Monthly Archives: June 2008
Parklife 2008 Festival
The dates and lineup for this years Parklife festival have just been announced and it looks fantastic. Probably the best Australian festival lineup that I have seen for a long time and perhaps a good reason for me to start liking festivals again. Goldfrapp Soulwax Peaches 2manydjs Dizzee Rascal Martin Solveig Plump DJs Diplo Jesse [...]
Great Music
I’ve been listening to some great music lately which is so welcome. Three months ago I was so tired of everything that was coming out and really felt like I was going through a drought. Luckily some awesome people pointed me back in the right direction and now I have a great rotation going. First [...]
Shook
Ok fine! I’ll post about Shook afterall! I wanted to be the first to get these tracks out, but I was preempted. Again. And not by Trash Managerie’s timely Lovestar, this time it was by Neonized Magazine. Damn Spaniards. They broke my heart. (Apologies if I’m wrong and you’re not actually Spanish.) I was deciding [...]
Love is All Do Covers
Following on from the two-and-a-half-years-late ‘Nine Times That Same Song’ remix album (previously profiled here), Swedish lo-fi rockers Love is All continue to dribble out small tasters in the lead-up to the still unannounced autumn (our spring) release of their second album. This time through they handed out a bunch of self-recorded CDRs at some [...]
G.L.O.V.E.S. On Bang Gang 12 Inches
We wrote about GLOVES way back in September last year about his remix of Gameboy/Gamegirl’s “Sweaty” and a lot has happened since then. Firstly he put out a white label 12″ of Dead Skin through European label Lektroluv and just recently has been signed to Thee Bang Gang Deejays label for a release of “PYX”. [...]
Sebastien Grainger & Les Montagnes 7″
Ex-DFA79 frontman, Sebastien Grainger, has been quietly active of late. We’ve already heard about his appearance on DatA’s upcoming single, Rapture, and now Grainger has just released his debut 7″, American Names, via his solo project, Sebastien Grainger & Les Montagnes. It features four tracks: Epilogue (Somewhere Over The Hobo), Ways To Come Home (the [...]
Black Ghosts’ Full-Length Debut
In the past I have to admit I’ve found it hard to connect with The Black Ghosts. There is a palpable, chilly air of unattainability surrounding them, which is perhaps the combination of a stern policy that you can listen but not touch, and a promise that while they won’t be your best friends, [...]
Sam Sparro Australian Tour
I first heard of Sam Sparro through Russ Chimes’ remix of “Black and Gold” and now he is coming to Australia for shows in Sydney and Melbourne. On Russ’ recent tour of Australia he talked about working with Sam Sparro and how he was at one stage going to be a part of the live [...]
Wolf Parade
My recent posts seem to be more and more making a lie of the name of this blog. But I’m kind of in a rut of late, as far as electro goes. Too much repetition, too many clamouring unknowns, too few wonderful, exciting slabs of new dance music. Times like this I begin to miss [...]
Moulinex | Xinobi | D.I.S.C.O. Texas Tour
Moulinex and Xinobi are in the country at the moment on the D.I.S.C.O. Texas tour, taking in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. I was lucky enough to catch up with Luis Moulinex and Bruno Xinobi yesterday to talk about the tour, the label and music in general. They told me a little bit more about the [...]
Electrorash World Tour!
Duncan from Electrorash (read: Me) is going on a sweet Euro trip. First stop – Berlin, to visit the intimidatingly cool cats at Scala.. I’m actually going to miss this party by a few days, but if you’re in the area make an effort to get down there. Midnight Juggs + Bang Gang DJs = [...]
Buffetlibre DJ’s Verbena No. 4
I’m always complaining about the quality of mixtapes but the guys at Buffetlibre never let me down. The mixtape is made up of a lot of the artists and tracks that I am really into right now like Sidechains and Moulinex and it has that Lifelike remix of Heartache that has been driving me crazy [...]
FUTURECOP TOUR
Futurecop began life as it seems a lot of good musical artists do, making music to please themselves with no pre cursors or attempt to fit in with the norm. Futurecop make music that could quite easily be placed as scores in movies, defining moments, victorious battles and epic car chases just some ideas off [...]
CUBE, CONCERT BOY
Sitting on 150bpm, this track rides sunsets, exists in all sports car pre 1980, and pretty much allows the user to go back 20-30 years in a time machine. Whilst i imagine the baywatch sunsets and the Porshe’ Carera’s; as the track goes on i find it harder and harder to get some dirty 80′s [...]
Sounds of Summer