Sorry about my absence... here's THE ALIENS (Hot Chip Remix)!

My personal life has been rather turbulent recently. Can't really go in to detail but it's the type of thing that makes you stop updating your blog.

So... here's the good news... Hot Club de Paris are going to do an interview with me here soon, as they are working on their new album in Chicago at the moment... so you have something to look forward to! And I want to get an interview with both Kash, and South Central up soon too... just depends on how much energy I have I guess...

In the meantime I'll post an mp3 I was waiting for the "green light" on but I'm pretty sure has been released at this point. It certainly has made the rounds at least. Nailler 9 posted it 100 years ago, so I assume it's safe to post.

Just in case you didn't already know, this secret song I had been talking about posting was the Hot Chip remix of a song for The Aliens... The Aliens are three of the founding members of The Beta Band so they're pretty hot shit without the Hot Chip remix... Click on their name above and that will send you to their Myspace... or read more below to get an idea of what they are all about!

Here's a little bio on The Aliens for ya:

Armed with a bottomless bag of psychedelically inclined rock and acid dipped electronics, The Aliens bring a freedom of spirit and a certainty of intent that immediately sets them out from the current crop of guitar slingers. Inspired by Sergio Leone and Serge Gainsbourg, Brian Eno and Brian Wilson, Larry David and Ol' Dirty Bastard, their songs in the key of Fife reference the past whilst belonging resolutely to the future.

Their Leader is the mysterious superhero Nighthawk - a melodic refugee from the future, sent back to the 21st century from a time where health and safety have deemed his music hazardous. Hiding from several government agencies under the inconspicuous name Gordon Anderson, his self assigned mission in this cetury is to fight the melodic crime that is mainstream pop.

Some time ago, John Maclean AKA Eddie Candles was unearthed from an Bronze Age camp where he had been languishing for anything upto 4000 years. Undergound, he kept himself entertained mainly by humming to himself. Now awake, aware and renamed (twice) he is busily transferring his refined oral melodies to keyboard.

Pungous Nightbread began life as a member of high society, Born unto Cardinal Nightbread and the Duchess of Leith. However, his fortunes soon took a turn for the worse as his parents entrusted his wellbeing to a goose, after learning to comunicate with his guardian using tapping... he became something of a drummer/goose hybrid...casting aside his human name to become Robin Jones...GooseDrum

And here is the most awesome track you'll hear all week (if you don't already have it)!


The Aliens- "Robot Man (Hot Chip Remix)" YSI

The Aliens- "Robot Man (Hot Chip Remix)" Rapidshare

Here's the video for "Robot Man"... get the song while you can because I'm not going to keep it up long! You should go out and guy their album "Astronomy For Dogs"... it's constantly in my cd player in my car right now...
The Aliens - Robot Man

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Have a good one. I'll try to post again soon, and in the meantime I'll be getting that Hot Club de Paris shizznit ready... Talk to you soon!

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Noise For The Passive Interview

You know that here at Arcadia we like to be on top of that new new shit... like so new that they barely have songs sometimes! This one does have songs, but at the moment, I don't have one in my possession... SO at the moment we're going to post the interview and then get the track when we can! Hope you guys enjoy... I certainly dig them...

Here's a little bio info...
The band originally started last year due to a certain friendship between the singer (and band's songwriter) Amelie and their producer, Justin Anderson (who had produced for The Libertines). The pair thought it would be funny to spend a day in the Shoreditch HQ studios recording a few things as a laugh, and it turned out Amelie had a genuine song writing talent. More and more songs were written and produced in that studio, until they became what they are today, which has attracted attention from major indie bands such as The Rakes. At this point Amelie has decided to complete her band with a drummer, Dmitri, a bassist, Tamlin and a keyboardist, Lee, while Amelie stills play the guitar (since she hasn't found a guitarist yet... they're still searching if you readers can help?!?! This could be your big break!)...

Here's the interview... I hope you guys enjoy... and I'll have the song up asap!

Interview with Noise For The Passive:

Patch: Well hello there Amelie! This interview has been a long time in the making! Sorry about that... how's this week been treating you?


Amelie: Er, this week's been quite mixed actually! On Thursday we played a gig at Shoreditch's Old Blue Last for a band called Trafalgar's single launch....many old friends came down and the atmosphere was superb. Had a weekend in, with the exception of Sunday...and planning to go to the studio Wednesday....


Patch:That sounds rather interesting. More interesting than my week anyway. So tell the people a little more about how Noise For The Passive came together... bit of a happy accident yeah? I know the origin can be traced back Justin Anderson (who was in Mains Ignition with Adam Ficek of Babyshambles)...


Amelie: I used to go into the studio quite a bit with Justin.....not to do work, just to listen in on other people's rehearsals or tracks he was working on, then one day (round about this time last year) we thought it might be a good idea to maybe try and write some stuff together.....Things went well and I recruited a few more band members to play live gigs....


Patch:Funny how fucking about usually yields the most interesting results. It's when you're trying hard that getting it right that it gets really confusing! I don't know if you're familiar with Crystal Castles but their biggest song (arguably; called "Alice Practice") came from they guy in the group just taping some levels of the girl from the band singing. Maybe you guys should get together! Trust me that would be an awesome idea... if you want I'll send them an email on your behalf lol...


Amelie: That would be nice....always interested in working with new people...


Patch:Anyway back to more important things. So once your song writing talent was recognized, you decided to have at it an really put some time into writing songs and being in a band. What moment sticks out for you as being the defining moment where you said "putting all this effort in was worth it"?

Amelie: There hasn't been one yet..... but we know if we keep on putting the effort in we'll get somewhere bigger and better than where we are now.


Patch:That's awesome. Being in a band isn't easy (unless you're getting boatloads for it) but it certainly is rewarding. When you guys write songs do you throw ideas around or do you most of the song writing?


Amelie: It really depends....it really does. There is one song I did write and produce by myself on the laptop but otherwise me and justin sit around in the studio throwing ideas around that eventually make a song....


Patch:This is a bit of a boring question but I still like to ask it... what are your bands biggest influences (this can be television, film, theatre, cereal, whatever is clever)...


Amelie: To be honest I don't think there's any particular material influence, but for me it was just a matter of environment and soaking up the good times. To round it up, life is my only and largest influence.


Patch:I see I see. Interesting. So how long (or rather how soon) til we see a full length out of you bunch?


Amelie: Not too sure...it depends....we still need a keyboardist....but things are sppeding up...


Patch:Ok here's the fun bit where you tell us all where we can pick up your singles, merch, etc and where we can see you playing, and/or where we can check out more about the band... go on then!


Amelie: Everything is done via the myspace for now.....but gigs are generally in london at the moment, our next one is in lewisham (south london) on thursday the 11th. otherwise you'll find me in person at the griffin in shoreditch....i go there too much....


Patch:Fantastic. Quite the pleasure getting to interview you and make sure you stay in touch! We'll be keeping an eye on your progress so we can brag later when you get a top twenty single :)


Amelie: why thank you.....we'll keep you informed, was a pleasure being interviewed.

And that's that for the moment... go check out "Gone" over at their Myspace
in the meantime...

Ladytron and the Chemical Brothers @ Riviera, Chicago 9/24/07

These photos are stolen from
energetiko!'s Flickr account... just thought I should give him credit because my pix are on a disposable and I haven't gotten them developed yet... too poor!

