Under The Covers #40

Ska legends The Specials have been announced as the headliners of the Shockwaves NME Awards Big Gig 2010 as part of the Teenage Cancer Trust concerts, so I figured that a cover of Gangster wouldn't hurt. Although ska isn't my cup of tea, I must admit that Archive did a great job with this one... As for the rest, Apoptygma Berzerk deliver an upbeat version of Kim Wilde's Cambodia, War Tapes cover Love And Rockets (remember them?) and Nick Cave does his best Jarvis impression on Disco 2000.

Archive feat. Terry Hall & Benjamin Biolay - Gangster (The Specials cover)
Apoptygma Berzerk - Cambodia (Kim Wilde cover)
War Tapes - Love Me (Love And Rockets cover)
Nick Cave - Disco 2000 (Pulp cover)



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Dancefloor Fillers

So far I've been making post about new bands, cover and acoustic versions, mixtapes... So how about posting some remixes as well? I knew you would agree :-) Today's offerings come from Editors, Placebo, The XX, and SCNDL. I don't think that the first three names need any introduction; as for SCNDL...

Well, they come from dark streets of Manhattan's west side. Reminiscent and inspired by old Chicago House from the likes of Master C&J, their track Need To Know comes backed up with a devastating set of mixes from across the Atlantic. The UK's Lee Mortimer takes the main riffs and raves it up with his turbulent basslines while Markus Lange & Stereofunk keep it on the deeper side of dark electro. Fukkk Offf wraps up the package with a simple yet effective edit that fattens things up on the bottom while keeping it glued to the floor. You can grab all of the remixes from Beatport here.


Editors  - Papillon (The Japanese Popstars Remix)
Placebo - Every You Every Me (Mr Bronkz Remix)
The XX - Crystalised (Popular Damage Remix)
SCNDL - Need to Know (Markus Lange and Stereofunk Remix)

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Indie Disco Playlist (2/2/2009)

Here's what went on air at www.waveradio.gr tonight...

Playlist

1. Garbage - #1 Crush
2. Primal Scream - Exterminator (Massive Attack Remix)
3. Bynar - The Beginning Of A Fine Day (Nine Inch Nails vs. Opus III vs. Deep Dish)
4. UNKLE - Keys To The Kingdom
5. Pulp - It's A Dirty World
6. Suede - Golden Gun
7. IAMX - The Alternative
8. James D. Stark - Ready
9. Paradise Lost - One Second
10. Perfidious Words - Hear Me Calling
11. 4TUNE8 - It Feels So Bad
12. Depeche Mode - Perfect
13. Faith Assembly - Crash And Burn
14. HURTS - Wonderful Life
15. White Rose Movement - Helsinki
16. Veil Veil Vanish - Anthem For A Doomed Youth (Cheap Speed Remix)
17. Isolated Atoms - Here We Go
18. Screaming Lights - Grandfather Clock
19. Computerclub - Snobs
20. Death By Kite - Hiroshima
21. Carpark North - Shall We Be Grateful
22. The XX - Crystalised (Popular Damage Remix)
23. Editors - Papillon (Tiesto Remix)
24. Maps - Die Happy, Die Smiling (A Place To Bury Strangers Remix)
25. I Was A Teenage Satan Worshipper - Your Sister
26. Carolina Liar - I'm Not Over
27. Ash - Arcadia
28. Boys Like Girls - Love Drunk
29. The Killers - Mr. Brightside
30. The Cure - Doing The Unstuck
31. James - Laid

Under The Covers #39

The first song for today isn't an actual cover but a collaboration between actress Marion Cotillard and Franz Ferdinand for a new line of Dior called "Lady Rouge". I really like this song and felt like posting it so I hope you won't mind the technicalities :-) The actual covers come from Keane, Nine Inch Nails with Peter Murphy and... Avril Lavigne (WTF?). Enjoy!


Marion Cotillard - The Eyes On Mars (Music and lyrics by Franz Ferdinand)
Keane - Disco 2000 (Pulp cover)
Nine Inch Nails with Peter Murphy - Nightclubbing (Iggy Pop cover)
Avril Lavigne - Basket Case (Green Day cover)



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Isolated Atoms

Tipped by many to be the hottest and most professional undiscovered band in the UK, electro rockers Isolated Atoms have come a long way in a short space of time. Formed in February 2008 the band are drawing parallels with many influential acts of the past 25 years such as Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Bauhaus and a certain band from Manchester. Their intense and moody blend of angular guitars and ice cold synths takes the best aspects of new wave / post-punk and gives them a refreshing twist, resulting in an intriguing brand of electro rock.

These Black Country lads have been hailed by Kerrang! Radio as "the missing link between Joy Division and New Order" and with some proper promotion they are likely to reach stardom in no time. A couple of months ago they released their debut single Tell Me What I Want, a beautifully sombre track saturated in dark eighties drama and swelling atmospheric vocals, and  now they've got Peter Hook (a huge fan himself) to produce their next single The Truth. Now that sounds most promising...

If you like Interpol, Ladytron, She Wants Revenge, Editors, White Lies or indie with conviction (before pretentious disco fashionistas took over) then this band is certainly worth a listen

http://www.myspace.com/isolatedatoms
http://www.isolatedatoms.com/

Isolated Atoms - Empty Eyes
Isolated Atoms - Fall Down



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The Delta Fiasco

Liverpool’s The Delta Fiasco exude an elegantly wasted allure of expansive proportions. Their blend of clanging guitars, pulsating beats and mutant bleeps emerged from the electronic wizardry of Nick Bentley (synths/programming/guitars) combine sublimely with Nathan Walzack’s (guitars/vocals) twisted falsetto to create an intoxicating rush of head-swirling sound. Smelting avant-garde rock with new wave they have created a "happening" of dizzying originality, a euphorically dark marriage of European electronica and guitars.

