With more attitude than Cobrasnake/Cory Kennedy and Feadz/Uffie (pre-break-up) combined, SLUTTT are about to make the world stand up with their forthcoming debut EP.
First surfacing with their remix of The Teenagers' downright whore of track Fuck Nicole in 2006, unashamedly turning it into some girl that seduces you in a club, only for you to discover that she wants a menage-a-trois with the 6'5 and 18st bouncer; nothing much was known about them at all.
All that changed when the duo were recently revealed on IHEARTCOMIX as US producer/DJ Redfoxx (behind the music) and a young femme fetale called Molly (vocals). In celebration of the soon to be released Stop Copying Me EP, here's their take on teenage fashion plagiarism, having been shown the remix treatment by Canadian hipsters Jokers Of The Scene.
So... after a long wait, the release of Simian Mobile Disco's remix album Sample And Hold is just around the corner. And my god... it's worth the wait.
Containing remixes from a really diverse array of sources including Chrome Hoof, Cosmo Vitelli, and Simon Baker to name a few. It really adds a fresh twist to the already classic Attack Decay Sustain Release and features some of the best remixes I've heard in a long time.
Personal highlights are legendary French electronica whizz Joakim's remix of Hustler and a brilliantly exotic 8 minute rework of It's The Beat from DFA's criminally underrated Shit Robot. I've got a sneaking suspicion the latter is going to be one of my most played songs this summer.
Released through Wichita on July 28th, seriously; invest in it. I will be.
So, as usual, I stumble around the internet and come across some music that I really like and think "I'll blog that!", only to discover I've been beaten to it by everyone and their mother. I guess I should read other people's blogs more...
SymbolOne are two DJs/Producers from Croatia, although their myspace would have you think otherwise. Look a little deeper and you'll find Vinko and Ed, two producers out of the Kavinsky/Danger mould.
With an EP coming out sometime in August with remixes from Moulinex and Passions, love from Daft Punk and Kavinsky himself, to featuring on Justice's rejected FabricLive mix, things are going to kick off on an international level, and soon.
A certain Glaswegian 20 year old by the name of Joe Rodger has me pretty much stumped, a music journalist's nightmare/wet dream, he is simply impossible to pin down.
While listening to his songs, I feel like I'm being taken on a journey through some twisted children's fairytale, where things just aren't how they should be and nothings for certain. I like it, a lot.
Full of pulsating bass lines and sharp twists in both time signature and musical theme, he treads the insane/genius line with consummate ease.
With debut single Can We Go Yet, Mummy? set for limited release on LiveIn Records sometime in August and a spot on Scotland's T In The Park bill in just over month and a weeks time, things are looking good.
And this song gets it's own little blurb because, although it's a little different from his usual sound, it's genuinely one of the best written songs I've ever heard. For geeks and Internet fanboys/fangirls all over the world; here it is...
So I've been onto Little Boots for a while now, and was holding back from posting seeing as every blog worth it's salt has beaten me to it. But then I just saw this video on Fader and can't get enough of it.
Little Boots - Stuck On Repeat (Accoustic?!)
The strange contraption in the above is called a tenori-on and in case you couldn't tell, Little Boots is the new/other monikker for Dead Disco's Victoria Hesketh. I want one I want one I want one! Which one however, is up for debate.
Quietly, she'd been making music on her own until man-about-town producer Joe Goddard of Hot Chip decided he wanted in. Now Stuck On Repeat is slaying bloggers and clubbers all over the globe.
Get along to one of her two live dates at Sheffield's Club Pony @ DQ on 13/06/08 or London's YoYo on 03/07/08.
Cobra Krames aka Krames aka Cobra Kai, running out of Brooklyn, is a major player in the Baltimore upheaval of the club scene. His new EP Cracker Jackin, presents a fresh Baltimore twist on songs of old and new, including a cover of Daft Punk’s legendary ‘One More Time’ (warning: this song is addictive) and 50’s classic ‘Lollipop’.
