Moving house!

Hey — update your bookmarks! WordPress.com has a few limitations, like not being able to change the HTML for this blog, so I’m moving on.

The new home for Undersea Community is over here.

As a farewell, enjoy — the Nunavut coat of arms:

and a dancing Dude:

see you on the other side…

2000007

Great new tune from the new Modeselektor album, “Happy Birthday”:

Modeselektor - 2000007 (Featuring TTC)

TTC v Modeselektor — always brilliant. Modeselektor are playing Dublin in November. Check the live set in that post…

bonus:

Modeselektor - The Dark Side of the Sun

Quick Italo post

Apparently Dan Deacon was just brilliant. I’m on contractions-watch, so no gigs for me!

Anyway, I’m going back through the CBS.nu Top 100, listening to lots of great italo. Haven’t seen this 1984 slice of tune posted around, but it definitely deserves listening — enjoy:

Jo Squillo Eletrix - Avventurieri

(includes a little free bonus chat from I-F at the end!)

Dan Deacon

Don Rosco informs me that Dan Deacon, absurdist kiddycore electro guy from Baltimore, is playing tomorrow night at Crawdaddy in Dublin. Sounds like it’d be mental:

Dan Deacon - Wham City (thanks to ÜberDrivel)

Modeselektor

There’s an excellent Modeselektor live set over at magooo; apparently they’ll be playing in the Tivoli in Dublin, November 1st….

Rollerball

Quick bit of futuristic-pervy-funk, from the Rollerball soundtrack by Andre Previn:

Andre Previn - Executive Party (Rollerball soundtrack)

Jimmy again

The other day, I posted a link to “Jimmy”, the best track off M.I.A.’s new album, Bollywood-meets-disco style:

M.I.A. - Jimmy

turns out it’s a cover. DJ Bwyse at Talking in Stereo brings the original:

Bappi Lahiri, Chorus, Kishore Kumar, Nandu Bhende, Parvati K - Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Aaja

LCD Soundsystem adding another night

While accordian-wielding Canadians continue to be the inexplicable flavour of the year in Dublin, LCD Soundsystem are pulling a few less punters; their Oct 20 gig at Tripod still has tickets left at Ticketbastard. Go on, you know you want to. It also looks like they’re adding a second night at the Temple Bar Music Centre on Friday the 19th…

LCD Soundsystem - Freak Out / Starry Eyes

RIP Lee

RIP Lee Hazlewood; that renal cancer got him in the end.

You can still download “Some Velvet Morning” from my post from last year, and here’s another:

Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood - Summer Wine

The Human League

I just picked up The Human League’s first two albums, “Reproduction” and “Travelogue”, brilliant pioneering synth-pop from the band’s original line-up in 1979 and 1980:

The Human League - Zero As A Limit

This tune has cropped up in the odd Ladytron DJ set:

The Human League - Empire State Human

This one contains the synth bassline that Joakim’s remix of Cajuan’s “Raven” sampled earlier this year:

The Human League - Dreams Of Leaving

M.I.A. - Jimmy

I’m loving this new track from the freshly-leaked upcoming M.I.A. album, “Kala” (upload via wongie’s music world) — Bollywood disco!

M.I.A. - Jimmy

Of Montreal

Of Montreal played Crawdaddy in Dublin last night. It was a good gig, in a packed venue full of happy fans singing along (especially the bunch from Waterford!); the Nokia branding didn’t really suit though, and the sound could have done with a bit more volume, but hey.

Still, they played a blazing version of ‘The Past is a Grotesque Animal’, worth it for that alone:

Of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal

It was only when I saw them live that I realised how much of a Bowie thing they have, making these live covers pretty apt:

Of Montreal - Moonage Daydream (live)

Of Montreal - Suffragette City (live)

(They went for a Kinks cover for the encore this time)

Mind you, I should have read Pitchfork before I went, then I’d have realised that they have a new EP out and bought that instead of 2005’s “Sunlandic Twins” album. :( ah well, time to fork out for the MP3s!

New Kanye video

You know, forget the Akira-homage “Stronger” vid — this is pure genius.

Midnight Juggernauts

Os Mutantes last night was great, despite missing a couple of members due to illness. That dreadlocked girl on the { drums / misc percussion } made a definite impression…

The gig wasn’t exactly jammers, but I think pretty much the entire Dublin Brazilian community made it out.

(Update: Nialler9 has some photos and videos up.)

Next up is Of Montreal, next Wednesday, who apparently occasionally do the odd Os Mutantes cover themselves. The ticket situation isn’t too hot for this one, but fingers crossed anyway.

From a totally different angle — some new Aussie electropop, via Fluokids:

Midnight Juggernauts - Into The Galaxy

Others

woo, looking forward to Os Mutantes tonight! Got the tickets in my pocket…

In the meantime, here’s some drug-reference loaded bubblegum psychedelia off of “Fancy Mix 3″:

Others - My Friend The Wizard

There’s an interview with various members of the Others at Fancy Mag, if you’re curious.

Acid quickie

A good new acidic arpeggiation tune:

Turzi - Acid Taste

(very reminiscent of Aphex Twin’s “Polynomial C”). And a classic from 1988:

Fast Eddie - Acid Thunder (Fast Eddie mix)

Jape a la Space Disco

Space disco tip: Dublin dude Jape has had his great tune “Floating” remixed by Prins Thomas; it sounds fantastic, recommended. Pick it up over at Talking In Stereo.

Eno and the Winkies Peel Session

Just came across this Brian Eno rarity — the “Eno and the Winkies” March 1974 Peel Session:

Baby’s On Fire - the “Here Come the Warm Jets” opener, and a classic. Not quite as heavy with guitar riffage as the album version, though. Segues into:
Totalled - what was eventually released as “I’ll Come Running” on “Another Green World”. This is definitely the session’s highlight for me; I love this tune.
The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch - this is a bit like the “Here Come The Warm Jets” version, but without the squalls of synth “solo” halfway through that makes that version such a classic.
Fever - ick, best avoided; a not-so-hot cover version. :(

“Totalled” is well worth a listen — check out the “You’re No Good”-style 2-track interference solo in the middle!

My City’s a Sucker

Seems Mr Murphy and co will be gracing our shores for an additional gig, on top of the Electric Picnic one, on October 20th at Tripod in Dublin. Yay! Sign me up!

Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve

I’ve been really getting into Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve recently.

As far as I can tell, there are two angles to their music. First off, there’s their remixing of today’s tunes, epitomised by the amazing work they did on
Midlake’s “Roscoe”:

Midlake - Roscoe (Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve Remix) (via World’s Fair News)

That was my gateway tune — to both Midlake *and* BTWS. It takes the original (an awesome song in its own right, more on this at some stage), and mellows it out nicely, with a pretty light touch. Their work on Findlay Brown’s “Losing the Will to Survive” is similar:

Findlay Brown - Losing the Will to Survive

It’s hard to put a finger on what to call the style. It’s not full-on psychedelic rock; it’s a little more folky, really, with some psych tinges. I dunno; whatever, it sounds great to me.

Then there’s the edits of much more out-there classic psychedelic and krautrock tunes on their limited-edition releases, such as “Dig It” and “A Path Through The Forest” (pick up mp3’s here). The latter, I think, is a re-edit of The Factory’s classic psych tune which appears on Nuggets II:

The Factory - A Path Through The Forest

There’s also a cover of Neu!’s uber-classic Hallogallo floating about, titled “I Swim Around”.

Anyway, these tunes — remixes of old and new — are all top of my playlist right now, and are sending me back to Nuggets (again). Bet their set went down
a storm at Glasto ;)