Clearlake – Good Clean Fun (Caribou mix)

Brighton! Brighton! Brighton! , yeh we love this town.

Here we watch Clearlake’s vocal harmony layered indie tribute to xxjfg favourites Loop transformed into something (almost) friendly loop(ed) guitar space rock out that doesn’t nearly last long enough for our tastes, but you cannot have cake and eat it can you? (sorry can’t talk, eating…um..um..um)

The traditional Caribou sound is all over the dial in a Hawkwind for girls psych out that only ends when Animal from The Muppet Show drums in like an, erm, animal all over the ending leaving us in a rather too polite swish of phasers.

The original is big car long road driving stuff that wrenches some kinda sugar sweet vocal harmonies closer to My Bloody Valentine’s hands if they had ever made that record to break the top 5 (and is perfect for all you C86 kids who miss a bit of the old shoegazing and are partial to maraca playing, although you may need to put your fingers in your ears for the louder bits). Good Clean Fun by Clearlake is out on Domino Records, who we hope look after the boys from Brighton or we will set Bobby Love on them, and then they will be sorry, yeh ha and stuff.

Fujiya and Miyagi – Electro Karaoke (Two Lone Swordsmen Mix)

Hum, I wonder what Dave and the boys in Fujiya and Miyagi were listening too when they wrote this tune?

If you guessed Talking Heads – 5 point
If you guessed Hip-Hop – 3 point
If you guessed Brian Eno – 5 point
If you guessed Neu! – 10 points
If you guessed Coldplay – minus shit loads go stand in the corner for a long time.
If you guessed Something Else – erm, email them and let us know yeh?

Its a classic, and the remix is good too.

Fujiya and Miyagi have recently released some fine new tracks through Tirk which you should probably go and buy. Live shows have seen they come close to being the greatest Can do music dance djs can play band we have seen in a while, but we know there is more to em than just that.

Mr.Miyagi died.

This makes us sad.

This is our tribute to him.

Latter this week (Thursday) we will be doing the Crane Kick at Art School Dropouts in the Engine Rooms in Brighton where as if by magic and stuff Fujiya and Miyagi are playing with Pro Forma and 20jfg are playing records. Bargain. Now there is a coincidence if I ever saw one…

Pro Forma – Normal Man (demo)

Ok, so Pro Forma are not from Brighton, but we would be happy to have them.

Politically astringent social commentary from Glasgow inspired by krautrock, you don’t get that every day do you? So when you do I’d be happy about it and think yourself lucky.

Pro Forma provide a sonic grove with more than a nod to Can and maybe some Talking Heads too. This is heady and dangerous ground we know, but they do it with enough panache and originality to not call it a pastiche and to get my head nodding every time and keep my ears interested any time.

New single Lapses in Diction is addictive as hell and on the Pro Forma myspace page , unsurprisingly produced by the busiest man on the planet Paul Epworth and out on New! Records. Looking for good things from these German Jamaicans in New York playing indie in 2006, and so far not been disappointed in the slightest.

Catch Pro Forma on tour with The Juan Maclean in most of the UK, Poni Hoax in Paris, or with erm, 20JFG (who have a lot to live up too I think) in Brighton on Thursday at ArtSchool Dropouts in the Engine Rooms.

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