tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84500504085212834832024-03-13T13:03:09.907+01:00IKRS ZineEen site over indie/electro muziek. Interviews, album recensies, live reportages, en het muzieknieuws voor de liefhebber.Stefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04701668804150716435noreply@blogger.comBlogger1720125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450050408521283483.post-45748473601637652182012-07-18T00:08:00.000+02:002012-07-18T13:58:10.942+02:00IKRS Fanzine, over indie/electro/whatever muziek!<div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">Welcome to the site of IKRS, a fanzine for people who love music. In this post you can find everything there is on the site, neatly gathered at the top of the blog. For news (wrapped in stories), interviews, live reports, and reviews/first listen/ album features; it's all here honey! Don't forget to check the Clip of the Day, which is refreshed (almost) daily. Read about what we do and what we stand for in our <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2009/01/about-ikrs.html">About IKRS</a> section (just Dutch, unfortunately). For more information you can mail <a href="mailto:ikrszine@gmail.com">ikrszine@gmail.com</a> or you can pm/add me on <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/sa34">www.last.fm/user/sa34</a> .Or follow us on twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/IKRSzine">www.twitter.com/IKRSzine</a>. <br />
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<b>(News) Stories:</b><br />
05 June:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.nl/2012/06/jamie-jones-to-release-sophomore-album.html">Jamie Jones to release sophomore album</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.nl/2012/06/walkmen-to-release-new-album-in-june.html">The Walkmen release album today</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"> <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2012/02/news-archive-of-february-2012.html">This month's news </a><br />
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<b>Reviews/Reports:</b><br />
<a href="http://musosguide.com/thieves-like-us-bleed-bleed-bleed/20692">Bleed Bleed Bleed by Thieves Like Us - Album Review</a> (External link)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://musosguide.com/05-days-off-festival-escort-whomadewho-amsterdam-paradiso/20762">05 Days Off - Escort & WhoMadeWho @ Paradiso</a> (External link)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://musosguide.com/casiokids-aabenbaringen-over-aaskammen/19998">Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen - Album review</a> (External link)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://musosguide.com/azari-and-iii-amsterdam-trouw/19562">Azari & III live at Trouw</a> <br />
<a href="http://musosguide.com/owen-pallett-eindhoven-catharinakerk/19444">Owen Pallett and the Noord Nederlands Orkest live at Catharinakerk</a> (External link) <br />
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<b>Daily/Weekly Columns:</b><br />
<a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2009/09/clip-van-de-dag.html">Daily Clip</a> (18 juli</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">) </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://musosguide.com/the-weekly-froth-with-jeremy-glenn-marcos-cabral-and-julio-bashmore/22364">The Weekly Froth #48</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://musosguide.com/now-playing-blur-under-the-westway/22310">Now Playing... 'Under the Westway' by Blur</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://musosguide.com/the-weekly-froth-with-late-nite-tuff-guy-jacques-renault-and-antony-hegarty/22237">The Weekly Froth #47</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://musosguide.com/now-playing-divine-fits-would-that-not-be-nice/22153#more-22153">Now Playing... 'Would That Not Be Nice' by Divine Fits</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"> <b></b><b>Features:</b><br />
Favorite Albums of the first half of 2012 - <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.nl/2012/07/our-favorite-albums-of-first-part-of.html">10 </a>/ <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.nl/2012/07/our-favorite-albums-of-first-part-of_02.html">9</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.nl/2012/07/our-favorite-albums-of-first-part-of_03.html">8</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.nl/2012/07/our-favorite-albums-of-first-part-of_04.html">7</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.nl/2012/07/our-favorite-albums-of-first-part-of_05.html">6</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.nl/2012/07/our-favorite-albums-of-first-part-of_06.html">5</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.nl/2012/07/our-favorite-albums-of-first-part-of_07.html">4</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.nl/2012/07/our-favorite-albums-of-first-part-of_09.html">3</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.nl/2012/07/our-favorite-albums-of-first-part-of_10.html">2</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.nl/2012/07/our-favorite-albums-of-first-part-of_11.html">1</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2012/01/best-live-performances-of-2011-compiled.html">Best live performances of 2011 (compiled in bad vids that don't do justice to the real thing)</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-other-fav-things-of-2011-and-what-im.html">Other fav things of 2011, and things I'm looking forward to in 2012</a><br />
Favorite Albums of 2011 - <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2011/12/our-10-favorite-albums-of-2011-nr-10.html">10</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2011/12/our-10-favorite-albums-of-2011-nr-09.html">9</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2011/12/our-10-favorite-albums-of-2011-nr-08.html">8</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2011/12/our-10-favorite-albums-of-2011-nr-07.html">7</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2012/01/our-10-favorite-albums-of-2011-nr-06.html">6</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2012/01/our-10-favorite-albums-of-2011-nr-05.html">5</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2012/01/our-10-favorite-albums-of-2011-nr-04.html">4</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2012/01/our-10-favorite-albums-of-2011-nr-03.html">3</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2012/01/our-10-favorite-albums-of-2011-nr-02.html">2</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2012/01/our-10-favorite-albums-of-2011-nr-01.html">1</a> - <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2012/01/our-10-favorite-albums-of-2011-overview.html">Overview of the lists</a><br />
