NME has dubbed them “The most far our rock ‘n’ roll joyride to leave the Isle of Wight since August 31st 1970, when Hendrix’ trailer pulled out”. They are The Shutes.
These rockers have just released the joyous Noah’s Ark on Cross Key Records. As a bonus you can download Silk Screen Shots for free here. Enjoy.
All my American readers say hello to Transit Systems, Inc, a nationwide moving and shipping company who recently contacted me and told about a little something you might enjoy.
They are celebrating ‘Music That Moves You’! – get it? – and are giving away an iPod Nano aswell as iTunes gift cards. All you have to do to enter the draw is take a couple seconds to vote for your favorite moving song. It’s that simple. Really.
So go on and enter, if I could I would.
Friday, the 20th of May, will see Johannesburg based dirty electro due, Double Adapter, launch the first episode of their new documentary at The Assembly in Cape Town.
For the first time in South Africa, the documentary captures the exploding electro scene on camera and features con their recent ‘Adapt or Die’ European Tour. With the Bteam, Kennedy, Audiophile 021, Spekta and George Daniel, plus the Cold Turkey crew holding it down in The Annex.
You excited? I have a set of double tickets to give away. Let me know why you would like them and they are yours!
“Is it commercial when people buy it? or is it commercial when it’s shitty music made for MASS appeal?” – Haezer.
Haezer took to Facebook to discuss music. He says “Here’s just a little scribble to think about, since I’ve started making music under Haezer think I’ve sold like 100 tracks. I have 79 000 hits on Youtube for my song Dominator, but hardly sold any of the remixes or original(of dominator that is) on Beatport.
Now, this is the interesting part, the general feeling I get from fans is this.”Dude, we’re not gonna pay for your tracks, because we’ll pay to see you live” and I get that. My argument is this. How will you ever see artists if promoters don’t want to book them? I know I’ve had quite a few tours around Europe and Australia. But that was crazy hard work from my manager’s side and the faith of promoters that I will put up a good show. But generally, artists get booked according to their releases. If you’re in the Beatport top 10 then promoters will look you up and book you. I’m not saying all promoters. But it definitely doesn’t hurt…”
He says “So, my question is. Is that statement still viable? Is it really okay to never buy an artist’s work? The other answer I get is…well dude, you’re the anti-commercial guy…you can’t expect people to buy your music. .”
He goes on to say “I thought of this today, because my new E.P is out on Beatport and I was wondering if it’ll ever make it in the top 10…there’s already a link where you can download the original in 320kbps. It’s on Fix Up if you were wondering… http://fixup.se/ again. that was posted without my consent…” He adds “None of this is offense or hardcore statements…I’m just throwing around some questions and am very curious to see what peeps have to say…Lemme know. let the opinions be spread.”
Earlier this year the Trinity Orchestra, the only fully student run orchestra in Ireland, played Daft Punk’s album “Discovery” for all to hear. This happens to the first ever live full orchestral performance of Daft Punk’s music and it is one great performance.. This video shows the medley they played as an encore.
You like? I sure do.
xx
yours in musical madness
The “Cyberpunkers” project is the child, born in 2006, of the passion for Cyberpunk culture of two young Italian DJ’s. Think electronic music, fashion, design and photography. In a nutshell, a transposition of the Cyberpunk world in modern clubbing . Cyberpunkers shared the stage of the biggest electronic European festivals with such worldwide stars. Now it is time for their “Fuck the System” World Tour in South Africa.
Known for blazing dancefloors across the globe, The ‘Punkers blew up Discotheque last year for one of the most insane nights ever. Now they are back. On Friday 6 May, The Assembly plays host to The Cyberpunkers along with Kennedy, Audiophile021, Bruce WIllis?? Battle Beyond the Stars, Dank, George Daniel and many more.
As for the Pretoria party at Capitol Theater on the 7th of May, Double Adapter, Liver, Kennedy and Destrukto will take to the main stage ensuring quality entertainment. For all the and coming DJ’s, Young Blood is a new DJ movement founded by GRIET; a dance floor that only showcases new up and coming Dj’s with potential, Gettafix, Doobie, Vinny Vegas, MakAttack VS The Tourist and Minx will be showcasing their skills.
I have a set of double tickets to give away for the Cape Town and Pretoria legs of the tour. All you have to do is tell me or tweet me why you’d like to go. It’s that simple really.
You excited? You should be. It’s going a set of crazy parties!
xx
yours in musical madness
Meet Kate Walsh. The Brighton based singer-songwriter who has been likened to Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush and Laura Marling has a new album ‘The Real Thing’ is released in November, and every 21st of the month until then Kate is releasing a new video.
She has recently released her new video for ‘The Baker’. She said of the video. “Was really lovely recording the video for ‘The Baker’ with Jo on Friday. We were blessed with the sunshine, only thing was our chairs kept falling through the holes between the stones on the beach so there were a few giggles, as always!”
‘The Baker’ is the second in the series of nine videos, you can view the first one her.
I love her and so will you. Enjoy!
xx
yours in musical madness
Meet Ezra Funkhouser, a Chicago electronic musician who goes by the name go SP-33. He sent me a project of his awhile and ago and I’ve been holding on to it. The record is called “Escape From Tha Carter”. It is a project that involves remixing Lil’ Wayne’s tracks using the “Escape From New York” score as the sampling music. Ezra explains, ‘I am hesitant to call it a mash-up because it isn’t just a mix of “track A” with “track B”. Instead, I totally deconstruct both the Wayne lyrics and the “Escape From New York” tracks. Then I reconstruct them to make something completely new. ‘
He continues, ‘this project came about because, for whatever reason, I was listening to a lot of Lil’ Wayne and watching a lot of grimmey and dark sci-fi flicks (Blade Runner, Escape from New York, Tetsuo The Iron Man, Metropolis). While watching these films I wondered what the pop music on the radio stations would sound like. So I embarked on creating dark, distorted, and grimmey pop/hip-hop music. Much like “Escape from New York” and “Blade Runner” the music is muggy and dense and surrounds the audience in a dystopic and unstable environment.’
I simply cannot get enough. Lil Wayne has never sounded so different. Or so good. And yes, you guessed it, you can download ‘Escape From Tha Carter’ for free. You’re welcome!
Musical Mover & Shaker! 