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Gesaffelstein - Viol

2011-07-29T13:29:00.000+01:00

More excellent tech-noir from the Turbo Recordings man, from his new EP 'Conspiracy Vol.2' - which is out now, - get it here!

Punk + Olympics = Fuck the Fuck off, yer Fuckin Fuck Faced Fucks

2011-07-28T13:42:00.000+01:00

"Lahndan corlling ner nee ner nee ner ner....um...battle....something....er..la la la la la la .... hang on...Ice age...er....hey here we go! This is the bit I like!...I LIVE BY THE RIVVVVVAAAHH! COME ON BRITAIN! YEAAAAAHHHHH! UK! UK! UK!..."

- as performed by Terry Tosspot, 23 yrs, on July 27th 2012, outside the Steroid & Shoespike sportsbar, (formerly the Millenium Arms public house) Soho, London, Hell.

So 'London Calling' in all it's paranoid glory has been chosen to soundtrack the Olympics and win the custom of Johnny Sports-fan. Now cynics like me will snigger & grin widely at the irony of attempting to pimp the whore London by listing it's STD's, but, seriously, did whoever chose this ever listen to the lyrics? Reminds me of when the BBC gormlessly decided to hawk itself by hiring an embarrasment of slebs to grunt along to Lou Reed's smack anthem 'Perfect Day', seemingly on the basis of the title alone (though also possibly cos most at the time knew it from the Trainspotting soundtrack, which, presumably in the BBC hive mind, made it keeeewl, but ought to have given them a pretty big clue as to it's subject matter - whoops). Mind you, the perennially deluded and ignorant glut of middle Englander dipshits & knee jerk nationalists that will doubtless fill our pubs with their charming, virtually wordless renditions of this punk anfum in the next year have ever behaved thus. You've seen this sort of eminently slapable twat waving their little flags and belting out 'Jerusalem' at the Proms for about a century now - the last few embers of empire still just about glowing in their dead, dead eyes - and you just know they are completely unaware of the fact that it's a piss take. 'And did those feet / in ancient times / walk upon England's mountains green?' asks William Blake, rhetorically. The answer is: of course they fucking didn't. Jesus did not go on holiday to Cornwall, just as Lou Reed did not write a song about how he had a nice time with a girl on Tuesday. And I don't imagine Joe Strummer ever lay back and dreamt of a day when he could take satisfaction in soundtracking the pissing away of billions of public pounds on a glorified sports day.
If you're a sports fan, get ready to continue enjoying the war on art you've been conducting since launching your playground 'Wedgies For Weirdos' campaign. If you are or were a Clash fan, get ready to enjoy the experience of coming to loathe one of your favourite songs. Increasingly, I hope the Mayans were right about next year.

In summary: Facepalm

Yacht - Shangri La

2011-06-13T16:18:00.000+01:00

Hooray! New Yorkers Yacht have are streaming their new album 'Shangri La' HERE. It's an excellent record and arrives on DFA at the cusp of summer, when sounds like this are most definitely needed. You can also grab a free download of 'Dystopia (The Earth Is On Fire)'from their website, HERE.

Electro Skansen - Bitch Please

2011-05-02T18:55:00.000+01:00

If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise...

McCartney II Re-issue

2011-04-27T17:12:00.000+01:00

Good news! The best Beatle re-issues the best Beatle solo album in June. McCartney II is chock full of some of the best music EVER, including proto-techno classic Temporary Secretary. Out of press for some years now, it's being re-issued in a predictably multi-formatted way, but there is one reason why you should go out and the 3 disc über-collectors edition, and that's the amazing full length version of 'Check My Machine' - an oddball slice of sci-fi reggae funk that Macca knocked out in order to, well, check a new machine he'd bought. If off-the-cuff demos sounded this good today, we'd all be living in a happier world.

FNORD - 23 minute live mix from Zarcorp HQ

2011-04-23T15:31:00.000+01:00

If you fancy a boogie this weekend, may we humbly recommend this 23 minute chunk of fun we mixed up live at our secret bunker HQ (which can be found - if you're looking, which you shouldn't be - slightly to the left of reality, underneath the fat turtle with red eyebrows, third buzzer down, ask for Emperor Norton). Enjoy & share!

