We formed a band
Techno legend Christian Vogel, who was also once half of Super Collider with Jamie Lidell, has put his synthesisers to one side and taken up singing duties for a new project - 'Night of the Brain'. The outcome is an album - 'Wear This World Out' - that's coming out in June. And on the basis of this brilliant lead single 'The Theme', I can't wait to hear what the rest of the record has in store.
The album was recorded in Barcelona, which no doubt influenced some of the Spanish Guitar (or should that be Catalan Guitar) flourishes on the track. It's just a great indie pop / rock track that's quite hard to pin down to one place. It's not obviously British or American.... no doubt a result of band members originating from Barcelona, Berlin, Chile and Brighton!
I think this one will repeat on you.
NIGHT OF THE BRAIN - THE THEME
This is on a rather different tip. Back in the 90s, Christian also formed a group called Blue Arsed Fly with Neil Landstrumm... who left my radar after a number of sought after releases on Peacefrog, but seems to have continued releasing records on various imprints since then.
Now he's back with a killer album on Planet Mu - 'Restaurant of the Assassins'. It's a bass-heavy monster that seems to take half its influences from dubstep, and half from old skool Warp bleep music. LFO, Nightmares on Wax & the like. In other words it's a Gutterbreakz* fantasy come to life!
As a fan of freaky noises, i'm immediately drawn to this track, Bleep Biopsy... probably the most bleepy and the least dubsteppy track on the album (although mind you, 'Mike Grimes Toyota' is straight outta '91). Whatever. Play loud!
NEIL LANDSTRUMM - BLEEP BIOPSY
* Nick, along with Matt Fluxblog was one of the main inspirations for me starting this blog... it's good to see him back writing again, even without accompanying MP3s :-(
The album was recorded in Barcelona, which no doubt influenced some of the Spanish Guitar (or should that be Catalan Guitar) flourishes on the track. It's just a great indie pop / rock track that's quite hard to pin down to one place. It's not obviously British or American.... no doubt a result of band members originating from Barcelona, Berlin, Chile and Brighton!
I think this one will repeat on you.
NIGHT OF THE BRAIN - THE THEME
This is on a rather different tip. Back in the 90s, Christian also formed a group called Blue Arsed Fly with Neil Landstrumm... who left my radar after a number of sought after releases on Peacefrog, but seems to have continued releasing records on various imprints since then.
Now he's back with a killer album on Planet Mu - 'Restaurant of the Assassins'. It's a bass-heavy monster that seems to take half its influences from dubstep, and half from old skool Warp bleep music. LFO, Nightmares on Wax & the like. In other words it's a Gutterbreakz* fantasy come to life!
As a fan of freaky noises, i'm immediately drawn to this track, Bleep Biopsy... probably the most bleepy and the least dubsteppy track on the album (although mind you, 'Mike Grimes Toyota' is straight outta '91). Whatever. Play loud!
NEIL LANDSTRUMM - BLEEP BIOPSY
* Nick, along with Matt Fluxblog was one of the main inspirations for me starting this blog... it's good to see him back writing again, even without accompanying MP3s :-(
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