( Continuing Alfred Tessier-Guilleme's reports from the future. The 'good news': we are still here. The bad news: everything else. Including that we are still here). Today we suffer death by a thousand glitches, infrastructural breakdowns and invasions of personal space, organisational frustrations, fashion faux pas and privacy embarrassments. If our capacity for pain is fractal, then we have gone nano. Feelings are salami sliced and shared indiscriminately, beamed into the back of our skulls by collective intelligence applications which distil the mood of the mass social graph with modelling techniques borrowed from physics. But as [...]
(Where we share some bits from the diaries of future curmudgeon extraordinaire & gallic cyber-problematiser Alfred Tessier-Guilleme, moaning about what life is like in 70 years or so. We can totally get away with it because he hasn't even been born. All hail H.G. Wells!) We have reconstructed the concept of love for our new era. Life stretching technologies have obliterated all aspirations of intimacy and permanence. Every single assumption underpinning the religious cliché, 'til death do us part' has been violated. We have killed death, and in doing so we have killed life. [...]
Golem - Orion Awakes Purportedly released in 1973 on a small press label named Pyramid, Golem came to light as part of Virgin UK's Unknown Deutcshland series that followed in the wake of Julian Cope's exploration of Krautrock in the mid 90's and the genre's resulting resurgence. Due to a sense of mystery and few details surrounding some of the compilations there has been controversy that suggests the bands on the compilation were the work of 90's musicians cashing in on the trend. This controversy isn't dispelled by the inclusion of a [...]
Nurse With Wood list alert! I was talking to Ian the other day about the amazing Parson Sound reissue, and I told him that next on the list of CDs that need to be issued on vinyl should be this album, Ultrasonic Seraphim . He hadn't heard of it! So, basically, this blog post is meant to educate him...and you as well, if you've never heard this one. "Originating from lower Saxony originally, the musicians of Sand were like many Berlin bands, being people drawn there by the unique possibilities Berlin had to offer. An early incarnation, [...]
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Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 110 Dear Friends, Welcome to the 110th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace . We now have 1521 friends! Recent blogs: The power behind the shame Capital, science fiction and labour Fat Cats: creaming off profits [...]
Gotta be quick, too busy having a good time nup north. The Les Edits Du Golem records have some pretty snazzy material on them. Some big misses, but some even bigger hits. This is one of my faves, slow classic boofy locomotive disco. Totally worth getting your hands on the records, there are some real gems in here. Les Edits Du Golem - Chico [ buy ] Runaway and Mugwump packaged in a song - I like it. A lot. Deep grooving dark house, this one [...]
HOLY SHIT, THERE'S A BAND CALLED CRYSTAL VIPER. And they look and sound more or less exactly the way you'd expect a band called Crystal Viper to look and sound. Plus, they're Polish, and their singer's accent is so strong that at first I thought she was, in fact, singing in Polish. (I know what you're thinking. Does [...]
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Golem! Citizen Boris / JDub Records / BUY NYC based folk-punks Golem! come at us with unmatched enthusiasm, flaunting their old world influences through a whirlwind of sound less listened to than it is experienced. With the release of their new LP Citizen Boris on JDub Records (the follow up to 2006's appropriately titled Fresh Off Boat), [...]
Filed under: Around the World As the primary songwriter for the New York band Golem , Annette Ezekiel had been chronicling the stories of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants to the U.S. Then she married one. With that, the now Annette Ezekiel Kogan's frame of reference has changed a bit for the band's new album, ' Citizen Boris .' "It definitely takes all the stuff I'd been doing and makes it a million times more real," says the lively singer-songwriter. "Of course, I'm learning things I didn't know [...]
Devido a alguma falta de disponibilidade, não houve lista dos novos albuns da semana há duas semanas. Nesta semana corrige-se o facto publicando as novidades das últimas semanas. Espero que sejam do vosso agrado. Entretanto as sessões da DJ Lollipop, rapariga frequente por este blog, não morreram à segunda sessão, agora deixam de ser publicadas aos domingos passando a sair às sextas-feiras por isso a sessão n.º 3 está a ser preparada. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of [...]
In need of some last minute tunes to add to your mixtape? Here are 7 (old & new) slutty suggestions: Golem - Tell Her You Love Her The Postal Service - Such Great Heights Antony - Epilepsy Is Dancing Jens Lekman - You Are The Light Bon Iver - Blood Bank Nada Surf - Do It Again Mates Of State - My Only [...]
If there's one album to recommend out of this week's bunch, it would certainly be Aboa Sleeping from the Finnish duo Burning Hearts . It's one of the better pop albums i've heard this year from beginning to end, which is a shame since the album isn't getting nearly the amount of coverage that it deserves. You can read the preview post from a couple of weeks ago right here . Other notable albums out this week include It's Not Me, It's You from Lily Allen , Dan [...]
Don't come at me with your geographical proofs and whatnot -- as long as I can believe it's Tuesday somewhere, I won't feel so bad about being late on this, as usual. Golem - Mirror Mirror : MYSPACE The Cloud Hymn - Wide : MYSPACE The Memories Attack - Peaks and Valleys : MYSPACE The Shortwave [...]
With Valentine's Day right around the corner and the release of Golem's latest LP Citizen Boris currently upon us, it should be easy connecting the dots between Cupid and the crazy sounds matching those similar to Eastern European imports. How so? That's all going to depend upon your perspective of Valentine's Day and the current state of a relationship (or lack thereof) you're trapped inside. Their sophomore release with JDub Records is performed mostly in English, so if you're a sappy schmuck looking to get 'em gooey you could try on the brass/string combination [...]
Every Tuesday, SDM teams up with Hypeful to pick and preview the week's best new album releases. Bend an ear to this week's choicest selections after the jump! Autopilot Is For Lovers - To the Wolves MP3: Autopilot is for Lovers - "Pine Box Town" Ben Lee - The Rebirth of Venus [...]
Pretty solid release lineup this week. Let me be your friendly guide about what's good and what to skip. Good: Ben Folds , Dan Auerbach (from The Black Keys), Lily Allen , Madlib , Malajube , Napalm Death Skip: Um... yeah, I got nothing. Like I said, solid week. There are a lot on here I know nothing about and a lot that I haven't heard, so I can't speak about. :: An Horse , Rearrange Beds (Mom & [...]
by bmac Did everyone catch Radiohead at the Grammys last night? They recruited the USC marching band for their first ever Grammy performance, and they fucking killed it with a badass rendition of "15 Step" (video after the jump). The whole marching band was rocking In Rainbows tshirts , and the percussion section was going absolutely crazy. Definitely the highlight of the night. Some other quality acts included collaborations by Paul McCartney/Dave Grohl, Al Green with a bunch of [...]
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