Monthly Archives: April 2009
Potential Wife of the Week: Ellie Goulding
[with apologies to Lykke. You've been supplanted. For the moment.] Beyond the rampant ascent of dubstep, early 2009′s other major, more marketable trend seems to be coming in the form of a new breed of ultra-cute, female indie/electro-pop darlings. Think Little Boots, La Roux, Marina and the Diamonds and now the new entrant in the [...]
Posse
A bit of industry news for you this morning. Some Sydney peeps I know cut loose their new business venture over the weekend. It’s called Posse.com (they paid alot of money for that domain) and it’s not a social networking site for ethnic gangs. Posse is a new platform for bands to sell tickets to [...]
Port of Lonely Hearts
This totally and absolutely passed me by. You must hear this song. Johnny Cash – Port of Lonely Hearts (midnight juggernauts remix) -christen
Emil & Friends Remix Little Boots
In true Little Boots fashion, we’ve already seen a billion and one remixes of her latest single, New in Town, but this one warrants a mention for its awesome new direction. Emil Hirsch and his gang of nameless sidekicks have crammed Victoria Hesketh’s pretty vocals through a vocoder, letting them ooze out alongside some mercurial [...]
SALEM on Big Love
When people ask which new bands they should be listening to right now, SALEM (and Telepathe) are easily my first response. Their tormented lo-fi electro with its crooked, otherworldy vocals might at times seem an uneasy listen, but there’s so much depth to it, it’s an addictive uneasy listen. Following their first two releases on [...]
Discovery – Orange Shirt
Aptly described by Derek Neon Gold as a combination of Vampire Weekend, The Postal Service and R. Kelly, with references to Japan both lyrical and aesthetic, Vampire Weekend keyboardist, Rostam Batmanglij, has teamed up with Ra Ra Riot’s Wes Miles, to form a new side-project, Discovery. Set to take 2009 by storm, this lively duo, [...]
The Out Sound From Way In
Whether its an old sound or not, there is no denying the quality of production on this track from Jedi Master Etienne De Crecy. He’s been in and at the top of his game for a long time now and has released consistent quality work, whether or not some might read his ‘consistency’ as meaning [...]
And we have a winner!
At the end of March we ran a remix competition in association with Universal and Nova 937 for the Dukes of Windsor’s track “Runaway”. A lot of entries ended up coming in; some great, some not so great and a few fucking amazing ones but overall the standard was very high. The Dukes have now [...]
Bones Brigade
Alexis Taylor, anti front man of Hot Chip sends his love via this gorgeous version of a song from New Yorker Mike Bones. Alexis Taylor – What I Have Left (mike bones cover) -christen
Daft Punk Computer Game
Alright, it’s not really Daft Punks computer game but it does feature the electronic duo’s likeness and midi samples of their music. In summary it’s a lawsuit waiting to happen. I especially like the combo’s you can create by jumping on multiple bad guys heads: 1. work it 2. do it 3. harder 4. better [...]
‘Moar VNISH plz’
Back by overwhelming demand (serious-like!) here’s more from the enigmatic Sydney via New York (not San Fran as previously advertised) electro-pop’d duo, The Vanish. They’ve got some shiny new gems and a re-polished old one to share. The Vanish – Heartbeat The Vanish – I Don’t Speak French The Vanish – Hold On (Mastered) You’ll [...]
Poney Poney’s WDYWSW?
My first weekend off work in like forever (and all I want to do is sleep), so we have Poney Poney’s jittery garage-pop track, “When Do You Wanna Stop Working?” The now downsized Parisian two-piece have just released it as their third single on Institubes’ new pop-focussed offshoot, Unsunned. Produced by Para One, it’s an [...]
New Pégase
Here is some more ethereal loveliness from France’s star-gazing Pégase. These are two of my favourite tracks to come out of the Valerie collective of late, and my favourite Pégase ones so far. With every release Raphaël edges noticeably further away from the soft ambience of his earlier work, and towards the more confident, melodic [...]
New Galvatrons video
What have those silly billies from the Galvatrons been up to? Well, they tripped over to the US, kidnapped David Lee Roth and used ‘advanced techniques’ (similar to the patent technologies used by Advanced Hair Studios) to steal his essence or ‘mojo’. Labouring over a period of months, they refined this essence into a 96% [...]
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