The Swiss-Based Directory.

Everyone has been hailing the live and formidable disco hums, drums, dips and dashes of this rAdelaidein trio. From Erol, to Aeroplane, Sinden and a whole other host of International and local acts. By far the most encouraging comment was indeed left by Fake Blood mentioning "I'm sat alone in my living room at 3am and I suddenly want to dance"


For all the buzz and hype talk, I figured I'd delve into some unconquered and unknown sides to this in-demand threesome. For Part One - 

From the man behind the keyboards - Luke Million provides us with the trademark soaring cosmic disco that features all too well on their tracks. Responsible for the bleeps and taser dash rays, these are truly an extension of typical Swiss fashions a la the Italo cosmos. 
12" in the works, heres a sample.


Luke Million - Octobussy Part 2 (Oxygene Mix)

Trawling

This summary is not available. Please click here to view the post.

Swedish Pop 'n' No Rock! v2.0

Some new Radio Dept. came through the other week and again its a prime example of Sweden's Labrador record's predisposition to dreamy floating-reverb- new-age shoegaze. This time its an early taster to their upcoming album 'Clinging To A Scheme' (after a slew of EP's in recent years). Having soundtracked my sunny sunday afternoons and their activities (or lack thereof) since discovering them back in 2006, their new material has me back in step with their elated, deep tonal ranges. Still able to sound worldly - they transform any medial task into a purposeful pursuit. Like a sunday afternoon.
Keep it sunny with some new Radio Dept:


Heaven's On Fire - The Radio Dept.


David - The Radio Dept.


Clinging To A Scheme is out April 21st.

Phooooooar!

The past few months have been weird for Ben and Meself. We've moved in together, told each other to get fucked on a number of occasions (Ben's mostly thought it, I've said it), almost every weekend with Marcus and another Good friend Marty we've come a little bit closer to God on the dancefloor, been backstage at LCD Soundsystem at Field Day, unexpectedly decided I am going to Uni this year along with Ben so have O-Week next week, and currently we are in the process of looking for another place to live (we've only got one and a half weeks until we have gotta get out of where we are now. Yikes! Hello boarding house). Ben's still unemployed and madly in love with the internet though.

The word 'uninspired' mainly comes to mind when describing my state of mind right now. In my vastly wild and erotic fantasies, moving out was going to be one huge love, blood, weed and ecstasy fuelled orgy of laughs, dancing and general hilarity. Leaving home was supposed to open up a Poppy field of sexy opportunities; everybody that passed through our home (both dudes and the abundant number of girls that would be inevitably coming in and out) walking around in nothing but underwear (actually guys can also wear a hawaiian shirt if they are so inclined) and surviving on nothing but watermelon and each other's good company. We would have intimate group baths together where we would all pile in, smoke bongs and discuss the evils of technology. After we started to wrinkle and got out, we would have a dance, read books ( not blogs) by the heater and talk about our favourite sharks. The cold and unforgiving world of the internet would have no place in our warm House of Green Love!

In harsh reality, an internet connection exists in our house on Darley Road and it sucks. It drains the will to live life out of all of the 4 members of our household, including Meself. When another guy isn't watching a million downloaded back to back episodes of 'How I Met Your Mother' on his computer, someone else is shouting at 4AM while they shoot people in the face on Call of Duty. And when that guy isn't doing that, Ben's zombie eyes are morphing into squares as he trawls through the Never-Ending Blogosphere, and lives for his favourite DJ's next Twitter update. What he is searching for, while the sun shines outside his window and the dwindling Summer days count down (there's only 2 weeks left!), I will never understand. Even when I get straight home from work I'll sometimes find myself jumping on fucking Facebook for a stalk before I even say hello to the others, then two hours later I'll realise my time (and youth) was sucked through the black hole of the internet known as social networking. Or I'll lose a couple of hours sleep because I've been mindlessly downloading albums I won't even properly listen to.

To be fair, we have fun at Darley Road too. Monday and Tuesday nights when we cook and eat together are great times. The same goes for when we go for a swim. The others have also been going to the pub together at least once a week, but I've been working so I've missed out which sucks. It just seems that a lot of the Darley Road household time is spent separate and on the computer, and that includes Meself.

In short, moving out of home has been kind of lame so far. However, I know it's not only the internets fault, it's mine too. Now I sound like a big weirdo, but I've had a couple of these dreams about Australia being invaded. It's probably because we rented Red Dawn recently and I've been thinking about Tomorrow When the War Began a lot, but maybe they are metaphorical premonitions. Technology is invading our generation's day to day lives and I honestly believe one day it will destroy the fun life our parents knew, and which we will probably be the last to know. The internet, and especially Facebook at the moment, attacks certain aspects of people's brains in much the same way as heroin does to a junkie's. It's like when I played Sims for the first time and was obsessed with it for the next few months. My time not spent playing Sims was spent thinking about the next time I'd get to play Sims. Then one day I just got bored of it and haven't played it ever again. I hope that's what everybody one day does with Facebook and eventually the internet.

