The Shoes are French and play keyboards so of course they’re all over l’internetz. Knock Out! their Rocky-referencing paean to pugilism is out soon and if you like that you’ll enjoy their recent dust-ups with Primary 1 , Mystery Jets and Get Cape Wear Cape Fly. The Shoes – Knock Out! (80Kidz Remix) [mp3] Update- [...]
01.03.08.
Last week we watched a funny TV show about the poor bastards who work in call centres. The obscene opening soundtrack/rant was provided by Johnny Trunk, the genius behind oddball archive label Trunk Records. Some people really don’t like cold callers. Johnny Trunk – Scooby Don’t [mp3] [Buy]
01.03.08.
It’s 1981 and ESG and John Carpenter have covered Roy Budd’s theme from Get Carter, except it’s not and they haven’t, it’s now and Zombie Zombie are scoring amazing horror films that don’t exist. Here they provide an end credits soundtrack to the long, dark road down which our hero travels after a movie’s worth [...]
01.03.08.
Micachu is a 21-year-old wunderkind composer/songwriter/DJ who’s pally with Matthew Herbert. Her new mix is full of creepy off-kilter digitronics, manic grime and her own woozy vocals. In her semi-conscious Rotoscoped world filthy friends like Man Like Me, Toddla T, Ghost Poet and Golden Silvers slowly drift in and out of focus. It’s not so [...]
01.03.08.
DJ PantsWe rarely leave the Tower Of Pinglewood. We’re not agoraphobic, just effort haters. But our pals Alex Chase and Charles II have coaxed us out to miscue records at their Roll Call party tomorrow night. We’ll be joining actual DJs like Floss Daily and Stones Throw’s resident ladies man, James Pants. Peanut Butter Wolf [...]
01.03.08.
We wrote about Striken City recently because their demos are amazing and their singer’s surname is Raa which sounds like a roar if you say it right. We’re simple folk and things like that please us. Now we have their new Factory Sessions EP and dudes have more than paid off on their early promise. [...]
01.03.08.
It’s the Easter holidays and we are full of joie de vivre. Probably because we’re listening to the Mystery Jets new album 21, a record so exuberant it could make Chris Partlow smile. Here le dudes from The Shoes give Young Love a subtle synthesizing. Mystery Jets – Young Love (Shoes Mix) [mp3] [Buy]
01.03.08.
Sometimes it feels like the world is overrun by electro troubadours. Those camp dudes and their laptops are everywhere. Then we heard the awesomely droll toytown pop of Esser‘s new vinyl-only single and saw people throwing raw bacon at him in the video and realised, of course, that these dudes rule and we need more [...]
01.03.08.
Wasn’t it great the way Hercules & Love Affair transformed Antony from hammy, maudlin balladeer to hammy, maudlin disco diva? Now that Joanna Newsom is making the gossip pages we think it’s high time she too was transformed into a k-fueled club freak. Imagine it: a harp and silver hotpants. That is a world-beating combination. [...]
01.03.08.