Favorite tracks of 2011 - <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2011/12/our-top-50-favorite-tracks-countdown-50.html">50-46</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2011/12/our-top-50-favorite-tracks-countdown-45.html">45-41</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2011/12/our-top-50-favorite-tracks-countdown-40.html">40 - 36</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2011/12/our-top-50-favorite-tracks-countdown-35.html">35 - 31</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2011/12/our-top-50-favorite-tracks-countdown-30.html">30 - 26</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2011/12/our-top-50-favorite-tracks-countdown-25.html">25 - 21</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2012/01/our-top-50-favorite-tracks-countdown-20.html">20 - 16</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2012/01/our-top-50-favorite-tracks-countdown-15.html">15 -11</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2012/01/our-top-50-favorite-tracks-countdown-10.html">10 - 06</a> / <a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2012/01/our-top-50-favorite-tracks-countdown-05.html">05 - 01</a><br />
<a href="http://ikrszine.blogspot.com/2009/01/interview-archief.html">Interview archive</a><br />
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<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351753863718228002" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cPb8iuSDQCw/SkU_yMQ_0CI/AAAAAAAABF0/DO_5DfDiDts/s320/oxfam.jpg" style="display: block; height: 184px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></span></div>Stefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04701668804150716435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450050408521283483.post-40847873329307076722012-07-18T00:04:00.000+02:002012-07-18T13:57:18.390+02:00The Weekly Froth #48 (with Marcos Cabral & Jeremy Glenn, Tensnake, more!)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tOlN_uf6IG0/UAakgspchnI/AAAAAAAADlU/6FreEOHvdso/s1600/glenn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tOlN_uf6IG0/UAakgspchnI/AAAAAAAADlU/6FreEOHvdso/s320/glenn.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The Weekly Froth! A weekly take on six tracks, most of which have recently popped up somewhere in the blogosphere. Bit of a mixed bag with a slight leaning towards house, disco, and remixes, but generally just anything that for some reason tickled the writer’s fancy.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Track of the week: ‘Partytime’ by Jeremy Glenn (Marcos Cabral remix)</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We know <b>Jeremy Glenn</b> has done some good work recently, and we know that <b>Marcos Cabral </b>can bang out a (house) tune. So put the two together, and you’re on to something, right? From the get go, this thing is on fire. Love the beat with the piano seeping through, and then it really gets rolling with more and more instruments being introduced. Cabral will not be rushed, and I like that in an eight minute song. If you are going to do something for eight minutes, might as well show some patience and make sure you pick up all the momentum you can gather. And so he does and so it rolls on, constantly tweaking it slightly to make sure it doesn’t get dull. The change-ups are there as well (just look at the shape of the SoundCloud thingy). The first one strips it back to a percussion led fragment (which changes mid gear as well into something more synth), and the second change-up also strips it down a tad This all, of course, to build back up to the main beat, which comes back in not too much later. Personally I would’ve loved for that return to go together with a bit more of a punch, but that doesn’t change the fact that this one keeps on rolling and will keep everyone on dancing. Sans vocals, by the way. <span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #1919a7; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="http://musosguide.com/the-weekly-froth-with-jeremy-glenn-marcos-cabral-and-julio-bashmore/22364#more-22364">… Continue Reading</a></b></span></span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #1919a7; text-decoration: underline;"><br />
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<div></div>Stefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04701668804150716435noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450050408521283483.post-17485175076567658022012-07-14T00:04:00.001+02:002012-07-14T14:11:29.260+02:00Now Playing... ‘Under the Westway’ by Blur<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q7opO1zixwI/UAFh5z16tSI/AAAAAAAADko/oxO6S2znPTg/s1600/blur-under-the-westway1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q7opO1zixwI/UAFh5z16tSI/AAAAAAAADko/oxO6S2znPTg/s320/blur-under-the-westway1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Now Playing</b> – twice every week, a roundtable of our writers will give their views on some of the recently-released new tracks. It’s as simple as that! If you want to tell us what you think of the song, feel free to leave a comment below.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Track: ‘Under the Westway’ by Blur </b><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #1919a7; text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="http://musosguide.com/now-playing-blur-under-the-westway/22310#more-22310">… Continue Reading</a></b></span></span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #1919a7; text-decoration: underline;"><br />