So last night Sam and I went to see the Chemical Brothers and Ladytron at the Riviera in Chicago. I was wayyyyyyyyyy psyched to see both bands, especially the Chems since I've been waiting since high school, and not having to pay for it made it even cooler lol.

Ladytron we're (of course) very upset looking and emotionless but I imagine that's part of what they do. If they were all shiny happy people we'd be fucking weirded out. They went right into their set, once they got on stage, and unfortunately were having problems from the get go. I'm not sure I actually heard any guitar during that whole performance. Then Mira's keyboard, that was supposed to provide most of the electro based sounds we are so familiar with, was just totally dead for the first half of the set (someone had to run in and fix it... finally we were able to hear it). Finally they pulled it together (or rather their setup guy did) and the second half of the sohw went really well. This is where we got to hear "Seventeen" and "Destroy Everything You Touch", both of which I recorded and are at the bottom of this post.

Sam and I went to the balcony for the Chems (p.s. there was no air, or even fans, and it was hot as fucking blue blazes last night) just so we could relax as we were getting worn out. Their visual show is amazing and of course the music was totally spot on as well. I think the main thing that took away from the performance for me was that we couldn't get back into the pit to dance and instead I just found myself staring and trying to trace back every beat in my head the way all DJs do. Instead of just enjoying it I was waiting for songs to drop, or synths to change, or other technological things that no one should bother thinking about at a show. Am I right, or am I right?

Anyway they were fucking awesome and if you get the chance you should totally go see them. I highly advise not taking psychedelic drugs if you do go though because their is a really scary clown face during "Get Yourself High" that might send you to the hospital... I think that's a great way to convince people that electronic music is not just "drug music".... put up visuals that NO ONE on drugs would want to see and *POOF* problem solved! Now everyone in the audience is there because they really like the music lol! Brilliant!

I've tacked on a couple tracks that you already probably have but I can't really post anything new because I'd feel guilty... but I also can't not post MP3s... seeing as this is an MP3 blog and all! Hopefully a few of you are stumbling on to something new... if not then check out the videos below from the show...

The Chemical Brothers- "Electronic Battle Weapon 8"

The Chemical Brothers- "Electronic Battle Weapon 8" YSI

Ladytron- "Seventeen (Soulwax Remix)"

Ladytron- "Seventeen (Soulwax Remix)" YSI

Ladytron playing "Seventeen" part 1...


...and due to a text message cutting off my video, part 2 of "Seventeen" (my girlfriend didn't know any better, not her fault, so don't hate... appreciate! har har har)


Ladytron playing "Destroy Everything You Touch"... full song...


Chemical Brothers from the balcony...


Chemical Brothers "All Rights Reversed" from the floor...


And that's that. I've gotta write up this interview with Noise For The Passive, so if I were you, I would expect that as the next post. Or the remix from "youknowwhochip" that I'm sitting on til I get word otherwise. Later............




P.S. On a TOTALLY unrelated note, To My Boy just had a new single come out! Here's the info...
Our new single came out yesterday
There are 2 versions
7" one
A - Fear Of Fragility (single edit)
B - Type1>Type2

7" two
A - Fear Of Fragility (single edit)
B - Fear Of Fragility (acoustic version)
get them here>>
www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/simpleSearch.do?searchUID=&pGroupID=-1&simpleSearchString=fear+of+fragility&primaryID=-1
and you can get all the tracks on iTunes >>
phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=264611997&s=143444
The video is now on MTV2 ... vote for it in the NME chart here >>
www.mtv.co.uk/node/6558/

love
Sam + Jack x

They are officially friends of the blog so I highly suggest that you cop that shit YA HEARD?!?!?

Holy Fuck... this is awesome... Klaxons hip-hop Dalliance!

Well we heard that Klaxons wanted to work with Dr Dre. And some people thought that would be awesome (including myself) but the likelihood of that happening is probably rather slim... (their closest hip-hop collabo so far was the one I blogged about back during Pitchfork Festival with Cadence Weapon *pictured above... I searched forever for a picture of them together and then found it on their Flickr lol*)...

BUT NOW THIS DREAM HAS BEEN PARTIALLY REALIZED! A BBC Covers album is coming out with loads of covers including Klaxons cover of Blackstreet's "No Diggity" (which was, of course, produced by Dr Dre). It is quite simply the fucking most awesome idea that has come to fruition in quite sometime. They are heading into second album territory and we need things like this to whet out palate until we get to hear that...

So I now present to you, my friends, in all of it's radio ripped 128kbps sounding glory, the cover...

Klaxons- "No Diggity (Blackstreet Cover/Radio Rip)"

Klaxons- "No Diggity (Blackstreet Cover/Radio Rip)" YSI

Now you say to yourself, "Why is this asshole giving us a radio rip and not the song in it's full glory?"... first off, I don't have it... second off, if I did I wouldn't post it... I really really like the Klaxons and want them to make money! My blog is not about depriving people of income it's about promoting bands I like (so BBC when you come here to kick my ass lay off please)... when the covers album comes out make sure you pick it up! There are TONS of other artists like Hard-Fi, Maximo Park, The Fratellis, etc that you (the discerning 'Arcadia' reader) will probably love if not at least be entertained by!

This was a surprise post I didn't even intend on making but once I found this I KNEW you guys would want to hear it! Check back soon for more interviews and more awesome tracks.. until next time!

Super super super super super super super super Namalee von Namazon!

Unless you live under a rock (or in Iraq) you've probably heard of/bought/read/subscribed to Super Super Magazine in the last few months. If you haven't seen it you have to be colour blind because it's pretty hard to miss... take a looksie...


It obviously has been making the right waves seeing as it's sold out loads of back issues, has been featured on telly with Trash Fasion as the heart of a burgeoning scene, and has been proclaimed (with much zest) to be the New Rave Bible! I mean, fuck, they had both M.I.A., Lightspeed Champion, AND Arcadia fav Frank Musik on the cover this last issue! You know that Super Super is nailing it over and over and over (like a monkey with a miniture cymbal I might add)...

NOW on top of tackling London Fasion Week they've upped the ante... Namalee Bolle (editor or Super Super) has transformed into Namalee von Namazon, flouro covered songstress and living human offspring of cartoon rock Jem. Which couldn't be cooler because frankly right now we are in need of heroes and she certainly has that in her bloood! Namalee was kind enough to take some time out of her day to do a little interview and let us post a couple of her tracks!



INTERVIEW WITH NAMALEE VON NAMAZON

Patch:Hello Namalee, it is a serious fucking honour to be interviewing you! I mean it's always an honor with all the people we interview but with you shit's on a whole 'nother level... granted it's an email interview and all my responses are pre-programmed but it's still quite an honour!

Namalee: : ) !!!


Patch:You're welcome. Now I love Super Super but another reason I'm hyped is because you used to be former style editor at Sleazenation... that was my favourite magazine in high school! You and Steve Slocombe (also at Super Super) both come from the Sleazenation background... how did the death of that magazine influence the birth of Super Super?

Namalee: Sleazenation was brilliant - I remember the first time I read it and the tone was just so brutally honest. It was definetly the predecessor of Vice - I remember alot of the original Vice lot used to contribute. At the time there weren't loads of other style mags like there are today and then along came Sleazenation - this mag that had real balls and the tone was just so direct and in your face. Steve was first the art editor and then he became editor. When I met him it was like two naughty school children clocking eachother across the play pen!! We had similar radical views about art and fashion.