A fresh interpretation of these songs creates a fun sound, Krames has produced numerous mixes including a collaboration with Bird Peterson on Fangs & Feathers: A DJ Mix. Check him out at both his myspaces, you’ll hear plenty more from him, and we’ll try to keep you posted. A taste of him here:
So this weekend was spent in Leeds with a fellow contributor Jamila and friends, a few bands, a venue, and talking to characters like an alcoholic who'd been ripped off by a prostitute and a former heroine addict whilst waiting for the first train home.
It was Nastyfest IX at the Faversham, hosted by the great people of Bad Sneakers and what a weekend it was. In a night where the lesser known bands seriously outshone the more hyped ones, here are some of our highlights...
First up are Bradford ...seven piece(?!) Spodní Prádlo, definitely not your usual sixth-form band. With nods to influences that stretch from Beirut and Os Mutantes to as far as Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, it's astounding to find a band as talented as this - who are all (as far I'm aware) still at school.
hey! Panda are four teenagers from Halifax who specialise in rapid-fire, balls out dance-punk and have a mantra of "We want to fuck shit up." Whilst there is still much room for improvement, I couldn't help but feel my feet starting to move to their sharp guitar work, thumping drums and "don't give a shit" attitude. Ones to watch.
Well... the demos on his page just do not prepare you for the live performance of Matt Bigland & co. aka Dinosaur Pile-Up. Full of passion and energy, and songs that sound absolutely huge. Even this early on in the night, it was a packed room and you got the sense that a lot of people had been looking forward to this performance, they didn't go away disappointed.
And the final highlight were the penultimate band of the night, LA based The Mae-Shi. While I hadn't had the chance to listen to much of their stuff beforehand, I was impressed within seconds of them taking to the stage - albeit from their pre-gig gymnastics - this is a band who are as much about making the event an experience as playing their instruments.
Having been blown all previous bands out of the water, their set involved a voluntary stage invasion, a huge white tarp being draped over the audience whilst various band members play in the crowd, a mass sit down during 7 X X 7, and Slow Club's cover of Run To Your Grave. DIY Footage (Not Mine) Of The Mae-Shi Stage Invasion
Srsly, get their album or even better; go and see them at one of the Dot to Dot festivals in Nottingham or Bristol.
I just cannot seem to get this song out of my head at the moment, it's nothing too ground breaking musically speaking, but it's an inexplicably great song.
Snob Scrilla - Here You Go Again
The alias of 24 year old Sean Ray, Snob Scrilla is a US born MC who relocated to Australia in 2002.
Since then, he's supported the likes of Method Man and Red Man, recently signed to Ivy League Records and teamed up with Sydney-based production team The Blueberry Think Tank for debut single There You Go Again.
With an album soon to come, if There You Go Again makes it over here, it could be big. Here's the radio edit...
But then news spread of a new project, consisting of ex-BAF members Tobias Hughes, Ian William Galloway and Mark Murphy as well as Grant Purser of 586 and friends Michael Tyrrell and Marnie Hollande.
And so Fables were born, an experimental mish-mash of sounds, tastes and influences. While their songs have a dark side to the instrumentation with the spiralling bass and droning guitars in places, it's the child-like enthusiasm of the vocal that pulls me in.
Although it's early days for them, I'm looking forward to hearing more from Fables.
I've been wanting to write about Ipswich born Kieren Dickins aka DELS since I first heard Myself Malfunction, which as well as having some sick lyrical content, has some epic... epic production.
However I was only allowed to stream tracks, but now one of his best songs has been made available for download, so here we are.
See, DELS is one lucky/talented guy, he and his Grime group caught the ear of a certain Mr. Peel at 17 while playing a show in a Chicago Rock Bar and were probably the first grime artists to get mainstream airplay.
On top of this, after the aforementioned The Alliance Underground faded away, DELS decided to concentrate on rap, and he and good friend/producer Eli T laid some tracks down and upped them to Myspace which were picked up by none other than Joe Goddard of Hot Chip , who wanted to work with him.
Lazy, his debut single, and b-side Myself Malfunction were both the fruits of that labour and have been released by Moshi Moshi, and even then there's more... he's also a freelance graphic designer and designed the artwork for that single. Check out the tracks below and look him up.
