Saturday, October 29, 2011

Trippin'



The constantly evasive ‘check-in’ with the world left behind in Sydney today reminded me to update upon my trip. For those to whom I have become a bit of a Jason Bourne in Europe – my current whereabouts lies between Turkey and Bulgaria. I have been here so far for 67 days, I have stayed under 31 different roofs, caught 23 regional trains, crossed around 14 borders – and amongst all of this only vomited once! I have written a travel journal which contains some absolute gold and other stories that shall be taken with me to Davie Jones Locker… however I thought that a good way to sum up my trip to offer a song which is has a lot of meaning towards each countries I have been in.



Spain:

Portugal:

France:

Monaco:  

Amsterdam: 

Germany: 

Croatia: 

Bosnia: 

Serbia: 

Bulgaria: 

Turkey: 

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Hungry Like A ****


Apologies for those who are tune malnourished, due to my most recent lapse in posting - however i am preparing for a eurotrip, on which stylised posts will be frequent.
A couple more feed's until then however and on the menu today is only one dish, yet its a biggun!

Duck Sauce (A-Trak + Van Helden) have followed their viral success of 'Barbara Streisand' with an array of well sampled and disco/funk infused jams such as; 'Grand Steppin', 'Your Nasty' and 'Goody Two Shoe's'. Now this wolf pack has produced another humorous yet groovy track - which instead of poking fun at past celebrities has targeted a refix on a child nursery rhyme.


peace!
Dick Sawce

Monday, June 13, 2011

Monday Roast


ola amigo's!
My deliriously brain-fried and extremely scat Sunday recovery sessions have recently consisted of coffee, bananas, action movie's, tar and the occasional hair of the dog brewske.
However.... as the always chaotic long weekend was just upon us - i find myself wedged in a mish-mashed delirium of Mondayitis (manic/monday ~ syndrome) and Scatrrhea (sunday/brain ~ roast).
My saviour this time being an extensive session of 203 new downloads.... and a fucking good omelette! :)

So upon serving you up some main course tracks to 'munch' into - i have centred the appetiser's upon a very promising Ozzie act. Yet again the land down under has produced another excellent indie-electro live act!! Any who know me personally may have heard me raving about this melbournian 4 peice - and making big comparisons to Aussie acts such as The Preset's and Cut Copy. However rash these may be the depth and fine tuned sound they have already got put's them in such a league - Although factors of the changing electro music scene and their overall swagger may not see these 'strangies' stoop to commercial and eventually 'apocolypso
tic' levels. I shall let their tracks do the talking for you and i am crossing my toes that they keep up the production quality and great indie hooks in future songs!!

As always also the main course selections follow below also....

Entre's
An irresistible hook of 'like a chainsaw' companied with some great multilayered synth pop

Repeated dish on the drunkfunk menu... if you missed it then chow down


Main's
Jumpy, bass-slapping, pure nu-disco which waters the mouth and pumps the rollercafe

Sweat It Out freshface punches out a top dancefloor beat - topped with some rad sampling

a precise and quality track which you expect from A-trak and Armand Van Helden

some tantalising mild wobbles and drops, garnished with some raw vocals


As always enjoy your meal.
peace!
nicK

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

The Great Pyramid of Lyon


French electro & pyramid's - unheard of.
Well maybe not Daft Punk, but certainly a fresh face on a very familiar and always impressive French electro scene. Pyramid produces some great synthy and melodic electro then slow's the bpm and add's the deep tech house French libido, to tracks which at times float you through Neil Armstrong's spaceboots and at other moments have you a cruising Moscow street's in some string enhanced brilliance. I am not often blown away by premiere EP's of straight out electro acts these days - who are somewhat replicating movements and similar beats of the so called French Touch movement... however this has done the number on me.
Repetitive and slow progressing synth and drum loops (which ache of a middle ground between Justice, Daft Punk and Cassius) reflect a very refined production quality which many young-guns simply yearn for.

Make up your own mind on this new French phenomenon with original tracks and a doozie remix.


BONUS

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

skunk or funk?


"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live" - Socrates

To accomodate for those who'd prefer not having their ribcage exploded by rude and heavy basslines - but then again for those who are simply not satisfied without beats tarnishing their liver or eardrum... i have decided to offer a musical menu which holds a variety of thrashed angst to tropical bliss meals - open for your consumption each week.
So....

Entre's

A classic and elegant sample moulds well with a very fucking heavy thrash line

SOlid electro/indie pop which seaming back up vox and light electro synth line channels 'Klaxons', 'Cut Copy' and 'Passion Pit'.


Main's

A timeless rock-ballad is given a crank-a-dank and hit heavy with churning dirty basslines

Tropical horns and an array of retro samples are given a nu-disco and bass heavier remix to create whats better than the 'boy from oz' original [reference?]


Enjoy your meal...
peace out!
nicK