TONIGHT THE FALL PLAYS BERLIN…AS THEY HAVE DONE MANY TIMES, BUT THIS TIME IT WILL BE SPECIAL….

This guy comes up to me and says:” Oh The Fall, I have seen them once, and they were really awful, the singer was drunk and moody…”

I turn around and walk out of the conversation.

If you’re looking for entertainment, like all these blog and myspace friendly bands, do NOT go.

Stay with the herd, you fucking cow(ard)….there is an electric fence around that little field you’re living in…the moment you step outside, you get shocked…so keep your tunnel vision…run with your herd…don’t go…

I saw The Fall in front of 150 people and they were amazing, then I saw them play a sold out show adn they were so insanely bad, it was important to see…but you know what…that’s the point…you have to make up your own mind about them and about yourself constantly. Nobody will tell you to like them…

And one thing is always certain…the simple fact that Mark E Smith is still touring and releasing records, proves how great and genius he is. Take all your MGMT mp3s and Owlcity ringtones and come back to me in 20 years…I bet you won’t remember even having them.

back then….

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…and now….

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and if you haven’t got thee seven inch of all times yet…The Monks & Alec Empire & The Fall

click here and get one of the last copies (if you are one of those guys who discovered Silver Apples via Simian Mobile Disco you maybe should NOT get it because you lower the value of this product. The value of cool)

Uncertainty is what music is all about!

I’ll see you there…… ……..

it’s at Maria Club

Maria am Ostbahnhof

Stralauer Platz 34-35 / An der Schillingbrücke
10243 Berlin
Deutschland

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GODLY GROOVES

by NEALE LYTOLLIS

Sunday; the Sabbath, the day of rest, the Lord’s day.

Whatever you want to call it, it was on the first Sunday ever that God finally kicked back, brewed up an Ovaltine and took a break from six entire days of slaving away laying the groundwork for the unadulterated shit storm the world would soon turn into. It could be argued that given the way things have turned out, God did a bit of a cack-handed job with the whole creation of the world thing.

For a start, Adam would surely just have spent his days fishing and masturbating in the Garden of Eden if God hadn’t created Eve. And surely the snake was a mistake.

Just my opinion of course; my experiences of world planning are limited to say the least and given that I only have one planet to compare notes against I can hardly lay claim to being an expert. Basically, if we want to lay the blame for the world’s problems at anyone’s door it should be at God’s since he (allegedly!) started the whole show and things seemed to go pear-shaped the minute Eve showed her face. So God and his planet building; nice ideas exectuted in record time but fatally flawed nonetheless.

Anyway, back to Sundays. That grating, dull thud at the back of your head on a Sunday morning is not the effects of too much soda water down the disco or a teenage guilt-niggle forcing your brain out of your nose because you slowdanced with someone else’s girlfriend. That itchy, nauseous, white-noise-in-your-head feeling you’re experiencing is actually your conscience telling you you’ve been much, much worse.

You see, in much the same way the Eve was way back when, you’ve perhaps unwittingly also been seduced by the snake. In a figurative sense of course. That slithering, hypnotic, fork-tongued little cretin has managed to insinuate itself way into your heart, curl up there and is slowly squeezing out any sense of right or wrong when it comes to matters of the dancefloor. It’s made you lazy and convinced you that every time you swill up on cheap beer and hit the club to freak to the latest plastic happiness remix from Kitsune or some other godawful bleepy, scratchy drivel from Ed Banger that you’re having the absolute time of your life. And you fall for it every time Goddamn it! So much so that musicians are even taking the piss out of you. MSTRKRFT dropped one of the least inspiring records ever produced recently; dropped being appropriate because I can’t believe that even they like it. Just open iElectroMusicStar, click in some beats and add Clich?-Glitch-Filter and hey presto; instant second LP.

Simian Mobile Disco did more or less the same. The breathless enthusiasm of their debut album, so fresh and immediate that we all wet ourselves when we heard it, has been replaced this time around by a bunch of fat, flabby, custardy tracks which even the way too obvious celebrity mates shopping list can’t lift out of the ditch it landed in. And by Jove, if I hear one more person giggling and turning to jelly at the thought of an imminent new Klaxons LP, I might just have to start my own religious cult which encourages their ritual slaughter. With spoons. Even Digitalism don’t bother anymore. If I was the promoter of the last gig they DJd at and they turned up in crumpled white t-shirts on my shift, I’d have pulled the plug and horsewhipped them on stage until they went home and got fucking dressed properly.

So we’re in an ever decreasing circle. It’s like an yawning great black hole pulling us ? lazy musicians and undiscerning record buyers alike ? into a seething, inescapable cesspool where all we can do (apart from burn) is pull robotic moves to Pop the Glock and bore each other to death about which Maison compilation was really the best. For ever. It’s not even that we’ve been sold a lie because it was true once; it’s just no one can be bothered to admit it. It takes a bit of time and bravery to confess that the current batch of electronic music is really rather shit. You can be dancing in some club, convulsing like a spastic sat on a pylon and twenty minutes in; epiphany. It’s like the Burning Bush or the parting of the Red Sea when slowly you realise: Hey, I’ve been programmed to like this. It doesn’t speak to me. It doesn’t make me feel anything.

I’m on auto pilot here. I just don’t like this. So what do you do? Go back to Nu Rave? Indie rock? Chiptune? If those were the only choices I’d start hiding pills in my socks and start going to Donk parties.

