The folks behind Baltimore's Wham City are really starting to make a name for themselves. After another edition of their curated Whartscape Music Festival , the Dan Deacon led group have announced plans to bring their friendly styles and sounds to music fans everywhere. Only this won't be your average tour. The Baltimore Round Robin tour will see two-night stints at seven different North Amer ican cities, in which members of Wham City will takes turns performing based on their music style. The tour is divided into two nights. The first [...]
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Adventure is Benny Boeldt, proud citizen of Baltimore and impassioned Wham City officianado. As recently posted about on here ( and here ), his computer and cartoon fantasy beats have a particular quality and a special essence behind them; it's something adventurous like getting up at 6am on Saturday morning to watch cartoons and all the weird worlds that go with. His new self-titled album is due out in September. His music is infused with Cocoa Pops and Fruit Loops and also some other more serious air of party, but though Adventure still has a penchant for He-Man, [...]
photos by Bao Nguyen DOWNLOAD: Adventure - Battle Cat (MP3) Ponytail Bao spent all day Saturday (July 19) running from Siren stage to Siren stage taking pictures and watching bands. In a heat wave. He didn't really feel like going to Whartscape in Baltimore the very next day (July 20), but he did (just a little late). At a minimum he was hoping [...]
If you checked out yesterday's Friday Mixtape and/or the lineup for this weekend's Whartscape Festival , you might recognize the name Adventure . Since signing with Carpark Records last spring, he 24-year-old, North Carolina born musician, who also goes by Benny Boeldt, has been gaining quite buzz for his Sega Genesis produced, Wham City approved sounds. While a bit reminiscent of he who should not be named , Adventure offers a better, fresher, and much more legal sound, something that will surely be heard on his upcoming debut [...]
Forgive us for the lack of postings this morning. Most of us here at Consequence of Sound are running on only couple hours of sleep thanks to those midnight showings. But then again, can you blame us? As we pound the tea and fight off our desires to run out and go see The Dark Knight again, well that is, until later this evening, we figured we'd leave you with another edition of the Friday Mixtape. Enjoy and always make sure you let us know which songs tickle your fancy... [...]
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dl: TWINK - 3 Bunnies In A Balloon ( YSI ) ------------------------------ ------------------------------ -------- ------- Imagine three bunnies flying in a hot-air balloon. One of them is blue. One of them is orange. One of them is pink. Well, these bunnies are arguing about where they should go for vacation. One of them wants to fly over the ocean to frolic with flying fish and a friendly octopus. One of them wants to [...]
From this photo it's not too hard to work out that 24-year-old Benny Boeldt aka Adventure is a Wham City dweller and pupil of electro spaz overlord Dan Deacon. He's already helped score the Baltimore collective's ridiculous Jurassic Park play and this weekend takes part in Whartscape 2008, their idiosyncratically awesome festival. Adventure's self-titled album is out soon on Car Park.
The Ocean Blue - Ways And Means (from See The Ocean Blue , 1996) The Adventures - Marianne (from Lions And Tigers And Bears , 1993) Poole - Anyway (from amongwhomweshine , 1999) Horse - Hold Me Now (from God's Home Movie , 1994) Solar Twins - Rock The Casbah (from Solar Twins , 1999) The Beautiful South - 36D (from 0898 , 1992)
Adventure (Benny Boeldt) of Wham City is releasing his self-titled solo debut September 16th on Carpark. With a recent move from North Carolina to Baltimore, it should be interesting to hear if his newly adopted home has an influence on his batch of video game synth. From the sounds of "Battle Cat," it's more Mega Man than Spank Rock. Adventure - "Battle Cat" His ultra-melodic synth compositions pull from his earliest exposure to the 8-bit soundtracks of the Sega Genesis video game catalog. But it's not just retro [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Adventure : "Battle Cat" [mp3] from Adventure (out September 16th) other Adventure music blog posts at Largehearted Boy Bodies of Water : "Under the Pines" [mp3] from A Certain Feeling (out July 22nd) other Bodies of Water music blog posts at Largehearted Boy Ida [...]
Hails From: Baltimore, Maryland Touring Alongside: Dan Deacon, Ponytail, Video Hippos File Under: Melodic & vintage 8-bit synth-pop Visit Adventure on MySpace. MP3: Adventure - Battle Cat
From a childhood favorite to influencing the music I listen to today, the 8-bit processor has been with me in one form or another since my 1st Grade Social Studies class. The Famicom, Atari, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega, and groups like Crystal Castles all share something in common, that little processor that has powered favorite games like Super Mario Brothers , Tecmo Super Bowl , Contra , and ExciteBike (click those links to play). Over the years, advances in computer chip techonlogy have rendered the processor pretty much obsolete (I think). [...]
This just in - Wham City is still kicking ass and taking names. Hot off the heels of the announcement of Whartscape 2008's initial line-up, we find news in the inbox that recent Wham City/Bmore-by-way-of-North Carolina resident Adventure (aka Benny Boeldt) just signed up with Carpark Records and will issue his self-titled debut LP this September. Adventure joins up with a slew of other Bmore and Wham City notables on DC-based Carpark, including one of the Wham-crew patriarchs, Dan Deacon, Beach House, Video Hippos, Ecstatic Sunshine and [...]
Minor Detail - Canvas of Life (from Minor Detail , 1983) The Adventures - Two Rivers (from Theodore And Friends , 1985) Boomtown Rats - Talking In Code (from V Deep , 1982) The Fountainhead - Rhythm Method (12" Single, 1984) Ghost of an American Airman - I Hear Voices (7" Single, 1987)
In the mid 1980's, I developed a taste for traditional Nordic music that has never really gone away since. Anytime I came across a record that looked like it might contain this type of music (usually a 45 or a 78), I snapped it up. So it was that I found a 78 by the Nordic Rhythm Boys, around 1992. I was unusually taken with this particular song, "Johan Pa Snippen", with it lilting melody and (in this version) rapid keyboard runs, but I was also [...]
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