“Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer even have a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is…
Love Saves the Day kicks off on Sunday the 30th, with a taster on Friday the 28th for you London types, come to the Amalgamation of Champion Sounds party kindly put together by the winning Real Gold team. In this post we tell you quick about where we come from, and bring you some eternal…
I am having to write this post in a dimly lit taberna because my Internet Service Providers are shit. Yes, I am talking about you Orange. You are shit. But by this time a crack team of homeostatic robots with pincers that inflict gangrened wounds are advancing towards your HQs, they can’t be detected by…
You know the ones. Those gifted harlequins that prance wide eyed with devious smiles through napalm filled swamps of writhing horror and sparkling synthesized glitter bursts, past neon outlined mountains where confetti falls upwards and all around the sounds of madness are melting away all the boredom as if Cillit Bang became a day-glo purple…
I just went for a walk, and I found these songs. I saw a tree shaken by the wind furious, its branches stretching feeble into the air like the bony hands of an emaciated white witch begging for a miracle from the elements. A trembling ray of sun was granted, and in the pool of…
Codek are fast becoming a label with liquid gold running through its cyborg veins, a label so awesome that its disco releases transcend sound itself and become feelings and colours. Here is something black and blue: Harmonika Lyder – Siegfried Der Drachentoter The Sounds Superb 12″s are both 4 track discs of pure Studio 54…
A synth spell, or a velvet fist cast in analogue electronica sends your puny 20jazzfunkgreats types spinning into another dimension of mystery, magic and romance noir slash murder, you know how blood and sex are tightly interwoven and the suchlike. Life is a bitch, heh? The new cloud edits 12” comes packed with analogue delights,…
Gary Gygax passed away on Wednesday. I never did that much D&D to be fair, but if it hadn’t been for the stream of pen & paper Roleplaying games that his work inspired, and which I played the shit of (MERP, Call of Cthulhu, Runequest, Cyberpunk, Star Wars, Traveller and Games Workshop stuff, as well…
Across seismic tidal waves on the most dangerous oceans in any parallel universe you may care to mention, Captain Dandi Wind sails her neon viking boat to lands ripe for plundering. Her fearless crew of indie-brute oarsmen row to the crisp beat of a Korg drum sequencer. Dandi stands fast at the helm, fluorescent tube…
In an icy cave in the deepest forests of Canada (forests where the leaves have all long gone, but are instead replaced with dangling icicles that chime to an incessant beat), there lives a creature with bright yellow spherical eyes and pale blue skin, wrapped up all snug in a pea-green parka jacket. He sips…
So we come to that time of the year when the wild hordes head down to SXSW for a few days of revelling in the excitement and dopeness of the underground sounds, or at least that’s the way we imagine it, a bit like that exotic bazaar where Conan of Cimmeria knocked out a camel,…