not only did they say my best friend's ex-boyfriend is a loooser and refuse to play at his shit clubnight SOME TRUE STUFF ABOUT SOMEONE I MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW, but they also make incredible music, and they're from Manchester.
there's yelping and drums that sound far away then really close, there's an organ and crying guitars. in a good way. it's like Abe Vigoda met Wild Beasts circa 'Limbo Panto' and had a slightly creepy child.
back in the middle of last year i came across an outfit called White Russia. harnessing the power of industrial electronic beats, combined with a special sprinkle of 'pop' and a dab of Bjork, singer Marina Elderton also adds her unique and powerful voice to the mixture to create amazing, fresh slices of experimental pop music that sound like no other.
after being lucky enough to see her in rehearsals, i know for a fact that the White Russia live show is set to be something spectacular, watch out for dates and an EP sometime later in the year.
"Skeptics argue that the paranoia behind a conspiracy theorist's obsession with mind control, population control, occultism, surveillance abuse, Big Business, Big Government, and globalization arises from a combination of two factors, when he or she: 1) holds strong individualist values and 2) lacks power.
"The first attribute refers to people who care deeply about an individual's right to make their own choices and direct their own lives without interference or obligations to a larger system (like the government). But combine this with a sense of powerlessness in one's own life, and one gets what some psychologists call "agency panic", intense anxiety about an apparent loss of autonomy to outside forces or regulators. When fervent individualists feel that they cannot exercise their independence, they experience a crisis and assume that larger forces are to blame for usurping this freedom."
I was about to hand A. back his wikiprintout but he was slumped over the Studiomaster. Or at least that was how the scene presented itself. My faculties now seem severed from reality, his voice resembles a dark alien growl, a scrambled Scooby Doo from Mars, or maybe Jupiter. How long either of us had been holed up in this darkened studio I couldn't say. I had been trying to leave for the last twenty nine minutes but can't seem to find the door. I grab the headphones and make myself comfortable amongst the Cheetos packets and piles of rental videos that remain unreturned. A fine for Robocop 2 is the least of our worries, as my ears are forcibly tuned into the arrival in my ears of a glittering pop princess, warts and all.'
even writing this at 1.20am (thank god for scheduled posting), i am literally itching for everybody to hear the incredible sounds of Disclosure.
a duo comprised of brothers from the south of London, Disclosure make music that sounds like those scenes from nights out where you're not sure where you are, someone's just yelled it's 5am, there's sweat dripping from the ceiling, there's music sending a vibrating pulse shuddering around a crammed room, you close your eyes and are transported into your mind's own wonderland.
filled with heavy basslines, electronic samples and beats that you can't not dance to, Disclosure fit easily along side the likes of (the amaaaaaazing) Joy Orbison, Darkstar and other incredible talents in "emotional electronic music".
if i'm honest, i don't tend to read many of the PR emails i get regarding this blog. that is because a) they're usually not what i want to read (who cares if P!nk got Grammy nominated??) and b) most of the time, the music recommended to me is shite. yes, shite. utterly shite. (i do however read - and occasionally respond to - 'fan mail'. plus, i'm single if you were wondering..)
anyway i did actually read the email these guys sent me. lucky since they're awesome.
King Antics are playing that whole 'mysterious' card but that doesn't matter because they make the kind of noise i adore. self describing their music as "powerful, elegant wave". they like Bowie (happy birthday), Bjork and Wire. in their first set of demos you can hear moments of genius waiting to be thawed out from beneath the industrialised synths. catch them live to find out more.
after following a link from his Twitter, i downloaded the new MillionYoung single (all legal and above board, keep your hair on).
to brand MillionYoung, aka Michael Diaz, as "another chill-wave artist" is to completely underwrite and underestimate his talent for creating beautiful sounding experimental electronic music. if you haven't already got the Sunndreamm EP then you really should sort yourself out with a copy, especially since it's free to download. the new single sounds dreamy, a musical version of picturesque (auralesque?), and taps into a hidden lucidity in my head usually reserved for daydreaming. amazing basically.
Sissy And The Blisters met at the beginning of December (yes, just over one month ago) in a "really rubbish club in Guilford" and began writing and recording together after discovering a shared passion for old garage rock. interested in combining "the aesthetics of old/lofi music" with "modern productions that have been popular for the past few years", they are aiming to create something subtle, music that blows your ears away without you even realising. for me, they are already succeeding. with flashes of Iggy, sprinkles of The Cravats and a whole bundle of potential, these guys are pretty exciting.
for the past six week i've had this track on repeat.
Aiva The Great is one Ariel Van Alstyne from the US of A. she's adorable, quirky in a totally unannoying way, and possesses the ability to create slick sounding pop. her tracks sound incredibly fresh, modern and best of all, unique. there is something very special about this girl, very special indeed.
sometimes it is actually wise to listen to your friends when they talk to you about music. you might think "nah nah i know absolutely everything about everything music related, i even know who is going to be big in 2057 and whether Ladyman Gaga is a man or a woman or both". but like a beautiful bat out of hell, a friend's recommendation can lead you to a discovery so good you contemplate killing said friend just so you can have it all to yourself.
a week ago or whatever, my pal George tweeted about this fella going under the moniker Constrobuz. his myspace says nothing more than "ok i just make beats i hope you like them" and beats he makes indeed. prolific in that he has roughly 100 demos available to download from his page, Constrobuz began experimenting after being largely influenced by 9th Wonder. he says "i loved the way he [9th Wonder] chopped soul samples and when i heard he used fl studio (software that a lot of people thought/still might think is amateurish) i was like 'hmmm i should try this production shit'."
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