Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Avalanche of Bees!

That buzzing you can hear in the background is a hype machine, just idling at the moment, but nearing the point where it will spin up to 12000 rpm, leaving smoking rubber clear across the soul of the internet.

It's the return of The Avalanches.

Or at least, the foreshadowing of such. Pitchfork have it, stereogum are echoing; there's been a sample cut released from a forthcoming Avalanches album, the second ever and first in six-plus years:

[mp3 from their site] The Avalanches - Brains TEAZER

Why does anyone care? Mainly cause of Since I Left You, the ultimate party soundtrack which Pitchfork gave a 9.5 in those halycon days before cynicism (it was 2001).

The album lit a lot of fuses, creating the mashup boom by taking use of samples to its logical extreme; though it apparently took the better part of a couple of years to get the samples cleared for release, signalling the boon it would be for copyright lawyers the world over. It was also the release that launched Melbourne behemoth Modular Records, not to mention the career of world DMC championships runner-up turntablist DJ Dexta.

So when they say there's a new album coming out, the world listens.

Wooo!

PS: OK, here's a bonus track, from the old old days, now 10 years ago, when they were playing mid-afternoon at festivals as a hip-hop group. Or headlining the Punter's Club. Still the same guys. This is a great track from their 1997 EP, El Producto, which shows some signs of what was to come for the boys:

[mp3 - 4MB] The Avalanches - Run DNA

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