Archive for July 29th, 2008

Enormous Twelve Inches… #2

Like much of the music that we carry in our record bags, this 12″ was discovered through the fucking amazing Cybernetic Broadcasting System. The CBS is an internet radio station run by I-F, who you might know (if you’ve ever been a cunt with a fauxhawk) from his beef with electrocash godhead DJ Hell, or more likely (if you have any taste) from his beyond classic electro anthem “Space Invaders are Smoking Grass”. It broadcasts creamy disco, raw Chicago house, long-forgotten new-wave and all kinds of other electronic oddness 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. And for that, I and many other Italodisco fiends can be truly grateful.

Anyway, as is so very often the case, I heard “Dancing on the Berlin Wall” on CBS, creamed my pants, cleared up the mess, and promptly forgot all about it. As is so often the case, I saw the record in a Music Video Exchange a couple of years later, snapped it up, and fell in lust all over again.

“Dancing on the Berlin Wall” is the best Kraftwerk parody you’ve never heard. Over the barest arpegiattor sequence, our laconic hero narrates last night’s excesses in Alexanderplatz. Siren sounds and a deadpan titular chorus (”We’re dancing… on the Berlin Wall/ yes, we’re dancing… on the Berlin Wall”) make this cold war nostalgia of the most fun kind, long before “Goodbye Lenin” made East Berlin look like anything other than the shitty depressing hellhole it most likely was in the early 80s. It makes sense, then, that Rational Youth were not in fact Stadtkinder but Canadian…

Rational Youth- Dancing on the Berlin Wall

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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 written by: Tom King Tom King 4 Comments

Chest Pains for God and Godden


Photo of John Maus by Nic Amato + Beaterblocker logo

Is John Maus the millennia-bored voice of the almighty? He’s leant his hand to the work of Noah Lennox and Ariel Pink, but it remains hard to tell. On ‘Bennington’, an exclusive track pulled a while from the new Beater Blocker compilation (’Read On’ for details), stone-throat John looms as he has always done, somewhere above and beyond it all, a spectre trapped in a hidden zone. He’s reaching out here though, succumbing to an earth-bound mortal whose “fucking eyes” he just won’t forget, aiming a love song down from on high but tumbling in the process, below his beloved, elevating the girl to divine status and sucking the natural order of things inside out like a petty black hole. Claustrophobic swirls of synth-silk worry and toil to wrap and save the fall from grace, but it’s too late so all they can even hope to do is swell, spread and brace and try to hurl him back to his pedestal, parachute-cum-catapult, a trampoline for a God limbs clumsy and in tears. How fucking absurd.



MP3: John Maus - Bennington

Find John Maus kicking around with the busy tastebuds at Upset! The Rhythm, who manned decks at the launch of heart-attacked Ed Godden’s Beater Blocker charity compilation (alas we couldn’t make it, proof exists that we were here).

Buy Beaterblocker from Phonica here for £7. For more on the comp plus an interview with Godden read more.
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 written by: Kev Kharas Kev Kharas 1 Comment

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