Modular News: Wolfmother, Van She, Tame Impala, Eine Kleine Nacht Musik & Downtown Downturn
Wolfmother are currently holed up in a studio in Los Angeles with the unenviable task of following up their monumental debut album. However from all we’ve heard it’s well on the way to greatness, as is the working title of the album, Cosmic Egg.
Wolfmother stepped out of the studio last Friday to play a show amongst the taxidermy buffalo and elk at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum. There they ripped through a suite of songs old and new to an LA crowd that’s been starved of Wolfmother in recent times in a show that saw the new lineup perform for the first time in the states. Check it out HERE. You can also still get hold of the brand new track Back Round from over HERE.
More Wolfmother news very soon...
Being the dashingly post-modern modern pop outfit that they are, Van She have gone and completely reworked the bulk of their debut album V into a brilliantly banging techno techno called Ze Vemixes. Taking tracks like Strangers, Cat & The Eye, Changes and Talkin, re-imagining and destroying the early single Sex City and with the addition of a new track, the seriously titled Techno Music, Ze Vemixes is a stunning showcase of the Van She Tech side of the Van She coin.
Ze Vemixes will be available as a second disc alongside the US release of V complete with reworked artwork, or as a stand alone digital release, later in the year.
Tame Impala are a psych/kraut/rock and roll/space loving trio hailing from Perth, Australia. One of the newer additions to the Modular clan, these guys recently made their live debut in the UK to rave reviews and supported MGMT and Yeasayer in Australia. Now, you can finally pick up the self titled debut EP by Tame Impala at Itunes, Turntable Lab, EMusic & Insound! Our favorite psychedelic shoeless West Australians are sure to be a welcome addition to your summer of endless BBQs, pot smoking, & beer drinking.
They also have a brand new utterly blissful track called Sundown Syndrome on their MySpace page, recorded in fair London town.
"Half Full Glass of Wine" Live in London: HERE
In the weirder, wilder and whimsical back pocket of Modular, we have our little gem of cosmic Krautrock called Eine Kleine Nacht Musik, or A Little Night Music. EKNM is the exceptionally wonderous, cosmically exquisite project of Henry Smithson, aka Riton. This record is a blissful trip down the autobahn, circa 1974, a genius motorik rythmn and shimmering atmospherics of churning basslines and tripped out sitar, relentess drums and drifting synths. In the spirit of the Krautrock forefathers and their synth pioneering mothers, Modular is proud to present the ITunes release of EKNM,
It's also available at Turntable Lab, Insound, and EMusic.
http://www.einekleinenachtmusik.tv/
http://www.myspace.com/einekleinemusik
Check out some pics at hobogestapo.com:
HERE, HERE, HERE & HERE
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