</span></span></div>Stefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04701668804150716435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450050408521283483.post-6793647037257771662012-07-14T00:02:00.002+02:002012-07-14T14:10:38.986+02:00The Weekly Froth #47<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tiixKD_IEPc/UAFhr5Dc15I/AAAAAAAADkg/k5i48z7c0M0/s1600/LNTG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tiixKD_IEPc/UAFhr5Dc15I/AAAAAAAADkg/k5i48z7c0M0/s320/LNTG.jpg" width="318" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The Weekly Froth! A weekly take on six tracks, most of which have recently popped up somewhere in the blogosphere. Bit of a mixed bag with a slight leaning towards house, disco, and remixes, but generally just anything that for some reason tickled the writer’s fancy.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Track of the week: ‘Do I Believe in God’ by Late Nite Tuff Guy</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">No he didn’t. ‘Controversy’ by <b>Prince</b> is just an awesome tune, and some fantastic remixes have already been made of it. <b>Late Nite Tuff Guy</b>, who has already taken on a lot of classics to make them pure love for the dancefloor, is the next to try, and with such material, how could anyone fail? He starts with this sound to dance to, and slowly you begin hearing that Prince guitar from the song. An impatient person would’ve gone straight in at the half minute mark, but LNTG waits a little bit more, builds it up a little bit more, and gives people a little bit more time to realize, Oh hey, I KNOW this! So wait for it, wait for it, and then, at 1:37, there it is! ‘Controversy’ by Prince. What a funky tune, and that build-up makes it all the sweeter. I think any dancefloor must go bananas on this, and I’m curious to see if he gets clearance to release this (fat chance, probably). If not, that would be too bad, because this should be banging on every dancefloor. That guitar, those vocals, that funk, and LNTG puts emphasis on all the right things to make it even more of a dancefloor monster than it already is in its own right. He throws in a bible verse there, which might or might not be to your taste, but it’s short and the funk is nine minutes long, so even if, who cares. These are the things that make me happy. <a href="http://musosguide.com/the-weekly-froth-with-late-nite-tuff-guy-jacques-renault-and-antony-hegarty/22237#more-22237"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #1919a7; text-decoration: underline;"><b>… Continue Reading</b></span></a></span></div>Stefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04701668804150716435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450050408521283483.post-13806482038562805842012-07-11T00:02:00.000+02:002012-07-11T20:03:21.055+02:00Our favorite albums of the first part of the year- Nr. 01<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bmjes7fC5cA/T_2_nANkpLI/AAAAAAAADj0/uN2S47VRCCA/s1600/John+Talabot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bmjes7fC5cA/T_2_nANkpLI/AAAAAAAADj0/uN2S47VRCCA/s320/John+Talabot.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">So here we are again. Nothing changes, it all stays the same, nothing ever happens. For the umpteenth time now, we put in our 2 cents of what has been doing it for us in the first half of this year music wise. Hopefully you can find something in there that you agree with, which you overlooked at first, or which you maybe never even heard of. So much great music out there, this is our little grab out of that hat, enjoy!</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>01. Linda</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Artist: Lotus Plaza</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Album: Spooky Action at a Distance</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Label: Kranky</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="color: #292929; font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I thought this was an average, nice album, till the moment I put it on my headphones when I was walking through the park on a hazy sunny day (yes, we did have some of those this year). It just clicked. It might not be the best album to put on at a dinner party, or in the background when you're doing some work, but for walking around the city with your headphones on to block the noise, this the perfect shoegaze/noise rock/dream pop option. It is, you might say, sublime. </span></div><div style="color: #292929; font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
Tracks switch from ambient dreamy pop (Strangers) to more assertive guitar based tracks (White Galatic One), without ever losing the flow of the album. Some way or other, it all still fits together. </span></div><div style="color: #292929; font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
And yes, Lockett Pundt also just so happens to be that guitarist who stands, unshaken and unassuming, next to the terrific Bradford Cox when they play as Deerhunter, but lets give credit where credit's due and judge him on his own merits. </span></div><div style="color: #292929; font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>01. Stef</b></span></div><div style="color: #292929; font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Artist: John Talabot</b></span></div><div style="color: #292929; font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Album: Fin</b></span></div><div style="color: #292929; font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Label: Permanent Vacation</b></span></div><div style="color: #292929; font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="color: #292929; font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">And so here we are, number one, and for me, I’ve just got a weakness for these kind of albums that for some reason or another I find perfectly suited to listen at midnight to. In the train, or walking around in the city, seeing the city lights, and then music can be just the perfect companion. Luckily, every year there’s sure to be one album that will accompany you when it has all gone dark and the city lights are all you see in abandoned streets with only the bums and the youth alive as its inhabitants.</span></div><div style="color: #292929; font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="color: #292929; font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Last year it was Nicolas Jaar, I certainly count Circlesquare’s album to that category as well. And here, John Talabot has done it to perfection too. All three manage to make such elegant, understated songs that put me in escapist mode when I’m thinking about love and law and poverty. The combination of the vocals, the beat, and just the overall complex compositions of these songs (in combination with a full moon, though full isn’t a prerequisite) just manage to hit me like no other albums can. John Talabot, with his lovely songs, his collaborations with Pional (another talented man right there), manages to evoke exactly the right atmosphere and emotions on this album that make me want to wander from lamppost to lamppost. </span><br />
