Posts Tagged ‘punk’

Subsource


01 Apr

GALVANIZED bass and searing electro beats muscling their way out of the cyberpunk bubble with a boom rather than a bang. As James Brown may say, this IS my bag.

This band with genuine aphrodisia are releasing their debut album with tunes that would perfectly suit the full moon moments where “The Bitten” change into the animals for the night unleashing deafening roars.

Thundering in after the first couple of bars on the single, Tales From The Doombox you know immediately that this is full-throttle, fast-lane, pedal to the floor. The second track intro to Street Soul Music decelerates slightly but cruises with a filthy, breakbeats style and hip-hop, reggae vocals as is Charge Me. Then it’s just a steady over-the-limit-pace all the way through. Grimey, dark, heavy screamo tech. With bands and groups such as those guys that names begin with the letter P, can simply do one. Combichrist twisted with the Qemists.

This is volcanic material. Hotter than a forest fire and more fluid rage than torrents on the Sarangetti River. Fierce, frenzied and intense, organic electro-punk.

Subsource have released a few tunes here and there before but this time round I’m hoping it to be their year. The Ides released at the beginning of the week will have currently been douse around the breakbeat venues with the support of Oli Cash of Far Too Loud providing a psybreaks remix.

Any festival goers in the UK last year who bypassed them should this year make a bee-line for them whatever stage they play. There is definitely something on the horizon, I’ll see you in Arcadia gents.

Tales from The Doombox is out now and available on iTunes by clicking the box below.

Subsource - Tales from the Doombox

Audio Bullys


25 Mar

AUDIO BULLYS have returned with their vogue of the ever increasing in populartity, electro-punk. Are they still managing to produce some bombing tunes?

With the release of their single Only Man with remixes left, right and centre from all of the colours of the dance music spectrum we do in did, have an absolutely brilliant record.

Plenty of vocals are cascaded across the head-nodding beats kindred to Mike Skinner of The Streets which of course, to us Brits, is not a bad thing whatsoever. Dynamite and London Dreamer reflect that.

The album lifts up on Feel Alright with some passive-aggressive bassline strokes, haunting synth riffs and the slurring vocals have a unique honesty as if – when singing the track he is in fact – not alright. I’d say this to be my favourite for sure due to the moody nature of it. Definitely very me.

All the songs have a classic ska aura surrounding them which I envisage being a great travelling album when heading off to many a festival over the coming summer with everyone crammed into the motor singing along to Twist Me Up.

More Than the Eiffel has such intricate production work I feel breathless thinking about the hours of work that has gone tirelessly into the creation of it.

I could go in-depth and tell you what I think of every track but then this would be a long album review being as the LP consists of a very healthy 15 tracks with one remix of Only Man included by Rok.

It’s full of possibilities for various remixers to have a fiddle as every track, yes, every track has great foundations of absolute belters. Most of the originals are excellently done but Drums (On With The Story) the only exception. That should’ve been ditched. Other than that, exceptional work.

Album is out!

Audio Bullys - Higher Than the Eiffel

Against The Grain by Krafty Kuts


26 Feb

Quite deservingly, the Breakspoll Best Compilation Album is this, Against The Grain by Krafty Kuts. Top quality, fantastic re-dubs over some awesome remixes. We’ve got a sweet selection of tracks that could only be described as MONSTERS! Brilliant work Martin, brilliant.

Mi Amor by Pro7


20 Feb

This is the best track I’ve heard this week and I can’t even understand a bloody word! Sultry, seductive. Flittering on the border of decency. J’aime cette musique!

The Dance With You Mix by Pro7


20 Feb

After stretching out over the last couple of months to truly find something special, again, yes AGAIN, I am finding the French are doing electro and techno better than everyone else. It’s got some solid, steady beats with a great touch of sleaze and sexiness that’ll drive the libido into the stratosphere on the dancefloor, perhaps wishing that you were under the covers.

Green Day


08 Feb

I’m probably just not a fan of their work but the latest Green Day album 21st Century Breakdown really didn’t do a great deal for me at first.

The initial tracks played on the record just seemed to be all to familiar, very basic and for someone who is a fond lover of dance music, dare I say, repetitive?

If it wasn’t for the crispness in the production then I would’ve mistaken it for a GCSE music project put together by some pothead students the morning it had to have been handed in for marking.

Comparing it to tracks unmistakeningly excellent like When September Ends, Boulevard Of Broken Dreams, Time Of Your Life, initially, it wouldn’t have woken me up to the revolution it appears they’re trying to instigate. But they did.

And then, Last Night On Earth. Thank goodness. Another classic Green Day soft-tissue-requesting track that’ll melt that hearts of the strurness rock maidens. Cool track, very balanced and flowed through nicely. After that some of the songs got better, in fact, I’d say they all did. Actually rather good too. I’m not a Green Day fan as a rule. East Jesus Nowhere kicked off the start of the better half of the album really and if it wasn’t for the poor start of pubescent sounding potheads trying to get a grade.

Great album altogether. It definitely grew on me. Maybe their Rock Band game will do the same..

Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown

IAMX


08 Feb

IAMX.  Let’s open another window and we’ll go there as well so we can listen to that and read this at the same time.

Now. I like Iron & Wine which is poetic, rustic, American deepsouth folk. I like Nine Inch nails which is hard, industrial rock with very much explicit lyrics yet powerfully heartfelt. I like dark, filthy breakbeats which bang and bleep in all the right places. Depeche Mode with their indie/electronic sound, anthemic vocals and all the romanticism which surrounds. But what about an Artist which can combine all of those traits and come out with something truly masterful?

I am fortunate to have found that very artist in the former Sneaker Pimps co- founder Chris Corner’s alter-ego, IAMX.

The third album is a natural, creative and productive progression from the former two. Kiss & Swallow and The Alternative are fantastic pieces of recording and lyrically marvelous.  (I am very much a fan )This is much cleaner and more refined with regards to the overall sound. 

Brilliantly structured, timed to perfection, the highs are matched with the lows, the levels are bang-on as well as the poetry laid over the dark, melodic and harmonious beats, it is divine.

The introductory track to the album Nature Of Inviting hooks you in immediately with a rumbling, bouncy bassline along with near-operatic vocals.  Imogen Heap doing a delightful duet on My Secret Friend and I Am Terrified would just blow you away if you were in the front row of any live performance.

I genuinely love his work. All of it.

IAMX

Emily Breeze


08 Feb

Personally I do not believe there is anything much sexier than a woman with a soul singing some Blues music. Emily Breeze definitely possesses a soul.

After listening to a collaboration track along with Emily Breeze on Evil Nine’s album They Live! (which I am very fond of) I became overwhelmed after listening to Twist The Knife due to the electrical dynamism, sheer guts and all irritabilty vexed within three and a bit short minutes.

I listened to that track at least twenty times in one day when I first heard it. After finding Emily Breeze I become momentarily liberated.

This frontwoman of this heavy blues, country band from Bristol has got some strength in her vocal folds. The subtle tones of her voice stretch across the decibal spectrum with great dexterity. Being rather tenuous one moment then insidiously brash. A true talent. Perhaps resembling “The King” at times this lady could well become the new Queen?!

A genuine feel of American country blues exists, it is apparent. It does not sound too much like it has been a striking influence nor something copied. They feel the blues rather than emulating or mocking it. With a good handful of punk belligerence sprinkled in with the mash we have something with spice that certainly has a great kick to it.

Emily Breeze’s new tracks on her MySpace player are soothing one moment, uplifting the next and terrifically aggressive on another. Somebody sign this woman before my lottery win comes in, I set up a record label and make her millions and myself a few bucks in the process.

The Penny Arcade is out, so get it!

Emily Breeze - The Penny Arcade

LCD Soundsystem


08 Feb

This is my first write up in what is probably now 4 months. Having established the site in all it’s glory with the aesthetics, links and of course building the network to inform you all about my finds has been no easy task. Then, bizarrely, a block has been built and I’ve felt that I cannot write anything. A loss of interest has wormed it’s way into my soul and quite simply, I’ve got to the point of lethargy to which I almost had no return from. It was going to take something special that would truly move me. Something that could spark my appetite and rekindle the magic if you like. So now I introduce you to an established group that has only recently came across my ears. LCD Soundsystem.

They’ve had their latest release The Sound Of Silver out and about since 2007. Where do I find it? A new entry in the UK Dance Charts a fortnight ago. So, over two years out and then all of a sudden it’s labelled as a new entry?! How strange. But when I listened to this record I felt that perhaps it was of no surprise.

The first track is unmistakeable by many a gamer as being a theme tune to a very popular console Liberty City episode. Get Innocuous is a tune and a half. It has a certain attitude within the sound that means business, to bring you out of yourself and to take the bull by the horns. But depending on mood it can actually make you feel quite, well, innocuous.

As the album continues there is a fantastic crossover of genres as each track dabbles in another. We have the edges of punk on North American Scum and Watch The Tapes. Funky tunes such as Time To Get Away and one or two delightful and uplifting records such as All My Friends. Over the last two weeks of initially hearing this track it has become the one of the most played on the jukebox in my local watering hole. What I like most is the fact that people are asking me who this is, what this track is and I get to tell them. It’s brilliant.

Every track on this record is as unique as the previous one. All of which are individual, brilliant and worth listening to many, many times over. An excellent album.

I could go on about every track individually but there’s no point, it’s all good.

If you like only bits of punk, or some funky tunes or just a little bit of dance and rock. This is genuinely an eclectic combination and no album can truly define that any better.

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

Get Innocuous by LCD Soundsystem


02 Feb

I initially discovered this track which was found on some computer game which I’ll remain nameless. Not only did I fall deeply into the game but whilst cruising the city streets in my Turismo at daft o’clock in morning (real-time) this track taken from The Sound Of Silver album was very much a great find for me. LCD Soundsystem do fantastic, post-punk techno records and this the 2007 album that has masterfully crossed genres. So no wonder really how it miraculously returned into the UK Top 40 Chart last week after over two years released.

LCD Soundsystem – Get Innocuous  by  Paper Trail

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