it s the season of festivals... Croatia, Serbia, Hungary..plenty of music festivals.. im kinda lazy to go anywhere, except to the beach on the Adriatic sea. so i stick to good old Budapest, anyway there s always something happening here.
like this weekend, on Friday we ll be pleased to hear and see Nosaj Thing, who is returning after a year to a38. back then he had an excellent live set, everyone went ecstatic..
here s how he sounds
dreamy melodies, atonal rnb/hip hop beats... like Boards of Canada in the club..
he can suprise us with some electro like he did the last time..
he also made the XX remix
day later, Saturday, we ll be witnessing sytnh wonders of Xeno&Oaklander and Martial Canterel..oh yeahhhhhhh..
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Komeda
This time I d like to introduce a band that is dear to me for this whole decade. A band that is so unknown, I would never have known of them if I hadn't had discovered them on Soulseek 6 years ago. Komeda is a creation of vocalist Lena Karlsson, guitarist Mattias Nordlander, bassist Marcus Holmberg and Holmberg's brother Jonas on drums. They issued 4 LPS, all of them are magnificent representations of pop music. Non pretentious, charming, intelligent and honest. Just like Scandinavian people seem to be. Texts are
- anti consumerists
like this:
pro philosophy and pro psychoanalysis
like this:
falling in love
like this:
loneliness,
like this:
sometimes frolic sometimes nihilist... as life is..
LA LA LA or PAM PA RAM PAP..
They have overall 4 albums, all of them are real pop gems that will satisfy even the most demanding audience. Too bad they don t exist anymore.
- anti consumerists
like this:
pro philosophy and pro psychoanalysis
like this:
falling in love
like this:
loneliness,
like this:
sometimes frolic sometimes nihilist... as life is..
LA LA LA or PAM PA RAM PAP..
They have overall 4 albums, all of them are real pop gems that will satisfy even the most demanding audience. Too bad they don t exist anymore.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Xeno and Oaklander
I wont hide it..I'm so fucking psyched about this event..At last it s happening!!! ROAAAAAARRRR AAAAAHAHAHSDHHHHA!!!!!!!
Raw electro/minimal synth event in Budapest!!! in the abundance of french electro DJ gigs and recently dead nu rave, miserable breakbeat (except the queen of beats Ludmilla) this is a real refreshment in this city.. and who is coming? The pioneers of minimal synth genre Xeno and Oaklander from Brooklyn, whose member has his own project Martial Canterel that is also going to be shown..both prodigies of Brooklyn's Weird Recordings.. 2 flies in one hit..in Roham bar, July 16th under the organisation of the promising party series Kuss Mich.
Xeno and Oaklander made two LPs and their main motto is to make music with only analogue instruments AND everything live, nothing should be recorded. thumbs up to the example of the DIY art in its most complicated form.
their entity of off key synthesizers, Liz Wedelbo's polyglot singing and Sean McBride's reciting flows you into the world of dark and scarce caves, German post punk clubs, Brooklyn streets and horror movies from late 60s.Repressed traumas and fears come to life, you enjoy and suffer, tap tap, you dance...clap clap!!!!
Lets not mix this genre with EBM or goth wave,.. this is more subtle, profound and gentle in a way. as if they were cousins of Kraftwerk who took more drugs and had fucked up relationships.
I was and still am overwhelmed with this song, I dont know what Liz is sharing with us in French, but in me it evokes rapture of peaking on enhancers on the dance floor, the ecstasy of an upcoming orgasm but you want to hold on a bit more for the longer lasting effect, the rage when someone messes around with you..all of that while listening to this:
The next one is the hymn to gods, ghosts, dead people who besiege your dreams and unconsciousness..they sing to you. it s up to you how to deal with them..
You may notice around 3:20 that there are soo many sounds, synthesizer layers fighting, overlapping and matching each other, and instead of sounding terribly messy it sounds so fucking harmonic.. well done mr Mcbride.
Speaking of McBride, he has this project called Martial Canterel which he will also present at Roham bar. the video was made by Liz and this is how he sounds:
How will he combine all these synthesizers and samples in live performance we will yet see..im sure he ll be brilliant.. im counting days and nights until this gig!!
