sounds like...

I spent money i shouldn't have, on some new records. I figure if I write about them, i won't feel so guilty about buying them....

first one of mention is the collaboration between DJ Dangermouse of that Grey Album infamy, that *cough* caused a few laughs, and MF Doom, under the name of Dangerdoom - 'The Mouse And The Mask'. Its a cross collaboration with Adult Swim, i guess some show from Cartoon Network - my friend said it was a cartoon chatshow hosted by Space Ghost. Lots of cartoon samples, fresh classic hiphop styling beats, healthy does of humour without being annoying, and a flowing vocal delivery. If you liked the last MF Doom album "Mmm.. Food", you'll like this too...

Black Dice - Broken Ear Record.
Sprawling epic thuds and beats, like a primal version of Animal Collective with electronic toys. Really enjoying this, i've never seen them live, and after hearing this, i really want to.

DJ /rupture's Low Income Tomorrowland.
This is a mix cd done on turntables, that comes with a data portion containing 6 mp3s from a live german radio show. The mix is the style you'd expect, nice big chunky breaks, a certain ethnic sound to it, from hiphop to warped twostep/grime, ragga, breaks. Too much music i listen to could be considered twee, whiney and/or experimental - its quite nice to get some more banging music. I havent made my way through all the mp3s on here yet, which add up to about another hours worth of music, but it sounds good as well.

Two others ..
Bichi - Notwithstanding
Hulk - Silver Thread Of Ghosts
Both more in the quieter electronic category, with the Bichi leaning more on the glitchy side, and the Hulk release a bit more organic and droney. Deeply enjoying both, and looking forward to hearing them on the ipod.

*click*

Ouch, bit hungover from last nights Not Clickable, but it was well worth it!

It wasn't as busy as last months, but i was expecting that - we didnt have Leafcutter John headlining this time, plus there was some heavy competition with Architecture In Helsinki playing along the road, The Leaf Labels' 10th birthday celebrations down at the Spitz, with Murcof, Efterklang and Sutehk, Tunng playing over in west london, The Wrens playing somewhere else, and thats just the shows that i wouldnt have minded going to, there was also Maximo Park, oh yeah, and another big one was 65daysofstatic and Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies.

Starting off with a beautiful set from sanso-xtro, those guys have grown so much artistically - from Melissa's solo beginnings to the live beast that they have become - most excellent!

Mandelbrot Set kicked it off with some fierce full on wall-of-sound, and made everyone sit up and take notice, running through most of the new album's material. Their album is gonna be a corker.

And finishing the evening up were the indescribably amazing Phil Collins 3! You gotta check these guys out next time they are playing in your town, full on spastic noisecore costumed antics, and some fierce fierce music! Check out their live video at http://www.tpc3.co.uk

cheeky wee flocker

I'm now working with Flock, which is this new browser based on Firefox, but with a bunch of Web2.0 type integration built in, like for example, being able to post to a blog from within your browser, and has hooks into it for Flickr and Del.icio.us

Its got a nice look and feel to it, and seems pretty fast, but it is somewhere between Alpha and Beta. Grab it yourself from http://www.flock.com/

Adaadat party last night was another successful one, but alas my phone battery had died so i have no pictures of the event.

My headache continues unabated, and i'm now pretty sure its just one big f**k-off hangover! I should stay home, but tonite is Afrirampo over in Kilburn..

dang, and i gotta work tomorrow morning at 9am. ouch.

8-bit battery powered

This is Comanechi in action last night at the Plan B night at the Spitz. They were playing with Charlottefield and Comasport. It was a pretty fun evening, which i almost never went to - I've been going out so constantly lately and would like to slow down somewhat, but i guess thats not what you move to London for!

Comasport opened with droney electronic noise, which started out just ok, but actually built up into hella good racket!

Charlottefield was the reason i went along, but i think i had hyped myself up too much and was super excited to see them. They were pretty good, but a bit sludgey and emo-like for my taste.

Comanechi, i saw a few months back at a Silver Rocket evening. They were good when i saw them, but not so much, that i would have made a point to go see them again, however... Last night they just rocked so hard. There was trouble with tuning the bass at the beginning of their set, so they didnt even bother with that, and just went at it with drums and guitar. I'd definitley recommend checking them out.