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Not that many debut albums made my list this year, but this one definitely stood out for me. The amount of reverb on this album might scare a lesser band, but they've managed to make it work. The best description of the album I've read is that it sounds a bit like a sad robot (cue Marvin the robot) that is trying to recreate the 80s in its shed. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
'Dark Star' and 'Lay Your Cards Out' are two singles that will hopefully get the band the attention they deserve for daring to come out with something like this. What they are great at is balance. Whereas opening track 'Amongster' is made up solely from drums , singing and a synth, other tracks, such as 'Dark Star' have a wealth of instrumentation behind them. Both tracks still manage to sound light, sculpted and catchy, and that's a hell of a trick. Also: they have guitars! Yay!</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>02. Stef</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Artist: WhoMadeWho</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Album: Brighter</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Label: Kompakt</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I’ve loved a lot of what these guys have done, though I’m not sure I’ve actually loved a whole album. This, I love as a whole album. It has those great vocals that I just adore (that’s a real weak spot for me, which might explain why this album is higher on my list than on others), and all these songs have a tight rhythm that propel them forward.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I also like the aesthetic of the songs. It has this atmosphere I really love, this slight slant towards the melancholic/detached. Yet, the songs, thanks to the tight rhythm section, are all pretty danceable, and they are very “active” songs in the sense that they are pretty full on and accessible and catchy. That contrast between the content in the form, in this case, forms a wonderful combination that, instead of opposing each other, actually heightens both. Great album that I can listen to over and over again without growing tired.</span><br />
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So maybe Error's record comes at exactly the right time. There definitely seem to be a lot of errors going around, and faith in magic is what seems to be needed to keep our heads up. There are some catchy melodies on this album, and they even manage to keep the tracks and album exciting all the way through. It's their third full length and they really seem to have mastered the art of a good build up. Although their songs explore all kinds of different genres, from afro-rhythms via danceable indielectro to post-rock, together the tracks fit together better than Murray and his expressionless face (<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/08/andy-murray-not-miserable-just-normal"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">which we should love</span></a>). </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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<div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>04. Stef</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Artist: Twin Shadow</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Album: Confess</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Label: 4AD</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Only been streaming for a short while now, but the single ‘Five Seconds’ was already an indication (for me at least...) that this was going to be good. The track that comes after that one on the album, ‘Run My Heart’, is pure genius. I just love that line of I’m not in love / I’m just a boy, you’re just a girl / and if you want to be the one that believes it, then be the one that believes it. It is the epitome of youth, being “in love”, but really not, and if any of the two mistakes it for the real thing and not a boy/girl thing, that’s when the real heartache starts.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It is funny, because in essence, most of the songs are about the most basal thing imaginable: love, either the presence or absence of it. Now, that could be a recipe for the most banal album ever, but with his debut Twin Shadow already proved that they can make it into something evoking emotion whilst sticking to the core. Something like ‘Forget’ on that album, for instance. This album has plenty of great songs, I love the vocals, it seems a bit more complex in terms of instruments, bit more layered, and I think this is an album I’ll be having on frequently this summer.</span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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"Guitar music is on the way out." Every time someone dares to put those words in print, it seems guitars are about to make a grand return to the charts. Originally, those words are attributed to a man working at Decca in 1962, after being asked to consider signing a guitar band by the name of The Beatles. But over the years, it just keeps popping up. Guitars certainly were obsolete when synthesizers took over the world in the 70s, but then there suddenly were bands like R.E.M., U2 and the Smiths to prove them wrong. But no, we were assured guitars would die with the 80s, only to run headfirst into the 90s with Nirvana and Blur. The same trick repeated itself at the turn of the millennium, with guitars to be restored to their rightful place in music by bands like Franz Ferdinand and Arcade Fire. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It appears that now we've gone a full circle again, and it is time to yet again declare the demise of the guitar. Luckily, fresh blood, by the name of FOE, is waiting to prove the nay-sayers wrong. She is only 22, but she has some attitude, and some vaudeville/horror movie-inspired tracks to share with you. For a debut album, it's surprisingly coherent and appears to be thought out and created with a certain direction in mind. Nevertheless, it's not a one-trick pony, and manages to grab your attention after a few spins. And most importantly, it has some of those presumed-to-be dying guitars. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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Everything on this album has been done before, mostly in the 80s, which happened a terrifying 30 years ago (terrifying as I was born in that decade and have memories from that decade, though I'm heavily in denial as to being associated to something that happened that long ago). Nevertheless, Chairlift's <i>Something</i> really manages to get me of my chair and dance embarrassingly through the living room (it's the only way I know how). 'Met before' is a real belter, and would have made my track of the year so far if Phantogram hadn't been around. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br />
