrote:
> @Tristan
> No worries. Your version is more salacious and probably makes for better
> press. Thanks for the compliment.
>
> @Nathan
> Those Radiohead remixes were done on a lark as part of a remix “contest”
> back when “In Rainbows” came out. They were posted to a website that stayed
> active for close to a year, I think. I put “contest” in quotes because
> there were no prizes. Still, it was a fun exercise.
>
> Usually, my goal with a remix is to keep a prominent aspect unaltered and
> try to compose something completely new around it. With “Nude,” the vocal
> track plays from beginning to end as it does in the original song.
> “Reckoner” uses just a vocal snippet but it stills follows the same
> philosophy.
>
> Speaking of which, here’s a link to a Matthew Dear remix I did for a
> Vintage King remix contest. I don’t know where you can find the original
> version of “Can You Rush Them” now. Again, I kept the original arrangement,
> vocals, drums and some sound effects. Where my version has a sort of jazzy,
> Bossa nova chord progression, his original version was more of a drone in
> D…or G, I don’t recall which.
>
> https://m.soundcloud.com/harbonder/can-you-rush-them-remix-brian-boyer
>
> Anyway, I’m glad to hear you liked the Radiohead stuff, as well as some of
> our other stuff.
>
> - Boyer
>
> On May 21, 2021, at 8:47 PM, Nathan Goode wrote:
>
> Have always dug Strand’s stuff. I remember listening to their remix of
> Radiohead’s Reckoner repeatedly. It was part of a remix comp I think? Just
> found it again now on Soundcloud.
> https://m.soundcloud.com/harbonder/reckoner-radiohead-remix-2
> Agree that the latest release great. Can’t get enough of Idiom.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 22 May 2021, at 8:58 am, Tristan Watkins wrote:
>
> Apologies Brian! The Discogs entries led me astray. Keep it up in any
> case. The new release is strong.
>
> On Saturday, 22 May 2021, Brian Boyer wrote:
>
>> Who is Strand?…indeed. Being somewhat of an authority myself, I can
>> safely say that Strand is and and has always been Brian Bonds, Kech and
>> Brian Boyer (me). Before that, we were T.H.D. on Serious Grooves. We are
>> from Detroit, although there are several other Strands out there that hail
>> from different places. We’ve done things a bit low-key over the years,
>> which accounts for the uncertainty as to who’s who. I’m glad people are
>> interested enough to ask, even if they don’t get it quite right.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Boyer
>>
>> On May 13, 2021, at 6:45 PM, Tristan Watkins wrote:
>>
>> I'm by no means an authority on Strand, but they had a release on
>> Frictional and one of those tracks "Zephyr" was also on the True People
>> comp as Kech and B. Bonds back in the day. That was my intro to them in any
>> case. It looks like Brian Bonds was replaced by Brian Boyer along the way.
>>
>> On Thursday, 13 May 2021, wrote:
>>
>>> excellent post, thanks for that...I just bought most of those and put
>>> some on my wishlist...unfortunately the Kyle Hall vinyl is sold out and no
>>> audio previewsdespite me getting hundreds of promos each month I have
>>> missed these...313 list to the rescue!
>>>
>>> OK, at the risk of sounding out of touch...who is Strand...? it says
>>> that they are from Detroit and have been at it since 91..I have the Strand
>>> releases on Delsin but I didn't realize they were from Detroit...
>>>
>>> seems like we are again reaching back to the past to find the
>>> futuretime isn't linear anyway, soOK...
>>>
>>>
>>> Original Message
>>> Subject: New 313-relevant stuff
>>> From: Tristan Watkins
>>> Date: Mon, May 10, 2021 2:01 pm
>>> To: 313 <313@hyperreal.org>
>>>
>>> Yo.
>>>
>>> A couple of (313) things I thought people would want to know about.
>>>
>>> New Strand https://strand313.bandcamp.com/album/silicon
>>>
>>> Newish Russ Gabriel on Ferox.
>>> https://russgabriel.bandcamp.com/album/off-centre. I like his other
>>> recent
>>> stuff, but this is back on top form for me. Like he is drifting somewhere
>>> in between his '00s less techy output (of which I am a huge admirer) and
>>> the recent return to techno.
>>>
>>> Some Nuron releases I'd missed. https://nuron.bandcamp.com/music. There
>>> is
>>> also a new 2x12" Likemind reissue that I need to pick up before it goes
>>> https://www.rubadub.co.uk/records/likemind-06.
>>>
>>> Placid Angels - Touch the Sky
>>> https://figure-music.bandcamp.com/album/touch-the-earth (note, for some
>>> reason the digital release is priced much higher at Bandcamp than other
>>> stores for some reason I am struggling to fathom).
>>>
>>> Kyle Hall's MPC Dreams https://kylehall.bandcamp.com/album/mpc-dreams
>>>
>>> Urban Tribe reissue (which is incredible)
>>> https://urbantribe.bandcamp.com/album/urban-tribe
>>>
>>> Loads of other great stuff about presently, but this was the topical
>>> stuff
>>>
