Image courtesy of www.neonsleep.com The indeed lovely Purple Crush came by Berlin the other week for a lil german tour. We linked up for a couple of days and when the married couple left me, it was with a broked heart and a brand new christal ball. Then some days later this landed in my inbox... an amazing little Trance diamond. It came with an e-mail that told me they had been inspired by their stay in Berlin and a chatt we had bout maximal techno, trance [...]
If you dig in to Princes ol'record crates im sure you will be able to find all of the tracks below, they all come from a time when dance music didnt have to be 4/4 128bmp pumping neon monsters, they come from a time when party was a bout seeing new things and experimenting. For the last 6 months these three tracks have been in my playlists, whether i have gone traveling, done a mixtape or DJed. They are great, the bring together everything that dance music needs. And im dying to go to the first New [...]
Jason just hit me up with this amazing Back catalouge of fresh out the box lable Nightshifters . And sloppy as I am i slept on posting it for about a week... Well, here goes: Berlins favourite Jason Forrest , and New Yorks favourite 4AM Jess knocked their heads and came up with this amazing lil lable... This is really the way of recordlabeling (is that even a verb?). With their massive geografical spann, US to Germany they are gonna be sure to pick up on the latest where ever the latest might be. [...]
The last couple of months, more and more rave sounds (not run through any FX or distortion of any sort) have started sneaking in to our every day club life. Remember those rave pianos? When did you here them the last time? This weekend right? And the time before that? 1992 , right? In search of a more organic sound the club scene seems to glance backwards to a time when musicians tried to make music that sounded like the not so distant future aka didnt sound oraganic at all. Its quite ironic, that the people who [...]
Ze can be 2009s superstar. She is basicly pop. I cant help but loving it tho, there is something very attractive about it. Not that its never been done before, it just hasent been done this well. With this much joy and pleasure. And the fact that she is from KULALA LUMPUR doesnt hurt, its about time for us homogenic westeners to realize we are not alone on the playground. Remember where you read it first! Ze! - Boys I like Ze! - I am GLAM [...]
Together with front man and rapper Spoek , south african beat juggler, Markus Wormstom becomes the (now) household name Sweat X . Now, I just got my hands on Markus solo project, and I noticed to my surprise that it has passed by relatively unnoticed, and that is a shame! He handed it over to me this weekend and I instantly asked, -Is it share-able? (in the quest of the lost blog-post) It was. Get Up! EP was released a couple of months ago, got some attention, but far from enough. On this track [...]
Thanks a ton for your votes in LEO's 2008 Readers' Choice Awards. We didn't even know we were nominated, or we would have voted for ourselves. We won best Local Arts Blog and came in third in the News and Entertainment categories. Next year we are shooting for an Oscar. Thanks again for your support. -Backseat Sandbar
I'd like to welcome the newest member to the Winnie Cooper family, Leo coming to us from Berlin via Sweden. Let me introdcue Niyi , one of London's finest. He is the kid who took the New Rave extravaganza to the clubs, yeah pretty much. Besides writing for Super Super , running new clubs every week pretty much, doing something i still havent been able to figure out for Big Brother UK (it has to be an amazing show if he is a weekly [...]
For me this post is more about the remix artist than the original. Not that I don't love and respect (and call in the morning) Ladyhawke but I think she's already broken out on the scene, whereas Canyons are just about to. I first heard about Canyons a couple of months ago when one of my best mates Roland was interviewing them for Pages Online where he is music editor. He got half way through the interview when he realised that we all knew each other from Perth. In fact Roland and I had [...]
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So most readers of this blog know the formerly Boston (now LA) resident Bleu. The guy has a killer voice and a knack for writing great pop hooks. If you don't have his ELO tribute projet L.E.O. Buy it now. You won't be dissapointed. Sublime stuff. featuring guest appearances by Andy Sturmer, Mike Viola and more. Here is a link to download the track You Had Me Goin from his website. Purchase the entire L.E.O. album download from iTunes. Bleu recenly released a new EP called [...]
L.E.O. - Ya Had Me Goin' E.L.O. - Evil Woman (Stripped Down Version)
Recent new releases! --- Wow, Tom Petty kinda looks like an alien chick these days. Regardless, it's rather awesome that he's still making some kickass music, and his new album, Highway Companion is no different. I love Tom Petty, and I have no apologies. If you've been on the fence, or haven't really heard anything since "Mary Jane's Last [...]
DOWNLOAD: L.E.O., "Ya Had Me Goin'" (mp3) Obsessed with the eccentric, overblown studiocraft of Electric Light Orchestra mastermind Jeff Lynne, mutton-chopped power-pop guru Bleu rummaged together members of the Black Crowes, Chicago, Papas Fritas, and Hanson to create L.E.O. 's Alpacas Orgling (Cheap Lullaby), a disc that pays homage to the sumptuously self-indulgent arrangments (but not the literal songs) of ELO. You don’t have to be an engineering nut [...]
L.E.O. is a power-pop collective that began as an homage to the genius of Jeff Lynne and ELO . Originally conceived by LA based singer-songwriter Bleu, the project has become a Traveling Wilbury-esque creative effort for a bunch of like minded producers and musicians. Due out in October on Cheap Lullabye Records , the album is called Alpacas Orgling and features the talents of Andy Sturmer (Jellyfish), Mike Viola (The Candy Butchers), Matt Mahaffey (Self), John Fields (producer extraordinaire), Steve Gorman [...]
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