This record (Severe Exposure) came out when I was a junior in high school (about 14 years ago now). This blew my mind when I first heard it, and it still continues to blow my mind. It's one of the few CD's I still have from back in those days, and I always listen to it at least once a year. Really great fuzzy moog electronic rock. Sometimes grating, sometimes catchy, sometimes instrumental. Guitarist John MacLean went on to form the DFA electronic/dance group The Juan MacLean, which is a vast departure from this stuff. I've seen Buck65 perform over a Six Finger Satellite instrumental live. Really great record. Check it out if you get a chance.
Some more great electronic music from France. It seems that France has this genre by the balls at this point. I've heard so much great music come out of all parts of France. I've yet to be disappointed. "Drive By Shooting" is a 6-minute track that just rides. Wait until around 1:30 for it to start getting good and synthy. These guys have released stuff on DFA, Marketing Records, and most frequently the label I'm A Cliche. They have a bunch of singles/eps for you to buy/stream on iTunes. Go check it out.
From the great DFA/Rong Music comp Notwave. California's one-man-band Freshro takes a crack at the already awesome Spoon track "I Turn My Camera On". The comp also features tracks from Tussle, Free Blood, Circuits and more.
Free Blood was born in a concrete room with no windows in the sweltering summer of 2003.
The concept was simple: A soundtrack for parties gone awry.
Music to fuel awkward sexual dalliances, desperate yelled misunderstandings on the dance floor, toilets over-flowing with the night’s collective regurgitation, lonesome midnight ramblings, hair-brained (possibly illegal) parlour games, stereo components fried by heat and moisture, backyard furniture bonfires, power outages, mass hallucination, etc.
The instrumentation was kept to a minimum intentionally (two microphones, bass guitar and mechanical drums) so that the group could fit into any cramped corner, with an easy getaway in case the authorities (or audience, even) took issue with the noise. Free Blood began playing smaller venues and house parties around the Brooklyn and Manhattan boroughs, usually lugging their own PA to the gig so that the ear-splitting volume they were accustomed to in the practice space could be replicated. These performances were designed to leave the audience deaf, dumb and blind…and perhaps with smiles on their faces.
Since their inception they have shared the stage (and floor) with a variety of groups (Melt Banana, Suicide, Jamie Lidell, TV On The Radio), only leaving the State of New York once for a brief four-day tour in Japan. The first three years saw Free Blood as strictly a live phenomenon whose appearances were erratic and ridden with chaos. They have numerous singles, and a singles collection out now on DFA.
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