Dark in the Disco
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From the Baths to the Disco. My Disco have finished their fourth record and it’s a dark, slow, grinding monster.
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Rock City needs to expand its brandwidth™
So here we is, you know what we duz cuz.
It’s a cornucopia of new local music news and the return of Going at a Clip – 6 Music Videos Under The Mikeyscope.
BLEAK OUTLOOK
Liam Andrews was sunning himself at Carlton Baths two months ago when your intrepid reporter spotted him. Time to slip, slop, slap and scoop!
My Disco’s bassist and vocalist had “just returned from living in Barcelona to record the fourth My Disco album. It’s really slow and dark and full-on,” he offered, backstroking.
“Bleak and intense,” were other words used too. Dark mofos.
Speaking of which, My Disco will play at the Tasmania Festival Dark Mofo and then slay the East Coast on their first tour in 18 months. They did a number on The HiFi last month (they weren’t the only ones) supporting Ben Frost and now The Toff is gonna get it.
Engineer, musician and BFF Cornel Wilczek has helped them on the as-yet-untitled album recorded at Electric Dreams. It’s scheduled for a late 2015 release on the band’s North American label, Temporary Residence Ltd.
Fun fact: My Disco are named after a Big Black song and play an ever-morphing sound that hits you and it feels like a kiss.
Toff in Town, 252 Swanston St, city. June 7. $ 22. thetoffintown.com
Andrei Eremin – Melbourne electronic music producer with Recycling EP and natty/knotty beard.
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KNOWING VENN
Melbourne garden gnome and producer Andrei Eremin is a generous fellow.
The 23-year-old has announced an EP-sized bundle of remixes to be released free of charge via his Bandcamp titled Recycling (2013-2015). And it’s a stunner.
Recycling includes his re-rubs of Juicy J Feat. Nicki Minaj, Lil Bibby & Young Thug’s Low, Milwaukee Banks’ Sweater Made Of Gold, Japanese Wallpaper’s Between Friends, I’lls’ Mine’s Here Or My End’s Here Or Nineteen and closes out with Rat & Co’s remix of Eremin and Fractures’ Ghosts.
“When I get asked to do a remix, I usually pick my favourite track on the record and imagine a big Venn diagram of elements I love to use and elements the original artist loves to use,” Eremin says.
“If I can create something totally unique that fits in the middle of that diagram, that’s the remix clocked!”
Eremin causes “trap hands” with his work and has a consistent mise-en-scene. The ginger ninja has been paying close attention to “Caribou’s remix of Radiohead’s Little By Little…just how seamlessly he transformed it into a totally different track that still works,” Eremin says, astounded.
“I’m also a sucker for Flume’s bulletproof remix of HyperParadise by Hermitude, and if it counts, Machinedrum did a 180 degrees reinterpretation of a funny obscure ’90s house track called Alarma that I adore. He fuelled it with cut-up live drums and somehow turned it into a huge banger, melts my brain.”
Eremin has just finished mixing his solo EP with all original material. It’ll drop soon and feature a certain local muso who uses an ironing board live. OK(lo) I think we got it.
“Think abstract but accessible electronic compositions featuring my favourite Australian musicians. I’m nervous to show people, that’s probably a good thing,” he says, “nothing quite like stepping outside your comfort zone.”
http://soundcloud.com/andreieremin/juicy-j-low-ft-nicki-minaj-lil-bibby-young-thug-andrei-eremin-bootleg
PET SOUNDS MK II
Former Rock City stars Pets With Pets have been wandering around stray for a few years.
Thankfully they’ve never been neutered; Pets With Pets now consist of founding member Zayd Thring, Ryan Caesar (Pearls/Children Collide) and Ash Buscombe (Witch Hats/Parading).
They launchthe Out Of The Acidic Drink (You’ll Get Hurt) single on Friday night with Exek, White Hex DJs and another band which has a name not fit for print in a family newspaper. Out Of The Acidic Drink (You’ll Get Hurt) continues Thring’s love/hate affair with the guitar and love/love affair with overpowering atmospherics.
Recently premiered on Noisey, the track is nicked from their second LP The Apocalypse Was Poorly Attended, out soon-ish.
The Curtin Bandroom, 29 Lygon St, Carlton. Fri, 8.30pm. $ 15. johncurtinhotel.com
TKAY-ING IT UP A NOTCH
Zimbabwe-born, Radelaide-raised femcee Tkay Maidza is on a new track by MUST DIE! titled Imprint.
It’s a restricted house banger, like Gesaffelstein slap-boxing with Clipping. She admonishes those wearing bossy boots: “There’s people that telling me to listen to their instincts but we in the jungle and I’m here to make an imprint.”
Maidza is playing at the No-So supported by JOY and UV Boi.
