acb @acb@linernotes.club
I comment about music here, and other things elsewhere.
LDN ← MEL
Joined Apr 2018
Roundup of current (post/math)-rock from southeast Asia on Bandcamp Daily:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/11/28/southeast-asian-post-rock-and-math-rock/
This is wild: a guy from LA faked a band (hiring session musos), faked footage of packed gigs, created a fake booking agency, and landed a tour of Europe. None of the 100s of ticket buyers showed up, of course, and then the shit hit the fan: #rockfraud
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TDM (twee dance music)
Another Sarah Records tribute compilation; this time from a number of Italian bands. No, I haven’t heard of any of them either …
There’s a Balearic/chillwave cover of Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon” playing in this bike shop. As far as Balearic/chillwave shop mood music goes, it’s not bad.
New playlist: ETSXMIIUC:
Can’t hear the music over the bantz of the troika of hipbros standing in front of the stage. #hackney
Are The KLF about to unearth (fnord) their lost/unfinished metal album The Black Room?
http://www.getintothis.co.uk/2018/10/the-black-room/
Interview with Matt Haynes about Sarah Records:
http://fadeawayradiate.com/2018/10/interview-with-matt-haynes-from-sarah-records/
Jean-Michel Jarre: how we made Oxygène:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/16/jean-michel-jarre-michel-granger-oxygene
New Infinite Works: an internet radio station broadcasting generative music, by William Doyle (formerly of East India Youth):
Currently listening to the new Kero Kero Bonito album; it’s somewhat skronkier and less J-pop glossy than its predecessors. It’s also on Bandcamp, conveniently enough:
Am I the only person who hallucinates a not actually present “check—check—check-check dis out” vocal sample in Saint Etienne’s “Only Love Can Break Your Heart”?
At the Saint Etienne “Good Humour” 20th anniversary gig at the British Library. It’s like a dads’ convention.
Also, the stage is in the library foyer, and the acoustics are atrocious.
Still, if you like 1960s fashion photography, there’s a nice slideshow being projected above the stage.
Shibuya-kei's not dead: I just discovered a set of compilations, released in 2016, in a (lightly updated) Shibuya-kei style, by Japanese artists (or perhaps someone pretending to be Japanese, though doing a convincing job of it).
https://shibuya.bandcamp.com/album/mirai-tokyo-shibuya
https://shibuya.bandcamp.com/album/shibuya-tokyo-mirai
Twee pop from Shenzhen: https://boringproductions.bandcamp.com/album/obliviate
(Featuring the song title that wins the hardest at twee: “Listening To Another Sunny Day Makes Me Forget You”)
Today’s Bandcamp Daily has a piece on the Psych Rock Scene in Chile, including Föllakzoid and The Holydrug Couple:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/10/04/chile-psych-rock-guide/
Meet Haiku Salut, the trio forging a progressive future from a traditional past:
Items bought on Bandcamp today: Show more
If you have anything you have been thinking of buying on Bandcamp, today might be a good day for it, as they're donating their cut of the take to protect voting rights in the US:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/09/25/bandcamp-voting-rights-fundraiser/
(I just bought 40 items, including many that had been sitting in my wishlist/browser tabs for a while.)
I comment about music here, and other things elsewhere.
LDN ← MEL
Joined Apr 2018
