Blog: Bad Fotography

So on Wednesday, me and a couple of my friends went to this private party at this concept store in the city centre called Paper Scissors Stone , lured by the promise of free champagne, sushi and first look at a new label they've got onboard called Oh My Love . Oh god, the goods are so lush. I was really after Electronic Poet 's quilted crew neck sweater (as worn by Master Shortie !!) that they stock but it sold out, much to my dismay. As we got slightly tipsy on the bubbly, I got [...]

Alright, peeps, get ready for this: NYC partykids, Designer Drugs are gonna get a new EP out very soon now on IHEARTCOMIX . The last EP, Zombies was a total dancefloor fidget house monstermashup and we think this new one's gonna up the tempo a bit more, judging from this exclusive track off the new EP. What do you say? [ Designer Drugs - Drop Down ] ->You be mad for not listenin to this! Get your hands on Zombies on iTunes here . [...]

So on Wednesday, me and a couple of my friends went to this private party at this concept store in the city centre called Paper Scissors Stone , lured by the promise of free champagne, sushi and first look at a new label they've got onboard called Oh My Love . Oh god, the goods are so lush. I was really after Electronic Poet 's quilted crew neck sweater (as worn by Master Shortie !!) that they stock but it sold out, much to my dismay. As we got slightly tipsy on the bubbly, I got [...]

Alright, peeps, get ready for this: NYC partykids, Designer Drugs are gonna get a new EP out very soon now on IHEARTCOMIX . The last EP, Zombies was a total dancefloor fidget house monstermashup and we think this new one's gonna up the tempo a bit more, judging from this exclusive track off the new EP. What do you say? [ Designer Drugs - Drop Down ] -->You be mad for not listenin to this! Get your hands on Zombies on iTunes here .

The sexiest electro rock and roll couple ever (move over Chris and Dexy Valentine !!) - Vive La Fete ; is releasing their sixth studio album, Disque D'or in December 2009 in the UK. This is the Belgian electro-glamrock answer to The Kills - sexy, bass heavy filth, driving synths, distorted guitars layered with the voice and lyrics of a 60s french songstress. A brief history on these guys: Danny Mommens (ex dEUS, yeah remember Sister Dew, just awesome!) and his hot blonde girlfriend Elys Pynoo met in 1997, fell crazily in love and [...]

What up! Check out the pictures from Friday night with the immense killer dubstep of 16bit at Nation of Shopkeepers in Leeds. Props to Kill The Rythm for an awesome night, rammed as hell. Plus shout outs to Phat Pat and Pasteman from Cut & Paste Soundsystem - LS6 REPREZENT!! Them guys know how to drop it like its shit-hot!! Proper party tunes getting the crowd hyped up.

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More love from IHEARTCOMIX : All the tracks on the Scion CD featuring remixes of Toxic Avenger & friends is up for grabs right here, right now. Featuring heavyweights round the blog circuit like Switch , Burns , Harvard Bass , Ladytron , Designer Drugs , Jakwob - ask yourself: can you really resist this?? You can also buy a digital copy of the whole cd on iTunes here . [ The Toxic Avenger - The Fall (Jakwob Remix) ] [ [...]

In the mood for something else altogether different now. Last Friday, I went to see Divorce play at the Common Place. The last time I saw them was at a shitty venue a few months back (The Library if anyone wants to know). The soundsystem there was shit, the place was shit. It didn't do their sound any justice. At the Common Place, they totally KILLED. Divorce are from Glasgow and their music is what they call "a nae-wave domestic dispute." And it pretty much sounds like that. Making noise and making it good. Imagine DFA records on [...]

YES! Miami Horror has resurfaced back onto my love radar again when they announced the release date for their debut Illumination . Set for a major label launch in 2010, Pedestrian.tv premiered the video for the single Sometimes yesterday - a strange, dreamy sorta vid, quite fitting for the track really. I'm kinda thinking this is more perfect for the summer just gone. But oh well. Better now than never! [Miami Horror - Sometimes] [...]

Relation is Andy Leary and Oliver Keech, been mates since college in Essex, moved apart for a bit and then brought together again by their love for 80s electro pop, influenced by the sounds of Orbital, Jeff Mills etc. What sets this duo apart from the typical recycled 80s pop revival we see now is the lyrics. Its what makes their sound more discerning and deeply eloquent: Remembering nights out in a certain Blackpool student bar, obsessions, fear. Superenlightened starts off euphoric, and then dives straight into an Underworld-esque beat. Way Outside [...]