As a good album requires, they're also pretty special in a live setting. Leaving out the few weaker tracks towards the end of the album, they're a real crowd pleaser. Anyone who secretly sings along to 'Take on Me' (=best pop song ever) will surely love this album. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br />
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<div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>07. Stef</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Artist: Drrtyhaze</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Album: Love Loud</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Label: Nang Records</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Drrtyhaze’s debut record is just an amazing collection of fabulous house songs that should be burning holes in the dancefloor. There are some absolute killers on here, maybe chief amongst them ‘Giving You All of My Love’, which is an absolute knock-out. But a song like ‘Superhigh’ (listen below) is another perfect example of what this album is about. It has got a nice pace going, some lovely vocals that fit the bill, and it just has got that house thing going on with all the right sounds that keep this one propelling forward.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br />
Also, they are all so very easy on the ear these songs are. Great bass and percussion on most songs, and it is not just listenable for the dancefloor and at extremely loud volume (though that’ll do just fine indeed), it doesn’t only have that club sound that some “club” tracks are guilty of. Most of these songs are between the six and nine minutes, most of these songs are really danceable, and all of these songs sound like they belong on the same album. Certainly a debut one can build on.</span></div><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F43207520&show_artwork=true"></iframe>Stefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04701668804150716435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450050408521283483.post-78692405724427377782012-07-03T00:05:00.003+02:002012-07-03T21:32:38.492+02:00Our favorite albums of the first part of the year- Nr. 08<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SChahKcA16g/T_NIq2Ly6HI/AAAAAAAADew/J-YxDknN97s/s1600/blondes-album-cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SChahKcA16g/T_NIq2Ly6HI/AAAAAAAADew/J-YxDknN97s/s320/blondes-album-cover.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">So here we are again. Nothing changes, it all stays the same, nothing ever happens. For the umpteenth time now, we put in our 2 cents of what has been doing it for us in the first half of this year music wise. Hopefully you can find something in there that you agree with, which you overlooked at first, or which you maybe never even heard of. So much great music out there, this is our little grab out of that hat, enjoy!</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>08. Linda</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Artist: </b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Blondes</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Cambria; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Album: Blondes </b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Cambria; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Label: RVNG INTL.</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Cambria; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b></b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Finally Blondes managed to make an album! They've been flying under the radar for quite a while now, but I'm hoping this (amazing, I might add) album will give them the credit they deserve. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
As per usual, each year will throw up an album that doesn't let itself be defined by just one preconceived genre, and by the rules that govern the world of indie/alternative/whathever the hell you want to call it-world, a new term needs to be created. This year's craze comes from the mind of DiS overlord Sean Adams who has dubbed Blondes cat-gaze. Naturally this is a joke, but that is how we got stuck with witch-house and chillwave, so prepare yourselves for a year of cat-gaze. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
Now, this being 2012 and the internet (which, as we all know, <a href="http://youtu.be/zi8VTeDHjcM"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">is made of cats</span></a>) having been around for as long as it has, we're probably all prepared for a music genre to go with what seems to be main purpose of the world wide weg today. But no worries, Blondes are infinitely better than the Nyan cat. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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That is what I think of when I think of this album. Elegant. It has a certain elegance to it that I just love. The essence feels kind of smooth jazz, sometimes helped with a twinkling of electro ideas like, for example, a small little beat. The voice is exactly what fits this music: smooth, a bit dreamy, and they make sure together it plays perfectly.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">There is elegance not only in the complex yet completely clean sounds, but also in the fact that it isn’t afraid to strip it down and basically go silent. Like for example on something like ‘Anyone Can Fall in Love’, which has a lot of calmth to it. Or something like ‘Swingin’ Party’, which basically has two musical constants neatly flowing in the background and then the vocals over it, instructing one to bring their own lampshade, for somewhere there is a party. The album really feels like an album, despite the different songs and that they are not all his, but the feel is constant. It is a stylish whole, an album executed in an intellegent and, indeed, elegant manner which makes it a lovely listen.