house/techno
Album Review: A Sagittariun – Dream Ritual
When I was growing up there was this sort of obsession with fast food. McDonalds were springing up everywhere, and if you had to wait for longer than ten minutes for anything at all there was something going wrong and you had very right to complain to the rafters about it. These day of course, …
EP: Polybius – The arrival
Apparently, Polybius was a Greek historian, who lived a couple of hundred years before the birth of Jesus, and is best known for his bestseller (well, a text that was remembered at least) The Histories, which covered the period 246 – 146 BC and plotted the rise of the Roman Empire. He was also one …
New Music: Fatboy Slim – Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat, plus tour news
I grew up with Fatboy Slim. Not in a literal sense you understand, that would be rather silly. But I copied his basslines off my Housemartins ‘London 0 Hull 4‘ cassette, fell in with dance music and one of the first things I bought was his Pizzaman LP (without even knowing it was him), Beats …
New Music: Fallulah – Dragon
Who’s got the key to your heart? So say’s Danish singer Fallulah (a.k.a. Maria Apetri) quite insistently in her new song, Dragons. W’ve met her before (not actually you understand, but in terms of her music) Name-checked by just about everyone as one of the ones to watch, we first caught up with her when …
Track: John Newman – cheating, plus video/wookie remix
I can feel for John Newman. I’ve not very much in common with 22-year-old Londoner, chart star, and one of the most sought after singers in the country right now. But we have both been stuck in hospital with brain operations. Mine was because I got hit with a golf club. It meant I spent …
EP: FunkinEven – Species EP
I’m useless with technology. Really – I’ll give you an example. The band I’m in on occasion did a pop festival in Aarhus, Denmark. It was a good bill, which culminated in Jens Lekman I recall. We were on about third on the bill, and when our time came, I walked out in front of …
Track: L.A. producer Classixx remixes Preatures – This is how you feel?
It’s that time of the year when everything needs getting done, in our house anyway. I’ve got things to pack for the impending holiday, children to look after, and a multitude of jobs to do. Apparently, there shelving that needs to do up in the spare bedroom, things that need putting out/getting down from the …
See: Boys Noize release new video for Starwin
Oh, how I remember those days of Acid House with affection. (Yes, I remember – that surely tells you something, I was far too straight-laced for any of that sort of thing) I was still dressing as though I were in the Smiths, despite my hair not doing a Morrissey quiff, however much I teased …
Track: Laura Welsh – Cold Front (Panda Dub Remix)
Although my children are growing up (too fast, I think sometimes) I like it how there’s something magical about a rainbow still. Even for someone as cynical (read, fairly old) as me, I still sort of daydream about coming across the gold at the end of it. It’s always a good talking point to temporarily …
Track: Julio Bashmore -Duccy, plus Tour Dates
Some people have to change names, for lots of reasons. I had an English teacher that changed her name from Miss Pratt to, actually I can’t remember, but she was still known as Miss Pratt to everyone. Making your way in the music and film world is always rather a treacherous path, but one made …