Steve took Sleaze from an underground fanzine to mainstream style mag in the 3 years he was editor, but it was hard cos we could see this whole new era coming towards us. For example my styling was really 'brash and loud and cartoony' and alot of the old skool stylists found it offensive. It was just a generational shift thing - i didnt relate to them aesthetically - I understand where they were coming from, and I respect tradition, but I felt like I wanted my generation to be seen and heard. After 3 years the publisher went on holiday and Steve just changed the whole magazine around to look more 'tabloid' and created the first 'multi-image' cover that became the Super Super cover you see today. At the time people hated it so much but to me it felt 'modern and relevant.' Some subscribers ripped it up and posted it back to the office in disgust. The publisher wasnt best pleased and sacked Steve. I knew that we had to start something of our own so i resigned ....and the rest is history!!


Patch:Now on to some music questions... "I Wanna Be A Kartoon" is fucking great... That shit is hot! It reminds me of Tricky but not... it really sexy and weird! The title and the sound seem totally opposite. How did this song evolve?

Namalee: Erm. Thats so interseting that you say that cos I love Tricky/Wild Bunch and Massive Attack and that whole trip hop vibe. Its so slow and melancholic cool...I dont know really - I wrote the song just after I left Sleazenation, years ago. Its a very sad song so it took me years to have the balls to sing it. I havent sung it out live yet cos im worried i might cry. Niyi is to thank for the sound - i think he really feels my sadness and knows how to handle it best. The pace it really slow and drawn out - I play a kind of Jessica Rabbit role in it I guess. I suppose the sexy weirdness is just how I am...


Patch:Here's the big question. Do you a) have a full length in the works that's going to have loads of super awesome new-rave-star cameos or b) are you working with a handful of people that you're really close with or c) are you doing all the music by yourself?

Namalee: haha!! All of the above really. im really taking all of this in my stride because I fucking ENJOY it!! I met Niyi ages ago on the clubscene and I knew on the spot that he was 'the one'. He is incredibly talented - its that raw talent that I relate to. He sits in his flat on his crappy computer with loads of wires hanging out and a one string guitar and comes up with something amazing. Its very unpretentious and real - straight from the heart. Neither of us have ever claimed to know what we were doing - we are self taught musicians.Its very creative and punk in that respect. My musical heart belongs with Niyi and I am working with other people like Warboy who is another Nu-rave legend. Rat Scabies from The Damned is gonna be producing my album with us too - I love all the original punks - I always get on with them cos they were straight talkers just like me. Scabies is a fucking legend. The Damned were incredible!!!


Patch:Sounds very exciting. Bland question but who are your favourite emerging artists right now?

Namalee: Niyi, Fashion Plate Daddy, Black Peter Group,Lightspeed Champion, No Bra, Bishi, K-Tron n the exploding Triangles


Patch:I see I see. Now we all see the Jem connection BUT if you had to be the progeny of some other cartoon characters who would they be an why?

Namalee: Spongebob Squarepants because he is so nice. He's well - meaning over enthusiastic goofball just like me.
and..

Jessica Rabbit because she's such a hot slinky biatch!!

And I like the Pink Panther!!


Patch:Fascinating! Well I don't want to take up any more of your time but feel free to plug away and let the good good people know what's going on in your very colourful world of print, fashion, and music!

Namalee: Okay, well, I'm gonna start putting my music out next year. There seems to be quite a demand for it which is really amazing. And lookout for Niyi's new single 'Poached Eggs' out next month (www.myspace.com/niyi). And listen out for my sister (Shirani's) band fashion Plate daddy - her voice is INCREDIBLE!!! (www.myspace/fashionplatedaddy) and the new issue of SuperSuper is out NOW with a free CD by Tapedeck/679 records - waaaaay cool!!!
Spread the love and life is too short to hate on everyone - we're all gonna die in the end and our bones will all look the same!! PEEEEAAAAAAAAAACCCEEEEE !

www.myspace.com/namalee


Patch:Thanks Namalee von Namazon! We are all routing for you to have a Christmas #1!

Namalee: : ) !!

And here's the goods... a couple tracks off her Myspace! Go over there to download "I Wanna Be A Kartoon"...

Namalee von Namazon- "Super Shiny"

Namalee von Namazon- "Super Shiny" YSI

Namalee von Namazon- "Namazonia"

Namalee von Namazon- "Namazonia" YSI

Check this documentary with Namalee and Trash Fashion that I posted months and months ago... but it's worth watching trust me, even if you've seen it 10,000 times!


And here's Namalee and the Namazonz rocking out...


Thanks to all of you who stopped by for the Simian Mobile Disco... my numbers we insane... it was awesome to be the first person to get my hands on that track :) MAKE SURE IF YOU ARE IN NEW YORK YOU CHECK OUT DANCE MUSIC INVASION THAT MY BOY LARRY TEE IS THROWING AND GO SEE JAMES FORD FROM SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO PLAY! If you see Larry, tell him Patch from 'In Search Of Arcadia' sent ya!

Stay tuned for more awesome interviews and groovy tunes... until next time...

We are very close... and in the meantime we have Simian Mobile Disco...

We are VERY close to having posts full of interview awesomeness and some other little treats... things have been a little rough though and so I've been a little stalled out as far as posting goes... I'm getting that Namalee from Super Super finished up, and I've got Noise For the Passive in the queue coming up right after that. And then some other cool shit but I won't get into that (brandnewremixby2006mercuryprizenomineesandDFAsigneesforanotherAstralwerksband)...

IN THE MEANTIME... Sam and I went to the Chi last night to see Simian Mobile Disco (click the name to see the P4K article) at the Empty Bottle (pictures to of my own to come soon I'm sure) and it was amazing.

We just happened to run into James Ford from Simian Mobile Disco (read it like this: Pharrell Williams is to hip hop as James Ford is to 'New Rave'/Dance Punk/Electrorawkwhateveryoucallit *just in case you didn't already know that, you hipster mp3 blog reader*) right before the show. We talked for a minute, he signed the idea notebook I carry with me, gave him a copy of the State Crime demo, he got a light from Sam and then went on his merry way. I warned him (based on his buddies Klaxons surprise reactions both times they played in Chicago) that the American audience will take at LEAST 30 mins to warm up so don't let your feelings get hurt :)

And that's exactly how it went down... by the time they got around to "It's The Beat" (about 20+ mins into their set) shit popped off. The audience never really gave SMD what they wanted response wise because most of the audience wasn't there for them... most of the audience came because it was some awesome Flavorpill giveaway deelybop or because someone told them they should RSVP or someone said "Tuesday is a good night to drink!"... but there were a few people in the front of the crowd (Sam and I included) who were going ape shit and all and all it was a near perfect show. To see something that awesome up close, something that in my beloved England would have been on a super huge stage where I couldn't make out anyone's face, was monumental and as far as I'm concerned a historical event :)

When we left the show there were still loads of gift bags (because for some reason the primarily hetero burly man fest that was there didn't really want a bag with a socially conscious magazine, a bunch of sculpting hair products, and a couple fliers in it... who would have thought... I thought those dudes LOVED SOME PRODUCT! My hair is going to be so sculpted though now j/k)...

We ducked out of the show early (btw Telefon Tel Aviv was awesome but needed a little hype man to let us know they were on the fucking stage... it went from the DJ straight into their set with no fanfare.. sorry guys) to get over to the Funky Buddha Lounge for their XXX Panty Party... check out the videos from the show and then hear the rest of the story............

EDIT: This is a picture of us earlier in the evening.









I mean we seriously hauled ass...

