Dot Allison - I Wanna Break Your Heart feat. Peter Doherty (Right Click to Download)
There was a period several years ago when my friend Donzo and I declared our dream of being scientists, vowing to create a ham ray gun which would turn any targeted object into ham. (maybe I declared it and she humored me) Surprisingly, I haven't become a scientist and the ham ray gun never got beyond the conceptual stage (which is good as the military applications of this device are too frightening to imagine). Donzo and her now-husband did send me a lab coat and a canned ham for my birthday one [...]

++ Herpity Derpity ! A little late but it's time for the latest roundup for the fave songs of August. Per usual, some songs are old and all will be gone after a week. I've been verrry lazy this month so the carlos pickins' are slim.: Talvihorros: Twin Peaks Theme.mp3 Hotel Mexico: Its Twinkle.mp3 Dot Allison and Pete Doherty: [...]

There are times when a song has a slight imperfection and then there are times when the entire thing is a beautiful, bloody, off-kilter mess! This song is passionate and trance-like all at once.. via the always friendly folks at Musicisart . Last year, Dot Allison contributed her spooky chanting to Dirge , by Death In Vegas...after the cut. Dot Allison and Pete Doherty: I Wanna Break Your Heart.mp3
I hadn't heard of this (likely because I live in the U.S.) but thanks to @DotAllison I can now try to find a way to watch this documentary! BBC says it's a "Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage. In the late 1970s, small pockets of electronic artists including the Human League, Daniel Miller and Cabaret Volatire were inspired by Kraftwerk and JG Ballard and dreamt of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain." [...]

We've been excited about Dot Allison's new record, Room 7 ½ , since she released the single "I Wanna Break Your Heart" last month. A fragile and frenetic ride featuring long-time collaborator/Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty , it was an effective tease for the full length to come. And come it has, on the heels of the solstice, providing a dreamy, trance-like soundtrack for your endless summer nights. Says Venus Zine, "Room 7-1/2 is the product of evolution; a perfect amalgam of her electronica takeoff almost 20 years ago coupled with a modern [...]

Seems Pete Doherty , the famously tragic ex-boyfriend of supermodel Kate Moss, has taken up with another doe-eyed blonde, albeit in the musical sense. The British solo artist Dot Allison is gearing up for the U.S. release of her new album, Room 7 1/2 , and Mr. Doherty figures prominently throughout, especially on the lead single "I Wanna Break Your Heart." A fragile and frenetic ride, the track is a raw exchange between Pete and Dot, careening through varied time changes like lovers in serious trouble. His scratchy voice is a great compliment [...]
Однажды, в далеком 2003 годя, зайдя по обыкновению в магазин компакт-дисков, купив очередной сборник миксов с нехитрым названием Trance 2003 я и на знал, что его содержимое станет поворотной точкой в моем музыкальном вкусе. Среди стандартных Tiesto и ему подобных я наткнулся на микс Джеймса Холдена (James Holden), но понял я, что что-то не так в звуке только через пару минут и в последующие дни, недели и месяцы уже не мог от него оторваться. Для меня тогда это стало легким шоком, такой музыки. такого сочетания отличных треков я тогда не слушал и не слышал. Они [...]

This is the first of four posts over the next four day focusing on a range of remix work by Andy Weatherall and Keith Tenniswood as Two Lone Swordsmen. This will cover unashamedly pop artists, to indie rock and beyond. From and interview with Weatherall in RA : "There was some music played when I was young, by my parents in my formative years. It was quite... looking back on it, it was quite inspirational, like the first time I ever heard Barry White. That was probably when I was about ten or [...]

Filed under: News , Electronic , UK Six years on from the release of their last album, '100th Window,' and just weeks after dropping their new EP, 'Splitting the Atom,' Massive Attack have at last announced the details of their new collection of original material which will feature a slew of guest vocalists. According to a posting on the band's website , 'Heligoland' is scheduled to be released on Feb. 8 next year and the tracklisting has been confirmed. [...]

Filed under: News , Album , UK Six years on from the release of their last album, '100th Window,' and just weeks after dropping their new EP, 'Splitting the Atom,' Massive Attack have at last announced the details of their new collection of original material which will feature a slew of guest vocalists. According to a posting on the band's website , 'Heligoland' is scheduled to be released on Feb. 8 next year and the tracklisting has been confirmed. Guest vocalists include Tricky [...]

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Last week we told you about and talked up our main avant fiend in the UK, Remdog, for his remix of this track "Cry", the latest single for melt-our-hearts UK pop darling Dot Allison. Today, we learn that Allison is...

Ex-One Dove singer Dot Allison has a new album out and there's a remix competiton. Download the parts from the song 'Cry' from Dot Allison's acclaimed new album 'Room 7½' and create your own personal remix. Win this competition and you will have your own remix selected and commercially released with Dot Allison's album version of 'Cry'. Your mix will be featured alongside another original remix and the winner will be hand picked by acclaimed Scottish dance stalwarts Slam. [...]
(photo by Karen E. McBride) Avant-pop chanteuse Dot Allison creates something of a soft spot for us. Ten years ago we had a college radio show called "Living Digital" that covered as many facets of electro music at the time...

As if starting a special week of postings from Orbital and The Orb wasn't enough. Now we have a quick post on classic Scottish Housers, One Dove, focusing on their work with Andrew Weatherall. One Dove were originally Dove and featured Ian Carmichael and singer Dot Allison . One Dove's 1993 debut album, Morning Dove White, featured production by godlike genius Andrew Weatherall. Under his direction, the band became one of the most likely to succeed in alternative circles in late 1993. Sadly they broke up amidst rumours of band in-fighting, substance abuse and problems [...]

My full column is coming tomorrow evening, but first I thought I'd do an extra blog this morning. This track has, for me at least, been an awfully long time coming. Dot Allison , who has collaborated with Death in Vegas , Massive Attack , and fronted early 90s band One Dove , was on stage at one of my first ever concerts. Joining Babyshambles on tour in 2005, Peter Doherty and Dot Allison let the band leave, as they performed a series of duets. One was this original, [...]

My full column is coming tomorrow evening, but first I thought I'd do an extra blog this morning. This track has, for me at least, been an awfully long time coming. Dot Allison , who has collaborated with Death in Vegas, Massive Attack, and fronted early 90s band One Dove, as on stage at one of my first ever concerts. Joining Babyshambles on tour in 2005, Peter Doherty and Dot Allison let the band leave, as they performed a duet on a few songs. One was this original, penned, "I Wanna Break Your Heart". The melancholy, lo-fi, [...]

I gotta admit I've been pretty bored with dance music as of late. I'm not saying that quality tracks haven't been coming out... it's just I'd rather listen to Blur, Oasis, Joy Division, Morrissey, The Cure, Late Of The Pier, and Klaxons (speaking of, when is that Klaxons album gonna come out now?!?! If you have "The Parhelion", "Moonhead", "Marble Fields And The Hydrolight Head Of Delusion", "Imaginary Pleasures", "Silver Forest", "Echos", "Venus", or "Hoodoo Borer" let me know!) I mean, I dunno, maybe I'm full of it but British music (on a [...]

This Sunday and next, it'll be St Etienne remixes. Their bright shiny, sixties-influenced pop given various fine makeovers. Today, Underworld, Motiv 8, Dot Allison and Aim ; with Underworld the pick of the bunch. From Yahoo music : Like most bands formed by former music journalists, Saint Etienne were a highly conceptual group. The trio's concept was to fuse the British pop sounds of '60s London with the club/dance rhythms and productions that defined [...]