Not intended to feature the latest music out there, my ‘Pick of the Week’ is to simply share & highlight music I personally enjoy regardless of timeframe. This weeks pick is Public Image Ltd.’s album ‘Second Edition’.
Public Image Ltd. (PiL for short) was formed by Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon after they disbanded. ‘Second Edition’ was PiL’s second album (originally released as ‘Metal Box’ in a metal film canister on 3 12″s).
This is the soundtrack for those gloomy days, as Lydon’s detached, anxious vocals and somber lyrics, combined with the stark, austere sound of the rest of the band make for quite a listening experience.
Not intended to feature the latest music out there, my ‘Pick of the Week’ is to simply share & highlight music I personally enjoy regardless of timeframe. This weeks pick is Chilean band Panico, who make catchy (dance/post/disco)-punk that should appeal to fans of bands like !!!, The Rapture, & ESG.
The overall sound of ‘Subliminal Kill’ is very raw, almost like it was recorded live at some crazy house party. ‘Subliminal Kill’ was released on indie French label Tigersushi and was co-produced by electronic music pioneers Joakim & Cristian Vogel.
San Francisco native, Public (Nick Marsh) began recording/producing music with a 4-track tape deck at the age of 11. In his teens Marsh played in numerous post-hardcore bands, and in 2004 began an electronic solo project titled: “Marsh”. “Marsh” released one self-titled LP, and two EP’s during the two year span the project lasted for.
After his Marsh project & endless months of toying with samplers, drum machines, and a long list of music programs, Marsh had recorded enough solid material to birth a new project; Public. Despite the recent emergence into dance music, Public has built a large library of original and remixed tracks. Get your mouse pointers on these tracks that will make you want to dance, shake, move and perhaps even lean back.
Currently on tour, Chi-town’s Flosstradamus take some time out of their busy schedule tell us what they are up to:
What’s up Flosstradamus! First off, introduce yourselves.
Hello Bloggers and friends! We’re Flosstradamus! We’re two guys from Chicago who DJ a LOT and sometimes make a remix or two here and there.
How’d you guys come up with the name ‘Flosstradamus’?
Curt and I were djing in my room one night when he played a Lil’ Jon record on 45 and it got me so hyped that I took the record off the turntable and broke it over Curt’s head and knocked him out and when he woke up he told me of all these visions he had about us becoming a DJ MEGA GROUP and playing music for kids who love the party as much as us all over the world and together at the same time we looked into each others eyes and said… Flosstradamus.
When did you guys start DJing/producing music?
Curt started about 9 years ago and I started about 7 years ago.
How would you describe your style?
Fun. Honestly we started out throwing parties in Chicago because we wanted to give our friends a place to go and dance without having to worry about feeling weird, or judged, or looked at for the way they dressed… i.e. not a club. It’s always been about giving our people a
place to go have fun for cheap.
What are some of your influences musically?
Right now it’s our friends man… Chicago, Kid Sister, Cool Kids, A-Trak, Chromeo, Yuksek, Treasure Fingers… lots of people are killing it and they all seem to be really cool too so it works out. Cajmere [Green Velvet] has always been a huge influence personally, even though he’s super Christian now which is a bit weird, dude has HITS. Would love to work with him.
Curt, talk about your Flossy FX sampler. What’s it all about?
Flossy FX is a little “stand alone” application I designed to play sound fx, vocal drops, or any audio file along with Serato. I designed it when money was tight for us. I was going to purchase a sampler to use in our sets to play the “Flosstradamus” robot sample along with a few air horns and other things to heighten the night. Me being a cheapskate and a nerd I figured out a way to do the same thing with the program I designed. What it does is it stays on top of Serato when we DJ. It has a row of buttons on it that you can use to drag and drop any file to mp3, wav, aif. Once you drag and drop the file onto the button, you can either click the button or press the key on your keyboard that corresponds to that button. There are other features in the app that allow you to let the whole sample play from beginning to end, or as long as you keep the button pressed, or layer samples.
