Die Antwoord - South African Synthie-Trash-Tech

http://www.dieantwoord.com/ - watch the interview under "videos" - it's fucking zef!
Until they release their album, the player will only play the instrumentals

Now you can check youtube or enjoy their rapping in Berlin this Friday (20th) @ Magnet Club (in Munich tomorrow already @Crux)

Or - if you are located in Berlin - you go for the highest contrast, which I equally recommend.

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DeLorean Discoveries

on Tiny Mix Tapes webzine:

The past seven years have seen an explosion in both music and music journalism. Everyone now races for a daily fix of the new at a pace that would have been unimaginable even a decade ago. At its best, paradigms are shifting and power is moving into the hands of the many. At its worst, music culture is now more disposable than ever, with people fixated on the Next Big Thing like a pack of hyenas closing in on wounded prey. Tabloid times these certainly are, and not even our beloved tunes have escaped.

We here at The DeLorean have only one way to respond: bah, humbug! There's no need to rush our way through record after record on an hourly basis. It's okay to take days, months, and even years to absorb a band's work. Music doesn't need to be consumed like a fashionable commodity operating on a 12-month buying cycle. The latest is rarely the greatest, and the old do not have to make way for the new.

So, why don't you take some time out of your day, make a cup of tea, and sit back to ponder our DeLorean Discoveries: a collection of great records from the past that we happened to stumble upon in 2007. We hope you enjoy.

-Charles Ubaghs, DeLorean editor

Lieblingsband of the day - Evils That Never Came

Fuck the background, listen to the music!

OK, some more about this latest discovery (for first contact see below)...
ETNC aka Evils That Never Came are great! Apparently they have not given away a lot more about themselves apart from two free-to-download studio albums (first one is streamed online).
Information is given on a need-to-know basis!
On blogs (and elsewhere) they can only guess who ETNC are and where they are coming from. Nothing on the website nor on discogs.com. In my messy brain some synapses drew parallels to the singer and the songwriting of "Of Montreal". Apparently my synapses have been wrong. This sparse info I found on ETNC's facebook site:

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Founded 2003

Bio

Evils That Never Came (sometimes abbreviated as ETNC or ETN'C) is an American indie rock band. The band formed in Koreatown, Los Angeles, California in 2002. Led by frontman and co-founder Aaron Peterson (born Aaron Peterson), the band has released one studio albums, one EP, and zero live albums while going through numerous line-up changes and controversies since its formation.

Evils That Never Came's mid-to-late 2K2s and early 2K10s years have been described by individuals in the music industry as the period in which "they brought forth a hedonistic rebelliousness and revived the punk attitude-driven yallcore scene."

Evils That Never Came

Well if that isn't one direct advertisment.







Find out, whether the kiddos are right - via this free stream & download. I find the album refreshing.






Stumbled upon it on the very interesting online music magazine Tiny Mix Tapes.
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stream: Electro-Mix by Team Randalism

Nice!
This mix is something for you
- if you like masculine electro (or you might call it chav electro even)
- if your ears do not mind heavy beats with occasional excursions in queer rhythms and sound
- if you don't know about all that, but if you like Soulwax or Digitalism
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stream: Chancha - Otherworldly Cumbia

Who says good songwriting, the intimacy of a latin guitar and electronic rhythm do not go well together? -
I have been disappointed lots of times when I thought I discovered somebody who could mix electronics and songwriting. To combine the two areas without having one dominate the other is the ultimate discipline in modern popular composition. Cancha Via Circuito's music has a touch of nujazz and sample based beats music. It reminds me on the global thinking "Up Bustle & Out". Although they were travelling sound collectors from Bristol, while Chancha really comes from latin america - which you can tell from the music. And sometimes, Chancha Via Circuito even surpass the state of dance music or repetitive meditations and create original compositions. It doesn't feel difficult and that is what makes it so freshhhhhhh... Enjoy!
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berlin: Fr August 6th - Puschen-Fest

Puschen celebrates it's 10th birthday @ Festsaal Kreuzberg (see here for details) this friday.

Headliner is the wonderful Tune-Yards, you missed earlier this year!!!