A dose of puerility on Monday Morning but for a good cause. Master Massey and Shyhyy Welly release their debut single on 1st August and all the proceeds of the mammary-obsessed charity release will go towards The Nicole Cahill Fund, who contacted Massey after his appearance on South East Radio. 10 year old Nicole Cahill has been confined to a wheelchair for the last four years, after a coma and a stroke she sustained at the age of six, caused swelling on her brain. Surgeons in New York city are hopeful that ground-breaking surgery could get Nicole back on her feet.
Massey and Welly had been looking for a suitable charity but were turned down by the perfect match of The Irish Cancer Society, proving that they had no sense of humour. In the end, the Nicole Cahill Fund stepped in. A...
Because let’s face it, their songs are way better. Sample some stellar new material from the Grizzlies. It sounds poptastic. Not due ’til April though.
‘Two Weeks’
The ‘Gum has an MP3 rip. Also there’s this - ‘While You Wait for the Others‘.
Fleet Foxes come close in fairness to ‘em. Check out ‘English House’ from Pitchfork Music Festival....
Which means I haven’t listened to Dig your Own Hole in just as long.
MP3: Chemical Brothers featuring Beth Orton - Where Do I......
Apologies for what I’m about to inflict upon you. Pseudo-hippy HannaH*s Field and her dreadlocked white wannabe-Rasta mate decided to record a song about the pleasures of smoking weed/mouldy hash/doob etc called ‘Puff Puff Give’. These modern day gypsy “warriors of love” give it to us straight. “Use, enhance your mind / Helps the blind / rocks DJs to rhyme on time” and “Good in da brownie, Rice Krispie treat / groovin’, dancin’ in bare feet”. Apparently a guitar, a bongo and a white guy with dreadlocks can establish a new genre called “gypsy reggae”. I can almost hear you wretch as you read this. This is not a joke I assure you. See the website. The indirect result is the best anti-drug propaganda ever made.
This one is dedicated to...
Manuva does Cricket. A nice summer tune. Check out the freaky sculpted-out head background on his website. Also, Big Rodders has a Twitter page. Who would have thought?
Probably updated by a Big Dada intern......
Have you heard about Victoria Hesketh aka Little Boots? Her single ‘Stuck on Repeat’ was produced by Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard and many have shat themselves over its Moroder electro-pop stylings. It’s going to be massive. Sample it at the excellent BigStereo or Missingtoof. I couldn’t be arsed uploading it. Here is a rather good video of Little Boots using a Tenori-on to cover Hot Chip’s ‘Ready for the Floor’.
Get the Little Boots Mixtape while you’re at......
Yet another bridge for Warp Records to traverse with the release of Pivot’s O Soundtrack My Heart, the Aussie instrumentalists second album and debut on the label. Technically, it’s math-rock through and through but one with a major differentiation from the likes of Battles in my eyes. By basing the majority of their material on synth sounds first, Pivot assert their influences as primarily classic electronica - Jean Michel Jarre and Brian Eno. The guitars, drums and bass over the top are added as the 3-piece see fit. Any easier description - Post-rock as played by Vangelis. I’m loving it.
‘Fool in Rain’ sounds like a soundtrack to exactly that, except for maybe in a Bladerunner city dystopia. ‘Sweet Memory’ is as close to math-rock as they get...
Just time today to share some embeds of videos I’ve been watching this week. By the way, Egoeccentric have been doing a great job lately and have posted a few of the videos below already so be sure to check them out and their hangover mixtapes too. On with the program.
Radiohead - House of Cards
You’ve probably seen this by now. It uses a technique involving lasers and no cameras were used. You may not have seen the interesting making of video however.
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals videos
Some dude has gone and made visual representations of two tracks from Girl Talk’s albums using the original music videos. This is quite cool.
‘Still here’
Another Girl Talk video and loads more after the jump.
‘Shut the Club Down’
Fonzworth Bentley -...
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that legends make odd moves too. In 1982, Neil Young released Trans, a synth and vocoder heavy album inspired by his son who had cerebal palsy. Young found that the vocoder elicited a better response than talking when communicating with his son. Check out the awesome live video from Berlin of ‘Sample and Hold’. The audience look scared. At least Young and the guitarist are enjoying themselves.
Incidentially, you may have heard this track on the recent Neon Neon mixtape which you should probably get as it contains another legendary musical detour/mishap which is actually amazing. Download the......
The Vinny Club has made a rather amazing mix for State which features the following:
1) Vinny’s own re-working of Lionel Richie’s Hello? Genius.
