about time we had one of these .

ive been out .and about .
but mostly out .
isnt it time for those juicy videos that trigger
the eyes and the ears ?

alors voila .
enjoy it my leuhves.

for my tiger

click on the video to view it on youtube so that it won't be cut off....

We like moustaches

hey guys, don't know why this video is cut off. before there used to be a little button to click on about the frame but now i can't find it anymore...so that kinda blows bodacious banana chunks of vomitous vile.

anyway, i'm more a fan of the song than the clip, but hey...maybe i just forgot what it's like to be a lovesick teenager

2Pause | TV Glory: Havoc Arise

2Pause | TV Glory: Havoc Arise

can't wait

Shoes

normally, i wouldn't miss these two, especially since i kinda have a crush on the chick guitarist. ahhh, anne-so and i talked to her the last time they played at Le Grand Mix (amazing show) and her hot rock presence melted my insides like butter. but, this time i'm not going. why? well, i'm not really into their new emo-grunge style. this clip is from their old album. 






oh my god, more shoes! i discovered this via Pablo when we used to have our little crazy youtube video sessions. check out the other one that got us hooked in the first place- let me borrow that top

Icebergs in Paradise

I can't believed I missed Beach House! They played our beloved Aeronef about a month ago.
What can I do ? Bite my chapped lips until they bleed ? Bang my big head onto the walls ?
I feel haunted, musically abused, and merely can't brush their eerie melodies off my mind.



How delightful.



Their last album "Teen Dream" bears such a calm, expanding beauty, like a patch of bright green grass gently grazed by the sweeping wind.

The Morning Benders snatched my fancy straight from the first chord.
It makes me want to pack up and elope to San Francisco. Please take a listen to their delicious "Big Echo" record.



For some freudian reasons I have a thing for high heels. They drive me bonkers. Unfathomable. Do they symbolise the erotic appeal of some scalding fantasy ? Where are we all headed, us who indulge cherishing our iniquities ?



Were we to sin, let's do it together !

Yours, tenderly

Paper-hearted devil

hello but fuck

yes i missed out this weekend
while u moved your hips to fuck buttons and wild beasts
these guys were keeping me company



local natives

bless the children

Barging forward: where we'll be loitering.

I deeply apologise for not posting in a long time. I guess I didn't feel the tickle of inspiration.

I'm so thrilled considering the bonanza of gigs and parties we'll be embracing over the forthcoming weeks. Go snatch your diaries and let me give you an inkling of our exquisite menu:

Starting on this coming friday, Enola, member of the In Fine label, will be dishing out bouncy waves in Le Rouge bar. Hosted by the outrageously friendly Algorythme team.

Warp is taking over Tri Postal on march 19 with Autechre front-lining the party. Hopefully it won't be as warm and sweltering as the NAME festival last september, which was literally a boiling cauldron raging under trickles of evaporated sweat dangling from the ceiling.

I can't wait to admire lovely Owen Pallett in Aeronef on march 21. It'll be well pleasant to dance off a lazy sunday listening to his mellifluous songs. You should definitely check his last album "Heartland".





Brussels Electronic Music Festival came up with the neat idea of inviting this year Border Community on saturday the 27th of march. Unfortunately, Nathan Fake and Ricardo Tobar won't be tagging along (they're playing in Utrecht the same night, bummer!) but James Holden and Luke Abbott will make the belgium capital twirl and tremble.
My hips are shaking at the mere thought. Shall we attend the whole festival ?

April the 10th, on a saturday night at De Kreun we'll see Fuck Buttons twiddling the knobs and pouring onto the crowd monstrous saturated sounds. Supporting band, ear-bashing Three Trapped Tigers, will join the revelries. I'm really looking forward to seeing these guys live.


Our beloved Wild Beasts will be back around in Brussels' Botanique on friday the 16th of april. There's no way I'm gonna miss them this time !


It's not over yet people but I'm way too tired to go on and will resume later.
Toodle pip for now.

i like technology .i like u .but i still like techno.logy

whoever said hope gives courage is full of shit
surrendering gives courage
give up and dont fight
hope feeds the ego that feeds on the future
thats wat hope does
it gives the future the upper hand to decide
it gives the present a thought to chew on
and leaves u with a wasted hour and a wasted life time
dont hope
surrender


all this "antlers "talk about hospital beds doesnt leave u with a good thought
neither their extremley low budget videos
but their tunes are just exceptional






hint for a cheap and great music video:
wedding camera men
or just go through ur parents vhs home videos

jordan where the hell art thou ?

space odyssey

let's fly off into space to...
to the alien obelisk on one of saturn's moons.
at the speed of light of roughly 300,000 km/s.
drum 'n' bass seems to help me fly through this world at that speed.
and after watching this video it seems that i'm not the only one...




one part of this video reminds me of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Grooverider peeks through the blinds of a window and sees a multitude of colourful geometric planes.
(if you want more of Grooverider, check out his BBC Radio 1 show: www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/fabioandgrooverider/  

to be honest, i prefer London Elektricty's podcast a lot better.









if you want more spacey drum n bass then i recommend:

Pendulum-still grey (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRv1wBTd_iY)

Other artists: High Contrast, Logistics, and Danny Byrd.