When we got to the Funky Buddha it was midnight on the nose (10 minutes late on bar time) and I basically had to beg the door lady to let us in because she was about to dispose with the RSVP list... and once we made it there *Screeching tire sound mixed with a loud BOING!* we realized we were not wanted. I don't care how homo people think Sam and I are, or that I was wearing a purple shirt with silver letters with lavender shoes and pink shoe laces, we were immediately spotted as tourists in the gay (mostly lesbian) world. They knew we weren't gay, and since the party was being thrown by Estrojam and there were trannies walking around in their underwear everywhere, we got lots of dirty looks as though we were there as tourists (and not there for music at all).

Frankly the music wasn't really popping off... the highs were too high, there was no low in one room, and in the other room the levels were totally off, and the songs were BARELY being mixed. I don't even know who the fuck was playing. Sam and I sat around waiting to see if this party was going to be the great amazing party that you sit around dreaming of when you're a teenager in Nowheresville, Michigan... but that never happened. It was mostly us getting stared at no matter how close we sat to each other, and there were a few straight girls desperately seeking out the straight men (btw what a cock block am I? I've got a girlfriend who I live with, but I'm always dragging us to DJ gigs were chicks are all about it, AND then I'm saying "Ok Sam, time to go! I got to get to work in the morning!"... poor dude... I owe him a night were we don't have to be back by morning... and I'll find somewhere else to sleep lol...) Not really our scene if the music isn't working seeing as we both don't drink anymore.

Eventually we figured that by the time they were going to be giving away vibrators, and condoms, and lube... everyone was gonna be taking their clothes off... we would be getting pelted with those vibrators and die a gross an pathetic death. And we both had class in the morning (in fact I've been in class the whole time I've been writing this) in the morning and SMD probably wasn't going to be DJing until 5am so it just didn't make sense to stay. Hope everyone else had fun!

I'm sure that at least one person went home with someone of a surprise gender last night (remember that scene with Begbie in 'Trainspotting'?)... "Girls who like boys that like boys to be girls..."

But that was that and it was mostly awesome! Next week Monday we've got the Chemical Brothers and Ladytron which should be extra special with sugar on top so we're pretty geeked for that. I doubt we would be so lucky to meet the Chems but maybe if we get there early? You never know! I never thought I'd just look up from pulling my bag out of the car and see James Fucking Ford. Mental... anyway here's a new Simian Mobile Disco remix that I haven't even heard yet from Armand Van Helden. Enjoy!

AND NOW TIME FOR SOME EXCLUSIVE SHIT! IT HASN"T BEEN POSTED ANYWHERE ELSE SO HOLLA AT CHA BOY!!!!!
Simian Mobile Disco- "Hustler (Armand Van Helden Remix)" Rapidshare

Simian Mobile Disco- "Hustler (Armand Van Helden Remix)" YSI

Well I hope you enjoyed all that... once again... look forward to Namalee Von Namazon, Noise For The Passive, and an awesome remix from you-know-who-chip...




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What a shambles, what a shambles, what a shambles...

Well my friends the time is upon us... for the greatest release of the year (next to Klaxons, M.I.A., and well lots of albums but lets ignore that for now!) BABYSHAMBLES- Shotter's Nation to come out... and Albion has a track from it just for you! Sadly, it didn't come from the source as it usually does BUT I think the source will be o.k. with it seeing as I heard they're sending it out to other people before me (boo).

Here it is in all of its glory...

Babyshambles- "The Lost Art Of Murder" Rapidshare

Babyshambles- "The Lost Art Of Murder" YSI


All you damn Brits make sure you get out to your news stand and get your NME before the 7" single sells out... I bet you this one gives the White Stripes one a run for the money... there are so many of us Doherty obsessives that there is no way this won't be huge! Someone want to ship me one? I think my news guy is going to fuck me out of mine and buy up all the copies because we are feuding since me snubbed me about a DJing gig... prick... (Why? Why would you do that when I'm trying to be kind turn down my offer to play a dubstep set for your hippie friends? Why? Because you're fucking rude that's why!)

Here's an awesome vid for "Delivery" you've probably already seen but why not watch it again!


EDIT: Parlophone sent me the email with the track... I just hadn't gotten it yet. Even my email says they had sent it out earlier... must be connection issues. Anyway their email had more video info I thought you might be interested it!

BEHIND THE SCENES

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DELIVERY

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I cannot fucking wait until the album comes out. I think I'm just going to put on headphones and walk until I have heard the whole album front to back because this is such an important album to me... can't just listen to it at work, or in the car, or what the fuck ever... kind of like a Bjork album... just too close to my heart. I'm sure it will be awesome.

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http://www.recordstore.co.uk/home.jsp?&CatalogNumber=R6747-BUND*



Delivery CD Single

http://www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1&sku=704175

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Delivery-Babyshambles/dp/B000V6JS4W/ref=pd_bbs_6/203-4465208-1943110?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1188923538&sr=8-6



Delivery 7”

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Delivery-7-VINYL-Babyshambles/dp/B000V6KBU2/ref=pd_bbs_12/203-4465208-1943110?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1188923538&sr=8-12



Shotter’s Nation

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shotters-Nation-Special-CD-DVD/dp/B000VBJAS6/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4/203-4465208-1943110?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1188923538&sr=8-4

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shotters-Nation-Babyshambles/dp/B000VBJAR2/ref=pd_bbs_sr_10/203-4465208-1943110?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1188923538&sr=8-10

http://www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1&sku=649842

http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/3440133/Shotter-Nation/Product.html

http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/3474029/Shotter-Nation/Product.html

TO MY BOY bring you special 'Messages' in this AWESOME INTERVIEW!

TO MY BOY ARE ONE OF THE MOST AWESOME FUCKING BANDS ON THE PLANET... and for some reason they are nice enough to keep doing stuff for your favourite Brit-blog... such as this interview! Jack from To My Boy took some time to answer ridiculous questions that I came up with on break at work...

Patch: Hello Jack! As usual this is an email interview, so you and I aren't
actually talking, but how are you doing today?

Jack: good thanks.. we just flew back from doing a couple of gigs in Prague
and Vienna. Proper mint trip.


Patch: Fantastic to hear! Say hi to Sam for me... unless he's with us on this
interview and I say hello to you too Sam! I wanted to mention, right out of
the gate, that it is completely impossible to search for any information
about you guys on the internet! Are you aware of this? You're as bad as
that band with all the porno words in their name!

Jack: Yep..its a curse. Maybe try using speech marks round the whole name


Patch: Because of this I'm going to have to ask for a little bio info...

Jack: We formed at University in Durham (I was studying physics and Sam was
doing History of Art) and formed a 4 piece band out of boredom.. then
i started writing demos on the computer to teach the bass player and
the drummer to play stuff more simply - we realised the demos were
better than the sounds we could make with the real instruments.
We played lots of house parties in Durham for a few months, got signed
via an unlikely sequence of events, left Uni and moved to Liverpool.


Patch: Ok next up... you've got some fantastic promo pictures, the coolest of
which is you to standing in some sort of spaceship like corridor. Where the
hell is that? Did you guys get to go to the Russian space station? Because
that would be pretty baller and would explain a lot...


Jack: Thats actually an alley-way in Liverpool (down by the side of Cash
Converters) which was renovated as part of Capital of Culture '08. We
filmed the video for the Grid there until we got chased off by the
police.


