An assortment of remix fancies for your ears on this Friday from Dublin. Go team. We don’t need no excuse. I’m off to a wedding in Bordeaux today so have at it until Monday.
I talked up Ellie Goulding recently here on the blog and the buzz is starting to build at this moment.
This Jakwob remix takes Starsmith’s production and “dubifies” it, if you will. You’ll know what I mean one minute in.
Awesome gig. It was a bit “regular” at the start but the human gauntlet actually went out the doors of Andrew’s Lane, up the side alley, around Exchequer St, around Trinity Street and back to the venue where we were greeted with ‘Crystal Cat’ and a mental ‘Silence Like the Wind’. Brilliant. Here’s a picture of the girl at the centre of the interpretative dance party, taken on my phone obviously.
Also, your man from Future Islands was on some Jack Black lounge singer shit.
This day next week, the focus of Nialler9 will be shifting to the the land of Antipodeans in the Southern Hemisphere. Yes, myself and Aoife will be making a ten day visit to Australia for blogging purposes courtesy of the kind people at Tourism Australia as part of their Visiting Opinion Leaders program!
We will be visiting Melbourne from the 12th-16th of June and then Perth from the 16th to the 20th of June and blogging on the way. We’ve got a whole host of things lined up:
Gigs, gigs and more gigs with the likes of Deerhunter, Tucker B’s, a couple of almost un-Googleable bands Beaches, Songs and hopefully as many other bands and DJs based in Western Australia and Victoria as we can.
We’ll be meeting up with people from independent radio stations like Triple R, RTRFM, industry bodies like West Australian Music Industry Association and Victoria Rocks, Aussie music bloggers, venue managers, youth music organisations and hopefully, a member of a cool alternative Australian band.
We’ll be eating in some pretty sweet restaurants so you can ogle at the food before it hits our bellies. Places like 1907 and the Tjanabi Indigenous Restaurant.
It’s gonna be AMAZING. So if you’ve any suggestions for bands, venues, bars, touristy things, Aussiemusicblogs and scenes to check out do pop them in the comments. For example, I’d love to find out more about this Grrilla Step/ Krumping dance craze that DJ Dexter seems is involved in…
A year ago to the week I debuted this track and now there’s a video for it. Unfortunately, I’m pretty sick of this song now, what with Phantom playing it seemingly every five minutes every time I tune in or so it seems. I was interested in how this video was going to turn out considering Eoghan Kidney along with his brother Fionn were in charge and hoping to use footage of a performance in Whelans from 100 different camera sources. A bit of logistical nightmare but the result is pretty cool.
This remake takes the original’s girl-to-girl bitchiness set to a pleasant indie backing and turns it into something which occupies the space between electronica and dub. Kinda reminds me of Skream’s In For The Kill remix though not as EPIC. You can buy the original 7″ here.
Ever since ‘Coat to Wear’ was brought to attention last year on the Analogue vinyl release, the name Patrick Kelleher has been slowly gathering a buzz in Dublin circles.
This Kelleher chap makes all the tunes himself (extensive list of instruments on the sleeve notes include a hazelnut spread jar, a door, a bouzouki and a Boss loop station amongst others), is 24 years of age, grew up in Rugby in England, is in the band Children Under Hoof and his own live band used to invariably change names per gig – from the now-standard “And His Cold Dead Hands” to names like:
Patrick Kelleher and the Sick Fucks
Patrick Kelleher and the Cybill Shepherds
Patrick Kelleher and the Beauty School Dropouts
Patrick Kelleher and the Failed Junior Certs
Awesome. The textured album You Look Cold which is released through Osaka on June 19th is a brilliant first release. You can clearly hear influences of early 90s hip-hop, leftfield electronica, experimental/ambient music, lo-fi folk like Animal Collective, film soundtracks and spaghetti westerns. Not one track on the album truly represents his aesthetic but I’m quite partial to this 80s cop theme romper stomper at the moment. You shouldn’t judge the album on this track alone, perhaps the brilliantly arranged ‘Coat to Wear’ is more indicative, but there’s no denying his talent. In fact, you should just buy the thing. You have my word, it’s another of Irish music’s great releases for 2009, a soon to be vintage year it seems.
The launch gig takes place on the 18th of June in Academy 2, Dublin with support from Hulk and Angkorwat for a fiver. The album is available for pre-release from Osaka. Grab a free release from Pascal Country Sounds before that. Read full post »
One of the gigs I missed which I regretted muchly of late was Prince Kong at the !Kaboogie Squidge EP launch a couple of weeks back (Also missed The Alphabet Set one for my sins). The whole stonking, rumbling set is up at !Kaboogie now and features over an hour of the best future dub, bass and ragga coming out of Ireland (and most other places) at the moment.
The durrty-skankin’ set has MC Rodrigo of Super Extra Bonus Party and MC Lady Grew from London, who I know little about but has bags of attitude. Seriously, this is heavy. Rod comes in about the 15 minute mark and Lady Grew pops up at the 26 minute mark.
PCP has some great photos of the launch (as the one above) and a couple of exclusive Prince Kong tracks. Kong’s album Proper Horror Show will be released this month and is expected to feature Jah Balance, Warrior Queen, Rodrigo and Lady Grew. The Well Sick EP is also coming on !Kaboogie records.
From the demo I heard a few months back, it’s going to be turning a lot of heads in the UK and Europe – I’m looking at you Mary Anne Hobbs.
You may have heard of this 8-piece New York band by now with people like Jim giving them some love in recent weeks. I just got an approved version of ‘15 to 20′, the group’s infectiously funky break-out track so I have to share.
The track has got chiming background bells, an insistent and snaking bassline, top female vocals, some funky soul keys and a nod to the sound of local peers LCD Soundsystem in the track’s rhythm. A great NY tune.
This day next week, the focus of Nialler9 will be shifting to the the land of Antipodeans in the Southern Hemisphere. Yes, myself and 
Ever since ‘Coat to Wear’ was brought 
