Every time I look at the title of this blog, my mind flies back to the heady days of 2007; the year when electro first exploded into the mainstream, propelled forward on a wave of stomping house beats spliced with synth-rock and electroclash sensibilities. I remember thinking at the time how amazing it was that [...]
Punks Jump Up are in Australia at the moment embarking on their first tour for music and their second for pleasure. I was lucky enough to get Dave out of bed to have a chat about what they’ve been working on, their fusion of fashion and music and what they’re plotting this time around.
So I [...]
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Some people talk about first, second, third and fourth generation blogs. Seeing as Electrorash started in July 2007 we are probably along the lines of a third or fourth gen with someone like Stereogum or Pitchfork being amongst the first. Scatterblog would probably be in the second or third generation having started in 2006 - [...]
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Last week I got a chance to interview Todd Terje and as with all of my past interviews the introduction was predictably bad.
To give you an idea of my history my very first interview was with Calvin Harris at his hotel in Melbourne. Being the super organised guy that I am I typed up all [...]
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Shinichi Osawa’s Last Days is a great mix between sweet, melodic guitar and distorted, driving bass - and the video is no different.
Using animated ink drawings the video starts off with blotter paper but turns into repetitive, interacting characters. Like almost all of the videos we’ve been featuring over the last few weeks you can [...]
Friday, November 14, 2008
Our friends over at Industreate are running a fucking awesome competition that could have two lucky readers spending New Years Eve in close quarters with Justice and So-Me in Chicago! Holy shit!
Justice - A Cross The Universe - Trailer from INDUSTREATE on Vimeo.
All you have to do is tell us what you did that was [...]
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
After selling out Summadayze festivals around the country Kitsune’s Digitalism have just announced a Melbourne sideshow including one very special date on January 10 at the Forum in Melbourne.
It’s been a pretty massive couple of years for the Digitalism boys, Jence and Isi with relentless touring touring, featuring on Kitsune Maison 6, remix duties and [...]