Great news for all Dalek I (Love You) fans! Their new web site is up. The main menu includes news, topics and downloads. In the download section, there is a very obscure track from "Naive", the third DILY release from 1985. They promise more. We'll see.
Midnight Juggernauts Release Their Debut Album Dystopia
Midnight Juggernauts are an indie-electro-synth group from Melbourne. Their debut album, 'Dystopia', was released in Australia on August 4, 2007, with an international release to follow at a later date. The album was previewed by radio station Triple J as the "Album of the Week". Vincent from the band has provided Triple J with previews for most of the tracks, citing Electric Light Orchestra as one of their influences, a key sound in some of their tracks, particularly “Into the Galaxy”. Singles released by the group include “Raised By Wolves”, “Shadows”, “Road to Recovery” and “Into the Galaxy”.
Instant Hit: The Sound- Contact The Fact
"Contact The Fact" is a song that got me into The Sound. I discovered it while it was a top song on their Last.fm profile list. It was never released as a single and it appeared on the album From The Lions Mouth which was released in 1981 through Korova and WEA records. The album was reissued in 2012 by 1972.
Paul Haig-Electronik Audience
Music has previously always struggled to keep pace with Paul Haig. His 80's angular Edinburgh post-punk outfit Josef K were way ahead of their time, influencing numerous contemporary bands (most notably Franz Ferdinand). His last few solo releases too - the Cinematique albums - were eminently futuristic.
On Electronik Audience it’s Haig that seems to be playing catch up though. Resembling a bunch of dodgy early 90's house anthems - all flimsy processed beats and ambient synths - much of this record simply sounds dated. Only "Reason" and "Thieves" show real flashes of inspiration, their sneering vocals suggesting - frustratingly, if nothing else - that the trailblazing old punk is actually still in him, somewhere. ~Malcolm Jackwww.list.co.uk/article/2261-paul-haig
"Reason" is the first single which was released in May.The new single is out this week an it is called "Thieves/Ready To Go".
Robin Crutchfield / Dark Day
Dark Day was the minimal electronics brainchild of Robin Crutchfield following his separation with no wave band DNA. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, Crutchfield was fascinated with both performance art and the most esoteric edge of pop music.
After making his escape to New York City in the mid-seventies, he presented several noteworthy performance pieces at the New York Avantgarde Festival, Stefan Eins' 3 Mercer Street Store and Artists' Space. Inspired by Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band and Lydia Lunch's Teenage Jesus and The Jerks, he made the transition into the new music of downtown Manhattan and formed the "no wave" band DNA with Arto Lindsay and Ikue Mori in 1977. This lineup recorded a single and 4 tracks with Brian Eno for the seminal No New York album.
In 1979 Crutchfield left DNA to pursue a series of musical projects under the name Dark Day. The first Dark Day single, "Hands In The Dark/Invisible Man" on the Lust/Unlust label, featured Robin's singing and modified electric piano backed by Nina Canal (of the Gynecologists and more recently, Ut) and Nancy Arlen (of Mars).
By the time of Dark Day's first album, 'Exterminating Angel' (Lust/Unlust, 1980), the group consisted of Robin, Phil Kline, Barry Friar and a revolving lineup of artists which included Steven Brown and Peter Principle of Tuxedomoon, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, Nina Canal and David Rosenbloom. During this period Dark Day performed at the Mudd Club, CGBG's and Max's Kansas City. After a tour of Europe, Robin re-formed Dark Day in 1981 as a synthesizer duo with Bill Sack and released the album 'Window' (Plexus, 1982). Over the next few years Robin resumed his work as a performance artist at such venues as Club 57 and Joseph Papp's Public Theatre. In 1985 he recreated Dark Day as an acoustic chamber ensemble performing atmospheric music in a medieval vein and released his 'Darkest Before Dawn' disc in 1989.
For most of the 1990's, Robin concentrated on his work in graphic design and performance art while editing the music newsletter "Quirky". In 1999 Robin utilized the new technology available to musicians and returned to the ambient and techno genres that he helped pioneer, on his disc Strange Clockwork.In August of 2000, Dark Day released its 5th album of original music Loon 'the mental health project' featuring 7 short instrumental works to exorcise the demons of the mind. In the Spring of 2002, the next Dark Day album was issued under the alias darkdayrobin, entitled The Happy Little Oysters. The material is in the same vein as the previous two outings -gear- like layers of melody and rhythm with a comically sinister edge. Robin also resumed painting and writing, two activities he had not tackled since the early 80's. He self-published a number of faerie tales, and they are available for inspection elsewhere on this site.
In 2006, after having purchased a number of harps and psalteries, and having happened upon the spiritually profound "magic scale", Robin retreated from the cyclic electronic keyboard influences of the 20th century, to embrace acoustic material more in keeping with the ancient past, and released two solo albums, Songs For Faerie Folk, and Toadstool Soup. These feature glissando and drone improvisations on harp, tanpura, lyre, box drum and pixiefone based on some of the thematic elements suggested by the faerie lore of his self-penned tales. Dark Day reissues are available here.
Metric- Grow Up And Blow Away
'Grow Up and Blow Away' was the first recorded album by indie rock band Metric. The album was recorded in 2001, but delayed for years by their record label. As the years passed, the band's sound changed to the point where they no longer felt the album would be what the fans expected to hear, so Metric recorded a completely new album, “Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?”, and released that instead. Last Gang Records later purchased the rights to the album and released it on June 26, 2007.
Instant Hit: Hard Corps- Je Suis Passee
"Je Suis Passee" was one of the few singles Hard Coprs released during their brief career between 1984-1987. At the time they released their compilation album, they split already. The lead singer Regine Fetet died of cancer in 2003 while the other members are still busy with creating music under different names. In 2012, we did an in depth interview with one of the members of the group Clive Pierce. To read the whole interview, follow the link. Clive Pierce Interview
Simian Mobile Disco- Attack Decay Sustain Release
'Attack Decay Sustain Release' is the debut album from Simian Mobile Disco. It was released on June 18, 2007 on Wichita Recordings and reached #59 in the UK album charts.The title of the album is a reference to the ADSR envelope, a component of many synthesizers, samplers, and other electronic musical instruments the function of which is to modulate some aspect of the instrument's sound — often its volume — over time.
Five of the album's ten tracks ("Hustler", "Tits & Acid", "I Believe", "Hotdog" and lead single "It's The Beat") will have been previously available prior to the album's release.
Five of the album's ten tracks ("Hustler", "Tits & Acid", "I Believe", "Hotdog" and lead single "It's The Beat") will have been previously available prior to the album's release.
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