Our boys from Welly, Electric Wire Hustle have just completed their first set at Benji B's revered 'Deviation' club night along with white-hot newcomer Joy Orbison.
Hit the secret special linkers to check out the pics of the night.
Sounds like the boys created a looong line out the front of the club, just like they deserve to!
P.S. Here's a brief article from 2009 on XLR8R with video links and a downloadabubble Joy Orbison mix for your ears.
Here's an interesting project for you to check out. Londoner Paul White is one of the many new brigade of producers to have appeared on the scene in this post-Dilla age. There are many reasons for (won't go on a tangent right now), but I seem to hear of a 'hottest new'/'next-big thing' producer every other week. A lot sound like the last one and to be honest, there are only a handful that are worth more than a few listens.
This one released as a collab between One-Handed Music and Stonesthrow Records off-shoot, Egon's baby, Now Again Records is a melting pot of musical styles that is hard to put a broad label on.
White took 1990's Swedish psych-rock guru(!) ST Mikael's sporadic releases chopped them up and went bananas on that shit! Here is the result (hit the link above); an ill blend of floaty ballads, beat-driven numbers and psychedelic jams with heavy Eastern influences.
A little tardy this week on getting this up, so apologies to the three people out there that were fiending on getting some of the track names! Ha ha...
Will eventually be adding a podcast of the fortnightly show for download, so keep posted.
'Off the Record' w/ Dan Paine from July 7th 2010 playlist after the jump people.
I was gonna post this before I went out, but ran outta time. Just checked the Banksy film 'Exit Through the Gift Shop' at the New Zealand FIlm Festival. Highly recommended, funny shit!
Anyway, I had some of this up LOUD before I headed off into the night, mainly 'Future Flows' w/ Hezekiah.
Eric L., from Sweden, making some nice ripples on the production tip.
Check for the 'Hey Cat' video featuring Kissey Asplund and Cerebral, an older favourite, Vortex after the jump!
There is something about the New Zealand Film Festival. There is some kind of magical feeling every time it rolls around. For me I think it is something to do with giving Auckland a much needed culture injection at just the right time; you know, winter blues and all that.
Then, there's the mighty Civic Theatre, one of this city's crown jewels. I just bug out every time I enter that place; and to think that 15-odd years ago, the local government were gonna bust it down. Now that's fucked! I was one of the thousands who signed the petition that eventually stopped it happening. That building makes me that little bit more proud of my place of birth.
Anyway, I digress. Two films that I am hyped for this year shed some light on two of the 20th Century's more interesting musical geniuses, iconic Parisian Serge Gainsbourg and the legendary multi-media artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Yeah, I know this is posted on a Sunday, but I am gonna be fuckin' busy this Monday so I planned ahead!
Besides, there are so many lovely tunes in my head at the moment, they just gotta be exposed...
Japanese pop-culture often tends to come across as child-like and "cutesy" to us in the west, and in many cases it is just that. On the other hand the seemingly bizarre and mysterious ways of the Land of the Rising Sun do invoke curiosity and intrigue; there is a certain mystery about the place even in these times of the information age.
Musically, Japan like most other countries puts out a lot of sugary throwaway pop artists and tunes, but scratch the surface and find an incredible array of interesting, sometimes whacky underground sounds.
Daisuke Tanabe is a producer with beat-maker roots, but you might find that his sound bears closer relation to the
cinematic soundtracks of Hayao Miyazaki's stunning anime than to more hip-hop or downbeat, drum-driven productions. There are bouncy melodies, cartoonish electronic flourishes, and those "cutesy" sounds that more likely evoke images of Totoro's little buddies or Ponyo skipping in the whitewash than anything else.
Some of his music is seriously beautiful though, and having only released his first 12" in 2006 ('Gas' on Fluid Ounce) he is a relatively new artist on the scene, yet he has a pedigree that saw him start developing his unique sound from the age of 16.
2010 has seen the release of his debut LP, 'Before I Forget' on Circulations Records who have also distributed releases from the likes of Reggie. B and Japan's Super Smoky Soul.
Here is my current fave tune 'Kanon', a simple and beautiful example of this man's sound. LP details at Discogs below...
