All My People Have Passed Through Me
It's rather to my shame that I haven't as yet mentioned the Kruger Singles Club, for it's a concept that well deserves your support. Now in its 9th installment, each month a different band brings you a free single in MP3 format.
It's no rubbish that will end up clogging your hard drive either. The last 4 months have brought Evils, Klanguage, Holy Hail and Emmy The Great.
The Klanguage single must be the pick so far, with probably their two best tracks. I posted 'All This Time' about a year ago, so here's the other track. You probably know it already, but if not you should. It's the electro pop side project of Yuksek, and has a killer chorus.
KLANGUAGE - PRICELESS THINGS
Other past highlights include the slightly unclassifiable swamp rock playground pop of Holy Hail, and the scratchy, lo-fi hip hop folk of Gideon Conn.
HOLY HAIL - DIG MY GRAVE
GIDEON CONN - I WANT YOU AROUND
The most recent contributors are Evils, a band who i'd not previously heard of, but who i'm certain I will do again. Electro Pop produced by an army of evil robots, who've absorbed the brains of Moroder, Aphex and Charles Manson... and dance round the decaying corpse of human civilisation.
EVILS - YOU MUST CONFORM
Anyway, do I need to do more of a sales job on this? The tunes are great & it's free. So sign up.
After signing to XL, I expected the Various Productions album "The World is Gone" to make rather more of a splash than it did.... so it seems they've gone back to releasing stupidly limited singles on their own label, which invariably sell out through Boomkat in a matter of minutes.
Whoever Various Productions are (for they remain shrouded in mystery), the music is always both remarkable and surprising. I suppose it has a grounding in dubstep, but you're as likely to get a b-side of 1920's ballroom music, mash-ups or twisted folk as some firing bass heavy drum 'n' bass.
Their latest missive was a monstrous package containing t-shirts, screenprints & a USB stick (along with the obligatory 12"), and included this incredible backing of M.I.A.'s 'Bird Flu' with some heavy VP bass. Next level.
VARIOUS PRODUCTION (FEAT. M.I.A.) - PINTMAN
Here's another recent highlight from their catalogue... wherein the bass mechanics create another twisted pop gem. I've posted about Various several times here, but I still can't recommend enough that you immerse yourselves in their music for they're a bit special I reckon.
VARIOUS PRODUCTION - PHORTUNE
It's no rubbish that will end up clogging your hard drive either. The last 4 months have brought Evils, Klanguage, Holy Hail and Emmy The Great.
The Klanguage single must be the pick so far, with probably their two best tracks. I posted 'All This Time' about a year ago, so here's the other track. You probably know it already, but if not you should. It's the electro pop side project of Yuksek, and has a killer chorus.
KLANGUAGE - PRICELESS THINGS
Other past highlights include the slightly unclassifiable swamp rock playground pop of Holy Hail, and the scratchy, lo-fi hip hop folk of Gideon Conn.
HOLY HAIL - DIG MY GRAVE
GIDEON CONN - I WANT YOU AROUND
The most recent contributors are Evils, a band who i'd not previously heard of, but who i'm certain I will do again. Electro Pop produced by an army of evil robots, who've absorbed the brains of Moroder, Aphex and Charles Manson... and dance round the decaying corpse of human civilisation.
EVILS - YOU MUST CONFORM
Anyway, do I need to do more of a sales job on this? The tunes are great & it's free. So sign up.
After signing to XL, I expected the Various Productions album "The World is Gone" to make rather more of a splash than it did.... so it seems they've gone back to releasing stupidly limited singles on their own label, which invariably sell out through Boomkat in a matter of minutes.
Whoever Various Productions are (for they remain shrouded in mystery), the music is always both remarkable and surprising. I suppose it has a grounding in dubstep, but you're as likely to get a b-side of 1920's ballroom music, mash-ups or twisted folk as some firing bass heavy drum 'n' bass.
Their latest missive was a monstrous package containing t-shirts, screenprints & a USB stick (along with the obligatory 12"), and included this incredible backing of M.I.A.'s 'Bird Flu' with some heavy VP bass. Next level.
VARIOUS PRODUCTION (FEAT. M.I.A.) - PINTMAN
Here's another recent highlight from their catalogue... wherein the bass mechanics create another twisted pop gem. I've posted about Various several times here, but I still can't recommend enough that you immerse yourselves in their music for they're a bit special I reckon.
VARIOUS PRODUCTION - PHORTUNE
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