FNORD - Live Club Set From ZHQ (extract) - Feb 2011 by Zarcorp Inc.

Blackout 0

2011-04-22T17:09:00.000+01:00

16th June sees the first Blackout event, presented by Eat Your own Ears & Harrier and Zinnerwell, AKA Sam Potter, of Late Of The Pier. An event unlike any other, Blackout will see audiences immersed in darkness, both literally and figuratively. Unannounced line ups of excellent musicians will play in the pitch black - it's a blind waltz between their music and your ears. The first opportunity to immerse yourself in this sea of sound comes on June 16th, tickets are available soon @ £12.50. Watch THIS SPACE....

Arveene & Misk feat. Aaron Smyth - Love Money Music Body

2011-04-22T16:18:00.000+01:00

Have a listen to the new track from FNORD favourites and purveyors of excellent club music, Arveene & Misk. An insidious mix of deep vocal tech-house, laced with broody, vaguely eastern strings that gradually develops into a proper heads-down acid squelcher. Remixes are ace too, with re-works from Evil 9, In Flagranti and Polymath.

It's out May 11th on MoFoHiFi.

LOVE MONEY MUSIC BODY by arveeneandmisk

Gablé - Brick Trick

2011-04-19T23:27:00.000+01:00

Dummy have posted a download from the most welcome Frenchmen to enter our ears in a long temps. 'Brick Trick' by Gablé is the oddest minute and a half that you'll feel compelled to listen to on repeat this year.
Click, and head over to Dummy to grab it!

Who Made Who - Every Minute Alone

2011-04-18T16:07:00.000+01:00

Brilliant new track from the never disappointing Who Made Who:

WhoMadeWho - Every Minute Alone from Kompakt Records on Vimeo.

Mai - 'Our Ghosts'

2011-03-31T17:19:00.000+01:00

Just belatedly stumbled across this wonderful song from Paris based Swede Mai. Our Ghosts is the perfect song to start a spring day and can be heard by clicking the song name, right there at the beginning of this sentence.

Say hello to Blinky

2011-03-21T02:38:00.000Z

Winning Zef

2011-03-16T16:14:00.000Z

Ok. Open up a new tab in your chuckle browser and enable humour cookies.

First up it's Mr. Charlie Sheen. Whatever you make of his recent descent into madness / ascent to comedic glory watch this, and keep a phone handy so you can call an ambulance when you begin to asphyxiate from laughing too hard.

Charlie Sheen's Winning Recipes from Charlie Sheen

Secondly - more next level shit for your PC Computer from South Africa. FNORD favourites Die Antwoord have made a film with Harmony Korine, or vice-versa if you prefer. It's kind of what would happen in an alternate universe if an Afrikaans Mike Leigh made a film whilst under the gentle influence of some weak LSD.
Their jokes and ours aside, this is a genuinely brilliant film in many ways. Watch and enjoy.

Radiohead - Lotus Flower

2011-02-18T17:05:00.000Z

Well, here it is then. Let the arguing commence.

Rói Höttur - Imaginarium

2011-02-17T17:16:00.000Z

We all know that your environment will shape your music more than anything. If you're living a scummy, scratchy inner city life of rectangles then you're going to route a drumbox through an overdrive and scream. When your back garden looks like this:

I guess you can't help making an awesome psychedelic rock album.
Rói Höttur are five swedes who live pretty much at the top of the world, inbetween a mountain, some trees & the period 1967-1976. They've just self-released their debut album 'Imaginarium' - a gorgeous, brooding bubble of riffs, whooshes, bleeps, yelps and yearning blues rock, smothered in heartfelt, fuzzy vibes.
A slight detachment from the rest of the world obviously does you wonders when it comes to putting together an unashamedly retro long player. And make no mistakes, this is definitely a long player. Not an album, a set, or mere collection of songs. This is one you need to sit down and take time with, start to finish.
Their influences may be obvious (Pink Floyd, late period Doors, the more whacked out end of Zeppelin, a smidgeon of Nick Cave on the vocals and a dab of Zappa weirdness) but they're mined with love and enthusiasm. For example, it doesn't really matter that the end of 'Dream Of Papaver (Reprise)' is essentially 'Great Gig In The Sky', because it's honestly the only way it could have gone.
These tracks stretch out like the Scandinavian landscape (scandscape?) - beautiful, immense, wide, open. But the essential character of the record lies in it's unexpected warmth. It's the aural equivalent of the fire you light so you can sit down in the freezing cold and take in that vastness without freezing your Nordic balls off. It's a hug and a blanket on your shoulders. It's your friends face glowing in the flame as she points at a distant peak. It's the glow of the homestead amidst the howl of the wolves. It's the sound of no-one else around for miles and miles, and it luxuriates in its isolation.
Here it is in it's entirety for you to listen to, and we recommend that you do so - "We want the world to have it!", said bassist Volter Hagman, when we asked if it could be shared. Ah! not only talented but generous too. Tack så mycket, Rói Höttur, du är underbar!
Imaginarium by Rói Höttur

