HEALTH has been kicking L.A.’s underground scene in the balls for more than little while now. In the latter half of July we told you about a rumor that Curses! (a.k.a. Drop The Lime) was remixing the Los Angeles noise-making quartet and today it has been confirmed! Listen to the prophesied track in all it’s glory.
HEALTH are soon to embark on a 40 day US tour, be sure to watch out for them when they come to wreck shop on your town. Here are some more HEALTH goodies which we couldn’t help but post, including the now blogfamous CFCF remix of Triceratops which give me nightmares, but in a good way.
Lovepump Unlimited released a HEALTH/Crystal Castles 7 inch split which you can get here. Older HEALTH releases can be found at http://www.dntrecords.com/. More noisy tracks on HEALTH’s myspace.
HEALTH are the hottest noise-band making major noise. These L.A. dudes are local favorites and since getting the signature-sound treatment from Toronto hot-shots Crystal Castles on the track, ‘Crimewave’ (hear it in the HEALTH archives), they’ve been getting noticed on the circuit of fresh-to-death remixers. Now, word is that Curses! (a.k.a. Drop the Lime) is working on his HEALTH re-work, but in the present tense, electronic phenom and Missingtoof favorite, CFCF stepped up quick to remix the new track, ‘Triceratops’. I grabbed the track from our boy at BiBaBiDi and to quote him on it, “The original track is hidden deep down in there, but there’s just enough of it to count as a legit remix”. Compare and contrast:
You might remember CFCF from his plethora of continuing remix work, including his ‘Air War (CFCF Remix)’, which won the Crystal Castles official remix contest earlier this year (hear it in the CFCF archives). Now here’s we diverge from HEALTH and lean toward CFCF. CFCF has another yet to be released remix for NY rockers Apache Beat’s first single, ‘Tropics’, slated for release on Playlouderrecordings. The ‘Tropics’ single will have additional remixes by Toof favorites, Damn Arms and Bitchee Bitchee Ya Ya. CFCF is first out of the gate and we <3 it for sounding like the best of New Wave throw backs.
And because more music is generally better than less music, here is the first remix I heard from CFCF that turned me into a fan. How about some smooth electro remix of R&B diva, ex- P.Ditty protegé and love interest, Cassie? This remix is “unofficial”, but shit, that’s her bad:
Ya herd? We always give you homework: Go check HEALTH on MySpace and their official site. And don’t forget, ‘Crimewave’ with Crystal Castles is now available on wax from Trouble Records.
Visit CFCF on MySpace to stream tracks. Artists, get at this dude, you’ll want a CFCF remix. I’m telling you now before he wants a mil.
Postscript: HEALTH plays tonight, July 19th, at The Smell in Los Angeles. All ages and punk rock as fuck. Make it happen.
This is the debut release for San Francisco noise brats Death Sentence: Panda!, a trio comprised of members from Crack: We Are Rock, T.I.T.S., Total Shutdown, and Murder Murder. 8 short songs of bastard pop mayhem- spastic drum blasts over flute and clarinet over Kim West’s screechy in your face vocals- this is definitely something to check out.
For fans of Les Georges Leningrad, Total Shutdown, Deerhoof, Numbers, The Boredoms. Check our post on Crack: We Are Rock to hear Kim’s previous project & go pick up ‘Puppy, Kitty or Both’ from Southern Records
The Sick Lipstick was a lo-fi, no-fi, noise rock band from Canada. The act was started by Lindsay Gillard & Mark McLean after the demise of their previous band Black Cat#13 which featured Jesse Keeler (pre Death From Above 1979 & MSTRKRFT). The original lineup was baby voiced Lindsay on vocals & Mark on everything else. Later they were joined by Dennis Amos. They released a handful of vinyl only releases on Three One G, Sound Virus, Deleted Art & 5RC but still gathered a pretty large following due to the popularity of Black Cat#13.
I saw them on their tour with An Albatross & xbxrx back in the day & even though An Albatross (who was headlining) didn’t show due to van troubles no one in the crowd was upset because TSL put on a hell of a performance. Too bad the band bit the dust after their 1st and only full length in 2003.
The Sick Lipstick - Thigh Master, I’m Yr Master (Download)
from ‘Sting Sting Sting’
The Sick Lipstick - Sermon From Between His Legs (Download)
from self-titled EP
The Sick Lipstick - Teenage Robots (Download)
from TSL/XBXRX 7″ split
Last I checked Lindsay was in a project called Fox The Boombox & making WolfBags. Mark was doing his own project called Marlax & was Dennis in the Creeping Nobodies. You can pick up Sick Lipstick’s ‘Sting Sting Sting’ on cd from amazon.
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