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Best clubbing experience I had all year was in a rugby club in Cornwall. Returned to Falmouth and while I was there caught dubstep pioneer Hatcha. I had steered clear of dubstep up until then (apart from the odd Skream track) thinking it was too slow and therefore dull.

How wrong I was.

Anyway Blackdown recently celebrated its 5th birthday and stuck up an early, exclusive Hatcha mix from 2002, just as the scene was starting to coalesce.

You have to jump through a few hoops to get the mix, starting here.

Essential Logic

It's about time there was some proper, PROPER post-punk posted here, so here's some Essential Logic that I stumbled across on donnaslut a couple of weeks ago.

They've certainly got the credentials for post-punk immortality, born out of X-Ray Spex and feature the counter-intuitive use of a honking saxophone on most of their tracks, Essential Logic were one of those bands that coagulated around Rough Trade in 1979, when it was at the vanguard of all things post-punk.

Their 1981 single Fanfare In The Garden is an absolutely stormer of a tune and I'd argue is far better than their most well known and celebrated track, Aerosol Burns.

mp3---> Essential Logic - Fanfare In The Garden (via box.net)

We Have Brand

We Have Band have announced a briefest of brief UK Tour and they're shoving a Cardiff show into it, playing 10 Feet Tall on November 30th. I saw them play in The Old Blue Last around this time last year and they were pretty good.

If you're unfamiliar with We Have Band then they're kind of disco-rock, but disco-rock in the punk-funk sense of ESG and The Rapture rather than say Kiss playing disco. WHB also have a synth-pop slant through the bored, detached boy-girl vocals and well, synths. It's probably best to just download this.

mp3---> We Have Band - You Came Out (Demo) (via box.net)

Some Songs Put Together By Someone Else Which Sums Up Coldwave Pretty Much.

According some fella over on The Beat! Coldwave is "...vaguely scary European synth pop and experimental instrumental stuff. Imagine Depeche Mode records sung in Polish by bands you've never heard of, and you're getting there."

Dons of the hit and miss, Angular (early Bloc Party, Klaxons, Long Blondes and Wet Dog) are releasing a compilation next year called "Wierd Presents… Coldwaves and Minimal Electronics Vol.1".

They've posted a mix on Vice. It's an interesting listen. The second track is especially good, very Kitten & Thee Glitz.

Coldwave is the new italo-disco.

mp3---> Angular vs. Coldwave Mix Part 1 (Direct Link)

Swn Review

Posted a review of my Swn experience on theSprout. LINK

That's me on the left looking very unimpressed with The Drums. That's because they were rubbish.

Synthetic Beauty

Watched Synth Britannia last night, taped it. Amongst the excellent music, infuriatingly wobbly camera work (wobbly does not equal edgy), superb hair and the now slightly too familiar story of how it all began with Kraftwerk, were industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle (best band name ever).

I've only heard scraps of TG's work through compilations, so to babble about their music as a whole would be worthless and pointless. One track I am familiar with though is Hot On The Heels Of Love, a bizarre, dystopian (how those synth-botherers loved Ballard) yet brutally beautiful piece of electronic music.

The sounds on the record may be familiar to us now, after two cycles of synth-pop domination and the broadening of tastes that technology in some part has allowed, yet Hot On The Heels Of Love is still as ferociously alien as when it was recorded over 30 years ago.

mp3---> Throbbing Gristle - Hot On The Heels Of Love (via box.net)

Twitter Hither

I have succumb. I have fallen. I have turned to the dark side. With bile and shame boiling within, I type "follow me" ---> http://twitter.com/CeefaxOfLife