These are her future gigs, pay “Attennn-shun.”
Northcote Social Club, 301 High St. Fri, 8.30pm. northcotesocialclub.com; Corner Hotel (supporting Charli XCX), May 1, cornerhotel.com; GTM, Bendigo, 2015.gtm.net.au/ben-home.html
WHAT IS HARTS DOING THIS WEEK PT 34.
Last week’s splendiferous Splendour In The Grass announcement was full of tiny triumphs for Australian artists like Harts, the boy wonder who plays guitar like a demon and crushes social media like Mick Fanning rips Bells Beach.
Real name Darren Hart, the one man band has announced his Breakthrough EP will be out June 5 and the title is a knowing one. Not only has Triple J been spinning the title track on rotation, you just know this is the moment he goes nuclear.
Last week Harts performed Daniel Johns’ Aerial Love and added Korg and Stratocatser Squier spice and he was also one of the stand out acts at The Hills Are Alive. Byron Bay is gonna flip out over him but first he’ll play for you and try not to split his pants.
“This tour I’m taking a drummer along with me, and we’re going to bring treats of heavy beats with loads of wailing guitar. Super excited to be taking my new songs out from the bedroom studio and to the streets. And with new guitar licks and tricks!”
Harts – Melbourne funk and rock and soul singer songwriter Darren Hart. Picture by Dom Puglisi. Gracias.
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Last night he supported Delta Riggs and my spies tell me his new percussionist made the set boombastic, mister. Bodes well.
Thanks to the great Dom Puglisi of Diamonds and Pearls Photography for the killer shot.
Ding Dong Lounge, Market Ln, city. $ 12+bf June 27. dingdonglounge.com.au/
GOING AT A CLIP – 6 NEW MUSIC VIDEOS UNDER THE MIKEYSCOPE
1. Broken Hands – Fraser A Gorman
Best bit: Stu McKenzie of King Gizzard and Lizard Wizard begrudgingly giving Gorman his frosty pint at 2.14.
Weird bit: The Requiem for a Dream type jump-cuts at the beginning just before the delivery at .22.
Earworm: “I got no soul because country music sounds to me like rock’n’roll” and “Come on and tell me the truth, now you’re shaking like a six year old’s wobbly tooth.”
2. Lonesome Street – Blur
Best bit: 2.46 when the main dancer stops us checking our phones and he’s joined by Phoenix Fly Line Dancing Group Of San Francisco. Took their bloody time.
Weird bit: Not much happens. This guy ain’t Christopher “The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He’d be damned if any slopes gonna put their greasy yellow hands on his boy’s birthright, so he hid it, in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you.” Walken.
Earworm: “And if you have nobody left to rely on, I’ll hold you in my arms and let you drift.”
3. Monarch to the Kingdom of the Dead - friendships
Best bit: It’s all discombobulating and pastiche-y and really f—king cool. These guys have got something. Also Franco Cozzo reprazent. #footscraymassive
Weird bit: Dude’s head floating and connecting at .33 then “Really?” also 3.40 when the girl’s startled melon flies around the screen like Super Mario.
Earworm: The stuttering off-kilter drums and background squabbling.
4. Cupcake – Teeth and Tongue
Best bit: It’s all a best bit. Chill as f—k. Andrea Hoff and Jess Cornelius filmed it in Skagastrond and North Iceland when JC was the Nes Artist in Residence. Sunny Leunig sprinkled magic on the footage back home. There’s more icebergs than the lettuce section at your local fruit & veg shop.
Weird bit: The way Cornelius spins around like she’s levitating at 2.09. Neat trick.
Earworm: The War On Drugs-esque guitar that sashays out at you. The breathy PJ Harvey Rid of Me era singing.
5. Helicopter Sunset – Footy
Best bit: Soothing stare of the long-hair wearing an army camo cap at .44. He understands you! “You say it best when you say nothing at all” he sings with his eyes.
Weird bit: Nobody sings. With a bandname like Footy I thought there’d be a clappin’ and a hollerin.’ A fool am I.
Earworm: The Necks meets Kronos Quartet piano refrain. Mellow yellow.
6. Sometimes I Feel So Deserted – Chemical Brothers
Best bit: Quick caveat, this isn’t a local clip but it’d be remiss not to include a song that thinks local and acts global. Right now you can bet this not-even-a-real-film-clip is getting thrashed all over the world. Spirographs are back!
Weird bit: How easily you get hypnotised. Then 1.11 happens and you’re back baby.
Earworm: “Sometimes I feel so deserted but I hold on ‘cause something’s on the way.” Wait is this another sly drug reference? Of course it is. They’re not the Abstinence Brothers.
You should cut down on your porklife mate, get some exercise.
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