Monthly Archives: July 2011
Mister Bibal
Here’s some great French dance music for your weekend, courtesy of Mister Bibal. Losange Jaures (a bastardisation of Los Angeles with Mister Bibal’s street name thrown in, in case you were wondering) is a cracking five track EP with off-kilter… Read More
Doe
Doe are a post-rock band from Adelaide. Here’s a clip to their song “OUI!”, which is brilliant, both in terms of audio and visuals.
I’d love to tell you more about them, but they don’t exactly have the biggest net… Read More
Five Records That Have One Really Great Song and the Rest are Naff
SCISSOR ME, BABE
Robert Christgau, the self anointed Consumer Guide, realised one day that his infamously truncated reviewing style had suddenly ceased to be a time efficient method. The backlog of records he had to review was growing at the rate of ex, yet… Read More
Björk vs. Omar Souleyman
The scope of Björk’s Biophilia album/project/human clusterfuck continues to spiral eternally outwards, but one thing about her remains the same; filling singles with REMIXES GALORE. Arabic pop maestro Omar Souleyman has contributed his own radical reintepretations of tracks from… Read More
Oxykitten
This is fantastic stuff from Portland’s Oxykitten. The Streets Were Paved With Circuit Boards is a mess of beats and soaring synths and just general fuckedupness (yes, it’s a word — google it).
I don’t like regurgitating press-releases, but sometimes… Read More
A Minute With Apricot Rail
In the latest edition in our series of interviews with Perth artists, we spend a minute with Apricot Rail and ask them a thing or two…
Describe your music in five words or less.
Down-tempo/instrumental.
What’s going on right now in… Read More
DOOMSTARKS — Victory Laps
File this one under “long time coming”. DOOMSTARKS, the collaboration between Ghostface Killah and MF DOOM, have had a record in the works since at least 2007, but the first tangible proof that one is actually forthcoming hasn’t come until… Read More
New Flaming Lips Track, Film Clip
After the very exciting news that the Flaming Lips are coming to Australia, they go drop a new song on us. “I Wanna Get High But I Don’t Want Brain Damage” is the name of the newie, which you can… Read More
Kyü Release Film Clip, Special-Edition Album
Sydney duo kyü have just released the film clip to Pixiphony, from their 2010 self-titled debut LP. The clip’s release coincides with the special-edition, iTunes only, release of their debut, featuring remixes from the likes of High Places, Jonathan Boulet… Read More
A Winged Victory for the Sullen– “Steep Hills of Vicodin Tears”
Here’s something for your bleary mouthaching Saturday morning as you stumble blindly, hosing hookers and spilt vodka off the patio. A Winged Victory for the Sullen is the new project between Adam Wiltzkie from revered ambient group Stars of… Read More
Whiskey Ramble: Disco Inferno
There’s this whole bizarre attitude with some people and hell, even other musicians who scoff at like say DJs/people who use samples or samplers as not musicians or creating some hellish spawn that doesn’t compare to the grandiose beauty of… Read More
Valentin Stip
Valentin Stip’s debut EP, Anytime Will Do, has been out for a few weeks, and it’s damn good!
Released on Nicolas Jaar’s most excellent Clown and Sunset label, the record certainly has similarities to Jaar’s work, fusing downbeat tempos… Read More
A Minute With Seams
In the latest edition in our series of interviews with Perth artists, we spend a minute with Seams. We ask them questions, they give us answers.
Describe your music in five words or less.
No-wave surf
What’s going on right… Read More
Vinyl Retention: Mndsgn
Every Wednesday, Sardi lets us know what’s tickling his eardrums in the world of dance music…
Mndsgn follows up his ‘StatikMumblin’ LP from earlier this year with his new 15 tracker ‘NoMaps’.
The album from the Philly based beatmaker delivers intergalactic… Read More
Colin Stetson announces new EP
Colin Stetson made it to number 5 in our top 11 records of 2011 (so far) with New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges, so it’s fair to say we’ve got a bit of a soft spot for the… Read More
Thundercat: “Daylight”
The Golden Age of Apocalypse is the debut record from Thundercat, who is known to his mother as alias Steve Bruner. Best known for his guestspot on Flying Lotus’ Cosmogramma and for his basswork with Suicidal Tendencies (!), when… Read More
Eat a Bag of Mix: Craig McElhinney
Eat a Bag of Mix is the name of a new feature here on life is noise where we get a DJ, musician, producer, industry figure or just someone with good taste in fucked-up and weird music to give us… Read More
Review: John Maus– “We Must Become the Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves”
John Maus
We Must Become the Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
Ribbon/Upset the Rhythm
Q: What’s the difference between mud and mist?
A: The water cycle.
Okay, self-evident exposition time: there’s been a high amount of music made recently which… Read More
Diger Rokwell
Perth sample master Diger Rokwell has a new record forthcoming, which is always a very, very good thing.
Sri Diger: Remixes and Beats from Lanka is, as you may have possibly guessed, a collection of Sri Lankan music and media sampled,… Read More
