goodlala: May 2010

Monday, May 31, 2010

XPLODING PLASTIX

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnJ998Trn7g&feature=related

Ena ekrhktiko kommati apo tous Xploding Plastix!!!

Xploding Plastix is a Norwegian two-man band playing Electrofunk/Big beat music with elements of jazz. Jens Petter Nilsen and Hallvard Wennersberg Hagen (formerly in Norwegian black metal band Kvist) formed the group in early 1999, and submitted their first demotape in 2000. Their song, "Treat Me Mean, I need the Reputation" became an instant classic when it was released as a 7" on Beatservice Records in 2000. It was later re-released in 2002 on Hospital Records and championed by LTJ Bukem, Coldcut, and Grooverider. Their first album,Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents, was released in 2001 on Beatservice, and re-issued in 2004 by Palm Pictures.^[1]

Since the release of The Donca Matic Singalongs album in 2003, they have been busy working with music for short films, movies, and TV- and radio-productions.^[2] They have also collaborated with the Kronos Quartet^[3] who have performed their three movement composition, The Order of Things: Music for the Kronos Quartet. They have also worked in the collaboration project Piston Ltd who released the album Domestic Engine last autumn.^[4] They also have a sideproject The Electones.^[5]

Xploding Plastix released a new album in September 2008 entitled Treated Timber Resists Rot on Beatservice Records. This is to be accompanied by a revisited re-release of The Donca Matic Singalongs which was not originally distributed outside of Scandinavia,^[2] and a new EP called Devious Dan featuring tracks from previous music videos.^[2]

[edit]Discography

Treat me mean, I need the reputation, 7" (2000)
Doubletalk, EP 12" (2001)
Behind the Eightball, EP (2001)
Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents, CD/LP (2001)
Plastic Surgery LP 3 Sampler side A, 12" on Hospital Records NHS42 (2002)
The Benevolent Volume Lurkings, EP (2003)
The Donca Matic Singalongs, CD/LP (2003)
The Rebop By Proxy EP, EP (2004)
Treated Timber Resists Rot, CD/LP (2008)

Monday, May 24, 2010

BOARDS OF CANADA - PEACOCK TAIL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdxNGykpkrY

Tha mas trelanoun aytoi!

Poly ambient kommati.

Friday, May 21, 2010

Tricky - Overcome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V26zxH_JMk

Tricky (born Adrian Nicholas M. Thaws on 27 January 1968) is an English^[2] musician and actor. As a producer and a musician, he is noted for a dark, rich and layered sound and a whispering sprechgesanglyrical style. Culturally, Tricky encourages an intertwining of societies, particularly in his musical fusion of rock and hip hop, high art and pop culture. His debut album Maxinquaye was nominated for the Mercury Prize and voted Album of the Year by NME Magazine.

Eventually he met DJ Milo and hung out with a sound system called The Wild Bunch, which by 1987 evolved into Massive Attack. He received the nickname 'Tricky Kid' and at 18 he became a member of theFresh 4, a rap group built from The Wild Bunch. He also rapped on Massive Attack's acclaimed debut album Blue Lines (1991).

He left Massive Attack to release his debut album, Maxinquaye. The album was a massive success and Tricky was catapulted to international fame,^{[citation needed]} something he was notably uncomfortable with. This was because the impact of his album truly set the stage for trip-hop within the black community in the United Kingdom. Tricky was able to do so much with his music by incorporating different musical genres in his sound, but ultimately making sure he made the overall product his own. In fact, the Maxinquaye album review by the Rolling Stone magazine read, "Tricky devoured everything from American hip-hop and soul to reggae and the more melancholic strains of 80s British rock."^[3] It is important to note that Tricky paid tribute to early hip-hop artists whose music was, and still is, influential in the hip-hop scene. He also incorporated commercial pop music into his music, and by combining early hip-hop and pop samples in his music, he found a way to appeal to both audiences, which rarely happens. As Hesmondhalgh and Melville wrote, "Tricky showed his debt to hip-hop aesthetics by reconstructualizing samples and slices of both the most respected black music (Public Enemy) and the tackiest pop (quoting David Cassidy’s “How Can I Be Sure?”)."^[4] Mixing all of these elements, Tricky created "a mercurial style of dance music that immediately finds it own fast feet."^[3]