Author Archives: luke
The Rex The Dog Show
Listening to Rex the Dog’s long-awaited debut LP (well, at least as far as the Rex the Dog moniker is concerned – Jake Williams, the man behind Rex, has been producing dance music since 1993) ‘The Rex the Dog Show’ you start to realise two things. One, that Rex is making some of the best [...]
Don Rimini
I am all over Don Rimini like some horrible, horrible rash. I guess you could almost call it an… Electrorash… Yeah? High fives! Right. In case you haven’t heard, Parisian Don Rimini is the next big thing in awesome. Sitting somewhere in between the twitching grooves of the Crookers and the four-to-the-floor rave madness of [...]
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 [...]
Lismore
I really like Lismore. The band, not the NSW hippie den. Thinking about it, I’ve been actively tracking Lismore for at least a year now, so why exactly it’s taken me this long to do a post on them is quite beyond me. Thankfully Penelope and Stephen Lismore (that’s just shorthand, I don’t think they’re [...]
Evil Nine Return
God, it’s been a while. As a reasonably devoted Evil Nine fanboy (check out some earlier tracks here – the Hazy Way remix and Crooked must both be jostling for a place in my top ten dance tunes of all time), it was with a heavy heart that I realised Tom and Pat had overlooked [...]
Calling In Sick is Fully Ill
Good God, what a horrendous pun. I’m not even black. At least I didn’t go with my first title ‘Calling in Sick: An Adventure in Bile Inducing Awesomeness’. Ain’t no party like a bile party. Ask Ned. Anyway, Calling in Sick are… ill. In a good way. CIS are two Sydney party boys who seem [...]
CSS Go Donkey
I must admit, I kinda missed the CSS bandwagon when it first rolled through town. Of course I was au fait with the obvious singles, and my library is peppered with any number of variable quality remixes of ‘Let’s Make Love…”, but I was never entirely convinced that there was much flesh to their albums [...]
South Central Get Gritty
I’ve been loosely following the boys of South Central for a while now, ever since I stumbled upon their weirdly euphoric tune ‘Revolution’ in the latter parts of last year. With it’s big beat chanting, furious high-end and messy drums, ‘Revolution’ made them sound like an updated version of XTRMNTR-era Primal Scream – all post-punk [...]
Nathan Vice Makes Chunky Music
Yes, chunky, that’s definitely the word. Nathan Vice (real name Nate Rodriguez) is a Brooklyn/Puerto Rico based producer whose curious lack of music blog profile seems to be in direct contrast to the massiveness of his beats. And massive they most definitely are. There are distinct echoes of hard-edged Detroit era techno in Vice’s tunes, [...]
Shinichi Osawa Is So Awesome He Makes My Face Want To Melt With Joy
Big words perhaps, but seriously, have you heard this guy? Electrorash has been riding the Shinichi bandwagon pretty hard for a while now (in a previous post, I may or may not have referred to him as ‘god’), but Osawa productions have been few and far between over the last few months and the entire [...]
The Rogue Element
I’m pretty sure The Rogue Element was the subject of my very first post for this fine blog, all the way back in November. Well, I assure you that my love has waned naught in the interim, even if he hasn’t put out a wealth of new material over the last six months. More excitingly [...]
Sounds of Summer
It’s always kinda funny being lodged in the Southern Hemisphere, and watching all the wonderful summer festival themed dance and indie music emerge from the North side just as we spiral into the depths of winter. Musical irony is awesome. But either way, here’s a quick mish-mash of a post featuring a couple of disparate [...]
Delorean Gets Their Remix On