It was March of 2009 when Lyrics Born announced the follow up to the fantastic genre-bending Everywhere At Once . The album titled As U Were has had a sliding release window since then due to LB's insistent and unrelenting demands for perfection. LB has cushioned the blow a bit by providing a steady run of leaked tracks and free downloads which has given us a pretty good picture of what the album will be like. In March, 2009 we were given the retro braggadocio track [...]
Filed under: Video of the Day Artist: Apsci Video: 'Crazy Crazy Insane' Highlight: A glitchy dance tune finds the right visual match courtesy of some jittery animation and a retro-kitsch aesthetic.
If I haven't mentioned it already, ApSci's 'Best Crisis Ever' is one of the funnest records of the year. There is so much happening musically on this album, I hear something new almost every time I spin it. Today I am digging their version of one of my favorite vintage R.E.M. songs, 'Swan Swan H.' I am going to post both versions...give em a listen...talk about making a song your own! * R.E.M. - 'Swan Swan H' MP3 [...]
Apsci are back with a new collection of wacktronica. Their 2009 release Best Crisis Ever wanders between weirdo trip hop and exotic electropop to create quite a cool effect. Apsci - The Dark & Bittersweet End Apsci - Swan Swan...
Lyrics Born released another new free download from the upcoming As U Were - a reunion of sorts with Lateef the Truth Speaker called "Pushed Aside, Pulled Apart." The track is an interesting sort of 80's-inspired head bobber featuring the distinctive rapping and vocals from LB and Lateef. I liked the f irst track "leaked" "Funky Hit Records," but this track has summer jam written all over it. The first track off of As U Were offered as a free download was "Funky Hit Records" back in March . That song got a [...]
Featuring ApSci, Choir of Young Believers, ZAZA, Tinariwne and Mark Mallman. ApSci "Crazy Crazy Insane" (mp3) from "Best Crisis Ever" (Quannum Projects) Buy at iTunes Music Store More On This Album Choir of Young Believers [...]
Quannum duo ApSci, whose excellent sophomore full-length, Best Crisis Ever, came out digitally last week, have two very different upcoming shows in New York in the next couple of weeks. The first is next Wednesday, August 26, at Mercury Lounge. ApSci will be opening the killer triple-bill with their full-live band, followed by Michna (who [...]
Poster of the month! So it appears that three bloggertronix musical faves; Cubic Zirconia, Mishna & Apsci are coming together to create a savage evening of beats and rhyme, on August 26th at the Mercury Lounge in NYC. If I had the pennies to [...]
My inner geek can't help but to love a band that names itself after a college course. Apsci are a husband and wife duo out out of New York who specialize in genre-bending awesomeness. Their previous records were rooted in hip hop, but always veered off from time to time, but this new record 'Best Crisis Ever' is all over the map - sonically speaking - and it is a beautiful thing. The digital version of the album is available everywhere now...you will have to wait til September for a hard copy. WARNING: If you [...]
We've got the single "Under Control" from hip-hop-inspired duo ApSci for your listening pleasure. Their brand new album, Best Crisis Ever , marks a new direction for Filipino-Australian vocalist Dana Diaz-Tutaan and husband/producer/Bronx-native Raphael LaMotta. Their 2005 debut via Quannum, Thanks For Asking , quickly drew comparisons to Portishead, Eminem and Björk, but with such a diverse range, it's clear they do their own thing. There's also a video for "Under Control," plus we caught up with the duo to talk about the good company they keep. Download track: ApSci [...]
I've been incredibly busy the past couple of weeks (primarily moving, among other things) and I'm just now finally getting settled in. I don't think I've had this kind of incessant time away from blogging since I started this thing, but hopefully things will get back to normal around here. What better way to kick things off than with The Daily Graboid, as this will be another chunk of the last month or so of releases that I've missed. Starting next week I will probably get back to a weekly posting of this, so I'm sure [...]
We really hate DIGIKID84 . For us there can't exist any more horrible person on earth! What he's calling music skips down for us to piffling trifles. And as if that wasn't already enough, we're nauseated by his style, don't like his attitude and even hate him for being a Frenchman. His friends also suck and are even totally unable to acquire cool aliases. ApSci and Bestrack . What's the point of that? " Just as easy as ABC. I'll take an A and you a B for initial and then we [...]
Quannum duo ApSci's second full-length, Best Crisis Ever, is available today, August 11, on iTunes and other DSPs (it'll be released physically later this fall). Recorded in both New York City and Australia – and spots in between; "'Til the Windows Rattle Off," for example, was recorded and programmed in Malaysia, during some downtime at a [...]
Apsci (Applied Science). Husband and wife, Filipina- Australian Dana Diaz-Tutaan and Bronx bred Raphael La Motta, have applied a science to their methods. By mincing a.) Dana's classically trained operatic vocals to b.) Ra's heavy, rotating electro beats, the couple has developed quite the elixir...And here's the results! Apsci: Under control (Digikid84 Remix) -Zshare- About the video - "The main story on it is that it was shot using an iPhone, a portable printer and a webcam. The printouts are from us performing to webcam on a mac. The webcam video was [...]
Cause we are living in a post-everything world and ApSci are a post-everything, er, duo. The NYC experimental hip hop married couple duo just released their sophomore disc, Best Crisis Ever, were named in URB's "next 100" category and are...
Quannum duo ApSci are releasing their sophomore full-length in September, but the reviews for Best Crisis Ever are already coming in, most recently in SPIN and Mother Jones. You can read the SPIN piece here, and the MJ here. When ApSci were in San Francisco last, they stopped by Myx to chat. You can [...]
There's nothing like a little ragga to get your weekend off to a good start, and fortunately we got just the thing for you... XLR8R premiered the David Last vs MC Zulu remix of the transcontinental Quannum duo ApSci's "Under Control" this morning, making it just about the damn near perfect thing to herald in [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: ApSci : "Under Control" [mp3] from Best Crisis Ever (out August 11th) other ApSci posts at Largehearted Boy Drive-By Truckers : 2009-06-13, Bonnaroo [mp3,ogg,flac] "Potato Hole (with Booker T.)" [mp3] other Drive-By Truckers posts at Largehearted Boy Eagle and Talon : free and legal [...]
Quannum's electro-pop duo ApSci and their song "Crazy Crazy Insane" were featured today on NPR's All Songs Considered, alongside Moby, Neil Young, and the Phenomenal Handclap Band. Listen to "Crazy Crazy Insane" (which Bob Boilen calls "incredibly contagious") here. In more ApSci news, this Wednesday, June 17, the duo will be performing at Sutra in NYC [...]
ApSci - the transcontinental duo who are about to head over to the US for a stint here (previously they'd been living in Sydney, where much of their upcoming album, Best Crisis Ever, was recorded) were just featured on Wired.com's Underwire blog. A beacon of all-things technological and cool, Wired picked up on the video [...]
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