Friday, February 8, 2008  8:31 am 

Beware, children at play

Teh interweb has become a leviathan of creation and distribution that devours and regurgitates music, in its bloated belly a million weird kids dwell putting together songs with bits of technology, the walls of the beast’s intestines are a fertile ground where a thousand DIY alien flowers bloom, the outcome of complicated, often random processes of cross pollination. However no matter how abundant software and hardware have become, and the energy of the youth can be, talent and that blinding spark of genius we are always looking for remain scarce commodities, and in all the colourful harvest only the mutated scents of a few specimen with the latter endowed seduce us during our search past the cthonian arch of the beast’s gaping jaws, here are some artifacts we found, this is crazy music made like it was the tomorrow, because it is the tomorrow, enjoy!

You know we heart Child Pornography, we’d love to have them play at 13 Monsters: Child Pornography at 13 Monsters, oh yes, they are one of the few bands out there who manage to convey the careless feral intensity of thee original blitzkrieg no wave massive through brief outbursts of shambolic synth damaged dada you can chew bubblegum to, and kick some ass to, too, they sound like the fucked up spawn of Suicide and Stereo Total, after a few listens their music digs its claws in your soft brain like the slimey alien manta rays in Robert Heinlein’s The Puppet Masters turning you into some weird tourette pogo bitch, which is a job that apparently pays quite well.

Their new album, ‘She’s Got Legs’ has been released by our beloved Deathbomb Arc and you should totally get it. I don’t know where I put the box so I can’t find the actual name of the tune below. Oh dear. It’s number 12.

Child Pornography- Track 12

We can’t say that much about Teengirl Fantasy save that they are two students at Oberlin College, Ohio, called Logan and Nick. They make ‘many teengirl fantasies and electronic music’ which is mighty fine by us, when we saw that party in the streets gif in their myspace and listened to their tunes we said YES YES YES and clapped our hands in delirium, Portofino sounds like Lil’ Jon hanging out with Silverlink and Harmonia in a pastel Parisian boulevard, smoking cigarettes and everything under a swarm of neon eyed doves shitting caramel popcorn, which is mighty fine by them, because they are frigging sweet and that’s the way they roll, the song finishes and we all walk into the sunshine with a smile in our somehow more colourful faces.

Teengirl Fantasy- Portofino

Their angelfire website is fucking awesome too, check them out, I think they are going to be totally massive and we’ll be writing them again soon hopefully.

Gentle Friendly’s astounding music crashes through the door of that log cabin where you were on holidays reading old school Fantastic Four comic books and listening to 90s tapes trying to put yourself together after your last romantic disaster, suddenly they are in the place like some bear with wise eyes coming out of the shadows of the unexpected stomping with the fierce joy of Parts and Labor, it slumbers mighty into your kitchen and grabs all the sweets in the bowl, turns around, gobbles the sweets and walks away leaving a whiff of the Animal Collective in the air, all of this before you have even time to say ‘yo Bear-’.

You have no more sweets now, but you are feeling better and ready for another romantic disaster, say thank you Gentle Friendly, best UK band I’ve heard (with Fuckbuttons and Copycats) in a very long time.

Gentle Friendly- Ride Symbols

James Nascent (go and watch him DJ at Slash on Friday the 15th, Hate Crime are playing as well for the total win) told you about High Places in this humble pooter den some time ago, well, Brenmar off the mighty These are Powers has made a very very special remix of one of their tunes, Golden, and it fucking rocks, it sounds like the spirit of OOIOO turned into psychedelic chewing gum which M.I.A. unwraps from its silvery package, stretching it pink and sweet to connect the different contraptions of a playground where weird children engage in harsh guerilla training for secret operations of mischief, seen from above it looks like a white magic pentagram inside which a technological fairy shall be materialising at some point soon, we await enraptured.

High Places- Golden (Brenmar Remix)

Go to Brenmar’s page to listen to other awesome remixes he has done, the Clipd Beaks one is spanking too!

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We finish this post on a sad note, because BANG! in Madrid is closing today, this excellent record/book/comic book shop run by Manuel, which 20JFG never failed to call upon its visits to the Spanish capital shall be no more after tomorrow, at least physically. BANG! will be reincarnated into a fully fledged virtual store opening soon, we shall keep you posted about this. If you are around Madrid, pop around and spend some hard earned Euros on thee good shit, and give Manuel a big hug from us.

Remember kids, support your independent shop! for every record you buy God creates a kitten.

labels >> CP, Gentle Friendly, Teengirl Fantasy, high places