MySpace Trawl
MySpace Trawl – FC Kahuna
Again dear reader, lets us clarify with you that FC Kahuna aren't eleven people who play for a football club called Kahuna.
Again dear reader, lets us clarify with you that FC Kahuna aren't eleven people who play for a football club called Kahuna. It is instead the project of the duo Jon Nowell and Daniel Ormondroyd. We pretty much see them as the UK’s underground version of The Chemical Brothers. They have the ability to produce throbbing electro, house
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MySpace Trawl – Message To Bears
Before we harp on about why Message To Bears are unbelievably ace, we’d like to let some of our dimmer readers down. This isn’t the collective of a group of bears who escaped the circus in China and decided to make an album. As we all know, bears can make porridge at best. If you did have a message for a bear, what would it be? We’d ask them to stop crapping in woods near us. Bears are allowed to do it and won’t get fined, so how come we get slapped with a fixed penalty? Never mind, that’s a separate issue, let’s concentrate on the wonderful Message To Bears.
Before we harp on about why Message To Bears are unbelievably ace, we’d like to let some of our dimmer readers down. This isn’t the collective of a group of bears who escaped the circus in China and decided to make an album. As we all know, bears can make porridge at best. If you did have a message for a bear, what would it be? We’d ask them to stop crapping in woods near us. Bears are allowed to do it and won’t get fined, so how come we get slapped with a fixed penalty? Never mind, that’s a separate issue, let’s concentrate on the wonderful Message To Bears.
MySpace Trawl – Saxon Shore
Leaders in their musical field often becoming unchallenged and, usually, it means that other people don’t get a look in. This sometimes means that young acts struggle to get in whilst old crusty bands plague everyone with their repetitive songs, like The Rolling Stones and - to a strange extent - The Beatles. In the post rock world, the ...
Leaders in their musical field often becoming unchallenged and, usually, it means that other people don’t get a look in. This sometimes means that young acts struggle to get in whilst old crusty bands plague everyone with their repetitive songs, like The Rolling Stones and - to a strange extent - The Beatles. In the post rock world, the ...
MySpace Trawl – First Aid Kit
Because most people consume what is given to them on a plate, everyone has some horrible love affair with Swedish music. Namely ABBA. The site of Pierce Brosnan and other old gits dancing around in Mamma Mia only made people go out and buy crusty records from time gone by. Amazingly, not all Swedish music involves sickly sweet ballads about romance, love and spatulas. First Aid Kit are a sisterly duo who are slowly turning heads. At such a young age, they are producing quality songs that can take take indie monkeys like Razorlight years to achieve.
Because most people consume what is given to them on a plate, everyone has some horrible love affair with Swedish music. Namely ABBA. The site of Pierce Brosnan and other old gits dancing around in Mamma Mia only made people go out and buy crusty records from time gone by. Amazingly, not all Swedish music involves sickly sweet ballads about romance, love and spatulas. First Aid Kit are a sisterly duo who are slowly turning heads. At such a young age, they are producing quality songs that can take take indie monkeys like Razorlight years to achieve.
MySpace Trawl – A Cup Of Tea
Cups of tea can’t make songs can they? Well, no they can’t. Whilst we think it would be nothing short of amazing to see a couple of tea bags, a splash of milk, a spoon and a sweetener somehow create music, it hasn’t happened just yet. We assume that A Cup Of Tea are named after something their favourite non-alcoholic beverage or because most people have A Cup Of Tea on a daily basis. If that’s the case, then there’s an easy piece of marketing down! Floating somewhere between folktronica and dancetastic grooves, the band are another tiny treasure locked away in the UK electronic scene.
Cups of tea can’t make songs can they? Well, no they can’t. Whilst we think it would be nothing short of amazing to see a couple of tea bags, a splash of milk, a spoon and a sweetener somehow create music, it hasn’t happened just yet. We assume that A Cup Of Tea are named after something their favourite non-alcoholic beverage or because most people have A Cup Of Tea on a daily basis. If that’s the case, then there’s an easy piece of marketing down! Floating somewhere between folktronica and dancetastic grooves, the band are another tiny treasure locked away in the UK electronic scene.
MySpace Trawl – Fat Segal
This week, we’re going to recommend someone whose music you may hear each week, but will have been blissfully unaware of who it is. If you’re a Skins fan, then get ready to literally jump around the house like you’ve just had six tins of Red Bull. We’ve managed to pester the show's musical composer Fat Segal and ask him some random questions which probably just wasted his day.
This week, we’re going to recommend someone whose music you may hear each week, but will have been blissfully unaware of who it is. If you’re a Skins fan, then get ready to literally jump around the house like you’ve just had six tins of Red Bull. We’ve managed to pester the show's musical composer Fat Segal and ask him some random questions which probably just wasted his day.
MySpace Trawl – A Cuckoo
People making music usually look to modern instruments and technology to produce their sounds. After all, you wouldn’t find a drum and bass artist recording a track by tapping his fingers really fast on a piece of wood, sampling the noise and then edit the end product into an audio program. Musicians spend vast amounts of money on guitar pedals, pieces of software and other instruments. We haven’t really covered many people who aim to create genuinely fresh sounds. A Cuckoo uses beaten-up instruments and objects of fascination as tools of inspiration to create his old-fashioned sound.
People making music usually look to modern instruments and technology to produce their sounds. After all, you wouldn’t find a drum and bass artist recording a track by tapping his fingers really fast on a piece of wood, sampling the noise and then edit the end product into an audio program. Musicians spend vast amounts of money on guitar pedals, pieces of software and other instruments. We haven’t really covered many people who aim to create genuinely fresh sounds. A Cuckoo uses beaten-up instruments and objects of fascination as tools of inspiration to create his old-fashioned sound.
MySpace Trawl – Aquilone
Aquilone come from a place called France which we immaturely associate with stripy jumpers, bikes, onions, baguettes and garlic. French people put garlic on everything, even their ice-cream. It’s true; we’d never tell you fibs. Good music has come from this part of the world. Something has to, we guess. Ever since their national football squad went dramatically downhill after winning the World Cup in 1998 nothing amazing has come out of the country. Electronic acts such as Daft Punk led the way, but recent releases from them have made most of the population want to jump from the Eiffel tower. However, Justice saved the day with some good old fashioned throbbing electro. Aquilone may just be yet another quality example of French music. We wonder if they’ll use mimes in their videos…
Aquilone come from a place called France which we immaturely associate with stripy jumpers, bikes, onions, baguettes and garlic. French people put garlic on everything, even their ice-cream. It’s true; we’d never tell you fibs. Good music has come from this part of the world. Something has to, we guess. Ever since their national football squad went dramatically downhill after winning the World Cup in 1998 nothing amazing has come out of the country. Electronic acts such as Daft Punk led the way, but recent releases from them have made most of the population want to jump from the Eiffel tower. However, Justice saved the day with some good old fashioned throbbing electro. Aquilone may just be yet another quality example of French music. We wonder if they’ll use mimes in their videos…
