Archive for April, 2009

• Thursday, April 30, 2009  12:05 am 

  In the dark, that’s where I shine

  Yes, now that’s a quote by Vin Diesel, there.

  In was in el Prado in Madrid last week, lost in the carnival of the Goya, the Bosch and the Brueghel, the latter’s ‘Triumph of Death’ puts to shame all feeble attempts to shock and shlock as deployed by the total loser torture porn movement, now here [...]

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• Wednesday, April 29, 2009  12:02 am 

  Grin eating shits

  God, I sometimes wonder if this place can ever make sense to you or us, do we antagonise you every time we change pace with the feeble gusto of a moth revolving crazed around a blinding strobe of what we consider fractured goodness, or are you troopers happy to delve in the burning and chaotic [...]

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• Tuesday, April 28, 2009  12:28 am 

  Fantoms

  Think Joy Division as remade by Chromatics – ah, but its so much more than that! Twisted Wires are a raging storm reflected in the retina of a solemn shoegazing guitarist, coiling a mournful down-tuned motif from his spidery guitar strings. In the 80s.
  With The Horrors making like the spectral shadows cast by The Jesus [...]

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• Wednesday, April 22, 2009  12:05 am 

  Ba-da-bang

  Another Yoshimi P-We project, another joyous pirouette at the palace of unreal spires and complex mechanical toys where your 20jazzfunkgreats spend their days, sometimes delighted, sometimes curmudgeonly. Definitely the former this time, OLAibi’s Tingaruda is all about the drum, Taiko & Jingo & Batucada & Motorik, a continuous, hypnotic chain of percussion advancing linear [...]

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• Tuesday, April 21, 2009  12:05 am 

  Shines in the dark

  The Big Pink got remixed by Gang Gang Dance, there. What begins like a psychedelic excursion of portent and wonder across paths strewn with the corpses of Beach Boys and other sunny Californian types, all of which shine in a very fluorescent grey flips, halfway through, into a vicious skank which is pure shoegazing voodoo, [...]

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