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You might not know this but Rough Trade came to their senses recently and released Night Plane’s rather fine remix of Warpaint’s “Undertow” on the rather dashing green twelve inch you see above and backed with an equally fine revision from !!!’s Nic Offer.
Obviously this is entirely down to the Slutty Fringe’s tireless endeavours as documented here.
Never one to rest on his laurels, Night Plane – or Will Rauscher to his buddies – is about to indulge us with some new music in the shape of Acid Snow, the first original material from the CCC project Will does with two fellow New Yorkers.
Due out in the very near future, you can sample the slow burning acid delights of Night Plane’s remix of the lead track below.
On the day that Swedish House Mafia have announced details of enormo-gigs at Madison Square Gardens and the Milton Keynes Bowl, our attention is focused more on their countrymen Drop Out Orchestra who have just revealed details of their next single ‘Ego‘ and most excitingly of all are set to play their debut london gig this coming weekend.
Regulars readers of the Fringe will already be well aware of DOO seeing as we’ve featured them around a million times (not to mention releasing their insanely good 12 minute :Kinema: remix on vinyl earlier this year). Well thankfully it seems the world at large is now waking up to the magnificence of our Scandinavian friends, with their remixes cropping up on more and more big name releases and we can safely predict that by 2012 they will almost certainly be announcing their own stadium sized shows.
Anyway ‘Ego‘ is, as we’ve come to expect, another sublime slice of rubbery bassed disco funk and best of all is available from today via Juno, complete with remixes from Black Strobe, Tronik Youth, Second Date and Lou Teti. Bingo! Wrap your ears around Drop Out’s own edit available below and then go catch Drop Out Orchestra playing at the following venues over the next month or so…
30 Sep, Cubed @ Sub69, Reading, UK
01 Oct, TMWFTE @ East Bloc, London, UK
08 Oct, La Blanca, Bucharest, RO
21 Oct, Barbarella Club, Chisinau, MD
22 Oct, Superground, Milano, IT
28 Oct, Lanificio 159, Rome, IT
29 Oct, Urban Festival, Istanbul, TR
04 Nov, Urban Club, Perugia, IT
A pleasant remix of divisive record label cash cow/experiment in social media/cosmetically enhanced diva Dana El Rey that sounds like a discofied Lykke Li putting the halt on the morbid goth wank and having some fun?
Spare ten minutes of your Friday afternoon and treat your receptors to this rather fine remix of Italian post punk act by Call Super’s JR Seaton. Forthcoming on Relish mate.
Making the wait for lunchtime even harder than normal today is Volume 1 of a brand new graphic novel Yellowman which elegantly swan dived it’s way onto my doormat this morning.
The work of sometime Fringe contributor and all round chap, Justin Quirk, and noted illustrator Warren Holder, Yellowman is the story of an albino man on the run from acquisitive occultists in Victorian East London.
A dazzlingly creative and beautiful book, Holder’s stark, intricate artwork constantly pulls you into the story, his East London one of shadow and mystery, the perfect backdrop to this secret history of magic and science.
Fans of Alan Moore, and indeed anyone who appreciates just how good graphic novels can be should check this out right away.
My infrequent wanderlust into the ADD minefield of exuberant hype and broken promises that is the murky realm of the new band has been piqued by New York act Friends.
Mostly for the ace punk funk cover version of mid 90s bass anthem “My Boo” by Ghost Town DJs that is vastly superior to a recent effort from Balmly Crabs or whatever your man is called.
That’s the B Side on their new jam, the equally fine and lustfully toned “I’m His Girl” which is out next month on Lucky Numbers and can be streamed below.
This weeks award for impressing Tony Poland goes to TE3TH
Not only does lead singer Veronica have excellent taste in films and highlighted Paula Abdul’s involvement in Coming To America via this article, but the Moshi Moshi act have enlisted the ever excellent Brassica to remix their new single “Flowers”.
This makes up entirely for the existence of the accompanying CSS remix.
“Every day brings far too many poorly written press releases for poorly composed music.” Anon blogger 2011.
A shining departure from the above statement arrived recently from Seed Records, who have just released Antoni Maiovvi’sBattlestar Transreplica/Trial By Bullet. Out now, this double CD release is formed of two soundtracks Maiovvi supposedly composed for obscure Italian TV series from decades gone by, rescued from the dust filled archives of long gone bust studio companies and lovingly remastered.
