SHE CRIES ON EVERY TUNE
It's been done tons of times before, not always with great results, sometimes utterly genius. This versions seems to be spreading very quickly all over the interweb nowadays. Welcome The XX! Stone cold guitar playing & smooth r&b synths, what else you'ld want?
The XX - Teardrops (Womack&Womack cover)
And here's a special treat for Wim/Willem/Miw, Justus Köhncke's amazing take on the Neil Young Classic Old man. Teardrops, innit?
Justus Köhncke - Old man (Neil Young cover)
DISCO DISCUSSION
Very interesting piece of video where Paul Morley discusses the roots and continuing influence of disco with Vince Aletti, the very first writer to cover New York's emerging disco scene in the 70's, DJ and author Bill Brewster, and Luke Howard, DJ at London's Horse Meat Disco.
There's three parts and you should just follow these links to get to see them. Total boogie time: a bit over half an hour... Enjoy!
Part one
Part two
Part three
Source: Guardian
There's three parts and you should just follow these links to get to see them. Total boogie time: a bit over half an hour... Enjoy!
Part one
Part two
Part three
Source: Guardian
THE DRUMS
not talking about the Boredoms drum circle, Emiliana Torrini's Jungle Drums, that "cool chick" from the Ting Tings chanting, not even talking about The Drums from San Francisco.
i'm talking about Jonathan Pierce and Jacob Graham who played their very first show, with Connor Hanwick and Adam Kessler helping them out live, only about a month ago at the Cake Shop in New York City. just two days before i deejayed at the very same venue at the To Bad Catholics, Katie Eastburn, Nick Krgovich and Skeletons gigs. i can not fucking believe i missed that show!
in any case, they reside in Brooklyn by way of Florida which makes total sense if you listen to their music. now just imagine a Manchester childhood along with it and you could get to the whole bastard child of post-punk and new wave with a slight surf-induced vibe they got going on. very psyched about this stuff! i predict a signing to Domino for Europe by the fall, w00p w00p.
i'm talking about Jonathan Pierce and Jacob Graham who played their very first show, with Connor Hanwick and Adam Kessler helping them out live, only about a month ago at the Cake Shop in New York City. just two days before i deejayed at the very same venue at the To Bad Catholics, Katie Eastburn, Nick Krgovich and Skeletons gigs. i can not fucking believe i missed that show!
in any case, they reside in Brooklyn by way of Florida which makes total sense if you listen to their music. now just imagine a Manchester childhood along with it and you could get to the whole bastard child of post-punk and new wave with a slight surf-induced vibe they got going on. very psyched about this stuff! i predict a signing to Domino for Europe by the fall, w00p w00p.
STREET EDITORIAL MIXTAPE
A while ago I was asked to furnish a fashion show with a soundtrack. The mixtape I made is mainly midtempo, which turned out to be perfect for the models to their stuff to. I added some extra faster tracks for the Oscillations blog, giving the mix a total length of 74 minutes. You can find the download link below. If listening online is your cuppa tea, click here.
Sixsixsixties Street Editorial
Dollskabeat - Zodiac Rising
Eurythmics - Paint A Rumour
White Light Circus - Rocket Ride
Simian Mobile Disco - I Believe (Prins Thomas rmx)
Harmonic 313 - Flaash
Boards Of Canada - Nlogax
Indeep - The Record Keeps Playing
Imagination - Just An Illusion (Terje edit)
Alan Parson's Project - I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You
6th Borough Project - Just A Memory
South City Allstars vs Joe Quartermain
Fan Death - Veronica's Veil
Willesden Dodgers - 112 BPM
Baby Oliver - Shot Caller
Morten Sorensen - Start Something (40 Thieves rmx)
Hypnosis - Bormaz
Fatima Yamaha - What's A Girl To Do
Jade - I'm Gonna Get Your Love
Ivan - Fotonovella (Pete Herbert rmx)
Lifelike - Sequencer
Faze Action - Stratus Energy
Dance Reaction - Disco Train
NOIA - Stranger In A Strange Land
Blaze - Lovelee Dae (Isolee rmx)
The Allessi Brothers - Seabird
Don't forget that we're playing De Markten in Brussels on friday. Starting at 23h is Captain Starlight with The Michael and me taking over around 00h30. It's free of charge and always loads of fun, so why not stop by?
Oh and did I tell you about our new facebook home?
COMEBACK
A very big up to all the people who came out to dance and who made the Hug Me Heimlich party in Cologne and the latest party at De Markten such a blast. Oscillations salutes you!
It's been way too long since there was some music on here, let stand alone good music. Let's make up for that...
