Just a quick heads up that I'll be DJing alongside Mandelhog ( Messy Sparkles ' DJ alias) and The Concrete Schoolyard 's DJ E-Yo. It will be a highly eclectic night. No telling what we'll end up playing. Here are a couple of goodies in the meantime, including an unfinished remix for Architecture in Helsinki I got commissioned to do back in '07. Messy Sparkles - "Thank God" ZAC SLADE'S RSS READER SUCKS. CLICK THROUGH TO STREAM. [...]
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EAR FARM's Three for Free: three EF approved, free and legal MP3s posted each week. This week - three from Kill Rock Stars . Click on the artist name to go to their site, click on the song name to listen to the song. Listen: Stereo Total - "Ich Bin Der Stricherjunge" Slumber Party - "10-9-8-7-6-5-4" Macromantics - "Scorch"
The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika) * Sunday Drivers - The Sweetest Disguise * Belle & Sebastian - Mayfly A Brief Smile - Big Sky Bunky - Chuy The New Pornographers - My Rights Versus Yours M. Ward - Vincent O'Brien The Diggs - Stagg The Knife - Heartbeats Macromantics - Scorch Magnet - Lonely No More Blacklist [...]
Okay Haven't posted in awhile so I was surfing the web looking clicking around. Here is an interesting word that comes out. Cinematic Hip-hop . According to wiki, the term is coined by DJ Shadow in 1996, debut album Endtroducing... "the beginnings of a rise in instrumental hip hop. Relying mainly on a combination of sampled funk, hip hop and film score, DJ Shadow chose to describe his music as "cinematic hip hop", " ( wiki ) Some of group doing this brand of hip-hop: DJ Shadow, J Dilla, DJ Krush , Bonobo , [...]
CocoRosie : Rainbowarriors (The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn, 2007) Dollyrots, The : Because I'm Awesome (Because I'm Awesome, 2007) Icicles, The : La Ti Da (Arrivals & Departures, 2007) Love of Diagrams : Pace or the Patience (Mosaic, 2007) Macromantics : Scorch (Moments in Movement, 2007)
SXSW plans: The whole big BIGSTEREO family arrives in Austin on Tuesday. Please give us a shout for our telephone numbers if you wanna hang out, dance mad, be crazy. Rchrd Oh?! is dj'ing at NOON on Friday, March 16th at Factory People . Come out and show yourself and buy some new clothes and listen to some hot music. And I've had a few email requests asking for recommendations and where we'll be at. Generally, I don't know where I'm gonna be five minutes from now. And there is just way [...]
March is on the way and that can mean only one thing for the indie (and not so indie) music community: the industry clusterfuck that is South by Southwest . A billion bands, a million venues, random house parties, free booze, and zero sleep in an oasis in Texas. I've wanted to go so badly in past years...but I seem to be over that urge for some reason. Anyway, just like last year , a stack of Australian and New Zealand artists will be making their way to Austin to try and impress anyone who will listen. [...]
Miss Macro released one of the albums of 2006 here locally, and recently dropped Moments in Movement in the US on Kill Rock Stars (home to The Gossip , Deerhoof ). Her distinct word-weaving rhymes is highly addictive and she will bring all her hotness to the Spectrum not once but twice this week. Thursday is with Muscles , who just like Macro, has been getting noticed by people in high places , and Friday is with local emcee The [...]
So we're back after watching the Colts dominate the Bears in Super Bowl, much to our surprise. The Colts won the battle at the line of scrimmage the entire game, and most importantly, simply wanted it more. Congrats to Tony, Peyton, and the rest of the organization. We're fighting through another cold week here in Central Wisconsin by bringing you some hot tunes this week from fresh new artists like Nakatomi Plaza, featured below. Let me know if you've got any requests for coverage or if there's someone out there I should be listening to by contacting me [...]
Go Colts! I'm so relieved that from now on everyone can talk about how many Super Bowls Peyton Manning will win instead of whether or not he will ever win one. Anyways, let's get on with my ramble about Macromantics, the lady that I have not been able to remove from my head for the last week or so. The Australian rapper, whose real name is Romy Hoffman, is an incredible talent and even though I shared her with you in Episode 1 of the SOTO Podcast I think she deserves some more attention. After all [...]
MP3: MACROMANTICS "Scorch" ( Kill Rock Stars ) If you're not completely sick of white girl rappers from overseas, give the Macromantics (aka Romy Hoffman) a chance. The Aussie balances the attitude of Lady Sovereign and the cutesyness of Lily Allen on this track from her just-release self-titled CD. See also: www.macromantics.com www.myspace.com/macromantics tags: music | mp3 | [...]
"My mental disorder was put there on purpose." Macromantics ~ Vaudeville from Moments in Movement by Macromantics
Its a shame that there isn't more ladies in the game. Until they start cracking through in greater numbers (wake up sexist record execs!) you find yourself saying "boy she sounds like Jean Grae or Lady Sov" which now that I think about it is real shallow thinking, not all women rappers sound the same. Regardless Romy Hoffman's and the Macromantics have skill and merit outside of their gender. Hoffman's rapid fire delivery and playful lyrics are great. Check out this track off their upcoming release due out Jan. 27th on Kill Rockstar Records. [...]
This week's an absolute monster. Top Five New Releases : The Broken West : I Can't Go On, I'll Go On (Merge) – Local good guys do well on their Merge debut. What I've heard I really like, but I haven't heard it all the way through yet so I'm not going to put a rating on it. I didn't make it out their show last night, but I'll be at the record release party tonight at Sea Level Records in Echo Park [...]
Cex : "Rattler Bin" [mp3] from Sketchi @myspace other music blog posts: @elbo.ws @hype The Comas : 2005-06-05, KEXP [mp3] "Falling" [mp3] @myspace other music blog posts: @elbo.ws @hype Damsel : "Deathwatch on the American Empire" [mp3] from Distressed @myspace other music blog posts: @elbo.ws [...]
To Ant's chagrin, it is time for rap! I had to create the rap category just for this song, can you believe it? Me neither. Anyhoo, on my most recent blog whoring expedition, I found some Aussie rap on songs: illinois and decided to get it because it's a genre that I hardly pay attention to anymore. Fortunately for me, Macromantics is not part of the cRap sub-genre that turned me off to the main genre in the first place. And though I can't profess to understand a good chunk of what she is rapping, I find that [...]
Just to cover all my bases here's the new track from Macromantics the Austrailian rapper whose new record, Moments In Movement , comes out on Kill Rock Stars on Jan 23. As a fifteen year old this former guitarist turned rapper played in Ben Lee's fledgling band so she's got indie rock chops combined with dope hip hop beats (can't believe I just wrote that). As much as I like Lily Allen, The Streets and other indie faux rap I think this is a passing trend. But a [...]
Macromantics - Scorch (mp3) - Moments is Movement (Kill Rock Stars 2007) Macromantics – Moments is Movement / Kill Rock Stars I'll be perfectly honest, after pulling Moments in Movement from its envelope and reading the short press release, my initial response was a hearty 'meh.' Naturally, the Lady Sov association was front and center (white female rapper, "courting both pop culture and hip hop heads," yada yada yada), but goddamn was I shut up after throwing the CD in the player. Macromantics spits [...]
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