Yuck - Holing Out

2011-02-09T23:16:00.000Z

Looking forward to the Yuck album, and here's a nice new vid for the harmonic, fuzzy 'Holing Out' taken from said debut.

Yuck-"Holing Out" Music Video from VIDEOTHING.COM on Vimeo.

What's on NASA's S.T.E.R.E.O? The Sun!

2011-02-08T13:25:00.000Z

No, we're not talking an astronauts iPod dock, we're talking Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (or S.Te.Re.O) - two satellites now in orbit around our star with the purposes of getting a full 360 of the roasting ball of fire for the first time and sussing out whether or not it does indeed have it's hat on, and if it will be coming out to play. And by 'coming out to play' they mean flinging out coronal mass ejections that mess with all our funky electrics, knock satellites out of action or burn the planet to death. In celebration of another milestone in humanity's space adventures, here's some prog:

It's Time To Get Away : LCD Soundsystem announce last ever show :(

2011-02-05T20:49:00.000Z

Goddamit, first the White Stripes decide it's time to bugger off, and now the most influential and groovy band of the last decade (not to mention one of the best live acts EVER) are leaving us for the history books. LCD will bow out with a show in Madison Square Gardens, require all to attend dressed in white and/or black, and will be playing for 3 hours with support from a whole host of DFA associates. So at least it's going to be a proper send off. Details here on the DFA site.

If anyone wants to fly us to NYC for April 2nd, that would be great, thanks.

Shrag - Ghosts Before Breakfast

2011-02-04T17:57:00.000Z

Where It's At Is Where You Are offer up their February singles club download in the form of an excellent 3-track fuzz 'n' beat indie punk -out from Brighton's Shrag.
Lead track 'Ghosts Before Breakfast' Sounds a lot like Love Is All attempting The Rapture's 'Out Of The Races And On To The Tracks', and is a definite winner.

Download the full 3-track E.P here.

Limp Bizkit (almost) Officially Shit

2011-02-04T05:20:00.001Z

Maybe you live in Austin, Texas. Maybe you don't.
Either way, you absolutely should get involved with helping their 'Solid Waste Service Department' (ie. poo processing plant) choose its new name. Why? Because they're letting an internet vote decide it, and the current top suggestion and leader by several thousand votes is the epic:

FRED DURST SOCIETY OF THE HUMANITIES AND ARTS

Fuck. Yes. That's right.

Please, for the love of various gods:

VOTE!

So Long And Thanks For All The Blues

2011-02-03T04:20:00.000Z

The White Stripes have split up. Not sure what else can be said about that.

DURRR with Blondes (live), Rory Phillips, The Lovely Jonjo, FNORD & Stopmakingme

2011-01-19T00:02:00.001Z

Aye, it's DURRR time again and we'll be DJing along with Rory Phillips, The Lovely Jonjo, & Stopmakingme at XOYO. Live entertainment in the form of Blondes. Obviously, you're coming, so see you there! Facebook event is here.

Siriusmo - Feromonikon / Signal

2011-01-18T22:23:00.000Z

Having made what was easily our favourite electronic tune of 2010, the magnificent 'Einmal In Der Woche Schreien', Siriusmo greets 2011 with a hypnotic electro club track that keeps threatening to go all spacey, but never really does, instead finding itself falling repeatedly through the filters and bleeps that one might hear if R2D2 discovered a vocoder and a drumbox and used them to try and get a contract with Ed Bangers and Kitsune at once. The AA side 'Signal' is like the theme from an 80's BBC Schools programme - albeit one about some mad unit of disco soldiers who do like a nice march now and then but often find it too rigid, preferring to just chill out to some lounge house. Out now on Monkeytown.

