Nothing wrong with that. Some of my best friends are American sitcoms.
Jizzstream gets regularly saughtered round here but it's not too bad. As Hooky said (so it must be true), it's one of those songs that needed remixing to kick butt, like 'World - Perfecto' or 'Spooky - Stadium', and the Arthur Baker mix is as good as most of Sirens / Lost Sirens (is that a compliment though?). Ana Matronic's pretty fit, but most people are fit next to Stephen Morris.
As I said, it's appalling they list La Roux before Iggy Pop. Putting the tart befote the horse.

Edited by user 15 July 2015 05:41:58(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I doubt it. I'm always surprised how many fascinating but far-fetched scenarios the fans manage to think up when 90% of the time we always get the same stuff. The most bizarre was someone who suggested NO would start doing songs from their offshoot projects live. This is about as likely as Ian Curtis being found alive and well and singing 'Tasty Fish' with them as Hooky guests on drums.

Sadly she's tweeted she has no vocals on the new album.

Edited by user 15 July 2015 06:26:19(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Hello everyone. It's been a while and I haven't been keeping up with NO news at all lately, so I was pleasantly surprised to discover they've a new album coming soon.

Anyhow, sorry if this is a dumb/redundant question, but what is the group's relationship with Peter Hook these days? Is there any chance he'll work with them again or are things still pretty much unchanged?

Well, moving on from my Gillian 'fantasies', let's try something a little bit more likely:
The Japanese Bonus Track.

Tower Records (which still exists as some sort of Franchise in Ireland and in Japan) have got a listing for Music Complete: HERE. The album is due for release on the 23rd rather than the 25th of September.

Track 12 is listed as : *曲目未定 (日本盤ボーナス・トラック)
Which Google translate tells me means: *Track To Be Determined (Japan edition bonus track)

Same thing on HMV Japan

So um, y'know watch this space, completists.

Lets hope not and hope it is a good new song

Or a Lost Sirens-esque release a few years later - Incomplete Music or something?

Oh please no... Years later and it was still mostly shit.

44.1 kHz/16-bit I.e. CD quality is all 95% of people will ever need and providing it's a decent mastering will sound fantastic. HD formats can be a bit of a gimmick but they do allow people with serious Hi-Fi set-ups to own something resembling master tape quality. That is all. If you're not bothered about that (as typically 95% of people aren't) then just go with the CD and rip it via whatever you want. HD files can be converted down to MP3 format but the highest kHz range MP3 has is 48 which is the same as DVD audio. 24-bit will also be downscaled to 16 but will still sound pretty good for a compressed file so long as you do it at a high enough bit-rate (I.e. 256/320).

iTunes and its formats have limitations and I personally have no time for them but I accept they're popular because so many people own iPhones. At the moment iTunes doesn't recognise the FLAC format so you'd need to use a conversion tool (foobar2000) to get the FLAC into WAV (Windows) or AIFF (Mac OS X) format and from there you can tell iTunes to convert it to any of its formats (and MP3). If you simply want to play the FLAC then foobar2000 or WinAmp will do that for you. VLC Player also plays it and a lot of people have that installed to watch video files.



I think in this day and age the 'instant grat tracks' are the new singles. It's not a bad way of doing it. I recently pre-ordered an album by an American Indie band and gradually received first 4 tracks off the album 1-2 months before the CD physically landed through the post. The band obviously wanted these tracks to be the 'singles' but they were never technically released as such. I see more and more bands adopting this approach and it's pretty much becoming the norm. It's a nice way of giving people a preview of the album without releasing the whole thing at once to have it instantly pirated...

As for 'Music Complete' yes I believe we're getting one next month.

Posted on social media over the weekend:

"Getting restless waiting to hear #MusicComplete? Subscribe to our new @spotify playlist for a hint of what's to come and be one of the first to hear the new single when it launches!"

https://open.spotify.com...t/3LpkRLfDaYs8Dui2bu2Xd4

Info on Manchester dates also coming this week.

Edited by user 20 July 2015 09:06:44(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Update received via email today:

"Stay tuned for exciting news next week on the launch of the first single from the album. We're excited to be able to finally share the music with you."

I wonder if this will be just news about the single or if we'll actually get to hear it?

Have you seen this, guys?



Found by a friend on Facebook yesterday. Do somebody here know this guy? He's a german graphic designer and in his website he affirms that produced the artwork for "Community 2" but the sleeve showed in the portfolio is totally different. Here is it.

He also wrote this:

Edited by user 22 July 2015 13:19:21(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

It being the first track on the album is a bit of a clue too you know.