Teruglezen naar begin maart doet mij beseffen dat mrbungle.nl beter de domeinextensie .be had kunnen hebben. Eerst was daar het altijd geweldige KRAAK festival in Aalst (lees de erg vermakelijke recensie van makker Stefan hier en bekijk zeker de fantastische foto's van Krysztoff Dorion op Flickr ). Net bekomen typte ik recensies van Dolphins Into The Future , Kris Vanderstraeten , Sylvester Anfang II en Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat , allen uit Vlaanderen. Als je ook nog eens bedenkt dat het best bekeken tv-programma in mijn geboorteland de naam [...]
If you prefer your electronic music to be a potent dose of science fiction, then you will fall in love with Xander Harris' just released Chrysalid . Based off a short story that Harris tried to write but never finished, the album "is the story of how the ugliness of humanity manifested after the invention of robots used to aid in the pleasures and mundane of daily life. The end result was an uprising led by hackers and female robots fighting to be classed as citizens and free people. The leader of the revolt was a female [...]
Hace unos dias les presentaba por aqui un nuevo track de Xander Harris titulado " The Driver " en el que mas o menos les comentaba que en las ultimas semanas este tipo habia estado posteando un monton de musica en su soundcloud la cual formaria parte de algunos nuevos splits que tiene contemplados para los proximos meses y este track, aparecera dentro de un split en conjunto con Dylan Ettinger . Ahora, es momento de venir a dejarles el stream completo del nuevo cassette que acaba de poner a la venta Xander Harris a [...]
Way back last October, we featured "Visor Glare" , the closing track from Justin Sweatt aka Xander Harris ' new tape Chrysalid on Pour Le Corps Records . Somehow it took another five months to get finished, but now the release, which will come in a limited edition of 100, finally appears to be almost a reality, and in any case you may already stream the whole thing now here below. And if you've missed Harris' other recent masterpiece "The Driver", decidedly less gloomy and more synth disco-leaning than the tracks on the nightmarish [...]
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Hoy, es un dia bastante flojo, creanme, no hay absolutamente nada bueno que compartirles el dia de hoy con excepcion de lo que seguramente ya habran podido leer desde temprano y en dado caso de que apenas se esten instalando y se dispongan a ver que novedades hubo por la bloggosfera, pues dejenme hacerles mas rapida su tarea al decirles que hoy fue un fiasco. Como sea, puede que tipos como Xander Harris me lleven la contraria ya que es un tipo bastante ocupado y solo basta con estar al pendiente de su soundcloud para ver la cantidad de musica [...]
Xander Harris - The Driver ( mp3 )
Our man Justin Sweatt a.k.a. Xander Harris has been dropping tunes like crazy lately. Stream 'Karakuri', taken from the limited edition cassette Chrysalid due out soon on Pour Le Corps. Then there's ' Afraid of the Light ' from the upcoming Ruralfaune Poison Belt CD-R EP, and ' The Driver ', a banger from that Moon Glyph split 73 with Dylan Ettinger we mentioned awhile ago. (Dude's also good at making mixes!) Karakuri
Witness the return of existential heroes, plunging forward into their complex worlds. The hero's engagement with it eroded by the vast Socio-corporate forces assaulting them at every turn. The alternative to the quick death of engagement and the long madness of paranoia: to drive. Xander Harris brings us the banging spectral harmonies and Night Drive wet dreams. An over-saturated and over-stimulated Theme from Blade Runner. Plunging through a Los Angles of 2019 raised not on the ashes of Noir but the the amphetamine death of Akira. Drums that only form a guide for the synths; a silk lattice [...]
Xander Harris - " The Driver" To mark their 40th release, the great minds at Moon Glyph have dished out a split 7" between rising stars Xander Harris and Dylan Ettinger , two dudes who do the whole "sleazy dystopian sci-fi meets John Carpenter on mescaline" thing better than anyone else. Harris' contribution is the slick, frenetically glitchy "The Driver", which pretty closely approximates the feeling of joyriding a TRON light bike. Catch it above.
