Remember The Night
I meant to say something about Dead Kids at Stag & Dagger last weekend. They were pretty fantastic, albeit in a slightly terrifying fashion.
Singer Mike Title isn't content with psychotically prowling the stage, and spends as much time in the audience, strutting on the bar & swinging from the light fittings. Meanwhile the band fire out a ferocious punkified electronic noise.
I suppose Mike's antics were slightly to the detriment of the band, as I didn't remember too much of the music, except for a frenetic version of 'Party All The Time' that it took me until getting home to realise was originally by Eddie Murphy & Rick James. Tune!
As live gigs go however, this pushed all the right buttons, and I was rather mystified to discover afterwards that the band aren't signed yet. Fortunately there are plenty of venues in London that they've still not been banned from (they apparently won't be welcome back at The Macbeth!) so catch them if you can.
DEAD KIDS - FEAR & FLUORIDE
Enough noise for now, let's switch back to some disco... with an excellent new compilation entitled 'I Love Norway' on Dialect Records.
Featuring many of the Norweigan disco mafia (Well, Lindstrom & Prins Thomas), it's this track from Ost & Kjex that's the stand out for me.
Most of the beats seem to be made of vocal samples, and veers close to sounding like some kind of gypsy frog chorus.... but power slides round that effortlessly with some choice vocals & accordian, before ending with a glorious slo-mo Basement Jaxxish finale.
I've made that sound shit haven't I. It's not....
OST & KJEX - MILANO MODEL (MUNGOLIAN JETSET REMIX)
High on my 'highly anticipated' list right now is the new 'Disco Italia' compilation on Strut. I only have a sampler at the moment, the best track of which seems to be on an accompanying 12" rather than the CD album.
The album is compiled by Steve Kotey from Bear Funk & Chicken Lips, and he's re-edited this track himself. Seemingly designed for pulling shapes on rollerskates, the funk is strong with this one.
GEPY & GEPY - AFRICAN LOVE SONG (KOTEY EDIT)
Finally here are a couple of quality videos from that Disco Italia microsite.
The camp Daft Punk:
and some magnificently bad miming:
Singer Mike Title isn't content with psychotically prowling the stage, and spends as much time in the audience, strutting on the bar & swinging from the light fittings. Meanwhile the band fire out a ferocious punkified electronic noise.
I suppose Mike's antics were slightly to the detriment of the band, as I didn't remember too much of the music, except for a frenetic version of 'Party All The Time' that it took me until getting home to realise was originally by Eddie Murphy & Rick James. Tune!
As live gigs go however, this pushed all the right buttons, and I was rather mystified to discover afterwards that the band aren't signed yet. Fortunately there are plenty of venues in London that they've still not been banned from (they apparently won't be welcome back at The Macbeth!) so catch them if you can.
DEAD KIDS - FEAR & FLUORIDE
Enough noise for now, let's switch back to some disco... with an excellent new compilation entitled 'I Love Norway' on Dialect Records.
Featuring many of the Norweigan disco mafia (Well, Lindstrom & Prins Thomas), it's this track from Ost & Kjex that's the stand out for me.
Most of the beats seem to be made of vocal samples, and veers close to sounding like some kind of gypsy frog chorus.... but power slides round that effortlessly with some choice vocals & accordian, before ending with a glorious slo-mo Basement Jaxxish finale.
I've made that sound shit haven't I. It's not....
OST & KJEX - MILANO MODEL (MUNGOLIAN JETSET REMIX)
High on my 'highly anticipated' list right now is the new 'Disco Italia' compilation on Strut. I only have a sampler at the moment, the best track of which seems to be on an accompanying 12" rather than the CD album.
The album is compiled by Steve Kotey from Bear Funk & Chicken Lips, and he's re-edited this track himself. Seemingly designed for pulling shapes on rollerskates, the funk is strong with this one.
GEPY & GEPY - AFRICAN LOVE SONG (KOTEY EDIT)
Finally here are a couple of quality videos from that Disco Italia microsite.
The camp Daft Punk:
and some magnificently bad miming:
posted by headphonesex @ 11:29 PM