First up is a tune that got passed on to us by Jan L. from Cologne. It's an extremely funky piece of synth music from 1982, by the bass player of Prince's Revolution. It's quite obvious where he got the inspiration, but don't let that hold you back from freaking out to it!
Don't remember in which part of the ever fantastic interweb I found this little gem, but this is first class robot music. The track comes off a 1985 LP by a certain Jeff Phelps, who - sadly - never got around making more than this one album. The silly female vocals are provided by Antoinette Marie Pugh.
Last up (but certainly not least) is former Oscillations- and Vicuna-guest Matt Waites aka Nightmoves. Under the alias of G&S he's produced a very glitch new beat stomper together with the ever pretty Nadia Ksaiba for the excellent Dissident label. They're riding a swell wave there, with excellent releases by Den Haan, Brassica and The Off-Key Hat in the last few months. Long may it continue!
On another note: our facebook was taken down recently by the f*scists working in the FB-offices, so we lost all of our contacts & correspondencies. Thank you! We'll be back shortly with a fan page, just so you know where to find information on future Oscillations events. Expect some in the near future!
It's been way too long since there was some music on here, let stand alone good music. Let's make up for that...
First up is a tune that got passed on to us by Jan L. from Cologne. It's an extremely funky piece of synth music from 1982, by the bass player of Prince's Revolution. It's quite obvious where he got the inspiration, but don't let that hold you back from freaking out to it!
Don't remember in which part of the ever fantastic interweb I found this little gem, but this is first class robot music. The track comes off a 1985 LP by a certain Jeff Phelps, who - sadly - never got around making more than this one album. The silly female vocals are provided by Antoinette Marie Pugh.
Last up (but certainly not least) is former Oscillations- and Vicuna-guest Matt Waites aka Nightmoves. Under the alias of G&S he's produced a very glitch new beat stomper together with the ever pretty Nadia Ksaiba for the excellent Dissident label. They're riding a swell wave there, with excellent releases by Den Haan, Brassica and The Off-Key Hat in the last few months. Long may it continue!
On another note: our facebook was taken down recently by the f*scists working in the FB-offices, so we lost all of our contacts & correspondencies. Thank you! We'll be back shortly with a fan page, just so you know where to find information on future Oscillations events. Expect some in the near future!
WANG OUT!
Those who came down to Ric's Art Boat on Saturday night witnessed a brilliant set by our honorable guest for the night, the MIGHTY Daniel Wang. Playing for nearly 5(!) hours, the man switched from a treasure of disco gems to some early house records, threw a bunch of Stock, Aitken & Waterman productions on top and added some extra flavour with a late comedy routine.
Closing my eyes I was drifting away to Mancuso's Loft, Levan's Paradise Garage and 1990's Ibiza. Yes folks, it was THAT good! One of many highlights was Danny playing this balearic classic, just moments before sunrise...
Launching the love boat was our man Dirk Eskimo, who not only brought the new Lindstrom & Prins Thomas monster "Tirsdagsjam" but also some unreleased track by a new Italian (?) act on Eskimo that we desperately NEED! Needless to say, Dirk tore the roof down!
For more Oscillations bada bing over the next couple of weeks, we direct you to these fine parties. Come and say hi!
24-4 Hug Me Heimlich, Cologne
25-4 T*E*A*S*E*R at La Campine, Antwerp (Sixsixsixties)
30-5 Noord at Bab Mansour, Antwerp (The Michael)
01-5 Another Late Night at De Markten, BXL
VIOLENCE IS BAD, M'KAY?
having to fight for your right to party in the weekend wars sucks. it always baffles me why someone wants go out and have or give a bad time. have they not heard of Chic?! in light of recent events involving gunpoint drama, a mass beatdown, hassling and verbal threats (but at least we've got some taste and a much, much, much smarter mouth), here are some conflict related tunes. recent and older. guitars and synths.
The Bitters - Warrior
Beanie Sigel & Jay Z - Glock Nines (Ratatat Remix)
and here's a little sumpin' sumpin' for the eyes.
i figured out what their problem is in the mean time.
The Bitters - Warrior
Beanie Sigel & Jay Z - Glock Nines (Ratatat Remix)
and here's a little sumpin' sumpin' for the eyes.
i figured out what their problem is in the mean time.
CORNY LOVE STORY
a silly, little while ago i made up (yes, "made up") a silly, little love story about a sex addict trying true love and leaving his sexadelic past behind using the names of the artists and or the names of the songs. long walks by the balearic beach and cosmic candles crawling out of your ass and all that funky fresh stuff. here goes!
