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Date for your diary: Perfume Genius in London

2010-06-02T22:34:00.003+01:00

The wonderful Perfume Genius is coming to London town. Finally. He'll be performing tracks from his debut album 'Learning', which is out on June 21st. Seek it out.

Perfume Genius
Tuesday 13th July
Hoxton Hall
London
Book your tickets here

Read our interview with Perfume Genius from earlier this year.

Video: HOLLAGRAMZ - 4:44 (Space Place RFX)

2010-06-02T22:24:00.003+01:00

Hollagramz - 4:44 Space Place Refix from Sterling Crispin on Vimeo.

HOLLAGRAMZ is from Denver. He makes my head explode. In the very best of ways. This is his new video.

Read our interview with him + download his awesome demo mix here.

Demo mix tracklisting:
1. Obergon
2. Tromperz Cycle
3. Time Prompt
4. HEALTH- In Violet (HOLLAGRAMZ RMX)
5. 4:44 (Space Place RFX)
6. Romperz

Rebolledo, Jackmaster and Capracara tonight

2010-05-30T14:30:00.003+01:00

Not decided what you're doing tonight? This looks bloody good. Comeme man Rebolledo, Jackmaster and Capracara in the house.

READ OUR FEATURE ON COMEME
DOWNLOAD DUMMY MIX 29 // JACKMASTER

Huntleys & Palmers Audio Club presents a Bumbumbox especial

REBOLLEDO (Cómeme / Kompakt)
CAPRACARA (DFA / Soul Jazz)
JACKMASTER (Numbers)
Andrew (H&P)

Sunday May 30th

The Book Club
100 Leonard Street
London
EC2A 4RH

9pm -late / £7

Becoming Real – Jen's Clock video

2010-05-24T10:51:00.001+01:00

Ghostly dubstep, very good.

Jen's Clock by Becoming Real from thrills thrills on Vimeo.

Small Black, Tanlines & Javelin in town

2010-05-19T20:12:00.004+01:00

On Tuesday 25th May, three very excellent bands will play together at the same gig. That's Tanlines, Small Black and Javelin. Count 'em. Pretty great, huh?

It's another ace line up from Bird On The Wire. Tickets are £7 in advance. See the full details here.

READ OUR SMALL BLACK REVIEW
READ OUR INTERVIEW WITH JAVELIN

Hi, Honey presents MASKS, Foe & Is Tropical DJs in Brighton this Thursday

2010-05-10T23:47:00.005+01:00

Hi, Honey presents.. @ Pav Tav from Hi, Honey on Vimeo.

MASKS are really very good. They're playing a couple of dates at The Great Escape this weekend in Brighton, including this one. Mikael Gregorsky who does a lot of Dummy's photography (check his website) made this rather lovely video flyer for it.

Full details here.

READ AN INTERVIEW WITH MASKS FROM EARLIER THIS YEAR.

Set times for our first birthday party

2010-04-30T16:22:00.001+01:00

At the Macbeth in Hoxton.

Dummy 8 - 9
dollop 9 - 10
Fnord 10 - 11
Egyptian Hip Hop 11 - 11:30
dollop 11:30 - 12
Hudson Mohawke 12 - 1
Stopmakingme 1 - 2

Armand Van Helden @ The Coronet

2010-04-24T18:51:00.002+01:00

This will be a good night. Armand Van Helden ruled UK nightlife in the late 90s. Course he hangs out with Dizzee and A-Trak these days, still making good music. Here's hoping he plays Flowerz for old time's sake though.

Armand Van Helden, Herve, Joe & Will Ask?
The Coronet, Elephant & Castle
Sunday 2 May

More details here

MIA – Born Free

2010-04-23T16:59:00.001+01:00

Hooray!

M.I.A. - Born FreebyTheProphetBlog

Nothing on this Ghostrider-sampling track, but it's doing the rounds, she's amazing, and we thought you'd be interested.

James Blake releases CMYK on R&S

2010-04-22T12:14:00.002+01:00

James' early stuff on Hemlock/Hessle was fantastic, so it's with great pleasure I announce that his debut for R&S will be released on the 31st May. We can't play any tracks form it but it sees him translating his minimal dubstep into the most beautiful, future ready pop music I've heard in so, so long. Circle the date.

LCD Soundsystem stream album

2010-04-14T17:24:00.001+01:00

You may already know that you can hear your favourite record of the year at their website. You may not. Worth a listen.

Mount Kimbie + FaultyDL song to download, for free.

2010-04-12T11:45:00.005+01:00

If I were the editor of the Sun (I'm not) I'd make Mount Kimbie lead story because

a) They are one of the most genuinely thrilling bands in the UK, adding post-rock, and provincial yearning and (whisper it) melodies the Housemartins would be proud of to the dubstep template.

b) It would give me a chance to use the headline "Peak Time!"

READ A CATCH-UP WITH THEM ABOUT THEIR ALBUM, HERE.

Mock N Toof video

2010-04-09T14:26:00.001+01:00

Mock And Toof- Farewell To Wendo from Darling Department on Vimeo.

Good that.

Have a nice weekend!

Malcolm Mclaren on hip hop in 1984.

2010-04-09T13:26:00.002+01:00

'Beat This! A Hip Hop History' tells the story of early hip hop, something that Malcolm Mclaren makes sound ineffably exciting, as he seemed to make everything – even boredom – sound. It's a greyer world without him, and our thoughts are with his family.

Ariel Pink announce album

2010-04-06T14:54:00.003+01:00

'Before Today' will be released by 4AD on the 8th June. It was recorded at Tito Jackson's old house, the House Of Blues, with Sunny Levine (Quincy Jones' grandson) and Rik Pekkonen (Bill Withers, Seals & Crofts, Bread). Artwork above, designed by Douglas Lee.

Preorder it immediately and buy tickets for their Cargo show. Download Round and Round here while you do that, yes?

Ariel Pink - Helen [Haunted Graffiti] from pearface on Vimeo.

Nice Monarchy video

2010-04-06T10:56:00.003+01:00

Monarchy - Phoenix Alive from dandelion & burdock on Vimeo.

Good that.

Released via This Is London May 4th

Bugged Out tent at Field Day line-up announcement

2010-04-01T14:34:00.004+01:00

Playing the Bugged Out! tent at Field Day (Victoria Park, 31.07.10), of which Dummy is proud media partner, will be

LIVE

Moderat
Chilly Gonzales
Memory Tapes
The Golden Filter
Tensnake

DJs

Simian Mobile Disco
James Holden
Fake Blood
Carte Blanche – DJ Mehdi & Riton
Joker & MC Nomad
Rory Phillips

YES

Last year was terrific. Imagine what this year will be.

Buy a ticket now

Mount Kimbie, Darkstar, A Grave With No Name + more at Fabric, 1st April

2010-04-01T00:39:00.003+01:00

With a line-up like that, you don't need pretty pictures on your flyer. Just a big list. Yeah. Pretty frickin' good.

More details here.

LCD Soundsystem artwork

2010-03-30T17:49:00.002+01:00

This is what LCD Soundsystem new (last?) album will look like. The font reminds me slightly of mid-nineties Warp artwork.

James Holden delivers new DJ Kicks

2010-03-30T17:40:00.002+01:00

James Holden, Border Community main guy and excellent Techno producer, has mixed the latest DJ Kicks. The Juan Maclean's one will be out on the 26th April, Holden's is out on the 24th May. Tracklisting below.

1) Piano Magic - Wintersport / Cross-Country
2) Grackle - Disco (Musiccargo Remix)
3) Mordant Music - Olde Wobbly
4) Maserati - No More Sages
5) Caribou - Lemon Yoghourt
6) Luke Abbott - Soft Attacks
7) Mogwai - The Sun Smells Too Loud (Holden Remix)
8) Kieran Hebden / Steve Reid - Departure
9) Ursula Bogner - Punkte
10) Eric Copeland - Auto Dimmer
11) Mit - Rauch (Luke Abbott Remix)
12) ARP - Potentialities
13) Lucky Dragons - Open Melody
14) Holden - Triangle Folds (DJ-KiCKS)
15) James Ruskin - Definition Of
16) Legowelt - Flight of the Jupiter
17) Walls - Gaberdine
18) Lukas Nystrand - Never Fail (Vocal)
19) Didier Paquette - Arwen, Namarie
20) SS Pyramid Snake - Catacomb City

Holy Fuck tour dates announced

2010-03-25T15:40:00.002Z

Holy Fuck, smashing Canadian electro-acoustic improv troupe, are to tour the UK in May. They shall call at:

18 May Deaf Institute, Manchester
19 May King Tut's, Glasgow
20 May Sound City Festival, Static Gallery, Liverpool
21 May Digital, Brighton
22 May O2 Academy 2, Oxford
23 May The Cooler, Bristol
24 May Heaven, London

Their next album 'Latin' will be released on the 10 of May on Young Turks.

READ AN INTERVIEW WITH HOLY FUCK FROM LAST YEAR HERE

Optimo make 52nd Fabric mix

2010-03-25T12:33:00.002Z

Heroes Optimo (JD Twitch and Jonnie Wilkes) have put together Fabric 52 CD; it's out the 10th May. It looks amazing, of course – every time they put together a CD it makes it into the list of best mixes of all time, ever – get hold of 'Sleepwalk', 'In Order To Edit' and 'Walkabout' for proof. JD and Jonnie have been running the inspirational Sunday night Optimo (Espacio) at the Sub Club in Glasgow, a residency that comes to an end on the 25th April. Expect more coverage and misty eyed reminisces in coming weeks, but for now gaze at the tracklisting below:

01 Fad Gadget - Lady Shave - Mute
02 Discodromo - Cosmorama (Prins Thomas Discomiks) - Internasjonal
03 Basic Channel - Q1.1 - Basic Channel
04 Spencer Parker - YOGOTO - Rekids
05 Locussolus - Gunship - International Feel
06 Rebolledo - Amigos Cómeme - Cómeme
07 The Minister - Jack Your Bodey House Your Mind - Crème Organization
08 Altz - Get It Down! - Altzmusica
09 Thomas Brinkmann - Walk With Me - Curle
10 Rheingold - Dreiklangsdimensionen - Welt Rekord
11 Capablanca & T Keeler - La Konk Fiesta - Gomma
12 Roska - Feeline - Roska Kicks & Snares
13 Cumbia Moderna De Soledad - Shacalao - Sunflower
14 The Tyrell Corporation - Together Alone - Clone
15 Roni Griffith - Spys - Vanguard
16 Levon Vincent - Love Technique - Ovum
17 Oni Ayhun - OAR003-B - Oni Ayhun
18 Desire - Don't Call - Italians Do It Better
19 Crazy Cousinz - Inflation - Defenders Ent Ltd
20 Matias Aguayo - Walter Neff - Kompakt
21 Nakion - Heartbit - Tigersushi
22 Xex - Heartbeat - What's That Music

Very exciting.

READ JOHNNO'S REVIEW OF 'IN ORDER TO EDIT' HERE

Charlotte Gainsbourg announces first UK shows

2010-03-25T11:14:00.003Z

Superlative French singer Charlotte Gainsbourg is playing in the UK on the 22 June, at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire. A 12" is out the month before featuring remixes, interestingly, from XXXchange and Matthew Dear.

12″ tracklisting:
01 Time Of The Assassins [Matthew Dear remix]
02 Time Of The Assassins [XXXChange remix]
03 Time Of The Assassins [Outlines remix]
04 Time Of The Assassins [GD's remix]

[via Wears the Trousers]

Off Modern Journal launch tonight

2010-03-25T11:02:00.003Z

Off Modern, excellent South London promoters, curators and writers are launching a journal tonight at the ICA, alongside the ICA's luanch of their quarterly journal, Institute. There are 40 free ones for the first through the door, and DJs Ronojoy Dam, Nasty McQuaid and more. It's a beautiful thing.

Free from 7pm, ICA, the Mall, London.

READ FELIX FROM O/M'S PIECE ON LUCKY DRAGONS HERE

Eglo releases vinyl copies of Fatima's 'Mindtravelin' EP

2010-03-22T12:41:00.005Z

Eglo, the London-based label set up by Alex Nuts (Rinse RM) and Sam Shepherd (Floating Points), brings us Fatima's new EP 'Mindtravelin' on vinyl.

The EP's four tracks, featuring production from Funkineven, Dam Funk and Veebeeo, have already received plaudits from the likes of Kode 9, Sinden, D Bridge and Gilles Peterson.

Watch the video for her first ever release Soul Glo here - Directed by The Boy King.

Eglo took over Plastic People last year (read the review here)
We also interviewed Floating Points (Read that too)

MP3: Egyptian Hip Hop X Radiant Dragon

2010-03-18T12:12:00.003Z

Egyptian Hip Hop and Radiant Dragon are doing a remix swap. Here's Radiant Dragon's reworking of EHH's 'Wild Human Child' (DOWNLOAD IT HERE). It's lovely.

Listen out for Egyptian Hip Hop's remix of Radiant Dragon 'Ghosts' soon-ish.

Related reading on Dummy:

Radiant Dragon's gig diary
Egyptian Hip Hop interview
Dummy 1st birthday party with Hudson Mohawke, Egyptian Hip Hop & Stopmakingme

Video: Hudson Mohawke 'Joy Fantastic'

2010-03-17T12:51:00.002Z

This video is what I imagine lifting the lid on HudMo's brain is like: a magical fantasy island adventure. Directed, produced and animated by Konx-Om-Pax, it stars Olivier Daysoul who'll be accompanying Hudson on his live tour this April. Including the only London date: our Dummy birthday party on Friday April 30th.

Needless to say we are very excited.

More details on our party with Hudson Mowhawke, Egyptian Hip Hop and Stopmakingme here.

Hudson Mohawke ‘Pegasus Rising’ tour April live dates:

Thursday, 22 April / Inertia / World Headquarters / Newcastle-Upon-Tyne / Tickets
Friday, 23 April / Dollop & No Bones/ A Nation of Shopkeepers/ Leeds / Tickets
Tuesday, 27 April / FAC251 / The Factory/ Manchester / Tickets
Thursday, 29 April / Monkey Knife/ The Thekla / Bristol / Tickets
Friday, 30 April / Dummy 1st Birthday party/ The Macbeth/ London / Tickets
Saturday 1 May / The Plug/ Sheffield / Tickets
Sunday, 2 May / Detonate indoor festival/ Nottingham / Tickets

First stream of Flying Lotus new album track

2010-03-16T00:09:00.008Z

Flying Lotus' third album 'Cosmogramma' is out 3 May. The first track to be streamed off it - Computer Face//Pure Being - can be heard over at Warp.net.

It's incredibly melodic but at the same time slightly disorientating. You'll love it.

Listen here

LCD Soundsystem album details announced

2010-03-04T15:13:00.001Z

The as yet untitled album will be out May 17.

Tracklisting:

Dance Yrself Clean
Drunk Girls *
One Touch
All I Want
Change *
Hit *
Pow Pow
Somebody’s Calling Me *
What You Need

Real Gold open bar

2010-03-02T11:54:00.002Z

Real Gold, utopian London collective, have opened a hangout in Dalston.

It's called the Alibi, it's at 91 Kingsland Road. It serves till the wee small ones and is really nice inside. Line-up details to follow.

Their website.

Hudson Mohawke, Egyptian Hip Hop, Stopmakingme play our party

2010-02-25T13:21:00.004Z

As announced on yesterday's mailout, Hudson Mohawke, superlative hip hop producer, has put together a live band, and we're having him play our first birthday party, along with excellent rock band Egyptian Hip Hop and smashing DJ Stopmakingme.

We're predictably massive fans of Hudson, whose elasticated, Technicolor productions upended both conventional hip hop and monochrome electronica, so we jumped at the chance to present his first London headline date as a live artist. We fell in love with Egyptian Hip Hop's melodic jams last Summer, so when we heard them say they were massive Hudson fans, we asked them to play, and they said yes. Dan Avery / Stopmakingme made our very first mix back in March '09 and has since taken on writing duties, on top of promoting Kill 'Em All and a steady stream of excellent remixes. We're really chuffed that he's coming down and playing his ever-excellent set of forward-thing but fun-time club music.

We're having it at the Macbeth on the 30th April, tickets are only £7. Don't want to sound cocky, but it's probably worth booking ahead for this one. Gigantic link is here

READ OUR HUDSON MOHAWKE INTERVIEW HERE

READ OUR REVIEW OF 'BUTTER' HERE

READ OUR EGYPTIAN HIP HOP INTERVIEW HERE

LISTEN TO OUR STOPMAKINGME MIX HERE

READ DAN'S RORY PHILIPS INTERVIEW HERE

Hot Chip, Zomby, Joy Orbison etc join Sonar line-up

2010-02-25T13:09:00.002Z

Sonar have announced more people.

Joining headliners Air, LCD Soundsystem and the Chemical Brothers will be Dummy favourites Hot Chip, Joy Orbison, Aeroplane, BFletcha, Flying Lotus, Fuck Buttons, Hudson Mohawke, John Talabot and Zomby.

This is the full list so far –

• Aeroplane (Eskimo,BE)
• Air (Virgin,FR)
• American Men (LuckyMe,UK)
• BCN 216 + Tristan Perich (ES-US)
• BCN216 + Cristian Vogel (ES-UK)
• Bflecha (Arkestra,ES)
• Bomba Estéreo (Nacional Records,CO)
• Booka Shade (Get Physical,DE)
• Bradien (spa.RK,ES)
• Broadcast (Warp,UK)
• bRUNA (spa.RK,ES)
• Carte Blanche (DJ Mehdi & Riton) (Ed Banger,FR-UK)
• Cluster (Klangbad,AT-DE)
• Cora Novoa (Natura Sonoris,ES)
• David M (BreakThatBeat,ES)
• Delorean (Fool House,ES)
• Dizzee Rascal (Dirtee Stank,UK)
• dp-S (BigBeak,AT)
• Eclair Fifi & John Computer (LuckyMe,UK)
• Elektro Guzzi (Macro,AT)
• Emilio José (Foehn,ES)
• Flying Lotus (Warp,US)
• Fuck Buttons (ATP Recordings,UK)
• Goldielocks (Puregroove,UK)
• Hot Chip (Parlophone,UK)
• Hudson Mohawke (Warp-LuckyMe,UK)
• Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu (Strut,FI)
• John Talabot (Permanent Vacation,ES)
• Jónsi (XL,IS)
• Joy Orbison (Doldrums,UK)
• King Midas Sound (Hyperdub,UK)
• Larytta (Creaked Records,CH)
• LCD Soundsystem (DFA Records,US)
• Lesley Flanigan (US)
• Machinedrum (LuckyMe,US)
• Mary Anne Hobbs (UK)
• Matthew Herbert’s One Club (Accidental,UK)
• Mike Slott (LuckyMe,UK)
• Necro Deathmort (Distraction,UK)
• Noaipre (ES)
• Nosaj Thing Visual Show (Alpha Pup,US)
• Pete Tong (BBC Radio1,UK)
• Phill Niblock + Carlos Casas (US-ES)
• Plastikman live (Minus,CA)
• Pursuit Grooves (What Rules Records,US)
• Robot Koch (Robots Don’t Sleep,DE)
• Roska (Roska Kicks & Snares,UK)
• Round Table Knights (Deadfish-Made To Play,CH)
• Sandwell District (Sandwell District,UK)
• Speech Debelle (Big Dada,UK)
• The Blessings (LuckyMe,UK)
• The Chemical Brothers (Virgin,UK)
• The Pinker Tones (Pinkerland,ES)
• The Slew featuring Kid Koala (Puget Sound Recordings,US)
• The Sugarhill Gang (Sugar Hill,US)
• Tim and Puma Mimi (Stattmusik,CH-JP)
• Tristan Perich’s Loud Objects (US)
• Zigmat (Ultra Records-Actua Musica,US)
• Zomby (Zomby Productions,UK)

[via FACT]

Liars – Scissor video

2010-02-23T15:51:00.001Z

Early contender for video of the year.

Liars "Scissor" from A Bruntel on Vimeo.

Keep your eyes open for more Liars gushing as time goes by.

Warpaint announce UK dates

2010-02-22T13:10:00.002Z

Warpaint, superbly named ex-Manimal LA intricate world-dance weirdos, have signed with Rough Trade and are coming over to the UK in May. Their dates are as follows.

May 12th – London, Luminaire
May 13th – Tunbridge Wells, Forum
May 14th – Brighton, Levi’s One To Watch @ Audio

READ THE REVIEW OF THEIR DEBUT EP, 'EXQUISITE CORPSE', HERE

Video: Hounds Of Hate 'I Like Triangles'

2010-02-20T16:24:00.003Z

We're big fans of Hounds Of Hate at Dummy. This video for their new single by the utterly brilliant Jayne Helliwell is really hitting the spot today. I just keep pressing 'Replay'. I Like Triangles comes out on Back Yard soon.

READ OUR HOUNDS OF HATE INTERVIEW

Silver Columns first official single

2010-02-17T12:47:00.002Z

Silver Columns, anonymous synth pop duo, are going to release their first official single (Browbeaten and Yes, And Dance were whites) on Moshi Moshi on April 19th, The album will be called 'Yes, And Dance', more details soon.

READ OUR INTERVIEW WITH THEM HERE

Gold Panda announces next single, headline tour, tentative album details

2010-02-16T13:32:00.002Z

Gold Panda, excellent electronic pop artist, is releasing his next 7", 'You', on his own label, Notown, and will be touring in the UK April, both as the headline act (supported by Dam Mantle) and in support of Caribou. Despite his claims on Twitter, he is terrific live, and an album is slated for the summer. Dates below Quitter's Raga, yeah?

March
5th JP Osaka - Onzieme with Simian Mobile Disco
6th JP Tokyo - Warehouse 702 with Simian Mobile Disco
12nd JP Tokyo - Liquid/Loft for Club Snoozer
13th JP Naeba - Heal Niigata Festival
20th JP Osaka - Club Karma
21th JP Tokyo - Womb

April
13 UK Sheffield Bungalows & Bears
14 UK Glasgow Stereo GIG
16 UK Nottingham Spanky Van Dykes
17 UK Bristol Start The Bus
19 UK Manchester - Deaf Institute
20 UK London - Corsica Studios
21 NL Amsterdam - Paradiso w/ Caribou
22 BE Brussels - Botanique @ Rotonde w/ Caribou
23 FR Paris - Point Ephemere w/ Caribou
24 CH Lausanne - Le Romandie w/ Caribou
25 CH St Gallen - Palace
26 IT Milan - Magnolia w/ Caribou
27 DE Munich - Feierwerk w/ Caribou
28 DE Berlin - Berghain w/ Caribou
29 DE Hamburg - Prinzenbar w/ Caribou

Friendly Fires/Holy Ghost update

2010-02-11T22:54:00.002Z

Back in December Friendly Fires told us they'd hooked up with Holy Ghost to do a cover swap. (Read the interview.) And now they have. Hurrah! You can listen to the discolicious results on Pinglewood's ever-excellent site. Apparently the 12"s will be available soon.

Video: Syntaks 'Blue Sunshine'

2010-02-11T12:53:00.002Z

This new video from Denmark's Syntaks stars Jakob Skott's partner and collaborator Anna Cecilia. Kinda 60s psychedelic in feel (not sound), it's sighingly lovely. A song for lovers.

Every Plan B Magazine, ever

2010-02-10T12:51:00.002Z

Plan B, the sorely-missed best paper magazine of the decade, have made every page printed available for download. Get the torrent from the Plan B website.

Phoenix, Joker, Caribour and Pantha Du Prince part of first Field Day line-up

2010-02-09T14:40:00.004Z

Field Day, superlative Victoria Park Festival, have let their first artists' names out to the public. Playing on the Saturday 31st July in Victoria Park will be

Phoenix
Amiina
Beth Jeans Houghton
Caribou
Chilly Gonzales
Corsano and Flowers
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
James Holden
Joker and MC Nomad
Max Tundra
Memory Tapes
Mouse On Mars
Pantha Du Prince
Silver Apples

Buy tickets through their website.

Chemical Brothers announce Sonar slot and Roundhouse dates

2010-02-08T11:07:00.002Z

The Chemical Brothers, dance music heroes, will be joining Air and LCD Soundsystem as Sonar headliners, as we reported here. They're one of our favourite dance acts (I believe Johnno and Paul have backed them since the Jockey Slut days), and though they seem to have dropped slightly of the radar in the last few years, the Sonar Saturday show should be seen as a coronation. They also put on a smashing live show.

MAY
20th Roundhouse, London
21st Roundhouse, London

JUNE
19th Sonar Festival, Barcelona

James Murphy DJ gig announced

2010-02-05T17:47:00.002Z

You know that James Murphy?

He's playing East Village in a few weeks.

Probably worth booking tickets.

Flying Lotus album details posted

2010-02-04T23:28:00.004Z

Just pulled this off the wire – psychedelic instrumental-hip hop star Flying Lotus' new album, 'Cosmogramma', is out on the 3 May and features Thom Yorke from Radiohead on vocals on a track called "...And the World Laughs With You". Tracklisting under the terrific artwork.

01 Clock Catcher
02 Pickled!
03 Nose Art
04 Intro//A Cosmic Drama
05 Zodiac Shit
06 Computer Face//Pure Being
07 ...And the World Laughs With You [ft. Thom Yorke]
08 Arkestry
09 Mmmhmm [ft.Thundercat]
10 Do the Astral Plane
11 Satelllliiiiiteee
12 German Haircut
13 Recoiled
14 Dance Of the Pseudo Nymph
15 Drips//Auntie's Harp
16 Table Tennis [ft. Laura Darlington]
17 Galaxy in Janaki

Autoitalia screen Rock My Religion

2010-02-03T10:48:00.004Z

Autoitalia, super-interesting South London art collective, are screening Dan Graham's 1983 film Rock My Religion at their premises. It's about Rock n Roll and sex and 19th century millenarist sects, and features interviews with Glenn Branca and Thurston Moore, I'm buying popcorn already. 4.30 at their premises on Sunday. So go go to their link.

Excerpt from the PR:

In Rock My Religion, Graham traces the history of popular music in America back to the 1950s, linking it with a 19th century Puritan sect, The Shakers. The bodies of the Puritan Shakers, reaching ecstasy in order to ‘overcome’ sexuality and to be closer to God, are juxtaposed with the shaking bodies of America’s pubescent teenagers, escaping their suburban prisons by immersing themselves in the sexually charged adoration of their pop idols – from Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis to Jimmy Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

Smashing Kingdom mix

2010-02-01T11:00:00.002Z

Follow this link to Fools Gold / Acephale Diva House DJ Kingdom's soundcloud, as it's rather smashing. He's playing the once more on-point Fabric on Friday. Expect more on him on the site soon.

Southbank's festival looks like a blinder

2010-01-28T13:38:00.004Z

Dingy clubs will always have a place in my heart but there's something very special about gigs in grand halls. The sense of space, the architecture, the ceremony, the acoustics!

So it's very exciting to see the line-up that the Southbank Centre have put together for this year's Ether festival. Check it out below and find out more on the Southbank's website.

ETHER 2010
FRIDAY 16 – SUNDAY 25 April 2010

· STEREO MCs vs THE BAYS + THE HERBALISER (16 April)
· VARÈSE 360° (16-18 April)
· GLASS, GÓRECKI & TURNAGE (17 April)
· LOU REED’S METAL MACHINE TRIO (19 April)
· GIL SCOTT-HERON + SPEECH DEBELLE (20 April)
· BROADCAST + MICACHU AND THE SHAPES & OLIVER COATES (21 April)
· HEALTH & CHROME HOOF (22 April)
· CHRIS CUNNINGHAM LIVE + BEAK > (23 April)
· WILL DUTTA & PLAID, MAX DE WARDENER, JOHN RICHARDS (24 April)

Southbank Centre Ticket Office: 0871 663 2500

James Murphy "vlogs" on vimeo

2010-01-25T17:23:00.003Z

James Murphy, inventor of the last decade, has made a video of the recording of the third, possibly final LCD Soundsystem record, out in March. "I like to be out of control and free ...I like to work out parameters and do whatever the fuck I want."

clip 1 from lcd soundsystem on Vimeo.

[via Stereogum]

New band of the whenever – Spirit Spine

2010-01-25T17:13:00.002Z

Spirit Spine is a 19-year-old American that makes expansive music on Garage Band. The single Crashers (Highs And Lows) is released 15th Feb 2010 on MAKE MINE, worth tracking down and keeping an eye on.

Ikonika album announced

2010-01-20T12:47:00.002Z

Just picked this up from Kode9's twitter – HDBCD004 IKONIKA - CONTACT, LOVE, WANT, HAVE - Release date - April 6th 2010, which we're taking to mean that Ikonika, heartstoppingly good dubstep producer, has an album called 'Contact, Love, Want, Have', and it will be on Hyperdub and relesed on the 6th of April 2010. Please above, more news and gushing when we get it.

These New Puritans on tour with the xx

2010-01-19T11:06:00.003Z

These New Puritans, amusingly austere (and throughly excellent) dubstep band, have been announced as the support for the xx, sexy and sad UK garage band, on their UK tour. Below are the dates, above the battle begins.

These New Puritans were interviewed HERE; the xx HERE

Thu 11 Feb - LILLE GRAND MIX
Fri 12 Feb - ANGOULEME, LA NEF
Sat 13 Feb - NANTES - OLYMPIC
Sun 14 Feb - TOULON/MIDI FEST
Tue 16 Feb - AMSTERDAM/PARADISO
Wed 17 Feb - BRUSSELS/BOTANIQUE
Thu 18 Feb - PARIS/LA CIGALLE
Sun 21 Feb - STRASBOURG - LAITERIE
Tue 23 Feb - ITALY/ROME
Wed 24 Feb - ITALY/MILAN
Thu 25 Feb - MUNICH/BACKSTAGE WERK
Fri 26 Feb - COLOGNE ESSIKFABRIK
Mon 01 Mar - BRIGHTON /KOMEDIA
Tue 02 Mar - LONDON SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE
Wed 03 Mar - LONDON SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE
Fri 05 Mar - BIRMINGHAM ACADEMY 2
Sat 06 Mar - MANCHESTER ACADEMY 2
Mon 08 Mar - LEEDS STYLUS
Tue 09 Mar - EDINBURGH STUDIO 24
Wed 10 Mar - LIVERPOOL KAZIMER

Video: Gil Scott Heron – Me And The Devil

2010-01-17T16:57:00.002Z

In which skaters wear face paint and drunks shadow box and the King returns.

Autechre announce new album

2010-01-13T12:42:00.003Z

Heroically stern electronica duo Autechre are releasing their new album, Oversteps, on Warp on the 22nd March. Paul Morley wrote a heroically pained "blog" about them, pasted below their forthcoming live dates.

Mar.11 Manchester @ Pure - Ticketline.co.uk / www.boomkat.com

Mar.12 Birmingham @ The Rainbow - www.theticketsellers.co.uk

Mar.13 Minehead @ Bloc Weekender - www.blocweekend.com

Mar.15 Nottingham @ Stealth - www.stealthattack.co.uk

Mar.16 Glasgow @ Sub Club - http://bit.ly/6Wdx36

Mar.17 Leeds @ The Wardrobe – www.wegottickets.com

Mar.18 Brighton @ Pavillion Theatre - www.brightondome.org

Mar.19 Lille @ Tri Postal

Mar.20 Paris @ Locomotive

Mar.21 Nantes @ Olympic - www.olympic.asso.fr

Mar.28 Ljibulana @ Kino Siska - http://www.kinosiska.si

Mar.29 Budapest @ A38 - www.a38.hu

Mar.30 Vienna @ Flex - www.flex.at

Mar.31 Brno @ Fleda - www.fleda.cz

Apr.02 Copenhagen @ Concerthall - www.dr.dk/Koncerthuset

Apr.03 Oslo @ Park Teatre - www.billettservice.no

Apr.04 Gothberg @ Nefertiti - www.nefertiti.se

Apr.05 Aarhus @ Voxhall - www.voxhall.dk

Apr.06 Hamburg @ Uebel & Gefährlich - www.uebelundgefaehrlich.com

Apr.07 Amsterdam @ Melkweg - www.melkweg.nl

Apr.09 Brussels @ AB (Domino Fest) - www.abconcerts.be

Apr.10 London - venue & tickets announced Feb 1st - www.warp.net

What do Autechre mean ? What are they ? There are many questions to ask about the group . . . who they are, where they come from, how they (re)produce/manipulate/exhibit their sliced split folded selected fused mingled occult wordless music, what they are looking for when it comes to imagining and hearing/hallucinating/capturing sound, are they intent on replacing space with rhythm or rhythm with space or is rhythm and space all the same to them, how many pieces of music they have created, do all their musical pieces connect to each other, or should they be kept apart. What is the sense of it all?

Wh? aRe th(e)ir ti.tles s o crypt-ic andOR incomplete oRand a little tonginchikk-the driest sense of humour o/r a private game celebrating the necessarily vague and open-ended/a hygienic emptying of connections/typographical errirs3/spell check resisisting. Or the often unprecedented combinations of vowels and consonants, and punctuation marks, gaps and numbers, which can seem like anagrams, or jokey, convenient, short cut abbreviations, or a taunting secret code, or splinters of unknown sentences, reflect the volatile, enigmatic weight, the unknown sources, the perforated otherness of their music.

I like that what Autechre mean, to themselves or to their listeners, is not an easy thing to find out, and that even though there are plain answers to some of the questions about the group . . .

1.Sean Booth (audio engineering and electronics school) and Rob Brown (art school/architecture) ; then again, their could be many, invisible and scattered, and part of the fascination of listening to Autechre, of savouring their enlightened ways with beat and pressure, force and precision, breath and void, solid and liquid, mass and light, is working out the relationship between the two, and then between the two individually and collectively and the group they belong to, the group (with a mind of its own ) they have invented using brain, persistence and machine. Autechre is the changing, challenging result of the “brutally co-operative” relationship between Booth and Brown and their own views of what being Autechre enables them to do as they continue to extend the idea of what Autechre actually is, as a spiralling combination of the two of them and the group itself. This means there are, in a way, three individuals, or units, Booth, Brown, Autechre, and from there, once the technology, the machines, the data, their shared history, the common conditions, the drive, the complicated associations have been factored in, the three become one thing, a single mindbody operating through particular actions, a solemn unyielding mechanical assembly device fully under conscious control.

2. Mental dance: if it is music to dance to, and there has always been shattered, shifting, ruptured hints of a supple, repetitive, compulsive instrumental music explicitly made for clubs and dancing, a toiling, receding ghostly-melancholy electro/thread, then ultimately it is danced to inside your head, where there is potentially something the size of the universe, and no limit to the movement, and motion, and dark agile stillness.

3. A great name, pronounced however you want to pronounce it, within reason, and made up, possibly, of automatic, technical, replicated, or audio technology research, or author technique resonant, or a random of bashing of letters whilst working using an Atari on a track featuring a defined “au” sound.

4. a. The sublime embodiment of rigorous organisation. b. An independent means of exploring reality. c. Suddenly as from nowhere some vital detail hitherto ignored will come into view. d. Conscious and unconscious mental functionings are harmoniously integrated in a singular way. e. cubist dub degenerate psycho-spatial drug cult funk. f. these organic distortions of rhythm cannot be taught, nor achieved by conscious control. g. each stage of composition imposes upon the group new choices and decisions that they could not have foreseen at an early stage. h. imagining brightly a common goal in the world and in the quietness within each human being. i. To feel the submerged depth coherence we must, almost with an effort, abandon the conscious need for logic, order and sequence. Then the superficial fragmentation will not be felt and will be replaced by a feeling of inner necessity far more potent than the needs of conscious reason and logic. j. Throughout history important new music has been blamed for its lack of melody. k. We may feel trapped and lost in the infinite at the same time. l. different ways of organising the shape and motion of a piece of music, of rotating, reframing, replacing the usual order of events, of delaying, or accelerating, or cancelling out, the arrival, or promise, or consolation of a beat, of radically reconsidering what a chorus, or a verse, or a coda, or the beginning, middle and end of a piece of music actually is. But never losing acoustic sight of the practical nature of how certain techniques and traditions must be maintained in order for the piece of music to still be contained inside some sort of skin, or pinned around a kind of spine, so that it doesn’t just bobble off into farcical incoherence. m. in isolation.

5. The extraordinary revolution of their music evolves from album to album. There are changes and no changes as one named and numbered collection becomes another, and eventually, once Autechre are done, no more, over and out, it will not necessarily be obvious in which order their music was produced and released, even considering the moves across and inside rhythm, texture and s( )pace they've made as they withdrew further and further from any kind of obedient dance stream, getting, so to speak, stranger and stranger, and yet more and more themselves. The pure depths and serial surfaces played, placed and projected during their truly astonishing new collection Oversteps (WarpCD210) certainly reminds me of their earlier music, repeats/reforms some ideas, echoes specific loops, absences and grains, reprises calculations, develops various moods, connects similar stresses and symptoms, perfects certain systems, but at the same time bravely invents new possibilities, resist bad habits, penetrates new uncontaminated areas, and demonstrates that . . .

6. It remains the music of tomorrow/still new places to go/still music that hasn’t been heard/silence, and the reality that fills it, has changed at the end of a piece of Autechre music/you are not where/what/who you were.

. . . these answers - though to a point comforting, and suggestive that there is indeed a recognised avant-pop ensemble called Autechre, late 80s teenage fans of breakdancing, tagging and hip hop, northern disc jockeys plunging into weird wired post-house dance, signed to the visionary Warp label since 1992, temporarily part of some kind of cerebral post-acid movement, legendary sonic step-relations of Aphex Twin, Oval, LaBradford and Squarepusher, virtually inventing experimental IDM, the Led Zeppelin of electronica, unGodparents of Radiohead, remixers of Neu! Tortoise and Skinny Puppy, up to some sort of austere, astounding good, part of a trail, an order, that bites, calculates and throbs, mixing mathematics and the mystical, from, say, Johann Bach, Anton Webern, Pauline Oliveros, Jimmy Giuffre, Steve Reich, Alvin Lucier, Captain Beefheart, Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Tangerine Dream, King Crimson, Throbbing Gristle, This Heat, Art of Noise and Mantronix - don’t help much in understanding their music, and the ways that this music is concerned with various mysteries – about space, time, substance, sound, motion, thought, harmony, scale, truth, reality, memory.

These answers might explain how many records etc they have released, and in what order, during what period of time, connected or disconnected to whatever sequence of pop-culture fads and fashions happened to be passing by. There is a sense of location, of local colour – from Lancashire, to Yorkshire, from the cold, unclubby outside of Madchester to the electronic heart of Sheffield, then to other places, inside and out, and beyond. There is a suggestion of personality, of something surprisingly down to earth, of the everyday, of the moderately helpful, of even the instructional, especially when it comes to equipment used, programmes favoured, machines accumulated, studios built, but also of perversion, of avoidance, of reluctance, of reclusive even superstitious separation from the music, where any explanations ultimately lie, as though it is nothing to do with them, or too much to do with them, and requires a certain protective emotional distance. They might occasionally appear to engage in some form of conventional self-promotion, but before you know it, they’ve slipped through a trap door, dropped out of sight, turned out the lights, moved elsewhere, returned to base, to a black box or two, unknown, but, relatively speaking, known.

There is, indeed, mounds of biographical material and discographical details readily available, these days just the other side of a quick search, that can help safely fix Autechre into the final decade of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century, where, to some extent, given their interests, age and technological obsessions, they belong. This search will reveal various ingenious/frustrated/enthusiastic approaches to writing about, describing, understanding and analysing the puzzle, geometry and processes of Autechre, and various arguments, debates, squabbles, speculations, annoyances about how their music has progressed, or not, and how ecstatically alert it is, how mindblowing, or frustratingly opaque, or stubbornly difficult, or totally pointless, or casually random, or not what it was, too dry, too wet, more accessible, less accessible, too this, too that, too sterile, too what. In a way, the shame is that standard definitions, limited terms and conventional expectations culled from reviewing constant humdrum rock releases are applied to what are a fluctuating sequence of meticulously conceived, beautifully engineered works of art that piece by piece relay highly charged, uniquely personal ideas about creativity, thinking, sound, environment, planning, transmission and (self) image and the incredible ways technology can summon up and represent even entirely be the purest, strongest of emotions.

As far as my personal version of Autechre goes, this – now, then, next - is exactly where they belong, at this end of various stories that exist because of a number of cultural, technological, political, ideological, social and musical changes that took place during the 20th century, some of them heating up as the 20th took a turn for the 21st century, some of them slowing down and thwarted, some of them spiralling out of control, some just moving forward following their own glorious, imperturbable momentum. Autechre take their rightful advanced place in various histories of music that have formed in my mind, following, part of, involved with, on one hand something that was known as serialism, which fell through radio, tape and edits into musique concrete, which resulted in the relief of what was known as minimalism, which puts them on the quiet, eternal shores of Morton Feldman, Arvo Part and LaMonte Young, and then they draw from the immense results achieved by Can, Kraftwerk and Eno in using exploratory electronic means to sensitively generate sadness, sensation and sensuality, and a whole host of abstract surprise, and they filter earvisions of Xenakis, Stockhausen and Varese through a privately cultivated handmade machine-smart post-hip hop sensibility. They make the music that has responded the most accurately and inquisitively to the uncompromising strangeness and unsettling changes of the times.

What do Autechre mean ? What are they ? All of the above – it could be. Something else? Undeniably. There is, fantastically, no end to wondering.

Vampire Weekend play ice rink

2010-01-12T20:28:00.002Z

Vampire Weekend, whose 'Contra' may be very well be XL's tenth number one this Sunday, are playing a free gig at Somerset House at 5.30pm on Thursday. There are no tickets, just turn up. The first 50 fans to arrive will be given the chance to ice skate for free.

M.A.N.D.Y. vs Booka Shade

2010-01-12T20:17:00.003Z

Have a listen to the new song from M.A.N.D.Y vs Booka Shade, Donut. It's pretty nice, and out on new label Living The Dream.

Othello Woolf free gig for single launch

2010-01-12T20:14:00.005Z

We like Othello Woolf. You might have noticed. He makes good music. And he was nice enough to ask us to come and play records at his launch party. We get excited about things like that.

Othello Woolf 'Stand' launch party

Othello Woolf - live

+ DJs
Mystery Jets
Golden Silvers
DUMMY Magazine
A Love Supreme
Ronojoy Dam (Real Gold)
Lambrini Girls
Young & Lost Club

Thursday 21st January
The Legion, Old Street, London
From 8pm
FREE ENTRY

Beach House play Heaven on 1st June

2010-01-12T19:55:00.002Z

As the Bush Hall date sold out a while ago, but Beach House (who we like) have announced another date, at Heaven, on the 1st June.

You really should buy tickets for this. “Teen Dream” is released 25th January on Bella Union records, it's a really smashing record, and you should buy it and love it, and call anyone who mentions Fleet Foxes with reference to them a lying toerag.

Wednesday 10 February – GLASGOW – King Tuts (£9)

Thursday 11 February – MANCHESTER – Islington Mill (£9)

Friday 12 February – LEEDS – Brudenell Social Club (£9)

Saturday 13 February – DUBLIN – Whelans (18 euro)

Sunday 14 February – BELFAST – Speakeasy (£9)

Tuesday 16 February – CARDIFF – Arts Centre (£5)

Wednesday 17 February – LONDON – Bush Hall **(SOLD-OUT!)**

Monday 8 March – NEWCASTLE – The Sage (with Grizzly Bear)

Tuesday 9 March – EDINBURGH – Queen's Hall (with Grizzly Bear)

Thursday 11 March – BRIGHTON – The Corn Exchange (with Grizzly Bear)

Friday 12 March – COVENTRY – Warwick Arts Centre (with Grizzly Bear)

Saturday 13 March – LONDON – The Roundhouse (with Grizzly Bear)

Sunday 14 March – LONDON – The Roundhouse (with Grizzly Bear)

Blood Red Shoes return

2010-01-12T19:38:00.002Z

Blood Red Shoes, bare boned Brighton band are back. We've had a soft spot for them since we were in three dimensions and they announced details of their new album and single earlier today. Listen to lead single 'Light It Up' at their myspace and think about either buying their album, Fire It Up, out March 1st, or seeing them live at the below dates, underneath this other track on the album.

MARCH 2010

02 - Birmingham, 02 Academy 3
03 - Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
04 - Bristol, Thekla
05 - Brighton, Komedia
06 - Leeds, Cockpit
08 - Edinburgh, Electric Circus
09 - Dundee, Doghouse
10 - Glasgow, King Tuts
11 - Newcastle, 02 Academy 2
12 - Manchester, Academy 3
13 - London, Garage

Good Shoes Stags Heads

2010-01-06T13:04:00.005Z

Excellent rock band are hosting a mini-festival at the Stags Head to launch their album, 'No Hope No Future.' Over four days, 20th-23rd, Good Shoes will be playing the Dalston venue with very many of our heroes, including Othello Woolf, Fiction, Is Tropical and Hatcham Social. This is a very good idea for an album launch. Head over to their website (or double click the image above) to find dates, times, book tickets and so on and so forth.

The Knife announce Darwin opera CD release

2010-01-06T11:48:00.008Z

Breaking news – the Knife (superb Swedish terror-trance musicians) are releasing the music from their opera, 'Tomorrow In A Day' as an album on Brille Records, in collaboration with Mt Sims and equally excellent musician planningtorock. The opera was commissioned by a Danish performance group, and deals with Darwin thematically. As we share an office with Brille, we've had the honour of hearing it. First reactions? It's fantastic. It's out on the 1st March.

If you sign up at their website, www.theknife.net, then you get a free song called The Colouring of Pigeons.

Here's the full, actually very interesting, text from the release –

Commissioned by Danish performance group Hotel Pro Forma to write the music for their opera based on Charles Darwin and his book ‘On the Origin of the Species’, The Knife decided to make this a collaborative process, working with artists Mt. Sims and Planningtorock for the first time, to capture the huge width of the Darwin and evolution theme. They extensively researched Darwin related literature and articles, with Olof attending a field recording workshop in the Amazon to find inspiration and to record sounds.

‘Tomorrow, In A Year’ is a unique musical project. Richard Dawkins’s gene trees have formed the basis of some of the musical composition, artificial sounds have been mixed with field recordings, with the music inspired by everything from the different stages of a bird learning its melody, to a song based on Darwin’s loving letters about his daughter Anne. These are compositions that challenge the conventional conception of opera music.

Pushing the experimental process further still, composer, choreographer, costume designer and set designer worked separately, only coming together 3 and a half months before the first performance of ‘Tomorrow, In A Year’ in Copenhagen on the 2nd September 2009. Described as “shifting the position of operartic art in a single leap”, further performances of ‘Tomorrow, In A Year’ are confirmed to take place in Athens (8-9 Jan), Stockholm (29 Jan-1 Feb), and Munster (5 June), with further dates to be announced.

Olof Dreijer says: “At first it was very difficult as we really didn’t know anything about opera. We’d never been to one. I didn’t even know what the word libretto meant. But after some studying, and just getting used to opera’s essence of pretentious and dramatic gestures, I found that there is a lot to learn and play with. In fact, our ignorance gave us a positive respectless approach to making opera. It took me about a year to become emotionally moved by an opera singer and now I really do. I really like the basic theatrical values of opera and the easy way it brings forward a narrative. We’ve approached this before in The Knife but never in such a clear way.”

Night Slugs starts label, first release = Mosca

2010-01-05T12:10:00.005Z

Night Slugs has been running incredibly bass-garage-whatever nights since 2006, and a pretty good blog, they've waited this long to start bringing out 12"s.

First up is Mosca's Square One EP, with the dark, housey title track backed by the 8 minute epic _Nike_ and a few remixes. It's out on the 25th.

Head here to download the Geena mix.

Swanton Bombs album & tour

2010-01-05T11:33:00.003Z

I saw Swanton Bombs support Girls at The Lexington last year. (LAST YEAR. That's the first time I've written that this year. It feels weird.) They were tight, ferocious and very loud. Largely due to drummer Brendan Heaney's relentless energy, as displayed in the neighbour-riling video above.

Anyway, they're ace and their album Mumbo Jumbo and Murder is out on February 15th on vinyl and digital download.

I thoroughly recommend checking them out live too. Invigorating to say the least. Here's where you can catch them:

Happy Huw Year 2010 tour (Swanton Bombs, Frankie and the Heartstrings & Islet)

Jan 22 – 60 Million Postcards, Bournemouth
Jan 23 – Start the Bus, Bristol
Jan 24 – Lock Tavern, London

Los Campesinos! & Swanton Bombs:

February:
11 – Central Station, Wrexham
12 – Evol, Liverpool
13 – Fibbers, York
15 – Tunnels, Aberdeen
16 – Dog House, Dundee
17 – Bongo, Edinburgh
18 – The Venue, Derby
19 – The Musician, Leicester
21 – The Junction, Cambridge
22 – Arts Centre, Norwich
23 – Audio, Brighton
24 – Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
25 – Koko, London
26 – Princess Pavillion, Falmouth
27 – Thekla, Bristol

March:

1 – The Rainbow, Birmingham
2 – Roadmender, Northampton
3 – Plug and Play, Reading
4 – Banquet New Slang, Kingston

Oh hello

2010-01-02T16:14:00.002Z

Happy 2010!

On with the job. Yeasayer's Ambling Alp video. Ft. Don Quixote, El Topo + the fierce urgency of NOW.

Yeasayer - Ambling Alp from Spy Films on Vimeo.

3D music video of The xx's album

2009-12-21T13:44:00.004Z

It's an indisputable fact that the way in which we experience music has changed a lot over the last few years. The whys and hows have been much discussed. (As an aside, Mark Fisher's love letter to collective listening is worth a read.) However attempts to stem the tide or challenge newly established ways of experiencing music have been few and far between. So to hear about an audio-visual sculpture of The xx's debut album xx is very exciting indeed.

Created by acclaimed music video director Saam Farahmand, the installation will incorporate film, light and sound to provide a unique experience for each visitor. Saam explains that "it shares sensibilities with art installations but it should not be considered in this context - it is in essence a physical music video, a looping shrine to the album that you cannot compress, send or turn off."

xx: a sculpture of the album by Saam Farahmand
The Vinyl Factory, 51 Poland Street, London W1F 7LZ
8th-12th January 2010
Free Entry

Check the Vinyl Factory's website for times.

Walls sign to Kompakt

2009-12-17T11:09:00.003Z

Alessio Natalizia (Banjo Or Freakout) and Sam Willis (of superb podcasters Allez-Allez) have signed to Kompakt records, continuing the Cologne label's entree into noise/techno pop, after a year with BIG releases by Matías Aguayo and The Field, whose Leave It Walls remixed. Very exciting, listen to more at their myspace. The -jams part of their myspace name is pretty telling – the tracks up there, Burnt Sienna and Gaberdine are more sketched grooves than formed songs, but they burst with ideas and a really quite interesting. An album is expected in the first half of 2010, and live shows from February onwards. Expect more gushing soon.

Beach House (and Grizzly Bear) tour dates

2009-12-16T16:51:00.004Z

Baltimore hypnagogic folk pop band Beach House will play over here in February after their utterly wonderful third LP 'Teen Dream' is released on Bella Union in January. The dates, venues and so on are below along with Norway, which is already a classic song – believe us when we say that you will want to be at these gigs. Keep your eyes on www.dummymag.com, there's a full feature on this amazing band on the way.

Wednesday 10 February – Glasgow – King Tuts (£9)

Thursday 11 February – Manchester – Islington Mill (£9)

Friday 12 February – Leeds – Brudenell Social Club (£9)

Saturday 13 February – Dublin – Whelans (18 euro)

Sunday 14 February – Belfast – Speakeasy (£9)

Tuesday 16 February – Cardiff – Arts Centre (£5)

Wednesday 17 February – London – Bush Hall (£10)

They will also be over to play with Grizzly Bear, a band with whom they have already collaborated. Those dates are below.

Monday 8 March – Newcastle – The Sage (with Grizzly Bear)

Tuesday 9 March – Edinburgh – Queen's Hall (with Grizzly Bear)

Thursday 11 March – Brighton – The Corn Exchange (with Grizzly Bear)

Friday 12 March – Coventry – Warwick Arts Centre (with Grizzly Bear)

Saturday 13 March – London – The Roundhouse (with Grizzly Bear)

Sunday 14 March – London – The Roundhouse (with Grizzly Bear)

LCD Soundsystem and Air in first round of Sonar confirmations

2009-12-16T15:04:00.003Z

Air and LCD Soundsystem are both playing the Spanish electronic music festival, now held in both A Coruna and Barcelona. Air play Barcelona on Friday June the 18th and A Coruña, Saturday June the 19th; LCD play A Coruña on Thursday June the 17th and Barcelona, Friday June the 18th.

Expect brilliance.

Titus Andronicus make Civil War-themed concept album

2009-12-14T17:26:00.004Z

Titus Andronicus, histrionic crypto-celtic rock n roll band on Merok, have recorded an album that sounds actually excellent which is based vaguely around the concept of the American Civil War. Even its title, 'The Monitor', is a presumed Civil War reference. Singer Patrick Stickles said this – “It doesn't take place in olden times, nor does it necessarily feature any characters that participated in that conflict. Really, it is a record about how the conflicts that led our nation into that great calamity remain unresolved, and the effect that this ongoing division has on our personal relationships and our behavior and how they're all out to get us (or maybe not?) and yadda yadda yadda.”

What we've heard sounds heroic, a quality that ironed over their debut's less-than-awesome bits. Artwork (coming later) is by Double Dagger, and The Monitor was recorded this past August by producer and engineer Kevin McMahon at his studio - Marcata Recording - in New Paltz, NY. Read the tracklisting below and pick out the Civil War references (zero marks for Four Score and Seven, the lead single). Released 9 March 2010, the 148th anniversary of the Battle of Hampton Roads – see track 10.

'The Monitor' track listing:
1) A More Perfect Union
2) Titus Andronicus Forever
3) No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future
4) Richard II
5) A Pot In Which To Piss
6) Four Score And Seven
7) Theme From “Cheers”
8) To Old Friends And New
9) …And Ever
10) The Battle Of Hampton Roads

Ewan Pearson puts together mix for Kompakt

2009-12-14T13:55:00.003Z

Ewan Pearson, celebrated and clever Berlin DJ/producer, has put together a mix for Kompakt called 'We Are Proud Of Our Choices.' Seen as his Fabric 35 mix was pretty much astounding, we're excited – as usual, the mix looks wonderfully diverse, with Lemonade and Little Dragon as well as techno stalwarts like Luisine and Pearson's homeboy Al Usher. Tracklisting below, a short interview over at RA.

Tracklist
01. Lemonade - Bliss Out (Gold Panda Remix) / Pitch And Hold - We Have Come To Bless Dave Smith
02. A Ldric - Birds On Tree
03. Rmnvn - Uno
04. Lusine - Cirrus
05. Wah Chu Ku - T Times Too
06. Yukihiro Fukotomi / Foog - Open Our Eyes
07. Neville Watson - Full Flight
08. Taron-Trekka - Shiroi
09. Hot Natured - Equilibrium
10. DXR - Faderpushing Sunday
11. Yosa - Margaret
12. Gregor Tresher - The Life Wire (Petar Dundov Variation)
13. Xenia Beliayeva - Analog Effekt
14. Chris Fortier - Sunday Is A Travel Day (Ink & Needle's Skybed Remix)
15. Al Usher - Silverhum (John Talabot's Wilderness Remix)
16. B.D.I. - City & Industry (World Balloon Dub Mix)
17. Little Dragon - Fortune (World Of Apples' Cosmic Edit)
18. Bot'ox - Blue Steel

Galaxie 500 rerelease albums

2009-12-14T12:37:00.002Z

Rerelease fever, and late 80s fever, continues with the announcement that Domino will be sending out double CD editions of ‘Today’, ‘This Is Our Music’ and ’On Fire’ by Boston dream pop band Galaxie 500 (1987-1991). ‘Today’ features ‘Uncollected’ (rarities from the band’s entier career, from pre-’Today’ demos to out-takes from the last recording sessions), ‘On Fire’ comes with all collected ‘Peel Sessions’ and ‘This Is Our Music’ comes complete with ‘Copenhagen’, a live recording of the band’s last ever European show. Happily, the albums are also available on heavy-weight vinyl. Full tracklisting after a Peel Session of Flowers.

'Today' + 'Uncollected'

‘Today’
1 Flowers (4:26)
2 Pictures (3:23)
3 Parking Lot (2:52)
4 Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste (6:47)
5 Temperature’s Rising (5:05)
6 Oblivious (3:18)
7 It’s Getting Late (3:29)
8 Instrumental (3:01)
9 Tugboat (3:53)
bonus track:
10 King of Spain (4:33)

‘Uncollected’
1 Cheese and Onions (3:05)
2 Them (3:42)
3 Final Day (2:54)
4 Blue Thunder (w/sax) (3:46)
5 Maracas Song (3:52)
6 Crazy (1:54)
7 Jerome (2:46)
8 Song in 3 (3:25)
9 Oblivious (3:21)
10 I Can’t Believe It’s Me (3:56)
11 Walking Song (2:50)
12 The Other Side (4:55)
13 On the Floor (2:48)
14 Rain/ Don’t Let Our Youth Go to Waste(8:51)

'On Fire' and 'Peel Sessions'

‘On Fire’
1 Blue Thunder (3:45)
2 Tell Me (3:50)
3 Snowstorm (5:10)
4 Strange (3:16)
5 When will You Come Home (5:21)
6 Decomposing Trees (4:05)
7 Another Day (3:41)
8 Leave the Planet (2:40)
9 Plastic Bird (3:15)
10 Isn’t it a Pity (5:10)
bonus tracks:
11 Victory Garden (2:48)
12 Ceremony (5:55)
13 Cold Night (2:36)
video track: When Will You Come Home

‘Peel Sessions’
1 Submission (Sex Pistols)
2 Final Day (Young Marble Giants)
3 When Will You Come Home
4 Moonshot (Buffy Sainte Marie)
5 Flowers
6 Blue Thunder
7 Decomposing Trees
8 Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste (Jonathan Richman)

'This Is Our Music' and 'Copenhagen'

‘This Is Our Music’
1 Fourth of July (5:35)
2 Hearing Voices (3:34)
3 Spook (4:35)
4 Summertime (5:59)
5 Way Up High (4:03)
6 Listen, the Snow is Falling (7:47)
7 Sorry (4:15)
8 Melt Away (4:35)
9 King of Spain, Part Two (5:07)
bonus track:
10 Here She Comes Now (5:57)

‘Copenhagen’
1 Decomposing Trees (4:50)
2 Fourth of July (5:01)
3 Summertime (6:42)
4 Sorry (4:30)
5 When Will You Come Home (5:31)
6 Spook (4:54)
7 Listen, the Snow is Falling (8:19)
8 Here She Comes Now (5:38)
9 Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste (7:52)

Male Bonding xmas party

2009-12-11T13:50:00.002Z

At Bardens Boudoir, Dalston, on 20th December, with Veronica Falls and Teen Sheiks.

Egyptian Hip hop and Is Tropical announce joint tour

2009-12-11T13:34:00.003Z

Two fave bands of ours, Egyptian Hip Hop and Is Tropical, are touring together. The dates follow.

Thurs 28th Jan - Start The Bus, Bristol * ~ (FREE ENTRY)
Fri 29th Jan - Bungalow & Bears Sheffield ~ (FREE ENTRY)
Fri 29th Jan - Soundcontrol, Manchester *
Sat 30th Jan - Stealth Vs Rescued, Nottingham * ~
Thurs 4th Feb - Stag's Head, London *
Fri 5th Feb - Kraak Gallery, Manchester * ~
Sat 6th Feb - A Nation Of Shopkeepers, Leeds * ~ (FREE ENTRY)
Sun 7th Feb - Captains Rest, Glasgow * ~
Mon 8th Feb - Mojo, Liverpool ~
Fri 19th Feb - Bungalow & Bears, Sheffield * (FREE ENTRY)
Sat 20th Feb - Evol @ Korova, Liverpool *

Gypo Rap Hit Club and Zarcorp (Late Of The Pier's label) will be releasing EHH's first 7" in February. Rad Pitt, inevitably, is below.