Siriusmo - Feromonikon by thesubs-blog

Chilly Gonzales - "You Can Dance'"

2011-01-13T19:14:00.000Z

Bum-tastic, bosom jiggling, Chilly slapping video for the Entertainist's latest 80's-workout-disco-esque single.

Serious Hassle (Hoff).

2010-12-08T01:46:00.000Z

I really hope my mid life crisis is this exciting and surreal.
Yes, it's The Hoff, and he's hooked on a feeling. And by the looks of things, that feeling is called crack.

Yuck Album Announced

2010-12-01T15:36:00.004Z

Yuck have announced details of their debut album, called, er...'Yuck', (cover artwork below). Due In February on Fat Possum and Pharmacy records, stay tuned for streams in the near future. Which is a good enough excuse to re-post the 'interview' we conducted with the band earlier in the year, in which they hold forth on nuns, aliens & pop music, male pregnancy and the apocalypse. Yum.

New Duke Spirit Download

2010-11-23T17:48:00.000Z

The Duke Spirit have a new E.P coming out, 'Kusama', and you can download a track from it here, on their website, by simply giving them an email address. They tend to be one of those bands that people have heard of but not heard, and this, frankly, has to change. You have ears, they make music. Simple.
Liela Moss has one of the best voices, the whole band is shit-hot in a deceptively unassuming way, and we can thouroughly recommend either of their previous albums, 'Cuts Across The Land' and 'Neptune'. Oh, and go and see them live at some point - they sound like this, only louder, and it's great:

Malachai - Rainbows

2010-11-22T18:49:00.000Z

Get over to the Domino website and give 'em your email. In return you'll get to download this gorgeous, looped psychedelia from West Country folk Malachai, which we like very much, and makes us look forward to the album that's due to arrive in February. Click here to sign up.

Malachai - Rainbows by DominoRecordCo

Lykke Li - Get Some

2010-11-15T18:47:00.000Z

Something dark, sexy, and Swedish for your eyes and ears:

Lykke Li - Get Some (Director: Johan Söderberg) from Lykke Li on Vimeo.

Sign up here to grab the MP3.

Hot Horizons 'October' now on sale at Rough Trade!

2010-11-12T17:03:00.000Z

Yes, the debut 7" single from Hot Horizons, 'October / Spoken', is now exclusively available to buy in the real world at Rough Trade record store in London. You can also order it from them online here.

Hot Horizons - October by Zarcorp Inc.

Hannah Holland - Paris's Acid Ball

2010-11-08T16:03:00.000Z

BATTY BASS IN THE PLACE! Superb video for a superb slab of acid from Hannah Holland:

It gets released on November 14th, so put a couple of quid in your rave savings and make sure you pick it up.

Is music really different now since you got started in the 1930's?

2010-11-07T20:39:00.000Z

Eno, wig, specs, hilarity.

The Funk Of Forty Thousand Years

2010-11-05T17:07:00.000Z

Great photos of a gorgeously freaky crowd (and some thin men pushing buttons) from our Halloween night set at Neon Noise Project /w JAC le Disco, Logo & Digitalism by Bear + Mouse HERE & HERE:

Back Of The Net!

2010-11-05T14:23:00.000Z

DISCLAIMER:

FNORD do not endorse urine based antipodean lagers.

Tame Impala 'Lucidity (Pilooski Remix)'

2010-11-03T12:39:00.000Z

Australian psyche rockers get all stretched out and Krautified by the genius that is Pilooski. Yes please!
Tame Impala - Lucidity (Pilooski Remix) by Hypetrak

The Owls Are Not What They Seem.....

2010-10-21T17:05:00.000+01:00

One of nature's many WTF?s....

Don't Fear The Reaper

2010-10-19T02:38:00.001+01:00

You're a pissed off member of the crew on grippingly realistic, no holds barred, and newly cancelled Yorkshire based retro crime drama and pensioner sponge 'Heartbeat' - so how to make sure it really goes down as a TV classic, one of the great last episodes ever? And how to achieve that while simultaneously giving your job cut addicted boss the finger and possibly 'cancelling' a sizeable chunk of your elderly audience too?