I wanna be your lover and now love has come around! I'll take you on my aeroplane to Paris (I promise!), but oh no, you might find out I'm a R'n'B drunkie and although I try to shed my Balearic incarnation it's like a dream I can't stop dreaming (with my wang) and it's still going and going... Oh, what a situation! Always trying to get fresh at the weekend, showing out my wang when it's on the rise. Dreadful moodiness, I just need some emotional rescue! Oh why, cruel fate?! Why testeth thou me so... uhm -eth? I can't kill the lady (in my heart, duh). No, it's too late... Here my love is! MORE, MORE, MORE!
lol.
sad.
but sadly cool, right? right.
I wanna be your lover and now love has come around! I'll take you on my aeroplane to Paris (I promise!), but oh no, you might find out I'm a R'n'B drunkie and although I try to shed my Balearic incarnation it's like a dream I can't stop dreaming (with my wang) and it's still going and going... Oh, what a situation! Always trying to get fresh at the weekend, showing out my wang when it's on the rise. Dreadful moodiness, I just need some emotional rescue! Oh why, cruel fate?! Why testeth thou me so... uhm -eth? I can't kill the lady (in my heart, duh). No, it's too late... Here my love is! MORE, MORE, MORE!
lol.
sad.
but sadly cool, right? right.
NEVERENDING LOVE
Over a week ago, Zeigeist announced their split via their myspace page. We had the honnor to welcome the swedish band as our guests for our bash at Antwerp's Kavka, back in december. The buzzing and theatrical performance they put on that night turned out to be one of their last. Marie, Per and Mattias called it quits on personal grounds but I'm sure we'll be seeing them in other incarnations sooner or later.Here's a video to Zeigeist's "Humanitariansm" that I made with my man Joris to commemorate the band's passage at Oscillations. I guess now is the time to post it here. Oscillations salutes Zeigeist!
HURRAY FOR MARGINALSSSSS!
hey there, hi there
i read another article about how brilliant Romain Gavras' video for Justice's STRESS is. this annoys me because it is... well, it is simply... not. shock! gasp! seriously, its faux shock tactics don't contribute to anything. aesthetically it's nothing that hasn't been done before (even by himself!) or it does not aid in the least in delivering a platform for discussion. it just sells and they knew. Justice are really good salesmen. when something is done for the sake of salesmanship, i still consider it a form of art, but not the kind of art which i find interesting. however, dissing people or creations for the sake of it doesn't interest me either so i'd like to write about two other of mister Gavras' video clips. i will leave out the one he made for The Last Shadow Puppets, although i'm pretty sure it's quite impressive from a producer's point of view, it just ain't mah thang, G.
Romain Gavras seems to be quite fond of people living in the margins of society. and why not? they're excellent material for comic relief! hurray for margies making us laugh! which is certainly the case in his video for Dj Mehdi's Signatune (the wonderful Thomas Bangalter edit). when the protagonist pulls his head away from his caring and carressing mother... lol. classic stuff.
less hilarious, but still funny is the totally unsexy environment of an anonymous and what i believe to be a Eastern European village on the countryside for the sexy song I Believe by Simian Mobile Disco. the setting reminds me of Jonathan Safran Foer's excellent debut novel Everything Is Illuminated.
mmmmmmmm marginal folks.
i read another article about how brilliant Romain Gavras' video for Justice's STRESS is. this annoys me because it is... well, it is simply... not. shock! gasp! seriously, its faux shock tactics don't contribute to anything. aesthetically it's nothing that hasn't been done before (even by himself!) or it does not aid in the least in delivering a platform for discussion. it just sells and they knew. Justice are really good salesmen. when something is done for the sake of salesmanship, i still consider it a form of art, but not the kind of art which i find interesting. however, dissing people or creations for the sake of it doesn't interest me either so i'd like to write about two other of mister Gavras' video clips. i will leave out the one he made for The Last Shadow Puppets, although i'm pretty sure it's quite impressive from a producer's point of view, it just ain't mah thang, G.
Romain Gavras seems to be quite fond of people living in the margins of society. and why not? they're excellent material for comic relief! hurray for margies making us laugh! which is certainly the case in his video for Dj Mehdi's Signatune (the wonderful Thomas Bangalter edit). when the protagonist pulls his head away from his caring and carressing mother... lol. classic stuff.
less hilarious, but still funny is the totally unsexy environment of an anonymous and what i believe to be a Eastern European village on the countryside for the sexy song I Believe by Simian Mobile Disco. the setting reminds me of Jonathan Safran Foer's excellent debut novel Everything Is Illuminated.
mmmmmmmm marginal folks.
