La ausencia del blog mientras se montaba el .com y eso fue tan eterna, que tuvimos que empezara buscar cómo llenar nuestras mentes de algo productivo y chévere. Así cada quién encontró sonidos diferentes y despampanantes a los que engancharse, y yo bueno, me encontré con cosas como esta. Fabian es un productor de LA que forma parte de la gente de Binary, disquera además con lo mejor del 'dreamwave' de la faranducity que es Los Angeles. Ya ustedes han escuchado algo de Fabian con el remix este de Phoenix que colocamos years ago aquí y con el [...]

Nos llegó a nuestras manos, gracias a Maxi, un CD original de un grupo que desconocia: Loto. El disco titulado The Club se veía bastante guapetón y al escuchar todo su material... me di cuenta de que eran bueeenos! Esta gente es de Portugal, no tienen un album reciente, pues, el último es de 2006 y se llama Beat Riot. Le escribimos a ver si nos mandaban algo nuevito ( The Club es del 2004) y nos respondieron muy panas con algunos remixes que le ha hecho la gente de [...]

Chewy Chocolate Cookies's have just made all their free remixes available at SOUNDCLOUD all in 320kps! You can listen, download, leave a comment, and even create a player with your favourite remixes. Cool stuff. . Check out their website for more details... . Download: Nightlovers (Chewy Chocolate Cookies Remix)(JFK Edit) - Alexander Technique & Van Scott Geremia (Right Click, Open in new window) (Alt Link) Download: [...]

É a festa que se repete ali para os lados de Alcobaça; 19 de Dezembro, 1h00. Este ano são The Gift, Loto, Norton, Bunnyranch e The Room 74 a fazerem a festa. Cada banda interpretará três temas mais um, a tal cançoneta de Natal. Depois disso, os DJ's do Clinic continuam a festa. O bilhete custa 10€. www.thisisclinic.com

We've gotten tons of e-mails from many different artists lately who wanted to share their music with us. First of all thank you and keep the e-mails coming, and second of all we thought we'd tell all you readers about some of them. Dishevelled Youth sent over his funky original "EVO" a little while ago, and it's a pretty cool track. No idea what EVO stands for. Let you guys ponder that one. Dishevelled Youth - EVO [...]
no tengo ninguna excusa valida para justificar el mes que pase sin actualizar el blog, he sido un mal agradecido. pero venimos repotenciados y con la oferta de que si paso mas de 2 dias sin actualizar, estan en su derecho de mandarme videos de zoofilia al mail. primero a lo primero, llevo siglos con dos tremendos tracks sentadotes en mi bandeja de entrada y ya es hora de sacarlos a relucir. se trata del pana de RiskoDisko , de portugal, que esta haciendo vainas bien interesantes que valen la pena revisar. un track original y un [...]
Ele aí está...quase! O tributo português aos Velvet Underground está para aí a estoirar. Composto por 17 versões da histórica banda de Lou Reed, John Cale, Nico e companhia, o tributo "Velvet Underground Revisited" conta com as contribuições de Jorge Palma, Plaza, Old Jerusalem, Pop Dell'Arte, Paulo Praça, Ana Deus, Norton, Jorge Cruz, Loto, Stowaways, Jaguar, Plastica, Hipnótica, Tree Valley, In Her Space, Rose Blanket e Maia. No MySpace do projecto podem já ser ouvidas as versões de Jorge Cruz, Stowaways, Plaza e Old Jerusalem. Uma edição Skud & Smarty. [...]
After getting absolutely no sleep last night following a big night out (went with my friend Joe who's visiting and two of his friends to a restaurant where for 10 euros you get a meal and all the sangria and/or beer you can drink, followed by the hostel bar my roommates work at, then heading to the bars in Bairro Alto), I spent this morning up until now walking around the city. I headed over to Alfama, one of the older parts of the city and went to two of my favorite places here--one is a terrace bar with [...]

A newcomer from Lisbon hangs himself far outside of the window of his Mustang to throw his new rmx on a tape directly into my hands, while speeding like Michel Vaillant past my house! I'm glad Risko Disko took the risk, cause his debut of introducing himself to us and us and us is a piece of jewelry making our legs fidgeting and our heads shaking like back in 2002, when we were young and innocent enough to take 12 shots at once and dancing our insides out. Mp3: [...]

Once again, I'm finding myself blogging about the Portuguese guys Loto , for more than one reason. One being the fact that their tunes are so damn good on the ears!! & 2 because I'm hoping to do remix of one of their tracks. Which should be nice. I particularly love the track Golden Boys where their vocals get a nice work over, and sound a lil like the Evermore boys from New Zealand. So I urge you once again, NO I force you to get out there and get their LP [...]

Image by timic Rocardo, JT and Pedrosa ... Three Portugeezers forming the dancy electropop rock band called Loto . They got this damn catchy number Back To Discos and apparently I'm not the only one who thinks about it that way. The Chew Chocolate Cookies who've been featured on this blog a couple of days ago, came across this track and ... with a banging dirty electro beat and a totally trashed happy melody they've transformed it to a real CCC production. Loto - [...]

You may remember the swarm of Chewy Chocolate Cookies (who from now on will be referred to as CCC ) remixes I posted a little while back. Well, the lads just dropped this BIG sounding Loto remix into my mailbox. For those who don't know, Loto are an Indie/Electro trio from Portugal, who's latest EP, Beat Riot , features collaborations with Peter Hook and Del Marquis of New Order and Scissor Sisters respectively. Speaking of extended [...]

You may remember the swarm of Chewy Chocolate Cookies (who from now on will be referred to as CCC ) remixes I posted a little while back. Well, the lads just dropped this BIG sounding Loto remix into my mailbox. For those who don't know, Loto are an Indie/Electro trio from Portugal, who's latest EP, Beat Riot , features collaborations with Peter Hook and Del Marquis of New Order and Scissor Sisters respectively. Speaking of extended [...]

From time to time, I'll look at the site stats to see where people are coming in from. I'm always amused to find that this here little website is reaching readers worldwide. I only wish more would touch base and let us know what they think. I recently received an e-mail from Loto 's vocalist, Ricco. I never imagined the site would reach readers in Portugal when I started it. It just shows how truly small the world is...with music connecting us together at some point. Photo: Pedro [...]
Una breve ricognizione pre-partenza su internet aveva decretato ai portoghesi Loto una minima attenzione preventiva. Dai pochi ascolti erano sembrati un tranquillo gruppo elettropop con cui iniziare, senza troppe pretese, l’esperienza del Sudoeste. L’evolversi degli eventi li ha invece tramutati in una provvidenziale boccata d’ossigeno, anche perché lungi dal limitarsi ai pedissequi cliché anni Ottanta, dal vivo i Loto si sono mantenuti in equilibrio tra Madchester e il punk-funk più canzonettaro. Sono strani a vedersi i Loto, perché mentre tre componenti indossano una sorta di uniforme fatta in casa (maglietta nera con ologramma cangiante di equalizzatore di tela [...]