Raw electro/minimal synth event in Budapest!!! in the abundance of french electro DJ gigs and recently dead nu rave, miserable breakbeat (except the queen of beats Ludmilla) this is a real refreshment in this city.. and who is coming? The pioneers of minimal synth genre Xeno and Oaklander from Brooklyn, whose member has his own project Martial Canterel that is also going to be shown..both prodigies of Brooklyn's Weird Recordings.. 2 flies in one hit..in Roham bar, July 16th under the organisation of the promising party series Kuss Mich.
Xeno and Oaklander made two LPs and their main motto is to make music with only analogue instruments AND everything live, nothing should be recorded. thumbs up to the example of the DIY art in its most complicated form.
their entity of off key synthesizers, Liz Wedelbo's polyglot singing and Sean McBride's reciting flows you into the world of dark and scarce caves, German post punk clubs, Brooklyn streets and horror movies from late 60s.Repressed traumas and fears come to life, you enjoy and suffer, tap tap, you dance...clap clap!!!!
Lets not mix this genre with EBM or goth wave,.. this is more subtle, profound and gentle in a way. as if they were cousins of Kraftwerk who took more drugs and had fucked up relationships.
I was and still am overwhelmed with this song, I dont know what Liz is sharing with us in French, but in me it evokes rapture of peaking on enhancers on the dance floor, the ecstasy of an upcoming orgasm but you want to hold on a bit more for the longer lasting effect, the rage when someone messes around with you..all of that while listening to this:
The next one is the hymn to gods, ghosts, dead people who besiege your dreams and unconsciousness..they sing to you. it s up to you how to deal with them..
You may notice around 3:20 that there are soo many sounds, synthesizer layers fighting, overlapping and matching each other, and instead of sounding terribly messy it sounds so fucking harmonic.. well done mr Mcbride.
Speaking of McBride, he has this project called Martial Canterel which he will also present at Roham bar. the video was made by Liz and this is how he sounds:
How will he combine all these synthesizers and samples in live performance we will yet see..im sure he ll be brilliant.. im counting days and nights until this gig!!
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Soundpool
There is plethora of so called dream pop bands in the last couple of years, you cannot really differentiate them, they all sound the same. However, one of them is so beautiful. I discovered Soundpool on Last Fm, they a dream pop band based in New York but releasing their albums in Japan. The critics often apply the adjective 'shoegaze' band when describing them. I always wondered what the term shoegaze means - it is a sub-genre of alternative rock typified by significant use of guitar effects and indistinguishable vocals that blend into a melody. The term was brought up by NME and Melody Maker, the members of the bands stood relatively still gazing at their shoes :)
Let's switch back to Soundpool. When in bumped into the song Span the Universe on Last Fm, I knew this band is going to leave a trace in me. Although their lyrics are not really deep and serious, they focus on abstract ideas like space, air, water, moon, stars, sun, universe and glorifying those. Nothing mind blowing, but so irresistible and dreamy.
Moonglow is an ode to a summer night, Ladytron and Stereolab in a dream pop version.
Their second album brings more dreamy melodies and nostalgia.
You can notice that they don't pay attention to their visual representation, they focus more on audio.
Last year their third LP Mirrors in Your Eyes came out. Here they touch mild disco influence which fits perfectly to their world of visage and stargaze. The first single is Sparkle in the Dark accompanied with their first strong video.
so my fellow droogs, enjoy stargazing, sungazing, daydreaming and creating with Soundpool, you wont regret it!!
Let's switch back to Soundpool. When in bumped into the song Span the Universe on Last Fm, I knew this band is going to leave a trace in me. Although their lyrics are not really deep and serious, they focus on abstract ideas like space, air, water, moon, stars, sun, universe and glorifying those. Nothing mind blowing, but so irresistible and dreamy.
Moonglow is an ode to a summer night, Ladytron and Stereolab in a dream pop version.
Their second album brings more dreamy melodies and nostalgia.
You can notice that they don't pay attention to their visual representation, they focus more on audio.
Last year their third LP Mirrors in Your Eyes came out. Here they touch mild disco influence which fits perfectly to their world of visage and stargaze. The first single is Sparkle in the Dark accompanied with their first strong video.
so my fellow droogs, enjoy stargazing, sungazing, daydreaming and creating with Soundpool, you wont regret it!!