Patch: I see I see. Unlike a lot of the other bands that have had the "new rave"
tag thrown at them you guys make music that is dissimilar to just about
everyone out there. A lot of your contemporaries are only distinguishable
by their ID3 tags, whereas, as soon as you hear one of your songs you know
it's To My Boy. Is this just the product of self expression or did you sit
down at one point and say 'we're going to make sure we don't sound like
anyone else'? (I'm not trying to be an idiot asking that, it's just
sometimes you say "I'm gonna go out of my way to not sound like my peers
because I don't want to be a ______ clone"... when I write songs I think "I
love Justice but I don't want to sound like them" and make a conscious
decision to not write music like that)


Jack: It was just a combination of things we love. Both club music and indie
music are really important to us so we took what we saw as 'the best
bits' from each > the ideas, melodies and song structures from indie
music .....and the production and sounds from electro.
we started before the term 'nu-rave' existed ... i think its probably
damaged us a bit being lumped in with all those bands - made us seem a
bit novelty.


Patch: Since we're on the topic of sound, what are some of your influences? This
doesn't have to be music, it can be film or paintings or a really shitty day
in October 2001. Anything goes! Have at it!


Jack: Albert and his Grid, Cosmic Fashion and his Wonderful Circus, Goddard,
Wikipedia, Panic! at the Disco, Mr Oizo, John Pilger, Ultimate Frisbee
(a trully modern sport) and Kate Bush


Patch: Gross. Gosh I'm not sure you needed to go into such graphic detail but 'ask
and ye shall receive' I guess! Not a really original question here but what
have you guys been listening to recently?


Jack: Quite a mixture of things really - we rediscovered Dogs Die in Hot
Cars (godhopping is a massive tune), we really like Late Of The Pier
(best new band at the moment), the new MIA album, Hounds of Love
(album) by Kate Bush, great new producers like Crookers, Hervé, Sinden
and Switch. Even a bit of Belle and Sebastian.


Patch: Any collaborations coming up?


Jack: We've literally just been in studio with some London based electro
barons who are working on an album at the moment. Not sure if im
allowed to mention any names but it went well.


Patch: And while we're on the topic of working with other people I have to say that
your remixes have been fucking awesome. That goes both ways. Both the
remix you have done ("Gravity's Rainbow" is the only one I am aware of) and
those that have been done for you are fab-oo. Care to divulge any names of
remixes (song wise for yourself or other artists) or remixers we'll see tied
to you soon? Are you guys going to do some more remixing work or even some
production work?


Jack: we're into doing remixes (although we prefer to be
writing new songs when we have free time) we have a ridiculously fast
one we did of Pull Tiger Tail.... one for I Was A Cub Scout and
another for Example. Its a fun thing to be able to do..especially if
you're a fan of the song.


Patch:And last off, we're nearing the end of summer and that means that festivals
are drawing to a close (in fact they are all done here in the U.S. for the
most part)... which artist was your favourite to watch this summer?


Jack: I watched Bjork at Glastonbury .. that was pretty mad. It was like
watching a massive pagan ritual with a huge brass section.. a bizarre
spectacle!


Patch: I appreciate all the info, you album "Messages" is out now and is pure
fucking magic, you guys are gods and please say anything you want to lead us
out of this interview..............


Jack: Glad u like Messages, we really want to get over to the U.S and play
it to our fans over there. hopefully that will happen soon, when our
label gets its act together. we're looking forward to more touring and
recording our next record > which shud b ready next year. love & speed
X

AND AS IF THAT WEREN'T AWESOME ENOUGH THEY GAVE US A TRACK TO POST! You may have already seen it over at Palms Out Sounds but that doesn't make it any less awesome... so get your download on and leave comments about how awesome TMB are in the comments...

To My Boy- "Type 1/Type 2"

The Projects want to Entertain you

It has been an all together star studded week. I mean seriously. I got word from Jack (To My Boy) that they're down to do an interview with moi (which was great seeing as they leaked "Model *Sinden Remix*" here), got a very nice email from my buddy Larry Tee (who I will always regard as a superstar no matter how much he talks to me like a normal person), and got word of a special mysterious bootleg from one of our Arcadian friends (more about that later)...

...And I had my own brush with fame (hey listen buddy it feels like fame more so than sitting behind this fucking desk right now being a telemarketer) when Palms Out Sounds posted a State Crime mash-up that my boy Curt (from Flosstradamus) and I did eons ago. Here that is again if you didn't catch my first link to it lol!

...And other good things happened too. I got a raise (I think) after two years of being ignored or treated like a trash can. AND I got some Chemical Brothers tickets which is just amazing. May I remind you all how much I fucking love (and have loved for many years now) Astralwerks Records who release most of the music worth buying still in America :)

Speaking of Chemical Brothers.... Ladytron is touring with them. And you know what? Mira from Ladytron is working on some songs with our interview of the day GRAEME FROM THE PROJECTS *weee hurrahhhh zingggg sparkler trumpet blaring*

Instead of some boring back info how about we go straight into the interview and then we'll put a nice little track at the bottom for you! Sounds good yeah?



Interview with Graeme from The Projects

Patch: Although this is just an email interview and I'm not actually speaking to you, hey Graeme how are you today?


Graeme: I'm good despite just having just watched the film 'Cat People' this morning. I mean, Natassja Kinski, Malcolm MacDowell, Bowie singing the songs, you'd imagine you couldn't go wrong. When, in actual fact, it's worthless rubbish. Come to think of it, I don't know if anything good came out of the 1980s. All that hair spray and the primary colours. John Lennon was murdered, everyone wore stone washed jeans and Jason Donovan was a superstar. At the time I realised something was deeply wrong, it's just that, being right in the thick of it, I couldn't work out exactly what. It turned out, with hindsight, that it was everything! Anyway. I'm just fine thanks.



Patch: I see, based on a post from your Myspace earlier, that Mira from Ladytron (one of your listed Myspace influences) is doing some vocals on your album. That's really exciting! Did this come about because of the line up changes in the band, or is it the fruit of some collaboration (and can you explain the line up change a little for the folks)?


Graeme: It's great news, yes!

We have had lots of line up changes, but the biggest is Lisa leaving the band to move to sunny Berlin. This all happened a while back, so it's nice to hear her on our 'Voice Is Glue' record that just came out - Track and Field took an astonishingly long time to release it. Anyway, Mira is to sing on the new record, on a half dozen songs or so, and the rough mixes all sound marvelous. We've been friends for ages and she's always liked the band. Her singing really fits the music. It all fitted! We were playing an Alla Pugacheva song 'Million Crimson Roses' in rehearsal but it sounded pretty awful with me singing. I knew that Mira spoke Russian so I asked one time we met up if she would sing on it. I had imagined that she might be too busy with Ladytron, I mean, their schedule is just crazily busy, but she was up for it, and this and the other songs really make the LP that's being mixed (provisionally titled 'Words Of Love In Code Sent By Number Station' - I'm quite fascinated by the creepy Number Station broadcasts...)


Patch: The first thing that put your name on my radar again recently was the recent Broadcast remix of your track "Accidents Will Happen". That's pretty major as I don't remember seeing loads and loads of Broadcast remixes throughout the years. They are obviously an influence but are they close friends or did you just send them an email and say "hey can you do my track"? Or did the remix come through some other channel?


Graeme: We all really love Broadcast, they make such great records, and so we were thrilled to be invited to support them at the ICA in London. Trish and James liked the show and asked if we'd like to tour with them. It was great fun, especially the infamous M8 motorway brawl in the van, the details of which I shan't divulge to save the face of a certain former member. Yes, it actually involved a real punch thrown (not by or at me, I should add. I only suggested that we drive a tiny bit faster on account of the fact that we were so late for a show in Aberdeen), but that's a different story. James came up with the remix after this tour. Again, this all happened quite a while ago but the time machine that is the Track and Field release schedule makes it all seem like it were only yesterday.