There is a special edition available direct from Seed which includes the above T Shirt designed by those cheeky types at African Apparel/
The music – an expert melding of Faltmeyer, Carpenter and Moroder – is more than matched by the inventive press release that accompanies each album, which are far too rich with humour and detail to pick apart and select our favourite prose so each are below in all their glory:
The last fated project of the now legendary IIF (Italiano Independente Films) was the remake of the famous 70s TV show with the similar name. Although more of a homage to the original – ‘Battlestar Transreplica’ – as it became known through internet sci-fi communities, added much needed flair, nudity and lashings of steamy violence to the mix. Centred around Nexus 6-esque clones, this time designed purely for sexual recreation, an intergalactic cult whose favourite sport was hunting humans and the hosting of the Space Olympics, the camp robots and special effects that would make the producers of Blake’s 7 blush, coupled with often nonsensical plot twists did little to stop the success of the series. But, what really stood out was the queen of the sex clones played to perfection by Italian scream queen, Ania Pieroni, taking time off from her successful TV station GBR. This cursed masterwork was broadcast in its entirety yet the first three episodes fell to the most unlikely and bizarre circumstances involving lightening cutting out most of the transmission, an exploding espresso pot and an escaped murder of crows being kept for Dario Argento’s seminal film ‘Opera,’ invading the control booth. Eventually audiences would simply tune out and the final three episodes received the lowest viewing figures in Italian TV history. Nevertheless, with the birth of DVD ‘Battlestar Transreplica’ was set to find a new audience and be seen by many for the first time. Unfortunately, due to a legal wrangle between the show’s stars and the company’s imprisoned CEOs, the DVDs could not legally be sold until an agreement had been met, but before the discussions could reach some kind of conclusion both producers were killed during a prison break gone awry. Antoni Maiovvi’s soundtrack is once again the last piece available in its entirety remastered from the original tape source for your listening pleasure.
Trial By Bullet is the OST to the short lived Italian TV crime thriller of the same name. Conceived as a spin off from the unmade ‘Shadow of the Bloodstained Kiss’ film, it in fact used many of the same sets and costumes in a desperate attempt from the producers to claw back some of the money spent when “Shadow’s” production was cancelled. The show itself was about a homicide detective working as part of the galactic police at an unnamed point in the not too distant future. In a radical departure to the times the officer in question was chasing a serial killer who preyed on the swinger, strip and gay clubs of a far off planet mysteriously aping the Jeffery Dahmer crimes at the same time. (The producers were notoriously cagey about answering questions about the similarities.) Even stranger, however, was the role of the detective in question played by Euro-crime legend Maurizio Merli who sadly passed away soon after the first broadcast. Pulled half way through the first episode, due to a controversial scene involving a bisexual orgy breaking out in a government building, Pope John Paul II ordered the remaining footage to be destroyed, a demand that was quickly voiced again by Italy’s prime minister of the time, Bettino Craxi. In the early 90’s the 10 minutes of the original broadcast were swapped between video traders, but due to the nature of the copying process, quality was always varied. All that remains is composer Antoni Maiovvi’s score, remixed and remastered from the original sequencer files.
Still with us? Good cos Antoni did this excellent mix of tracks old and new, classic and under- rated which you should listen to whilst re/reading the above and wishing you had such an inventive way with words.
Antoni Maiovvi – Ficken 3000 Mega Hits Mix Tracklisting:
Klein & MBO – Dirty Talk
Kraftwerk – Computer Love
Den Haan – Night Shift
Robert Camero – Let Me Fall In Love (Extended Version)
Adonis – No Way Back
//Tense// – Disconnect Myself (kkoee Remix)
Mr Pauli – 935 Lies
Drexciya – Polymono Plexusgel
Patrick Cowley – Megatron Man
The Egyptian Lover – Kinky Nation (Kingdom Kum)
Antoni Maiovvi – Murderfunk
Ali Renault – Valentine
Desireless – Voyage Voyage
Much like the ushering myth central to cult 90s horr0r flick Candyman, a growing sense curiosity as to the current musical endeavours of the Radiant Dragon was recently satisfied by simply shooting the question “What Happpened To The Radiant Dragon?” into the vortex of information and hashtags known as Twitter.
140 character messages of a debut album floated from several angles in my direction as well as exciting news of RD being ensconsed in New York spreading his artistic impulses across several mediums. And today I awake to find correspondence from Larry The Dragon himself, confirming his album Screengazers will be released on the all too brilliant date of the 11th day of the 11th month in this year 2011.
A rather sumptuous example of what that album might sound like was offered by the inclusion of a richly detailed video and mp3 for lead track “Terminal” – inspired by cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s famous quote:
“I could have kept on flying through space forever.”
Say to me Korallreven and I think of marine organisms that like a wee dab of MDMA whilst bumping off the walls all night in a secret East London warehouse location.
The truth is not as exciting unless you like beardy Swedish dudes in shirts that need an iron who make flawless dream pop that gets the Pitchforks of the world a bit hot under their neatly pressed collars.
