Dj Chart: Chris Liebing's Beatport "all over time and place" Movement charts May 2012

★★★☆☆ MOTOR are not a mild mannered, mirror-gazing electro unit. With their synthesisers played with knuckledusters and with a stellar guestlist of Gary Numan, Depeche Mode's Martin L Gore and Billie Ray Martin, MOTOR's Bryan Black and Oly Grasset take simple mechanics and pump them full of anti-preening agent (they save the catwalk soundtracks for their days off). They aren't over-vamping with animosity either, but as with Martin on "Hyper Lust," the warpath is bearing the brunt of their occupancy and shows pop doesn't have to pretty in pink. Hang on though, one skeptical [...]

We spoke of ' Motoring ' a few weeks back from (and extremely hard to google) krautrock-inspired new outfit TOY , well we forgot to add this little piece of audio goodness 'Left Myself Behind' which is very reminiscent of Joy Division & the Horrors, and that's certainly not a bad thing at all. The band will be releasing their debut project in September, we suggest you start spreading the word until then. Latest single is out now . TOY - Left Myself Behind
Just don't mention the Jing Jang Jong. Because although some members of TOY may have a shadowy past in the morally and musically questionable indie outfit, they have just about everything else going for them. They've got the motorik, yearning groove, the melancholy and introspection of shoegaze, and the woozy psychedelic edge. It all amounts to a sound that is completely hypnotic – a cavernous space to get lost in. For me, that's what music's about – anybody can pick up an instrument and create something that it is physically possible to listen to, but there's so much more to [...]

One of the sickests tunes i heard this year, simply monster Peaking Lights remix to Toy track "Motoring".
The buzz around Toy has been growing towards a crescendo ever since their first gig a year ago at a hipsterish London club night run by The Horrors . By the time they embarked upon an already-legendary weekly residency at hip Dalston boozer The Shacklewell Arms in January this year, it was louder than a squadron of biplanes overhead. Last year's double-A debut single, "Left Myself Behind/Clock Chimes" , established their signature sound of relentless motorik rhythms, distorted synthesisers and psychedelic guitars. Epic in sound and scope, the seven-and-a-half minute [...]

Psych shoe-gaze upstart TOY is set to release their new single 'Motoring' on April 23rd, until then you can watch the cool clip above. Really digging on this band and this rad track hopefully you will too. Expect a full length project ot see daylight later this year.
A principios de año hablábamos de TOY como una de las posibles revelaciones de 2012 , una banda que seguía los pasos de The Horrors ofreciéndonos unos temas que realmente parecían una copia, o al menos una continuación de lo que los británicos nos ofrecieron con su último trabajo Skying . Polémicas aparte, este quinteto londinense acaba de presentar nuevo vídeo . Y vuelve a ser muy psicodélico, tanto que no podemos evitar de nuevo verlos como una cover band de bandas como la anteriormente mencionada. El asunto es que no [...]
Veronica Falls, Echo Lake, Novella, Savages and now Toy round out a group of U.K.-based bands that I can't seem to stop thinking about. There will inevitably be a heavy round of shoegaze tags and comparisons after this song gets around in the U.S. press, but doesn't it also remind you of R.E.M.? That's a nice balance of sounds/influence. Heavenly will release the band's second single on seven-inch vinyl/digi-download on April 16. Fun fact: The uber-talented Rose Dougall is [...]

