Category: Electronic

  • Merz – Postcard From a Dark Star

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    Great mellow track with minimal elecrtronic elements off set by a great vocal performance.

    taken from www.thesixtyone.com:

    “Merz aka Conrad Lambert has a life as unorthodox as his music. He began his travels at 18, after his schooling in West Yorkshire, and has made friends in 48 countries. His parents live in Mongolia, his grandmother was born in Babylon (Long Island that is). He’s currently settled in Bristol, where, distanced from the industry, he writes his curious music.” NME

    “A maverick with three decades of cultural exploring behind him, Conrad Lambert is a post-pop auteur with a distinctive croaky voice and oodles of left-field ideas.” UNCUT

    “In the airbrushed teen market, he might be deemed no oil painting, but to the trained eye he resembles Vincint Van Gogh. Lend him your ears.” EVENING STANDARD.

    1 “merz makes unique, untainted music that’s a hurricane of fresh air” cd of the week, The Independent.

    2 “a master of modern folk” i-D magazine.

    3 “merz sounds like nobody else in the world and the world would be alright if it listened to nobody else. We absolutely love him.” Coldplay

    4 “merz is passionate music with heart for a musically sophisticated audience” Pure Magazine

    5 “what makes merz great are his songs – earnest, poetic pleas that impact a sense of hope and well being” Flipside

    6 “merz’s debut should be cherished….it will leave you bewitched” cd of the week, The Guardian.

    7 “Already critically acclaimed as Britains answer to Beck, Merz is actually more tortured and less ironic… a breathless, confident vocal. Extraordinary and original…” (5/5) Heat

    8 “he’s living in cloud cuckoo land” The Sun

    Myspace dossing about can be found here: www.myspace.com/merzuk

    Merz – Postcard From a Dark Star

  • Ghosthustler – Only Me To Trust

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    80’s esque synth lines and a booty shake rhythm make this track.   Ghosthustler is from Dentron, Texas and produces some get up and dance tracks.   However, recently one member from the group has left (Alan Paloma), but Ghosthustler lives on and promises the following:

    “With respect to Alan’s decision to leave the band, we’ve axed all the songs with his vocals. Don’t fret though!!! Look forward to our new single that will blow up on the scene in about 2 weeks. -Ghosthustler” (taken from their myspace page)

    Ghosthustler – Only Me To Trust

  • Van She – Sex City (The Teenagers Remix)

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    Great retro vibe and smooth progressions on this track from Van She.

    Bio from last.fm:

    Formed in the early part of 05, Van She are a new band from Sydney. Unashamedly taking bits and bobs from 80’s post punk, funk and synth pop, 90’s grunge, French house, film scores, 70’s Krautrock and the latest collection of innovative artists like Tom Vek and M83, Van She are that unique beast that one was beginning to believe no longer existed — a band that takes all these influences from days gone but makes them sound unique, modern, and…. fresh. A lazy pastiche this isn’t.

    Van She formed when Nick Routledge [vocals, guitar], Matt Van Schie , Michael Di Francesco and Tomek Archer [drums] all responded to an ad in Sydney’s Drum Media and arrived at an audition for a vocalist for a doom metal band with influences including Sepultura, Entombed, Black Skull and Phil Collins to find the whole thing was a sham. You could call it the result of Satan at work, or you could call it fate.

    Since the chance meeting Van She have been playing out and about around Sydney, headlining their own shows and supporting the likes of The Presets and Wolf & Cub.

    They’ve also been in the studio, the fruits of which we now see in the shape of a 6 track, self titled EP. Opener Mission acts as a gloomy but punchy entry point into the Van She world, while Kelly is like the epic, lovelorn cousin to The Presets’ Girl And The Sea. Sex City throbs and blips like a restless adolescent, and Survive is the greatest post post punk tune to make use of slap bass. Kelly Reprise blisses out for just a few seconds before Here With You brings us to a beautifully textured, melancholic close.

    Van She – Sex City (The Teenagers Remix)