Jump Jump Dance Dance get song of the day on Popjustice!!
July 14, 2010 Posted by Eva at 12:01 pm
Yes, you guessed it! ‘Modern Eyes’ by Jump Jump Dance Dance got picked as song of the day on Popjustice. So much praise can be given to this band with a review enticing something like this…
“This song starts off pretending to be some indie twaddle then by about halfway through has revealed its true colours ie it is a big high octane disco tune halfway between Cut Copy (incredible) and Friendly Fires (incredible) complete with a massive hands-in-the-air breakdown. There’s an album out in August. Amazing.”
Go check it out!
http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4764&Itemid=279
Grum announced for Parklife 2010!!!!
June 9, 2010 Posted by Eva at 12:11 pm
With Grum’s recent successes of his massive crossover hit ‘Can’t Shake This Feeling’ the pinnacle of his work to date, a real cross-over moment that will introduce the world to its new dance hero, Grum has finally been announced to be touring for the Parklife line-up hitting our shores in October 2010, along side artists such as Missy Elliot, Ajax, Bag Raiders and many many more. Make sure you get your tickets to Parklife midday 1st July 2010. Better be quick or you might miss out!!
Oh No Ono “Eggs”
May 28, 2010 Posted by Eva at 11:03 am
Oh No Ono are set to kick off the new decade right with the wholly immersive, phantasmagorical pop bliss of Eggs. The Danish quintet – Aske Zidore (guitar, vocals), Malthe Fischer (vocals, guitar), Nis Svoldgaard (bass, vocals), Nicolai Koch (keyboards) and Kristoffer Rom (drums) – harness an epic, chiaroscuro psychedelia, forging it into dazzling gems of otherworldly pop brilliance. The burnished tunes belie an apocalyptic lyrical bent, the combination recalling an even more tripped-out MGMT, Flaming Lips or Caribou, liberally sprinkled with elements of George Harrison’s Beatles songs, Sparks and the lofty ambition of Kate Bush. With a formidable command of maximalist melodies that seemingly pulsate in 3D and cascade in waves of decadent pleasure, Oh No Ono are set to turn 2010 a baroque shade of day-glo.
Formed in 2003 in the mediaeval Danish city of Aalborg, and now resident in Copenhagen, Oh No Ono enjoy some celebrity as national pop stars. The national Danish Broadcasting Corporation awarded them ‘Breakthrough Of The Year’ and they were nominated for two Danish Music Awards, Best Band and Best Newcomer, while influential Danish magazine Soundvenue recently voted Eggs as the 5th best Danish album of the decade. Word of mouth from their European festival appearances over the past couple of years set the blogs alight.
Now with Eggs, their debut, Oh No Ono have the rest of the world in their sights. In love with the power of pop, their subversive thrill in pushing new ideas under the radar is highly contagious.
With a terrific visual aesthetic directed by the band and artist Malene Mathiasson, featuring a series of darkly sexual paintings that would make Hieronymous Bosch and Francis Bacon blush, their multi-layered, minutely detailed artwork will doubtless prompt much analysis.Unsurprisingly, the Kubrick-esque video clip – think The Shining with a bevy of romantically adventurous nurses – for first single ‘Swim’(directed by Adam Hashemi) hit number one on the Pitchfork video chart this last summer.
Eggs was recorded in a small country house on the Danish isle of Mon over a nine-month period, allowing the band to create a hermetically sealed universe where images, words and sounds collide in a united vision of a corrupted pop Babylon. The band interweave propulsive grooves with orchestral embellishment, layered harmonies, backwards loops and captured moments from their island environment, using some esoteric techniques. The sound of bird flocks taking flight is echoed by woodwind players. Percussion is played on a water-filled tub. Elephants trumpet. A massive choir of Oh No Ono’s friends sing-along with the organ in a 300-year-old church,where the group also recorded the (mostly self-arranged) string parts.
Displaying a pirate-lusty approach to songcraft, Oh No Ono dazzle with their ambition and the scale of their accomplishment. Gorge on the dystopian feast. From the cacophonic, sitar and clavichord-drenched miasma of childhood-nightmare ‘Eleanor Speaks’, and the drama and tension of ‘Swim’, the album immediately drags you under their spell. ‘Internet Warrior’ rockets towards the heart of the sun, showering everything in a pinwheel of melodic sparks amid a throbbing rhythmic undertow.
‘Icicles’ abounds in symphonic splendour, while detailing a horror story of a snowman-child abandoned by his mother who is slowly melting (we think). A massed choir heralds the shimmering underwater textures of ‘The Wave Ballet’, giving way to the ornately textured, galvanized pop and falsetto singalongs of ‘The Tea Party’. Eggs closes with a near-ten minute opus, ‘Beelitz’. If you needed any more convincing of the giant-slaying scale and wonderment within this band, ‘Beelitz’ will humble you into submission. “The song gets its name from a forsaken military hospital in Germany that we recorded in,” explains Nicolai. “It was used first by the Germans in World War II and later by the Soviet forces. We had to break in and it was really cold, but it had a lot of atmosphere and beautiful acoustics.”
Eggs will be released 28 May 2010 on etcetc.
