Monthly Archives: July 2009
Yuksek Australian Tour
Following on from his rather large Splendour in the Grass campaign, (youtube “Yuksek Splendour” and you’ll know what I mean) Yuksek is bringing his batshit mental electro stylings to ol’ Melbourne town this Sunday the 2nd of August. And if you’re from up north (i.e. Brisbane), you can catch him at Lickit this Friday the [...]
Delorean – The Ayrton Senna EP
It took its sweet ass time, but finally, oh so finally, Delorean’s (previous posts here, here and here… Yeah, I kinda like them, hey) stonking new Ayrton Senna EP has dropped on Fluo Kids’ excellent Fool House imprint. The name, as much as anything, seems like a bit of a nod of the head to [...]
Friendly Fires – Kiss of Life
What better way to showcase Ed MacFarlane’s notoriously ill-fitting jeans and hit-and-miss dance moves than to have them star in the clip for Friendly Fires’ upcoming new single, Kiss of Life. Set to be released on the 31st August by XL, Kiss of Life is the perfect teaser for their Paul Epworth-produced sophomore album, which [...]
Shooting Stars
Bag Raiders – Shooting Stars Bag Raiders new video. Starts a bit Tron, goes a bit Kid 606, then they start surfing on sports cars. I love how the juxtaposition of cars and space has become the cornerstone of electro imagery. Here’s a remix you can chuck on your iPod from West Australian wunderkinder Shazam. [...]
Bang with Mom and Dad
‘Mom’ annoys me. Conjures images of hotdog laden, whining young ‘patriots’ at baseball games, extras from Sesame Street and diabetic Hispanic half-brothers from your dad’s third marriage. Mom and Dad, on the other hand, are splendid. ‘Mom and Dad’s’ remix. Genius. Love the original, love this remix. It totally bangs. Much like your mum and [...]
Visitor – Los Feeling
Formerly Cobra Dukes, then formerly What She Wants, UK’s Visitor are giving us the first glimpse of their brand new Diamond Cut-produced material with the cosmically-charged Los Feeling. It’s a terribly pretty, stirring voyage into the realm of shimmery stadium pop, and it’s of course had the labels scratching feverishly at their door for more. [...]
dept.
New Dept. arrived last Friday. I was lazy, only just got around to listening to it and HAWT DAMN it’s a goodie. I don’t really dig the rest of Dept.’s catalogue. It all feels a bit derivative, not really adding anything new to the ever expanding neon procession of Australian electro-lytes. But this is great. [...]
Agent 86
Agent 86, is truly a DJ for all seasons. I’ve seen him piledrive barely pubescent schoolkids at house clubs, deftly slip and scratch through the hip-hop universe in backrooms and at festivals, and now he’s producing sultry disco-house in the vein of Duck Sauce and Louis La Roche. He’s been slamming clubs in Australia for [...]
Clock Opera
Supporting Marina & the Diamonds at a Neon Gold event in London next week, Guy Connelly aka Clock Opera, is definitely one to watch. Connelly, who has been fronting the London-based band, the Corrections, is now blending his cripplingly good vocals with an eruption of twinkling samples and urgent keyboard stabs to very pretty effect. [...]
Best of Gmail
Some prime stuff dropped on the doorstep of Electrorash Palms this morning. First up, Noah and the Whale.. my only engagement with these characters has been through that cutesy track about having Fun Fun Fun in the Sun or whatever. Well, they’ve dropped two remixes our way from serial-pest Death to the Throne and Yacht. [...]
So I’m Jo
Bringing some much needed poise and distinction to the needle strewn cul-de-sacs of Sydney’s wanna-be-a-DFAster-electro and disco scene are So I’m Jo. I caught So I’m Jo a few weeks ago at one of FBi’s ‘Please Save the Flip Out Of Us’ parties, and I was pretty impressed with their clean, shoe-gazey disco pop. It [...]
Diamond Cut Remixes Cinnamon Chasers
I don’t think it would be an exaggeration to say that there’s an epic battle being waged for the soul (or tracks) of Diamond Cut, and in this case, the dastardly but lovable Aleks Discodust well and truly beat us to the punch, even despite my girlish charms. Still, it doesn’t make this remix any [...]
Former Child Stars
I caught a bit of these guys at a show with Electrorash faves The Vanish (who are in the bad books for breaking Hype M) and thought hmmmm. I walked downstairs and continued going hmmmmm… then bumped into someone I knew and promptly forgot about Former Child Stars for the next month. They weren’t bad, [...]
Trump card
Melbourne monsterbass duo Trumpdisco dropped a fun bootleg our way. It’s old school SebastiAn (miss u) taking a sledgehammer to his limited edition Lord of the Rings box set. The one with the bookends in the box. Undoubtedly cheesy, but undoubtedly fun. Nothing better than homegrown bangerz. Give them some love and catch them at [...]
Neon Indian