The latest single from South Australians, Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! shows how much the band has been honing their sound since their debut release in 2010, titled 'Sea Priest'. Their sophomore album has seen the band work with UK producer Gareth Parton (Foals, The Go! Team, Holy Fuck) along-with Nilesh Patel (Björk, Air, The xx), so its fair to say its going to be a well crafted record. Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! have played some pretty big shows lately, they are supporting Eskimo Joe tonight and have [...]
An electro taste of things to come.
SF's Wet Illustrated kicked off our Noise Pop Happy Hour earlier this year with a ridiculously fun set of from-the-garage art-pop. "Satellite Kids" comes from the band's upcoming debut LP on True Panther , and arrives in a video directed by drummer/vocalist Robbie Simon. 1x1x1 is out on October 25th. Related Posts: Saturday: free YesYesYes Magazine show with Terry Malts and Wet Illustrated [...]
TRASH TALK ANNOUNCES NEW 73 EP, AWAKE, DUE 10/11 ON TRUE PANTHER WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR "AWAKE" Forwards ever, backwards never. In a perfect world, those four words would tell you everything you need to know about Sacramento thrash-punk juggernaut Trash Talk. But in a perfect world, these four furious scions of guitar-wrought destruction wouldn't exist. Lee, Garrett, Spencer and Sam are fueled by our ugly, and they give it back in spades. The Trash Talk live grind is a notorious thing - an anarchic, energetic and often painful paean to otherwise oppressed angst that's [...]
Photos by B FRESH PhotographyCity Pages' favorite R&B sensation Mayda doesn't open up to many people, so Gimme Noise was fortunate enough to get behind-the-scenes access during her latest video s
Two years after his audacious debut LP, this Scottish electronic music visionary shows he can still wed experimental flights of fancy and pop-R&B glossiness with an unassuming, unbridled joy. The debut Hudson Mohawke LP Butter was one of the most audaciously brilliant albums of 2009, and we've been waiting to see what the next move of its architect, Ross Birchard, would be. Finally ready for the world, the daftly-titled Satin Panthers builds upon on the promise of previous Mohawke offerings. Birchard crams each cut with crate-loads of ideas, wasting not a moment of the limited running time on this [...]
True Panther label founder Dean Bein
remembers the hard work of his semester-long
sabbatical from college. The semester after my sophomore year at Oberlin, I decided to drop out to learn carpentry. Throughout high school ... read more
As a New Englander, we get a bit jaded around here. I find it really hard to take overblown (get it?) prognostications of foul weather very seriously. I distinctly remember one time it cost me dearly though. I was working in Framingham, MA and there was a big snowstorm in the offing. Why I went to the office that day I'll never know, but I think I was scheduled to have lunch with a friend of mine if memory serves. There was some kind of announcement at work and the office was closed by 11 AM. Everybody was scampering [...]
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The electronic musician’s latest is a focused, lean five-song release that bristles with brilliant decisions.
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Tweet Buy the Album on Amazon: Vinyl / CD If you’ve been trapped under a rock for the past 5 or so years (or at least had your internet disconnected) and suddenly feel an inkling to sample everything you’ve been missing in electronic dance music, Hudson Mohawke’s new “Satin Panthers EP” would be a great place to start. The 25-year old Glasgow beatsmith's compositions pack in the sub-bass depth charges of dubstep and future [...]
Pairing three great garage bands who should play together ALL THE TIME turned out to be as great in practice as it was in theory. This FYF outing paired So-Cal heroes Tijuana Panthers and Audacity with S.F. sunshine pop darling Ty Segall at Eagle Rock's historic-library-turned-concer t-venue Eagle Rock Center for the Arts. The cavernous venue tends to be better suited for reverbed-out types, losing some of the thrash in the hollowed out space, but it also allowed kids at the all-ages show to dance and stage-dive without rankling the feathers of the elders in the crowd. Which is to say, [...]
True Panther Sounds, home to indie dreamers Girls, Barcelona’s Delorean, Tanlines and Glasser are proud to present the North American release of Midnight Remember by Australia's Little Red. While the Melbourne-based five-piece started off with a sound steeped in classic garage and R&B Midnight Remember marks an incredible and shocking evolution. The guitars and choruses [...]
Hudson Mohawke - Satin Panthers Warp: 2011 Imagine what elevator music would sound like if the elevator was on a very dark acid trip. That’s Satin Panthers opening number "Octan": soprano synths bubbling on top of some very sinister bass lines. The only similarities between the five tracks are their auditory palette (lots of snares, snyths and strings), and their use of orchestral techniques. Simple melodies are shared between instruments, in a complex, shifting structure. The rhythms are skittish and off-kilter, but oddly familiar. It’s as if [...]
With all this new, interesting bass music flying around it's nice to see that Fabric still have time to push the staple of electronic music: House. Jamie Jones ' contribution to the Fabric series is just that. The first half of the mix is a smooth journey through the sparser, less sensational side of the genre. Chugging bass synths, kicks and cymbals link up for hypnotic grooves, punctuated with vocal loops and sporadic stabs. It's a mesmerising listen, the subtlety of the tracks and the mixing [...]
Ross Birchard, better known as Hudson Mohawke , Hudson Mo, or simply HudMo, has been consistently delivering sharp stabs of genre-bending splendour since releasing Ooops! in 2008. His debut LP, Butter , awarded him critical accalim as he displayed his talents for a multitude of different methods. This venture also firmly established him as one of Warp Records' rising stars. As Butter ’s 18 tracks have been left to melt in the hands of fans for the past two years, everyone’s itching to see what kind of vicious playground electronica Birchard is going to serve [...]
Panther Attack blew me away. The compositions were unbelievable, so complex, orchestral. I’m surprised they didn’t have sheet music to read from, given the number of changes, time signatures, dropped beats, interweaving melodies etc. The band was tight. Loved the songs with two drummers, where one drummer would take a fill while the other drummer held “the beat” (as it were – usually didn’t even know where the beat was…) or insane syncopation between these two monster drummers. Then one of the drummers, Kelly Mynes, (who is also in the formidable band Austinitic , whom I'm [...]
As the likes of Matthewdavid and Mono/Poly have put out some of the most expansive music around on FlyLo's Brainfeeder imprint, Los Angeles and its so-called "beat culture" have garnered talk of wresting the distinction of electronic music's foremost experimentalists from England's Warp Records. Though Warp spent most of the 902s atop the electronic world, churning out the very best material of LFO, Autechre, and Aphex Twin, their reputation has dipped in recent years. Indeed, the two finest records to come out on the label these past two years have been Gonjasufi's A Sufi and a Killer and [...]
Hudson Mohawke - Satin Panthers Ross Birchard may hate being described as ‘bedroom techno’ but, like a 21 st century White Town, he is a home made music machine. When he transforms into Hudson Mohawke he brings forth sounds that are both familiar and startlingly new. His tracks - keyboard and sample heavy - are a mind-bending mixture of dubstep, techno, jazz, disco and syth pop, blended with gleeful abandon. Debut album Butter , released on Warp in 2010, contained some revelations. It included ‘FUSE’, a delirious wave of something sounding like [...]
While Hudson Mohawke's new EP isn't flashy, detailed, or technically impressive, I still have a lot of fun listening to it. For lack of a better word, I think what actually attracts me to the instrumentals on this thing is that they sound, well, dorky! WATCH THE VIDEO
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