Antimaterial Worlds “Grip The Release”
This week is a good week because this week there is new shit from the industrial Krishnacore artist formerly known as Sewn Leather and Skull Katalog. People talk about legends, they talk about DIY… Respect. But right here? This is a legend. And right here this is that real American Freakout Beat Music, done in the classical style, with heavy headbanger breaks and blown-out vox, like an overloaded system in a dense basement.
Top flight VH1core. I can picture the video already: The singer walks through a crowded city, attempting to catch a bus that keeps getting away from her. And who happens to be the bus driver? It’s Chris Kattan. Actually, I just watched the video and it is nothing at all like that. I don’t know, last night I fell asleep with Adore by The Smashing Pumpkins in my headphones.
Hittkidd (Feat. Gloss Up, Lola Brooke, K Carbon, Slimeroni, Aleza) “Shabooya (Remix)”
I was talking about American music. Well, here’s some more of it. “Shabooya” is five months old, but I only found out about it fairly recently. How is that possible? The video has 28 million views on YouTube. I guess that’s how things go: I’m one idiot crawling in the dark through contemporary music and culture, missing almost everything. A new remix with an additional verse is enough of a reason for me to post it up on Jonathan’s Music Blog.
In the competitive game of hardcore kids writing pop songs, Dazy inches towards the front of the pack. Sometimes they feel like Spacemen 3 trying to make a tune for the Shrek soundtrack.
Veeze’s Michigan mumble sounds pretty sick to me. He also flipped the Law & Order theme a few years before Luh Tyler. Nice soulful, slightly-tweaked track from Tye Beats, too. Maybe I’m craving a chili Coney.
Wednesday “TV in the Gas Pump”
I’ve always felt some sort of minor connection to this North Carolina band. Hard to say why. And now they write a song with this title? Goddamn, gas pump televisions: that was going to be the entire cover concept for the next Rustbelt EP. I mean, it probably still will be, but it’s always funny and weird when these things happen. Anyways. Wednesday. Good band. Better than Tuesday or Thursday. A fair amount of indie rock this week.
MIX OF THE WEEK: Jellybean Benitez “92KTU Studio92 Mix, 1983”
1983 is the year that the freestyle ur-text “Let The Music Play” by Shannon was released. Before the music was called freestyle, they just called it “The Shannon Sound.” You can hear strains of a new genre in this radio session from the same year. It feels transitional. The mix moves through electro and disco and “Rock The Casbah” and what people in London called boogie music. But no “Let The Music Play.” That would have to wait until later. Those gated 808s changed everything.