Telepathe, 8 January 2010
“Dream is in this heart;
Seasons in these years;
Death is in this heart;
Death is in this heart;
Death is in this heart”
Doesn’t ring a bell?
Sure does in me, cause it is a track on my playlist for a while now; though it is pretty embarrassing, and bad on my end, not to include in other tracks of theirs into the playlist. If technology permits and pirates excel, we could be living in a brilliant accessible music world, and Lily will hate me.
The group I am talking about is Telepathe, “an experimental, avant-garde electronic girl double-act from Brooklyn consisting of core members Busy Gangnes and Melissa Livaudis” (quote from Wikipedia). They released their debut album ‘Dance Mother’ just this year, and they will be heading down to Singapore’s Home Club in early next year.
Kudos to Home Club; they have been bringing in great international acts to this tiny spot on the map. From CSS’s Lovefoxxx to recent The Futureheads gig (two days back from this post) to the only gig there thus I’ve been to, and for free – Emmy The Great, Home Club is one counted-on spot to keep your musical eyeview on for future musical events, or one to avoid the too-caught-in-the-act generation of young hooligan hipsters. Nonetheless, I still thank them for the music, as well as the free flow of drinks I had during its grand opening back then. (Thanks, A, too; though, awkward, somewhat, yes; and probably don’t wanna be reminded of)
Some Telepathe and information follows:
Telepathe live in Singapore
Location: Home Club
Date: Friday, 8 January 2010
(Doors open at 2000 hours)
P.S. don’t one hate it when one act came to Singapore and one only realized it thereafter the whole thing was over? That was my case of experience with Jens Lekman. I could have sold my pants to go watch him – and I will be the only one (freak) in the room with my underwear on; on a good day it will be a Calvin Klein, 2(x)ist or Jockey, on a bad day – ONE DON’T WANNA KNOW.
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Vidiscovery: #100
[It's the 100th post! I just gotta shoutout somehow and somewhere!]
VIDISCOVERY
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KICK PICKS |
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| Toxic Is Dead – The Toxic Avenger | |||||
| Reunited – Fan Death | |||||
| Freaks Come Out – Yo Majesty | |||||
| Did It Again – Shakira | |||||
| Wicked Blood – Sea Wolf | |||||
| Swim Until You Can’t See Land – Frightened Rabbit | |||||
TW |
LW |
W# |
Video |
Artiste |
Director |
| 20 | - | 1 | Blonde Fire | The Hickey Underworld | Joe Vanhouttegem |
| 19 | - | 1 | Chasing Pirates | Norah Jones | Rich Lee |
| 18 | 11 | 6 | 15 To 20 | Phenomenal Handclap Band | Moh Azima |
| 17 | 10 | 11 | Please Venus | Golden Silvers | Gabriel Bissett-Smith and Graham Turner |
| 16 | 7 | 9 | Pick Up The Phone | Dragonette | Drew Lightfoot |
| 15 | 18 | 2 | Scars | Basement Jaxx | Jan Van Nuenen |
| 14 | 6 | 5 | I Can Be A Frog | The Flaming Lips | Salisbury/Wayne Coyne |
| 13 | 17 | 2 | Mowgli’s Road | Marina & The Diamonds | Chris Sweeney |
| 12 | 15 | 4 | Pop The Glock | Uffie | Nathalie Canguilhem |
| 11 | 12 | 4 | This Must Be It | Röyksopp | Filip and Andreas Nilsson |
| 10 | 13 | 2 | Change Of Heart | El Perro Del Mar | Filip Nilsson |
| 9 | 14 | 2 | Pencil Full Of Lead | Paolo Nutini | Corin Hardy |
| 8 | - | 1 | My Turn | Basement Jaxx featuring Dev ‘Lightspeed Champion’ Hynes | Tomek Ducki |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | Sing Sang Sung | Air | Petra Mrkyz and François Moriceau |
| 6 | 9 | 3 | Poison Lips | Vitalic | Julien Levy |
| 5 | 5 | 7 | Pussy | Rammstein | Jonas Åkerlund |
| 4 | 1 | 6 | Memory | Zoot Woman | Mirjam Baker & Michael Kren |
| 3 | 4 | 6 | Dressed To Digress (2 versions) |
Boy Crisis | Ray Tintori |
| 2 | 2 | 6 | Body Shot | Electric Six | Nabil Elderkin |
| 1 | 3 | 5 | Let Love Rule | Lenny Kravitz / Justice | Keith Schofield |
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Music Reviews: #60 – Weekends
Runs an experiment on whether a track meant for the weekend, with the word ‘weekend’, really avoids the axe-ism of criticism.
