TOMORA

[Joslyn]

I don't know. Can't listen to the mix unless there is a nice person around sharing

The japanese edition of the Tomora album has a bonus track called "Wavelenghts  (Who Am I)", perhaps there's a connection. They also highlighted the word Wavelenght in the desrciption


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What?! 😲 There is now a Japanese version with a bonus tracks?! 😲 S#¡T here I go again trying to get my hands on a Japanese release.

[hstn]

Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world 〰️

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[Ford]

What?! 😲 There is now a Japanese version with a bonus tracks?! 😲 S#¡T here I go again trying to get my hands on a Japanese release.

The Japanese bonus track = an 76.6% increase in price from the regular edition!

Regular = 3,000  yen
Japanese bonus track = 5,300 yen

Interestingly, the regular listing still has a 13th track called Wavelength (Who Am I) listed. Must be a mistake?

[ThePumisher]

What?! There is now a Japanese version with a bonus tracks?!

The Japanese bonus track = an 76.6% increase in price from the regular edition!

And as mentioned a couple of pages ago it comes with a pink logo towel

=> https://forum.thechembase.com/index.php?msg=38685

[Ford]

Ahh right. I missed the towel. Not something I really want and want to pay a premium for.

[ThePumisher]

Live Q&A with Tom and Aurora + listening party

03 April - Resident, Brighton
04 April - Rough Trade East, London
05 April - Rough Trade, Liverpool

Tickets: CLICK

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[Bosco]

Just getting around to the Tomroa Mix on Apple Music...

I admittedly have not listened to much Bob Dylan, and when I have, I've keyed in on some random tracks in his discography where his vocals were less pleasant.

So when I heard:

Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world

My brain was hearing Joshua Ostander of Mondo Cozmo, who Tom assisted on his 'Plastic Soul' album, even though I knew it was Bob Dylan from the mix track listing.

track that Tom worked on for Mondo Cozmo

So anyways, I don't know why I'm mentioning this but... I suppose I want to point out Joshua Ostander sounds like Bob Dylan (vocally more pleasing, IMO) and It wouldn't surprise me to see a legit Chemical Brothers feature where they might try to use Josh Ostander to get that Bob Dylan vocal aesthetic if they should want to do that.

The Wave sounds intriguing. 

[ThePumisher]

Somewhere Else Salute remix

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[WhiteNoise]

My brain was hearing Joshua Ostander of Mondo Cozmo, who Tom assisted on his 'Plastic Soul' album, even though I knew it was Bob Dylan from the mix track listing.

So anyways, I don't know why I'm mentioning this but... I suppose I want to point out Joshua Ostander sounds like Bob Dylan (vocally more pleasing, IMO) and It wouldn't surprise me to see a legit Chemical Brothers feature where they might try to use Josh Ostander to get that Bob Dylan vocal aesthetic if they should want to do that.

I just found out a friend of mine went to school with Ostander and has remained close. Might have to ask him how that collab came to be, I've always wondered.

[Bosco]

I just found out a friend of mine went to school with Ostander and has remained close. Might have to ask him how that collab came to be, I've always wondered.

Interesting! And on the same album (Plastic Soul) which straight up samples the Nine Acre Dust remix on "11 Acre".

I do want to point out "Shine" is a wonderful track. WXRT was in on that heavy before it blew up. Easily felt like it was played daily on the station for a good 3+ years.

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Also, it's OstRander! I apologize, I lead you astray with the wrong spelling!

Alright, I'm done hijacking the thread!

[Wolkenkrabber]

I feel like we need to bump this mix forward to the current page in the thread.

For those without Apple Music:

This hour feels very much like a "this is me" mix from Tom.
We get stuff he produced as The Chemical Brothers, TOMORA and of course as Tom Rowlands.

There are artists that have appeared in Chemical mixes before (Peter Dundov, Eartheater), there are influences from Tom's past (New Order, Bob Dylan, FSOL), present day stuff (TOMORA and Tom's recent "We Are Nothing"), and maybe even something from the future (The Wave).

Bob Dylan is someone T&E have both waxed lyrical about in the past, but as far as I know, the title of One Too Many Mornings (but not the actual song) is the only thing the Chems have borrowed from him until now.

New Order's The Village is an interesting one -at least to New Order fans. An album track from Power Corruption and Lies, it never had any single release/remix/re-edits until now. The 2020 box set reissue of that album did have a "writing session" instrumental, but I don't think that's been used here.
So I guess this is a Tom re-edit (using some vocal separation tech?) even if his name isn't explicitly written in the credits.

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Original

2020 box set demo release

Pussy (spoken word) by Kathy Acker (18:38 onwards) is the same track that Tom sampled for Nothing But Pleasure, I believe. But a different bit. I guess Tom really likes the horny poetry!

FSOL's Papua New Guinea sampled Dead Can Dance's Dawn Of The Iconoclast in 1991, and of course the Dusts/Chems would sample the same track for Her Jazz in 1994. Perhaps FSOL inspired the Chems to sample Dead Can Dance (and 4AD type stuff) within "dance music", as of course they also sampled DCD in Song To The Siren.

Guilded Lily by Cults is perhaps the one track that strikes me as kinda Aurora-ish. I wonder if this was her choice?

Getting back to Dylan, as Bosco suggests, Bob doesn't have the best voice (I saw him live - once), but of course he wrote some great songs, so he was ripe to be covered by other artists (Jimi Hendrix, The Byrds, Gn'R and many more).
1) The first time I heard "A Hard Rain Is Gonna Fall" - it was a cover version by Edie Brickell.
2) Edie is best known for her song "What I Am".
3) There was an unoffical Italian remix of "What I Am" that had a percussion sound added to it. Andrew Weatherall heard it and then sampled that percussion sound for Primal Scream's Loaded.
4) And of course Primal Scream were one of the first artists to commission the Dusts/Chems to remix them (Jailbird).
So perhaps there's a four-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon kinda thing going on there.

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Whether The Wave featuring Bob's vox will ever be released is perhaps questionable. Some artists have actually sampled Dylan directly before (Lay Lady Lay was sampled by Kid Cudi, of all people). Bob of course, sold his entire catalogue for huge $$$ in 2020 and 2022, per The Guardian (Dylan must be the richest folk singer in the world!), so I don't know if that makes it easier or harder to get sample clearance. But this is really nice, and perhaps a mix like this was Tom's best opportunity to release it...

PS: Do we think that Tom added the guitar in The Wave himself? Here's the original Bob Dylan version of Hard Rain: