Saturday 27 February 2010

My New House #1

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I've decided to do a weekly post based on some brilliant architectural pictures i've found on the net called 'My New House'. I try and couple it with music i think suits it best.
-Chambre Des Enfants


Today i chose a track by Francis Dhomont called Chambre Des Enfants to accompany this strange structure. This music is absolutely stunning, mindblowing. It's the music of dreams, familiar day to day sounds that ride on waves of what i can only describe as an electronic current, softly accompanied by the most beautiful piano. It's like when you've had a busy day and your trying desperately to fall asleep in bed, turning the pillow over and over, counting sheep even though you know it doesn't work, thoughts come and go of the days events in a strange haze and blur, a flurry of sound, thoughts, ideas and memories crowd your already over worked brain which is now emitting a strange sweeping curtain of noise and a continual static pulse. You try haarrrd to sleep but your head is propelling this energy in the most obnoxious garish way. Until, you finally submit to sleep and the piano carries you gently onto the next track on the playlist which is usually seriously noisy and annoying so the dreams all over, awake again. Shit.

-Implosion

I love the complete deconstruction of music and construction of sound in this other track, 'Implosion'. i'm finding it so fascinating at the moment. Musique Concrete for me was never something i took much interest in or could relate to but the stuff i've heard from Dohmont and some of the french composers i've tracked down recently have left me speechless.

Wednesday 24 February 2010

Suck It And See


Music at the moment has so many oppurtunities and so many interesting minds, why is everyone so fucking cynical towards each other? Grow up and enjoy making music, ditch the shit attitude, it's boring. Live your own life, Play hard and prove your worth instead of talking so much. Suck it and see...

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A guitar line that sounds like a chorus of cats dying! Phasing that tears the record almost in half! Pounding bass and drums 1.39 of the most furious, charged, fuck off garage punk with a vocalist that warns

IM GONNA SHOW YOU THINGS THAT WILL TURN YOUR LITTLE HEAD AROUND


ha! can't beat that.

A Thousand Wonders

It's grey outside and dull inside i think it's time i got on the good foot.

Cajun Hart - Got To Find A Way



The lyrics in the song and the backing make me literally weak at the knees. Screaming the lyrics at the top of my lungs with the single on full blast until my neighbours bang on the ceiling and the walls. Some seriously powerful stuff, might not appeal to most of you because you're either not listening to it loud enough or you have two left feet, but the band behind Mr Hart are giving it fucking everything and you can feel every punch of the brass and strings with the lyrics and racing drums through your bones and body, so i wonder where the wind blows. Fucking hell! you cannot beat music like this. I dig it out once every few months just for that added effect.

Danelle Darris - Don't Love Me And Leave Me



This was played to me by a friend when i was first getting into Northern Soul. Dannelle Darris is my future wife, with a voice like that i would do anything. like seriously anything.

Rita And Tiaras - Gone With Wind Is My Love

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One of my absolute favourites, an amazing record. Prices on this one go out the roof, which i'm not suprised about. It's just got that driving beat and perfect female vocal which i won't rest until i have it in my hands. Ouch
http://www.popsike.com/RITA-THE-TIARAS-DORE-783-GONE-WITH-THE-WIND-45-RPM/280341922973.html



T S U Toronadoes - A Thousand Wonders



A slightly more groovy version than i'm used to but nonetheless one of the sweetest coolest records from the scene that i've heard. I heard it first on one of the After Hours comps which are just fucking brilliant, seriously worth picking up on c.d if you see it.

Every single one of the songs above has opitimised feelings i've had for previous girlfriends and in my eyes will sum up many more ahead. The flirtations - nothing but a heartache for example is a record that sees you at your happiest with someone and a few months later your saddest without them. It's a classic and it's never been beaten, if you've heard it to much i feel sorry for you.



I'm fucking knackered after that and have just blown my speakers and thank you jack for reminding me how good these sounds were!