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Bye Trish, Again
Now, more than a month has passed since Trish's tragic death. She was only 42. Even though I didn't know her and have never met her, I feel as if a part of me has vanished. I know, the music still remains, but being conscious that she s not present in this world is saddening. The fear of death is omnipresent. The closest person who died were my dog Lora and my childhood friend Bojan. I fear of death of my loved ones, who doesn't after all?
The beginning of zeroes when VIVA2 was an abundant fountain of new and remarkable bands, rise of Ladytron, peak of Placebo, Goldfrapp's arrival, discovery of Towa Tei, Stereolab, Pavement, Queens of the stone age...I remember, Ivan lent me the yellow CD "Noise Made By People". It seduced me with the tender crystal voice, tedious analogue synths, Antionioni's Blow Up feeling of presence of death, 60's women clothes and 60s TV shows, dreams from which you wake up with tears but you forget what you dreamed of.
This is the song from their first record, the collection of singles before 2000. I only discovered it now after her death.
Retro pop style they never actually changed, they developed it. In fact, Trish sings of the memories from the past world, the music is reminiscent of 60s TV show music.
"This phenomenon of carefully enunciating strange narratives over a psychedelic background can perhaps be viewed as a relic or a lost art form in itself, recalling the tendency in 60s British children's TV to combine whacked-out ideas with cheery, polite delivery. Trish emphasized that these memories of a pre-lapsarian, futuristic education through media were not her own (she was born in 1968), but that they were part of her imaginative heritage, like dated paperbacks that could be plundered for inspiration."
source: http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/trish-keenan-broadcast-1995-2011
The following video is Papercuts, taken from their most praised LP The noise made by people.
Somewhat darker world comes from their LP Haha Sound from 2003. this song is my favorite from the album
Tender Buttons came out in 2005, with only Tish and her partner James Cargill. It nourished the true pop gem Michael a Grammar.
Although I was more concentrated on paying attention to her melodies and music, the texts are really amazing. Jessica Monk's marvelous post encourages me to observe Trish's lyrics more carefully.
We are mankind
We are manikin
With and without mind
With or without Darwin
Classify me
The strings of my autonomy
Classify me
The strings of my autonomy
Corporeal corporeal
The band's fourth proper album was expected this year and they announced the tour, if the band will still exist without Trish, that is still unknown.
Trish, you ll never be forgotten...
The beginning of zeroes when VIVA2 was an abundant fountain of new and remarkable bands, rise of Ladytron, peak of Placebo, Goldfrapp's arrival, discovery of Towa Tei, Stereolab, Pavement, Queens of the stone age...I remember, Ivan lent me the yellow CD "Noise Made By People". It seduced me with the tender crystal voice, tedious analogue synths, Antionioni's Blow Up feeling of presence of death, 60's women clothes and 60s TV shows, dreams from which you wake up with tears but you forget what you dreamed of.
This is the song from their first record, the collection of singles before 2000. I only discovered it now after her death.
Retro pop style they never actually changed, they developed it. In fact, Trish sings of the memories from the past world, the music is reminiscent of 60s TV show music.
"This phenomenon of carefully enunciating strange narratives over a psychedelic background can perhaps be viewed as a relic or a lost art form in itself, recalling the tendency in 60s British children's TV to combine whacked-out ideas with cheery, polite delivery. Trish emphasized that these memories of a pre-lapsarian, futuristic education through media were not her own (she was born in 1968), but that they were part of her imaginative heritage, like dated paperbacks that could be plundered for inspiration."
source: http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/trish-keenan-broadcast-1995-2011
The following video is Papercuts, taken from their most praised LP The noise made by people.
Somewhat darker world comes from their LP Haha Sound from 2003. this song is my favorite from the album
Tender Buttons came out in 2005, with only Tish and her partner James Cargill. It nourished the true pop gem Michael a Grammar.
Although I was more concentrated on paying attention to her melodies and music, the texts are really amazing. Jessica Monk's marvelous post encourages me to observe Trish's lyrics more carefully.
We are mankind
We are manikin
With and without mind
With or without Darwin
Classify me
The strings of my autonomy
Classify me
The strings of my autonomy
Corporeal corporeal
The band's fourth proper album was expected this year and they announced the tour, if the band will still exist without Trish, that is still unknown.
Trish, you ll never be forgotten...
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