the birthday massacre - pins and needles ad
Without too much explanation, if there's only one album you'll buy this year, let it be The Birthday Massacre's Pins and Needles.
superbus: the french birthday massacre
SUPERBUS - Lova Lova (Universal, 2009)
I wouldn’t have thought I’d cover any band in this issue on a major label but hey, talent’s always talent. To do this long: the french five-piece SUPERBUS revives the 80’s glamour pop with the lovely vocalist Jennifer Ayache. They’re cheerfully pop and so much in-your-ear they’ve won quite a few prices, amongst them the MTV EMA 2005 best French act. To cut this awfully short: they’re the French Birthday Massacre. Their latest album Lova Lova brings joyous gloom, kinky bedroom Goth, a light purple touch on everything with skillful songwriting so much I’m thinking of re-learning French. And with the neon framework video for Addictions, they’ve won me a hundred times over. (Check Apprends-Moi and denying it has a lot to do with Chibi & Co.’s work will be quite hard.) It is sin, yes. Cheesy but fulfilling.
(8/10)
Key tracks: Nelly, Keyhole, Addictions
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I first wanted to write something like Superbus is the New Birthday Massacre, but first of all, that would be pure blasphemy, secondly, Chibi and co are releasing their new album, Pins and Needles real soon (so much that they're posting short clips to social sites when they see one). And the title track Pins and Needles is just like being in love. And their tracks often make me say things like that. (Just saying, teenager boys and girls. But Superbus, that's something entirely different, a very French take on the eighties, as you can read in the review above, cheeky and a bubblegum power pop candy that has very fine garotte razors inside. It's mostly the latest album Lova Lova that'll send the purple riot grrl inside you shred with lollipop guitar joy. There, I said it.
veil veil vanish - anthem for a doomed youth official video
We already reviewed the grandeur of Veil Veil Vanish in the new issue of The Dose mag but until you'll be able to lay your hands on it, let me just say we have a new love object running around and fornicating madly in the shoegazer/goth/indie triangle. They're amazing, they're bittersweet, their debut album Change in the Neon Light is one album we'd play until our ears bleed. (Oh wait, we actually did that.) Watch this space. We have news coming up.
karina van heck: blood music
According to Gizmowatch, Karina van Heck transforms the sound of blood flowing through your veins, among other noises, into beats, that she later mixes together. Apparently this project is actually a "a criticism of the technologies that have been lately employed to view the workings of the body on the inside." Sure, we just think it's cool to be your own ipod. (via io9)
the beardyman budapest live videos
Félájultan jelentkezünk a tegnapi, meglepően családias hangulatú Papírpárbaj után, amiről még nem jött vissza minden részlet, csak az, hogy kábelestül tépek ki @dawe_ műszerfalából ezt-azt (pedig volt I Need a Miracle DNB remix), helyikávé helyett a gyárilag szopogatott savanyúcukor ízű energiaital három óra csúsztatással üt be tíz percre, a felhozatal pedig hiába irigylésre-csettintésreméltó, ha a világ egyik legjobb beatboxereként számontartott Beardyman livejára csak saccra-szemmértékre kétszázan voltunk kíváncsiak, innen is üdvözlöm az első sorból a lányt, aki hangosan kiabált Beardymannek, hogy szépvagyszeretlek szeretlekszeretlek decsúnyavagybazmegszépvagyszeretlek. Aki már látott pár Beardyman liveot, annak az alábbi videókon semmi sem lesz új, max az, hogy sötét volt és a forgófénytől be fogtok állni egy idő után, a maestro meg láthatóan nem volt a legjobb formájában és tömegénekeltetés-hergelés-színpadishow helyett elment kísérleti ambient meg dub, az utolsó pillanatokban meg jött az Omkara Techichi-féle gabbaközeli veretés (hálaistennek), de isteni volt mindazonáltal, a videókat szeretettel küldjük mindenkinek, aki nem tudta megoldani, hogy eljöjjön, utólagos köszönet goes to @_moire @dawe_ meg a Valdi, én meg most segítségül hívom John Dee énoki mágiáját és lefőzöm vele az első ristrettot vénába, szevasztok. Többi videó a more után.Read more
friday #musicmonday: francky ride - trem
Grey and black blueprint minimal techno by Francky Ride, released on Valiza Tools. Enjoy.
