Finally! Van She is back with their new single Cat and the Eye. I've heard the song a few times and I really believe it's good! It sounds different than their first EP, more guitars and less synthesizers (yes we are getting tired of them). Anyways I'm sure the album is going to rock!.
I don't really know what's going on in Australia right now, but I believe bands like the Midnight Juggernauts, Cut Copy, the Bag Raiders and even the Bumblebeez are making more noise than any American or French bands.
Another musical post....Yes I know, next time I'll bring you a post that has nothing to do with music.. promise. And I just want to mention that we're happy that the blog is getting a lot of hits. Keep coming back, this is just starting. Thanks for the support!
One of the best Indie labels out there is Modular Records, with bands like Van She, The Whitest Boy Alive, Soulwax, Cut Copy, The Presets, just to mention a few, they keep bringing more talent to us. Their new band is called "Ghostwood".
Formed in Sydney, Australia in 2006, they quickly established themselves on the Sydney Indie scene, and signed to Modular for 1 EP in late 2006. Ghostwood's first release is their eponymous EP, with tracks Red Version, Blue Version, Ghost, Run and Pencils. The single Red Version was iTunes single of the week in late August 2006.
They've toured with Maximo Park and the Silversun Pickups. These lads are pretty young, but they have a very mature and very evolved sound, or they just sound very clean and tight. There is some "the Cure" influence in their sound, or like my girlfriend likes to say: "morbid sound" or "Mew in depression". So if you're into that, check them out, you might like them.
Here is the video of their "Red Version" single I hope you like it. Enjoy!
Well it's thanxgiving weekend (not that I care, I'm Mexican and I don't celebrate it, although the days off are great!), so I thought i'll drop by and write a little bit and leave a little gift for you as always.
Ok, Daft Punk. It feels a cliche just talking about them, they came back last year with that great Coachella show, and changed everything about live shows. People knew them, but not all of them were fans, until now, they saw the live show and started to download their albums and listen to them. A lot of them just realized what they did to the music world, how they revolutionized it, the "why" this guys are like gods, and already part of music history.
Anyway if you are an old fan, a new fan, or just like to dress like robots on wednesday nights and dance in front of the mirror, doesn't matter, I'm here just to remind you that the Alive album came out on Nov 19th. and the US release is on Dec 4th. So if you don't have it, go and get it, there's a deluxe version of it. It comes with an extra cd with the harder better faster stronger video, shot in the Brooklyn show this year by 200 fans with cameras and it's directed by Olivier Gondry, plus the show's encore.
I'm pretty sure you knew all this already so, here it is a track of the album, and if you were in the show this was probably your favorite part. Oh! and here it is a part of the article that came on mixmag magazine, and it's an interview with T. Bangalter about the equipment they use for every show.
Next week, New Yorkers will have the opportunity to go tho the New Museum of Contemporary art that will open their doors to the public at their new home in Downtown Manhattan.
This building was designed by Sejima + Nishizawa, two Japanese architects who wanted to make a facility with no columns, well proportioned galleries, roof terraces and make people believe the building is in constant motion.
"We have tried to design a transparent building in the sense that we are not hiding what is happening behind the surface of the structure." (Nishisawa) "This is the only museum space in New York City devoted to presenting digital art and experimental video from around the world" and unlike others it is in Downtown Manhattan! This facility will offer a media center, theater, bookstore, library study center, café, and an incredible rooftop
If you live in Manhattan go next saturday because the entrance will be free!
Well, Chromeo is back with their new video from their second album Fancy Footwork. From all Chromeo's videos I think this one is their best, or at least is better than the first ones. What I like of this video is that the room in which they appear is just like the one in the Dire Straits 1984 video Money for Nothing. Now 23 years later and with the same 80's sound I can tell you that once you hear this song you won't be able to get it out of your head at least in a week.
As a smoker I constantly find myself thinking, is it really that necessary?, sometimes making a balance of how much worth's it, but at the end most of the people like myself decide not to stop or they just easily fall back in. And looking around during the weekend I found this site that offers us both, an advice and photographic art. Is an interesting site with people from around the world posting images that they created, with their experience of quitting or trying to, with the only purpose of making us understand how cigarrettes will consume our lives into ashes, funny isn´t it.