Yup, this got broadcast and ITV went into a fit, demanding those responsible be sacked. Unfortunately they already had been in the very round of job cuts the stunt was staged in protest at.

Sauce with your irony? No, thanks, it's perfectly delicious as is.....

Hot Horizons - October (Accoustish)

2010-10-18T03:31:00.000+01:00

FNORD heart Todd Hart you heart Todd Hart two?

2010-10-16T22:13:00.004+01:00

This bi-weeks oddity unmixedtape fix courtesy of Todd Hart of Dalston Oxfam Shop.
If you're not familiar with his blog already.. shame on you.

...enjoy

Undercover Beatnik Win

2010-10-13T15:08:00.001+01:00

It took a lot to out-funny Groucho 'I intend to live forever, or die trying' Marx, but here's unlikely hipster Lord Buckley doing just that. Enjoy repeatedly.

Dollop launches @ Heaven!

2010-10-11T16:34:00.001+01:00

Heads up on a great event coming up in the capital - Nottingham's prodigal sons Dollop are launching a regular night at London's legendary Heaven venue.

Opening night features live music from The Invisible and Walls, and DJ sets from Untold, Falty DL and Work it as well as the Dollop DJ's themselves.

Advance tickets are on sale now here, and only £4 until wednesday 13/10/10:
TICKETS

Facebook event is here:
EVENT

The Invisible's specially commissioned mixtape is available here to whet your ears and set your toes tapping in preparation!
MUSIC

Peter Gordon & The Love Of Life Orchestra Album on DFA

2010-10-09T13:50:00.001+01:00

YOUR URGENT ATTENTION PLEASE:

The best thing DFA have put out all year is getting released on Monday (12/10/10), and having given it a listen we seriously urge you to purchase it. Seriously. For the sake of your own continued happiness. Give these people your money, put the record on and then notice how much better your day is going. Thankyou. That is all.

Alaska

2010-10-07T13:02:00.000+01:00

I've been waking up to this every morning since it landed in my life courtesy of Todd Hart.

Mission Tapes & Memory Control

2010-10-06T18:33:00.002+01:00

As we're plunged into the eternal british winter, australia starts warming up.
and according to the last few posts.. so do their bands.

here's an introduction to a band i've known for a while... we're releasing a 7" of them next year.. currently being mixed by the great finger-wizard Zdar.
enjoy

Tame Impala - Lucidity

2010-10-05T23:53:00.000+01:00

Gravity is an awesome cameraman:

October/Zarcorp

2010-10-05T18:41:00.002+01:00

It's that time of the year..

It's time to introduce some of you to our label,
ZARCORP INC.

We'll be launching it "officially" this winter along with a few other projects and secret club nights.
Here're some upcoming and previous releases to wet your ears:

More noises here

Next release is the debut single from our friends Hot Horizons.
We're pressing 250 of these on white vinyl, to be released (you guessed it..)

...november.
the first to be precise.

A side - October was self-recorded and produced in their bedroom
Z side - Spoken was recorded by our own Sam Dust at ZARCORP HQ

Peel your ears for more information.
Lend them your ears here.

Blueberry

2010-10-05T02:36:00.002+01:00

FNORDs first adventure into the visual.

You Suck at Photoshop

2010-10-04T23:25:00.001+01:00

name says it all.

Fortnightly New Oddcasts = Refreshingly Diverse

2010-10-04T16:48:00.001+01:00

we've finally started releasing our Oddcasts..

short mixtapes of the wierd and wonderous compiled by ourselves and those we love.

you'll find them fortnightly here..

www.mixcloud.com/zarcorp

El Guincho - Bombay

2010-10-02T16:24:00.001+01:00

See, if you're going to fall into the old 'girls with guns' trap, this is the way to do it:

EL GUINCHO | Bombay from MGdM | Marc Gómez del Moral on Vimeo.

In Space, No-one Can Hear Ice Cream...

2010-08-22T17:50:00.001+01:00

A guide to space themed snacks & sweets by the ultimate star-man Patrick Moore:

We've been planning this too long

2010-08-21T13:10:00.002+01:00

Late Of The Pier - Best in the Class (Soulwax Remix)

brand new interpretations of our last single.

audio perversion by Soulwax
video perversion by Daniel Brereton.

