If I would have to compile a mixtape tonight....

i would tape-record these songs....

pure music... without any further explanations.

01 :: Arcade Fire :: Ready To Start -> myspace
02 :: Girls :: Lust For Life -> myspace
03 :: The Drums :: Let’s Go Surfing -> myspace
04 :: Veronica Falls :: Beachy Head -> myspace
05 :: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart :: Say No To Love -> myspace
06 :: Secret Circuits :: This Town -> myspace
07 :: Visitor :: Los Feeling (Alan Braxe Remix) -> myspace
08 :: Tinyfolk :: Bubble Guns (Hello Shark) -> myspace
09 :: Surfer Blood :: Anchorage -> myspace
10 :: Blind Mr. Jones :: Eyes Wide -> myspace
11 :: Team Ghost :: Echoes -> myspace
12 :: Adam Franklin & Bolts Of Melody :: Spent Bullets -> myspace
13 :: National :: Mr. November -> myspace
14 :: Indochine :: Play Boy -> myspace
15 :: Carsick Cars :: Poor Man -> myspace
16 :: The Daysleepers :: Release The Kraken -> myspace
17 :: Alcian Blue :: You Just Disappear -> myspace
18 :: Monster Movie :: Silver Knife -> myspace
19 :: The Twilight Sad :: Reflection Of The Television (Errors Remix) -> myspace
20 :: DJ Zebra :: Styl O The Times -> myspace
21 :: Hurts :: Wonderful Life -> myspace
22 :: Aerogramme :: The Art Of Belief -> myspace

a 4-minutes dream

Turn the lights down
Careful as a serpent's tongue
Move without a sound
Gentle as the cold wind moans

It pulled the ships down
It's rising from the deep below
To drown us all in sound
It never even touched the ground

Did you know love
My heart is a monster
When you sold love
Your heart becomes a monster
You know love
My heart, my heart, my heart


the daysleepers :: myspace

Back to the 90s!

"Kissing you with my eyes wide.
You can't hide with me inside.
The hold you want is too tight.

Your reasoning is too light."

let's go back to the early 90s. back to where shoegaze ruled the world. back to where big guitar walls protected fragile lyrics from bursting. back to where the band blind mr. jones formed in marlow, england. they released their brilliant ep "eyes wide" in 1992 and unfortunately broke up two years later after releasing their second lp "tatooine" (the first lp "stereo musicale" was released in 1992). the bands sound was typicall for that era: big guitars, tender melodies and simple but fragile lyrics! enjoy it...

lust for life...

individualistic. uncommon. experimental instuments. insane. virtually slightly potty...

micachus ingredients contain a great deal of fair and beautiful frisky bevelled melodies. a special kind of experimental groove produced by using more than else rotten instuments. the name micachu and the shapes holds the idea of a young musician from london named mica levi, supported by not less talented combatants than herself. they all are bubbling over with crooked ideas and seem to be a live wire. as well as their sound, that evolves a little more towards pop without denying her lofi-attitude and minimal punk radixes. all of you who are going to view arcade fire in berlin at the end of august are able to know the true promise of a brilliant supporting act. Hopefully in munich too!

first of all the original version of "lips". i `ve always been enjoying that short-cut!

then an intimate acoustic outdoor-live performance of above-named song.

another worthy live impression includes an e -guitar from an artificial wiggly perspective!

and in a final step an imposing instrumentation of a lighter and a tin!

chinese cars!!

are you carsick? well, this chinese 3-piece obviously is, according to their bandname "carsick cars". hailing from bejing, they start out to spread their energetic and experimental rock throug the wide wide indie world. though the songs are full of guitar walls, they comprise of catchy refrains and melodies you'll surely love. you can stream 3 songs of their second lp "you can listen, you can talk", which was released on the 26th of june 2009 here. and if you are familiar with the chinese language you could also try out this page. actually, i'm not ;-).
by the way, if anybody out there knows what "zhongnanhai" means, leave a comment... here are carsick cars with zhongnanhai recorded live, so you might get an impression of the bands power.

carsick cars - zhongnanhai


and here is another great one...

carsick cars - you can listen, you can talk

smorgasbord!

what a strange composition of rock, synth, electro, trance, epic rock, wave...

today i discovered secret circuits, a 4-piece band from the big isle, great britain. the song "this town" of the corresponding ep is a epic song, with rock influences and a big synth refrain. while listening to the other songs on the bands myspace site, i got quite dissapointed. the quality of the other songs drops off rapidly. an expection is the ballad "in ending (part 1 & 2)" which finally made me confident, that the following lp could be worth a further listen. well let's hope and see. in the meantime we should enjoy "this town". grap it from here.

Synth Pop

Well if you know me, you might have noticed my weakness for 80s synthy pop... here are some of my current favs! enjoy, and don't forget to leave a comment...

visitor :: los fealing (Alan Braxe Remix)


null device:: the sad truth


hurts::wonderful live


class actress::journal of ardency