Monthly Archives: August 2008
Aeroplane Have Landed
Sorry for the headline but I had to do it – Stephan just got into Melbourne and I couldn’t help myself. If you’re into the cosmic disco sounds of Aeroplane then you won’t want to miss the show at La Di Da this Friday night. We will be rolling deep to show Ghent how it’s [...]
Prints – Just Thoughts EP
It might initially seem like a bizarre move, to release an EP just months after the release of your debut full-length, but don’t rush to pat the Prints boys on the heads with a gentle, “pace yourselves…” just yet. just yet. As an accidental testament to the multi-instrumental Zac Nelson and Kenseth Thibideau’s song-writing abilities, [...]
Jamiroquai – Canned Heat (Calvin Harris remix)
I used to listen to a lot of Jamiroquai and even went to one of his gigs. I must have been 17 at the time. Wow, feels good to get that off of my chest. Also I think there are a lot of similarities between Calvin Harris and Jay Kay from Jamiroquai which makes this [...]
Songs from the Weekend
So, Bag Raiders were suitably epic at Eurotrash on Saturday. The place was pumping, the alcohol was flowing and I was three sheets to the FUCKING AWESOME PARTY. But in my… state, I kept on getting all sorts of excited about miscellaneous songs that I’d then try and frantically jot down or message people about. [...]
Chewy Chocolate Cookies
The point at which ‘electro’ finally ate itself was probably those mercifully brief couple of months in 2007 where ‘maximal’ became an accepted and propagated sub-genre. In amidst all the clanging synths, sirens, ceaseless build-ups and choppy vocals I started having flashbacks to 1999 and me, at the tender age of 14, being blown away [...]
DCup Remixes The Heat
Not one word. Now I’m going to get a little bit Sydney on your arses with this post, because The Heat are a notorious Sydney-based duo, and they’ve just been remixed by the similarly-based DCup aka Duncan MacLennan. I’m all excitement over this one. The Heat – The Celebration (DCup Remix) Thanks, Blouse. Oh and [...]
New Shiny Toy Guns
Alright so I haven’t been following any of this at all, but then I heard Ricochet and I thought I’d better try and catch up pretty fast. Rumour has it that the darling of Shiny Toy Guns, vocalist Carah Faye Charnow, voluntarily left/was asked to leave because she wanted to move to Sweden for her [...]
Free Shit Friday
So Free Shit Friday is becoming a regular thing because people want free shit regularly. When I say “regular” I actually mean once a month because it’s hard enough keeping up with the post as it is. I am actually really stoked about this Free Shit Friday because we are lucky enought to be giving [...]
Canyons Remix Ladyhawke
For me this post is more about the remix artist than the original. Not that I don’t love and respect (and call in the morning) Ladyhawke but I think she’s already broken out on the scene, whereas Canyons are just about to. I first heard about Canyons a couple of months ago when one of my [...]
MGMT Australian Tour
The Frontier Touring Company has just announced the first Australian headline tour for alt heroes MGMT with shows slated for Perth, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. I am excited to see these guys even though it will be a night surrounded by American Apparel and over-sized glasses. I am just as excited to see supports Tame Impala [...]
Shook Shook Shook
With the volume of new music coming through the Electrorash email and myspace at the moment my favourite way to find great new music has been to download it all and set my iTunes to shuffle. That way I can listen to something in the background and if it’s great I take notice because of [...]
Bloc Party’s Mercury: Remixed
Pitchfork reported it way back here, and the 11th August release date for Bloc Party’s new single, Mercury, is drawing nearer. The single includes remixes from one-eighth of Machines Don’t Care, Hervé, as well as CSS, and Flosstradamus, the latter of which I’d argue does the best job. By a hair. That 3:42 to 3:46 [...]
Kacica: Mosaic
Ugh. Wine = terrible when you’re trying to pick the best two tracks from an album. It’s hard enough trying to spell basic words right, let alone be decisive enough to pick good tracks. I suppose these will do. Actually, they’re pretty excellent. Following Ned in his mission to present awesome music coming out of [...]
SebastiAn Remix Album
Oh, hello SebastiAn. I almost completely forgot you were there, what with the crazy excitement over disco and all lately. Fuck. I think I love you… In a move identical yet opposite to that of HEALTH when they released HEALTH//DISCO earlier this year, SebastiAn is releasing the majority of his major remixes from 2007/2008 in [...]
Johnny Cash Vs Snoop Dogg