Tonite is Adaadat's (fairly) new monthly night, called Trash Trash Noise Next Door, and this month features Duracell, the french one-man Lightning Bolt cover band, armed with two Nord Micromodulars and a drum-kit! The guy is insanely good live, hopefully i can get some good pictures tonite, but its not guaranteed - last time i saw him you couldnt see shit cos the crowd around him was so thick.

aii-ght!

Now Listening:

randomNumber - Golden Acre Sleeps
Animal Collective - Feels

me grains and belly aches

Well, Jandek show last night went really well. It was an awesome venue, St Giles church, just behind the Resonance FM studios. The guy was very timid and slowly made his way onto stage, trying to calm his shaking hands, the brim of his hat allowing him to hide his eyes from the crowd. No words of introduction of formalities, he just slowly checked his guitar was in tune, carefully turned the pages of his open note book, and launched into performance. Its weirdly amatuerish at points , with no melody to the vocal delivery, very sombre and almost spoken-word like delivery, strange tunings to his guitar and seemingly random strumming, but then with enough moments of genius to bring you back into it. I'm still not convinced that theres not an element of the Kings New Clothes to his music, but i enjoyed it a lot, and the music world needs and loves characters this quirky and eccentric!

Now listening to:
DJ/Rupture's Breezeblock Session
Mandelbrot Set - All Our Actions Are Constantly Repeated

the allure of mystery

I'm quite excited for this Jandek show tonite.
I havent ever heard the music, and have to admit, i was sold just on the mystery of the guy alone! Heres the story:

"The longest-running, weirdest, loneliest enigma in popular music is a guy from Houston, Texas who calls himself JANDEK. Since 1978, JANDEK has made some 42 albums of dissolute, atonal folk and blues for the mysterious CORWOOD INDUSTRIES label, which has put out nothing else but JANDEK! For such a prolific, legendary musician, little is really known about the man - the first 26 years of his career passed without a live performance or an official interview. In 2004, however, that partially changed with the release of the "JANDEK ON CORWOOD" documentary film and his first ever performance at the INSTAL 04 festival in Glasgow. Since then, JANDEK has made a handful of skirmishes into the live arena in Scotland and the US and is returning to the UK again in October for INSTAL 05 and this, his London debut and 8th ever live performance!".

Its being put on by the fine people at Upset The Rhythm (www.upsettherhythm.co.uk) who seriously put on the best shows in London. They always have the most interesting and experimental bands, but their main thing is that they always manage to get the artists/performers before anyone else, they just really have their ear to the ground and know whats going on.

Its going to be a long, but good week! Tomorrow is Comanenchi and Charlottefield at the Spitz, and then thursday is the next Adaadat monthly night, 'Trash Trash Noise Next Door', and i just know there is more at the weekend. Ouch, i'm so old and tired and can't keep up!

Now Listening to:

The Pooh Sticks - Million Seller
Disco Inferno - D.I. Go Pop

ah, cigarette, cup of tea, a bun..

i shouldn't do it, i shouldn't start a blog. One of two things will happen, either i'll do it for a week and get bored of it, or i'll get really into it and waste loads of time on it.

I was actually have troubling subscribing to Simon Reynolds blog on here today, using NetNewsWire, and i thought i was just using the wrong url, yet couldn't find any other links. Somewhat of a long winded way to go about it, i thought if i create an account, i can find the proper way to subscribe. So yeah, anyhoo, turns out NetNewsWire thinks his blog isn't valid XML or something, and now i have a blog.

And here i am within about five hours of opening my account, i somehow find time to write an entry. I should have went out to the Silver Rocket show at the Buffalo Bar, but i don't feel too good. No, really. i don't. I usually don't get ill often, but i even woke up this morning with a headache. I've been lounging about all day working on a flyer (image pictured here), had a bath (never done it for years yet managed two this week (I do shower tho)), theres nothing on the telly, i have no new emails, no new rss news; da-da.. my first post.

current listening:
Modeselektor - Hello Mom!
American Analog Set - Set Free