</span></div><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F43557396&show_artwork=true" width="100%"></iframe>Stefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04701668804150716435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450050408521283483.post-31692297925523112062012-07-03T00:04:00.000+02:002012-07-03T21:31:06.619+02:00The Weekly Froth #46 (Drop Out Orchestra, Elijah Collins & Nist, Rogue Vogue, more)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u5MRL6L3Frg/T_NIMnctGVI/AAAAAAAADeo/jjmG42Zw2Eo/s1600/dropoutorchestra.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u5MRL6L3Frg/T_NIMnctGVI/AAAAAAAADeo/jjmG42Zw2Eo/s320/dropoutorchestra.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The Weekly Froth! A weekly take on six tracks, most of which have recently popped up somewhere in the blogosphere. Bit of a mixed bag with a slight leaning towards house, disco, and remixes, but generally just anything that for some reason tickled the writer’s fancy.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Track of the week: ‘In the Dark’ by Drop Out Orchestra feat. Christopher Norman (NSFW remix)</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Dutch producer <b>NSFW</b> had this awesome track earlier this year (‘Let U Go’), and <b>Drop Out Orchestra</b> has been churning out a lot of tunes the past months/years, but some of them are quite ace so no one is minding it probably. This remix is just so nice. It already starts with this catchy rhythm, and then the keys come in, some heavily distorted vocals, and this thing is up and running. Drop Out Orchestra really knows how to get the rhythm going, and their best works have this catchy feel that makes it both accessible and impossible not to dance to. After three minutes they put in a vocal part with the instruments on low volume, obviously working up to the return of the beat/main rhythm and the keys, which also play a huge role in this thing. Really good track/remix this. <a href="http://musosguide.com/the-weekly-froth-with-drop-out-orchestra-elijah-collins-nist-and-rogue-vogue/22094#more-22094"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #1919a7; text-decoration: underline;"><b>… Continue Reading</b></span></a></span></div>Stefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04701668804150716435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450050408521283483.post-56772390957863311712012-07-02T00:05:00.002+02:002012-07-02T23:18:39.079+02:00Our favorite albums of the first part of the year- Nr. 09<div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ux4znF1k4gE/T_IQJuB9fTI/AAAAAAAADd8/YACI-4XiOX8/s1600/sarehavlicek.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ux4znF1k4gE/T_IQJuB9fTI/AAAAAAAADd8/YACI-4XiOX8/s320/sarehavlicek.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">So here we are again. Nothing changes, it all stays the same, nothing ever happens. For the umpteenth time now, we put in our 2 cents of what has been doing it for us in the first half of this year music wise. Hopefully you can find something in there that you agree with, which you overlooked at first, or which you maybe never even heard of. So much great music out there, this is our little grab out of that hat, enjoy!</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>09. Linda</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Artist: The Shins </b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Album: Port of Morrow </b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Label: Sony</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b></b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">So this album isn't as good <i>Wincing the Night Away</i>, so what? It's still the same rather amazing band, with some added Broken Bells influence and some pretty memorable tracks. It lacks a bit in the immediacy <i>Wincing</i> had, but makes up for that in part by being more accessible and pop, which probably not everyone is going to like, but hey, I liked Broken Bells, and I like this album. Some tracks (e.g. It's Only Life) are tad too similar to aforementioned side project, but overall it's pretty neat. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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<div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>09. Stef</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Artist: Sare Havlicek</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Album: Escape Machine</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Label: Nang Records</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b></b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A lovely little disco album this. I’m not sure if there are real stand-outs on there, but it flows in a lovely, lovely manner. All of them have got that same feel, all of them are catchy, and they sure fit on one and the same album. Sure, there are some differences. ‘Burning Hot’, for instance, is more for the dancefloor, with those deep male vocals saying that he feels hot for you, and then the female vocals come in for the actual singing (which is a classic house division). Just one track prior to that one though, ‘Not Enough’ starts with a little piano before the beat comes in, and it is a slower paced affair. I love those vocals, which luckily return for ‘Too Far Ahead’. There, Mitja can strut his stuff on a song slightly faster paced, with a nice strip down and then punch back with the keys around the two minute mark.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It has got this cohesive feel though, despite these differences, and despite different vocalists. So often, it is the other way around: the more vocalists and the more variety, the more it feels disjointed. Not with this one. Its a great block of songs, not boring because of the diversity, but it does feel like an album. An album with plenty of lovely disco vibed songs on there.</span><br />
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First, some honorable mentions: Honourable mentions: Liars – WIXIW; Sharon van Etten – Tramp; Nite Jewel – One second of Love; Phantogram – Nightlife (Don't move is my track of the year so far); Japandroids – Celebration Rock</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Now, to the album. It’s Spencer Krug does Bowie, Thin White Duke era (unfortunately without the actual white stuff, so it doesn't measure up entirely).</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="color: #1919a7; font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F41100917&show_artwork=true"></iframe><br />
