The Monitors
Keeping track of new music, media
and industry news - 05-02-12-10.37am
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LISTEN TO THIS, stomp stomp stomp, grrr, grrr, grrr, nrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHH, yeah! Its basically a Dan Garber double bill, since he sent me the track, but he didn’t write anything, so now its me introducing it to you (even though you may have heard it before).
Anyway, So So Modern, hailing from NZ, fourpiece, fellas, back from a lengthy European tour which i missed. Instrumental, walls of guitar, chunky beats and electronics, definitely from the Holy Fu?k school of electronics
They also accompany their music with performance, or thats what their bio says. Anyway, rock meets tech, or as they call it themselves “futuristic schizoid noise pop’ and if you wanted to you could say they sound something a bit like Errors, Battles and the klaxons.
Combining deep 60s psychedelic grooves with the minimal looping work recently found within work by the likes of Walls and Caribou, Django Django come along and add a hint of spice to the sound. The glazed expression of the music perfectly fits the Beta Band electronic feel their going for; from the Beach Boys influenced ‘Life’s A Beach’ and ‘Silver [..]
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New disco does Stargate, Star Trek, Star Wars! Anything which touches the sky has touched the inspiration behind the latest video from this funky dance collective. The multiple universe theory goes hay-wire and the world turns into a massive disco stage.
Heineken have just launched the ‘Serenade your Date’ Facebook app which helps you record a song in order to ask the lady/gentleman of your Facebook dreams on a date. apps.facebook.com
May 04, 2012 Koko
The Camden Crawl is back an bigger and better than ever this year, and to celebrate they’re kicking things off this year with a special Friday event at the legendary Koko venue, headlined by Death in Vegas. Long time member Richard Fearless had this to say about [..]
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