Live long and prosper.

Exclusive Mix

Hello my darlings.

Here is an EXCLUSIVE mix only for your ears. This is because I consider this a 'rough' draft.  It's mostly because I really messed up 1 mix. Could improve a few transfers. And I'm thinkin about taking out "I wanna be sedated" completely.  Nonetheless, it's still one of my craziest mixes EVER! The title itself should give you a good idea:

So Glove - Psycho Adrenaline  by  So Glove

HAIL TO THE BIRTHDAY BOY

i wrote u a poem for the occasion:

ROSES ARE RED
VIOLETS ARE
GRRRRRRRREAT.

ps : dont change man .
dont change

and ofcourse i just cant leave u without
a special dedicacion

JER JER this is for you.

Le Le - Breakfast from magnetron music on Vimeo.

happy birthday .bitch.

one step forward two steps backwards

i had a dream last night about turtles. at first i only saw one in the box. then after some confusion and hesitation i lifted up the log inside the box and out from underneath came at least 4 more turtles of all sizes. and that's all i remember. i looked into what dreams about turtles mean and i'm still not sure what to think. some sites say that i will have good luck coming my way, others say that i need to slow down and be careful. we live in an information overload world. there seems to always be 2 opposite explanations for everything. which one do i choose?  instead of going forward with all this information, we're going backwards... but hey, at least we're having fun, aren't we?

WHATs the cure to your discomfort ?

im thirsty
when i need to pee
im nausious
when i need to eat
im weary when i need to work

any cure for signs of discomfort ?

for the moment , therye my cure .

http://www.marcjohns.com/blog/sticky-note-drawings.html




electralane does it too




and this animated bijou does the deed especially the "rocket part "

outside the box from joseph Pelling on Vimeo.

note to jordan whos concert i missed .monde est sexy is wicked u gotta post up some more tunes on my space !

Send my regards to those who suffer endlessly

It feels good to see how things seem to be sizzling despite the biting cold out there.
First I'd like to start with what might be the most beautiful, intriguing, downright compelling piece of music I've recently come across. You must have heard of them before. I'm talking about The Knife, the renowned Swedish duo, who just released their album "Tomorrow, In A Year". I haven't granted enough time to the whole record (yet), but surely the teaser song "Colouring Of Pigeons" is now engraved deep upon the walls of my spindly flesh.



It's baffling how poignant this is to me. The melody rumbles on with precision in an expanding swirl of strings, howling, creaking, shrewdly whining in your ears. It's raw, violent and tender all at once. I should admit I adore this kind of paradoxical concoction of emotions.
If you haven't heard the track already, then you're lucky. It'll certainly be a rocky journey.

I've got kind of an obsessive personality. When my brain stumbles on something it fancies, it proves hard to steer clear of the thought. It's like glued to my synapses.
I'm crazy about Deer Hunter. These guys are unbearable. In a good way. A very good way. SO talented I'm literally dying of jealousy. Ha ha !
After all this delirious ranting, let's get to the point. I hope you'll enjoy this little selection from the albums "Weird Era Continued" and "Microcastle".



Not quite sure whether or not it's an official video. Probably not. It might be about time. Regrets. How your memorabilia lingers through time and space. An absolute masterpiece !





Strolling back to the Microcastle record. It sounds poppier but Nothing Ever Happened is nonetheless surprising... Listen ! When a charming frenzy of crunchy guitar riffs kick in, then coolly builds up.

By the way, these loony blokes have a lovely blog that you should look up:

If you're into minimal/house at all, Rodriguez JR will be taking over Kiosk on friday night. Tempted ?

keep it positive

good idea Jo Jo. we need to keep things light and happy during these harsh cold days. who is better to help carry us away into a fun semi-surreal yet simple world than Michel Gondry. Here's his new video for Mia Doi Todd "Open Your Heart"  This is the first time I've heard her and she sounds to me like a mix between a female version of Jose Gonzalas with a little touch of Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66, which is nice because all of them really do make me think of a warmer tropical environment. You guys are welcome to come over anytime for a tropical samba bossa nova party. I'll crank up the heat and we'll dance and pretend we're in South America and do Southern American things. btw if you had to choose, who would u guys like better Michel Gondry or Spike Jonze?


Mia Doi Todd, "Open Your Heart" from self-titled on Vimeo.

brain freeze

what day is it already ?
im sick of running after that white rabbit
is it getting colder ?
or my brain cells are messing with my body temperature
ur office video jer jer is a refreshing-right-before-bed awakening

on a lighter note ,heres charlotte gainsbourgs surreal video with beck
too bad the images are apparently "inspired " or plagiarized
see this link
http://musique.fluctuat.net/blog/41288-heaven-can-wait-le-clip-de-charlotte-gainsbourg-est-il-un-plagiat-.html

i've got a case of the mondays

it's monday, and don't fuckin feel like workin in the office today. i'm so lethargic that i don't feel like typing anymore right now. just watch the fuckin office revolution videos already

filling the void

after our conversation from last night on expressing our frustrations about the world i leave you with some common words of wisdom on an engraved penny handed down to me from my late american grandfather.

