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Warren's Extremely Modern Jukebox

warrenellis — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:11:15 -0800

This is a thread where I am going to post music videos from acts I'm currently listening to. This will all be fairly new stuff.

No-one else may post videos or links to this thread. This is for me. Comment if you like. No copycat threads, please.

I begin with one of my summer's favourites, Zola Jesus.

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ian holloway — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:17:31 -0800

hmm - i very much like the music, it's got a nicely orghanic industrial feel to it but i'm not sold on the vocals. i think they would drive me insane quite quickly.
i generally prefer instrumental music though.

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warrenellis — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:20:41 -0800

If you prefer instrumental music, then, yeah, obviously...!

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frenchbloke — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:36:09 -0800

I see they used the old make it sound like we recorded it from outside / the sound you get when your neighbours are playing something really loud two doors down trick and looks like they got the bloke who made the terrible 'story of the eye' film to do the video.

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Seantaclaus — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:42:38 -0800

@Warren - Does it resonate with another group or piece of music that you've heard in the past? The sound is damn familiar to me, but I can't put my finger on it (and I'm pretty certain I haven't heard/seen this before).

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Rachæl Tyrell — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:17:09 -0800

@seantaclaus - I'm thinking probably Dead Can Dance, no?

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infomancer — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:24:58 -0800

@seantaclaus - I hear some Jesus and Mary Chain in there too. In fact, you can pretty much sing the lyrics to "Just Like Honey" over the beat in this video. All that's missing is some really fuzzy guitar.

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Seantaclaus — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:46:25 -0800

@Rachael Tyrell and Infomancer - It's entirely possible on both counts, though I'd need to refresh myself a bit on the Jesus and Mary Chain works. I still think there's something else there though.

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warrenellis — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:57:57 -0800

Lucky Dragons:

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EricPollarine — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:58:43 -0800

The second Lucky Dragons video is like watching ANDY WARHOLS T-cell count drop.

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jonah — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:10:43 -0800

Re: Zola Jesus

It's pretty close to the "Be My Baby" beat by The Ronettes. Which JAMC also payed homage to. Warren wrote about it in a column for Suicide girls, I think. I also hear echos Heroes by Bowie as well. The piano sounds insanely familar too. Maybe it's just that good though. Really like the track.

ETA: Also Atmosphere by Joy Division

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taphead — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:30:22 -0800

The first thing that came to mind was the similarity with Bat For Lashes. The whole cavernous post-punk/pre-goth sound.

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Kernowdrunk — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:13:22 -0800

Love Lucky Dragons.....dayglo Steve Reich.

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warrenellis — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:07:41 -0800

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warrenellis — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:12:21 -0800

Well... not EXTREMELY modern. Last year. "Little Ones" by Parts & Labor. Really needs to be heard on CD, or at least high bitrate, so you can hear the "underpainting" of sample textures sent to the band.

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Seantaclaus — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:43:14 -0800

The first thing that came to mind was the similarity with Bat For Lashes. The whole cavernous post-punk/pre-goth sound.

I think that may well be a good chunk of it...

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EricPollarine — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:58:00 -0800

"Little Ones" by Parts & Labor

It's like if you paired Bowie with The Doors and let Phil Spector record it and then Martin Hannet piss on it: Good stuff!

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JoshHechinger — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:21:17 -0800

Horse Steppin' reminds me of John From Cincinnati. Deadwood being strained through washed-out surf abstraction.

I dig it, but I think I dig it because of that.

(Video wise, the moment at 0:3X, when the beach scene looks like it goes atomic, is amazing to me.)

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warrenellis — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:12:44 -0800

I love Moon Wiring Club. And not just because I got their new record this weekend, which I am going to play tonight because I’ve been sick and/or unconscious with some weird bug since Friday morning. Oh no. (What if it cured me?) No, I love them because they do things like this, too:

In 1982, Gelographic RadioTelevision co-broadcast a test transmission for the tentative BBC5 channel.

Although the station idents were deemed a massive success, sadly the only known survivors of this viewing were unable to be traced, due to radiation issues. This archive footage has been recently unearthed, and provides a tempting glimpse into what those who watched through the smoked glass were able to see.

The musical accompaniment, acclaimed in some quarters, features on the new Moon Wiring Club album ’Striped Paint for the Last Post’, due ’sometime’ November. Certainly before the feast of Syllabub in any case.

Remember: confusing electronic music is a great British tradition.

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frenchbloke — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:04:35 -0800

Baron Mordant's package arrived today, so :
Mordant Music - SyMptoMs
Mr Maxted - Lives & Privacy ( in wonderful grey vinyl )
Flying Lizards - Fourth Wall.

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Kernowdrunk — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:59:10 -0800

Moon Wiring Club are excellent. I like how funky they are .

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icelandbob — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:22:46 -0800

I´ve just had a mate come to me and say "who are these guys that Ellis bangs on so much about??" re: Moon wiring Club. He likes them rather a lot. So do i...

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warrenellis — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:52:08 -0800

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St.Wanger — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:31:29 -0800

Parts & Labor really are great. I love the fact, that they released two albums last year, which were total opposite from each another: The "Receivers" album being a "perfectly produced", very calm, good pop album, and "Escapers 2: Grind Pop EP" 51 tracks (!) of spontanious, raw Short-Distance-Asskicking-Blastbeat-Madness.

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Kernowdrunk — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:18:31 -0800

Really like the Leyland Kirby...it's like Philip Jeck ate some 4AD records. Lovely.

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warrenellis — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:55:24 -0800

Really like the Leyland Kirby...it's like Philip Jeck ate some 4AD records. Lovely.

The album is fascinating. I suspect playing all 3 CDs one after the other would lead to suicide, mind.

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The_Toxo_Zombie — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:10:23 -0800

The Tickley Feather video is very enjoyable. Dead rat thing makes me think of the "baby" in Eraserhead. What strange music you give us Warren.

And I personally i think that if one were to listen to Sadly, The Future Is No longer What It Was in one sitting, you would be to depressed to even commit suicide. They would find you dead days later, having gone without food while staring into space contemplating the empty and bleak nature of the human condition.