Can't stop listening to this track. All weekend long! Some new faces from philly. It's french touchish, but has a great driving melody that puts me in mind of a really cheesy power metal track.
Some new remixes from their recent 12 inch out last week. The everything you touch remix is great. It sounds like it's behind the beat and slightly off, but it works well.
Nice little melody here. Most of their songs are messy drum and bass with lots of noise and melody. It's an adventurous mix and works a lot of the time. They seem to be strongest doing fun songs like this first track though which is off their album from last year.
Fun track. It's basically a recasting of Straight to Hell By the clash but the bass sound is a bit different. Lots of gun noises with a heavy dub feel. It sounds a lot like the Future Sounds of London with a proper Rap bit. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
I've been busy lately. Hopefully I can do some more updates this weekend.
Lithuania's take on the whole french touch scene. Good track here that sounds a lot like the big J, and totally worth the listen. I think they only have this one 12'inch up for grabs......and I doubt you'll find it around here anyway! I really like the metal style cover.
If you don't know who Plastique De RĂªve is, you should. he's been doing electronic music since the 80s and crossed into just about every style there is. From EBM to Techno Pop, and from Ambient and Electro, he's been there.
This track is a great Electro funk track, but slightly more robotic than most. It's off his THE SOUNDS YOU HEAR 12inch on turbo records.
I guess use Melt Banana or Yellow Sub Machine Gun as a starting point. But not nearly as noise crazy or straight up punk. Loud, and distorted, brash and fun. The White Stripes if the White Stripes weren't obsessed with being quirky and low-fi tossers and grew up in london listening to Guitar Wolf?
I don't want this blog to get overly political, but this article really sums up the devastation, corruption, and folly of the "Surge". The next time you talk to somebody who thinks we shouldn't be pulling out, and that the surge should be "given a chance"...show them this:
The number of taxpayer-paid private contractors in Iraq, the number of bullets fired for each insurgent killed, the percentage of amputations performed on U.S. war-wounded: a compilation of numbers puts Iraq into perspective.
Someday, we will undoubtedly discover that, in the term "surge" -- as in the President's "surge" plan (or "new way forward") announced to the nation in January -- was the urge to avoid the language (and experience) of the Vietnam era. As there were to be no "body bags" (or cameras to film them as the dead came home), as there were to be no "body counts" ("We have made a conscious effort not to be a body-count team" was the way the President put it), as there were to be no "quagmires," nor the need to search for that "light at the end of the tunnel," so, surely, there were to be no "escalations."