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.


Reading this seems to help me face the world with new light whenever i'm down. And so does this song:





Oh yeah... so I've never been much of a fan of Charlotte Gainsbourg's music, but I am a devoted Beck fan and since she's collaborated with him on her latest album she gets a few extra points on my scale giving her a B on a scale from 75 to 151(75 being Nutella, 151 being Tropical Rainforest). She gets 10 more points for wearing a sexy tennis skirt in the video, but she loses 5 for holding a baby, but then gets 5 more for having possibly the most random video ever. it's worth watching atleast 2 times to catch all the bizarre stuff happening in the background. total score = quagmire yahtzee 7.5 orange.

this one's for you Joan.

And so we may die peacefully (Anomalous Appendages)

I'm delighted you guys started posting. Many thanks out to you all.

This week has been intense, hectic, physically, emotionally and of course, musically.

It's startling how sometimes you shilly-shally through your day and every little thing seems out of place, like dropped from separate puzzles, incapable of fitting together. Despite this seething kerfuffle of worried thoughts I chanced upon Andrew Bird's Noble Beast which had been lounging in my ipod for a while.
Andrew always amazes me with his beautifully written lyrics, soothing though not devoid of tension. It's highly-strung, strongly emotional, in an outstanding and very mature way.
"Love of hate acts as an axis
First it wanes and then it waxes
So procreate and pay your taxes"
I never found the timbre of his voice that compelling on his previous albums (don't get me wrong, he does sing sublimely, I'm only talking about the colour of his falsetto and tremolos). On Noble Beast, he croons with less pomposity, at turns subdued and peppy, at times slowing down, fading out into quivering moans. Some bits remind me of Thom Yorke's wobbly sobs. For some reasons, the whole airy vibe alludes to my beloved Midlake (look them up if you haven't already, the album Trials Of Van Occupanther is a killer, and they'll be playing Grand Mix on april 15 by the way.)



You might fancy this live version of the same song (recently recorded at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis) :



Well, I admit he bears a fairly dire barnet but so it goes.
I'd be chuffed to have him around France someday soon.

I'm afraid this saturday doesn't look as promising as last week end's menu. It's no reason to chin down, on the contrary, it'll be the occasionto shrug off the routine and improvise.
As a pump-up, you might need this exceedingly bouncy, hip-shaking, bum-grooving remix of Dragonette by these lovely Cavaliers of Fun:



See you around (maybe tonight ?)

oldies but goodies

jeremy: hi. my name's jeremy and i'm addicted to new music.
NMA group: hi, jeremy.
jeremy; last week i made a breakthrough in my struggle in my new music addiction. i listened to some not so new music and i liked it. i liked it so much that i listened to these songs over and over again until i had an epiphany. i realized that it doesn't matter whether the music is new or old, pop or indie, rock or rap and that as long as it sounds good then it's...it's...*takes a deep breath to hold in the emotional sobs*... it's OK to listen everything!

Last week's nostalgic stuck on repeat top 5 for Jeremy; 

1. (you all know this first one... the one i used to experiment with the other blog possibilities; btw this blog does seem to work best for everyone) Nirvana-Breed
2. Empire of the Sun - Tiger by my side
3. The Vogues - Five o'clock world
4. Air - Mike Mills
5. Les Rythmes Digitales - Sometimes




stay tuned for some NEW mixes

tails and feathers

oy to the lads

when u lack inspiration tune in to discovery channel
im not sure what it is but theres def something
about tails and feathers that is influencing the music of our generation
heres some animal inspired bands






grizzly bear and this brilliant video
im especially a fan of the paki's face
their eyes are way too freaky

Hail to the faces !

Good evening lads and birds.

Jeremy and I were having a jaunty banter earlier this evening over some delicious tartines. The idea of sharing a virtual space was raised. A place where we could blog about what we like and find inspiring, whatever it might entail.
No doubt it'll be mostly about music and gigs.
Let's bite the bullet.

What should we kick off with ? I'm obsessed with a track that really stood out from Revolver's debut album "Music For A While".


The rest of the album sounds a tad trite to me but this song got me hooked up straight away. A simple guitar riff chimes in the background, soft voices intertwine in beautiful harmony, blending into a scrumptious medley. An aural delight for my picky ears I must say.

Drifting off towards a different genre, Lucile (whom a few of you might know now) just sent me the link to this amazing, kinda eerie music video:


Port Royal was absolutely unheard of for me until now. They're italian. They've released five LPs. You can find the track ("Balding Generation-Losing Hair As We Lose Hope") on their last record Dying In Time. I can't wait to fulfil my musical urges with these little gems. If you guys are benighted as well, it might give you an inkling of their electronica-ambientish style. I love how the song slowly builds up and keeps hovering wildly through layers of synthesizers.

Alright, that's it for now. Feel free to post whenever that suits your mood.

Peace out.

Jordan