As featured in Crack Magazine's 10 mixes you need to hear this month, estoc rams, crams, and blends early-to-mid 00s electro and indie rock into an hour of pure joy.
We're talking your Justices, your Metrics (!), your Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
We're talking remixes from your Soulwaxes, your Twelves, your Bloody Beetroots (!).
If you need a lift any time soon, then break out the EGG MIX.
Erol Alkan opened his last NTS show with this spooky electro jam from Simple Minds and I used to use this track as my bed on Sam's Sonic Sandwich back in the Radiowave days. Talking of radio, I'm visiting Bro Radio tomorrow...
Gone are the eight DJs a month for six months at a time on Sundays. Now it's two DJs every week for a month on Thursdays. And it looks like it's all change on the DJ front, which means that:
Amelie Lens
Anz
Avalon Emerson
Carista
Carl Cox
DJ EZ
Joy Orbison
Sherelle
Have all finished their residencies. TBH, it's only really Avalon Emerson that I'm gonna miss from that list.
Anyway onwards and upwards, first up in the new format is Todd The God (the other one), Todd Edwards, the New Jerseyite god of UK Garage. Yes, mate. Ela Minus follows (not listened to that one yet, but it's up on BBC Sounds) and in the following months, Shygirl and Maya Jane Coles will join the roster. I didn't catch the others as Denise Lewis kept interrupting.
I had a trawl through some old bookmarks last weekend. Yeah, it's pretty rock and roll out here in the rural Vale.
I was curious to see which of the old mp3 blogs were still up, never mind still posting. I mean I was talking about the decline of the mp3 blog format in 2013, but I was hoping that the sites were still available.
Yet at the risk of getting all Retromania, I'm saddened by how sites like The Beat!, No Pain In Pop, Waves At Night, Altered Zones, and so many more are either 404s or worse, taken over and hosting VPN or trading spuff. Is this astroturfing? Digital squatting? There's definitely a term for it, Tedium will have something I'm sure.
Thankfully some are still up with archives you can trawl through rather than go via the Wayback Machine. The Ill-ec-tron-ic (last post 2012), Rose Quartz (2013), 20jazzfunkgreats (January of this year, so maybe will come back?) remain. And would you look at that Simon Reynolds is still rocking with Blogger, posting regularly across multiple strands; blissblog, Energy Flash, and yes Retromania amongst others.
Let's wrap this up with something from blissblog then, something post-punk too as it's been a long while since we had a bit of that. Here's the Floridian post-punk outfit The Stick Figures with the knotty but funky N-Light.
Image credit: SPUI, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
A Llantwit Major-based music blog for things post-punk, electronic and a little bit left of centre, with second-hand cultural musings, third-rate sociological stabbings and very rarely the odd mp3.
I also write the odd album review for Buzz Magazine and used to present Amser Electroneg on Bro Radio.
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