But hey, I don't want to bring so many bad vibes to this year because I actually see change-a-comin'. 2010 is going to be great and filled with amazing adventures for us.

So basically if you read this, please just leave a comment to give Ben some inspiration to stop looking for some obscure 80s disco album to download in 320kbps and come to the beach with me.

PS. Dylan, Hunter S. and Kerouac never had Facebook or Youtube did they?

P.P.S. Risky Business 4 life.

Canyons are the BIS

Recent mix from Canyons on Tim Sweeny's beats in space.
A great mix with thematic thirds from a bollywod infused rock to the depths and rips of disco/house with some local prog and hazy rock to placate the ending. Its a nice new pick me up from these DFA darlings (amongst the myriad of Modular greatness and local progresso's that run their own label like H.I.T.S). Tres Cool peepal.


Canyons BIS mix

Tracklisting: (bonus -> new dub of their peer petters Tame Impala) via Waves At Night
1. Ustad Vilayat Khan - His Masters Voice
2. Heretics - Chapter 1 - Pulse of New York...
3. Eno - Another Green World - Polydor
4. Medium Medium - the Glitterhouse - Cherry Red/Cachalot Records
5. Barbara Mason - Darling Come Back Home - Prelude
6. Sylvester - I Need Somebody to Love Tonight - Fantasy
7. Ian Dury - Spasticus Autisticus - Polydor
8. Shriekback - My Spine (is The Bassline) -
9. Jacques Renault - Look At You - Hole in the Sky
10. Teddy Pendergrass - The More I Get (Ron Hardy edit)
11. Kongas - Dr. Doo-Dah - Polydor
12. Marfungo - (African Bash) - Sacred Rhythm Music
13. Pink Gin - Answer the Phone - Hole in the Sky (unreleased)
14. 909 - Got To Have It (Blue Mix) - ESA Records
15. The Vision - Sharde - NuGroove
16. Joey Negro - Feel It - Z Records
17. Tame Impala - 41 Mosquitos Flying in Formation (Canyons 41 Mojitos Poolside Dub) - Modular
18. Amampondo - Mawethu - Avan-Guard
19. Pond - Mussels Tonight - Hole in the Sky (unreleased)
20. Alzo & Udine - C'mon and Join Us - Cisco International
21. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Wooden Ships

A few of my...

Favorite things become one - for having a distinct dislike for mash-ups in the blogosphere, spare a thought for covers. With more artistic and self-indulgent room to move, it can unfathomably form a far more enjoyable expression of tracks you've never heard of, or only heard once - its the form transcending the remix (in more ways than you think). On this occasion, I have some trade-off covers between some personal favorites on the scene, Friendly Fires prepubescent synth shuttle meets the learned analog shuffle and snare of DFA's own Holy Ghost! (I heard this on their recent B.I.S playlist). Quite the meddling of magic, Holy Ghost! spare no expense with their version of 'On Board', the Celestial Choir of DFA employed, its by far the more get disco of the duo, however the FF rendition of 'Hold On' holds its own (pardon the pun) extricating every ounce of innocent bleep jazz and deep disco that so simply floats with the bouncy vocals of frontman Ed Macfarlane.


Friendly Fires - Hold On (Holy Ghost! Cover)


Holy Ghost - On Board (Friendly Fires Cover)
via AsianDan

Dazed Digital Presents:

For all you trendy honeys out there. I'm seemingly unmoved by this glistening love tribute of Ed Banger's softer side, Breakbot. Though it has some tickled Purple Prince and Cerrone in there. Hence I repost for the willing, awe shucks, everbody do the Funky Bot!


Breakbot's Valentine Mix
tracklisting:
Harvey Scales - Keeps Getting Better
BB and Q Band - It's Over
Cerrone - Look for Love
Dimples D - Sucker DJs
Bumblebee Unlimited - Lady Bug (John Morales Edit)
Prince - I Wanna be Your Lover
Breakbot feat Irfane - Baby I'm Yours
Breakbot feat Irfane - Baby I'm Yours (Siriusmo Remix)
The Dells - What a Night
Michael Jackson - Johnny Raven
Donna Summer - Bad Girls
Sugarhill Gang - Lover in You
The Escorts - I Can't Stand to See You Cry (Breakbot Edit)
Chic - Funny Bones
Bob Sinclar - Gym Tonic
Second Image - Is It Me
Change - Miracles
Push - My Heart
Blue Magic - Clean Up Your Act
Joe Bataan - Mestizo
The Bombers - Shake
Cheryl lynn - Got to Be Real
Nice and Nasty 3 - The Ultimate Rap
Lew Kirton - Here's My Love (Come and Get it)
Mary Clark - Take Me I'm Yours
Droids - Tchoung Fou


via Dazed.

Fresh French Fries.

