Posts Tagged ‘anti-pop consortium’

EVENT: Anti-Pop Consortium

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Despite the fact that this will kept short and sweet, doesn’t mean its not worth mentioning at all. Here’s what’s going down:

1. Big Dada signed APC

2. They dropped ‘Fluorescent Black‘ 7 years after their Matthew Shipp collabo.

3. They are touring and happen to be passing through King’s Cross’ Scala tonight.

4. Its gonna be messy.

If you haven’t heard any of the tracks off Fluorescent Black, hit up their MySpace… dope is an understatement.

Catch you in the mosh-pit.

Details are as follows:

Thurs 5th Nov, 7pm – 11pm

£14

Click here for more info.

Listen: Lola Recommends…

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Been on a mellow yet experimental vibe of late. Tune in and digest these dope tracks…* You owe it to your ears and soul:

1. First Weaving (Fifth Thread) – Keith Tippett Tapestry Orchestra

>> Live at Le Mans Festival (Red Eye, 2007)

>>> Melancholic lamentation piece. Beautifully crafted composition with Balkan-esque vocal intervals. Perfectly slow. Was recorded in 1998 but the funding was pulled for its official release. However, it was since released almost 10 years later on the Red Eye indie label.

2. Everything Up (Zizou) – Zero 7

>> Yeah Ghost (Atlantic Records, 2009)

>>> Possibly the 1st single off their new release. Upbeat, Monday-morning, light-hearted s**t. Accelerated folk music but has that perfect balance between trippy sound effects and the usual traditional mood that Zero 7 always seem to pull off so unpretentiously.

3. Chase – Giorgio Moroder

>> Midnight Express – Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Casablanca Records, 1978)

>>> Pure 80’s. Futuristic, neon space invaders italo-disco with a little bit of synthesizer-suffocated gayness. Classic.

4. Platinum Rows – Tyondai Braxton

>> Central Market (Warp Records, 2009)

>>> Infectious epic score music. Over 10 minutes long. This track could force spontaneous creativity out of a librarian. Tyondai takes the mental aspects of Battles‘ math rock and purifies it with this full-sounding dramatic orchestra. Dreamworks needs to jump on this guy.

5. New Frontier – Anti-Pop Consortium

>> Fluorescent Black (Big Dada, 2009)

>>> Skillful sporadic rhyming laced on top of heavy duty production. Simply raw electricity and mismatched synth punches. APC give us too many hot tracks on this new drop: I’m also lapping up Timpani, Born Electric and End Game.

6. Kisses – Donn T

>> Donn T (Still Music, 2009)

>>> Moody organic soul (from ?uestlove’s sis). Chilled and not fussy. Her voice aint anything special but it works (especially when layered in the chorus – Omar style). Plus the song is given that extra depth with the Hammond seeing the track out.

7. Fall Suite – The Last Electro-Acoustic Space & Jazz Ensemble

>> Fall Suite (Stones Throw, 2009)

>>> A non-stop, half an hour jazz session that is so reliably spot on, it kinda makes you wonder if there’s actually anything Madlib can’t do?

*Oops, I just realised that the mass majority of these tracks are fresh. Do excuse me. I guess next time, I’ll have to throw in some serious golden oldies;-)