2) An assortment of German Neu Wave tunes from bands and artists with names like Spliff, Zaza, Hubert and Herbert.
3) Vanesa Paradis.
4) MC Miker G & DJ Sven’s Holiday Rap.
Make sure to check out the Youtube videos in the tracklisting or you’ll miss out on gems like the videos after the jump.
State Mix #4: The Vinny Club
Spliff - Das Blech 1982
Hubert Kah - Rosemarie - NDW - Sylvesterparty 82
Related: Check out the article on The Richter Collective from this month’s Totally Dublin @ Soundtracks for......
David Holmes returns with a long time coming fourth solo album The Holy Pictures on September 8th. Recorded in Belfast about his life in Belfast, the four tunes on his new myspace page suggests promising things. The album features lyrics from Martin Rev of Suicide and appearances from Leo Abrahams and Jon Hopkins. You can also catch him at Electric Picnic.
Speaking of EP, for Twitter users - get updates on EP stuff as it happens from Ach go háirithe.
Join the State Magazine and nialler9 facebook groups.
Black Lights presents: Beach Boys remix album.
Ooh and this.. ‘A Milli’ video....
Today I can exclusively reveal that the black smoke which pops up every now and again in TV show LOST is in fact, Richie Egan. Enjoy the video for the song featuring Richie burning an effigy of himself in a ritual (geddit?). Directed and shot by M&E, with help from Johnny Kelly and D.A.D.D.Y and Gareth Averill....
My favourite pub at the moment is The Bernard Shaw in Portobello. It’s been run by Bodytonic since October 2006. Despite hearing it was due to close in early 2008, it has stayed open and doesn’t seem to be closing anytime soon. The pub has an emphasis on art, music and multimedia with art exhibitions, movie screenings, regular DJ sets, carboot sales and live bands.
Saturday saw one of those events entitled “It’s Happening” take place. It ran from 4pm til about 10pm firstly taking in some electronic performances inside the bar which I missed. I did however manage to catch the closing band who played outside in the smoking area. The plan was for the band which included clarinet, bass, trumpet, keyboard, glockenspiel to play covers of cheesy ’90s songs....
Hard luck to the Swedes last night but the Russians were flippin’ awesome. I wouldn’t normally get involved in international football squabbles but Sweden had it coming. Why?
For this monstrosity. It’s been 14 long, long years since ‘Cotton Eye Joe‘ became an international novelty hit. Since then the Swedes have given us The Cardigans, Robyn, José Gonzalez, The Knife and now Lykke Li. But they have been hiding a dark secret. Sweden, please tell me why you’ve been keeping the Rednex around on a retainer since then, piling up chart hits for fourteen years? Can you explain why you let them record THIS, ‘Football is Our Religion’, the unofficial Euro 2008 song? “Real geniuses on the grass” indeed…
Sample lyric - “The...
First listen to the Esau Mwamwaya and Ezra (Vampire Weekend) collaboration ‘Warm Heart of Africa’ due to appear on Esau’s forthcoming album.
In a perfect world, this would be number one....
Remember that Malawi-born London-based dude who owns a second-hand furniture shop and recorded a version of ‘Paper Planes’ in an African language?
Well Esau has finished recording an album with producer Radioclit and it looks set to feature Marina Vello (formerly of Bonde Do Role), The Ruby Suns, Ezra from Vampire Weekend and M.I.A.
Here’s a video showing how the recording went down.
There are samples of songs on his Myspace including a rework of Architecture in Helsinki’s ‘Heart it Races’ (and you can download this song over at Mad......
Washington DC’s Wale has been causing a stir with his mixtapes of late and this video seals the deal. A freestyle over Justice’s D.A.N.C.E turns into a multimedia homage to Seinfeld, Star Wars, Gnarls Barkley using the original video as a stylistic jumping off point.
In fact his new mixtape The Mixtape About Nothing has a distinctly Seinfeld theme from the cover art to the samples to the rap thematics. If you are looking for a reference for his voice, it reminds me of Lupe Fiasco. It features production from Mark Ronson and appearances from Clipse’s Pusha T, The Roots, Bun B and Lil Wayne. You can listen and download here.
MP3
Wale - W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E. (from 100 Miles and Runnin’)
Wale - The Feature Heavy Song feat. Pusha T, Bun B and Tre from UCB (from A...
Exciting times in our house yesterday as Rollie and his DJ Weezl came over to record some vocals for an upcoming Bonus Party MK II joint. As the evening rolled into the small hours, the focus descended into a youtube-off. Rollie and Weezl told us about some crazy MCs and we shared funny youtube shit. There are too many nuggets here, I couldn’t help but share.
