the glimmer twins - remixed, re-edited and f+cked up.

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who's got/heard this?

thoughts?

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

not so sure about it yet.

I wish they'd make more stuff like the Eskimo Series. they've done the serie noire thing to death.

on the other hand we only got it in last week and I should listen to it more before passing judgement.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think this is anything like the serie noire series. that was all about new beat / cold wave where as this is very light and fun. i think it's ace - they even make me like billy idol!

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe I should listen again, but after the opening two tracks it seemed to go very new beat again, to me.

I am probably just not into listening to so much rock music, all at once, haha!

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i advise you immediately go and spend the rest of the week listening to the first 4 black sabbath albums ronan. you'll be a born again rocker by friday,

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

jesus what a terrifying thought, all that misery back again!

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The Glimmers or the Glimmer Twins? Isn't the latter the nom de plume of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards?

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

new beat?

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Glimmer Twins = Glimmers

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

According to this website: there is a new Glimmers compo due in April 2005:

http://www.i-muzzik.net/home1024.php3?rub=48
.:: AVRIL 2005

11-04 : The Glimmers - DJ Kicks

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

why do they release mix discs on vinyl?

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

the vinyl is unmixed.

― stirmonster, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

loving this.

the billy idol section just makes me want the big piano/guitar(?) riff to come in and swallow the mix up.

but i am enjoying this a lot ...

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Between the 2 Culture Club mixes, the 2 Serie Noire mixes, the 3 Eskimo mixes, this and the forthcoming DJ Kicks, the Glimmer Twins must be the most prolific hip DJs by far.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

the 4 eskimo mixes!

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a fourth? I didn't know. I've never seen any of them, but they're now in my "buy on sight" category. Sadly this category is reserved for stuff I never ever find anyway, but on the other hand I did stumble over Luciano Live @ Weetamix the other day.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Virgin over here had a blowout on Eskimo 4 awhile back. They had like 5 copies, all priced at $7.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

whoa Tim the Eskimo comps are now deleted as far as I know, we have a II and IV in work but can't get beloved III back in.

that said II is an absolutely incredible comp.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay I'm now issuing a ban on any discussions of these comps in my presence.

I'm trying desparately to save money for Europe anyway. Maybe I should just avoid record stores altogether.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

apparently before some falling out occurred, Eskimo and our shop were on very very good terms, cos we sell so so many of their comps. And they were going to make loads more for us! but not anymore.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i think they may still be available on CD but not vinyl (but im probably wrong)

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

there must still be loads in shops yeah, they just aren't making anymore for order. I do know though they were never available in the chain stores here, maybe in Britain it's different.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

Ronan/Jed! I got Eskimo III! It was hiding in a shop I visit frequently all along! Am blown away by its awesomeness. Julien Jabre's "Voodance"! Tulio De Piscopo's "Stop Bajon (Primavera)"! And "Do It Now" sounds even more amazing here than usual.

Plus the guy at the counter was really cute, and when I handed it to him he said, "This has my favourite dance track ever on it. Can you guess what it is?" And I said, "well, yeah, it's gotta be Your Love..." and he gave me the sweetest smile, then started talking to me very earnestly about Mayer's "Lovefood" 12 (my other purchase) while surreptitiously checking my name on my debit card so that he could say "see you soon, Tim" in an alluringly intimate fashion at the end.

The Glimmers' DJ Kicks is pretty ace also.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Result! Tim, that's hilarious. Is that Eskimo 3?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah. I'll always think of him when I play it, too... (being in a relationship, I might have to avoid that record store from now on!).

I interviewed Mo from the Glimmers this afternoon and had to restrain myself from gushing about the comp (it being, like, four years old and all, he's probably moved on himself). I even adore the ultra classy packaging, it's like the real thing that so many speed garage compilation sleeve designs were trying to be.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

one of the guys, Mo or Benoelie, worked at the music man and was a&r manager at r&s records. they also dj-ed at the best club ever: the culture club in ghent (it was like bocaccio all over again for me). i still have to hear the cassette track which is rumoured to be a classic.

isn't eskimo related to news? they're not the friendliest guys around...

― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

new DJ Kicks is really nice.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

apparently they didn't ask the residents or severed heads (and probably everyone else) if they could use them.
now, if you can get away with that, can i have something of mine released on the same label?

(aye right)

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Could someone post the tracklist for DJ Kicks please?

