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Edition 006 of the magazine now online

admin — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:59:06 +0000

Another rather good edition of the magazine, which is now pretty much watch and listenable on iOSX (so your lovely new retina display iPads will now let you listen to the music too), so enjoy.

Ex Libras (live session)
Spiritualized
Disappears
Zoochosis (short films)
Felix Hagan
Internet Forever
David Small (artist)
Ziegler Co. (live session)
My Brightest Diamond
Ace Of Space
Summer Camp
Urban Abstract (audio visual art)
Rumour Cubes
The Skints
Sufjan Stevens

The Phenomenal Handclap Band – The Unknown Faces at Father James Park

Simon — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:43:31 +0000

Awesome new track and video from their new album out in Feb 2012:

And an added extra video for – The Right One -
Also from the new The Phenomenal Handclap Band Album.
Hmmm actually better than the last one…whoa, singer, she is giving me the eye i tell yee!!!

Edition 004 of the magazine

admin — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:27:22 +0000

It’s been a while, sorry about that, but as ever probably worth the wait with another load of brilliant music, film and art with some great interviews and reviews too.

Biggest difference for those who have been here before is that we’ve ditched the 5 separate PARTS and put less pages (though still 21 of them) in a single file, which means you can view it as we always intended, which is as a magazine.

For those of you not previous visitors this will mean nothing unless you go to the archive and read, watch and hear Editions 001 to 003, which of course we highly recommend.

The other bonus to this new format tweak is we should be able to get an edition out every month now, so that’s nice isn’t it?

Really excited to have interviews with Three Trapped Tigers, Bill Ryder Jones (of The Coral), Chloe Early (amazing Irish artist) and Arthur Jeffes of Penguin Cafe who did a three man semi-acoustic live session for us too which was kind of stunning.

In addition, as ever, there is a lot more great music, a couple of briliant shorts (one funny, the other quite sombre yet stunning) and more.

Anyway, this edition includes:

Page 01: Bill Ryder-Jones: interview
Page 04: The Cassette: short film
Page 05: Crushed Beaks, M+A, Girl Muscle
Page 06: A Moment Of Silence: audio visual art
Page 07: Three Trapped Tigers: interview
Page 10: Bands you Should Hear: by TTT
Page 11: Chloe Early: gallery & interview
Page 13: Syndromes: short film & music
Page 14: As The Stories Burns: indie mix tape
Page 15: Lil Daggers: album review
Page 16: The Great Malarky, Gauntlet Hair, Internet Forever
Page 17: Arthur Jeffes (Penguin Cafe): live & interview
Page 20: Stephen Malkmus: live review
Page 21: Nina Simone: classic album
Page 22: Credits

J & Y: Antadys

admin — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:42:27 +0000

Grat electronica tune, but an utterly surreal video to go with it that is both rubbish and utterly compelling at the same time.

Their bandcamp page [bandcamp] has two other songs to hear as well (both great too as it goes) and links to their other online presences.

And this is what Plustapes had to say about them:

Just when you think you’ve heard everything that the contemporary krautrock revival has to offer, something fun like this pops up, coming from France of all places. J&Y is the duo of Laurencina Lam and King Q4. (The latter has created a fair amount of electronic music under his own moniker, but nothing quite like this outing.) While there are only two people making this noise, they make the most out of it, combining bass, drums, and electronics into a raucous kraut stew, with a lot of other wild flavors thrown in for good measure… 9/10

Tom Waits: Satisfied

admin — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:27:04 +0000

Man is a genius. His new album is perhaps his best since the 80s. It’s concise by his standards at 13 tracks and each one is f***ing blinding. You can hear more from it in edition 003 of the magazine (click here) but he finally released a video for one of the songs and this is it.

Love music? Love Tom. [Tom Wait's website]

Magazine: Edition 003

admin — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:57:52 +0000

For all our fans waiting on the edge of their seats, sorry for the delay in getting this one out. Being little DIYers we are at the mercy of real lives (in this case me painting my flat and thinking it would only take a week and ESS being involved in the production and release of a Hypnosis training DVD… ah, the things we do in order to fund this little baby).

Anyway, it is finally finished and out. We have also made the decision to release them about every 6 weeks now as doing one a month was a killer given how long it takes to put each magazine together both in terms of getting the content but also the coding. Still, there is so much in each edition that we doubt you’ll get through it all in a couple of visits, so it will be there for you to dip into over 6 weeks when you’re in need of discovering something new and brilliant.

