Jay Posted 28 May 2007 Share Posted 28 May 2007 Frank Turner used to be in Hardcore Punk band Million Dead on Household name records now pretending to be a folk singer just sings songs with him and his guitar a makes some quality songs which has been described as campfire punkrock just singing about everyday things, very different but rather good imo one of my favourites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who ate all the pies? Posted 30 May 2007 Share Posted 30 May 2007 The Duke Spirit!!!! amazing check them out on myspace. The Bishops are also a cool band very 60s. I review a few bands on my blogon myspace (just for a laugh) have a read and tell me what you think. http://blog.myspace.com/theoneandonlymattypreston Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floating Fox Posted 31 May 2007 Share Posted 31 May 2007 I Need Something - Newton Faulkner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nationwider Posted 1 June 2007 Share Posted 1 June 2007 Good morning. Like Lily Allen, only less twee, and without the famous dad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The People's Hero Posted 1 June 2007 Share Posted 1 June 2007 Brian Little - Little by Little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nationwider Posted 1 June 2007 Share Posted 1 June 2007 ... the wheels of his managerial career came slowly falling off ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket-Ron Posted 1 June 2007 Share Posted 1 June 2007 Good morning. Like Lily Allen, only less twee, and without the famous dad. Very much a mix between Jamie T & Lily Allen. Not sure about this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James. Posted 4 June 2007 Author Share Posted 4 June 2007 If you're having a party and can't source a pair of decks get a copy of The Freestylers Fabriclive album (number 19 in the series). Then find a mammoth hi-fi system, turn up volume, turn up bass and enjoy. Absolutely quality mix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lineker's Left Foot Posted 4 June 2007 Share Posted 4 June 2007 If you're having a party and can't source a pair of decks get a copy of The Freestylers Fabriclive album (number 19 in the series).Then find a mammoth hi-fi system, turn up volume, turn up bass and enjoy. Absolutely quality mix. Of that series I've got John Peel, Global Communication and Nitin Sawhney. Will have to give it a go, but I'm afraid I was a little bit disappoined with them !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James. Posted 4 June 2007 Author Share Posted 4 June 2007 Of that series I've got John Peel, Global Communication and Nitin Sawhney. Will have to give it a go, but I'm afraid I was a little bit disappoined with them !! Some of them are a bit shit. I got hold of the whole lot recently. You should definitely check out the Herbaliser one and although I haven't listened to it yet the Aim one is apparently very good (going by what I know of your taste). I'm a big fan of breakbeat at the moment and Fabric put on some of the best nights in London for that so a lot of the collection (Meat Katie in particular) are right up my alley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vennegoor10 Posted 11 June 2007 Share Posted 11 June 2007 www.myspace.com/mexicoview anyone who's into indie/punk-listen to tihs! especially 'firefly' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lineker's Left Foot Posted 18 June 2007 Share Posted 18 June 2007 I know it's a bit old, but I've a penchant (think that's the right world) for Modern Romances from the 80s. With songs entitled "Aye aye aye aye Moosey" and "Best Years of our Lives" as well as "Everybody Salsa" - you can't go wrong !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stez Posted 19 June 2007 Share Posted 19 June 2007 http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...riendID=9524976 the cat empire, latino ska, lovely on myspace; especially 'hello' and 'the car song' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daggers Posted 13 July 2007 Share Posted 13 July 2007 Bassist and producer Bill Laswell's prolific output tends to blur his projects together in the senses. A Dub Transmission, however, leaps out of this sonic fog. It could've been called Thundering Bass, as he teams up with another denizen of deep bass boom, Jah Wobble. Recalling Laswell's Material album, Hallucination Engine, and to a lesser degree Hear No Evil, A Dub Transmission is a throbbing, shifting fabric of dub bass lines, free improvisation, and sound manipulation. Among the musicians whose performances are mixed and morphed are horn players Nils Petter Molvaer and Graham Haynes, keyboardist Amina Claudine Myers, and percussionists Karsh Kale, Hamid Drake, Sly Dunbar, and Aiyb Dieng. Add in longtime Laswell accomplice guitarist Nicky Skopelitis, and it's a wedding of wild spontaneity, digital composition, global grooves, and electronic moods. Ejigayehu "Gigi" Shebabaw guests on "Alsema Dub," giving the album a more celebratory turn than most of A Dub Transmission's deliriously dark, cyberhallucinations. --John Diliberto Think - so damn mellow and sexy that it will makes you twelve times more cool just thinking about playing it. Think - comfortable silences staring at the rain patterns on the window pane with your arms around the naked form of the one you love. Think - the part of a film where the main protagonist goes on a journey to somewhere important. Think - the tunes you put on as you drift into weekend abuse unconsciousness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AoWW Posted 13 July 2007 Share Posted 13 July 2007 Think - so damn mellow and sexy that it will makes you twelve times more cool just thinking about playing it. Think - comfortable silences staring at the rain patterns on the window pane with your arms around the naked form of the one you love. Think - the part of a film where the main protagonist goes on a journey to somewhere important. Think - the tunes you put on as you drift into weekend abuse unconsciousness. Wow, well sold by the guy with the hair. Based on that, to not give it a whirl would just seem, well... rude! I'm trusting you, mind! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daggers Posted 13 July 2007 Share Posted 13 July 2007 Wow, well sold by the guy with the hair. Based on that, to not give it a whirl would just seem, well... rude! I'm trusting you, mind! Promise you - the most chilled set of tracks I've listened to in a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James. Posted 15 July 2007 Author Share Posted 15 July 2007 Promise you - the most chilled set of tracks I've listened to in a while This is why I created this thread. Just bought it. Alongside Lee Scratch Perry - Panic in Babylon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daggers Posted 15 July 2007 Share Posted 15 July 2007 Alongside Lee Scratch Perry - Panic in Babylon Woooo...feel dem riddims. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted 15 July 2007 Share Posted 15 July 2007 Have a listen to Logh Very nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daggers Posted 18 July 2007 Share Posted 18 July 2007 Have a listen to LoghVery nice I didn't like that. Anyone serious about trying out tunes should invest in one of these - I got one for Xmas and was delighted with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daggers Posted 18 July 2007 Share Posted 18 July 2007 Clock DVAThirst Released 1981 on Fetish Adi Newton - Voice, Clarinet, Tapes Charlie Collins - Saxophones, Flute Stephen "Judd" Turner - Bass Guitar Paul Widger - Guitar Roger Quail - Drums, Percussion Produced by Ken Thomas and Adi Newton Recorded at Jacobs Studio, Surrey 1980 Engineered by Ken Thomas In 1976, Sex Pistols and The Clash played at the notorious Black Swan venue in Sheffield. The resulting performances went down a storm with the more clued up and adventurous audience members and it somehow lit the blue-touch paper and confirmed for them, that they were not alone in their boredom and were more than ready to put their own ideas into a more positive action. Legend has it, that the members of Cabaret Voltaire were engaged in a playful spitting competition with the Pistols during the night! The Cabs certainly knew a thing or two about audience confrontation from their own experiences locally- circa 1975, which, as it transpired, were far from playful and even further from 'rock music' than this new breed wanted to stray... for the moment at least. Like many cities in the UK in the following six months of being exposed to the London groups, Sheffield exploded into an underground hive of fanzine editors, groups, club promotors and fans alike. But there was something different about Sheffield. People seemed a bit more switched on to using their own ideas 'in relation' to what was happening, rather than just running along with a small variation on a general idea. At the start of 1977, Adi Newton was running the fanzine- 'Gunrubber' with fellow enthusiast Paul Bower. Newton was also involved with Martyn Ware and Ian Craig-Marsh in various groups and projects, one being The Future, which Newton eventually left as he wanted to follow a more esoteric path. Marsh and Ware from this point on, is of course another story. Newton then teamed up with fellow explorer, the late Stephen "Judd" Turner and they decided to name their ventures in sound, Clock DVA. The 'Clock' part would be a surrealist reference to the likes of the melting Dali clocks and 'DVA' was taken from the Burgess novel 'A Clockwork Orange' and is the russian word meaning 'two' (although I think everyone found it easier to say the letters individually!). They brought in Dave Hammond (guitar, devices) and Simon Kemp (synthesizer, electronics) and in 1978/9 they produced a series of five private tapes of their various experiments which contained tracks with titles like- 'Coil', 'Through Latex Mirrors' and 'Synchromesh'. In 1980, Kemp left and local Saxophone genius Charlie Collins was brought into the fray, as well as Roger Quail on Drums, they were now ready to move forward. Through the groups alliance with Cabaret Voltaire, they presented their first 'proper' recording- "White Souls In Blacks Suits"- which was issued as a cassette release on Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records (at TG's invitation). This was a recording taken from hours of improvisations which was later edited and mixed at Cabaret Voltaire's Western Works studio and features some Tape montage work from Chris Watson, whilst Kirk and Mallinder engineered and co-produced the whole affair with the group. They (or someone close) also coined their own tongue-in-cheek genre-'Nothern Industrial Soul'. Dave Hammond leaves and Paul Widger comes in on Guitar. The 'post-punk' boom was well under way and word spread like wildfire in the right circles and it wasn't long before Clock DVA released their first slice of vinyl via Fetish Records- 'Thirst'. The album cover greets you with a fantastic image which depicts a kind of dark sepia-tinged satanic baby (like a minimal interpretation of one of H.R.Giger's infant beasts), this was done by one of the great sleeve illustators of the time, Neville Brody. "Uncertain"- This starts with the breathing, echoed flashes of Saxophone, Clarinet and minimal Tape interjections and it's this opening experimental section which suits the title so well, a great and mysterious mood is set before the Banshees like drumming comes in and shows the way. Adi Newton's vocals are very strange. They always remind me (on this album anyway) of a kind of less-hoarse Beefheart and Paul Widger's Guitar playing also makes the overall sound become like a dark-Magic Band. Dark Mirror Men maybe?? Newton's cry of "Try....Try...." is a great culmination of this fine opener. "Sensorium"- Very upbeat and less dark with Collins' sprightly Soprano Sax and Guitar thrashings together with Newton's neurotic visions of the city: "Uptown