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Bis - Shack up
Bis

Peaches - Lovertits
Peaches

Big Two Hundred - Approach And Pass With Contact
Big Two Hundred

The H-Men - Scream (Acid-Pella Mix)
The H-Men

Dirty Minds - I Want U
Dirty Minds

The Lotterboys - Heroine
The Lotterboys

Modern Romance - Modern Romance
Modern Romance

Kerri Chandler - Disko Satisfaction
Kerri Chandler

Connie Case - Get Down
Connie Case

Deepstate II - Everybody Get Down
Deepstate II

Ragtyme - Fix It Man
Ragtyme

Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - Kosmisk Klubbkveld
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas

Kaos - Feel Like I Feel
Kaos

Impi - Impi
Impi

Hamilton Bohannon - The Groove Machine / The Boogie Train
Hamilton Bohannon

The Glimmers - Cassette (DJ-Kicks)
The Glimmers

Two Lone Swordsmen - Feast Dub
Two Lone Swordsmen

Magnetophone - Kel’s Vintage Thought
Magnetophone

Chicago - I’m A Man
Chicago

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I was in a hurry earlier to meet my lecturer so couldn't comment properly about the DJ Kicks, it's a really good mix, I think. Again quite different, this feels a bit like it should be called "the essence of disco punk" or something, it really is very coherently selected and has a real sound of its own, even though most of the records are old.

I wasn't sure about their own tune until I heard it in the context this CD, we had the vinyl first and I couldn't get into it really. I might buy it I think, now.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Tell me about the Lindstrom & Prins Thomas track...

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

it's great - 21st century space disco. everything lindstrom has done that i've heard has been fabulous but in some ways he's even better when he works with prins thomas as it seems to slightly curb his potential prog excesses.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I was going to buy a Prins Thomas 12" cause I like what I've heard. Do you think anywhere in Glasgow will stock his stuff or should I just go the internet way?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i haven't seen any of his records in glasgow though rub a dub may have some. otherwise, try piccadilly records.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Picadilly was where I was thinking of - they have Discomiks and two othes in at the moment, which sound good from the samples and descriptions. Will try rub a dub, maybe when I go record shopping with Ronan. Ta!

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Glimmer Twins are playing in London and Glasgow next w/e, for anyone who's interested.

― baboon2004 (baboon2004), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

Can we turn this into a thread about the gloriously camp/epic/psychedelic etc disco and house (or whatever) tracks you have known due to the auspices of Eskimo/Glimmers. I was thinking today that in the realm of camp disco and house esp these guys are like my main providers now. For Example:

BB Boogie - Tell Him (Booty Bounce Pt II) (from Eskimo III
I love this track so much. Maybe not my absolute favourite moment on the unbeatable Eskimo III but probably the one that makes me want to dance and sing along the most - the impossibly sexy bass disco groove! The call'n'response chanting! The hyperventilating diva! "Girl!" "What?" "Tell him! That he's a waste of time! And that he'll surely drive you! Right outta ya mind!"

Gino Socco - Dancer (from Club Culture Club Compilation I)
Totally lifechanging. So intense and relentless, when that driving piano'n'horn riff combo comes in it's like this gigantic velvet-covered iron fist of camp is being rammed into your brain through your eyes.

Shakedown - At Night (Mousse T Remix) (from Club Culture Club Compilation I)
I already knew this pre-Glimmers but I love them for using it. This was a great unifying track I recall - pitched kinda in that interzone between girly pop-house, eerie electro-house, straightforwardly grinding Subliminal stuff and homo pandering - when I heard it played at The Market (big local gay club) it totally took my head off.

(probably too obvious to talk about Sister Sledge's "Lost In Music" from the same comp)

Kaos - Feel Like I Feel (from The Glimmers' DJ Kicks)
I've already talked about this elsewhere. The resurrection of Sylvester!

Elanor Academia - Adventure (from One Night In Berlin)
Femme-brutalism to the max! I love its menacing naivete, the rumbling blockiness of the groove complementing the girly vocals so well. A lot of stuff played at gay clubs sounds like it wish it could be like this, but remains too tied down to a sort of post-Thunderpussy metronome house groove utilitarianism to quite get there.

Sunburst Band - I'll Be There For You (from One Night In Berlin)
Wonderfully hazy disco, Sunburst Band is totally the right name for this group as it really does feel like a glorious ray of disco bliss suddenly beaming into your head. I remember being at a club called Freakazoid on an E several years ago when stuff like this played (one probably hideously well known disco-house track I've never been able to I.D. went "OH I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU!!!" over gloriously dinky-dyed quasi-French House disco riffs) and I thought it was scientifically-proven to be the best type of music ever ever ever.

