Feu Thérèse "Nada" - Sometimes a language barrier can be a good thing. Without understanding the bit of French being sung at the start of this moonlit ballad, the song's mysterious, romantic quality is intensified considerably. When the piece shifts into a wordless chant, it becomes even more magical, and the gorgeous textures of the bass, keyboards, and percussion take center stage until it all just sort of evaporates into the night. ( Click here to buy it from Constellation.) Poni Hoax "Antibodies (To The Bones edit)" [...]
It's a tragic day for music fans, with the pink palace falling victim to the shadowy BPI.... who seem determined to prevent music lovers from hearing anything new unless it's been vetted by Chris Moyles and Edith Bowman. The hypothesis that each download = a lost sale is clearly flawed.... and I for one see MP3s as a sampler for the real thing. If the BPI are so worried about people listening to
It's been a long time since we have heard from Poni Hoax, a french-disco band that I was really enjoying last year. Their new EP, Antibodies was just released on Tigersushi Records and features a remix of the title track as well as an edited version. It's great stuff in the vein of Human League, James White and the Blacks and um...you decide:) Buy Poni Hoax's Antibodies EP via their MySpace Page. While you are over there, stream older songs too...just as awesome! This post [...]
MP3 : Poni Hoax - Budapest (2006) What I learnt is that the up-and-down bassline in this track is a definitive element of Italo Disco. More specifically, the music of Giorgio Moroder. Thus all the references to the Italo Disco revival in track reviews of this dancy and very enjoyable groove. Myspace .
First off, a reminder we are helping to throw one of the most outrageous parties of the year this Saturday at big Boston club Axis on Lansdowne Street . To get $5 off the cover admission, you must RSVP your name and the names of your guests here . That'll open an email so you can drop a line telling us what's what at basstownprod@gmail.com. Our next party is next week (Thursday!!!): Featuring a freaky/funky DJ set from Parisian DJ [...]
BUDAPEST Poni Hoax Poni Hoax Tigersushi : 2006 [Buy It] Like you, I got worry. I just did my taxes and it appears that I owe the government a sum in the quadruple-digit range. (Should "the government" happen to be reading, please recall the old saying about the infeasibility of extracting blood from stones. But the government is probably not reading...excuse me for a moment. ALLAH! JIHAD! MUSIC PIRACY! That should do it.) I just doled out for new tires, windshield wiper blades and parking lights to pass [...]
Better late than never here are my personal favourites of 2006. Any of the Top 20 are worthy of being number one, and may well have been if I'd made my choices on a different day, and in a different mood. 2006 was a fine year for music, but then most years are. You'll find a bit of pop, reggae, hip hop, grime, disco, and rock in there, but I'm sure I've missed another 100 at least that had I heard would have been right up there. Let me know the criminal omissions, the glaring mixups, or the [...]
Warped Reality (online) is now a year old! For my last post of the year , I'm posting a few favorites from 2006. This is by no means a comprehensive list —it's highly subjective group of songs that caught my ear this year. Conspicuously missing: new stuff from Matt Elliot, the Konki Duet, Kristin Hersh (her new album will be out in 2007), Les Georges Leningrad, Michael Dracula (posted here earlier this year), HNIA, Edison Woods, Psapp and Beirut. Hopefully I'll get to them in 2007! Best wishes for a wonderful 2007! [...]
Wie wär's denn mal wieder mit etwas abseitigerer Musik? Gestern erhielt ich von Lars den Tipp, mir doch mal die französische Band Poni Hoax anzuhören - ein fünfköpfiges "Musikerkollektiv", das im Sommer sein erstes Album auf dem Tigersushi-Label veröffentlicht hat, auf dem es stilistisch quer durch den Garten geht. Mal klingt man wie Interpol oder Arcade Fire, dann kommt ein bisschen Shoegaze hinein, oder etwas Funk oder Electronica. So ist das Album wirklich eine Herausforderung an den Hörer. Aber Songs wie «Budapest» oder vor allem das stimmungsvolle, Chameleons-eske [...]
A few weeks ago I read a mini review of Poni Hoax's self titled debut. It was written by a guy who works at my local record store, and he and I have remarkably similar tastes. He raved about how full of musical ideas these guys were, and how you could feel their enthusiasm & energy. He also mentioned how he was already excited to hear it's follow up, to see where they went next. With that kind of
There is no way I couldn't blog about this! I mean definitive proof that there is a God? Now Margaret doesn't have to ask. Britney and Fed- EX are O V ER ! (Different Perez Hilton links for each letter in OVER) So here is some Poni Hoax 'She's On [...]
Paris, France Good Gawwwd! Where have I been for the past two months? I should have listened to the self-titled full-length from Poni Hoax as soon as I got it back in June. Anyway, I can’t recommend this one enough. You’ll be able to find something you enjoy whether you jive to the newer beats like The Knife or The Rapture or if you’re still hung up on timeless bands like Talking Heads . The vocals are unique and the music is on fire! You can [...]
Ok... so I actually really thought that this week would be hell, but it's actually starting off ACE! We're running this big design project at school, we've got to design this "Interpretation Center" on an archeological site in a small town about an hour away from Guadalajara, so today, a couple of very good friends (one of them oh so very handsome I might add *giggle*) and I went to see this archeological site. To be honest, the place was FAR from mind-blowing, I was expecting a bit more, because they kept calling it [...]
Tagged : electro , indie , pop , rock I could swear that I heard a female voice on Budapest but Poni Hoax is a 5 piece all-men band from Paris. I'd listened to their hit song Budapest before and when they released their self titled album in July, I was curious about them because it was produced by Joakim and released on Tigersushi . This album is a post modern rock/electronics fusion, with hints of " Italo disco, garage, noise and murder ballads [...]
Poni Hoax - Budapest Back with more hot, dirty French musique... this time courtesy of a five-man army known as Poni Hoax, made up by Nicolas Ker (main vocals), Laurent Bardainne (composer/keys), Arnaud Roulin (keys/bass), Nicolas Villebrin (guitar), Vincent...
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