Electronica

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Hot Chip @ Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh 2006

Claire Mapletoft holds a tentative banner aloft for the rigorous nerd-chic of chart-seeking missiles, Hot Chip. Cue lots of cymbal crashing miniature monkeys and weird, baffling techno malarkey. Edinburgh’s Cabaret Voltaire is not made for short people. The stage and surrounding area are one the same level, and when there is a sellout (as there was Wednesday night), short people, like myself, often have a hard time even seeing over the crowd. As Hot Chip took to the stage, I Continue Reading

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LCD Soundsystem ~ LCD Soundsystem

There’s homage and there’s homagé. Whilst The Rapture imitate almost to the point of exactitude the clanking, cantankerous punk-funk posturing of the early eighties post-punk scene (what little I know of it, anyway) another disco-punk lynch-pin is fathoming how create something far more gloriously original. True, the cod-disco beats are all present and correct but tracks like ‘Too Much Love’ are just too goddam black and intuitive to be the spill of some shambling, computer generated music-geek – as much as Continue Reading

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Ha Ha Sound ~ Broadcast

Now a trio following the departure of original member Roj Stevens in 2002, Broadcast release ‘HaHa Sound’ off the back of the excellent ‘Pendulum’ EP. Coming somewhere between Pram, Stereolab and the Pizzicato Five and sharing their influence amoungst everyone from Ladytron , Toktok Vs Soffy O to the nursery freak outs of Lemon Jelly, Broadcasts’ Trisha Keenan, James Cargill and Tim Felton pursue the hugely whimsical and melodic grooves of 60s psychedelia stretched out on a broad canvass of Continue Reading

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Basement Jaxx are playing live in Swansea this Sunday for Radio One’s ‘One Big Sunday’ live event.  The bad news? There about the only band or artist worth going along for on a bill that a ingenuous hotpot of the cool and the cruelly dire (with the possible exception of Destiny’s Child). Simon and Felix are also preparing for the release of ‘Get Me Off’, the latest single to be taken from their second album ‘Rooty’. The single, out in the UK Continue Reading

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Basement Jaxx are playing live in Swansea this Sunday for Radio One’s ‘One Big Sunday’ live event.  The bad news? There about the only band or artist worth going along for on a bill that a ingenuous hotpot of the cool and the cruelly dire (with the possible exception of Destiny’s Child). Simon and Felix are also preparing for the release of ‘Get Me Off’, the latest single to be taken from their second album ‘Rooty’. The single, out in the UK Continue Reading

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Alison Goldfrapp takes time off the recording of the follow up to the stunning and gold selling debut album, ‘Felt Mountain’ to play a number of DJ dates throughout the summer. She takes her eclectic take on dance to venues and events as diverse the Royal College of Art, Sonar Festival, Glastonbury and Ibiza, more dates will be announced in the near future. DJ Dates April 30th London – Shepherds Bush Empire –  Q Live May 31st London – Royal Continue Reading

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Alison Goldfrapp takes time off the recording of the follow up to the stunning and gold selling debut album, ‘Felt Mountain’ to play a number of DJ dates throughout the summer. She takes her eclectic take on dance to venues and events as diverse the Royal College of Art, Sonar Festival, Glastonbury and Ibiza, more dates will be announced in the near future. DJ Dates April 30th London – Shepherds Bush Empire –  Q Live May 31st London – Royal Continue Reading

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N*E*R*D are set to perform in the UK for very the first time with a live appearance that will be followed by the release of a new single entitled ‘Rock Star’ which is scheduled to be released on July 22nd. N*E*R*D, are to perform live for the first time in the UK, on July 1st at Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Spymob are said to be in support.

News

N*E*R*D are set to perform in the UK for very the first time with a live appearance that will be followed by the release of a new single entitled ‘Rock Star’ which is scheduled to be released on July 22nd. N*E*R*D, are to perform live for the first time in the UK, on July 1st at Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Spymob are said to be in support.