<div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>10. Stef</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Artist:Peter Visti <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Album: Illusions in a Twisted Mind</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Label: Baer Funk</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">There is one major downside to this album, namely that I really dislike the fourth track on this album. That makes it that, album wise, it edges into my top ten instead of firmly sitting somewhere around the middle. Because, that track aside, this is an album with some fabulous disco&house tracks. The thing I love most are those violins. That opening of the album for example, those strings add so much atmosphere from the get go, which puts it a notch above just the average beat & bass tune or whatever. That first moment at 1:11, when that kicks in, wow, amazing stuff. That certainly puts it a step beyond the generic club stuff.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The first track has this kind of spoken word thing going on, but for example in the third track you’ve got a female vocalist whispering little French words in your ear, whereas on other songs it shifts into English and enticement, for example when the lady asks if you can feel it on the track with exactly that name. There’s plenty of variety in there, from the strings of ‘My Advice’ to the almost Latin American guitar plucking on ‘Among Angels’, and those things also manage to give every song its own, unique feel and atmosphere (and Visti packs that in there). Too bad about that one song though, because I just cannot put an album higher than this on an album list if I always skip a track smack down in the middle.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> <iframe width="379" height="231" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PC73ReGNEW0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </span></div>Stefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04701668804150716435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450050408521283483.post-78368131150274370792012-06-29T00:04:00.000+02:002012-06-29T20:50:18.440+02:00The Weekly Froth #45 (With Still Going, Breakbot, Irregular Disco Workers, more!)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-f-9FjF2gbzU/T-340xOF2EI/AAAAAAAADcQ/Xg4ri6uuevI/s1600/StillGoing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-f-9FjF2gbzU/T-340xOF2EI/AAAAAAAADcQ/Xg4ri6uuevI/s1600/StillGoing.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The Weekly Froth! A weekly take on six tracks, most of which have recently popped up somewhere in the blogosphere. Bit of a mixed bag with a slight leaning towards house, disco, and remixes, but generally just anything that for some reason tickled the writer’s fancy.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>‘Work That Shit Party’ by Still Going</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Here we go, here we go. <b>Still Going</b> gets it going (…) with this one, a release on their own label after previously being affiliated with DFA (if memory serves me correctly). It has all the makings of a track that’ll just kill it on the dancefloor. It’s got the pace, the beat, that real house vibe that makes you just want to work it on the floor like it’s the start of that era. Some tracks just have that tribal sense that you have to move your body, and this is a very good example of that, in my opinion. I don’t know why anyone would stop dancing when this comes in. There’s just something in the essence of this beat that works, and Still Going knows how to ride that for nine minutes without making it feel stale. And one way to make it not boring is to put some strong female vocals in after 3:30 or so, and she is saying that at least she is working it, so if you hadn’t been doing that already, that is the perfect time to join in. After the female vocals come the male vocals, which in good House tradition do not actually sing like the female vocals but rather instruct you that you really should be working it. There is a nice break in there as well, in which those female vocals return and get some space to belt it out. Naturally, after that, soon the sound and the beat come back, and it gives it one last go before, just prior to getting into double digits, it closes shop. Fabulous house track, great to dance to, one I would like to play for sure. <a href="http://musosguide.com/the-weekly-froth-with-still-going-irregular-disco-workers-and-cassian/21966#more-21966"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #1919a7; text-decoration: underline;"><b>… Continue Reading</b></span></a></span></div>Stefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04701668804150716435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450050408521283483.post-54487186974837816992012-06-25T00:04:00.001+02:002012-06-25T23:09:31.032+02:00Now Playing... 'Pyramids' by Frank Ocean<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-10hpU7rukL4/T-jTeNwpZaI/AAAAAAAADcE/9CX5qERFU6U/s1600/frank-ocean-pyramids.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-10hpU7rukL4/T-jTeNwpZaI/AAAAAAAADcE/9CX5qERFU6U/s320/frank-ocean-pyramids.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Now Playing</b> – twice every week, a roundtable of our writers will give their views on some of the recently-released new tracks. It’s as simple as that! If you want to tell us what you think of the song, feel free to leave a comment below.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Track: ‘Pyramids’ by Frank Ocean</b> <a href="http://musosguide.com/now-playing-frank-ocean-pyramids/21905#more-21905"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #1919a7; text-decoration: underline;">… Continue Reading</span></a></span></div>Stefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04701668804150716435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450050408521283483.post-63374478626340639192012-06-19T00:04:00.000+02:002012-06-19T21:26:43.118+02:00The Weekly Froth #44 (Julio Bashmore, Evan Stalker, and J.C. Gavri)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FTz-7dKICy8/T-DSW7d72fI/AAAAAAAADb4/w_E4-K31N2Q/s1600/julio-bashmore.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FTz-7dKICy8/T-DSW7d72fI/AAAAAAAADb4/w_E4-K31N2Q/s320/julio-bashmore.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The Weekly Froth! A weekly take on six tracks, most of which have recently popped up somewhere in the blogosphere. Bit of a mixed bag with a slight leaning towards house, disco, and remixes, but generally just anything that for some reason tickled the writer’s fancy.