No Gold
Watch this band. Canada’s No Gold paints a colourful soundscape with their experimental jams – incorporating heady, spaced out krautrock grooves, folky repetition, offtimed technical tropical beats and laidback pop sensibilities. It is as complex as it is simple, which makes this an acquired taste but one that you will embrace once you get into...
Fear And Loathing in British Wildlife, Drag & Drop, Leeds 20th Nov
Nothing sorts your head out better than an egg Mcmuffin from Mcdonalds. I was such a dick last night, dropped my camera and got too munted by the time the last band got on. British Wildlife did another one of their signature epic gigs, this one was called Fear & Loathing in British Wildlife and...
Hounds of Hate
I’m actually quite liking this genre of lo-fi electronic spasms. The Fuck Buttons namedrop has gotta happen somehow, (Holy Fuck? D/R/U/G/S?) usually much later, but I cannot be arsed with foreplay at the minute. Hounds of Hate is basically an attempt to “recreate exact sounds and recording techniques” of the early 90s, the generation of...
The Boxing Lesson
I must say I was swayed by The Boxing Lesson. These 3 (now 2?) folks out of Austin. Their story is this: they got their gear stolen from their apartment, which somehow by the grace of god, managed to find its way back to them with the help of the friendly guys at LAPD. By...
Gold Panda – Same Dream China
It’s late and I’m still trawling through my inbox. Found some love by Ghostly International again. Derwin aka Gold Panda‘s just released Lucky Shiner 2 weeks back. We’ve got a promo track courtesy of the label and a lovely video for the track Snow & Taxis. Watch and listen. Also, read that post I wrote...
Lapti – Circadian Rhythms (Error Broadcast)
Delving further into my foray through this 21tst century beat music phenomena, I find that Error Broadcast, has released this excellent new compilation, entitled Fly Russia. It’s a collab they’re doing with Siberian blog, Gimme5 and it’s a 17 track whopper of a compilaiton featuring the very best of Russian beatmakers. Especially close attention should...
Matthew Dear
The man behind the Ghostly label, Matthew Dear has announced the release date for Black City, the highly anticipated 4th full length output. Little People (Black City) will be the first single off the album and is scheduled for release on September 14th. Little People is a monster of a track, rolling on a cosmic...
Chandeliers
Chandeliers is a kind band, who are, summat like drinking good wine – you know it’s good wine, you appreciate the ampleness, it’s fruity and full bodied, your tongue tingles at the crisp, rich aftertaste. That’s my first impression of the band based on one song, Mango Tree. You just know these guys know their...
AEED – ERROR CODE
Hip hop but not quite. AEED is a producer based in Switzerland, and describes his music as “21st century beat music”. We hear hip hop with chopped, staggered vocals but there are also shades of ambient with his signature 8-bit style electronica. The closest other artist whom I can compare this to will probably be...
As The Stars Fall
“Track by track, picture after picture, rise As The Stars Fall. A black & white photography of a glowing light fading out in the night,throbbing melodies talking to your soul like the end of a sad story.” [As The Stars Fall - No Good Deed Goes Unpunished] [As The Stars Fall - From Another Time]...
Shigeto – What We Held On To (FREE EP)
“Shigeto’s body of work has grown over the last few years to the tune of several EPs on Moodgadget as Shigeto and with A Setting Sun, a pair of EPs under the alias Frank Omura, and remixes for Shlohmo, Worst Friends, Praveen & Benoit, Tycho, Mux Mool, Charles Trees, A Setting Sun, Beautiful Bells, and...
White Car / Loom 11
Elon Katz really freaks me out. I don’t know if its because he looks and reminds me of a twisted Patrick Bateman / Ian Curtis hybrid incarnate or the fact that his music sounds like a child being born while at the same time suffocating to death as its mother sat, with legs wide open,...
