Hating dance music is for wussies. Loving trance, I’m afraid, is far worse. The only clubbing I feel like doing, given today’s piss poor excuse for party music, is one that involves cracked skulls on the dancefloor and my friend’s baseball bat. I really thought Intelligent Dance Music would catch up in my country. I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘massive attack’
You only love us because we are ugly
Posted in sound, tagged Blind Melon’s premature exit, Burial, Concept albums, Donovan Phillips, Eels, grunge explosion, Happy Mondays, Happy Mondays’ 24 Hour Party People, Hating dance music, Hot Chip, intelligent dance music, Justice, LCD soundsytem, Manchester club scene, Mark Oliver Everett, massive attack, Mixtape About Nothing review, Mother Hips, Mother Hips review, New Order, New Order’s Blue Monday, Seinfeld, Seinfeld quotes, Seinfeld theme song, Sixties psychedelic pop. Eric Burdon, The Mixtape About Nothing, trance music, Ugly Love, Wale, Wale Manipulation on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The slithery sweetness of the Hooverphonics
Posted in sound, tagged A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular, Alex Callier, Blue Wonder Power Milk, Geike Arnaert, Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane, Hooverphonics, Mad About You, massive attack, Morcheeba, portishead, Raymond Geerts, Sit Down and Listen, Sneaker Pimps, The Magnificent Tree, The President of the LSD Golf Club, Third, trip hop on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Belgian trip poppers Hooverphoncs led by bassist Alex Callier and guitarist Raymond Geerts (vocalist Geike Arnaert left the band in 2008) are a fascinating lot. They make pop music that could drive dance floors insane with equal proportions of curiosity and confusion. Play any track of their magnificently conceptual Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane or Blue [...]
Sounds from a galaxy very friggin’ far away
Posted in sound, tagged A Perfect Circle, Archie Bronson Outfit, Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums, jack white, Jose Gonzalez, massive attack, The White Stripes, Woody Guthrie on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I once had much love for these songs. They used to haunt my Winamp playlist at home and the CD player in my car. Of course, familiarity can be bothersome and so can hummable melodies. I have been revisiting a few of them lately and well, nostalgia (random Iron Maiden fan screams ROCKS…BABY! and gets [...]
