The Laughing Light of Plenty
28 July 2008 :: posted by Travis
I need (need) to share a song with you that is so easily on my top ten list of favorite songs of the year — if not decade. And no, that’s not a hyperbole. “The Rose” is epic. This builds up to the most fabulous break. I imagine it being like three am and the floor is slow and dark and then bang the break is over and there’s an explosion of sweat and bodies moving. But yeah, this has everything that so much dance music is missing these days — it takes you on a fucking journey.
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The Laughing Light of Plenty – “The Rose”
Thomas Bullock (Map of Africa, Rub N Tug, ex-A.R.E. Weapons) and Eddie Ruscha make up The Laughing Light of Plenty. “The Rose” is out on Bullock’s Whatever We Want Records. The only place I can find to purchase it is on this Japanese site. If you can find a domestic shop to pick this up on wax then drop a link in the comments. Please.
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I really hope the cubes around me didn’t hear the serious rocking out going on… awesome track!
July 28th, 2008 at 11.27 am
http://www.newtone-records.com/index2.php?label=WHATEVER%20WE%20WANT
July 28th, 2008 at 12.57 pm
where was the break?
July 28th, 2008 at 2.32 pm
Really like the blog. I have a members only MP3 blog that I am going to put some of this in. Feel free to send me an email to request an invitation code. Just let me know where you visited from. My email is samplevinyl@gmail.com
July 28th, 2008 at 3.53 pm
VIVA the speech of ALTAMONT + the melody of WOODSTOCK + the spirit of HAIGHT-ASHBURY !!!
July 28th, 2008 at 5.34 pm
renaissance stone roses – is this why the single is called ‘the rose’? Awesome!
July 29th, 2008 at 5.14 am
isnt it a US label? any word on US distro????
This should be the song of the summer if it would actually be released already!!!
gEE
July 30th, 2008 at 5.24 pm
bollocks! i love this song… wish the album was (a) on compact disc or available for download and (b) in my stereo right now.
August 8th, 2008 at 8.57 am
Phen-omen-omen-omen-omen-omenal…… adore this track…!!!!
September 27th, 2008 at 2.22 am
Amazing, I like so much this song. Saludos desde Perú. Está muy bueno el site ya que anduve buscando este tema en todos lados. Gracias.
October 25th, 2008 at 12.37 am
Amazing record, as is a lot of the stuff on Whatever We Want records… This release is limited to 700 copies – vinyl only and I doubt you will see this in any other format, also a very sought after label amongst collectors. Discogs currently have these listed between £40-£60 and ebay seems to throw up similar prices – good luck, but worth the money and the hunt!!
October 25th, 2008 at 5.33 am
you can find it on http://www.juno.co.uk, within the diso re-edits section.
November 5th, 2008 at 10.51 am
here is the actual link: http://www.juno.co.uk/artists/Bullock+%2526+Ruscha/
for £25, which is pretty good!
November 5th, 2008 at 10.55 am
On vinyl:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Laughing-Light-of-Plenty-12-Rose-Listen-Here-WEWW-New_W0QQitemZ300293029581QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item300293029581&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50
February 10th, 2009 at 9.32 pm
Sorry, new URL
http://cgi.ebay.com/Laughing-Light-of-Plenty-12-Rose-Listen-Here-WEWW-New_W0QQitemZ300294767402QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item300294767402&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50
February 22nd, 2009 at 4.14 pm