There is nothing like a good story, and even better, a good story in a good song. Story telling and narrative within music is as old as the spoken word itself, in fact some scholars believe that as a form of communication the ’sung’ word may well have preceded the ’spoken’ word.
Video after the jump
Kowtow Music’s latest podcast is a digital recording of Asha Cosmo Flynn’s debut live performance at the mercury Lounge in Welington 2006.
A broody and dark 50 minutes + of experimental beats and pieces!
Kowtow Music Podcast number four: Asha Cosmo Flynn: Live at the Mercury Lounge
Isn’t the internet really shaping up quite nicely, a new era of commerce is being created by the people and it’s scarring the shit out of big corporations. They are scrambling like the rich nations of the world to grab everything they can before there is nothing left. A very dangerous and bad business (life) model…
Read on for the movie
At the London International Music Show, Korg revealed these lovely looking ‘laptop controllers’. Aptly named the Korg Nano Range, three little usb devices that are the width of an average sized laptop.
A student from Glasgow’s School of Art’s, who’s studying visual communications, put this together as part of his final year course work, he missed the cut off for a remix competition that radiohead held (you had to buy the parts from itunes other wise I would have entered… baaaahhhhh) he rightly decided to share it with the world anyway, genius… thank you James Houston
Big Ideas (don’t get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.
Drongomala swerves down a side street from his previous work with The Good Hurt and their electro-heavy music of Manchester to produce a more gentle affair with Louis Oak Anderson from Devon. There is an interesting story in the blurb about how this record was nearly not made as Drongomalas laptop was nicked which contained the final mixes. Two years later he has got around to recovering it and it seems like it was worth the effort.
Continue reading ‘Louis Oak Anderson
Up North in the Coalshed’
No news here, just had to post this picture… damn
Oh I suppose I could say that the new album is so bloody buff, constant rotation.
RZA, the man, the legend, is taking his future retro persona Bobby Digital to the people with a live band. This is set to coincide with the release of his new album ‘Digi Snacks’ which is due to hit the stores on June the 24th.
Hit the jump to listen to the track ‘u can’t stop me now’ off the new album and download 215 tracks from the wu.
Continue reading ‘RZA takes Bobby Digital live’
Word is that the boys have been recording with the legendary Sly and Robbie in Kingston, Jamaica and that the new album is going to be a rock/dub fest.
The Album is called All Rebal Rockers and will be coming to a store near you in September.
Keep your ears pealed
In the mean time check out this Spearhead vid
That’s right Mr Smith is back with a new single called ‘Buff Nuff’. With Toddler T and Ross Orton behind the beat it’s sounding very M.I.A…..
It’s been a while but Roots is back and you’ll be humming this in a shower near you very soon
Peep the video…