alka update

alka has recently signed to electronic eel , an up and coming electronic label out of philadelphia. look foward to a full length release (titled: principles of suffocation) from alka in April or May when both physical CDs and high quality downloads will be available.

in the meantime check out electronic eel’s free monthly podcast for some great varied and previously unheard electronic music:

www.electroniceel.com

www.myspace.com/electroniceelrecords

roger hearts apple

there is a great write up on roger over at apple.com

trouble everyday alka remix

“Codeword” UK single releasing soon on Vacuous Pop Records

It will be available at all fine record shops across the UK and online as well.

They will be in both CD and limited edition vinyl formats.

Art work is being done by Richard Lippold (The Angels / The Deadly singer) **see above***

A demo version of “Pedestrian” will be the b-side and the cd version will include a bonus remix by Bryan Michael (artist behind electronic project “Alka”, part of the The 99X/10 Collective with Roger O’donnell from the cure and others)

you can hear the remix under Trouble Everyday here: VPOP

… don’t worry everybody.. it’s still me.. this remix is a bit of a departure from my normal sound.. i think i was listening to a lot of DEVO (or somebody!?) when i did this remix..

bryan

alka

Dark Captain Light Captain

This was too easy.. just checking the blog this morning to see if anyone posted and thought i would check the the comment ‘neil’ had left on and ecce post, i was led to his myspace, a music profile for his band Dark Captain Light Captain and the lovely first track ‘they be underwater’ charmed me. some scribbly bears doing their shopping at ASDA also hooked me, i am just listening to the rest of the songs now, the voices are soft and sweet really nice acoustic guitars and hand claps give a very nice feeling but there is also an undercurrent of mystery and an idea of late night idea scribbling and quietly strumming while the world is sleeping nearby perhaps even just through the walls and not to be woken.
Dark Captain Light Captain myspace
thanks for commenting over here on this humble blog neil! i still havent read what you posted but i will go do that now!

ruxpin: icelandic IDM producer and all around swell guy

Ruxpin is Jónas Þór Guðmundsson and I can honestly say he is a great person and a true friend of electronic musicians everywhere.  I am posting an announcement for his long awaited new full length release: Elysium.  He is also currently remixing a track for Meason’s upcoming EP.

October, 1 2006:  Release of Elysium on Itunes

Elysium will be released on Itunes one week before the CD hits the stores.  The Itunes Exclusive album will include one extra track, Sadeness (which is on his myspace profile).  You can buy the whole album or individual tracks.

I’ve heard some of Jonas’ recent tracks and it is some of the best electronic music out there, i’m sure everyone here will love it.  Here is an older video for everyone’s enjoyment:

The Smiths – ‘Still Ill’

Is it a perfect song? I might just be.

The live version on ‘Rank’ is pretty damn good too.

Take me Back to Your House by Basement Jaxx

I really like this video and song! I just read an interview with Basement Jaxx in Chart online (Canadian music magazine which i get in my inbox to keep me somewhat up to date on the canadian music scene, since dear reader i am a Canadian and living in England) So Cossack dancers banjo playing giant mandolins with people inside and lots of bears make this video great.. but who is this singer? i am very curious now, i know she is canadian, i have never heard of her and here she is co-writing and featured in a BJ song? i am very curious how it happened.. anyone?
watching it again i think she looks so familiar.. also the melody is familiar.. the line ‘take me home’ there is another kind of dancey song that i cant put my finger on with the same melody but the lyrics ‘get in the zone’ is it Britney? might be that Britney and Madonna song..?
its going to drive me crazy.

Music to shop for egg cups by..

sunday afternoon, if you had to pick a time of the week, would be the perfect time to shop for egg cups. So trolling through ebay, looking for prize gems for my collection, marveling at the shoddy work ebay sellers do with a camera, and drinking mate tea the music i happened to be listening too magically formed the perfect soundtrack.. i love it when that happens, the perfect music happens to be playing through the most fitting times.. is it some magical match up? .. or.. is it that we are more open than we think and any number of things could have been the ‘perfect’ music and it only is now deemed perfect in hindsight simply because it was what was playing?
at any rate this particular sunday was definitely the former as this magical match up of TV Resistori and egg cups filled the afternoon.. i had followed a link from stylus magazine which jason (GDEB) was asking me about, for fonal records a label in finland.. a very quirky label covering a broadish spectrum of ambient experimental to semi-acoustic psychedelic folk (their words, semi-acoustic? i dont know..). Fonal’s artists are mostly Finish speaking and some of them were quite interesting but this was the band that caught my ears and made the afternoon shimmer.
TV Resistori myspace

(i am still bidding on these so please dont bid me up! haha.. that would be pretty funny…)

magic time with coloured construction paper..

this is such a sweet video for the band lullatone that i found while browsing the audio dregs record label site.. they fittingly call themselves pajama pop and are from Japan..
http://myspace.com/lullatone
it also plays right into my interest/burgeoning obsession for stop frame animation.. and makes me think of being 5 and under, the intense creativity i poured through blunt orange plastic scissors onto coloured construction paper.. the masterpieces i was sure i was making.. i do vividly remember the frustration i felt with those very limiting scissors at that time..

Roger’s (Sensory factory’s) current playlist (or whats getting most played right now)

The Disco Biscuits

The Frank and Joe Show

Cloud Cult

Moshi Moshi

My Morning Jacket

Galaxie 500