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2009-07-02T23:28:00.000-07:00

This is a new song we wrote today. There's no synth yet because Andrew could not jam today. Recorded through Garageband with the laptop mic so its a bit dodgy. Enjoy.

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Melbourne 2008 Demo

2009-06-25T00:12:00.000-07:00

This demo was made to sell at our shows in melbourne in december 2008.
It consists of recordings i made at WAAPA over the course of 2008. HG, HM being the oldest, followed by fields, vessels and four day weekend. The recordings are not great quality (due to my lack of experience and knowledge) but hopefully the songs transcend those limitations. Enjoy.

Tracklisting:

01. Vessels
02. Half Ghost, Half Machine
03. Four Day Weekend
04. Fields

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First Demo

2009-06-18T18:21:00.002-07:00

So here's our very first demo. Recorded at the end of December 2007 over a weekend at my house in kalamunda. we recorded it using garage band and a dodgy mic. Listening back to it you can easily see how much we've grown, which is obviously good. But it does work as lo-fi, out of time indie by gang of four loving kids.

tracklisting:
01. Untitled
02. Marriage
03. Conflict / Impact
04. Light

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Next up i'll be posting our demo from december 2008.
enjoy.

Andrew.

In The Pines

2009-05-09T23:38:00.000-07:00

This was one of the reviews we got for in the pines and probably the only one that went for more than a line. the rest were along the lines of "shock! horror! opened proceedings with indie synth pop with shouty vocals" that one isn't a direct quote just what i remember. I don't know if we see ourselves as indie synth pop but i guess everyone has a different opinion, we have been described as no wave and dark wave and various other genres we would of never considered so i guess you are going to get it. I think we will won't be making mix tape anymore either, we got the last one taken down. Anyways this is it. its from an online magazine called colosoul magazine.

WHO ARE THEY
Shock! Horror!
WHAT THEY SOUND LIKE
Shock! Horror! Started us off at In The Pines with a progressive indie beat that played upon the breeze and found its way into all our hearts. Male and Female vocals pull off an incredible charm and alluring tone as Shock! Horror! Echoed the distinctiveness of the imperfectly perfect world of indie music.
SONGS TO CHECK OUT
“Fields” is definitely one of their more well-known tracks and one they closed with at In The Pines, plus it’s really hard to dislike.

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We are writing new songs they are progressing nicely and excited to finally have the chance to play a few less gigs and write new stuff.

When will it all end ?

2009-04-20T04:24:00.001-07:00

Seriously, when will it. I;d really lyk to know.

Animal Collective

2009-02-23T16:50:00.000-08:00

I've been living with Merriweather Post Pavilion for a month now and i must say its impact has not waned one bit. So much has been said about this album already that there is no point trying to add anything to the conversation. However, if i can say one thing at all, it is that i am sure that when i listen to this album in a few years time i will always remember that initial encounter with the album when it blew me away for the first time. I will remember it as fondly as those first listens of 'Funeral' by Arcade Fire, 'Unknown Pleasures' by Joy Division or 'Illmatic' by Nas. It will go down as a timeless classic and will always poignantly reflect my 2009. even though it's just begun.

I thought it would be timely to trace animal collectives development from their early experimental, more chance based recording to their recent explorations in the possibilities of pop music.

Chocolate Girl
from Spirit They've Gone, Spirit The've Vanished (2000)
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In The Singing Box
from A Danse Manatee (2001)
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Doggy
from Campfire Songs (2003)
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Hey Light
from Here Comes The Indian (2003)
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Leaf House
from Sung Tongs (2004)
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The Purple Bottle
from Feels (2005)
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Chores
from Strawberry Jam (2007)
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Street Flash
from Water Curses (2008)
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Lion In A Coma
from Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)
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Things you see when Driving.

2009-02-19T00:21:00.000-08:00

As i was driving home from a pretty crap day from work, around the corner from my house i saw an old man with an ipod & earphones in his ears, casually walking with some runners, cargo shorts and a shirt.