Perhaps related and up for discussion is the non-camp but androgynous epic house of stuff like Paul Rutherford and Raymond Barry on Death Disco (in my gay house delineations Smagghe is neither camp nor homo but rather phag), which i also adore.

Anyway, comment, discuss, enthuse etc.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:42 (twenty years ago)

I don't suppose I'm adding much here but three other wonderful camp records Eskimo has introduced me to are Silver Belt by Daniel Wang, She Has A Way by Bobby O and Walk The Night by The Skatt Brothers. Do you think the people behind Eskimo or The Glimmers might be gay?

― Bobby OH, Monday, 16 January 2006 06:15 (twenty years ago)

the man behind eskino is straight. so are the glimmers. so in fact are all the people who have done mix cds for them. but, they are all quite camp. some of them exceedingly so.

tim - phag is the best term i have never heard. genius!

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 16 January 2006 07:20 (twenty years ago)

Yeah the campness of all the Eskimo-related DJs (if/when they are camp - e.g. Optimo and Smagghe are both great but I don't consider either to be camp really) is a very specific type which is quite separate to homosexuality.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:21 (twenty years ago)

Ha I wrote that for all the world like I wasn't speaking to a member of Optimo!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 16 January 2006 11:59 (twenty years ago)

sunburst band IS amazing, isn't it? did you ever think you would be writing accolades for a group w/ a press release this terrible?

Veteran UK electronic producer Dave Lee (aka Joey Negro) is one of the few people who can glide effortlessly from the chilly depths of the “underground” to the moneyfied glitz of commercial music ... the ever prolific Mr Lee, has regrouped with his supa-talented muso mates to form London’s latest nu-funk and boogie hybrid, The Sunburst Band. With members culled from the funkiest ends of Incognito, Jamiroquai and the Kyoto Jazz Massive, The Sunburst Band is unashamedly musical.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 16 January 2006 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Negro has some serious skeletons in his closet.

Tim, you, and everyone else on this thread NEED to hear the full version of "Lost In Music", as it appears on Culture Club 1, it's actually a Glimmers re-edit but annoyingly the mix CD cuts it off very prematurely.

It's an ace re-edit tho.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 16 January 2006 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I thought it sounded different! I love what I've heard though.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 16 January 2006 20:42 (twenty years ago)

it is an ace re edit but the vinyl version cuts off annoyingly prematurely too. it inspired me to do my own version

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 16 January 2006 20:50 (twenty years ago)

I'm loving all of this music right now, I just djed a party, playing mainly older disco, but I'm starting to enjoy adding some of this new music in the mix, esp. kaos 'feel like I feel' 'Tribulations (Lindstrom remix)' and rub n tub mixes.
What I love about this music and what I think it shares with disco, aside from sounds , is an expressiveness, or an reintroduction of love into dancing.
I want to write more about this, but I have to go watch a movie......

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Monday, 16 January 2006 22:36 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

i'm listening to the 'poplife sucks' comp as put together by the glimmers and olivier tjon (who has teamed up with them a few times in the past) - obvious but good tracklist, the mixing is mostly just basic fades rather than any fancy beatmatching. i'm enjoying it but it feels a bit phoned in to be honest.

the dj-kicks volume is seriously so classic, i have listened to that thing a bunch of times. it wrapped up stuff that i was just getting into at the time (lindstrom, chicken lips, idjut boys) but the best things were from the other stuff that i'd never heard of. 'get down' by connie case! that AMAZING deepstate II track! the kerri chandler track, does he have anything else like that? his output is still a bit of a blindspot in my knowledge.

― oh, pregnantpaws (haitch), Monday, 20 April 2009 06:08 (seventeen years ago)

i was not totally crazy about the mix that this thread was started in aid of; i preferred the fabric one to that. the older eskimo mixes sound like the real deal but they're long gone from shops round here, tim probably scavenged the last copies! was eskimo V any good?

― oh, pregnantpaws (haitch), Monday, 20 April 2009 06:15 (seventeen years ago)

I only have a copy of Eskimo III so I'm not THAT much of a scavenger. It, DJ-Kicks and the first Culture Club mix are my favourite.

If someone did that Culture Club mix now it would seem super-obvious, but I still think it's an awesome party mix, it's the perfect meld of electro-house, quasi-obscure disco and "now that's what I call 80s dance pop".