Moon Glyph has once again been killing it lately, but the stellar label's 40th release (congrats) in one to top it all off: Two of our favorite synth boys on this planet, Xander Harris and Dylan Ettinger , sharing one delicious 7 inch is probably the theme of each wet dream the fine folks over at 20JFG are having every other day. We can't say much about Dylan's side "Tipoff" at this point but man, "The Driver" alone is almost dangerously excellent, a fabulously upbeat exercise in eruptive analog synth layers and a propulsive [...]
100% SILK, 2012 // LP / BUY: VINYL 936 by Peaking Lights (released on the LA-based Not Not Fun Records) has been hyped to death as one of the best albums of 2011. Honestly, I'm not sure why as I find the album to be nothing special, maybe even a bit boring. Anyway. Not Not Fun sister label 100% Silk just dropped a nice 123 featuring remixes of tracks from 936 by fellow 100% Silk artists Ital, [...]
The latest guest mix comes from Xander Harris , Buffy the Vampire Slayer's buddy the project of Austin, Texas based musician Justin Sweatt, whose peachy debut Urban Gothic came out on Not Not Fun last year. He has a split 7 inch with Dylan Ettinger coming out on Moon Glyph in late February/early March. This rather urban gothic mix is comprised of some tracks that he's "really enjoying at the moment". Featured artists include several Skinny Puppy-related projects, some of our latest sweethearts such as Water Borders and Trust, as well as [...]
Whether your with Dunbar on music and dance evolving as mass social grooming, Darwin and his strutting peacock, or feel dancing and music is tickling the brain in ways nature cannot, dancing is a part of our humanity and has been for a very long time. 2011 was a good time for music you could dance too... Lindstrøm : De Javu When you play a Lindstrom track in your dj set its always difficult to follow. It's normally difficult to know what to play it after too becuase, lets face it, no [...]
Yep, this poster by Justin Blanks pretty much sums up a Devin the Dude show: The holy trinity is right there at the bottom. See for yourself Saturday at the Granada, and don't miss local openers... Continue reading "Poster(s) of the Week: Devin the Dude and Xander Harris Smoke Up" >
Here's the first cut from Xander Harris ' forthcoming "science fiction concept release Chrysalid , out sometime soon on Pour Le Corps Records . A little less upbeat than the acclaimed Urban Gothic ( Not Nof Fun ) perhaps, but still in a very decent Carpenter-esque mode.
Holy Strays - Phrenesia (Xander Harris Remix) New Xander Harris remix of Holy Strays ' Enlightenment/Phrenesia 73 on Not Not Fun .
Juli is voor velen een vakantiemaand, een maand om terug te blikken op het afgelopen half jaar. Traditioneel is het ook vrij rustig met nieuwe albums in deze tijd van het jaar. Omdat mijn vakantie iets vroeger plaatsvond, had ik gelukkig nog genoeg in te halen. Juni bracht tal van leuke releases, waarvan ik er enkele al heb genoemd: Noveller , John Maus , Woods , Biosphere , Matt "MV" Valentine , Jürgen Müller en - de man die de mondhoeken omhoog doet krullen - Gerard Herman , onder andere. De [...]
Steve Rosborough of our favorite Minneapolis, Minnesota-based psych imprint Moon Glyph has made available for free download that incredible digital sampler of new and unreleased tracks he had given away at Pitchfork's music festival two weeks ago. It features a delightful compilation of established Moon Glyph fellows such as Velvet Davenport , Food Pyramid , or Lee Noble , as well as a bunch of other exciting artists that appear to be new additions to the impeccable roster, most notably the great Xander Harris . Read the fine label profile over [...]
Xander Harris has been tearing up my head phones for about the past two months, and my turntable for about three weeks after securing my copy of the extremely limited 480. Xander Harris is the classically trained Justin Sweatt from Austin, Texas. He brings us the future of dance music blended beautiful with the VHS tape hiss of a 802s gore and slasher films that will make you want to groove in the streets all night long. Perfect for that dark pre-game, or intense after party. Check out the amazing video above for "Tanned Skin [...]
A day late, but here's Monday Music, the weekly blog where SOIWT abandons its London-only focus and goes global. This week's is a bit of a strange one due to the mess that I am right now. Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends She loves Paul Simon, I love this song, and right now the melancholy, nostalgic tone and the all-too-apt lyrics leave me in tears. I'm so desperate that we don't break up. [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. [...]
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