The catch is right, that his shirt was buttoned by one button, meaning as he was walking i saw his entire left breast. Now i know alot of people salivate when seeing something lyk this, i just found it classic, classic enough to write about it. That was pretty much the highlight of my day. If only i could see more old man boobs on days where i felt lyk crap. I would never have to drink my sorrows away again.

Now everyone wish for Andrew Sinclair to get a job at 78's, he had his interview today so hopefully he gets it. He's deserving of it, music is definately his forte & sure knows alot about it. Wish him luck !

P.S. Don't forget about the visual of the old man with his shirt open listening to some probably very funky music, funky enough to let his shirt rip open to show everyone the man he is. A sensible man.

Signed, Natasha, who obviously needs to find another job & better things to look at in her spare time.

CRYSTAL CASTLES !

2009-02-17T04:28:00.000-08:00

When i found out they were playing, i pretty much wet myself with excitement. Luckily for me i got a ticket for le freee from a dear friend. I;d heard, namely from Andrew. S, that Alice from Crystal Castles was capable of riots and threw a really big show. It;s all true, well without the riot.

We managed to get a spot upstairs at Capitol overlooking the stage, i was wearing these big high heels and they were half an hour late. I started getting a bit grrrrrrrrrrrrry. When they finally came on, i literally went WOAH ZOMG AMAZING BIG LIGHTS YEH HOTNESS OF BAND ! They really started off with a bang, strobe lights were going off in big spurts, i wasn;t drunk nor on any illegal substances (they;re illegal gosh !) but that first song did something of the sort that substances could produce. It blew me away.

Alice, she looks fucked up, as in oh em gee is she overdosing ? on videos i;ve seen, but she was lyk that, it wasn;t played up, it was real. Half the time i was terrified that she was about to die, the other half was thinking wow this is a good show. She jumped around, stood on the drum kit, broke the fallback speakers (repeatedly), kicked off a security guard from grabbing her out of the audience, hit people behind the stage, lay on the floor, smacked microphones into the broken speakers, pushed those speakers to the floor (the sound guy ended up giving up and leaving) ha !, she was literally fucking crazy. She sent the mosh pit crazy, it was so fucking hot in Capitol, to be pushed against a number of other people, i don;t know how anyone survived that heat and pushing, but people endured it and loved the show. Whenever Alice was in the audience, she copped a good feel. Boys.

It was really a show, a t-shirt was even purchased, i wear it proud. Listen to airwar, it;s my favourite track off the album. Those who weren;t there, totally missed out. It was fucking awesome.

On more serious news, this credit crunch fucking sucks.

Sincerely yours,
Natasha.

Mixtape #4 - February 2009

2009-02-10T17:05:00.000-08:00



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Best Tracks of 2008

2009-01-01T18:43:00.000-08:00

Andrew (Drums)'s selections.

01. Animal Collective - Water Curses
from Water Curses ep
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02. Portishead - Machine Gun
from Third
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03. Gang Gang Dance - House Jam
from Saint Dymphna
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04. Adem - To Cure A Weakling Child + Boy/Girl Song
from Takes
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05. Lil' Wayne - Let The Beat Build
from Tha Carter III
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06. Joe Budden - Who Pts 1, 2 & 3
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07. Foals - Balloons (Kieran Hebden Version)
from Balloons single
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08. School Of Seven Bells - Connjur
from Alpinisms
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09. Snowman - We Are The Plague
from The Horse, The Rat And The Swan
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10. Los Campesinos! - 2007, The Year Punk (Broke My Heart)
from Hold On Now, Youngster...
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Best Albums of 2008

2008-12-22T22:00:00.000-08:00

Andrew (Drums)'s selections.

01. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair

Hercules & Love Affair - You Belong mp3

02. My Disco - Paradise

My Disco - Paradise mp3

03. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles

Flying Lotus - Camel mp3

04. Foals - Antidotes

Foals - Two Steps, Twice mp3

05. M83 - Staturdays = Youth

M83 - Skin Of The Night mp3

06. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.