Patch: Speaking of influences, if you could, name a few that aren't on your Myspace... This doesn't have to just be music, it can also be books, art, or movies...


Graeme: I've been watching all of Eric Rohmer's films recently. I hope to God they aren't influencing me though. 'A Summer's Tale' features a singer songwriter writing a song as the film progresses and it's really awful (it is the 1980s after all). For those of you who don't know, Eric Rohmer's a French director who makes realist films that usually involve petty romances. I love or hate his films. I loved 'The Green Ray', but hated 'A summer's Tale', for example. Nope, better to be influenced elsewhere. I suddenly thought of Godard's 'Chinois' now that I'm thinking about French New Wave Cinema. The chairman Mao song in that may be worth plagiarising/being influenced by...


Patch: You guys seem set to have your biggest year to date... if you became massive indie superstars what band would you try to emulate? Would you stick with the modesty of lets say TV On The Radio (who as far as I know seem to be politically active and fairly modest) or would you totally lose it and turn into Razorlight and get celeb girlfriends and motorcycles?


Graeme: A private amusement park would be nice, no? Will the budget stretch to that? If not I think I might just start talking about myself very loudly, as if anyone really cared, in restaurants and bars.

As for motorcycles, I have an MZ ES250/2 and it's fantastic. Everyone should do an image search and change their desktop wallpaper! In fact, everyone should get one.


Patch: Cool cool. Regardless of your last answer I'm glad you're getting motorcycles! Every artist has a song they are really really emotionally connected to more so than their others. What song would you say this is for you guys... and is there a story behind it you'd like to share?


Graeme: Our first single 'Entertainment' makes me feel nostalgic for live shows with the old line up. It was really exciting to play that song live and Lisa's lyrics are just fantastic. The song was written when I tried to play Jacques Dutronc's 'Les Gens Sont Fous, Les Temps Sont Flous' but couldn't quite manage it (shameful, when you think that there's barely three chords in the song).


Patch: Well I don't want to take up much more of your time seeing as you're busy writing some of the best tracks we're bound to hear in 2007-2008. Here's the part where you tell everyone the promotional info like website, release dates, and other important information (like crack is wack and stuff like that)... go on then!


Voice is Glue is out on Track and Field and it's being stocked by Amazon amongst others. MPLS are releasing it on vinyl in the States in October. Our previous LP 'Let's Get Static' is still to be found here and there.

The Projects Myspace

Patch: Thank you very much to Graeme we look forward to hearing your new material soon!

And there you have it... I put up one of the couple songs for download over at The Projects Myspace, the aforementioned "Entertainment" song I promised (from their first single and also a track from the 'Let's Get Static' LP) , and another one called "New Fun" (taken from their current 'Voice Is Glue' mini LP... which you should go buy right now...)

The Projects- "Entertainment"

The Projects- "New Fun"

The Projects- "Heard You Whisper"





For those of you who read to the bottom I have some news that will make you neon kids freak with delight... Two big dancefloor names and the greatest bootleg of the summer are on the other side of this link. The party is certainly not over yet my friends... What does SC vs LOTP mean to you?


Word on the street is strictly 500 12's which will be going out to UK, Japan and possibly Canadian outlets on Sept 17th. Shhhhhh... don't tell too many people... you won't get one for yourself :)

PROMO TIME! New Athlete & Envelopes mix tape

Athlete are a band that I'm cool with. Not in terms of knowing them or anything... It's just sometimes I think "oh, I'd like to hear that Athlete song" and I dig though my 150 gigs of music and find their cover of "God Only Knows" or one of the songs off their last album (which was quite good I thought) and usually end up playing it on my radio show. Outside of that I don't know a ton about them... I can tell you their press blurb does though!

Athlete have been busily attaching foam strips to walls and building glass cubes to imprison singers in. Yes they’ve built their own studio, locked their producers in a cupboard downstairs, thrown away the key, and are doing it all themselves. 'Beyond The Neighbourhood' is the fruit of these endeavors. Louder, stronger, bigger and altogether more powerful than anything they’ve done before, it sounds like a band who have settled into what they really enjoy doing. They also did two totally different videos for the first single off the album, 'Hurricane', and I've got the links to them here...

Hurricane (normal video)

Hurricane (alt video)

Here's an interesting blurb from Wiki...
"Their second album, Tourist, reached Number One in the UK Album Charts in its first week, following the huge success of single Wires, which, in 2006, won them the Ivor Novello Award for "Best Contemporary Song". In the UK charts, the band has frequently been frustrated by singles just missing out on top 40 placings, due to inconsistent support by music television channels and radio stations. For instance, certain songs, such as "Wires" and "Half light", were played up to 10 times a day on larger UK radio stations, yet other singles such as Westside and Tourist received little to no radio play whatsoever, fueling talk of radio stations deciding who becomes a major player in the pop music franchise."

Well I certainly hope they 'make it' this time... I actually really dig this tune... and hopefully you will too... so ignore the impulse to steal it and go off and buy it yeah?

Athlete- "Airport Disco"

Here's some tour dates for you lucky British bastards...

Nottingham Rock City: Tuesday October 2

Leeds University: Wednesday October 3

Birmingham Academy: Thursday October 4

Glasgow Barrowlands: Saturday October 6

Newcastle Academy: Sunday October 7

Bristol Academy: Monday October 8

Southampton Guildhall: Wednesday October 10

London Shepherds Bush: Thursday October 11

London Shepherds Bush: Friday October 12

Manchester Academy: Sunday October 14

Liverpool Academy: Monday October 15

Norwich UEA: Wednesday October 17

Lincoln Engine Shed: Thursday October 18

Check out more at:

www.athlete.mu

www.myspace.com/athlete

www.bebo.com/athlete





Envelopes I could tell you even less about... but they seem to be fun! Their mixtape is a mish mash of their album which I promise you is worth a listen... here's their press blurb...

'There'll be no stopping them' – The Guardian

'Effortlessly cool and packed with chutzpah' – Music Week, Feb 2007

"Skewed post-punk pop genius" – Artrocker, April 2007

""First class sun-dried indie" – NME , May 2007

Envelopes return this summer with brilliant new single 'Life on the Beach'. This is the sound of a solar eclipse, as filtered through a mescaline soaked B52s and some pretty surreal imagery. The groove is obese. Henrik and Audrey tell this tale of decadence and denial in tropical setting, surrounded by the swampiest drums and guitars you've ever heard. The single will be a limited edition 7" backed by new track 'Calypso'. 'Calypso' is sweet experimental pop without any lifelines. Ambulance sirens, stirring guitar lines and a middle eight sung in French, it's perfectly formed, bristling pop.

Envelopes are a five piece who have made their homes all across Europe. Brought together by a shared love of skewed, lo-fi pop, they sound like all your favourite bands put together, whilst also sounding like none but themselves. Living in Stockholm, Malmo and Paris the band fought geography, and won: spending enough time together during school holidays to home-record their truly special debut album 'Demon', released very quietly on the newly formed Brille Records in late 2005. 'Demon' which means 'demo' in Sweden, suggested Envelopes were certainly the coolest band to emerge out of Sweden and France via York, where they subsequently moved to rehearse and begin work on their album proper.

