No Pain In Pop

Gammy funk

A round table of sorts - members of Hype Williams, Hounds of Hate, Arch M, Dream Tennis, Paradise Sisters and Design A Wave form the Bo Khat Eternal Troof Family Band. Recorded live at the Ministry of Life chapel in London on 21st November 2009.

Duration = 00:22:51



MP3: Bo Khat Eternal Troof Family Band - #005

Tags: arch m, bo khat eternal troof family band, hounds of hate, hype williams

We Want War

New video for These New Puritans‘ ‘We Want War’, directed by Daniel Askill. TNPs new album, their second, is called Hidden and will be out through our friends at Angular on January 18th 2010 (Domino worldwide).

Tags: daniel askill, these new puritans

Squall Haunt

In which Kindness (i.e. Adam Bainbridge during his time at The Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Study) teams up with the equally glorious Kurt Vile and weirs out a surf of felt-just-beyond-the-fingertips sea drone and caught, spectral noise. Find Bainbridge’s whole Live In Philly collection here.

“Live in Philly is Adam Bainbridge’s contribution to the Eric James Johnson Memorial Fellowship program. It consists of an album recorded during his stay at the Institute in May 2007, and a small pamphlet illustrating the work, typeset by hand. Employing a variety of musicians from the Institute and the rest of Philadelphia, as well as sound sources and records found or recorded in the city, the Kindness album is a personal and welcome contribution to the Institute’s body of work.”



MP3: Kindness and Kurt Vile - Acceptance is Path to Serenity pt. 2&3

Tags: kindness, kurt vile

Brute

Leaden bass knuckleheads, take note: this is how you get heavy. Joker stands apart - he’s a low-end brute with rare flair, adding subtle licks of rainbow paint to his dub storm, doling punches that leave you smiling wry at the psychedelic bruises on your arm. While we’ve slunk from dubstep in recent times for things more lithe and surprising, Bristol’s Purple master offers a sound that’s impossible to resist, coming on like a modern day musical echo of Gabriele d’Annunzio or Alex DeLarge: young, skilled yob daubing art with victims’ blood.



MP3: Primary 1 & Riton - Radiates (Joker RMX)
(via The Fader; via NME)

Tags: joker, primary 1, riton

Dante

Photo found at the quite brilliant ILIKEYOU

The strident shimmer of Dante’s ‘Reb Ib’ is a future-sex seduction dance to entertain the courts of fat sultans, music box memories raided and made strong by seven circles and the wrong end of a lash. Grinning, the sultan will die, his organs splattered across the walls, the ceiling and the floor like exploding graffiti, his court now a prism of light and peace, his seven circles a cold, sunny day walk in the park.



MP3: Dante - Reb Ib



MP3: Dante - Denwens

Tags: dante

teenage clatter

More confusion-as-sound from Cleveland’s truant Cloud Nothings, this time pulled from their eight-track full-length Turning On, out now through Bridgetown. Limited edition, naturally - 50 CDs and 100 cassettes for the spittle-flecked few. Get drenched.

In other Bridgetown news, boss man Kevin Greenspon’s re-issuing a CD he took out on tour with him this summer. Get that into your ears through Tired Trails (we don’t post excerpts, Greenspon!).

Even if your shit is golden. Shit like this “pre-teen pop punk song” (from a split called Blue Crush Kevin made with Nicole Kidman).



MP3: Cloud Nothings - Can’t Stay Awake



MP3: Kevin Greenspon and Nicole Kidman - Tyrone

Tags: bridgetown records, cloud nothings, kevin greenspon, nicole kidman, tired trails