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Music Video: It Won’t Be Long by Super_Collider | Director Dawn Shadforth | 1999

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Music Video: It Won’t Be Long by Super_Collider | Director Dawn Shadforth | 1999

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Music Video: It Won’t Be Long by Super_Collider | Director Dawn Shadforth | 1999

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Music Video: It Won’t Be Long by Super_Collider | Director Dawn Shadforth | 1999

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Jamie Lidell Song Premiere: "Capture the Moon"

Jamie Lidell

BY JORDAN MAINZER

As recently as a decade ago, no avid listener would have predicted Jamie Lidell's pivot into neoclassical music. After all, even his seemingly disparate eras, the techno beat master of Super_Collider, soul-funk impresario of Multiply, and one-person pop maximalist of Jamie Lidell, had one thing in common: showmanship. Of course, life has a funny way of making you shift gears. Since the release of his last record, 2016's Building a Beginning, Lidell has gotten married and started a family, moved to Nashville, and, over the course of the pandemic, learned piano. (He also came to terms with his neurodivergence.) Recording lyrics written by his wife, Lindsey Rome, sent Lidell down a collaborative, experimental path of music-making that, in a full circle moment, is perhaps more consistent with his textured Super_Collider days than his solo career thus far. The result of this journey, which featured work with classical musicians Rob Burger, Pascal Le Boeuf, Raven Bush, and Ji Hye Jung, is Places of Unkowing, Lidell's first album in 9 years, out Friday via TODO. Today, he releases his third single from the album, "Capture The Moon".

In comparison to the synth-imbued, Bowie-meets-Radiohead desperate longing of lead single "The Center" and layered arpeggios of the cold, crystalline "How Do I Land", "Capture The Moon" messes with your sense of place and time. Orchestration gives way to piano, snippets of Lidell's effected voice and spindly, jazzy bass swirling around his main vocal turn like ghosts haunting a mansion, spiders running amok in his brain. "Will I know when it's time to go?" he asks, later singing, "Mother nature holds my hand / To show me she understands / How afraid I am." The death-fearing words were penned by Rome, but Lidell's performance could convince you he was experiencing the emotions in real time.

Lidell answered a few questions over email about "Capture The Moon". Read his responses below, edited for clarity.

Since I Left You: What about "Capture The Moon" is emblematic of the album as a whole? On the other hand, how does it stand out on the album?

Jamie Lidell: I suppose there are several ways to answer this. One thing that makes this one unique is it’s the only song that was recorded on my lovely old Steinway upright. It was a tired mechanical beast, but I loved that thing. I found it here in Nashville and wrote all the material for the record on it, but this is the only track where it made the cut. Rob Burger coaxed the magic from it, and I remember it well.

I’d say it’s a more direct song than some on the LP, also. It’s got a hook form, even--probably why the label gravitated to it as a single.

This fucker is a certified smash. Well, it will be when Billie Eilish releases her version.

SILY: The track begins with a swell of orchestration before the piano is introduced; it reminds me of not just an opening to a classical piece, but perhaps to a film or theater production. Do you view this song or album at all cinematically or theatrically?

JL: The song tells you, as they say. I had spoken with my friend Dave Okumu about strings, as I knew the record could handle it. Some things have strings plopped on top, you know? I heard the way Raven Bush had worked with Dave and loved the way the tones sat inside the music. I’d hoped Raven might be able to take part, and thanks to Internet, we collaborated in a transatlantic back and forth to get this done. In this case, I sent him multi-tracks of me singing the string lines, and he played and mixed his effected and dry parts. It was the best day getting parts back from him--just so emotional.

This record features some true masters, from Ji Hye Jung on marimba to Rob Burger and Raven Bush: just wild talents that made it all jump from the page. [It] turned the simple song into something way more evolved, and yes, added a space, a sonic halo around it all to bring that theater. [I] can’t wait to hear Billie’s take on it !

SILY: The song seems to have existential lines, about life, death, and legacy: "Will I know when it's time to go?" Are these themes you process through your music at this point in your career and life in general?

JL: The lyrics all come from my wife’s beautiful mind. I tried to translate them into song, which was a hugely rewarding experience. She has a way of cutting to the chase in life. Her name is Lindsey Rome. She’s such a wonderful artist and creative soul, always painting and exploring fearlessly. She’s just a huge inspiration. I got rather lucky marrying her!

We share this record.

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NOKO 089 - Super_Collider vs. Station Rose

brighton funk, dub techno, VHS

NOKO 089 - Super_Collider vs. Station Rose

.. in this show comes the bon ton direct from an old video-recorder?!? a magnetic tape retrospective for the nightly VJ/DJ mergers on the german TV stations HR3 & VIVA2 (later VIVA+) post-millennial. especially these visual & sound collages by the program formats VS. and 2STEP were ritually recorded.

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089 > Super_Collider vs. Novamatic/Red_Design. altogether with relevant living pictures in parts with all infos: www.novamatic.com/super.htm

> Station Rose vs. Station Rose. the married webcast pioneers and her interactive work. videos and much more of the last twenty years in cyberspace under: www.stationrose.net

058 | no tracklist available! . . . 111 | station rose - dave (original) | GIGOLO 46 yeah, yeah.. the good old video home system! 2011-09-19 . radio blau 2015-11-20 . radio lotte 2016-04-16 . radio corax 2020-03-22 . fsk hamburg 2020-09-27 . fsk hamburg «rerun

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The 100 greatest IDM tracks

66. SUPER_COLLIDER ‘It Won’t Be Long’ (1999, LOADED)

So very, very far ahead of its time, Super_Collider’s first album Head On amazing arrived on a major label thanks to Skint’s deal with Sony. Cristian Vogel and Jamie Lidell hit a rich seam of dark cyborg funk, that wraps itself around you like the hungry metal in ‘Tetsuo’. For those who only know Jamie Lidell as the slick lounge lizard soulman he later became, his singing and production work on this should be a revelation.

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