
What do I name a passageway? How hard am I going to get after it this year? Did I step up when others were down? Fingerbanger 1 : Kap Bambino - Batcaves (Jackson Remix) (don lowed) -- Fingers to : 30 mph killjoy gusts Bangers : Its just life, nothing serwious.... erm, serious. Fingerbanger 2 : Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks (The Hood Internet Remix Feat. Hollywood Holt) (don lowed) -- It's [...]

The wrangling, off-kilter slump of Ghost Eyes' Phantom Mountain demands fascination and craves reinterpretation. For the London trio emit a peculiar charm that disconcerts and draws vacillating ears into a maelstrom of deformed oriental samples and gurgling bottom-end synth hooks. The original version, accompanied by exorbitantly forbidding video, is such a bizarre concoction of sounds and styles it could haunt even the most pristine of dreams. Rather elusive Bristol-based electronica pioneer Minotaur Shock , aka David Edwards then got his hands on the track, contorting it further in the direction of [...]
Download the stellar reinterpretation at bottom. Team B features Kelly Pratt of Beirut (and touring member of Arcade Fire). Visit Team B on MySpace. Genesis/Reply To Censure will be released on limited edition vinyl tomorrow. MP3: Team B - Genesis/Reply To Censure (Minotaur Shock Remix)

Photo courtesy of Feral Percy on Flickr Gold Panda - You (Minotaur Shock Remix) While I was sleeping in 2009, everyone was gabbing about how great Gold Panda and "Quitter's Raga" was. It wasn't until I heard his remix of Lemonade's "Bliss Out" on the intro to Ewan Pearson's last mix on Kompakt earlier this year that I really sat up and took notice. I blame my inane disregard for [...]

"When the prices of everything went up ninety-seven times in one year, M'dhara Vitalis Mukaro came out of retirement to make the coffins in which we buried our dead. In a space of only six months, he became famous twice over, as the best coffin maker in the district and as the Mupandawana Dancing Champion. Fame is an elastic concept, especially in a place like this, where we all know the smells of one another's armpits. Mupandawana, full name Gutu-Mupandawana Growth Point, is bigger than a village but it is not yet a town. I have become convinced [...]

The Explorer's Club is new and very interesting subscription-based mp3-club made as a collaboration between Eardrums' favourite LOAF recordings (home of great bands like Dark Captain Light Captain , Seeland, Vincent Oliver and others), and Arctic Circle , who arranges concerts in London (Efterklang at the Barbican, Notwist at the Union Chapel, etc). For one year, starting in January, the new club will release new digital singles once a month from 30 artists from all over the world. The singles will include two or three exclusive [...]

A list of events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin. Friday night is jam-packed. Tuesday 24th November - Ian Brown, @ Olympia Theatre (€39.20) - Yngve & The Innocent, Little X's for Eyes, Louisiana Joyride @ Whelan's (€10) - Gary Numan @ Tripod (€22.50/€27.50) Wednesday 25th Nov - Ash - The Button Factory (€23) - The Infomatics @ The Bernard Shaw (Free) [...]
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Icarus' father, Daedalus, a talented and remarkable Athenian craftsman, attempted to escape from his exile in the place of Crete, where he and his son were imprisoned at the hands of King Minos, the king for whom he had built the Labyrinth to imprison the Minotaur (half man, half bull). Daedalus, the superior craftsman, was exiled because he gave Minos' daughter, Ariadne, a clew of string in order to help Theseus, the enemy of Minos, survive the Labyrinth and defeat the Minotaur. Daedalus fashioned two pairs of wings out of wax and feathers for himself and his son. [...]

PLAYLIST : James Yuill - No Surprise (Rod Thomas Remix) Turning Down Water For Air ( Moshi Moshi - 2008) www.jamesyuill.com Music Go Music - Warm In The Shadows Warm In The Shadows ( Secretly Canadian - 2009) www.myspace.com/musicgomusic Antony and the Johnsons - Epilepsy Is Dancing The Crying Light ( [...]