Cover, Song, Artiste & Album |
Review & Rating |
Ready For The Weekend |
One radio; two ladies; one office – they like to blast English music, and sometimes from my side, I can hear some sounds – this track is one.
A good weekend anticipation, what with all the repetitive chorus to make you contagiously sing-along to. However, I don’t think it really break much new grounds for Calvin Harris, artistically.
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The Weekend |
Prior and after this, I never really did know much about Michael Gray, except for the obvious fact that he is a DJ. (D’oh)
Yes, I think I heard of the after-single “Borderline”, but in the fast pace world of the music world, he became less known on the mainstream, and probably more dissolved into the UK DJ-clubbing scene. Nonetheless, I remember liking it pretty much back when it was released in 2004. It is a sure weekend banger, whatever that may mean.
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I Love The Weekend |
The genius lyrics in the chorus of “I love the weekend; I love the crickets”;
the great combustion of musical instruments; the joy of the band’s name of having no stranger kids around; isn’t it all awesome?
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Conclusion: Weekend is like a drug.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
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Music Reviews: #59
Cover, Song, Artiste & Album |
Review & Rating |
 Meet Me HalfwayThe Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. |
I actually like this.There is something spacey; there is something beautiful; there is something different about this song.
There is something not annoying; there is not as much ‘in-yer-face’ style like the previous singles; there is something celebrity starstruck in this. I actually don’t hate this song.
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 AutomaticTokio Hotel Humanoid |
I never did; don’t; never really much will get the so-called craze for Tokio Hotel. Below are a list of issues I raised:(A) The lead singer scares the shitballs outta me;
(B) The lead singer needs a haircut; (C) I don’t really much get their blend of punk rock music; (D) If they call themselves rock, I will faint. The more I hear the track, the more I believe that they’re collecting female fans to sleep with every night; (E) Is this song digitally enhanced? (F) Can they speak freaking English? Do they even know what the Hell they are singing? That is all. I guess when I have noisy Christian neighbours who make a lot of pussy noises on Fridays and Sundays, I really do need a place to rant.
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Happy |
Towards Leona Lewis, I always have mixed feelings: “Bleeding Love”, the UK single of the year for 2007, was extremely overplayed by the mainstream; “Run” was okay, but it was a Snow Patrol hit, so credits still go back to the originals; “Forgive Me”, produced by Akon, is a good diversion for the singer, but song-wise does not deliver the punches; “A Moment Like This” is obviously too reality TV singing competition struggling single.
I did like “Better In Time”, and now this. My sister was commenting on the irony of the video/song being a sad realization of love (or is it?), and should have been named “Unhappy”. But I like the irony; I like the twist; I like what is real. I guess, I just want to be happy (too).
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“I’m only happy when it rains…”
Several times, when it rained, this song will float itself into my mind, and how I pretended that I rocked to this. I know; it is total geekiness overload. I have always love the rain (except for times like these) and how it seems to soothe. It may mean that I don’t have to rush anywhere and I can cancel all appointments with the slight reasoning of inconvenience; it may be the vision of a cup of hot chocolate and a good storybook and a nice window sill and nothing but the afternoon to waste by (though in this age, the laptop and wireless connection had taken off).
Nonetheless, I want Garbage to come back. Though I will not say I am a #1 fan, the type that miss a heartbeat when they release a new material; or the type that show them groupie love big time, I am a fan of music; I am a fan of good music, and I… I just want them to.
(This entry was initially said to want Garbage to reform, but realizing that they actually are still together after their hiatus break way back then, it has thus changed. That may explain the weird sounding post.)
Also, I want All Saints to release another good pop album (now they need to reform); all the deads to relive once again, and blah, so much more. I don’t want to talk anymore for now.
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