Edition 003 index:

Page 01: The Penny Black Remedy: live session/interview
Page 04: Trummor & Orgel, Grass House, 3 Trapped Tigers: music videos
Page 05: Ignacio Torres (photos): gallery/interview
Page 07: I Break Hoses: album review
Page 08: Hands Solo: short film & interview
Page 10: Race Horses, Brandt Brauer Frick: music videos
Page 11: Partitura: audio visual art
Page 12: Mix Tape: soul funk mix
Page 13: Ben Sommers: album review
Page 14: Twin Sister: interview
Page 16: Trips and Falls: album review
Page 17: Miles Davis: classic album
Page 18: Milan Nenezic (artist): gallery
Page 19: Rendezvous & Scott Benson: animation & music
Page 20: Something For Nothing
Page 21: Mix Tape: Both Sides of the Sun (indie pop)
Page 22: Memotone: interview
Page 25: Spector, Belleruche, Teeth: music videos
Page 26: Pepper Rabbit: album review
Page 27: Ayanna Witter-Johnson: live session
Page 28: clownparlour, Still Corners, Big Ideas: music videos
Page 29: 10,000 Pictures Of You: short film
Page 30: Tom Waits: album review
Page 31: Give A Damn!: lobbying transparency: not for profit information
Page 32: I Fought The Law by Dan Kiernan: book review
Page 33: Neutral Milk Hotel: classic album

Real Estate: It’s Real

admin — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:48:33 +0000

‘It’s Real’ is taken from Real Estate’s second studio album ‘Days’ which was released in October 2011. Directed by Weird Days. Lovely summery tune, so a tad strange they released it in November… though perhaps it is a counter balance to the grimness we are about to now face weather wise. Am a fan of retro grading in music videos and I do like they way they’ve put this one together… and it works well with the song.

The album ‘Days’ is out now on LP / CD / Digital Download.
http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/albums/26-08-11/days/
https://www.facebook.com/realestateband
www.dominorecordco.com

Cool Fun – Cloth

admin — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:13:07 +0000

featured video of the day. I love the Cool Fun album. And this is another great video from it. Electronica with vocals, but eccentric electronica and an incredible vocal, so not your usual fare.

Cool Fun website

MisterLee (featured album)

admin — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:10:03 +0000

This album is frigging amazing. I’m crap at saying stuff sounds like this or that, but it’s a left of centre indie rock album that wouldn’t have sounded out of place in the early 80s indie scene, reminds me in places of Julian Cope at his more avant garde and is, as i’ve already said, frigging amazing.

It’s not nice indie kids. If you need your music to be palatable to Xfm, possibly not for you, though you should expand your horizons. It’s dark and dirty and challenging. But well worth the effort.

He doesn’t have a music video to embed a track from the album in here. he doesn’t even have anything on soundcloud to embed in here, so if you missed the album on the site, make sure you check him out on his website: http://misterlee.co.uk/

edition 002 of the magazine

admin — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:03:59 +0000

Edition 002 features:

Page 01: Sound Of Rum: live session & interview
Page 04: Cream/Egg: short film
Page 05: Memory House, A Genuine Freakshow, Tom Vek
Page 06: Hayashi Natsumi: photographer
Page 07: Scroobius Pip: interview & album review
Page 09: Recommended Bands: by Scroobius Pip (Death Grips, P.O.S & Kid Carpet)
Page 10: Blokes: spoken word animation by Mat Lloyd & Matt Frodsham
Page 11: Something For Nothing (To Bury A Ghost, Simon Bookish, Throw Me The Statue, Vey)
Page 12: Oupa: album review
Page 13: Synthetic Organics: mix tape
Page 14: Team Ghost, Ninetails, Lacrosse
Page 15: The Bottletop Charity: interview
Page 18: Nuala: live session
Page 19: Yellow Ostrich: interview
Page 21: Alex Varanese: graphic designer & musician
Page 22: Exitmusic: interview
Page 25: Recommended Bands: by Exit Music (John Maus, WU LYF, Porcelain Raft, Shabazz Palaces, Balam Acab)
Page 26: Flux: audio visual art
Page 27: Primus: album review
Page 28: Firesuite, Perfume Genius, Softwhere
Page 29: Mitch Dobrowner: photographer
Page 33: Underworld, The Who, The Mountain Goats (classic albums)
Page 34: credits

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