Crazy MCs
Pitman is a Nottingham MC who styles himself as a coal miner, and appears on stage and in videos dressed in a British Coal jacket, a hard hat with a lamp and a flask of tea. His face is often covered in coal dust. Here’s his freestyle over Roots Manuva’s ‘Witness the Fitness’. His album is called It Takes a Nation of Tossers..
Pitman - Witness the Pitness
And his video for ‘Girls’...
Fair play to the Le Galaxie boys for spreading the shakey face concept into music video format. If only we could see it in slow motion.
Le Galaxie - ‘We Bleed the Blood of Androids’
They play Whelans this Sunday.
Thanks to Seaaaaan for the heads up.
P.S - Never eat airport food. I caught something dire and suffered the consequences the last couple of days.......
After trying his hand at being King Biscuit Time, former Beta Band singer Steve Mason is back with an electro project. The first single ‘It’s Real’ is awesome of course. The video for the track is produced by Jimmy Edgar.
For more Black......
This tune is already going on the next podcast, but this version is soopurb!
Forget about the poor quality, she’s a star. Lykke Li owns this......
Jamie Lidell’s new album Jim is one of my favourite albums of the year thus far. He’s also my favourite interviewee of the year so far (State Issue 03 - May 1st) . Check out the first two parts of a short documentary on Lidell. You can win tickets to his Academy Gig at State.ie also....
My favourite music interlude from possibly my favourite film of all-time, Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine. MP3 below.
The DJ is Cut Killer and the samples are:
- KRS-One - Sound Of Da Police
- Edith Piaf - Non , Je Ne Regrette Rien
- NTM - Nique la Police
Cut Killer - Nique la......
It’s a pixelated wonder!
‘Water Curses’ is from the EP of the same name, out May 6th on Domino. Animal Collective return to Ireland for a show in Dublin’s Tripod on 19th May with support from Atlas......
I’ve really warmed to The Kills latest album Midnight Boom in the last few weeks. Before I always thought they were style over substance but this album really nails the sparse rock ‘n’ roll combo rather well. It helps that Mosshart and Hince drafted XXXChange of Spank Rock to work on the beats. You can stream samples of each song on the album at Midnightboom.com. Video for ‘Cheap and Cheerful’ after the jump.
Here’s a dubstep remix from Jazzsteppa and an accompanying video.
The Kills - U.R.A Fever (Jazzsteppa Dubstep remix)
The Kills - Cheap and Cheerful...
OK This is the last Bonus Party post for a while.
Here is the uncut version of SEBP on Podge and Rodge performing ‘The Final Countdown’, The Jimmy Magee remix.
“Ardiles strokes the ball like it was a part of his anatomy.”
Jimmy Magee, Ladies and Gentleman. World......
I can haz pedal?
Not exactly the chest-pummeling I was hoping for but a gentle ribbing none the less. When Holy Fuck were louder, they were better. An abundance of guitar pedals from delay to distortion, controllers with one singular comically large red button, four mixers, a ton of Casio keyboards, a vintage tape loop machine and a superbly tight rhythm section. I wanted more aggression, more dirt. In the end, I was sufficiently swathed in sound but not drowning in it. There was an an encore, a couple of songs I didn’t recognise - with a lot more of an ambient electronica vibe to them yet upbeat. One phrase sounded like U2. I feel a festival atmosphere may suit them better. Onwards Primavera!
This captured video of ‘Lovely Allen’ is particularly eh… lovely....
Tune into the Podge and Rodge Show, RTE2 at 10.50pm tonight to catch the Bonus Party perform a cover of a well-known song (possibly mentioned in the cheesy post below.) The band are playing Whelans with support from Grand Pocket Orchestra on Saturday night. €10 in.
If anyone has a TV capture card, record it for us will......
This was prompted by the rather wonderful new M83 track ‘Kim & Jessie’ which was obviously directly inspired by all things adolescent and 1980s. There’s been a bit of a non-ironic 80s revival going on lately with stuff like Neon Neon par example. Before that we had Donnie Darko and its distinctive soundtrack which is referenced on the Saturdays=Youth cover art along with The Breakfast Club.
Whether your cheese of choice is Rico Mambo, ‘Live to Win‘, ‘We Built this City‘, A Flock of Seagulls, ‘Don’t You Forget About About Me‘ or Final Countdown, spill your guts in the comments - What are your favourite cheesy 80s songs?
Here’s one to get you started along with the inspiration for the post..
M83 - Kim & Jessie...