To coincide with the release of 'Life On The Beach' on 17th September, the band have made a full mp3 (over 30 mins worth!!) of a mish-mash of Envelopes and their favourite tracks available to all on their website -

http://www.envelopes.se/mp3/asoupofgerms.mp3

VIDEO
Streams:
http://www.bangonpr.com/media/envelopes/envelopes_beach_450k.asx
http://www.bangonpr.com/media/envelopes/envelopes_beach_56k.asx

Videos to download:
http://www.bangonpr.com/media/envelopes/wmv/envelopes_beach_450k.wmv
http://www.bangonpr.com/media/envelopes/wmv/envelopes_beach_56k.wmv
(right click, save to computer)

Envelopes- "A Soup Of Germs Mixtape"

So yeah, go to town with that... Usually I'd have more energy to post even more music but... I don't... I don't... I've been spending so much time doing State Crime stuff that I haven't had a moment to really dig in and do the blog... but trust me, that time is just around the corner!

SPEAKING OF STATE CRIME: Palms Out Sounds just posted the mash-up that Curt Autobot from Flosstradamus and I did (quite a few years ago... shhhhhhh don't tell anyone) called Timbaland vs Shakedown- "Drop it At Night (State Crime vs Flosstradamus)". I'm not going to post it here, so go over there and indulge in Remix Sunday!

I'll be back. In the mean time make me some money at eMusic lol...

POST 101! And loads of awesome tunes (FrankMusik, Toy Guns, Saturna)

So I finally did it! I got past the 100 post mark! What started out as a sort of thing to do on a whim during class to keep myself from being extremely bored (while simultaneously keeping myself from passing any classes) has turned into a great experience where I've had face to face contact with artists I idolize (Klaxons, The Cribs, M.I.A.), email/phone contact with people I admire (Drew Shambles, Gary DPT, South Central, Dot Allison, etc), and an inbox full of awesome music from the next wave of up and comers. Thank you to all of you for continuously stopping by and leaving comments and just generally being awesome. Extra special thanks to those of you who joined eMusic via this site and made me a couple bucks.

Since I met The Cribs last weekend I will post this awesome remix to commerate the 100th post! They were awesome really nice guys... this is the CSS (who didn't show at Lolla because of airline problems) remix that is KILLER...

The Cribs- "Men's Needs (CSS Remix)"

p.s. I jacked this track from Palms Out Sounds Remix Sunday... who I have some really interesting collabos in the works with right now involving State Crime, Palms Out, and Flosstradamus

SOOOOOOO... The first artist today I'm going to post is Frank Musik who I tracked down after I became obsessed with his remix, of former postees' Heads We Dance, "Love In The Digital Age" (via his Myspace). The song I'm posting today is a cross between Imogen Heap and Todd Edwards bringing the better parts of bloghouse together with the better parts of electro-pop. In short I believe that he is going to be super huge soon... if he doesn't there is something wrong with the world! He will either be producing tracks for people like Madonna, or Kylie, or Dragonette, or releasing an amazing full length, or becoming one of the most in demand remixers of 2008 BUT WHATEVER IT IS Frank is on the brink of the big time.

Here's the best bio I could get my hands on seeing as the man née Vincent Frank doesn't have one...

He is a 'bedroom-based pop auteur' like Jamie T or Patrick Wolf or Mike Skinner or that sort of thing but he sounds like he is produced by Daft Punk or Simian or whoever. There are so many possible 'x meets y' combinations that it makes our heads hurt quite a lot.

You will either agree with us that he is a-m-a-z-i-n-g or you will think his music is the worst thing you have ever heard but sometimes life is a bit like that and if you spend your time trying to please everyone you end up being The Kooks.



If you don't dig this I think you need to retune your ears...

Frank Musik- "In Step"

The Frank Musik Myspace

NEXT UP... here's a band that Regal brought to my attention that I enjoy... if you didn't like the last track this will be more up your alley. Straight out rock. No other way to put it. They've toured with Babyshambles and Kubicheck so they've gotta be doing something right (because you know how much I love those bands)



Here's the press...

The Regal Singles Club presents…. The Toy Guns

'Nice One Jerry' / 'Shoot The Boy'

AA sided 7 inch single released 3rd September, limited to 500 copies

The new AA single from the Regal Singles Club is 'Nice One Jerry' / 'Shoot The Boy' from The Toy Guns.

A four-piece made up of two Geordies, an Italian and a Finn, The Toy Guns are based in Bethnal Green and arrive on Regal on the back of winning Zane Lowe's Fresh Meat title (with 'Shoot The Boy') on Radio One, and getting lots of love and spins from BBC 6 Music's Steve Lamacq and Xfm's Steve Harris.

'Nice One Jerry' (the title is inspired by The Specials Jerry Dammers) is an incendiary blast of ska-punk, delivering its anti-racist message with flair and intelligence. 'Shoot The Boy' clocks it at under two minutes, and not a second is wasted - this infectious, raw and dirty track is like one long chorus.

Fresh from supporting Babyshambles for a Love Music Hate Racism gig in London's Hackney Empire, this November the band are set to play Newcastle's Sage for Roger Daltrey's charity – the Teenage Cancer Trust.

Tales of scuffles with the boys in blue, birds you never see again and scrapes with the Spanish Authorities combined with a driving rhythm section interchanging with melodic lead and tight vocals make The Toy Guns a live band not to be missed, catch them if you can:

Thurs 26th Aug Blow Up at Metro, London W1
Wed 22nd Aug Turnmills, London EC1
Sun 26th Aug The Cluny, Newcastle
Mon 3rd Sept Old Blue Last (single launch night), London EC1
Thurs 20th Sept The Peel, Kingston
Sat 22nd Sept TCT @ The Sage, Newcastle (supporting Kubichek!)
Thurs 27th Sept The Fly, New Oxford St, London WC1
Fri 2nd October 93 Feet East, London E1

The Toy Guns- "Transmission"

And last but not least... these guys aren't British but their influences are! I really like them... I present Saturna...



The last song I posted, "Pop Rocks", sounded like Interpol/Oasis/Dandy Warhols which actually works out really well... so this time I'm going to post their more spacey Verve/Ride/Teenage Fanclub song "Roll Down". These guys are really really really fucking good and every time I hear news from them ('Some Delicious Enemy', their most recent effort, entered the CMJ Top 200 at number #190) I am happy to post a song or two of theirs because I want them to get big huge mainstream indie success (because apparently Pitchfork said there is such a thing). PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I beg you, support music that deserves it and go buy their album... I know after you listen to this song you'll want it!

Saturna- "Roll Down"

www.saturnamusic.com
www.myspace.com/saturnahq
http://saturna.wordpress.com

And that's it for this post... I've got a mixtape I got from Regal that's pretty good that I'll post next time from a band called Envelopes... keep your eyes and ears and onions peeled!

TRIUMPHANT BLACK GHOSTS MIXTAPE RETURN!

My account has been unlocked by Google and THANK GOD because there is a new Black Ghosts mix for July/August that is going to freak you out. Way way way fucking good. I've been playing the Black Ghosts out a lot recently and people seem to fucking LOVE these guys (well obviously because they are awesome) and because of that I hope they release a full length soon and then IMMEDIATELY get their American tour on.

Here's the info about the mix...

Hot on the heels of new single 'It's Your Touch', The Black Ghosts return with a fresh 30 minute mash-up of their favourite gothic-electro-pop. Totally FREE, the download features tunes from the likes of Lindstrom, Gossip, Noze and Curse Minor. To access the mix, just sign up to the bands mailing list!