Dan did our videos for Focker and Bathroom Gurgle and he's just unleashed this on us.
you can find the magician here..

http://www.danhaspotential.com/

original video for Best in the Class was directed by Late Of The Pier sampler-basher Sam Potter..
he's also looking for more videos to make (!)

contact him at..
lateofthepier@hotmail.co.uk

Arveene & Misk - New E.P and FREE EXCLUSIVE Felix Da Housecat Remix!

2010-08-15T15:16:00.001+01:00

Ok, here's a treat for you! Dublin's Arveene & Misk , remixers of rising repute & thoroughly nice chaps, have just released their new E.P 'Eavesdropper' on Banggang 12 Inches, and it should be checked out, by you, now!

Arveene & MiSK EAVESDROPPER promo video from Philip Byrne on Vimeo.

We're big fans of these guy's music - we mentioned their awesome acid rework of deadbots here a while back, and now they've generously given us - an exclusive, unrealeased, extra dirty version of their Felix Da Housecat remix to download!

Enjoy!

freestyle ninjas on rap down-low

2010-08-15T14:46:00.002+01:00

we've been quiet.
here's something to make it up..

you'll never sneeze the same again.

Five Nights Of Replicant Dreams

2010-06-30T20:32:00.001+01:00

we had the pleasure of infiltrating peoples ears at this.
find out more here

It bought us together with a grand purveyour of odd, cosmic and space disco.. Mystic Rock.
open your ears to his mixes here

rounded off with a bit of the best dirty bass from our friend Hannah Holland.

http://battybass.blogspot.com/

Deadbots - 'Much Better - Arveene & Misk Microdot Mix'

2010-06-28T20:07:00.000+01:00

Just been put the way of this excellent slab of wonky acid, courtesy of those lovely chaps Arveene & Misk. For those who don't know, A&M are behind some amazing mixes - we're always playing and being asked about their version of Felix Da Housecat's 'Kick Drum', which is just a beast of a mix! Anyway, the Deadbots mix - Listen to & **BUY IT** here .

Fuckin' Nora! Ouch! Retinas Destroyed!

2010-06-28T13:37:00.003+01:00

Look into my eyes.....deep into my eyes.....now do EXACTLY what I tell you.....

COME TO THE RESCUE ROOMS, NOTTINGHAM, ON JULY 2ND, FROM 5PM, FOR ANOTHER OF OUR AWESOME TERRACE PARTIES!

Yes! Following the success and mighty fun of our all day terrace party at this year's Dot To Dot festival, we'll be bringing you another evening and night of musical delights. And possibly some fantastic secret guests. Maybe.....you'll have to turn up to find out....

Facebook Event Here

Peeper Puncturing Poster :

Fabled Nanoparticle Orchestrates Revealing Ditties

2010-06-24T15:46:00.000+01:00

Having failed to end the universe (apparently by sabotaging itself from the future, like some kind of sub-atomic Marty McFly, preventing itself from working and thus destroying everything from jelly beans to Jupiter) the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland has basically been turned into the world's biggest synthesizer.

Possibly mistaking the fundamental building blocks of existence for tiny ice-cream vans, scientists chasing the elusive Higgs-Boson particle have converted data collected at CERN into sound and synthesized the little tunes they expect to be knocked out by various quanta produced in the atom-smasher. The idea is that if and when the elusive 'God Particle' appears, they'll be able to identify it by the soundscape generated by it's energy pattern.

Listen to the mellifluous tinkles of tiny (and possibly not even real) things Here.

Freestyle Nerds Offer Rapped Discourses

2010-06-23T14:27:00.002+01:00

Want more astrophysics and cosmology in your lounge-core R'nB ?
Then have a look at the Symphony Of Science website, wherein can be found a selection of smooth jams laid down by heavily vocodered men of science, including Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins among many others.

Fishy Noises: Oscillations Reveal Dolphin-speak

2010-06-15T15:18:00.006+01:00

Yeah, OK, a Dolphin's a mammal...whatever....

Cymatics . It's amazing. We have just leaned that it's been adapted and used to make pictures of Dolphin noises, raising the possibility we'll be able to communicate with them just in time for us to decipher their first message as meaning: "so long and thanks for all the fish". Or possibly " Ere, Mate...Mate!....you got any Dubstep?" .

