PREMIERE: Fire For Effect + DJ Kiff - Green Room Hill Zone
(Photo: Stevie Dacanay)
We know what you’re thinking. Shut up, seapunk. With yr aqua hair and yr pixelated shark Canadian tuxedos and your misappropriation of the word ‘punk’. Your buoyant dance joke violates everything punk stands for, which is nothing! But wait. If Fire For Effect and DJ Kiff’s “Green Room Hill Zone” is seapunk then we are so behind it. Clearly influenced by hours blearily logged in front of Sonic The Hedgehog, it's a fast-paced foray into a coin-filled world of shotgun blasts, camera clicks, watery beat repeat, shakes and purgatory synths racing after an acid rave refrain to run. And it's brilliant.
DOWNLOAD: Visions of Trees - Expressway To Your Skull (Sonic Youth Cover) + Turn 2 U
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Here, murky discopop Londoners Visions of Trees take on Sonic Youth’s “Expressway To Your Skull,” turning it into some sort of industrial anthem for a documentary about the demise of a glue-sniffing, underage Ukrainian discotheque rave crew in 1991. “Turn 2 U” is a bit poppier, with keyboard waves and an upbeat gothy beat beneath it all, though ultimately it’s still music to (theoretically) cut yourself to, on the dancefloor of course. More in June when Visions of Trees drop their debut on Something In Construction.
DOWNLOAD: Unicorn Kid - True Love Fantasy (feat. Talk To Animals)
The last track of Unicorn Kid’s Tidal Rave EP guest-stars Talk To Animals, and is a maudlin, grey-scaled, downtempo soundscape. Sike! We’re such jokesters. The truth is “True Love Fantasy” is another fidgety, electrifying, synapse-exploding bit of dance music that falls under the logically-but-no-less-hilariously-named UK microgenres ‘chiptune’ and ‘gamewave.’ Indeed, it sounds like being inside of Sonic The Hedgehog’s brain. Do download! But you’ll have to run a few marathons and then shoot your neck with a tranquilizer gun if you ever hope to come down afterward.
Unicorn Kid - True Love Fantasy (feat. Talk To Animals)
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PREMIERE: Unstoppable Death Machines - Slumlord (Baryshnikov Remix)
Leave it to Baryshnikov (Mike Dextro and Mishka machinist My Pal The Crook) to take on Unstoppable Death Machines, a noise band so depraved, they require a new genre name (we respectfully nominate ‘skull-fuck punk’). This bruising dance redux of “Slumlord” is hard to write about musically since all instruments present are instruments of torture, but suffice it to say there are electro drills, pounding beats, calcified synths, and intermittent screams of pain. Well worth the migraine, and a great introduction to both sets of sociopaths.
Unstoppable Death Machines - Slumlord (Baryshnikov Remix)
DOWNLOAD: Esben & The Witch - Chorea (Christian AIDS Remix)
(Photo: Angel Ceballos)
Esben & The Witch seem like the sort of band who should be anonymous these days. Not that I think they should, just that their dark spaces and general air of intellectual authority seems to lend itself to the current fad for not telling people who you are. Christian AIDS is one of those anonymous guys. All we know about Christian AIDS is that him/her/them/it live(s) in Manchester making very great music out of a few breaths and some rave chords, and it's with that style firmly in mind that this remix of "Chorea" unravels itself—or rather ties itself in waltzer knots, Rachel Davies' voice carouselling around itself. The original version of this is out on 12-inch as part of Record Store Day, a celebration of independent record outlets in the UK, on April 16. Esben also have a load of tour dates coming up—go here for those.
Esben & The Witch - Chorea (Christian AIDS Remix)
DOWNLOAD: Paul Chambers - Yeah Techno! (Beataucue Remix)
As the rave face, exclamation mark and keytar suggest, "Yeah Techno!" isn't the sternest techno track: familiar 4/4 thud harried by diving, fizzing synths and bounced from beneath by pool party bass. Paul Chambers, Beataucue - charlatan squad? No. They are just men. Men keen on having fun. The original version of "Yeah Techno!" is out now, through Erol Alkan's Phantasy Sound imprint.
Paul Chambers - Yeah Techno! (Beataucue Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Shinichi Osawa - EEAA
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Some dance records are happy to ease you into a lax, shared euphoria, but Shinichi Osawa's keen for you to get there yesterday, attacking from all sides with raging synths and video game spaceship bullets. "EEAA" comes on so sudden - it's like you went looking for the toilets in a wine bar and opened the wrong door, and now you've got to deal with a secret room full of gurning, drooling drug hounds who are clinging to the walls because the floor has almost completely disappeared from beneath their blistered feet. Disorientating fun.
Sounds Like: Digitalism, Basement Jaxx, The Shamen
Previously:
Shinichi Osawa - Off The Rocker
Shinichi Osawa's RCRD LBL Page
DOWNLOAD: Bassnectar - Cozza Frenzy
Bassnectar–it sounds like something you'd smear over bread, if your bread needs succulent, doofus-making bassbin detritus. Of course, it's the pseudonym for Lorin Ashton, the San Francisco DJ/producer who's been spraying Supersoakers of medulla-pounding low-end around the States since the early aughts; his new album, Cozza Frenzy, is due on October 27th. The title track is below, we just listened to it a bunch of times in a row (at 9AM!) and think we've sufficiently ruined our ears for the rest of the day. Now everything will just sound lame and quiet as we try fight oncoming tinnitus. Thanks, dude!