Sign up here to get the mix

It takes 2 seconds and why wouldn't you want to be on their mailing list right? That's like saying "Pardon me I'd like to give you a 100 dollars I just need to give you a blow job first"! Ok, maybe that's a bit much but you see where I'm going with that...

Remember to stop by..
www.myspace.com/blackghosts
www.myspace.com/theblackghostsremixes

And I'm pretty sure you can get some Black Ghosts downloads over at eMusic... why not sign up here? lol...

I'll be back soon with some Saturna, The Toy Guns, and loads of other great shit... see you soon!




P.S. Also while on the mixtape front I thought I'd throw this up... I had TOTALLY forgotten about it while I was "frozen out" of blogger.. To My Boy also have a new mixtape online that you guys might enjoy.... here's the track listing...

Black Gloves - Goose
Sexy Bak- Justin Timberlake
Walkman- Sebastian
Xr 2- MIA
You Can Call Me Al (RMx) - Paul Simon
Jump- Pointer Sisters
Phantom Pt II - Justice
Model (Sinden Rmx) - To My Boy
the Bomb - Kennydope & the Bucketheads
Weird Science - Does it Offend U, Yeah
Pump up the Jam - Technotronic
Running up that Hill - Kate Bush
Patrick122 - Mr Oizo
Feel 4 u - Chaka Kahn
Worry About it L8r (Rmx) - Futureheads
Lets Lightning (To My Boy ReScan) - Pull Tiger Tail
Tell the King - Libertines

To My Boy- "Puregroove Mixtape"

I'm listening to it right now and it's dope... it's got JT, that Sinden remix they gave me to post, and a Libs track... can't go wrong with all that...

Klaxons+Pitchfork=Amazing

Last night was fucking unbelievable... we saw Klaxons wandering through the crowd so we followed them over to where Cadence Weapon was playing... when I walked up they said "What's this guy called?" so I told them and they were like "yeah yeah, he's fucking great"... I mentioned if they thought that was great they needed to hear "Sharks"... then I made a horribly braindead decision to say "Hey, last night at the Debonair Social Club was awesome"...

Ok, now rewind. Vice and Modular were throwing a party at the Debonair Social Club was billed as Klaxons and Voxtrot DJing. We showed up after a long queue and made our way downstairs to a somewhat crowded dancefloor (that was only lit with red lights which was awesome) and the first person I see is Steffan (Klaxons' maybe permanent touring drummer) so I figure "oh they must be here". Bleary eyed from standing in the sun all day I could have SWORN I saw Jamie standing behind the glass in the DJ booth at one point...

...Fast forward and I've got Jaime telling me "I was supposed to play but I didn't show!"... uhhh, whoops... "Hehehehe (sunburned cheeks getting redder)"... to which he said "Well yeah, was I good then?" to which I said "Oh, you were fucking awesome, you don't even know!"... more laughing and at least at this point I feel more goofy than I do totally retarded. I had said "I thought I saw you in the booth, and I saw Steffan there" and he said "Steff showed but I couldn't make it, I was just too worn out"... understandable... then we took the picture and I went on my mary way...

That moment was important foreshadowing... fast forward a couple more hours to see the greatest moment of the whole Pitchfork festival... apparently Klaxons decided they REALLY liked Cadence Weapon because they brought him on stage for "Magick" and blew the roof off. It was crazy awesome and I wish I had a video camera for it... he was rapping so fucking fast and they guys were so into it. The first show I saw with them was great but this was legendary. At the end Simon destroyed everything on stage pretty much (which I have some very blurry pictures of). All said and done it was a perfect gig... there were WAY too many people standing there and we had to leave a few songs in and go to the back... it was the type of crowd where if you fall you die and it's 105 degrees from peoples body heat. The crowd thinned out a lot because of that but the people who stayed saw the best show of the weekend!

Here's something to remember it by...

Klaxons- "Atlantis To Interzone (Hadouken Remix)" zShare

Klaxons- "Atlantis To Interzone (Hadouken Remix)" YSI... which will probably be dead by the time you get to it... YSI needs to offer more bandwidth... I have to use it though or Hype won't post the track!


P.s. There were these three hilarious British guys right in front of us in the crowd being so fucking goofy. The one guy points at this kid in a fluorescent hat and says "That guy over there is new rave. The rest of you are old rave. But he doesn't even know he's new rave and that is irony." Trust me that was really funny when you've been standing in one place for 45 minutes during the worst soundcheck in history.

P.P.S. Apparently this is Simon's favourite shirt :)

The best day of your life... remixed...

Boy what a week. Exhausting to say the least. HOWEVER, I've got the light at the end of the tunnel however on my hard drive... I've got the hottest fucking remixes on earth and all of them straight from the source (which means that high bitrate you DJs are seeking)!


I just checked my email to find that Arcadia favs To My Boy had just sent over their "previously un-blogged" Sinden remix of their track "Model". This song, without question, has peak time dancefloor tune written all over it. A few years from now you'll hear this tune on a mix cd that you forgot you had and think "Man, 2007 was full of fucking bangers! That To My Boy track reminds me of how awesome life was before robots took over the world"... no, but seriously, this is the sound of the summer hands down...

Rally around for an Arcadia Exclusive...

To My Boy- "Model (Sinden Remix)" zShare

To My Boy- "Model (Sinden Remix)" YSI


As if that weren't enough... I've got more shit to get you moving. My last post was a b-side from awesome dance-rockers South Central... and apparently they enjoyed what I had to say about them because they hooked me up with some remixes for you guys! I hope you guys dig these as much as I do... South Central are like Sam and my template for State Crime... one day we'll gather up some money and get them to do remixes for us.. keep you eyes are ears peeled for that one lol...


The first track is a remix for newbies Twisted Charm that hasn't been posted anywhere else yet. I was reading 'Dazed and Confused' and came upon a little article about them so my interest was already piqued... and then BOOM, S.C. shoot their wicked grimey remix of their track into my inbox and not only was my curiosity satiated but I was also blown away. I have yet to hear the original but if it's half as awesome as this remix I'll pass out.

Twisted Charm- "Boring Lifestyles (South Central Extended Remix)" zShare

Twisted Charm- "Boring Lifestyles (South Central Extended Remix)" YSI

And lastly is a South Central remix (and Arcadia exlusive) for a band I've kind of slept on. I saw a bit about Radar in errrr Radar (in NME) I think a couple months back but didn't take the time to look them up because I'm usually wading in a sea of music that goes up to my eyeballs. The nugget floated to the top of that sea and South Central bring the pain and rock the dance floor to pieces.

Radar- "War Out There (South Central Radio Edit)" zShare

Radar- "War Out There (South Central Radio Edit)" YSI

For good measure here is a South Central vid for you!
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I hope you guys enjoyed this overdose of awesomeness. I can easily say that this is the single greatest day in Arcadia history... please leave comments and let To My Boy and South Central know that you appreciate it. In the meantime keep checking back for more of your British favourites.

P.S. Just as a reminder... THIS NEXT WEEKEND IS PITCHFORK FESTIVAL! KLAXONS, FUJIYA AND MIYAGI, AND LOADS OF OTHER AWESOME BANDS ARE PLAYING. I WILL BE TAKING PICTURES AND POSTING THEM UP TOUT SUITE FOR YOU GUYS... IF YOU'RE GOING (to the festival or the Klaxons DJ set) HOLLA AT ME!