Deerhunter - Vox Celeste mp3

07. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War)

Erykah Badu - Soldier mp3

08. Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing

Wale - The Kramer mp3

09. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing

Fuck Buttons - Ribs Out mp3

10. Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You

Max Tundra - Which Song mp3

Die! Die! Die!

2008-12-01T17:38:00.000-08:00

If someone had tried to tell us when we started giging back in feb that we'd eventually support die! die! die! i don't think any of us would have believed it. it's going to be an awesome gig! come down!

Die! Die! Die! - ECHOECHO mp3

CUNT SLASHER

2008-11-17T06:01:00.001-08:00

just a note

tash talks so much shit, I mean i do in person but she does on the net.
talking about electrelane for three paragraphs,

and gee wiz they broke up last year.

that is all
rupert (the guy who has dark brown hair ever since he was born 20 years ago)

La Musica !

2008-11-17T03:17:00.000-08:00

Pretty much i really wanted to add more electrelane to the mix tape, but i wasn;t allowed to namely because it;s been on the other 2 previous mix tapes, the last one misteriously dissappeared. clearly it;s spelt mysteriously, i corrected myself YEH !

So the reason of wanting electrelane on every mix tape thingy magig is because of the fact that i find them fucking great. They relax me & i thoroughly enjoi it. Just letting you know that it;s what i;m listening to the most. However this is how bad i am, the other day i was lyk 'Andrew i hell love electrelane, i told my friend about them but he doesn;t know who they are, nor Animal Collective or Foals' and he replied 'He;ll know about Foals soon' (obviously because Foals are also really fucking awesome and because they;re so awesome some dick will find out about them on their third released album and find them oh so wicked) And so i was lyk 'Yeh probably' and then he goes 'He won;t end up knowing about electrelane' and i was lyk 'Oh why ?' and to my shock ! horror ! (it;s funny to me), he replies, 'Because they;ve broken up'. To this i reply with tears, i cried a river, yes just lyk the Justin Timberlake song, i did it, but to electrelane not Justin Timberlake, if that makes any sense. Clearly this means i;m a dick because i didn;t know they were broken up and they happen to make me really happy when i listen to them, i guess i;ll have to listen to all their songs on repeat for the rest of my life. I;m cool with that.

electrelane is not with a captiol E because i pretty much think they;re the shit. If i ever get around to doing some solo stuff, it;s gonna sound lyk them with added glockenspiel, which buy the way asincla2 i haven;t recieved yet and i really want it, so i can spend my time tinkling away into oblivion. So when i release my solo album you;ll have to get it, i;m going to release about 55 albums, all will go double platinum, no make that triple, quadruple, a millionuple times platinum and gold, wait platinum is better than gold isn;t it ? Well whichever is highest in value, because my music will be that awesome and everyone will love it. (clearly it would mean i;m going to go broke from buying that many of my albums because i;ll only be my biggest fan) YEH ! i look forward to what the future holds for me.

So yes i came on to spiel (correct spelling, well if it was in a dictionary this is how it would be sound spelt, sh-peel) about Electrelane (mistake with the captiol letter WOAH !) as i think they;re great. I;ll also add that i really enjoi Animal Collective, waiting for their new album ! And obviously Foals tickles my fancy x ALOT. Oh and you should all try listening to Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich, it will change you.

I;m going to signout now, but i hope you understood the moral of this story, which of course is Natasha from Shock ! Horror ! thinks electrelane is really, really great and you should all buy her flowers because of this. THANKYOU !

Yours sincerely, Natasha, Tash, Mash, Bash, Trash, Rubbish Bin ! (nicknames from primary school, i was really liked obviously).