Artist: The Accidental Album: There Were Wolves Record Label: Full Time Hobby Designer: Rob Lowe, Supermundane Listen: Wolves Artist: Bon Iver Album: For Emma, Forever Ago Record Label: 4ad Designer: Photography by Gilbert Vernon and Design by Daniel Murphy Listen: [...]
Levy-yhtiö 4AD on laittanut ilmaiseen jakoon 12 kappaleen kokoelmalevyn (38,2mb, zip, mp3), johon on koottu tämän vuoden tuotantoa. Mukana ovat: TV On The Radio "Golden Age" Deerhunter - "Nothing Ever Happened" Department Of Eagles - "No One Does It Like You" Anni Rossi - "Ecology" Stereolab - "Neon Beanbag" Atlas Sound - "River Card" It Hugs Back - "Work Day" Minotaur Shock - "My Burr" Johann Johannsson - "Melodia (i)" Bon Iver - "Skinny Love" [...]

Holy Moly! What a year it's been for music! To celebrate a quite outstanding year 4AD are getting in the Christmas spirit early by offering you all a free slice of Yuletide pie in the shape of their best of 20008 digital compendium. All you have to do is click on the image on the right and you will be taken straight to the download page. There's free tracks galore from TV On The Radio, Deerhunter and Minotaur Shock amongst others. If you want to have a quick listen first then just click on [...]
Tune in at noon EST today (and again at midnight) for My Old Kentucky Blog Radio on SIRIUS XMU - on XM Channel 43 and on SIRIUS Channel 26 still. Today's Playlist: CSS - Left Behind (Joao Brasil tropical mix) Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - The Debtor Jeff Klein - Mr. Brownstone (GnR cover) dent may & his magnificent [...]

DOWNLOAD: Friendly Fires - Paris(Aeroplane Remix) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Minotaur Shock - This Plane Is Going To Fall (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Future of the Left - The Hope that House Built (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Magistrates - Make this Work (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Department of Eagles - No One Does it Like You (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Friendly Fires - Jump in the Pool (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Anni Rossi - Wheelpusher (MP3) [...]

Okay, I know this came out a while ago, but being as I'm kinda new to this whole blogging business I've a backlog of things to talk about. This album, Amateur Dramatics by Minotaur Shock, links in nicely to the Glasses post from yesterday. That is, many people have accused Minotaur Shock of having "done a Radiohead", but whereas The Glasses did pretty much the same things as the Oxford proggers, the sale of Amateur Dramatics is almost exactly the opposite: he's put an exact price on each song. Assessing each track by criteria such as [...]
Fun fairOriginally uploaded by Southcoastingmp3 Minotaur Shock - This Plane Is Going To Fall (thanks Comfort Music)
Minotaur Shock is back with more weird and engaging techno. This release, Amateur Dramatics, has more of a driving pulse to it than the last one, but it's just as inventive and exciting to hear. Minotaur Shock - Zookeeper Minotaur...
Minotaur Shock is the nome de plume, or at the very least, nom-de-keyboard, whirry thing and beat pusher of self proclaimed 'sad electronica hero' Dave Edwards. For a variety of reasons this record will be released only online, with no physical format. In a somewhat bold move, Edwards has laid bare the reasons for this on his website, which are well worth reading. The gist being, he has a family to support, his music doesn't ...

...except he doesn't. Since last October, how many bands have been described as 'doing a Radiohead'? Artists from Cliff Richard to Nine Inch Nails have been said to have followed Thom & Co's footsteps into this brave new digital world. Yet, although some albums have been given away free online, as far as I'm aware, no-one has done the whole pay-what-you-want thing. Bloc Party releasing their album online first is hardly something that's not been done way before even In Rainbows came along. As it turns out, what Minotaur Shock , aka David Edwards is [...]

Episode 20 of The Mix Tape Podcast is now available to download! Our 20th edition is a true exhibition of musical greatness. We have the brand new, Kanye West produced, Jay-Z track 'Jockin Jay-Z', as well as a fat slice of house music from fellow New Yorker, Dances With White Girls. These two tracks bookend an epic 5 including: new Franz Ferdinand, CSS remix heaven of 'Mercury' by [...]