Oft earmarked – quite incomprehensibly – as indispensable progenitors of the equally frequently derided 'post-rock' genre, Bitch Magnet were always sparkier than the anaesthetised references hurled their way during their lamentably brief sojourn in the heart and ringing ears of the American independent underground. A formative band for Don Caballero and consequently for contemporary heroes Battles, the trio initially comprised of bassist and lead vocalist Sooyoung Park, drummer Orestes Morfin and guitarist Jon Fine (who coincidentally toured with the former) last year reunited to tour the fuck out of a world that's sorely missed their ravaging presence and [...]
Cette semaine, nous partons faire l'éloge de la troupe d'un artiste à barbe. Non nous ne parlerons pas des ZZ Top ou d'un best of de Georges Moustaki. Les habitués de cette chronique se doutent bien qu'il s'agit d'une barbe bien suisse , suisse -allemande, même. Une barbe qui trône bien en évidence sur un album sorti ce vendredi 13 janvier, celle d' Elia Rediger , chanteur du groupe bâlois The Bianca Story . Sans sa barbe, comme dirait Corbier, The Bianca Story ne serait pas un groupe moins intéressant. Mais la pochette [...]
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El dúo de Motor (Bryan Black & Oly Grasset) ya están preparando su nuevo álbum para el nuevo sello de unos de los clásicos de la escena techno, el alemán Chris Liebing y su nuevo sello CLR, y como adelanto del álbum acaban publicar (primera referencia del sello) el EP 'Man Made Machine', un muy potente tema que cuenta con la colaboración en las voces de Martin L. Gore (Depeche Mode) para quienes Motor hicieron de teloneros en algunos conciertos de la última gira de Depeche Mode, y donde surgió la amistad para esta colaboración, un autentico temazo [...]
Bryan Black and Oly Grasset, who together form the act MOTOR, have shifted gears and recorded a song-based vocal album entitled 'Man Made Machine'. The first single also titled "Man Made Machine", features the vocals of none other than Depeche Mode's Martin L. Gore. Apart from the original extended version, there are additional remixes by [...]
![Artist Remixed – Kanye West [Part 2 of 3]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3756641_lg.jpg)
There are thousands of popular artists out there today making new singles all the time. With the increase of bedroom producers though, the ability to simply download a whole studio that you can use right on your lap has made original songs more scarce. Now it seems that you're finding tens of thousands of remixes by artists with more and more ludicrous names, leaving you wondering, "Transexual Viking Sword Bro- what???" This weekly segment will bring you the popular remixes and the never heard of "Transexual Viking Sword Brothers" remixes of a (common) artist's singles. From all these bedroom producers [...]

SYDNEY We all arrived back in Sydney, powerade in hand, thoroughly wrecked. The Cyberpunkers and Gtronic head back to their hotel while the rest of us go to Trashbags HQ. We put on a movie only to all be asleep within five minutes. Hours later I was awoken to the sounds of the Brisbane trashbags crew, Kent (K.OH), Cam and Zoe, coming through the door. While some of the boys stay inside to sleep and prepare for the night ahead, I head outside with the Brisbane crew and Laguna. After a few [...]

SYDNEY We all arrived back in Sydney, powerade in hand, thoroughly wrecked. The Cyberpunkers and Gtronic head back to their hotel while the rest of us go to Trashbags HQ. We put on a movie only to all be asleep within five minutes. Hours later I was awoken to the sounds of the Brisbane trashbags crew, Kent (K.OH), Cam and Zoe, coming through the door. While some of the boys stay inside to sleep and prepare for the night ahead, I head outside with the Brisbane crew and Laguna. After a few [...]

ATARI TEENAGE RIOT plays at legendary Tresor Club in Berlin, May 1st 2011 on Germany's national TV station ZDF ! WE PUT YOU ON THE GUESTLIST FOR FREE: CLICK THIS LINK (limited) Achtung! Es passen nur wenige rein! Atari Teenage Riot spielt ZDF/Motor TV Sendung im Tresor/Berlin,1.Mai. Willst Du umsonst auf die Gästeliste? Dann bitte SOFORT hier einschreiben!

We first came across Black Strobe many moons ago after we listened to their remix of Tiefschwarz 'Ghost Track' ever since we have been big admirers of the Frenchmen. Fast-forward a few years and the 'Strobe are no more, but Arnaud Rebotini the brains behind their previous success is back and re-focused. He's started a new label, the aptly name BlackStrobe Records and is about to make his long awaited return with 2 new EP's and a new album. His album is coming out on May 23rd [...]

Arnaud Rebotini of Black Strobe fame has a new track out soon and it's a caustic slice of dance music that sounds utterly modern whilst still paying homages to acid, electro and broken beat. Joining Arnaud on the EP are Motor, Mixhell and The Hacker who have all turned in dark and driving remixes perfectly complimenting the original. If you love Siriusmo's esoteric take on electro then you're going to love this. Freebie coming soon.