All you need to know about shooting the breeze with a bottlenose can be found Here...

" clikclikclik clikclik clikclikclikclik"

Rainbow - Bearded Plant Girl Points At Crockery FTW

2010-06-09T02:33:00.001+01:00

We're just about done reattaching the jaws that fell off when we clapped eyes on the picture we'd asked artist Marie Harimoto to draw for us....it speaks a thousand words, all of them unintelligible.....

Connan Mockasin Album Launch!

2010-06-02T19:29:00.000+01:00

Join us unicorns in uniform as we hang choade and fake jazz together like a right pair of snats for Connan Mockasin's album launch party! No tickets, no guestlist, just make sure you're there for 10pm!

Macca Memory Meltdown.....

2010-06-02T14:50:00.003+01:00

'I can't remember most of my songs', says McCartney

Good old Sir Paul - it's probably for the best as it reduces the chances of having Ob - La - Di, Ob - La - Da flung our way again.

Bet he doesn't have a problem banging out the Frog Chorus from time to time though.....

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Oh The Trees, Those Useless Trees

2010-05-18T15:05:00.001+01:00

What do you do when you're Jarvis Cocker, you've fronted one of the country's most loved and successful bands and fostered a quietly impressive solo catalogue?

You walk around some National Trust properties with a microphone and then stick it out as an album. THE album. Of the fucking millenium. For Free.

Here

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YUCK

2010-05-12T07:09:00.002+01:00

<--- Have a look on the left and you'll see our video interview with Yuck, wherein they hold forth on everything from nuns to male pregnancy via alien pop and armageddon. Be sure to click the link above and visit their site, from which you can download several songs, including this little nugget:

<a href="http://yuck.bandcamp.com/track/suicide-policeman">Suicide Policeman by Yuck</a>
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UBUWEB

2010-05-09T11:54:00.002+01:00

Probably one of the most important websites we've come across this year.. Ubuweb is dedicated to preserving out of print audio/video poetry and art, and having it all freely accessible to anyone anywhere.

http://www.ubu.com/film/

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Dutch Uncles 'The Ink' - Egyptian Hip Hop Mix

2010-05-08T16:13:00.002+01:00

Great remix from one of our favourite acts... EHH turn fellow Mancs Dutch Uncles inside out to deliver a right broody little bugger of a remix. Good stuff!

Dutch Uncles - 'The Ink' (Egyptian Hip Hop Remix)

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Century Of The Self

2010-05-07T15:09:00.001+01:00

Part 1

One of the best documentaries we've seen, a few years old but a real treat! Parts 2 - 4 are also up on google video - watch the whole series, it'll (un) bend your mind!

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Damon Albarn + Alan Moore = John Dee

2010-04-27T08:44:00.003+01:00

Rather exciting to find that the ever interesting Messrs. Albarn and Moore are working on an opera based on the life and times of John Dee, the famed Elizabethan polymath. Scant news on the project so far, but definitely one we'll be keeping an ear out for....

http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/04/26/gorillaz%E2%80%99s-damon-albarn-and-jamie-hewlett-on-plastic-beach-skyping-with-snoop-dogg-and-their-next-opera-vulture/

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Gonzales - Never Stop

2010-04-11T21:17:00.001+01:00

Our favourite Entertainist Chilly's back to put the ants in your pants with ace new single 'Never Stop':

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Kyrgyzstan

2010-04-10T20:19:00.003+01:00

Please check out Elise Laker's photo-stream on Flickr HERE.
She's in Kyrgyzstan and has been taking some excellent photos of the upheaval there.

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Dodgem Logic

2010-04-08T04:01:00.002+01:00

If you like your magazines 'agressively random' then be sure to hunt out a copy of Alan Moore's superb new magazine 'Dodgem Logic', which we have stumbled across much to our unexpected delight. Issue 1 is in a hen's teeth state of availability, but Issue 2 should be out there for you if you can find it before someone else does.

www.dodgemlogic.com

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Blue On Blue

2010-04-07T14:30:00.001+01:00

Gorgeous new sounds from ex Bird In An Airpump Dee and friends. Utterly different from her previous outfit, charm and mystery abound in their end of innocence jangle.

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