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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: The Prairie Cartel - Cracktown + The Glow Is Gone
Listening to The Prairie Cartel’s debut Where Did All My People Go reminds us of that barn party we spent giggling in the corner while Lords of Acid—it was that kind of night—was blaring out of someone’s Oldsmobile. The Prairie Cartel invokes what was great about the late 90s—industrial dance rock could top the charts, video games were gods, and we’d go anywhere as long as it meant we were out on Friday night. This Chicago outfit’s been remixed by Tommie Sunshine, opened for The Presets and Simian Mobile Disco, and has been featured on Grand Theft Auto IV. Below, grab their gritty, tongue-in-cheek dancescapes for yourself.
Sounds like: early NIN, The Faint, LCD Soundsystem
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Dave I.D. - X–F
Dave I.D.'s music lives in dark places. I know this because I used to live with him and we always kept the lights off in our house to save money on the electricity bill. Dave would spend most of his time in his bedroom with the door closed and the rest of us would stumble past hearing these insane fucking sounds, not knowing if he was making music that took influence from This Heat as much as it did dancehall or if he'd simply installed a factory in there. Well, I guess "X-F" makes it known, unrelenting barrages of drum THWACK cannoning through a fog of haunted-man vocals and synth swirl. It's awesome. What? Nepotism?! I was there a whole year and I never saw anyone from The Guardian, Dazed or Boomkat loitering in the hallway, though maybe if they had been I would have saved money on subscription and postage costs. A missed opp, methinks.
Sound Like: These New Puritans, Placebo, This Heat
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Birdy Nam Nam - The Parachute Ending (Kap Bambino Remix)
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Kap Bambino do not fuck around, even when outnumbered. Four-strong DJ crew Birdy Nam Nam - kind of like the Harlem Globetrotters of French electro-house, but with an even more ridiculous name - must have thought their version of "The Parachute Ending" was tough enough, but Kap absolutely throttle it, giving the original's racing synths a pair of gnashing jaws fended off only by industrial drum thwacks and warped robotic vocals. The robot actually sounds terrified - the whole thing seems to be a malevolent game of one-upmanship, like when that guy from Norwegian black metal band Mayhem killed his bandmate to prove he was the more evil of the two. Hardcore.
Sounds Like: Justice, Hot City and Giorgio Moroder maimed in a Reeperbahn nightmare
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Fever Ray - Triangle Walks (Allez-Allez Remix)
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(Photo: Johan Renck)
Allez-Allez's transformation of "Triangle Walks" is remarkably thorough: London production pair Steve Nolan and Sam Willis robbing the original of most of its vocals, steel pan peels and stretching the rhythm out into lean, determined motorik 4/4. That it manages to sound just as brooding as the Fever Ray cut without Karin Dreijer Andersson's spectral vocal is a triumph, this refit full of suspense and dark, dank corners harbouring disco ghosts. At the start, all you can hear is your pulse replicated in minimal bass throbs, by the end you're unhinged, mania flaring up in a panic of synths. The track will be available from July 20 as part of a "Triangle Walks" download single package also including remixes by Tiga and Spektre, while Karin heads to the UK before that for a set of live dates beginning July 11.
Sounds Like: Invisible Conga People, Ricardo Villalobos, New Order
Fever Ray - Triangle Walks (Allez-Allez Remix)
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Patrick Wolf - Hard Times (Alec Empire Remix)
"Hard Times" finds Patrick Wolf battle-hardened. Industrial leather-boy Alec Empire was roped in to lend new album The Bachelor teeth and filth and while he's succeeded in doing that in his role as producer, as remixer he really goes to town: arming the track with brain-rattling beats and malevolent electronic whirs, swoops and clanks. What shouldn't fit here? What would be most alien, amidst the strings, dark mechanical sounds and Patrick's thesp-baiting wailings? G-funk. G-funk bomp underpins this, incredibly, and what's more it works. Confusion is Patrick Wolf's game - the English youth's lyrical repertoire is shot through with sexual and existential angst, but here that confusion is transferred to the music and so the singer in the middle of it all sounds relatively bold, bolstered, victorious. Good job, Alec!
Sounds Like: Pendulum, Outkast, dying aeroplanes
Patrick Wolf - Hard Times (Alec Empire Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Patten - Version (Test Mix) + Grey Gold (Test Mix)
Posted at the band's MySpace page last week, Patten's new tracks are pure, post-generic finery. Most propulsive is the early mix of "Version", a sullen-eyed surge through the disco-not-disco of Liquid Liquid, the ferrous post-punk of This Heat and the type of overloaded, industrial drum-machinery you'd expect to find clattering and staggering from behind the bouncers guarding the best clubs in east London (Reeperbahn, stand up). "Grey Gold" is calmer, recalling the probing, ambient gestures of fellow Londoner Arch M, but both tracks thrill in their progression from last album There Were Horizons (available here), a record whose artwork seemed shot from a spyplane to map with cartographical rigour the alien terrain the trio's music now stalks. Get in early on this - both have been tagged as 'Test Mixes', and RCRD LBL eagerly awaits GLAQJO XAACSSO, Patten's next planned release.
