Saturday, September 20, 2008

Exploiting Dreams With Dreamsploitatoin

Dreamsploitation's "Continue to sleep, if only dreaming" is a traffic jam of auditory commotion. The driving horn arrangement begins hitting every red light within a two second span, slamming on the breaks and succinctly pounding upon the car horn. A robust pushing and pulling, presumably a keyboard, follows a triumphant trumpet gathering split second momentum. Slam, the driver is forced to hit the breaks. The car horn blinks sixteen times over; finally the iridescent red changes to green. The locomotive rolls into a blissful state of cruise control.

A lullaby enters, almost as if cajoling the driver into a subdued, contemplative state. The tinkering of piano keys resembles suburban homes and manicured lawns. Just beyond these city limits an expansive prairie sky comes into view. All seems grandiose in contrast to the mathematical maze of concrete trailing behind. A sense of melodic freedom sifts throughout the airy notes. A climbing bass line recalls the magnitude of towers and buildings–a diorama of urbanization shrinks in the rear view mirror.

Freedom is an open road, a sleeper soundly sleeping. The heroic notes of a brass instrument soar. The bass line threatens to overwhelm. Abruptly the daydream cracks, traffic once again interrupts. The driver has fallen asleep at the wheel, a relentless car horn throbs, clashes and blurs into the memory of what could be. The dream is revisited, sounds collide, a kaleidoscope bursts open. With the final note everything dissolves, reality returns, all is lost.

Blazevic, Chuck. The Soft Focus Sound of Today. From Here to There Records., 2008.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Put your hands on your waistline, move your body to the bassline.


I've become obsessed.

Not that that's really news, I am constantly being fixated on one thing or another this is just my most recent one.

Late of the Pier are a 4-piece from Castle Donington (?! I had to look this up and I don't really know enough about UK geograpy to even really place it, although according to their last.fm page it's the "home of metal.") who fucking love Gary Numan, and I mean FUCKING LOVE GARY NUMAN. It works out, because I also fucking love Gary Numan.

Like for realsie, listen to this and tell me it's not true. Tubeway Army FTW.

Their Erol Alkan produced album came out on the 11th on Parlophone with an international release on Moshi Moshi in September. I give it the higest recommendation for fans of the aforementioned Gary Numan, Cut Copy, The Presets, The Whip, Devo.

Last.fm Page
Myspace Page

Check it (Devo meets Gary Numan meets 80s glam breakdowns)...

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

One House. Twenty Bands. One film.


Watch this #4
I'm in the mood for this #26


Photos by Paul Hammond


In the spring of 2007, two friends were moving out of their home.



One of them, a local poster/print guru and sometime dance punk enthusiast, the other, a former local radio personality and History maker decided to throw one big last hurrah to their time while living at 6015 Willow Street in Halifax's north end.


Die Brucke

The "hurrah" became a "holy shit" when the idea blossomed into 20 bands in 3 days and a document of not only a house that has housed many musicians and artists (members of such bands as Die Brucke, The Memories Attack and Dog Day have all lived in the house) but also the Halifax music scene, or rather, the scene which often operates, creates and plays in Halifax's north end.



Our two friends, Paul Hammond and Jeff Parker enlisted not only the bands into this project (and by extension, a whole bunch of their friends) but also director Mark Mullane and (later on) editor Evan Elliott. This "holy shit" had now transcended into a full fledged "HOLY FUCK" as the film was now no longer a document of a weekend in someone's house, but rather, a document of a scene, a city and an artistic endeavour which was now bigger than the two people who had thought of it, almost jokingly.

In this episode of Moody Morning Music I interview Paul and Elliott about their work on this film, about 6015 Willow and how the little film that could is now the big film that is.

Listen. (Zshare)


Seth Smith of Dog Day, former resident of 6015 Willow Street and the other half of the Yo Rodeo Poster Company

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Moody Morning Music for September 2nd, 2008

Check out the small profile on Annie in this week's edition, as well as the tracks by Poni Hoax and the Can edit from Disco not Disco Volume 2

Check it out


Stars, "The Beginning after the end", In Our Bedroom after the war
Merryn Cadell, "Secret", Angel food for thought
Grizzly Bear, "He Hit Me", The Daytrotter Sessions
Buck 65, "Devil's Eyes (Piano Version)", Secret House against the world
The Watson Twins, "Just Like Heaven", Fire Songs
Belle & Sebastian, "I'm waking up to us", 12"
Beautiful South, "We are each other", 0898
Stars, "Take me to the riot", In Our Bedroom after the war
G. Love & Special Sauce, "Cold Beverages"
Dog Day, "End Of The World", Night Group
Les George Leningrad, "Fifi F", Sur Les Traces de Black Eskimo
G Love & Special Sauce, "Cold Beverages"
King Khan & THe Shrines, "Took my lady to dinner", Supreme Genius Of...
Annie, "Chewing Gum", Anniemal
Annie, "The wedding (Live Mix)"
Annie, "I know your girlfriend hates me"
Annie, "I know your girlfriend hates me (Feel The Moog Remix)"
Sebastien Grainger, "When you go out"
Peaches, "Downtown", Impeach my bush
CAN, "Aspectacle (Holger Czukay Edit)"
Crystal Castles, "Crimewave (Dances With White Girls Remix)"
Poni Hoax, "Antibodies", Images of Sigrid
Tiga, "(Far from) Home (the speed of sexor reprise)", Sexor
MGMT, "Electric Feel (Justice is AWESOME Remix)"