The thing about being "ahead of your time" is that you never get full credit for your innovations if time never actually catches up to you. So it went with the Silver Apples, who used a fairly limited sound palette to produce some of the coolest, most distinct music of the '60s (also some of the least '60s sounding). There are so many ways the space age could've gone. These guys charted a course we still haven't even embarked on. Silver Apples - Lovefingers [...]
Deux albums auront suffit à construire la petite légende de Silver Apples et à poser, en toute naïveté, les bases d'une grande partie de l'électro-rock de notre époque. Issu d'un groupe de blues assez pépère qu'il a vidé de leurs membres, le duo deviendra une petite sensation sur la scène new-yorkaise de la fin des 602s en faisant passer quelques ritournelles pop rudimentaires sous des strates d'oscillateurs et de distorsions électroniques quelque peu préhistoriques, le tout porté par un jeu de batterie presque proto-breakbeat. Mais une mauvaise blague (la pochette du deuxième album associait un accident d'avion à [...]
Bowlegs meet up with legendary electronic pioneer Simeon from cult band Silver Apples for two songs and an interview. In the late sixties they seemed to come from a parallel universe without a blues template to follow - and they remain as off-on-a-tangent and refreshing as ever. We got in close to those heavy oscillators, pressed record and watched with strange fascination.
Acid Washed is the Paris-based duo of Richard D'Alpert and Andrew Claristidge. Their first commercial release on Record Makers paid homage to the hard edged electronics coming out of Chicago and Detroit in the early 80s, and poignantly recontextualized the source of their aesthetic diaspora. I asked them to focus a little more on the retro for this Substitute Teachers , and they found a way to weave the godfathers electronic composition into a darker collection of classics. Substitute Teachers: Acid [...]
I'd heard rumors of a Bronze side-project show where half-naked men with tridents poked at another half-naked man caged between them. Without hearing Bronze's music I assumed they'd be pretty strange. And sure, strangeness hovers on the edge of "The Rouge Became" but not the strangeness of unlistenable noise or dark basements that smell like [...]
photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin Chuck D on stage with Portishead @ ATP Portishead completed their NYC & NJ adventure with a 2nd show at Hammerstein Ballroom last night (10/5), and an appearance on Fallon where they performed two songs. On air they played "Chase The Tear" which they first released in 2009 to help raise money for Amnesty International. Jimmy pointed out that you can get a new release of that single exclusively [...]
Anyone who saw only the first Portishead performance at this weekend's ATP I'll Be Your Mirror music festival is going to feel ripped off when they hear about second. Not only did the oft quiet trip-hop trio play "Chase the Tear" after teasing it the night before, but the band brought on not one, but two guests. Public Enemy frontman Chuck D, who had just finished filling out the second slot of the night, first joined on during "Machine Gun", as he did back in 2008 for Barcelona's Primavera Sound. His bit involved a [...]
Silver Apples in 2010 ( more by Lori Baily ) Silver Apples will return to log an NYC date at Public Assembly on October 6th with Lemonade ( whose member plays FNO Tonight ), MNDR ( who plays FNO TONIGHT ), Ital , and DJ Pendu . The Brooklyn show happens few days after Simeon links up with Hans-Joachim Roedelius of Cluster / Harmonia to form Silver Qluster at ATP New [...]
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever La compilación empieza con unos cuantos temas clásicos. El primero de ellos es ni mas ni menos que de un grupo más famoso que Jesucristo , The Beatles . Esta canción no supuso el origen de la psicodélia, pero si que fue sin duda alguna la detonante del boom que surgiría durante los años posteriores, y la causante de su gran expansión. Compuesta por el clásico dúo Lennon/McCartney, es con casi toda seguridad mi tema favorito del grupo británico. Como nota curiosa, decir que cuando Brian [...]
Art rock band S.C.U.M and Simeon, leader of veteran experimental project Silver Apples , now have more in common than being chosen by Portishead for ATP's I'll Be Your Mirror festivals. Simeon appears to share Portishead's taste for the rising London five-piece, because Silver Apples has remixed S.C.U.M's track "Amber Hands". Silver Apples take the emphasis off the crunchy guitar lead for their version, and insert a litter of well-timed sound effects. The guitar rock suddenly shows itself halfway through and does not let up. Check it out for yourself below; [...]
Silver Apples have gone and remixed 'Amber Hands' by S.C.U.M . Following the same structure as the original (more or less), the American duo have pulled the attacking guitars in favour of swirling tribal beats and 80's BBC Science program theremin bursts. S.C.U.M could have quite easily added these touches themselves and called it an 'alternative mix', so in that respect you could say it's a bad remix; or you could say that Silver Apples and S.C.U.M have a similar outlook on music (the differences being the electronics) and the Apples have stayed true [...]
Teenage Panzerkorps are more than revivalists in the songwriting sense. Their sounds recall the kraut-rock of Can and Neu! with a cutting-edge lo-fi allure, vast and tributary enough to appear like a fusion of albums one obtained through trading cassette tapes in the '80s. If you were a punk enthusiast born in the late '60s/early [...]
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Ever since I wrote it, I've been thinking about the way I framed my recent Walkmen post : Compelling frontmen with strong voices and a grasp of emotional and lyrical nuance are a rare breed in indie rock, a genre that has typically favored effacing the lead vocal through reverb, distortion, a low mix, nonsensical lyrics, or an enigmatic personality for the better part of twenty-five or thirty years. This line of thought has stuck in my craw for a few reasons, none of which relate to [...]
SPOOK HILL :: SEPTEMBER MIXTAPE :: BOY ATTRACTIONS Walker and I have had this one in the works for a while. We decided a month or so ago (after our last mixtape) that we wanted to try something a bit different from our usual mixes. We settled on the idea of compiling our favorite songs recorded before 2000 that were relatively unknown or obscure (or at least if the artist was relatively known, one of their hidden gems). That was really the only restriction. Interestingly enough, there was a clear divide in the years [...]
Field Day is a festival in Victoria Park, a wee walk from Bethnal Green so by London geography that makes it East and in terms of line up it's also pretty East . This is alright I dig some of what these kids dig, sure they all dress like their living every episode of Pugwall's Summer. But being drawn to acts like Moderat , [...]
Hugely impressive line up for this years Field Day festival, check the website for full details . Here's you opportunity to be there for nish , all you have to do is email me (jthirkettle@hotmail.com) with 'I wanna go to Field Day yo' in the title of your communication. The winner will be notified by email. Amongst the plethora of splendid acts is are the wonderful Silver Apples: Silver Apples- Oscillations (Download)
Holy Family - "Whatever There's to Know" MP3/download Finally, an up-and-coming indie band understands the importance of Silver Apples, post-Folk Implosion. Holy Family, in all their busy-beat glory, are as close to Simeon and the Apples as anyone has gotten since I started reviewing music and craving Contact clones. I think the chorus loses some [...]
Harry Nilsson: Pandemonium Shadow Show After living with two different Harry Nilsson greatest hits comps for many years, last year I finally got around to picking up Nilsson Schmilsson , widely lauded as his best album. It's good—it's great!—but it also left me a little cold. Perhaps it was simply a matter of knowing so many of the songs already from the comps. Still, there were two other minor strikes: the songs I didn't know were mostly just good, not outstanding. And the songs I did know, aside maybe from [...]
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