Mixtape #3 - November 2008

2008-11-17T01:39:00.000-08:00

Andrew (synth)'s selections

Rupert's selections

Tash's selections

Andrew (drums)'s selections

01. Franz Ferdinand - All My Friends LCD Soundsystem cover (2007)
02. Lost Valentinos - Sell Yourself from The Valentinos ep (2005)
03. The Ex - River from Dizzy Spells (2001)
04. Steve Reich - Pulses from Music For 18 Musicians (1976)
05. Shoeb Ahmad - When We Were Sirens from Snapshot 1 compilation (2008)
06. Nicolay And Kay - Tight Eyes from Time Line (2008)
07. New Order - Chosen Time from Movement (1981)
08. So So Modern - Piece It Apart from Ep0004 (2008)
09. Die! Die! Die! - Franz (17 Die! Die! Die! Fans Can't Be Wrong) from Die! Die! Die! (2006)
10. Because Of Ghosts - The Battle Of Mount Royal from This Culture Of Background Noise (2008)
11. Of Montreal - An Eluardian Instance from Skeletal Lamping (2008)
12. Dan Deacon - Big Milk from Spiderman Of The Rings (2007)

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Mixtape #1

2008-09-03T22:16:00.000-07:00

Mixtape #1 - September 2008

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Tash's selections

01. Electrelane - The Greater Times
02. Fujiya & Miyagi - Knickerbocker
03. Animal Collective - Who Could Win A Rabbit?

Andrew (Synth)'s selections

04. Big Black - Jordan Minnesota
05. Primus - Welcome To This World
06. McLusky - Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues

Andrew (Drums)'s selections

07. Peter Bjorn & John - Seaside Rock
08. El Guincho - Kalise
09. Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened

Rupert's selections

10. Baseball - Where We All End Up
11. Death In Vegas - Girls
12. Love Of Diagrams - Shadow (Live)

libraries are fun!

2008-08-03T19:43:00.001-07:00

for the last week or so i have been ripping as much music as possible from my uni library which is pretty fantastic considering their classical and jazz collections are fucking massiv! and i have shit all classical or jazz. needless to say i probably will never have to purchase a philip glass cd ever again.

minimalism has returned me to joy after one! two! three! got fucked around on the weekend.
i'll be back soon with a nas anthology y'all.

andrew.

Philip Glass - Company: Mov. 1 mp3

shiiit!!! give me a daemon!

2008-06-23T22:41:00.000-07:00

so the other week i bought the golden compass on dvd.
its pretty fucking crap. but it made me want to read those books again. his dark materials.
i mean its so fucking cool that they all walk around with like transforming animals like some kind of ultra animorphs side kick, and i started thinking about what kind of daemon i'd have. i'd obviously want like some fucking lion or eagle or some shit but its more than likely i'd end up with a poodle or frog or some shit shit. after a while i started thinking about what other people would have. like what would lil wayne have? (panther?) what about julia gillard? eno? fucking hitler?
anyway, the point is. daemons make any dude a hot motherfucker.
so i'm leaving this universe.
pow!

Girl Talk - No Pause mp3

Top 10 for 2008 (...so far)

2008-06-19T06:13:00.000-07:00

by Andrew S.

1. My Disco. Paradise.

My Disco - You Came To Me Like A Cancer Lain Dormant Until It Blossomed Like Rose mp3

2. M83. Saturdays = Youth.

M83 - Too Late mp3

3. Snowman. The Horse, The Rat And The Swan.

Snowman - Our Mother (She Remembers) mp3

4. Hercules And Love Affair. Hercules And Love Affair.

5. Vampire Weekend. Vampire Weekend.

6. No Age. Nouns.

7. Foals. Antidotes.

8. Atlas Sound. Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel.

9. Lil Wayne. Tha Carter III.

10. Portishead. Third.

Snacks.

2008-06-12T04:17:00.000-07:00

The Hyde Park Hotel has hosted many a great sunday for us since we started gigging 4 months ago. the provided 2 free jugs of beer makes us happier than small children at christmas time (slightly less so since we had to decrease from Little Creatures to VB). This sunday is extra special because we get the honour of sharing the bill with two of our favourite perth bands. Wales headline the show bringing melancholy melodies backed by ear-blisteringly danceable disco beats and our personal friends and musical saviours Ichi The Killer bring huge distortion and bigger stage antics (Chris knows how to smash a bass!)
so come down and join us. After all, it is only $6

Prinzhorn Dance School - Crackerjack Docker mp3