For your Hottest 100 consideration…
January 11, 2010 Posted by Eva at 11:53 am
2009 was a big year for etcetc: Lost Valentinos, Fever Ray, Two Door Cinema Club, autoKratz, Duck Sauce, Cassius, Beni, Datarock, Jenny Wilson, MSTRKRFT, Jump Jump Dance Dance…we could go on. Now that it’s time to vote in the Triple J Hottest 100, may we present our extremely biased list of the top songs of ‘09:
Grum: one man hype machine…
December 18, 2009 Posted by Eva at 2:19 pm
With this much hyperbole behind him, the only remaining question is ‘why are you not listening to Grum right now?’:
Nylon: ‘The future of dance music”
Mixmag: “An anthemic beauty…beepy backing smattered with emotive waterfalls of French sounding electro wonderment”
IDJ “All damn good – 9/10″
Data Transmission: ” add him to your life right now…”
Future Music: “a fresh sample and synth hero has been elected to save us from Calvin Harris overload”
FHM: “pulls in every gyrating body, every sweaty pulse of a sticky floored, laser loaded club night”
NME “knocking out tracks and remixes that tread a new grey area between the electro-mosh and new school disco eras”
…and finally, Pop Justice: “This is the greatest song of the 21st Century and if anyone tries to tell you otherwise they are an idiot, or they haven’t heard it, or they’re an idiot who hasn’t heard it.”
Watch below, buy here:
Win a Trip to Japan with Pedestrian…
December 17, 2009 Posted by Eva at 10:55 am
Our dear friends at Pedestrian want to send you and three friends to a far away place. All you have to do win the voyage of a lifetime to the land of the rising sun is head to Pedestrian.tv and sign up to receive their daily e-newsletter. And if you already receive it, you can still enter just by inviting three friends. They’ve thought of everything!
Lost Valentinos’ ‘Cities of Gold’ named Record of the Year…
December 9, 2009 Posted by Eva at 2:57 pm
Congratulations to Lost Valentinos, whose album Cities of Gold was just named Record of the Year at this year’s Sydney Music, Arts & Culture Awards. Presented by FBi Radio and Timeout Magazine, the band were up against formidable releases from Sarah Blasko, Dappled Cities, Decoder Ring and Seekae.
Also picking up awards were event All Tomorrow’s Parties (Best Music Event), Seekae (Best Live Act), and Sherlock’s Daughter (Next Big Thing).
Introducing…Jump Jump Dance Dance
December 2, 2009 Posted by Eva at 4:42 pm
etcetc would like to introduce L.A. electro-rock conspirators Jump Jump Dance Dance. Duo Chris Carter and Simon Lewicki had already amassed a wealth of experience before uniting to create Jump Jump Dance Dance: Carter as an in-demand DJ and vocalist who has played alongside luminaries like DJ AM and Tommie Sunshine, and Simon as the mastermind behind the celebrated club acts Tonite Only and Chili Hifly.
They’ve already been responsible for a slew of floor-ready remixes for MSTRKRFT, La Roux, Datarock, and Lost Valentinos. And for their debut album due early 2010 they recruited US heavyweight producer/mixers Dave Sardy (Wolfmother, Oasis, Soulwax and The Ting Tings) and Mark Needham (The Killers, Bloc Party, 3OH!3), plus Australian dance veteran Sameer Sengupta (provider of legendary mixes for Alter Ego and Green Velvet) to lend his formidable experience to some final mixes.
For a taste of what’s to come, watch the video for first single Do It for Love below, which you can download completely free right here:
Dazed Digital Interviews Dave Ma…
November 17, 2009 Posted by Eva at 3:39 pm
Fresh from directing the latest Lost Valentinos video for ‘Thief‘, Australian expat Dave Ma chatted to Dazed Digital about that, as well as his recent collaboration with Delphic.
Read it here.
Kitsuné Maison Compilation 8
November 13, 2009 Posted by Eva at 3:42 pm
Here is the eighth Maison compilation from Kitsuné: the chic and nice issue.
The Kitsuné house is now packed with friends, girls and boys, new and old. Quiet girls, neurotic boys, Kitsuné mobilizes all that is most passionate and exciting.
We won’t list the number of groups and artists discovered on Kitsuné compilations that have since become headliners, we have no time for that. Because we always need resources, and pleasure, and brilliant new music that will change the course of the day when you press play. And new encounters. And from then on also the pleasure of nurturing relationships, having the chance to go deeper in them and dig some grooves, to be surprised by those you thought you already knew.
Two Door Cinema Club and Delphic are the latest additions to the Kitsuné family and their respective forthcoming debut albums will be out soon. Midnight Juggernauts, Beni, Heartsrevolution, Slagsmålsklubben, Chew Lips and Crystal Fighters will soon follow.
It was a two months listening-marathon of sorts in Kitsuné’s Montmartre offices and everywhere else for that matter. This time it’s even more of a world tour: there’s French singing, Japanese singing. There are Finns, Swedes, Germans, Australians…basically everyone’s invited.
Kitsuné Maison Compilation 8 is out now on etcetc.
1. French Horn Rebellion – Up All Night
2. The Drums - Let’s Go Surfing
3. Siriusmo - High Together
4. Le Corps Mince de Françoise – Something Golden
5. Midnight Juggernauts – This New Technology
6. Heartsrevolution – Dance Till Dawn
7. Logo - Junocide
8. Two Door Cinema Club – I Can Talk (Moulinex Remix)
9. Slagsmålsklubben – Brutal Weapons
10. Beni - Maximus (Harvard Bass Remix)
11. AMWE - Friction Between The Lovers
12. Jolie Cherie - Star
13. Chew Lips - Salt Air (Alex Kapranos Remix)
14. Delphic - This Momentary
15. Memory Tapes - Bicycle
16. Parallels - Find the Fire
17. Nottee - Control
18. ENCORE
19. Crystal Fighters – I Love London
20. My Tiger My Timing - I Am The Sound