Continuing what has already been a busy 2008 for James Lavelle and the UNKLE project, the forthcoming X-Files: I Want To Believe feature film will include a reworking of the X-Files theme recorded by UNKLE.
The main theme remix along with UNKLE’s song “Broken” from War Stories are the only works included in the movie not performed by Mark Snow, the creator of the world-famous title sequence and dark score for the TV show and film.
The UNKLE remix and “Broken” will be released worldwide on the movie’s soundtrack on 21 July.
San Miguel’s Hidden Depth Event at Joshua Brooks Manchester, Thursday 10th July 2008
As we queued up to get into Manchester’s Joshua Brooks I knew we were in for a treat. The moment we arrived we were greeted by a very friendly hostess who ushered us through to the club.
As an ex Hacienda clubber I felt completely at home with the red brick walls and concrete floor. The flashing lights and cool crowd stomped to the electric beats/sounds of the Unabombers.
The place started to pack out and people were buzzing around, excited with anticipation waiting for The Glimmers to appear
I’ve never seen them before but was familiar with their music, especially as top remixers and DJ’s, so like everyone else, was really excited to see what kind of show they had in store for us.
They strolled past me, greeted by a sea of adoring women hugging them as they went to the decks, and to my sheer utter amazement opened the set with the CLASSIC Pump Up The Volume!
Well that was that for me! The coat and bag went over my shoulder as I trashed around the dance floor like it was the 90s! Then the pier résistance was in the middle of the set when they took the roof off with Lionel Richie’s All Night Long. The crowd went crazy, people were literally “dancing on the ceiling”.
Just when I thought it couldn’t get any better they threw their very sexy version of Olivia Newton John’s Let’s Get Physical.
The Glimmers set was a great lively affair, finishing with a very pleasurable version of Salt n Pepa’s classic Push It. I swear I thought I was going to have a heart attack!
Retiring to the main bar after The sweaty excitement of The Glimmers DJ set we went upstairs to the main bar which was delectable. Huge leather booths greeted us with a New York-type vibe that was cool but not pretentious.
Chatting to others in the bar there was a real big thumbs up for The Glimmers and the evening as a whole. I wasn’t the only one who was reminiscing about the Hacienda!
But the night wasn’t over yet! We still had the Master himself…. not any old master but the Grand one himself!
We got a place right in front of the decks, ready for the arrival of Grandmaster Flash. We waited….. and we waited. Then through a puff of smoke he appeared, opening his DJ set with the classic Doobie Brothers Without Love.
The wait was long and I was just wondering if it had been worth it but then it really kicked off
Spinning tune after tune It Takes Two to Young MC to the classic White Lines to King Bee’s wicked Back By Dope Demand. I couldn’t believe it!
I didn’t want the night to end, but sadly, it did. Joshua Brooks was the perfect venue to hold such an event. It was like I had been put on rewind. The only one thing bad I can say about the whole evening is the pain I felt in my feet from stomping around the dance floor!
Yo Majesty - Kryptonite Pussy 12″ US Import & Digital Release Only
The new five track EP from Yo Majesty, the Tampa Florida based hip hop girls with attitude is available on 12″ US Import.
Forget Salt n Pepa, this is Shunda K. and Jwl B. - bass in yer face.Two girls ready to punch down the male dominance of hardcore hip hop with a real punk arse attitude that Afrika Bambabaata would be impressed with. This is the most exciting hip hop I’ve heard for a long time.
The music of Yo Majesty is widely speaking a mash of hip hop, rap and electro beats. Hip Hop meets 80’s electro beats, hard and raw. Shunda K.and Jwl B. with their crude, sexploitative lyrics are given a real raw production by London-based electronica duo Hard Feelings UK (David Alexander and Richard Winstanley).
Yo Majesty pressed their first official release, the Yo EP, in 2006, and in 2007 they toured alongside CSS and The Gossip. Now in 2008 they have released a 12″ vinyl available on US import only - Kryptonite Pussy.
Break Bread & Hey There Girl are favourite tracks. But all 5 tracks are worth listening to. There’s no time for slacker tracks. All five tracks on the 12″ EP are available to listen to on the Yo Majesty MySpace site.
The 12″ precedes their debut album which is due for release in September.
Yo Majesty is hard as nails. But I bet in real life they are kittens.
The next release from the wonderful Distraction Records label will be the much anticipated d_rradio remixes album, called, funnily enough d_rradio remixed.
The limited edition album is due out on 8th September will include remixes from Manual, Depth Affect, The Matinee Orchestra, Cathode, OffTheSky, Piano Magic, Matthew Rozeik, Populous, Juxta Phona, and Port-Royal.
This digipaked bundle of joy will be limited to 500 copies only, and will be on sale soon.
d_rradio’s MySpace page succinctly sums up their beautiful electronica music by say, d_rradio make music with a graceful, timeless sound and a joyously mesmerizing feel. Warm, vibrant and widescreen in production, the melodies and rhythms have a subtle lightness of touch and a melancholic sense of hope. Difficult to pin down and easy to fall in love with, this music has a clear intention; to make you feel alive.
I totally agree and couldn’t have written it better myself.
On 21 July Pram are to release a remix EP of tracks taken from their recently released ‘The Moving Frontier’ album.
The EP is available on both 12″ and digital download formats and features remixes from Domino electronic duo Psapp, flashing psychedelic kid Grandmaster Gareth, Godsy (Gareth Cherrystone’s alter ego) and the childlike joy of Modified Toy Orchestra, as well as the album version of the title track which, with it’s instinctive and delicate arrangement, sounds like a dance scene from some long animated folk tale.
The digital download will be available as a two-week exclusive with Bleep.com
The vinyl tracklisting is:
A
‘Beluga’ (album version) [3.45]
‘Hums Around Us’ (Psapp vital sand pit remix) [3.26]
‘The Silk Road’ (Aguirre wrath of Godsy remix) by Cherrystones [5.11]
B
‘Beluga’ (Grandmaster Gareth mix) [3.42]
‘Salva’ (Throwing toys into the pram mix) by Modified Toy Orchestra [3.56]
Typifying a career that has always moved at its own exploratory pace, The Moving Frontier is as perfect a title as any to attempt to do justice to the breadth of Pram’s very English waking-but-still-dreaming musical adventure.
First convening in Birmingham around fifteen years ago Pram have constantly displayed the steeliness of purpose and locked together vision of outsider artists. Their discography feels like a guidebook to a set of disconcertingly familiar but remote places; and it reads like one too: Dark Island, North Pole Radio Station, The Museum of Imaginary Animals. The band’s sound is the soundtrack to these spaces: Rosie Cuckson’s lambent voice, ghosted keyboards, the rhythm as texture, all operating together to a strange heartbeat – a kind of lighthouse bulb glow.
To say Pram have always ploughed their own furrow is to underestimate the breadth and scale of their music. To listen to this record is to hear a group who have learned to play together whilst teaching each other a new language. The Moving Frontier is Pram at their most widescreen, they’ve created a mysterious and wonderful landscape that’s sky-wide open.
For those of you not familiar with the music of Pram, here is the extended version of their promotional video for Beluga.
Continuing what has already been a busy 2008 for James Lavelle and the UNKLE project, the forthcoming X-Files: I Want To Believe feature film will include a reworking of the X-Files theme recorded by UNKLE.
