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09.27.08

Tahiti 80 - Activity Center
Release, Remix, Website, indie as fuck (3)
For those of us still missing the easy-on-the-ears melodic rock of the infuriatingly likable Phoenix, the Rouen-based Tahiti 80’s newest album, Activity Center, might just be a godsend, especially since Phoenix’s most recently (unofficially) released track, Twenty-One One Zero, turned out to be so, umm, unPhoenix-like. But isn’t that a rather lazy comparison, because they’re both a bunch of French dudes who lyricise in English and produce that lovely soft garage sound which is so accessible your mum will hear it in David Jones one time and resolve to Google it when she gets home, or similarly make a blind ...
09.16.08

Low Motion Disco
Disco, News, Release, Remix, Website, banger free zone (0)
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 thing, it comes from being slightly shy and unsporty. Never the less we want to be part of the party. Therefore we have developed a way to dance while not moving. We do it standing at a bar, or sitting on a sofa, in a ...
09.11.08

Captain - Distraction
Release, Website, indie as fuck (1)
Wow, it's like the second coming of Cajun Dance Party. Again a London-based quintet with an obligatory token girl member, only this time around they've managed to graduate from highschool... Although on closer inspection it appears as if this second coming of Cajun Dance Party actually released their debut single before the first coming did, and in fact, they probably arrived far earlier than CDP altogether, but for whatever reason I completely missed it, and am only just discovering them now. So I guess that means they're back to being plain old Captain then. Who, by the way, are my ...
09.05.08

New Edwin Van Cleef
Release, Website (5)
So my student loan repayments kicked in yesterday, and being as unexpectedly and catastrophically high as they are, they have me well and truly by the proverbials. (Although let it be said for the record that I don’t actually have any proverbials, mainly because I’m a girl, and not a very tough/proverbialsy one at that.) So no going out for me this weekend (sorry Elle), which is a reality made all the more tragic by just how much this track makes me want to. UK’s Edwin Van Cleef (*cough* nerd! *cough*) just sent us All I Have to Offer, and it’s ...
08.28.08

Bomb The Bass - Future Chaos
Release, Reviews, Website (2)
I always get slightly nervous when I come to write about an artist such as UK’s Tim Simenon, who maintains the lofty status of one of electronic music’s great figureheads. In this case it all seems particularly out of my depth seeing as the dude contributed significantly to the rise of what NME coined, “DJ culture,” in their 1987 issue which featured Simenon on the cover with that incessant yellow smiley face, which Simenon inadvertently introduced into the rave and acid house scenes only to watch it explode into an icon in a mere moment. (All the while I was ...
07.23.08

Zach Hill - Astrological Straits
Exclusive, Release, Website (2)
What would you get if you extracted key members from math rock mega-group, Hella, gave their high-profile drummer the conductor’s baton and let him flesh out his ultimate musical fantasies with the likes of Primus’ Les Claypool; the Advantage's Robbie Moncrief; Deftones/Team Sleep's Chino Moreno; and The Smell royalty, No Age? If your answer was, “Fuck. A whole lot of noise?” then you’re on the right track. Throw in The Flying Luttenbachers’s, Jonathan Hicshke; !!!/LCD Soundsystem's Tyler Pope; the phenomenal Marnie Stern, and more, and you’ve got the makings of something truly and absolutely fascinating, Pitchfork calling it, "the best band ...
07.11.08

PRESTON PARK
Short Post, Website (1)
In the all too predictable world of electro and dance, there are people who restore my faith in progress. Preston is one, he is dark, he is mysterious and he certainly has talent. He is a one man band singing and producing under the guise Preston Park. When i first stumbled across his music via his myspace(imagine that!) i was enthralled by the music and his flashing background. At the start of his tracks its as if your frozen in an icicle and Preston slowly sings you out of it. They start moody and cold and become warmer as they ...

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