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Track of the week: ‘Troglodytes’ by Julio Bashmore</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">TUNE! That’s what this is. <b>Bashmore</b> does it again with this fabulous track, which I would happily fit into any set (well…). It’s got these fab, masculine talking vocals, which is very house. I believe there is something like that male vocals have to talk and female (or feminine) vocals have to sing and that they are the ones that bring all the emotions to songs. Not only the vocals are great though, that sound is really catchy and not just that same old same old beat or anything. It is that mixture of the beat, the lighter instrumental sounds, and then those masculine vocals which make it work. And work it does. If you want a quick peak on what this song is all about, just listen from 4:00 to 4:30, which gives a good indication of the contrast that I like so much. First almost nothing but that talky voice speaking of a time where there was nothing but primal instincts (cavemen, troglodytes!), and then the beat comes along with that light sound which makes it shine. The combination that Bashmore finds is just a really nice one, it just fits his house vibe, which the <b>Jimmy Castor</b> version isn’t exactly. But as said, it just fits, Julio surely heard that right. <a href="http://musosguide.com/the-weekly-froth-with-julio-bashmore-matthias-zimmerman-and-evan-stalker/21867#more-21867"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #1919a7; text-decoration: underline;"><b>… Continue Reading</b></span></a></span></div>Stefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04701668804150716435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450050408521283483.post-2654248560478786172012-06-16T00:02:00.000+02:002012-06-17T00:01:40.681+02:00Now Playing... 'Sleeping Ute' by Grizzly Bear<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wJbitdNdVtw/T90CLNDgx5I/AAAAAAAADbs/_9ghe4F837c/s1600/grizzly-bear-2012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wJbitdNdVtw/T90CLNDgx5I/AAAAAAAADbs/_9ghe4F837c/s320/grizzly-bear-2012.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Now Playing</b> – every week, a roundtable of our writers will give their views on one of the recently-released new tracks. It’s as simple as that! If you want to tell us what you think of the song, feel free to leave a comment below.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Track: ‘Sleeping Ute’ by Grizzly Bear <a href="http://musosguide.com/now-playing-grizzly-bear-sleeping-ute/21771#more-21771"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #1919a7; text-decoration: underline;">… Continue Reading</span></a></span></div>Stefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04701668804150716435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450050408521283483.post-61641596477214158792012-06-13T00:04:00.000+02:002012-06-13T22:12:44.389+02:00Weekly Froth #43 (Max Essa, Matthew Dear, The Heels of Love, and more!)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-POLy5tOGZCg/T9j0HkEVtaI/AAAAAAAADbg/okKFSJW7jtg/s1600/Max-Essa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-POLy5tOGZCg/T9j0HkEVtaI/AAAAAAAADbg/okKFSJW7jtg/s320/Max-Essa.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The Weekly Froth! A weekly take on six tracks, most of which have recently popped up somewhere in the blogosphere. Bit of a mixed bag with a slight leaning towards house, disco, and remixes, but generally just anything that for some reason tickled the writer’s fancy.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Track of the week: ‘I’m Dancin’ by Kotey Extra Band (Max Essa remix)</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I love <b>Max Essa</b>, and this one slipped under the radar for me, but I happened to come across it, and it is pretty funkilicious as far as I’m concerned. It isn’t really disco funk though, that synthy sound that comes in about 40 seconds in gives it a certain city vibe me thinks. Essa does keep it rolling with the main sound, but it is not like this is one of those straight dancefloor cuts (perhaps more of someone dancing through the city even, if you’re brave enough to do that sort of thing). The vocals (Kyle Chandler’s work) come in at 2:50, and they fit that synth sound perfectly if you ask me. Just before the four minute mark Essa goes bass, and he can do that, just see his <b>Jan Ken Po</b> album he released this year. It really sounds like an entity this track, not one of those remixes that gets a beat slapped on it, but it just is a smooth ride that rolls along. Essa delivers again. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b><a href="http://musosguide.com/the-weekly-froth-with-max-essa-matthew-dear-and-museum-of-bellas-artes/21738#more-21738">… Continue Reading</a></b></span></span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br />
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<div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">They are tracks from the crypt!, Louis DuBochiere cried out when he saw the footsteps close to the Egyptian Tomb. It wasn’t very likely to begin with, but since the tomb had been in the Metropolitan Museum for years without so much as moving an inch, why it would decide to do something on a cold day in March in the year 2012 was beyond almost everyone in the room. What is he going to do, Mimmi Liebowitz cried out, eat breakfast at La Sa’s? Maybe he went for some hot chocolate, Harry Ritzer said. Would it kill them to turn up the heat here? </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Baskerville; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This rubbed one of the employees of the Met the wrong way as, he said, It would be detrimental to the state of some of the more fragile pieces. Ahhh, who cares about them, what about the comfort of your guests? Sure, you can have some paintings in perfect state, who’s gonna watch if they could also have some tea at Sally’s around the corner? Oh, I didn’t know that was still open? Yeah yeah, it’s still open, prices have gone up a bit, but it’s still open. And they’ve added Rum-Raisin flavour too! After five minutes of additional Oh-and-Ahing everyone had gone off to Sally’s to try the Rum-Raisin tea, which left the coast clear for the mummy to finally return without being noticed, thinking, Goodness, humans, why can’t they ever decide on anything quickly?</span></div>Stefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04701668804150716435noreply@blogger.com0