Electronic Pop | House
From one of my all time favorite bands, I have two gems from their catalog.
Fun City can be found as a B-side to their 12″ Say Hello, Wave Goodbye, and later included in the cd release of Soft Cell – Down in the Subway on the German label Spectrum Music.
Live drums, a fuzzy bassline, a killer lead makes up this track from Black Light Dinner Party. This track is more in the electronic vein of Miike Snow, so in other words, this is a winner. Looking forward to hearing more from BLDP! For the time being you can follow them on Facebook.
Black Light Dinner Party – Older Together
Bio:
4 Producers, 3 cities and 2 years of sonic collaboration give life to a new hybrid. Sonically ranging from thick, off-kilter beats, saturated basslines and vintage electronics – to glowing harmonics, breathing vocals and elegant, heartfelt arrangements. Older Together, the first song the band ever wrote (with a video to follow), illuminates the foundation of Black Light Dinner Party — LA beats rolling along with bohemian ease, New York synths on a frosted Sunday morning and Lush Parisian melodies, always with a taste for the bittersweet.
Like a warm cup of java on winter day, Agnes Obel fills up a gloomy day with delicate guitar sounds and her warm voice on “Brother Sparrow”.
You can catch Agnes Obel at SXSW: Saturday March 19, 7:30PMSt David’s Historic Sanctuar
Just So – Agnes Obel by [PIAS] Recordings
BIO:
Play “Just So” to anyone in Germany and they’ll tell you it’s the music from the Deutsche Telekom television advertisement. Which it is. The kind of exposure many an artist would die for. Well not literally, obviously. Or the kind of publicity an independent spirit might agonize over, venturing into the commercial arena.
I can’t help feeling that Agnes Obel is not going to have her feathers ruffled by something, in the greater scheme of things, as inconsequential as a song placement in an ad. Yet is not intriguing how a few bars of music can seep into our consciousness and set us off wondering where they came from?
This facebookish world of ours offers us the illusion of getting to know people we don’t really know. Who their friends are and what they like. Agnes Caroline Thaarup Obel likes Alfred Erik Lesley Satie and Sonic Youth. Debussy and Dylan. Hitchcock and PJ Harvey. But what people like is not necessarily the same as what he or she is like. Clues, perhaps, but as fans of Hitchcock well know, not every clue leads you where you think it might.