Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 11:17AM What a weekend. Sadly I missed Baconhead as the car broke down en route, but I did witness their live debut at Wrong Music last month and the sound was what coupld be described as a crunchingly grinding funk of a hop. More to come from them soon get their Soap EP on Acroplane now if you haven't already.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 12:08PM Monday, April 11, 2011 at 5:54PM Sturqen's Peste EP made a big impression on me last year with it's singing industrial drone, it also helped them come top in two categories in this year's Electronic Music Quartz awards in France - for Qwartz Artiste and Qwartz Découverte.
Here's a video for a new track Pertal. For more info go to their website and further listening the MANTIS radio showcase can be found here.
Friday, April 8, 2011 at 2:02PM Chuck D / Eclectic Method - Outta Sight (audio mix by Icarus, video mix by Weirdcore/Andrew Benson) from weirdcore on Vimeo.
I think the title says it all on this one, and is timed well as Icarus embark on their summer tour, starting in Brighton next Friday for the aforementioned Wrong Music party and also sees them at the Electroworks for the Centrifuge + Splutter Japan fundraiser on the 28th with Mike Dred headlining and null+void's Kirsti Weir in the courtyard (more info here).
See the rest of the tour dates here.
Friday, January 21, 2011 at 12:01PM It's not often these days we get videos for electronic music, a promo video accompanies every single released b a mainstream artist it's a necessary to meet the demands of MTV play list, however a position on the MTV playist is not within the grasp (nor even is it desired) of today's independents when it comes to electronic music so they are a rare occurance and invoke a more interesting premise than the commercial promo. However, the visual element made to accompany electronic music is alive and strong in AV live sets like those created by our interviewees Gabriela Dwoeckie and Derek Stormfield who are past collaborators using Gabriela's imagery alongside Derek's dark sub fused beats. These mainly accompany live music outings but something different is being explored by Derek who recently released a bashment AV project via Rob Booth's Electronic Explorations podcast, a half hour DJ set accompanied by bespoke visuals. So the story goes at some point an idea came inspired by Monster X's Werewolf Gangbang track the team set upon creating a 'proper' music video for it, it was released last Friday, again, via Rob Booth's EE site so we got to talk to the two creators about the video's inception, production and imagery.
