Robot Nippples

A tiny preview of this music I'll be playing at this week's Oslo Report:

Trippple Nippples - PPP (Remix)
Robag Wruhme - Flamingo (Original Mix)

Smoke 'em if you got 'em

As threatened, some persistent sounds of yesterthen.

Rock To The Beat was an anthem to those who spent hours stepping from one foot to the next, while nodding, in a freezing Blackburn warehouse, or Manchester’s Hacienda, during the late 80’s and the earliest years of 90’s. It sounded terribly exotic to me when I first heard it, like the coolest, most deliberately underground and bleak track ever… Still love it.

Reese & Santonio: Rock To The Beat

This next track was released during the bleeps and bass house movement of 1989 – 91, which sprung from northern UK cities Sheffield, Leeds and Bradford.

Rhythmatic: Take Me Back

Couldn’t find the original Push Push, but this M.A.N.D.Y reworking pretty much does the job.

Rockers Hi-Fi: Push Push (M.A.N.D.Y remix)

The next Oslo Report!

A report full of bleeding-edge electro-indie bangers, blog-rocking madness and leftfield noodling! It's on Wednesday May 2nd at Grant and Green, 1371 Grant Avenue, San francisco, CA 94133. Eight till late. Free to get in. The report must be filed. Will you be there to hear it?

Tuck your knob between your legs

I'd previously promised some older-school dusty warehouse classics, however what I have to hand right now is this scattershot assortment of interesting stuff that either had a play out at the last Oslo Report, or will get an airing on May 2nd down at Grant and Green.

This oddity is a recent re-working of Goodbye Horses by Q Lazzarus. To my mind it's not as compelling as the original, lacking as it does the whole, "goodbye horses" chorus bit. But on the plus side it's much more dance friendly. Most people feel they've heard it before, but can't place it. It is of course the track appendage tucking, lotion fancier Buffalo Bill prances about to in Silence of The Lambs.

Goodbye Horses Krikor Edit

If memory serves Bill was an aspirant transsexual which serves as a lazer-targeted segue into a track conveniently called Transsexual, by the French-shaped, Ed Banger Mr Oizo. This is the Lorn Remix and it grumbles along rather finely, although I can't quite work out all the variations of 'sexual' the female vocalist is listing. I need to get out more.

Transsexual Lorn Remix

Finally Evidently Chicken Town by Manchester poet John Cooper Clarke. It was played over the end credits of the Sopranos the other night and it did an astonishing job of reinforcing the (inevitable) concrete-shoesyboots, teeth-stamping and knee-cap brutalizing on the horizon, as the series finally curls it's toes up. Check it out, very interesting and experimental…

Evidently Chicken Town

I got nothing

It wouldn't be right to bellow on like a harpooned whale about being a bit bored with phoned-in Ed Banger rip-offs (see previous post), without suggesting an antidote. But I don't have one.

What I do have are some old warehouse tracks which went down a storm at numerous early 90's Plod-bothering knees-ups in the UK. I think they sound pretty strong even now and I will be dropping a few such classics into my set at the next Oslo Report night in San Francisco (Grant and Green - Wednesday, May 2nd.)

Now if you will, stand aghast as I choose to contravene the accepted rules of blogging by simply naming the tracks and not offering functioning links to download them. This is not due to the belief that making relatively little heard house tracks available will deprive the artists responsible of vital funds, it’s because I don’t know how to do it.

Rockers Hi-Fi: Push Push

Reese & Santonio: Rock To The Beat

Rhythmatic: Take Me Back

I will ask someone for some advanced guidance on making the internet. I will post these tracks in working MP3 order soon. Ish.

Durr durr, dull?

After re-reading the 'blog house' article linked on a previous post here, the ubiquity of grimey, over-looped, distorti-noise house, of the kind that perpetually pays homage to, or (cough) evolves, the early Justice sound, has really hit home for me.

Over the last year or so I’ve actively obtained as much of this music as possible. Initially anything Kitsune, Simian Mobile Disco or Ed Banger, more recently Kissy Sell Out, Van She, Guns and Bombs etc… But is it starting to sound a bit tired?

The freshest track I’ve heard for a while is the Kissy Sell Out mix of Gwen Stefani’s Wind it Up. Perhaps because it’s not reliant on distorted samples, (too) dirty synths and the almost obligatory minute long drop out filled with loops, irregular banging and difficult to love drilling sounds. Actually I think it’s that ‘difficult to love-ness’ that’s starting to bore me. Is there an informal competition between producers trying to out do each other with the most sustained period of virtually unlistenable, unmusical noise shoehorned into a derivative indie-remix? Punkish DIY attitude is great, but is it still daring and rebellious if everyone’s producing records that sound the same?

Gah! Ignore me, I’ve been on a solid diet of Blamma Blamma, ZZZ, Surkin, Stutter, Boy-8-Bit and South Central remixes for too long. Maybe I’ve OD’d?

Either way, I wanna hear something new? I’m waiting for a post-Justice sound. DFA are done. Daft Punk evidently stole all their best ideas from old records. And, I’m reliably informed that in the UK ‘electro house’ is now only bought by guys in square-toed loafers. D.A.N.C.E is ok. But what’s next?

Techno 2.0

Check out these two entries which do a great job describing the sounds of now: Blog House, Nu-Rave

glitchy

Speaking of Trentmoller, hopefully a very special package will arrive from Blighty in time for our next installment of Oslo!