Hot Chip video / absolute last 'One Life Stand' prehype post

2009-12-11T11:03:00.001Z

Hot Chip - One Life Stand (MySpace Exclusive)

Hot Chip | MySpace Music Videos
The next drip from the Hot Chip camp, for forthcoming single One Life Stand, out 1st February.

Primary 1 'Nice To Meet You' video

2009-12-10T13:41:00.002Z

Primary 1 is pretty damn ace, isn't he? This very sweet video is his latest offering of understated pop genius.

His debut album will be out next but in the mean time, if you're quick, you can pick up his 'Mess Detective' mini-album from Pure Groove now.

Read the Primary 1 interview from back in August.

Portishead Amnesty video

2009-12-10T11:36:00.002Z

Head HERE to view the video to their new track, Chasing The Tear (tear as in paper, not cry). It's pretty amazing, and at least in the top five motorik tracks Geoff Barrow has produced in the last year.

HEALTH, Salem, FlyLo, Memory Cassette etc remix ATL trap for free mixtape

2009-12-10T11:22:00.003Z

Amazing – Adult Swim, Rockstar Games and Timbaland have got together to offer a brilliant mixtape of ATL trap remixed by artists like HEALTH, Salem, Flying Lotus, Memory Cassettes and Dabrye. The widget is below, follow this link to download.

1. Young Jeezy – I Got This (El-P remix)
2. Rich Kids – Patna Dem (Mad Decent Patna’s remix by DJA)
3. Dem Getaway Boyz – Imma G (Memory Tapes remix)
4. Good Time Guys – Is That You God? (Dabrye remix)
5. Young Dro – Take Off (Michna remix)
6. Cee-Lo – Hello Miss (Armani XXXChange remix)
7. Lil Jon feat. Kee – Give It All You Got (Danger Beach remix)
8. Gucci Mane – Photoshoot (Flying Lotus remix)
9. Gorilla Zoe – Lost (Starkey remix)
10. Shawty Lo – Dey Know (Prefuse 73 remix)
11. Kollosus – Breakin’ Bread (Phaseone remix)
12. Pill – Lookin’ (Chris Devoe remix)
13. B.o.B. – Satellite (Hudson Mohawke remix)
14. Playboy Tre- Sideways (SALEM Drag Chop remix)
15. OJ Da Juiceman feat. Gucci Mane – Good Night (HEALTH remix)
16. Lil Jon feat. Kee – Give It All You Got (Drums of Death remix)
17. Hollyweerd – Have You Ever Made Love to a Weerdo? (Dam-Funk remix)

Memory Tapes debuts live in UK

2009-12-10T11:07:00.002Z

Our hero, Dayve Hawk, aka Memory Tapes aka Weird Tapes aka Memory Cassette, is playing over here in January. LP 'Seek Magic' and the 'Calls and Response' EP should make everyone doing glofi tape balaerica shut up and start something new, because he really is the last word. Head hereto download an ace remix, go and buy 'Seek Magic' and tickets for either his Luminaire or Corner date, depending on what's nearest you. Support is from the fun if overrated Fitness Club Fiasco.

January
16 The Corner, Manchester
20 Luminaire (w/ Fitness Club Fiasco), London

New Kompakt Pop Ambient announced

2009-12-09T14:07:00.003Z

Kompakt will be bringing out their next edition of Pop Ambient, the series that celebrates ambient pop from a techno POV, on the 18th January 2010. The usual suspekts are there – Voigt, Koze and Dettinger – and, as last year's indicated, the emphasis is growing on the "pop", with Jurgen Paape reworking his schlager-led Ofterschwang from the last Total LP, and both popnoname and Thomas Fehlman of the Orb chipping in. If, like me, you've always had a bit too much going on to really "get into" the ambient techno that your friends keep on telling you about, this is a fine place to start. Tracklisting below, Voigt's sublime GAS from 1998 below.

01 “The Sound Of One Lip Kissing” Marsen Jules
02 “Lest You Forget” Brock Van Wey/BVDUB
03 “Shildergasse” Triola
04 “Zither Und Horn” Wolfgang Voigt
05 “Clouds Across Face” Andrew Thomas
06 “Glen Coe” The Orb
07 “Blue Items” Mikkel Metal
08 “Bodenweich” DJ Koze
09 “864M” Jürgen Paape
10 “Therefore” Dettinger
11 “In The Wind” Thomas Fehlmann
12 “Deutz Air” Popnoname
13 “Will You Know Where To Find Me” Brock Van Wey/BV

Real Gold 3rd birthday party

2009-12-07T15:38:00.002Z

Real Gold know how to throw a party. And with DJ Pioneer, Jamie xx, Golden Silvers and more lined up, this will be one special Saturday night. Go and blow some streamers in their faces.

Real Gold’s 3rd Birthday
Saturday 12 December
Offerclass LTD Warehouse
73-75 Shacklewell Lane, London E8 2EB
9pm - 4am, £5 before midnight, £8 after

Friendly Fires and Holy Ghost! hook up

2009-12-07T15:24:00.002Z

I love a good cover. Just this year, Aeroplane's remix/cover of Friendly Fires and The xx's cover of Florence covering Candi Staton weren't just great covers - they were two of the records of the summer.

So it's very exciting news that Friendly Fires are going to be covering one of their favourite bands, Holy Ghost! What's more, the NYC duo will be returning the favour for a split 7" coming out next year. Lovely stuff.

Read the Friendly Fires interview and wrap your ears around Dummy Mix 20 // Friendly Fires.

Xiu Xiu tour and album

2009-12-07T14:38:00.002Z

Xiu Xiu, one of my personal faves from the decade, are BACK with an ALBUM due in mid-February and some tour dates in support. Jamie Stewart is joined by Greg Saunier and John Dieterich of Deerhoof, Ches Smith and Angela Seo. The album is called 'Dear God I Hate Myself', the dates are below. More as we get it.

UK Tour Dates:

Saturday 20th February - Dublin, Whelans
Sunday 21st February - Glasgow, Nice 'n' Sleazy
Monday 22nd February - Edinburgh, Electric Circus
Tuesday 23rd February - Manchester, Islington Mill
Wednesday 24th February - Sheffield, The Harley
Thursday 25th February - Cardiff, Cardiff Arts Institute
Friday 26th February - London, The Luminaire
Saturday 27th February - Brighton, Freebutt
Sunday 28th February - Coventry, Taylor John's House

Free Final Fantasy song

2009-12-01T15:22:00.002Z

Owen Pallett's Final Fantasy is giving away a fairly decent track from 'Heartland', his new album on Domino. It's called Free Lewis. It's a pretty and nice song, Heartland is out on January 18th.

Vinyl Factory shows how they make vinyl, vinyl fans brush away a tear.

2009-12-01T14:40:00.003Z

The Vinyl Factory Manufacture from thevinylfactory on Vimeo.

Chanced across this surprisingly beautiful, Steve Reich-backed video shot at the Vinyl Factory pressing plant, documenting the production of a record. Quite lovely.

New Hot Chip song

2009-12-01T11:21:00.003Z

Hot Chip's One Life Stand, the title song from their new LP, is on their myspace now. However irritated I'm getting about this whole drip-drip-drip of news, it's a fairly wonderful song. Vinyl Factory are releasing 100 copies of the song "very soon", on a one-sided 12", like it's a "white label," as in it's "highly covetable" and also "slightly obsolete". Watch our video interview from earlier this year below. The album is out on February 1st 2010.

Fabric release first volume of dubstep-not-dubstep comp

2009-11-30T18:27:00.003Z

ELevator Music Vol. I, a CD of "the mutant strain of 140 BPM bass music", will be released by Fabric on the 16 January. Basically, it's stuff that started out in dubstep but, well mutated. As poster boy Untold told Pitchfork “The interesting stuff is coming from producers exploiting the grey areas building tunes that are dubstep by accident." It's an unfortunate choice of words – the "grey-ness" of dubstep-cum-techno is pretty much the worst thing about it – but he has a point. While news that the most interesting bass music is taking place between techno, grime, garage, house and dubstep rather than inside a particular scene, from the look of things, this comp will be a very worthwhile documentation of the scene.

And their launch night looks bloody brilliant, and the CD will get you in for free. So, y'know, buy it.

'Elevator Music Vol. 1' tracklisting:

1: Hot City – If That’s How I Feel
2: xxxy – Sing With Us
3: Doc Daneeka – Drums In The Deep
4: Hackman – Pistol In Your Pocket
5: Julio Bashmore – The Moth
6: Untold – Bad Girls
7: Octa Push – Doctor Bayard
8: Shortstuff – Behave
9: Skinnz – Ukraine
10: Mosca – Gold Bricks, I See You
11: Martyn – Friedrichstrasse
12: Vista – Elixir
13: Caspa & Rusko – One Of The Same
14: Om Unit – Encoded
15: Starkey – Black Monolith

+

16: Shortstuff & Brackles – Melvin Blue (Digital Bonus Track)
17: Hackman – Pistol In Your Pocket (Hypno Remix) (Limited Digital Bonus track)

8 JANUARY
ROOM ONE:

NUMBERS...
Todd Edwards, Hudson Mohawke (LIVE), Rustie (LIVE), Jackmaster, Spencer, Nelson, Goodhand + MORE GUESTS TBC

ROOM TWO:
2562, Headhunter, dBridge, Instra:mental, Joy Orbison, Jack Sparrow, Sigha

ROOM THREE:
'ELEVATOR MUSIC' ALBUM LAUNCH...
Untold, Shortstuff, Hot City, xxxy, Mosca, Vista

LOTP artwork and, you know, song

2009-11-27T17:39:00.005Z

Late Of The Pier are shoving out a new record. It's called Blueberry, it's on Erol Alkan's Phantasy sound label, digital release date 14th December, physical in Februrary, with another track called Best In Class. Artwork above.