― Tim F, Monday, 20 April 2009 07:54 (seventeen years ago)

the Troubleman flipside of the culture club mix is really good too. I always want more rnb/soul/hiphop/random mixes like that but never got a good recommendation for one.

wish you could easily download the eskimo comps, I have one on a computer in Dublin. I'm an idiot cos the store I worked in got the Eskimo comps exclusively reprinted and we had tons of all of them for years (tho selling a few each day.) Never bought any cos I could listen to them every day in work. Silly!

― Local Garda, Monday, 20 April 2009 11:02 (seventeen years ago)

Eskimo III is dope.

Have my friends copy of the vinyl, and I think I'll just put the mp3s on the now.

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Monday, 20 April 2009 11:10 (seventeen years ago)

III is the blue one right?

― Local Garda, Monday, 20 April 2009 11:20 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Eskimo-Volume-III/release/86845

yeah.

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Monday, 20 April 2009 11:23 (seventeen years ago)

iii is red!

― just sayin, Monday, 20 April 2009 11:27 (seventeen years ago)

ah okay I think I like the blue one better, is that II? they're all pretty great tho.

― Local Garda, Monday, 20 April 2009 11:30 (seventeen years ago)

III is sadly the only one i have, need to try and track down the others

― just sayin, Monday, 20 April 2009 11:32 (seventeen years ago)

doh, of course. Even in that discogs link it's red. I have my friend's II and III. II is the blue.

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Monday, 20 April 2009 11:32 (seventeen years ago)

And now I can only find the blue! In my not particularly big record collection.

Seems I've never bothered putting II on my computer, will do that now, productive afternoon.

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Monday, 20 April 2009 11:33 (seventeen years ago)

eric kupper track on II is amazing. would love a link if you do manage to upload.

― Local Garda, Monday, 20 April 2009 11:38 (seventeen years ago)

will do, considering the amount of tracks and my love of procrastination it will probably be some time evening.

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Monday, 20 April 2009 11:40 (seventeen years ago)

this evening even. I think half my posts on here contain a spelling mistake or missing word.

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Monday, 20 April 2009 11:41 (seventeen years ago)

ok, this is ridiculously big since it's in 320kpbs mp3, 248MB, don't have any way to batch convert them so I'll just upload each vinyl as a separate folder then anyone that's interested in one bit and not another doesn't need to go for the whole thing.

so once it's uploaded will be:

A1 Eric Kupper Latin Blues Pt 1
A2 Ray Barretto Acid
B1 Lil' Louis & The World I Called You (The Story Continues)
B2 EPMD It's Time To Party

C1 Liberty City If You Really Love Someone
C2 West Phillips (I'm Just A) Sucker For A Pretty Face
D1 M1 Electronic Funk (Kaje Remix)
Remix - Kaje
D2 Laid Back Bakerman (Extended Remix)
D3 James Brown Payback

E1 Stretch Why Did You Do It?
E2 Bill Withers You Got The Stuff
E3 Lambchop Up With People (Zero 7 Dub Mix)
Remix - Zero 7
F1 Carlos Peron Break-In
F2 Vernon Burch Get Up
F3 Max Berlin Elle & Moi

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:09 (seventeen years ago)

http://rapidshare.com/files/223692852/eskimo_vol._2_-_part_1.rar.html

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Monday, 20 April 2009 18:43 (seventeen years ago)

http://rapidshare.com/files/223712310/eskimo_vol._2_-_part_2.rar

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Monday, 20 April 2009 19:32 (seventeen years ago)

http://rapidshare.com/files/223724927/eskimo_vol._3_-_part_3.rar

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Monday, 20 April 2009 20:08 (seventeen years ago)

this looks great, many thx

― i am the eye in the sky... (psychgawsple), Monday, 20 April 2009 21:27 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

could re-upload these three ones please???
http://rapidshare.com/files/223692852/eskimo_vol._2_-_part_1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/223712310/eskimo_vol._2_-_part_2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/223724927/eskimo_vol._3_-_part_3.rar

A1 Eric Kupper Latin Blues Pt 1
A2 Ray Barretto Acid
B1 Lil' Louis & The World I Called You (The Story Continues)
B2 EPMD It's Time To Party

E1 Stretch Why Did You Do It?
E2 Bill Withers You Got The Stuff
E3 Lambchop Up With People (Zero 7 Dub Mix)
Remix - Zero 7
F1 Carlos Peron Break-In
F2 Vernon Burch Get Up
F3 Max Berlin Elle & Moi

― maurocrachat, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 06:45 (sixteen years ago)

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