Prinzhorn Dance School

Prinzhorn Dance School - Clay Class
Prinzhorn Dance School - Clay Class

Prinzhorn Dance School - Clay Class

$5.00

The return of DFA Veterans Prinzhorn Dance School. Single LP features many fine songs, including "I Want You", "Your Fire Has Gone Out", and (my personal favorite) "Crisis Team", which you may listen to below. Includes an instant digital download.

Tracklisting:

  1. Happy In Bits
  2. Usurper
  3. Seed, Crop, Harvest
  4. I Want You
  5. Your Fire Has Gone Out
  6. Crisis Team
  7. The Flora and the Fauna of Britain In Bloom
  8. Turn Up the Light
  9. Sing Orderly
  10. Right Night Kay West
  11. Shake the Jar
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Prinzhorn Dance School - Home Economics
Prinzhorn Dance School - Home Economics
Prinzhorn Dance School - Home Economics
Prinzhorn Dance School - Home Economics

Prinzhorn Dance School - Home Economics

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“When our first album came out,” Tobin Prinz (guitar, voice) remembers, “we were awkward, miserable...” “Nervous, uncooperative” chips in Suzi Horn (bass, voice, drums), pausing just long enough for Tobin to supply the punchline - “and now look at us!”  

Prinzhorn Dance School are still recognisably the same spiky Brighton-based duo whose ultra-rigorous debut cut through the excess of 2008 like a scimitar through bacon fat. But with their trademark stripped-down intensity now winningly off-set by moments of unabashed tenderness, their third album Home Economics continues and even accelerates the move away from austerity and into human warmth begun by its acclaimed 2011 predecessor Clay Class. 

The starting point for the new record was the band’s “amazing” first US shows - two of their own and a triumphant showing at DFA’s 12th anniversary - in May 2013. Inspired by their American adventure, Prinzhorn Dance School brought the recording process into the heart of their everyday lives. Played and recorded on the move between different flats in Brighton and Hove, then wheeled around town on a hard-drive wrapped in a sleeping bag in a specially-adapted suitcase, Home Economics gave them an escape route from “that frustration you feel when you spend days trying to recapture the intimacy of a particular moment”, Tobin remembers. “This time we could just use the original take, so sometimes these songs are almost like field recordings”. 

All the best six-track albums - The Fall’s Slates, Orange Juice’s Texas Fever - know exactly what they want to say and how they intend to say it. Home Economics shares that infectious sense of urgency. There’s not an inch of spare meat on it - from Reign’s snatched moment of optimism, through Battlefield’s restorative meeting of minds with an urban fox on a drunken walk home in the early hours, to Let Me Go’s concluding tribute to “a love that won’t rewind and will not be deleted”. Spindly yet sensuous, together and alone, exquisitely sad but somehow full of hope, Prinzhorn Dance School knit together disparate and even opposite fragments into an utterly satisfying whole.

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Prinzhorn Dance School - Shit Robot & Optimo (Espacio) Remixes 12"
Prinzhorn Dance School - Shit Robot & Optimo (Espacio) Remixes 12"

Prinzhorn Dance School - Shit Robot & Optimo (Espacio) Remixes 12"

$14.98

Prinzhorn Dance School’s spartan sonics have often lead to some hand-wringing when trying to play out their records ‘in the club’. In the first 7 years of their existance, there was a sole club-friendly remix in their entire catalog. It is for these reasons that we’re really stoked to announce that we now have a second.

DFA veteran Shit Robot takes the track “Reign” from their imminently released third album “Home Economics” and turns it into a deep, dark floor-filler. The band’s pleading vocals dive in and out of a throbbing bassline, with new robotic percussion seamlessly blending with the band’s original bangs and clangs.

The flip features that previously alluded to Optimo (Espaco) mix of You Are The Space Invader - previously only available commercially in digital form, this is the
first (slightly) wider vinyl release of this classic remix. An edition of 500 hand-stamped and numbered white label copies, not to be pressed again for another 7 years or so. Probably.

Tracklist:

A - Reign (Shit Robot Remix)
B - You Are The Space Invader (An Optimo (espacio) Remix)
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Prinzhorn Dance School - You Are The Space Invader (An Optimo (Espacio) Mix) 12"
Prinzhorn Dance School - You Are The Space Invader (An Optimo (Espacio) Mix) 12"
Prinzhorn Dance School - You Are The Space Invader (An Optimo (Espacio) Mix) 12"
Prinzhorn Dance School - You Are The Space Invader (An Optimo (Espacio) Mix) 12"

Prinzhorn Dance School - You Are The Space Invader (An Optimo (Espacio) Mix) 12"

$14.98

DFA EMI UK 12" / dfaemi 2189 / 2007

 

A1. You Are The Space Invader

A2. Wheat For The Locust

B. You Are The Space Invader (An Optimo (Espacio) Mix)

 

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Prinzhorn Dance School - Seed Crop Harvest 7"
Prinzhorn Dance School - Seed Crop Harvest 7"
Prinzhorn Dance School - Seed Crop Harvest 7"
Prinzhorn Dance School - Seed Crop Harvest 7"

Prinzhorn Dance School - Seed Crop Harvest 7"

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DFA 7" / dfa 2255 / 2010 / picture sleeve

 

A. Seed, Crop, Harvest

B. Off The Radar, Off The System

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Prinzhorn Dance School - Up! Up! Up! 7"
Prinzhorn Dance School - Up! Up! Up! 7"
Prinzhorn Dance School - Up! Up! Up! 7"
Prinzhorn Dance School - Up! Up! Up! 7"

Prinzhorn Dance School - Up! Up! Up! 7"

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DFA EMI UK 7" / dfaemi 2171 / 2007 / picture sleeve

 

A. Up! Up! Up!

B. Hamworthy Sports And Leisure Centre

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Prinzhorn Dance School - You Are The Space Invader 7" Original Version
Prinzhorn Dance School - You Are The Space Invader 7" Original Version
Prinzhorn Dance School - You Are The Space Invader 7" Original Version
Prinzhorn Dance School - You Are The Space Invader 7" Original Version

Prinzhorn Dance School - You Are The Space Invader 7" Original Version

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DFA EMI UK 7" / dfaemi 2161 / 2007 / Picture sleeve 

Ltd. 500

 

A. You Are The Space Invader (Original Version)

B. Eat, Sleep

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Prinzhorn Dance School - Crackerjack Docker 7"
Prinzhorn Dance School - Crackerjack Docker 7"
Prinzhorn Dance School - Crackerjack Docker 7"
Prinzhorn Dance School - Crackerjack Docker 7"

Prinzhorn Dance School - Crackerjack Docker 7"

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DFA EMI UK 7" / dfaemi7 2178 / 2007 / picture sleeve

 

A. Crackerjack Docker

B. Service, Service

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Prinzhorn Dance School - You Are The Space Invader 7"
Prinzhorn Dance School - You Are The Space Invader 7"
Prinzhorn Dance School - You Are The Space Invader 7"
Prinzhorn Dance School - You Are The Space Invader 7"

Prinzhorn Dance School - You Are The Space Invader 7"

$12.98

DFA EMI UK 7" / dfaemi7 2189 / 2007 / Picture sleeve with promo sticker

 

A. You Are The Space Invader (Re-recorded with The DFA)

B. 1,2,3,4,5

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