There's lots of interesting developments in the Ell Oh Tee Pee camp, with the first release on Zarcorp soon, solo albums, side projects, film projects, and maybe, perhaps, a follow up to Fantasy Black Channel due next year. They announce it thus –

“Here is the beginning of something new.

We’re rewriting our own rules.

And taking on new projects.

In new forms of expression.

The past few years have given us a lot to think about

and feel.

And now we begin to bring to life,

our imaginations.

Here is the beginning of something new."

Dissident dies.

2009-11-27T16:36:00.003Z

End of an era.

Andy Blake issued this earlier –

hi everyone,

i hope you are all well.

as some of you may have heard on the bush telegraph, i've decided to
shut dissident down.

when i started the label back in 2007 the whole point was that it
wasn't in any sense a 'proper' record label, it was just a way to get
music out quickly on the highest sound quality format for clubs and
dj's and play a tiny part in trying to help the independent record
shops and distributors by staying faithful to the vinyl format when it
seemed that virtually everyone was throwing the towel in and going
digital. thats why it was 'dissident.distribution' on the labels, not
'dissident.records'.

just under two and a half years and something north of 60 releases
later, the time has come to move on.

i'm not entirely sure why but it just seems obvious that it's time for
me to stop the label and do something new. i could cite factors like
having the label take over the rest of my life for the last two years
and the original simple set of rules of play that felt so liberating
to begin with having become something of a dogmatic straitjacket - a
little bit like when the originally free-spirited revolutionaries find
they have turned into an oppressive communist regime. a little bit,
but not much :-)

there are also things like the fact that lots of people constantly
assumed that the records sold out in a matter of days without taking
the time to check with the label, shops or distributors to confirm
this before they downloaded crappy low-res mp3s of the 'sold-out'
tunes, thus somewhat defeating the object of having a vinyl only label
in the first place.

i guess the main reason behind me moving on is that i'm busy running
the world unknown night in brixton every month with joe and duncan and
being asked to dj all over the place and if i continued trying to run
dissident as well i'd quite possibly end up making a bit of a balls of
everything.

so that's that really. i'd like to take this opportunity to thank all
the artists who have released on the label, tom at vacant design for
the graphics, all the guys at curved pressings and rubadub and juno
and everyone else who has supported or been involved in any way with
the label. it's been an extremely fun, fulfilling and illuminating
experience all round and given the chance to do it again i wouldn't
change a thing.

my original intention was to have at least a few months completely
away from any record label business but there are already all sorts of
ideas and rumours flying around about what it might be fun to do next
so i guess i'll just have to see what happens.

so, back to the present. there's a 2.5 hour recording of me playing
records at the say yes halloween ball here;

http://sayyesparty.com/2009/11/14/halloween-mixes/

it was a properly good night out as you can see from the short video
that thomas and nadia put together and it was great to finally make a
new live recording again after nearly a year since the last live one
from road to rimini in newcastle.

anyone in london who's up for it can join me for more of the same at
the horse and groom this saturday the 28th. i'm playing for the cut
and shut disco chaps downstairs from 1am-4am and ben gatto fritto is
playing upstairs for future sound of clapton so its going to be a good
one. hit me up if you need guest list and i'll see what i can do.

see you soon,

cheers,

andy

-----

You'll be missed.

So, we're all going to the Horse and Groom tomorrow, right?

Pantha du Prince on new LP, working with Panda Bear

2009-11-27T16:05:00.005Z

Pantha du Prince, the chap behind 2007's wonderful minimal techno record 'This Bliss' has moved from his Hamburg label Dial to the London label Rough Trade for his next record, 'Black Noise.' It will feature Panda Bear (Noah Lenox of Animal Collective – you knew that, right?) on vocals and Tyler Pope of !!! and LCD Soundsystem on bass. Head to Resident Advisor for an excellent miniinterview. Looking forward.

Tracklisting below, video of Hendrick Weber's smashing mix of Animal Collective's Peacebone further down.

01. Lay In A Shimmer
02. Abglanz
03. The Splendour
04. Stick To My Side
05. A Nomad's Retreat
06. Satellite Snyper
07. Behind The Stars
08. Bohemian Forest
09. Welt Am Draht
10. Im Bann
11. Es Schneit

Rough Trade will release 'Black Noise' on February 8th, 2010.

We Have Band announce album and give away track.

2009-11-27T12:24:00.004Z

When we hear We Have Band we go bananas, so news of an album full of dissipated bare-boned electro jams (hopefully) has us swaying and nodding with sublime joy like priestesses at a black mass or something.

I spoke to Darren about it a minute ago, and he said "We wrote most of the album a year and a half ago, and recorded it in Thomas and Didi's flats." He also said that there was quite a bit more depth and breath to the textures, rather than just ten "electro pop bangers". Gareth Jones, who handled post-production stuff, apparently maintained the feel of the live band, which is good, because something great about Oh and You Came Out is how erratic and live the singles sound. Unsurprisingly, they've been listening ESG, the Rapture, early LCD Soundsystem, and stuff from "just before the mad electro surge."

They play Koko tonight, and can also be seen at these dates and places.

November
30 - Buffalo, Cardiff

December
10 - Start The Bus, Bristol
11 - Fabric, London
12 - The Arches, Glasgow

Download a track called Honey Trap from their website HERE, observe excellent You Came Out vid below.

Old Song Of The Day – Acid Eiffel

2009-11-27T12:18:00.002Z

By Choice. Sublime.

You are coming tonight, right?

2009-11-26T18:28:00.002Z

An exhibition of independent gig poster at WAH Nails.

Trans AM video and live album rushed out by Thrill Jockey

2009-11-26T12:26:00.002Z

Trans AM (kraut disco punk band from when that was weird) release their live album on the 30th November. It's made up of gigs spanning from 1993 to 2008. There's a fairly pointless live video below, but still, you know, great band.

Friendly Fires remix

2009-11-26T11:30:00.002Z

There's a lot of love for Friendly Fires round our way. It's the pianos that do it for Charlie, while I have a major soft-spot for Strobe. And Paris. And Kiss Of Life.

With their mega rave-up at the Coronet on December 4th fast approaching, we've got a whole lotta Fires stuff coming up, including an interview and a Dummy mix.

But before all that, we've got an unreleased gem of a remix by Moscow (aka Matt Waites) for you.

Download the Moscow remix of Friendly Fires Jump In The Pool.

Othello Woolf video storyboards

2009-11-26T10:52:00.007Z

Othello Woolf's Stand is already one of my favourite songs of 2010. I've spent a fair amount of time plugged into myspace hitting the play button but it'll finally be out and available to buy in January. (Excuse me while I do a celebratory jig.)

Oliver (that's Mr Woolf) has been busy shooting the video to Stand over the last couple of week. He kindly sent over these awesome and exclusive storyboards by Art Director Jules Hunt.

Plus if you haven't already, read the Othello Woolf interview. Also worth a check is the Astronomer remix of Stand.

4AD snap up Ariel Pink

2009-11-25T17:05:00.003Z

Hypnogogic heroes Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti have signed to 4AD, joining the Big Pink, Tune Yards, Tune Yards, Atlas Sound, Camera Obsruca and Broken Records as signees this year. Haunted Graffiti's last albums have been through Animal Collective's label, Paw Tracks, and their new album (the first on the label) is due in Spring 2010.

They are supported on their London date by A Grave With No Name on the 5th. More news on the album soon. In the meantime, listen to either A Grave With No Name's mix HERE or their track Politely Declined here.

December tour dates

4 Bristol Qujunktions – TBC, UK

5 Minehead All Tomorrow’s Parties, UK

6 Cardiff Buffalo, UK

7 Nottingham The Bodega, UK

8 London The Rest Is Noise, UK

9 Manchester Deaf Institute, UK

10 Paris Point Ephemere, FR

11 Aalst Netwerk, BEL

13 London Lexington, UK

Video: Fever Ray – Keep The Streets Empty For Me

2009-11-24T12:59:00.002Z

If Thomas Demand directed the apocalypse. Beautiful.

JJ update

2009-11-24T11:23:00.002Z

They're playing with the xx in the states, probably means that they're actually real.

How wonderful it would be to her them live.

Please download their album HERE, you honestly won't regret it.

Omar Souleyman, Raincoats and Atlas Sound for Pavement ATP

2009-11-23T12:08:00.003Z

Pavement have added a few names to their ATP lineup, though it's all academic, as tickets have sold out. Good news, mainly because it means I can post Leh Jani. So far, the lineup is:

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE

MISSION OF BURMA

CALEXICO

THE RAINCOATS

THE FIERY FURNACES

THE WALKMEN

OMAR SOULEYMAN + SUBLIME FREQUENCIES

ATLAS SOUND

GRAILS

THE DRONES

SACCHARINE TRUST

THE CLEAN

WOODEN SHJIPS

SIC ALPS

PIERCED ARROWS

SPIRAL STAIRS

BLITZEN TRAPPER

THE 3DS

MARBLE VALLEY

THE AUTHORITIES

WILDBIRDS AND PEACEDRUMS

(And Pavement, obviously.)

Noah + the Whale – Love Of An Orchestra

2009-11-20T17:47:00.003Z

Click the above for a rather brilliant remix by Gold Panda of Noah and the Whale's pleasant enough track Love Of An Orchestra.

Girls on tour

2009-11-20T14:50:00.002Z

Girls, very excellent band, if not very very excellent, return to Europe next year, Feb and Mar. Dates below, official video further below. HERE for the hardcore edit (we couldn't find an embed-able version).

FEBRUARY
22 13; Brighton, Audio
25 13; Southampton, Talking Heads
26 13; Lancaster, Library
27 13; Glasgow, Stereo

MARCH
01 13; Dublin, Whelans
02 13; Manchester, Deaf Institute
03 13; Birmingham, Hare & Hounds
05 13; Paris, Maroquinerie
06 13; Brussels, Botanique
07 13; Amsterdam, Paradiso
08 13; Hamburg, Molotow
10 13; Gothenburg, Pusterviksbaren
11 13; Stockholm, Debaser Slussen
13 13; Berlin, Bang Bang Club
14 13; Cologne, Werkstatt
15 13; Strasbourg, Laiterie Club
16 13; Lille, Aeronef
17 13; Nantes, Olympic

Girls - Lust for Life from Myles Cooper on Vimeo.