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Kraftwerk @ Coachella 2008
Man I wish I was there…but then uber self-absorbed American douchebags would have wrecked it for me. Please come to Australia so that I don’t have to keep hearing from my dad about how he watched them in Sydney. Even then, it was with Wolfgang! Blast.
All blogs are tré homo, especially music ones with shitty writers who have opinions that are particularly, to put simply, fucking cunty. Ok cunty is not a word. But fuck, i’m apparently an example of my own contention. Please take this into account in the next couple of paragraphs.
If you haven’t caught on yet, i’m just validating what JD wrote. Yeah wow amazing, like pow! Right in the kisser yeah? “fuck you waves” right? No.
I still love this Blog, although its path has gone ‘ash tray’ (sound it out). There is a general idea that if something is good; lets play it fucking heaps! “fuck yeah! justice wow!”
Doing this is killing it. We need to except it was great but to move on to new things. The Ed Banger thing was amazing but by remixing everything to the end of its breath isn’t going to make it come back.
But you know, luckily…the most amazing thing about music is that you can act all fucking cool about it and immediately obtain self-gratification by putting down old genres of music. (Minus Bowie or sonic youth of course) get the hint? do you understand what im trying to tell you?
But then again I could take that all back after listening to the volume III teaser with sebastiAn – Dog. Fuck.
I guess what im trying to say is…
No more jock bullshit! More noise! less music! Lets move away from house, fluro and the French.
Oh and check out these bands
GAY
THE NOISE CLUB BAND
TST
NO AGE
THE PROCESS
WIND AND BRACKETS
yeah i know my choice is not so genre diverse, sorry.
Ok, official Brian Jonestown Massacre update. Those of you who have waited so long to catch Anton and whoever the fuck else is backing the band these days, this is your chance:
“2008 Australian Dates Announced!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SHEILA’S & DIAMOND GEEZA’S!!! ….IT’S FINALLY GONNA HAPPEN!!!!!!!
THIS COMING AUGUST:
27th in Brisbane @ The Arena
29th in Sydney @ The Metro
30th in Melbourne @ The Hi-Fi Bar
Perth and Adelaide…PLEASE forgive us for not coming to visit…we would if we could…It’s hard to convince the right people that it’s worth it if you’re not selling as many records as, say The Divinyls or…Barnsey!!! HOPEFULLY NEXT TIME!!!
NEW ZEALAND!!! IF YOUR READING…CHECK BACK WITH US REAL SOON!!!
ALOHA
BJM”
Ahh. Gush gush gush. I had to rewatch DiG! after hearing the news. Such a good film.
This post is also quite important for zac (oscar milde) and I, as we would like to take this opportunity to officially denounce our faith. Well…at least half of it. I just dont feel it in my bones anymore. Just the saturation of fluorescence and the feeling like I never really hear anything new and fresh. Just the same old processed cheese compressed electro remixes etc etc. I will still always love The Presets, Cut Copy, Daft Punk etc, but I know the end is nigh and feel the need to escape the ‘jockish cult that surrounds the genre’ as Guy Blackman happened to put it. So, hopefully from now on Ill be trying to post as much more diverse sounds as I can for anyone who’s willing to listen and have a chat about what they think. Whether its anything new or just something thats just good. Theres always going to be the occasional DFA track (because I still love them) and Presets remix cos you always have to have something to dance to, huh.
Anyway, thats my rant for the night. So…yeah. Dig, in my humble opinion, the best track off the new album ‘My Bloody Underground’, and get tickets asap whenever they get properly announced.
New Late of the Pier AA-sided single featuring ‘Space and the Woods’ and ‘Focker’ to follow from the success of ‘The Bears are Coming’. ‘Space and the Woods’ is co-produced by Erol and LOTP and is somewhat greatly polished to when we heard it long long ago (the 7″ was out May last year!!). Nevertheless, it’s still kick-ass.
But what makes me just ooze and froth at the mouth is their epic track “Focker”. I tried to find a thesaurus to come up with some other words to describe this track but failed in the search. Ahem, .. so the best I came up with is: specatularadazzlingreatremendoussss. Recorded in the same session with Erol, you know it’s good.
Yeah. It’s Anzac Day and I’m giving props to Frenchies. Well with the news that We Love Sounds is going have Cassius as part of its line-up, along with Mr. Oizo, !!!, Lindstrom (yeahboyz!), The Whip and a Marina-less Bonde do Role, it looks like OneLove have actually done something right. Now for them not to let fluoro kids in their shindigs. My big up to Gallic kids this week is in relation to this, so Philippe Zdar is the man of the hour.