Although cited as “Interpol meets The Faint by way of the DFA” The Delta Fiasco will also appeal to fans of Ladytron, XTRMNTR-era Primal Scream, IAMX, White Rose Movement, Nine Inch Nails and Julien-K. After a bunch of aggressively intense headline shows through the UK, the band released their debut album Blood Will Have Blood last October and are currently touring Europe along with Good Shoes and Death By Sunrise. If you fancy a non-stop, high energy, electronic dance show make sure not to miss them. You've been warned...

http://www.myspace.com/thedeltafiasco
http://www.thedeltafiasco.com/

The Delta Fiasco - Point Man
The Delta Fiasco - White Rat



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Indie Disco Playlist (26/1/2010)

Here's what went on air at www.waveradio.gr tonight...

Playlist

1. Placebo - In The Cold Light Of The Morning
2. The Cure - Cold
3. The Eden House - Street Spirit
4. Editors - You Don't Know Love
5. Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours
6. The Sound - New Dark Age
7. stellastarr* - Freak Out
8. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - At Last Is All
9. The Temper Trap - Science Of Fear
10. Isolated Atoms - Tell Me What I Want
11. Romance - Face On The Sun
12. Death By Kite - Pills
13. Fangs On Fur - Fangs On Fur
14. U2 - Treasure (Whatever Happened To Pete The Chop)
15. Craig Walker - Wasted
16. Nitzer Ebb feat. Martin L. Gore - Once You Say
17. The Delta Fiasco - Eat Me Alive
18. Infight - No Fitting
19. These New Puritans - Three Thousand
20. The Creatures - Disconnected
21. Depeche Mode - In Your Room (Bynar Remix)
22. UNKLE feat. 3D - Invasion
23. Agoria feat. Tricky - 2 Thousand Three
24. Massive Attack feat. Martina Topley-Bird - Babel
25. Sinead O'Connor - It's All Good
26. Anik Jean and Robert Smith - J' Aurai Tout Essaye
27. Marion Cotillard and Franz Ferdinand - The Eyes On Mars
28. Stripmall Architecture - Stop Thief
29. Mazzy Star - Hair And Skin
30. War Tapes - Illusion

Bynar's Indie Disco is on air every Tuesday (20:00-22:00 +2 GMT) at http://www.waveradio.gr. Tune in and prosper!

Death By Kite

Emerging from the Copenhagen underground scene, Death By Kite is one of the best noise-pop bands to come out of Scandinavia for years. Their sound is a tight-rope walk between post-punk and angst-driven indie, a mesmerizing mix of poppish, catchy melodies soaked in a cocktail of noise rock, shoegaze and new wave.

The band released their self-titled debut album in April 2007 under critical acclaim and has since then put out a couple of EPs (Wave I-II) and played numerous concerts thus establishing themselves as a popular live act. Vocal duties and guitars are courtesy of Bjørn Alexander Gøtzsche Lange whose remarkably high, light voice combined with the noisy guitar parts bring to mind Brian Molko and Placebo. Other obvious influences come from the likes of Sonic Youth, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Interpol, Joy Division and stellastarr*. Although Death By Kite Now may be a bit too abrasive for streamlined kiddie ears, they truly deserve a proper listen, take my word for it. Now what about that second album?

http://www.myspace.com/deathbykite
http://www.deathbykite.com

Death By Kite - Pills
Death By Kite - Hiroshima



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Screaming Lights

Hailing from Liverpool, Screaming Lights is the indie rock quartet of Alan Breen (bass), James Connor (drums), Max Goldberg (lead guitar, synth) and James Treadell (vocals, guitar, synth, piano, lyrics). The band bears the same relation to White Lies, Repeater and Red Light Company as those new bands do to Editors, as they did to Interpol, as those Americans did to Joy Division, The Chameleons and the rest of the post-punk long-overcoat brigade of the early '80s. In that sense, if you can live with the lack of invention and fancy dark, doomy indie rock then you'll have a field day joining the dots and drawing straight lines between Screaming Lights and their gloom-rock forebears.

After supporting the likes of Mystery Jets, Vampire Weekend and The Music without having a single physical release, the band finally came out with a couple of bombastic singles that earned them a slot at Reading and Leeds Festivals on the BBC Introducing Stage. Their debut album, Like Angels, was released on 5 October 2009 and featured overdriven guitars, menacing basslines and angst-soaked dolorous baritone vocals that would no doubt prove that these lads shouldn't be dismissed as mere indie landfill fodder. 'Nuff said.

http://www.myspace.com/screaminglights

Screaming Lights - GMA
Screaming Lights - Phenomena
Screaming Lights - Grandfather Clock



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Acoustic Sundays #20

After a rather long hiatus, Acoustic Sundays are back with my favourite IAMX song for 2009. Church Of England is an emotionally charged acoustic version of Think Of England that is best experienced when it's cold and dark outside (like now). The same goes for Placebo's Holocaust, yet another stunning offering by Brian Molko and co. Last but not least, enjoy two acoustic takes from Glasvegas and The Dandy Warhols. Until next time...

IAMX - Church Of England
Placebo - Holocaust (Acoustic)
Glasvegas - Daddy's Gone (Acoustic)
The Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth (Acoustic)



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