You can check this out, it has some really good, creative images and also you can find a lot of things that maybe won't mean anything to you, I had that feeling as i was going through it. The Art of Quitting
Changing the subject, I´m going to talk a little bit about Moulinex which are two producers from Portugal that are now based in Munich. Within their influences you'll find important classic and contemporary teachers, among them Daft Punk, Kraftwerk, Alan Braxe, Vitalic, Ed Banger, Russ Chimes, Miami Horror, etc. They've been around since 2006 and are still going independent, but keep track of them because their banging and energetic tracks combined with that classic house sound its a monster on the dancefloor.
Personally, this year in music wasn't as exciting as past years, we had a lot of second albums (a lot of them weren't really good), we had a lot of comebacks too, and some great live shows. Don't get me wrong, I think it was a good year but I've definitely seen better ones. With all the DJ-ing I've been doing, I focused on remixes, on electrohouse and on the "french kiss" movement… very specific kind of music. All this has been keeping me away from other genres, and since there aren’t any new good bands out there (like two years ago), I want to introduce you to one I found a while ago.
You can say they sound like a lot of bands out there, but who doesn't at this point. I heard them and felt a little freshness to their music, so check them out. Their name is Foals. A five-piece, dance-punk band from Oxford who play a mix of indie with elements from techno and math rock. The band is signed with Transgressive Records. A full length album is due for release for the latter half of 2007, to be produced by Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio. Yannis was recently voted 45 in music magazine NMEs 2007 Cool List. Jack Bevan has recently been endorsed by SJC drums.
They have four singles out from their EP. They announced that the singles "Hummer" and "Mathletics" will not be in the full length album. Hope you like them, and keeping with tradition, here is one of their singles remixed by Passions. Enjoy!
So, the neon is on and since we are opening, I´m about to hit you with another double treat as well as R. First, the trendiest DVD in the market, "Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton" that was distributed only by Colette, which is known to be the hypest store in Paris so if you are around you better hit this spot that is located in 213 Rue Saint Honoré. This documentary was done by Loïc Prigent who also did the one for Chanel which was called Signe Chanel, in this dvd he shows us Louis Vuitton vision through the eyes and creativity of it´s designer Marc Jacobs, telling us what it feels to be behind this empire that has always been in a constant evolution to fulfill it's loyal market. Colette Like I said it, it was distributed only by Colette but like everything in that store is now sold out and off their catalogue, so if you are interested maybe take a look in boxxet or ebay.
This one is to go up in flames in the dance floor and it's Blake Miller (Moving Units) and Dylan (Le Castlevania) who are Lies in Disguise and are driving us crazy with this great remix for Penis vs Vagina from UK's own Partyshank. Enjoy.
Welcome to the NeoN RideR Blog, for the people who knows the NeoN RideR knows what we are all about, so this blog it's just a complement of all the elements on the equation. This is the first of many interesting posts were going to have, we are going to talk about music, culture, fashion, art, etc. So we hope you enjoy the stuff that we post here, and come back, because it's going to get better.
FEEL THE GLOW OF THE NEON!
A long time ago I found this video, It's by Studio Smack, a collective of young artists searching for new aesthetics and concepts. Commissioned by the De Beyered Museum three young graphic designers made a film about legible signs in town and I found it really interesting, and just because of all the amount of visual stimulation that plague us every day, and how consumism an commercial effectiveness has become utterly dubious. It's so simple and it's so good.
And as a double treat I'm going to talk about a band that is making a lot of sound in England, they're called Bolt Action Five, they are an dancepunk/industrial band from London, England, composed of Tobias J Hughes, Ian William Galloway, Dan the Carnivore and Mark Murphy. They formed in early 2006 from a variety of different members and have appeared repeatedly in Artrocker and PlayMusic magazines, as well as in NME, I-D Magazine, Disorder Magazine and various online music journals. The band seems to have difficulty describing their sound, variously categorising themselves as indie/electro, industro-pop, dance punk, or electro-metal. and in interviews have listed influences as Devo, Nine Inch Nails, Wire, Prince and Michael Jackson. So if you haven't heard of them check them out. Here is a Kissy Sell out's RMX of Tree friend tree foe.