Apart from being uber-producer extraordinaire to artists like MC Solaar, Chromeo and our very own (as in Melbourne) Cut Copy, Mr. Philippe Cerboneschi has produced some tremendous work of his own. In the mid 90’s, his work with Etienne de Crécy under the name of Motorbass was as slammin’ house as slammin’ house could get, but there was still that touch of funk, most notably on the ‘Around the World’ remix.
After meeting Boom Bass whilst producing Solaar’s album, they formed the group Le Funk Mob, which then went on to be Cassius. There is not a week where I don’t listen to 1999. I simply love it. Their body of work over the years has always had that certain sense of now, along with some hip-hop roots.
Not surprising…they love Flavour Flav. Enjoy.
MP3: Chromeo - Needy Girl (Zdar Dub Mix)
MP3: Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Zdar Dub)
MP3: Daft Punk - Around the World (Motorbass Vice Mix)
MP3: Air - Sexy Boy (Cassius Remix)
MP3: La Chatte Rouge - Affaires a Faire (Etienne de Crécy & Philippe ‘Zdar’ Cerboneschi; AKA Motorbass)
MP3: La Funk Mob - Poem of Darkness
MP3: Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle (requested to be removed)
More to come!
Im surprised these two tracks haven’t been getting much attention. The KIM edit isn’t bad. Just adds a bit of punch to one of my favorite tracks of the year. The Zombie Nation remix? Well nothing really interesting happens and it just drags on for way too long. Cant wait for the 21st of June though. Anyone else manage to score tickets before they were snapped up in a day?
(In a completely unrelated note: The new Brian Jonestown Massacre album is good. Really, really, really good. I might get around to posting a few tracks when Ive got time.)
MP3: The Presets - This Boys In Love (KIM Edit)
MP3: The Presets - This Boys In Love (Zombie Nation Remix)
These days I’m finding that electronic music is just getting louder and noisier, to the point where you just can’t find its groove. Well it’s seems that a very talented 17 year old from the UK is trying to redeem that lost house groove, that we all grew up with, under his alias Louis La Roché. There was a little confusion when Louis first demo’d his track ‘Love’ on the net, fellow bloggers were convinced that it was a new track from none other than Thomas Bangalter, which, to me, could only be the biggest compliment you could receive towards your own music.
La Roché has just released his debut EP, Peach, online for all to enjoy for free from his myspace, www.myspace.com/louislaroche. It contains five amazing cuts of the purest house music, drawing inspiration from the old Motown sound through to the disco beats of (early) Michael Jackson and Daft Punk.
Louis also goes under the other alias of Night Facilities, where he is producing more of his own music, slightly different from that of his other project but with the same intention of retaining that groove. You can also download a collection of his amazing remixes, again for free, from his ’space’.
Keep an ear out for this up and coming talent, because i’m sure we’ll be seeing a lot more from him in the near future…
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the likes of Riot in Belgium but it seems one of it’s members, Beni Single, has been working in the shadows on a new track for the upcoming ‘Relish Compilation EP Volume 2′, due out in June, from Relish Recordings. Could this be a new direction for Beni, well i certainly think we’ll be hearing a lot more from him. This is the sort of sound that’ll keep the kids bouncing in the clubs, whether you’re into French house grooves, Crookers basslines or Switch fidget squelches.
‘Beyond the Rave‘ Trailer (Upcoming Movie)
Babes. Raves. Vampires. Blood and Guts. And a Banging Soundtrack (Teenage Bad Girl - Cocotte). What more does one need in a film! The above is a trailer for the upcoming movie ‘Beyond The Rave’ that PROMISES all which i have just mentioned, and so so much more. Check it out and tell me your not excited!
Third - The appropriately titled new record from Portishead is due out at the end of this month, April 28th, and I am extremely excited. It’s been 10 years since we’ve heard from the British trip-hop trio, and if you love your psychedelic electronica then this album is certainly going to cure those seedy Sunday hangovers. The track ‘Machine Gun’ is reminiscent of the Nine Inch Nails sound layered with huge industrial drum samples which are then joined by Beth Gibbons ghostly cry and eerie synths that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Jean Michel Jarre record.
Definitely make sure to purchase this record once it’s available, Portishead never disappoint when it comes to transporting our senses to another universe.
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