Sounds Like: Liquid Liquid, This Heat, Arch M
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Cruel Black Dove - Wasting (The Vandelles Remix)
(Photo: Naomi Ramirez)
When we last caught up with Brooklyn rock troupe Cruel Black Dove, they were hooking up a bumpy remix of their single "Love Song" from Gregory Shiff. Now they're back with another killer refix in hand, this one a noise-drenched industrial take on "Wasting" from fellow Brooklynites The Vandelles. Under showers of high-frequency noise, the snares sound like Gatling guns and the bass in little more than a squirmy, hyper-distorted mess, making this the dirtiest tune we've ever heard from CBD and a welcome addition to their growing collection of remixes. On Saturday, the band will be linking up with some RCRD LBL pals for a gig at the Mercury Lounge, sharing a bill with the always-terrific Blacklist, Mahogany, Home Video, and The Depreciation Guild. Our Creative Director Elliot will also be spinning records in-between bands, so expect lots of RCRD LBL-approved vibes in the air that night. The Vandelles remix, along with tunes from the other bands playing on Saturday, is below.
Sounds like: A Place To Bury Strangers, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine
Cruel Black Dove - Wasting (The Vandelles Remix)
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Cruel Black Dove - Come On Over (The Clapp Remix)
Cruel Black Dove - Love Song (Gregory Shiff Mix)
Home Video - I Can Make You Feel It
Home Video - Maybe What You Need
DOWNLOAD: Pivot - Didn't I Furious
Posted 11/12/2008 2:15 PM by Samuel Duke
Tags: Samuel Duke, electronic, indie, rock, industrial, noise
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Australian band Pivot are groovemasters of the industrial; their techy, sledghammer noise-rock sounds like Throbbing Gristle if they'd lasted long enough to collaborate with Portishead, a band content on damaging ear drums with treble-heavy gusts of noise but smart enough to throw some feel behind the cacophony. The band's debut album O Soundtrack My Heart came out in August via our friends at Warp, who've kindly shot over what they think is the album's essential deep cut, "Didn't I Furious". Over a guitar riff that sounds like a drill overloading itself in tune, the boys have thrown some slo-mo disco thump and enough distorted samples to make Fuck Buttons clear out their computers. Head over to the Warp blog for their thoughts on the track, and pick up a copy of Soundtrack at their site.
Sounds like: Throbbing Gristle, Fuck Buttons, Battles
Download: Pivot - Didn't I Furious
Pivot's "Didn't I Furious" At The Warp RCRD LBL Blog
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Bonne Aparte - Media + Two More
When are more bands going to start ripping off Ministry? Does it take Metro Area including them on their new Fabric mix for this to start happening? Dutch band Bonne Aparte, who I discovered by bumping around MySpace, sound like Al Jorgensen’s weed-smoking sons, kids who love the freakish tones of industrial noise but also probably own the first two Liars albums and maybe even saw No Age a few times on their last tour. The British group was kind enough to send us over some exclusive jawns, and I will personally say that I think these tracks are insane, like Crystal Antlers if they ditched the psychedelic fascination and just listened to Killing Joke all the time. For those that still jam to The Land Of Rape And Honey, this is your new favorite band.
You can buy a copy of Bonne Aparte's self-titled album from Dutch label Wham! Wham Records right here.
Sounds like: Ministry, Killing Joke, Liars, Crystal Antlers (sort of)
Exclusive Download: Bonne Aparte - Media
Exclusive Download: Bonne Aparte - Taste My Snow
VIDEO: Cruel Black Dove - Offer
Last Friday we dropped a download of Cruel Black Dove's single "Offer" and now we have the visual accompaniment for your viewing pleasure. Directed by lead singer Anastasia Dimou, the video is pretty dark and mildly sadistic and kind of reminds us of Hostel and that one Black Rebel Motorcycle Club video that was shot in Bulgaria. Tomorrow the band plays at the Iceland Airwaves festival in Reykjavik so if by SOME CHANCE you live there, head out and check their first international gig. For those a little closer to home, the band will also be playing at Brooklyn's Vanish Point on October 24th.
Cruel Black Dove's RCRD LBL Page
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Download: Cruel Black Dove - Love Song
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