An exclusive Drumcorps mix for Tom Ravenscroft’s New Music Download show will air March 27 on UK Channel 4, featuring several brand new and previously unheard Drumcorps tracks & remixes. More details as the date nears.
02.24.08
Woah, congrats to our friends Genghis Tron for getting reviewed in the New York Times today. Their new album comes out tomorrow, go forth and support!
GENGHIS TRON
“Board Up the House”
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There’s no drummer in Genghis Tron, the three-member metal band originally from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and now in Philadelphia. This can be confusing; those sound like drums. Why don’t they just hire a real drummer?
But then suddenly some other percussive noise comes in: a highly synthetic clicking or some deeply filtered splat. And then the band goes a step further with electronics, making a keyboard or a synthesizer act almost as a second guitar. Letting go of the old metal-band code of virtuosos playing in real-time helps these musicians: It lets the songs on “Board Up the House,” the band’s second album, take sudden bizarre turns and allows them moods and textures that cross genres.
“I Won’t Come Back Alive” begins with addled, intricate electronica beats and ruminative singing, then flows right into abrasive, juddering metal by means of a hard electronic edit. Likewise “City on a Hill,” which can’t decide whether it wants to be poppish new wave or prog rock or screamo. Genghis Tron is coded as metal by its bleak lyrics: “I see no light ahead, I choke on desperate breath,” or “My body is taken by the cells inside/ They’ll consume me hollow, turn me dry.” But its music is a record shop in a blender, and the juxtapositions are giddy, energetic, and smart. BEN RATLIFF
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/arts/music/18choic.html?ref=arts
02.18.08
heyyyyy kids, it’s time for the first episode of…. germany, what the fuck?!? i have a ton of these little tidbits saved up over the years and i’m constantly discovering more. exhibit a, a big table of motorized dolls on sale in berlin’s main tourist area:
what the hell?!? how is this even remotely ok? am i missing something? we had to buy one because it was so ridiculous. you squeeze his hand and he dances around to a grainy digitized 50 cent in da club, like those kung fu hamsters. right next to the motorized bunnies and barnyard animals. oh man. on my street they’re all all about fighting nazis. okay, good idea, step one. but if people would attack some of the more every day racism around here, it’d take a lot of the wind outta the nazis’ sails. antifascists, branch out please.
02.12.08
okay so i’ve gotten a lot of emails from people about this friday’s vinyl dj gig. to clear things up… here’s what i can discern through my horrible german. in the quiet town of goslar, there was a nazi propaganda booth, which got approved by the city council… a bunch of enterprising antifascists took it upon themselves to attack em with compost. then they got arrested and fined. this party is to help them out with their legal defense. having visited a few towns in saxony, with dreads, i can tell you how creepy it is to even walk the streets looking slightly different. to live in such a place - and to stand up - takes cojones. these kids need our support. i’m not a big fan of violence - but a compost attack - that’s a lovely thing.
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