apocalypse...concrete and shouts all around.......well is this where it happens...1000 bodies cramped into a tight space.... Line up the guns....." "White Cell"- "Active, then immobility I am myself against their laws of morality Inturned, I turn towards the eastern block, create a new mental space ......carve out an area which is undefined...." A sense of claustrobobia with a bubbling bassline and insistent scratching Guitar and honking reeds as Newton is resigned to his condition. As I've said, this is dark but not depressive. Some of the journalists at the time, were all too ready to paint the sound as 'sheffield-bleak-grey', but if you stick with it, this album has a hidden charm, especially as you delve into Newton's great lyrics. "Piano Pain" A faint tinkling tape of a piano is interrupted with a leaden stomp of the rhythm section and some of Collins' most manic Sax blowing - brilliant! "Underneath all this a voice describes how life is leaving him Haunted by blue visions, distorted glass fragments.... Speak to him, females torture his hours, with words of indoctrination" "Blue Tone"- starts with a low shimmer of tapes/electronics which leak in and out of the track. Newtons voice is one of those that you either take to.... or don't! If you do however, it seems to have a great sounding board in the music. Apart from the various effects on the Sax, there isn't much treatment on the other instruments throughout the album, which may account for the overall strangeness. When you think that Newton was no stranger to experimentation and that he had been immersed in electronic and tape works for the previous few years, you can see he was trying a different approach here with standard sounds and just the minimal use of tapes, but all set against the inspired words and topped off with Collins' experience to paint a very different picture to what others were doing in his hometown. "North Loop"- is a slower paced with crystal-echoed Guitars and Newton going for reverbed declarations of the songs title and a nagging tale of inner frustration- "To and fro here we go.......taped a voice, measured its tonal depth played it back again....North Loop!...start again....North Loop!.... ....start again...then all these would be funksters (pop up)...start again" "4 Hours"- This was released as a single and climbed the indie charts of the music weeklies. It's a great song and even went so far as to be deemed an underground hit! The rhythm comes in boisterous and Charlie Collins has just a great Sax sound. It's in tune but out of tune at the same time and is set just at the right volume in the mix- so as not to derail everything else and Newton delivers some of his finest words- "This mid-morning awakening...this bleak whiteness, nothingness... the eye that stares through your mirror, a suction entanglement On stained sheets, figures with no regrets, their doubts caste a shadow here....the time drifts...the time swells...the skies melt..... This could be New York, this could be London, I don't care anymore I'm wearing this suit, a black suit, I'm wearing this time, A black tie I'm carrying this case, a black case, I walk down the street... the people are staring, the taxi cab is slower.... A piano falls from above............ it smashes in front of me!...." If Clock DVA were remembered for anything back then, it was for this fine piece of paranoid pop (!) "Moments" Beginning with a long, fuzzed-out note and then a slight punch of a delayed guitar chord, the Drums creep in aided by the Bass and here the Voice is measured and slow with the odd Tape insertions adding to the excitable unease, the Sax flitting like a moth around the flickering sodium lamps on the street corner. "Impressions Of African Winter" A repetative high two-note Bass and slow spiralling Flute lay out the scene with further odd imagery- "Flesh tanned and red dust skies, a landscape which divides enclosed ...heat of the moment ivory and black velvet fall...I kissed her lips" The track has a great build up with some fine Guitar sounds, but fades out all too quickly.... Newton and Turner disbanded the line-up, only to reform with a set of different players. After the tragic death of Judd Turner, Newton carried on to make a string of interesting releases rangeing from the sound being enhanced by brass instrumentation and later setting up the Anti Group Communications Project and carved out a cult following across the globe with the emphasis on a more electronic sound. Check out the "Buried Dreams" album, a totally different kettle of fish to the early work here, but shows how Newton was striving forward on different ideas and projects. Collins, Quail and Widger went on to produce some interesting releases going under the moniker of The Box. "Thirst" and "White Souls In Black Suits" are REALLY crying out for the remastered/repackaged makeover (not to mention the 'private tapes' from 1978/9). I'm suprised that no label has done it before the year 2000 (the Italian label Contempo released Thirst on CD in 1992 which soon dissapeared) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floating Fox Posted 18 July 2007 Share Posted 18 July 2007 Page 44 - We know the way The moths - Tell me Strangers In Paradise - I know why Myspace them, genius! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fez of Mahrez Posted 18 July 2007 Share Posted 18 July 2007 Caribou - Melody Day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James. Posted 28 July 2007 Author Share Posted 28 July 2007 Lee "Scratch" Perry - Panic in Babylon. Clearly a complete nutbar if the lyrics are anything to go by but if reggae and dub is your thing then definitely give it a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_don Posted 28 July 2007 Share Posted 28 July 2007 Have a search around for Colour Revolt if you like your indie Also, I'd recommend Retrofect, a band from Chichester. Good stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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