Relation is Andy Leary and Oliver Keech, been mates since college in Essex, moved apart for a bit and then brought together again by their love for 80s electro pop, influenced by the sounds of Orbital, Jeff Mills etc. What sets this duo apart from the typical recycled 80s pop revival we see now is the lyrics. Its what makes their sound more discerning and deeply eloquent: Remembering nights out in a certain Blackpool student bar, obsessions, fear. Superenlightened starts off euphoric, and then dives straight into an Underworld-esque beat. Way Outside [...]

Doesn't she very strangely looks like that Alice Pieszecki character of the L Word in this picture? Uffie fans rejoice. Uffie's long anticipated debut "Sex Dreams & Denim Jeans" is finally ready after 4 years in the making, delayed as a result of her long extensive tour and pregnancy. Ed Banger showcased her new video Pop The Glock yesterday, which ya'll can check out at the end of this post. Produced by bigwigs in the hipster-electro and hiphop circuit: Busy P , Feadz , [...]

Electro french trio Give Me A Kiss just dropped 3 immense tunes into my mailbox last week and I just thought I had to share this with ya'll. This shit is heavy. Heavier than Yuksek . Maybe even possibly heavier than Toxic Avenger ? Check it: [ Give Me a Kiss - Paradox LXXX ] ---> Bad Fotography Recommends! [ Give Me a Kiss – No More Patient ] [...]

The wait is over! The very much anticipated new release by French-Ukrainian Vitalic (Pascal Arbez) is finally out TODAY on his own label, Citizen Records after 4 long, long years! A 13-track full length and every bit as intricate, immaculate and articulate as ever, Flashmob is the more electro-fused sister of OK Cowboy , the latter already sealed its place as a techno classic upon its debut. Techno is very often described as mechanical, soul-less and a disjointed version of electronic dance music but like his German [...]

BIG UP LS6!! It seems like just yesterday when Sky Larkin was still playing small DIY gigs in Leeds, and then of course that support slot for the Gossip at the Fav in which me and a friend convinced Katie Larkin to let us back stage so we could blag some free swag from Beth Ditto & Co for Ladyfest Leeds. By now, they've toured with Conor Oberst , signed to Wichita, recorded their debut in Seattle and have a massive North American tour lined up in October. To celebrate this epic tour, this Leeds [...]

Bad-ass electro badboy, Simon Delacroix aka the Toxic Avenger is bringing back the might and fury of hard, bangin' french electro back to the forefront with 2 new releases coming out on the IHEARTCOMIX imprint on 29th of September in digital format and October 27th in vinyl. TOXIC IS DEAD will feature massive, massive remixes from Drop The Lime , the label man himself Franki Chan , Brighton's own South Central and the Cyberpunkers from Italy. (Who dat, you ask? Check it here: http://www.myspace.com/cyberpu nkers ) [...]

Bad Fotography permanent favorites, Midnight Juggernauts is releasing their long awaited single since their 2007 smash hit Dystopia on Acephale Records . Acephale is home to the likes of the eccentric sounds of CFCF and Salem - therefore you wouldn't think the intricate prog-dance rock of Midnight Juggernauts is gonna fit in. But Andrew Juggernaut , Vincent Vendetta, and Daniel Stricker have hinted at a slightly different direction now, focusing more on the "prog" than the "dance" this time. I was unable to really pin point the "prog" [...]

The Sound of Arrows is what happens when a house DJ meets a graphic designer animator in the designer couch department in IKEA and fall in love. Swedish dreamwave boys, Stefan Storm and Oskar Gullstrand want us to believe in magic, love and all kinds of possibilities . Their kind of magic sounds like the Pet Shop Boys on a day out in Disneyland, re-discovering their childhood hero in Peter Pan and then re-creating this strange dream into the most over-the-top, very camp and over-produced videos you have ever seen. Gorgeous. Beautiful. I love it. [...]

[Delphic - This Momentary] Such a brilliant video, presumably shot in somewhere like Ukraine, where masses of pre-war abandoned buildings still remains intact. Delphic 's This Momentary makes an apt soundtrack - tense high treble bass build-up and then dissipates. Certainly Manchester's answer to a less annoying the Whip , more eloquent and then some. ( Remember how banal Trash , by the Whip was? ) Two Door Cinema Club, I'm liking the name, kinda rings like Ontario's [...]