We're not huge bloggers of the bangERZ formula here, thats not to say some us don't mind that sweated out, wig out, inebriated dance voodoo that follows, but this is a rare off-chance I can share with you something different and alittle more heavy - a personal favorite project/band of mine that has a friendly affinity with the classiest of bangERZ boys, The Ed Banger crew. For the last 16 months I've been following within the deep underground grottos of the internets, a sound previously going by the moniker Poney Poney. These french dudes, Antoine Hilaire and Flo Lyonnet (too cool) have reassembled and reformed their duo into 'Jamaica' (perhaps due to the likeness to the 'Pony Pony Run Run' band). The tagline(album?): "No Problem".
Their tune is French Touch inspired Rock, with juicy licks and a heavy dose of enthusiastic electric guitar manipulation - Phoenix meets Justice- and they play it well with their upcoming album produced by Xavier de Rosnay of Justice and Peter Franco, a FOH engineer with Daft Punk. I have some material from their Poney Poney Days, an EP and the like, however their new album is due soon, along with a video for their new single "I Think I Like U2" which I'll post here when it hits viral. 


In the meantime get up to speed with their sound and origin with a shot of the old 'Jamaica', Poney Poney.


Cross The Fader - Poney Poney


When Do You Wanna Stop Working? (Pacific Remix) - Poney Poney

Relic from '09: LIFE: This Is Tres Cool.

NOTE: RELIC POST
So winding down the 09, springing up in the big 10, We here at TVITC have had a rollercoaster ride ripped in our musical conciseness as we won big. And ladies and gentlemen, we mean B-I-G. A fitting end to our past 12 months, and an even more surreal gateway to our future 12.

Winning Fuzzy's Festival competition, we had VIP access to Shore Thing and Field Day. For Sydneysiders its a double-headed, back to back where some people can barely make one, let alone both depending on their respective incapacitation.

We braved it though, expenses paid accommodation and transfers, it was living it like all the artists we oggle over on the interweb weekly. We had as much fun as possiblex10 (paying homage to our memory of it) even kicking on NYE/D at the Goddamn good vibes of Sydney's best dancteria GoodGodSmallClub for all its vibing magic .

The real treat in all of this, not even on NYE but during NYD, was the moment we were granted backstage access at Field Day, entering the disco den of LCD Soundsystem's set. It was pure DFA, as the groove tranced us to a comforting level, taking in the experience of 'behind the veil' so to speak. Photos were snapped, Ollie met a Dewaele Brother...

...and Juan (of The Juan MacLean was grabbing ice cream). I was even more privileged as I caught up with Knightlife (Cutters Records Stalwart) and got the down low on the happenings in his world, gaining some invaluable info for my Cutters Records post ('Coming Soon' now for the last 2 months, hang in there) and overall just hearing of his appreciation and experiences of festivals.

The Disco vibes worked overtime and were flowing side by side the champagne and soon the sun set low, and so did the lights. We left backstage to catch the end of LCD, gleaming infront of the crowd, a 24 hours not easily forgot.

Spaghetti Circus - Still Going [Brings back those DFA mingling memories]

Presentith For The Discerning Man

Bang Gang Twelve Inches new German oufit, Polargiest have finally arrived to the blogosphere alas with a shroud of mystery. Most music blogs have found a highly unuasal deadend when it comes to finding out anything about them. With no myspace (doesn't every band have one?) or other familiar portals of the interweb, most of this blogs have just been fortunately forced to describe and critically glow at their tunes - a more developed musical write-up as opposed to some blogging norm.

Its tempered rollerdisco (in the faintest expression) of the down low sense. A steady crescendo, the tunes are there to be played with, of the accompanying remixes on their EP, The Bang Gang crew deliver exciting riffs and shockwave rips of the beat, while fellow germanic Tensnake treats them with a dose of xlyaphone over a soulful scent of sax. It's all very party party with 'Home From The Can', but their other original work 'Use Me' can lead many a listeners to another sensation, somewhere down the lines a la Massive Attack with a slightly more dance infused sensation of minimal dynamics.

Listen and Enjoy.

Polargeist - Use Me (In 320 Glory)

BONUS -> Bang Gang's first round of monthly mixes. Here's Januarys with a very tasteful Knightlife remix of The Swiss masterpiece 'Bubble Bath' from their forthcoming EP (This weekend on itunes).

Bang Gang Top 12 January Mix

Tracklisting:

1. Leopold Gregori - Pigeon Dance
2. Matt Van Schie - Saturday Night (Gloves Remix)
3. The Swiss - Bubble Bath (Knightlife Remix)
4. Polargeist - Home From The Can (Bang Gang Remix)
5. Hot Chip - Hand Me Down Your Love
6. Bobmo - Arabian Delight
7. Tiga - Sex o Clock (Matias Aguayo remix)
8. Light Year - Sex Education
9. Hey today - Talk To Me
10. In Flagranti - Ex Ex Ex (Riton rerub - redubbed by the gang)
11. Prodigy - Thunder (Tiga remix)
12. Wolfmother - White Feather (Bang Gang's Black Leather remix)