Arriving Late to the Party
I'm not quite sure how the incredible Battles single 'Atlas' passed me by. But since getting the album this week i've been listening to little else.
Atlas itself has got to be a contender for one of the singles of the year. A primal drumbeat is eventually joined in the groove with a multitude of other clattering instruments and a bizarrely high-pitched vocal. It shouldn't work, but it does. Brilliantly.
Watch the video here, but bear in mind that the full album / single version is twice as long & thus twice as good.
Although most of the album is instrumental, another vocal track stands out for me. Ddiamondd has a frantic police-chase bass line, which eventually turns into a full-on insect invasion with singer Tyondai shouting scary nonsense over the top.
BATTLES - DDIAMONDD
Buy the album from Warpmart It's ace, and Warp deserve your money.
Also out on Warp this week is the new single from !!!, 'Must be the Moon'. It's the Emperor Machine remix that elevates it to 'must buy' status... like their mix of The Knife it's a deep disco groove with added special cosmic powers.
!!! - MUST BE THE MOON (EMPEROR MACHINE REMIX)
The !!! single also contains an obligatory Hot Chip remix, but i'm preferring their new original track from the DJ Kicks album. I mentioned the album a few weeks back, but it's finally out to buy on 21st May. As is traditional with the DJ Kicks series, the compilers include a new & exclusive cut, and in Hot Chip's case it's 'My Piano'.
With a familiar 5-pronged electro pop attack, it shouts out 'Hot Chip Hit' as you tune into the different parts of the groove. I think the piano noise adds a great new dimension... and i'm once again really keen to properly hear those new tracks they played at Lowlands last year.
HOT CHIP - MY PIANO
Bringing the pain with some more electro pop is Australian 'Muscles'. Although most of last year's (impossible to find as there are only 70 copies) debut album 'Four Months' consists of a lot of frequently disturbing bedroom sonic experimentalism, it suddenly leaps at ya in the middle with a couple of tracks of pop gold.
Coming on like a one-limbed Presets, this track's a lot of fun. Who hasn't been let down by an art student armed with a formidable badge collection?
MUSCLES - ONE INCH BADGE PIN
The following track is also a cracker. An arpeggiated bassline and squelchy synths accompany muscles' urgent implorations of 'can i get some ice, it's burning up from inside'.
MUSCLES - ICE
Read more about Muscles here
For more MP3s, check out Ice Cream and Chocolate Raspberry and Lime
Finally, one to clear the bowels. Released on Planet Mu - the home of sonic terrorism (and much more besides), this new single by the excellently named 'Duran Duran Duran' is like some kinda ghetto-tech gone wrong. Step aside DJ Funk.... this is maximum brutality gabba kick massacre!
DURAN DURAN DURAN - FACE BLAST
Atlas itself has got to be a contender for one of the singles of the year. A primal drumbeat is eventually joined in the groove with a multitude of other clattering instruments and a bizarrely high-pitched vocal. It shouldn't work, but it does. Brilliantly.
Watch the video here, but bear in mind that the full album / single version is twice as long & thus twice as good.
Although most of the album is instrumental, another vocal track stands out for me. Ddiamondd has a frantic police-chase bass line, which eventually turns into a full-on insect invasion with singer Tyondai shouting scary nonsense over the top.
BATTLES - DDIAMONDD
Buy the album from Warpmart It's ace, and Warp deserve your money.
Also out on Warp this week is the new single from !!!, 'Must be the Moon'. It's the Emperor Machine remix that elevates it to 'must buy' status... like their mix of The Knife it's a deep disco groove with added special cosmic powers.
!!! - MUST BE THE MOON (EMPEROR MACHINE REMIX)
The !!! single also contains an obligatory Hot Chip remix, but i'm preferring their new original track from the DJ Kicks album. I mentioned the album a few weeks back, but it's finally out to buy on 21st May. As is traditional with the DJ Kicks series, the compilers include a new & exclusive cut, and in Hot Chip's case it's 'My Piano'.
With a familiar 5-pronged electro pop attack, it shouts out 'Hot Chip Hit' as you tune into the different parts of the groove. I think the piano noise adds a great new dimension... and i'm once again really keen to properly hear those new tracks they played at Lowlands last year.
HOT CHIP - MY PIANO
Bringing the pain with some more electro pop is Australian 'Muscles'. Although most of last year's (impossible to find as there are only 70 copies) debut album 'Four Months' consists of a lot of frequently disturbing bedroom sonic experimentalism, it suddenly leaps at ya in the middle with a couple of tracks of pop gold.
Coming on like a one-limbed Presets, this track's a lot of fun. Who hasn't been let down by an art student armed with a formidable badge collection?
MUSCLES - ONE INCH BADGE PIN
The following track is also a cracker. An arpeggiated bassline and squelchy synths accompany muscles' urgent implorations of 'can i get some ice, it's burning up from inside'.
MUSCLES - ICE
Read more about Muscles here
For more MP3s, check out Ice Cream and Chocolate Raspberry and Lime
Finally, one to clear the bowels. Released on Planet Mu - the home of sonic terrorism (and much more besides), this new single by the excellently named 'Duran Duran Duran' is like some kinda ghetto-tech gone wrong. Step aside DJ Funk.... this is maximum brutality gabba kick massacre!
DURAN DURAN DURAN - FACE BLAST
posted by headphonesex @ 12:33 AM
