For this festive edition of the Pingcast we emailed ourselves to Tokyo for a Japanese music special. It’s called Winter In Japan (the name took us a while). We put together a mix of our favourite new acts and got our buddy Tiger Reid in as special guest host. Tiger will be presenting her own [...]
24.12.10.
You know the bit in Pet Sematary where the boy, Gage, gets run over and his dad buries him in the Micmac burial ground in the hope that Gage will return from the dead, and Gage does return from the dead but instead of a nice kid he’s now a scalpel-wielding, town-terrorising cannibal? Well Blessure [...]
21.12.10.
Sunset Article is a new song from Tokyo’s :visited. When I put it on the ice on my windows melted, the sky turned orange, and I started smiling FOR NO REASON. Much more of this stuff soon, when the Pingcast broadcasts live from Japan. :visited – Sunset Article [mp3] :visited – Like Sheynius [mp3]
20.12.10.
Last D2P of the year at The FADER with the awesome Waskerley Way. We talked about cats, obviously.
20.12.10.
These are crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy Nites. Nites – Fall In The Seduction [mp3] Nites – It Is An Excuse To Get Hurt And To Hurt [mp3]
17.12.10.
We think we’ve almost decoded the new Waskerley Way EP (Gâteau: a french cake. Gato: a Spanish cat. Supercat: A super cat). We just need to figure out how Energy Legs and New Norse fit in. Maybe they are both cats? Or, um, cakes. Waskerley Way – Gâteau [mp3] [Buy]
13.12.10.
Like a sonic schizophrenic, Chris Powers has many musical identities. Termeric explores his exotic, epicurean side. Like the work of some half-crazed, globe-trotting parasitologist-chef, his new album Natural Gel is a gastronomic Petri dish full of sautéed culture cells and stewed bacterial colonies (and beats, yo.) Buy it now from Alpha Pup Digital and the [...]
13.12.10.
For this week’s Dollars To Pounds I caught up with the production powerhouse behind 78% of the music I write about, Rory Brattwell.
10.12.10.