songs for sad people

this is the era of economic crisis. i also have an emocional one. love problems. what would life be without them? easier.

in case you ll have some similair occurances i suggest you to listen to these songs. they help you to be even more fucked up..

this video is for cutting veins. who can resist this sorrow?

the next one is metronomy, this song has been following my love tragedies already for a year.



now let s go back to sweet nineties. one hit band is White Town with a great clip and even better song.



how could i leave out our queen of sadness and sorrow, one and only Beth Gibbons and Portishead. without them music would never become what it is now. if you want a band for the great world depression, portishead is more than adequate. for some people, including me, there is a side effect of the tears they arouse, that is the feeling of extreme satisfaction!!



another gloomy band which is one of my favorites is Blonde Redhead. as soon as you hear Makino's high pitched voice, you can only weep in beauty.
in the video that follows you can see Miranda July, performer and director (her debut was Me You and Everyone We Know - excellent movie!!!



next, the princess of twisted loneliness is Leila. she produced Bjork s second album Post and was hanging out with Tricky and the gang. still she remains unknown and creates weird electronic trip hop idm, i recommend her albums although people don t really grasp her at the first instance.



good old Mount Sims, the king of electroclash in early 2000's comes in 2005 with Ashes.



to end this sad terror here comes Grandaddy, one of the best american bands ever existed. they fell apart 2 years ago, that saddens me too.



well, if you listened to all these tracks, and if you re still cheerful, then you re not human!!!!

boards of canada neverending era

one of the rare performers i never ever get bored of is Boards of canada - the duo of Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin. They have concerts rarely, almost never. First i ve heard them 8 years ago, as soon as first tunes came up, i wondered: what the hell is this shit? weeeird..hmm...i love it!!!
and then i fell in love with them, even now i still am. their music is so inspriring, old yet new, their synths dreamy and sometimes atonal, their samples bizarre, they are one and unique. i could write another post on PLAID because they are the closest band to BOC, but still different.












BOC have alltogether 3 LPs, lots of EPs and compilations.
Music Has The Right To Children was my first BOC encounter, still one of the best albums i ve heard. Geogaddi is somewhat darker, but beautiful. The Campfire Headphase is more optimistic, but still fucked up as the other albums ;)
fucked up-ness is a feature that good music needs to contain.

one of my friends described BOC recently: you know, you have a stove, an oily dirty stove. you play BOC and stains on that stove simply vanish, disappear. That s what BOC does to me.

their music is not so complex, they don t have many lines, couple of synths, rhythm and wicked samples. yet they create such a complex world. shamanic. as if they drink ayauasca, or eat LSD, or simply, they come from another world.


















ok, that s enough of the video clips ( these are all home made clips since they don t even publish their owns.)
oh no, it s a lie, they do have ONE official video ( after 15 years) , here you go:





enjoy their music, because i surely am, was enjoying and will enjoy.;)

the new future

if you are a fan of downloading music and not paying for it like me,....

if you re into DIY, idm, electronica, indietronica, electro, skweee, glitch, etc....

if you re into people who make music without interest to earn money out of it....

then..

this is the right site for you:

http://phlow-magazine.com/

MELT fest part 2

Festival s biggest revelation was Tim Exile. His name was familiar for years but i ve never payed attention to hearing his work. Now i did, and it was a big boom for my ears. The guy is doing everything live, first records a sample by his voice, makes a rythm out of it, and sequences some other samples so that he could sing like some idm folk star :) Here you go!:)

his set ended in brutal breakcore cocktail, all of us liked it.

Let me remember, hmmm...

the second night we saw Whomadewho. Danish disco-punk band, one of the best concerts i ve been to.. except for the last song they played, a remake of Benny Bennasi's Satisfaction, they prove to be innovative (yet so retro), Gossipish, Queen of the Stone Age-ish blender. Their last album The Plot is this Mr July for my Winamp list.

This is the absolute hit from their first album.

The dance arena looked like this:

i had a chance to see James Holden over there which turned out to be very nice minimal idm electro set, similar to the works of Nathan Fake or Clark. Language cannot express emotions caused by music, come to think of it, we are condemned to use language, and to say so little. hmm..

The next band which had drawn my attention was Miike Snow. A brand new indie electro pop. Their music was like swimming in the sea, you dip in and enjoy it, the salty water holds you as you proceed calmly. The whole concept of the concert has been imagined profoundly. They began with the majo r hit Animal, then follow with romantic song, another hit, slower song again, cyclical pop. The audience was in trans, as the sound sistem was powerful enough to show Miike Snow in a true light.











Too bad Metronomy cancelled their performance, Moderat could n t p

lay due to the storm that appeared on the first day and it s even sadder that i could n t see La Roux since there was such a huge crowd in Coca Cola stage that guards did n t allow not a single person to enter the tent. It s also such a pitty i missed The Gossip and Crystal Castles were a dissapointment.
If you go to MELT festival next year, do not forget to bring warmer clothes and a strong tent, but i would advise you to rent a flat in a nearby town or Dessau. That s my plan for next year ;)



At least rain in combination with sun created a clear rainbow on a lake.

MELT festival

For a long time i was familiar with the MELT festival but every year something else came up. 2 years ago i visited Pukkelpop festival in Belgium which offered numerous quality artists like LCD Soundsystem, Goose, Coco Rosie, Fridge, Justice, Digitalism, Benga, Arcade Fire and many more. For 2007 it was the most updated line-up, I knew that MELT must be the same.

And it was indeed. I saw the line up few months ago, showed it to Dani and Dani, we decided to go, without hesitation. Csilla jumped in as well.

I was counting days like a small child who is awaiting its first seaside trip. thursay 6 AM it was when we set off to germany. Gosh people in EU are lucky, no boarders, you just dash through Slovakia, Czech Republic, and Germany. We stopped at a small cute town, i can t remember the name. There were only kids and old people present at the streets. They must get along. Like in trash horror movies, they eat the middle aged ones.






After the tasty lunch ( bloody sausages, mmmm) we only had one hour to reach our camping spot.


hmm..this is my first experience with blogging, it might look messy :)

germans are crazy about the barbecues. they don t spend so much money on food at the festivals.








There came the first day of the fest. A christian party bus was on the way ;)

First band we saw was the Cold War Kids.
Californian indie rock band. Their music could be described as indie blues, high pitched vocal of Nathan Willett combined with piano, guitar, bass gituar and drums create melancholic blues tunes. Great show.


more will follow these days