Category Archives: banger free zone
Neon Indian
Neon Indian! Doesn’t the phrase simply conjure up magical images of happy native Americans trading the land that was their birthright for expanded gambling rights? No? Just me then? Right you are. Who Neon Indian are, then, is an as yet unidentified duo from Austin/Brooklyn (although apparently the Austin connection is Alan Palomo from Vega/Ghosthustler) [...]
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 [...]
Be happy
Chin up guys! He’s in a better place. This song will make you grin from Ear-2-Ear, like Boyz-2-Men if they lived on either side of your head. Thanks Sidechains, thanks Booty Love (check out Diamond Cut’s remix of the same track) whoever yo clichéd ass is and thanks MJ. Go dance the night away. It’s [...]
The More That The Field Does
Well, I’m blogging while sitting in a lecture on the Law of Trusts. Welcome to the connected generation. The Field’s (or Alex Wilner’s) ‘From Here We Go Sublime’ was without doubt one of my albums of 2007. Kinda odd choice really, as up until that point I’d eschewed minimal like the plague, but there was [...]
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 [...]
Circlesquare Endorses Drug Use, Dancing
Part man, part geometric paradox (a circle can’t be a square, that’s just silly), Circlesquare is Vancouver born Jeremy Shaw, now resident of Berlin, where I can only imagine his particular brand of stripped-back, spacious and laconic electronica plays well with the minimal after party set. He’s been putting out tracks since 1999, carefully honing [...]
Touch Typist
I’ve never been one. Even though I had a compulsory typing class at school in year 4, featuring the indefatigable first lady of typology – Mavis Beacon. Y’all remember that shit? Typing to get away from sharks, typing to race cars, typing to shoot cans. typing against the clock. But always typing against yourself. But [...]
Serious Music for Silly People
A couple of months ago I had a realisation: Hypem.com no long catered for my taste in electronic music. I’d known the day was coming for a while, but I didn’t want to admit it; I’d imagined it to be akin to finding out your girlfriend was cheating on you, or discovering your cat had [...]
Et Justus Pout Tous
I was reading the new Malcom Gladwell book, Outliers, recently. It’s about how environmental factors play an important part in the success of people we commonly refer to as geniuses… whilst it hardly discredits the talents of Billy Gates et al, it’s an interesting read that suggests that the unbelievable achievements of some are perhaps [...]
Tales From My Inbox…
I’ve kind of been neglecting my posting duties recently, which is a bit shit… I’d hoped to get back in the swing of things with an uber-lazy post of the decent things that landed in my inbox over the past few days. Sad times, though, when I found that I haven’t really been sent anything [...]
More Delorean, MORE!
Ah, more sun-drenched glory from Barcelona’s favourite 80s car themed electro-rock band, Delorean. You may remember me rapturously talking about them in this post. Oh, and this one too. They really are very good. And now they’ve issued another remix and, by my count, that makes it four stonking remixes in this year alone (The [...]
Esau Mwamwaya + Radioclit are ‘The Very Best’
In one of my first posts I wrote about a guy called Esau Mwamwaya, a Malawian singer whose chance encounter with one of Radioclit turned into a musical adventure taking in all bongo-bothering things that Radioclit are known for plus a bit more on the side. Whilst an album is on the way, in the [...]
Low Motion Disco
Two secretive producers from Belgium, they call themselves Low Motion Disco, and a more descriptive name it would be hard to think of. As they put it: We tend to be the strange kind of party visitors. The ones that would rather stand around and watch people dance than dance themselves. It‘s not a voyeur [...]
Troppo
‘Tropical’ lands at La Di Da tonight. Expect palm trees, coconuts, hot bodies and disco flavours all night. Wear your best or worst beach gear and enjoy the tastiest cocktails in town with dj’s Luke McD, DJ At Night, A.D.D, G.L.O.V.E.S, Kablam! and Chestwig!! $10 on the door or $8 on a list. See y’all [...]
Memory Tapes