Tuesday 23 February 2010

For No One

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I'm not usually the one to fly the beatles over flown flag or ever thought they'd ever find their way on to this blog but i kind of have to for this song. The album is almost faultless and this song in particular can't reeeally be beaten eventhough the second side is a bit loose except for the two below. Today should be an interesting day.



now Beatles never darken my doorstep again




Moderately sexier than the other take

Monday 22 February 2010

Modulate with ME #1

Erika Thrasher
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Bands with girl synthesizer players are the fucking nuts. Girls that can Modulate like this are deitys. Erika Thrasher, i think is her name, and she plays in the texan band Indian Jewelry, she fucking rocks. She plays synthesizer, guitar and vox. Indian Jewelry were played to me by a friend recently whilst we were driving through hastings in almost complete darkness. Fucking hell it was good. Their album Invasive Exotics is insanity. Good speeding round country roads music, drunk melodies, storm trooper vocals, beautiful noise, throbbing synthesizers the fucking lot! This band are underrated, filthy and have been around too long for you to not know who they are.

Here is the link Via the marvellous I.d Reverberations Blogspot.

http://www.mediafire.com/?cx5czc4c2gz

Assembly Line Club

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The Assembly Line Club is mine and a friends new venture into giving you a new club that'll make it's way through London, Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Warsaw, New York, Kiev, Antwerp, Texas, and Paris. The idea is it's an exploration through Electronic music from the late 1950's to Today. Francis Bacon wrote this in 1624 in his novel The New Atlantis and sums it up perfectly..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Atlantis


"WEE ALSO HAVE SOUND-HOUSES, WHERE WEE PRACTICE AND DEMONSTRATE ALL SOUNDS AND THEIR GENERATION. WEE HAVE HARMONIES WHICH YOU HAVE NOT, OF QUATER SOUNDS, AND LESSER SLIDES OF SOUNDS. DIVERSE INSTRUMENTS OF MUSICK LIKEWISE TO YOU UNKNOWNE, SOME SWEETER THAN ANY YOU HAVE, TOGETHER WITH BELLS AND RINGS THAT ARE DFAINTY AND SWEE. WEE REPRESENT SMALL SOUNDS AS WELL AS GREAT AND DEEPE; LIKEWISE GREAT SOUNDS, EXTENUATE AND SHARPE; WEE MAKE DIVERSE TREMBLINGS AND WARBLINGS OF SOUNDS, WHICH IN THEIR ORIGINALLE ARE ENTIRE. WEE REPRESENT AND ARTICULATE SOUNDS AND LETTERS AND THE VOICES AND NOTES OF BEASTS AND BIRDS, WEE HAVE CERTAIN HELPS, WHICH SETT TO THE EARE DOE FURTHER THE HEARING GREATLY. WEE ALSO HAVE STRANGE AND ARTIFICIAL ECHOS'S, REFLECTING THE VOICE MANY TIMES, AND AS IT WERE TOSSING IT; AND SOME THAT GIVE BACK THE VOICE LOWDER THAN IT CAM, SOME IN THE LETTERS OR ARTICULATE SOUND, FROM THAT THEY RECEYVE, WEE HAVE ALSO MEANS TO CONVEY SOUNDS IN TRUNKS AND PIPES, IN STRANGE LINES, AND DISTANCES. . . "


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Projections at the club will be as dominant as the music policy. Psychedelic Pornography, Psychotic animations, Oil Projections (of course), Italian Horror Film, Solar Flares Burn For You, Beyond Image. Entertaining the senses. And Here, what you can expect to hear..

Clozier and Lejeune - Petite Suite



I found a copy of this a while ago and refused to spend £150 on it, since then i've pissed around with copies on ebay and always just missed them, but fuck me get your head around this record. These are some serious sounds floating around on this. The track 'Danse' had me in tears the first time i heard it. It was meant to be my track of the week a few weeks ago but i couldn't locate an mp3 of it, so you'll have to make do with this. This is a slice of out and out Psychedelic freakery that i can't stop listening to at the moment.

Flying Lotus - GNG BNG

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Now someone i rate quite highly is this guy flying lotus, this track is from his album Los Angeles which came out in 2008, i remember hearing this in Phonica in soho and being bowled over. Quite a salute to the late Add N To X this one but still fucking good.




We are in the process of tracking down a venue for the club and tracking down new bands routed in Electronic music. Here is the link for the myspace where there is more music and details and where you can get in touch with either myself or Jack --

www.myspace.com/assemblylineclub