Once we finish version 2, I will have it up on our new website I’m designing. We will give it away for free with a donation. Eventually I would like to have Serato pick up on this feature. I also have a huge grocery list of features I would like to work with Serato on. I know that some how DJ AM was able to get his own version of Serato made. Maybe we could have our own version of Serato. You know, for the ‘hipster’ DJ crowd!? Maybe even our own release that has special colored vinyl? I would also like to be able to integrate MIDI so i could add cowbells drums etc into more of a live performance with Serato.
What does 2008 hold for Flosstradamus? Any future collabos we can look forward to?
Our album is going to drop this year. We’ve been talking about it forever, but it’s actually starting to look like it’s really going to happen which is exciting to say the least. The whole album is going to be based around some serious collaborations… it’s all teamwork man! We wouldn’t be where we are today if it wasn’t for the help of all our people, so we’re going to return the favor and put them all on our record.
Any last words?
The only two that matter right now… Chicago and Illinois.
With the go ahead from ADULT.’s Adam Lee Miller to post this, here is the latest news on ‘Detroit’s undying isolationists’, taken from their website, Adultperiod.com…
PART I:
Adult. will be premiering their new silent-experimental-short-horror film DECAMPMENT May 9, 2008 at 7:00pm and 8:30pm at the Detroit Institute of Arts accompanied by their own peculiar electronic horror music especially scored for the film. DECAMPMENT was written, produced and directed by ADULT. in early 2008 and follows a women’s transmigration from her “normal” life into a new society of deceit. Filmed entirely in Michigan, DECAMPMENT explores ADULT.’s obsession with an often overlooked and distinctive aesthetic that they call “midwestern horror”. The all new soundtrack will be performed live by ADULT. during the screening of the film and will be a mutation of instrumental film music and more ADULT.-like irregularities.
PART II:
ADULT. will be releasing their first new release in over a year. The DECAMPMENT TRILOGY is an extremely limited 7″ series to be released on ERSATZ AUDIO. Three 7″s -each strictly limited to 100 copies- will tell the story of DECAMPMENT through music, lyrics and photographs. Each hand numbered 7″ will come in a full color jacket along with a limited 16″ x 20″ photographic print from Nicola Kuperus signed and numbered. Collect the entire 7″ trilogy to piece together the narrative of DECAMPMENT, plus own the limited edition 7″s and the Kuperus Triptych available ONLY through the ADULT. One 7″ will be released each month starting May 13th. More info coming soon concerning this project.
Not intended to feature the latest music out there, my ‘Pick of the Week’ is to simply share & highlight music I personally enjoy regardless of timeframe. This weeks featured artist is Scorn (Mick Harris), remembered by most as being the former drummer for grindcore legends Napalm Death. Scorn has worked with avant-garde composer John Zorn and prolific producer Bill Laswell and has been remixed by the likes of electronic virtuosos Autechre, experimental industrialists Coil, and Meat Beat Manifesto to name a few. Scorn’s sound was a precursor to dubstep, and for the most part, can best be described as nightmare music- dark atmospheric tones and super low bass frequencies over left field dub/downtempo beats.
Not intended to feature the latest music out there, my ‘Pick of the Week’ is to simply share & highlight music i personally enjoy regardless of timeframe. This weeks featured artist is Ceephax Acid Crew (Andy Jenkinson). Firmly rooted in all things electronic, particularly acid & drum and bass, Ceephax can be compared to many of the acts on Aphex Twin’s record label, Rephlex, as well as his brother Squarepusher. I’d describe his music as being rhythmically erratic and energetic with melodies that can sometimes detach you from reality…
Made entirely from (Moog, Roland, Waldorf, etc.) synthesizers with guest appearances from the likes of longtime Matmos collaborators Lesser and Hrvatski (Keith Fullerton Whitman), as well as Marshall Allen (Sun Ra Arkestra) and minimalist composer Terry Riley, this might just be my favorite Matmos album ever! It’s a colorful kaleidoscope of wonderful playful sounds that recalls a lot of Mouse on Mars‘ earlier work. ‘Supreme Balloon’ shows again how multi-faceted Matmos (Drew Daniel and Martin C. Schmidt) are musically, marking yet another superb release that further solidifies their importance to music that matters.
Here’s a choice cut off of ‘Supreme Balloon’ entitled ‘Polychords’-
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