Archives: May 2008

• Finn Fatale: Lau Nau

  May 30, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  Lau Nau: “Lue Kartalta”

  Lau Nau: “Painovoimaa”
  I love when the sounds of Finland’s avant-folk artists wash up on these shores. “Psychedelic, abstract & emotionally captivating” songstress Lau Nau’s second album “Nukkuu” came out earlier this month, and is a spirited wash of tumble-down instrumentalism and haunted vocals, swathed in an other-worldliness reminscent of contemporaries like Islaja, [...]

  
  



• Sigur Rós: Video & Bodies Unveiled

  May 28, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 2 Comments
  

  I’m getting excited about the Sigur Rós album coming in June! It’s a perfect month for frolicking outdoors, perhaps naked, like the video for the album’s first single “Gobbledigook” suggests. The album is “Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust”- roughly “with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly” in English- and drops on [...]

  
  



• Oh My God It’s Techno Music!

  May 28, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  Arriving somewhere in the haze between design, fashion, branding and techno music comes OMGITM! a project of Hamburg-based graphic designers Christopher Ernst and Florian Schmucker, which encompasses a limited range of t-shirts meant to rouse club-goers into a beat-fuelled frenzy. They write:
  First the shirts were supposed to be for private use only, but after people [...]

  
  



• Saul Williams @ Stereo, 21.5.08

  May 23, 2008 · Words: Andy Sharp · 1 Comment
  

  Gig photography by Ron Reid, review by Andrew Sharp.
  List of Demands

  Tr(Nigger)

  In November 2007 Saul Williams released a new album “The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust” produced by Trent Reznor, which was released online allowing users to download the album for free or for five dollars for the first 100,000 downloads. 18 percent of [...]

  
  



• Veneer Magazine (Pics)

  May 19, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  Here are some behind the scene, pre and post creation, pics of Veneer magazine, one of the world’s stranger publications.

  Veneer is released quarterly in an edition of 18 issues, before it will be ceased. Full editions sold to the public- that’s you and me- are limited to 300, with a price that fluctuates based on [...]

  
  



• Scatabrainz: Moonlight Music LP

  May 16, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  Listen:

  “Zone Out”/ MP3

  “Without You” / MP3
  I’m a little late with this one (better late than never), but I want to share with you an incredible album released by my good friend, the hip-hop producer and sometime-emcee, Scatabrainz, entitled “Moonlight Music”. If you like mellow instrumental hip-hop a la Blockhead and Entroducing-era Shadow, then this collection [...]

  
  



• New Music: Renfro

  May 13, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  Listen:

  “Capture”

  “Broken Little Pieces”
  UK-based musical combo Renfro mailed me a copy of their new debut album “Mathematics” and boy am I glad they did. Their bubbly pristine electronica is reminiscent of an ‘all-grown-up’ cLOUDDEAD- like Imogen Heap without the labia- making it a perfect soundtrack for blazing away those hot summer days [...]

  
  



• RSNO Orchestra Events in Glasgow

  May 12, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  Promotional designs for a series of genre-pushing orchestral events held in Glasgow by the RSNO.
  Forget the stereotype of classical music as a powerhouse of snobbery. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra have arranged a hat-trick of events which reconsider the modern context of orchestral music, and are taking place in Glasgow in June.
  The first event is [...]

  
  



• Friday Links Round-up

  May 2, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 2 Comments
  

  It’s Friday again- time to abandon your job for another weekend of debauchery and meditation on one day fully abandoning your job; plus it’s a good chance for me to post some links that have been building up in my, like pent-up rage in a suicide bomber.
  Planet Patrol is a collaborative online project putting out [...]