"HMV, top dog for Christmas" However, some punks disagree with that statement and are intent on creating uproar in HMV. Punks is exactly what they are..... Casio Punks. They call themselves The $hit (Dollar Hit??). Armed with cheap electronic instruments, an iPod backing track and a bad attitude, they have dragged their shambolic live show kicking and screaming across the UK - from triumphantly storming Oxford's Truck Festival to causing chaos at a London fashion week catwalk show and generally kicking the brains off kids all over the country, sharing stages with the likes [...]
Skullening are a loud and trashy four piece. Sinister organ and fuzzed out bass damage. Vocalist to vocalize while drums smash and pound. To me they sound like a mix of Clinic , Quintron and Les Georges Leningrad all transported back to the 1960's. I love it! Skullening - Bugs That 'R' Dead Recently described as "an album you must have in your life" [...]
Errors are an inescapable facet of human imperfection. Errors also happen to be a Glaswegian post-rock-tronica trio who throughout December will be showcasing their great skills in live shows in Scotland and London ( dates here ) Also great to see that they will be playing SXSW in March. I'd so check them out if I lived remotely near any of those places! They have an EP out entitled How Clean Is You Acid House? and it's chuffin' brill, and only a Lady Godiva, bargain! [...]
Northern lads That Effing Tank are geniouses spoilt only by their name. Earlier this year I was privileged enough to see them sweat their backsides off under a gazebo in a tiny outdoor patio, the place was rammed and I could only gain a view by dangling precariously from a upright gas heater thing. Their style is semi-improv dance rock, persistently stomping from one tune to another with the aid of an odd-strung-and-tuned baritone guitar through a guitar and bass amp using a morley switch pedal + regular drums and sticks. Giving all those other loud as heck [...]
I first heard Safety Scissors when he did a sweet remix of Dntel 's now legendary This Is The Dream Of Evan And Chan back in the day, then he did his own Tainted Lunch album which I also enjoyed a lot, he brews up some really lovely electronic-pop, and his latest offering is a remix for Architecture In Helsinki 's They Died, We Remixed LP is no exception. Putting his own vocals and electronic arrangements to the [...]
Just a quick one before I abscond to Liverpool for evening of pop music. Kalle J makes premium quality electro-funk from his 3 bedroom semi (presumption) in Gothenburg. We've just booked to go Gothenburg in March, and I can't wait! We just need things to do there besides spend the whole week at the local Volvo museum. Anyway here, get some Kalle J down your Ruud Gullit. ;-) Kalle J - Everything Is You
Been loving French electrohopster TEPR just lately, belching out cut up 80's synths, fake sax, and sometimes guest rap from Omnikrom what more could a man want on his 15 minute commute to work in the morning! Great stuff TEPR - En Direct De La Cote I would also love to move my body to a Boys Noize remix of [...]
Hadouken! blah. blah.blah. soundslike Klaxons .blah.blah. blah. StreetFighter2 .blah.blah.blah. alsosoundslike DropTheLime .blah.blah.bla hyped . Hadouken! - Klaxons vs Hadouken Hadouken! - That Boy That Girl And whilst on the subject of the Leeds music scene, someone whos been at it for years, Claire Broadley aka Printed Circuit never fails to make me smile. [...]
Now i'm not really much of a rap enthusiast , with perhaps the exception of Gold Chains or Ghostface. Well to that short list I can now add TTC , a Paris based rap collective made up of DJ's and emcee's including Teki Latex and Para One . I first heard TTC on track number 1 of Modeselektor 's 'Hello Mom' and remember thinking "Wow this sounds much better than rap in my [...]
Kitsune is fast becoming my new favourite label. Their 3rd Maison Compilation is due out on 27th 11th. Fourteen tracks of pure aural satisfaction! Here is a sample off of it, by Gordon's younger, more musically adept brother, Alex Gopher, oooooh-yeah! Alex Gopher - Motorcycle Wet Clutch Short Edit [...]
YUKSEK has come up trumps again! The French disco-house wizard has a new tune called " Amerik " which is nothing short of stonking! It's kind of like Daft Punk doing Vitalic. Check it! Man I just can't get enough of YUKSEK. YUKSEK - Amerik Went to see CSS [...]
Ursula 1000's new 12" entitled Urgent/Anxious featuring disco diva Cristina (Aguilera, Milian.... it's upto you) is an electro-mutant gem, but I must admit that what drew me to it was the fact that there was a remix of the said song by none other than Ladytron , a lot darker than the original it reminds me of early-ish Goldfrapp or something that Magas would churn out, which really impresses a man of my ears! [...]
Somewhere between MSTRKRFT , Daft Punk and Das Kometen lies two blokes armed with decrepit synths and old computers. They call themselves a question, the question is: Does It Offend You, Yeah? To be honest it doesn't offend me in the slightest, on the contrary, their music makes me giddy happy tastic. Seeeeeee for yo'selfs'! Brrrrap! [...]
Ellen Allien has teamed up with Mochipet for a song called Robot Girl, a track off Mochipet 's - Disko Donkey 12", out on Daly City . Mochipet can also boast having music released by Bpitchcontrol and Tigerbeat6 (two of my favourite labels) which is a pretty firm indicator how good his music really is! Ellen meanwhile is going round a few places in Europe with Apparat doing stuff, good stuff. They will be in Fabric [...]
I've said previously how much I love Nathan Fake 's - Drowning In A Sea Of Love, and now Border Community looks like it may come up trumps again, this time with the head honcho of BC James Holden releasing his very own LP - The Idiots Are Winning, and if this track is anything to go by it's going to be a blinder! I just love its relative simplicity, and the way it builds, it's like a fantasy voyage to a final [...]
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"Ingenting" is a Swedish word, I don't quite know what it means yet, but i'm going to find out! * Anyway Ingenting or [ingenting] as they are labelled are Swede's singing in Swede, on Swede label Labrador. They're the only artist on Labrador who actually sing in Swedish. As usual on Labrador, its glorious indie-pop (with slightly more rawk)...... but this time in Swedish. [ingenting] - Punkdrömmar [...]
So The Knife played The Forum in London on Saturday, and I was lucky enough to be there, to witness what could only be described as a theatrical spectacle! Now I will leave an in depth review to those more articulate, but in summary it was absolutely the best show EVER, past, present or future! An utterly breathtaking audio/visual extravaganza. From the moment Karin and Olof walked on stage completely blacked out apart from masks with red illuminated eyes and mouths everyone knew this was something different, something truly special. And for the following [...]
Oh No Ono are a band who I just cannot figure out. Their songs are as catchy as Spanish Flu was in 1918! But I just don't know their game is, are these guyZ for realZ you might think when you hear the incredible falsetto of Malthe Fischer on vocals. I just don't know if I can take their gimmicky sound seriously, but frankly I don't give 47 hoots!!! These guys are unique and fun and make you want to dance mad crazy Breakfast Club stylin' . They are a Denmarkese quintet, and on their [...]
Jason Amm is Solvent , and now along with Thomas Sinclair, he has become Black Turtleneck who have released their debut album Musical Chairs , which is 11 modern synth-pop cutlets, not quite as upbeat as Solvents - Apples And Synthesizers, rather these are perhaps dance rhythms for the more inept. Complex compositions abound. Here is track 1 off the album. [...]
As if Dead Disco's - Automatic wasn't a good enough song already, Raufast has rustled up 2 spectacular remixes of the Leeds' lasses dancefloor slaying hit. One for the Cut Copy loving indie kid, and one for the 80's electro revivalist kid.....oh wait, that is the same kid! Ok so the latter mix may require a tad more eye-liner in order to dance to! Enjoy. [...]
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