But there is a light; a distant golden glimmer at the end of this fat, flatulent tunnel of muck. And it’s name, rather appropriately, is Godly Grooves. And my God, if this record had floated down into my room on a cloud followed by all the angels and cherubs of the heavens, I couldn’t like it more. Arok and Scientist are German DJs and have clearly been snorting inspiration because they’ve just released the strongest contender yet for Best Record of 2009. A unique and ultimately screwy mixtape of rare 60s and 70s Christian grooves, originally released on obscure, religious labels and selected, dusted down, scrubbed up and remixed into an hour long compilation. Blessed be, they’ve even put it out on a brand new imprint and limited the run of units to a mere 100. So heavenly, so unusual, you virtually lose your powers of description and can just goggle open-mouthed in wonder at how someone could have come up with a record which on the surface of it sounds monstrous but which in reality is the nearest thing we’ve heard this year to perfection. Religious music is usually whack and about as much fun as a day doing door-to-door with the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

This is different; bizarre, crackly Christian tracks sung in German over lo-fi beat samples, fat basslines and off-kilter registers. It has to be heard to be believed. And believe it you should brother. Refreshing proof that there are musicians work out there who can move the boundaries of what electronic music is all about, incorporate hitherto untouched genres and spark off something new.

So will we all be dancing to obscure Christian grooves in the near future? Unlikely. And admittedly taking it in context it probably isn’t the greatest album ever, but the fact that it’s just about the only original thing I’ve heard this year (barring Health and Robot Koch’s LP) makes it worthy of a special mention. Plus the fact that no one will like it makes it all the more attractive. click here to watch

God speed at the disco my children. Amen.

NEALE LYTOLLIS

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Hi,

autoKratz announce the release of debut album ‘Animal’ for 22nd June 2009.?There are more details on the album announcement in the press release below.

Here is a link to the brand new autokratz cover version of Swastika Eyes, an exclusive?leak which is to signal start the album campaign.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/5925236935a65b80/

Mani and Bobby Gillespie are both big supporters of the cover describing it as “brilliant. proper rocking”

Cheers
Russell

“Fuzzy dancefloor joy that will nudge them into the big league”
NME

“Dance anthems of the Summer”
THE SUNDAY TIMES

?Sure to set any dancefloor on fire?
****5/5 DJ MAG

?Brilliant? LOVE the Swastika Eyes cover?
Mani & Bobby Gillespie – Primal Scream

AUTOKRATZ ANNOUNCE THE RELEASE OF DEBUT ALBUM ?ANIMAL?

June 22nd 2009 will see autoKratz release their highly anticipated debut album ‘ANIMAL’, a record which will see them state their undeniable claim to joining the royalty of electronic music. This extremely significant LP follows the success of autumn 2008?s acclaimed mini album ?Down & Out In Paris & London? and looks set to solidify the bands position as one of Europe’s most exciting new prospects.

autoKratz begin the campaign by unleashing a razor sharp cover of Primal Scream?s Swastika Eyes, a live favourite and a version that both Mani & Bobby Gillespie have got extremely excited about, and given their full support to.

This 11 track album will be released on pioneering Parisian label Kitsune (Digitalism, Klaxons & Simian Mobile Disco), a stable in which David and Russell autoKratz have found themselves very much at home. ?Animal? will be supported by a single release – that of the massive ?Always More? (with dancefloor smashing remixes coming from Yuksek & Shadow Dancer).

The album includes the infectious summer anthem ?Stay The Same?, the driving and relentless ?Can?t Get Enough? and the epic ?Speak In Silence?, all combining to create a remarkable collection of tracks with variety and depth, justifying the bands standing as the flag bearers of the new wave of British electronic music.

Since first storming onto the scene last year, autoKratz have swiftly established a reputation for their distinctly different releases which harbour infectious bass hooks, addictive vocals and compulsive beats & bleeps. ?Animal? however does much more, as the duo explore their songwriting craft further to create an extremely innovative record.

The band have so far received immense support from across the board, finding spots on the playlists of Pete Tong, Annie Mac and Steve Lamacq, whilst receiving club support from the likes of Tiga, Erol Alkan and Brodinski.

Their formidable live shows across the globe have seen them become one of the most sought after breakthrough prospects in electronic music, with the band enjoying ecstatic responses at festivals across Europe including Glastonbury, Lowlands & Pukkelpop. The album is to be released as the band embarks on a hectic touring schedule with a brand new live show. The autoKratz set combines their trademark rock and roll energy with their remarkably distinctive electro sound; a recipe which has seen them touted as the most significant live electronic act to have emerged in recent years.

Of the album, David says ?As a record, Its unique and its personal. Its captured an energy which I think is genuinely exciting and reflective of who we are as people.? Russell has a similar sense of accomplishment, ?We were so keen to create something out of the ordinary; something people might not expect. The result is songs about us that we hope to have a real impact on people?.

The London based duo, inspired by Daft Punk, Kraftwerk and Underworld, have enjoyed success through remixes for Underworld, Fischerspooner and La Roux and live tours alongside the likes of Digitalism and Underworld. With ?Animal?, autoKratz have undoubtedly embarked on an ascension to prominence that ?will nudge them into the big league? NME.

Animal Track-listing:

1. Always More
2. Stay the Same
3. The Idiots Are Winning
4. Speak In Silence
5. Can’t Stand Without
6. What You Want, What You Got?
7. Can’t Get enough
8. Gone Gone Gone
9. Past Your Heart
10. Human Highway
11. Last Show

here is the original of the song (in case you missed it, we remember there was some controversy in Germany about the song)
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These days if you say anything bad about those Canadians you have a fundamentalist group of cynics, who still cry over the end of the Bush era, attack you in Berlin. Not worth it.

So instead of being negative, let’s worship the kid in the video above. For us he represents dedication mixed with passion. The two things which are missing in that Peaches album.

Almost at the same time someone in marketing contacted us if we run ads on our blog. Please keep your money, we still print the ad….in a Pirate Bay manner (is this copyright violation then? good question).

We make money from selling records and partying….should it stay like this? well, yes, we think so…