Archive for May, 2011
TENSAKE, COLOURMUSIC plus THE 2 BEARS
May 31st, 2011 by admin
Dance Floor Bazooka Of The Weekend Award definitely goes to TENSNAKE, which in itself is going to stimulate something of a stewards enquiry cause you know how positively predisposed I am to anything that comes out of that DJ’s laptop set-up, it cud be wack and I’d still love it. ‘Something About You’ is definitely [...]
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BRAND NU TOP THREE 29 05 11
May 30th, 2011 by admin
BRAND NU TOP THREE 29 05 11 1) HHYMN – ‘These Hands’ 2) THE 2 BEARS – ‘Bear Hug’ 3) BOY MANDIVILLE – ‘Gorilla’ With an Honorary mention to MR SCRUFF – ‘Wobble’ This week’s “great but not quite”: DELS – ‘Capsize’ THOMAS TANTRUM -‘Hot Hot Summer’
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2 BEARS, SCRUFF plus THOMAS TANTRUM
May 27th, 2011 by admin
Let’s have a ‘Bear Hug’ baby! What a tune from THE 2 BEARS. Off their new EP (what a shocker its called the Bear Hug EP) this is basically two tunes, an awesome three in the morning baseline with some amusing slightly pervy lyrics and then a quite poppy harmonising bit which gives away the [...]
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ADELE – The Raving Capitalist
May 26th, 2011 by admin
I’m about to spout a massive generalisation, ready yourself for a journey to stereo-type central… most musicians have a broadly left of centre view on life. Certainly more Labour than Tory, certainly more Robin Hood ‘tax the rich and give to the poor’ than Maggie T’s laissez faire each man (or handbag loving woman) to [...]
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HHYMN, DELS plus BOY MANDIVILLE
May 25th, 2011 by admin
The debut album from HHYMN messes with my head in two main ways. Firstly I cannot fathom how this band are not better known, particularly in the Mumfordian Era we currently inhabit, we’re so much more open to folkier, less conventionally ‘bandy’ sounds. Secondly in the classic way of a great album, trying to decide [...]
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BRAND NU TOP THREE 22 05 11
May 22nd, 2011 by admin
BRAND NU TOP THREE 22 05 11 1) OBENEWA - ‘Bed’ 2) SKREAM – ‘Hats Off’ 3) DEF SOUND – ‘(A)Gain’ With an Honorary mention to FRIENDLY FIRES – ‘Helpless’ This week’s “great but not quite”: CHAD VALLEY – ‘How Does It Feel’ WU LYF PSYCHDELIC HORSESHIT
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SKREAM, CHAD VALLEY plus OBENEWA
May 20th, 2011 by admin
Tunes born from the Electronic Music womb often take their time, either doing summersaults in the womb or when actually born pouncing around the maternity ward. Ok I think I’ve laboured (boom, boom) this metaphor enough. My point being electronic tracks often stay on the underground for a long time before surfacing nearer ‘mainstream/ crossover [...]
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Make Love Not War, actually no, lets buy more aircraft carriers!
May 18th, 2011 by admin
LIAM FOX is the UK’s Defence Secretary which basically means he’s in charge of wars and stuff, not sure if that means stopping them or organising them, will get back to you on that. Whereas some of his peers have to do boring stuff like you know make sure pensions are paid and that hospitals [...]
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WU LYF, DEF SOUND, PSYCHDELIC HORSESHIT plus FRIENDLY FIRES
May 18th, 2011 by admin
Sonically the new track from WU LYF leaves me feeling bruised, in a ‘yeah-but-ya- should-have-seen-the-other-guy’ kinda way. It;s an engaging and captivating track without being able to put your finger on why, almost simultaneously pleasurable and painful, the adrenaline from the fight countering the pain of the punch. You’ll probably think I’m talking do-lally (ain’t [...]
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BRAND NU TOP THREE 15 05 11
May 15th, 2011 by admin
BRAND NU TOP THREE 15 05 11 1) FOSTER THE PEOPLE – ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ 2) RONIKA – ‘WiYoo’/‘Forget Yourself’ 3) MICHAEL KIWUNAKA – ‘Tell Me A Tale’ With an Honorary mention to THE VERY BEST – ‘SuperMom’ This week’s “great but not quite”: DJ SHADOW – ‘I Gotta Rokk’ IN FLAGRANTI – ‘Hollow Discourse’
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