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pretty, reckless and opaque
Make Me Wanna Die by The Pretty Reckless. Forms a perfect mashup with Australian rainforest minimal techno project Zen Paradox's The Opaque Stillness off their album Numinosum. Update: any ambient track off Numinosum.
planck: audiosurf meets auditorium
Planck is an upcoming music-based experiment which looks to play out in a similar fashion to Audiosurf, but with different core elements. Enemies litter your path, and destroying enough of them unlocks a new instrument for the current song. The game doesn't use your own music - rather, it pieces together a specifically-created soundtrack in a Auditorium-esque manner. (shadegrowngames.com, via indiegames)
mark sherry live at qlimax 2008
1. Mark Sherry - Here Come The Drums (Jowan Remix)
2. Mark Sherry & Dr Willis & James Allan - Sectioned
Qlimax, the leading hardstyle event of this universe. And possibly of the other one as well, only with more of everything. But this will do. The Q-Dance guys still haven't announced the proper date (the venue is Gelredome in Arnhem), we're possibly in for a mayhem around the 20th of November. Anyone else care to join? Screenshots below come from the Qlimax 2008 DVD. Click more to... more.
dylan moran: the etapes of the irish genius of hate
This is Dylan Moran, Irish stand-up comedian with a vengeful boyish glee and hate. Back in 1997 when he still looked Bono, only with more sheepish hair and the kindness of a genetically tailored king viper. He is also one of the rare stand-up comedians and funny people we approve of. The second, in fact. (The first one was Dane Cook, Harmful if Swallowed-era. His humor got more American on his way to grandiosity.) Moran appears in a few movie roles (Shaun of the Dead, for one, or A Film With Me In It, here's the trailer), but you really have to go for his live DVDs (Monster, Like, Totally Live and What It Is) to get the real flavour. And for pure and sheer genius, two series: Black Books and How Do You Want Me. If you've ever tasted joyous, cackling-inducing hatred, misery and destruction, he has it all with gorgeous sarcasm and irony. We approve of this man. Go buy his stuff. Especially that he looks like Trent Reznor with a Mozart haircut.
a kiss could be deadly, and so it ends
A Kiss Could Be Deadly was an electro/punk/new wave influenced band from Huntington Beach, California. They were signed to Metropolis Records, who released their self-titled debut album in 2008. The band split up before year’s end on good terms and are now pursuing other projects. (last.fm)
subheim new album teaser trailer
The video showcases part of the recording sessions, which included steel barrels, glass, various percussion, metal surfaces, real string instruments, acoustic drums, live vocals and a wide range of techniques and field recordings, mixed together into a deep cinematic approach. (myspace, last.fm)
cyberpunkers - i needed to go (in fact, you shouldn't have been born to begin with)
The “Cyberpunkers” project is the child, born in 2006, of the passion for Cyberpunk culture of two young Italian DJ’s. The format aims at giving a fresh start to this style through four different yet connected forms of art: electronic music, fashion, design and photography. In a nutshell, a transposition of the Cyberpunk world in modern clubbing Through several performances at famous clubs, “Cyberpunkers” drew lots of interest and ended up being much taked about for both their original look, made of masks behind which their true identity is hidden, and for the originality of their shows, which are marked out by the use of two consoles at once and powered by several audio machines. (via myspace, taking Italian grandeur with a pinch of salt. You partyheads gonna love the almost French house sound, though. Sponsored by Adidas and Microsoft? Am I really seeing this?)
UPDATE 1: I remember Bruce Sterling said once how cyberpunkness (whatever it is) became a whore of a slang expression when people started talking about cyberpunk trousers and whatever that makes your corneas bleed. This is sweaty balls, wastedness and fucking in toilets. And bad shoes.
untouched, the happy hardcore remixes
It's content stop week. It means I have a desk cluttered with stimulants so much that by now it has an identity and an IP-address on its own and I am also shouting at people for coffee, aberrant sexual behaviour or a miracle to somehow mash in four more work hours into a day. Until any of you get scared enough to succumb to my charmingly devilish commands, here are two happy hardcore remixes of The Veronicas' Untouched, a healthy black cumstain of a track so trashy you feel bad for not listening to it again.
chaos theory bassline tutorial
Gargaj, head honcho of demogroup Conspiracy sent this tutorial our way. If you remember their 64k demo CHAOS THEORY (below) that also won a Honorary Mention award at the Ars Electronica Prix 2007, then I'm sure it's not just the pure perfection that drilled your head but also the killer grinding bassline. Here's how to do that - beware, that's some modular synth meddling in there! (And if I remember well, Gargaj said it was pretty much Black Sun Empire's Arrakis that was a great inspiration.)
