The reason why there weren't any updates in the past 2 weeks is because, I've been preparing along with 3 other good bloggers 2 new websites & a number of printed fabrics to decorate your exoskeletons that we'll be launching this month. The new blog will be more active with constant updates since I'll have friends running it with me + I will be able to update it from both home & wherever there is Wifi, through my phone or iPod.
We're trying to have everything done asap, so you kids can stalk or stick around to love/hate or leech off.
w00t! w00t! 3000+ Fans on Ohh! Crapp... Facebook Page and still going. I love each and every one of you beautiful people, your support fuels Ohh! Crapp... and keeps it alive and prospering.
Sometimes I wonder if BURNS is a remixing robot invented by Linus Loves in his secret 12:12 labs!? The dude just made acquaintance with the public less than a year ago & already remixed Buy Now, Wiley, Late Of The Pier, Bucketheads, Empire Of The Sun, Linus Loves, Filthy Dukes, Yuksek and I even heard he's busy remixing Gossip's Heavy Cross (I hope it's true)! Sinister dominates his vibe and occasionally his reworks sound like the ego of the Decepticons, mettalic, sharp and shiny like his Prom Night remix, but whether it's deephouse, electro, bassline or pop methods he sports, BURNS makes he owns it.
Here's his Tribalesque Electro-House remix of Blogs' current hype band Passion Pit.
Punks Jump Up been remixing blog-Pop folks for so long that I accepted them as remixers rather than the band, but that's only me because they've been on the road throwing a successful gig after another for years, making punks jump up at the scene.. something I yet yearnt o experience. They almost played a gig here in Bahrain few months ago, which would've been the first indie band in history toplay on this island but unfortunately it got canceled last minute *rants*.
This is a band that like sot match it's paint war energy with it's visual aesthetics, keeping kids decorated in Kate Morross designed apparel and adding records to our collection with sleeves rad enough to be framed and hanged on the wall.
I wouldn't mind really if the english/swedish duo decided to infinitely remix & gig while occasionally (rarely) throw an original through a compilation (Kitsune Maison) or release a limited physical single through a third party label as long as they're active. Good news is they are finally working on their debut album & guess who's on the guest list? Le Tigre's JD Samson side project MEN! YESSS!
Make sure you grab their new t-shirts before they're sold out, i proudly own both designs, they come with stickers & 3d Glasses too! ____________________________________________________________________
I'm still convinced about the importance of a live ThePresets CD/DVD existence in the universe, ever since the first goosebump that Coachella performance of Are You The One? induced - I think it's time to start a petition or write fake suicide threat emails to Modular.
Who wouldn't want to see one of their favorite bands performing sinister versions of their songs? Better check their tour schedule, their live show is something not to be missed.
Here's an alternate more suitable for the clubs version of If I know You by The Presets themselves, something for the iPod.
If you know anyone selling good quality bootleg DVD of the Coachella Performances, plz hit me up with an email. ____________________________________________________________________
Last weekend Pip headed out to Swindon to play the In New Music We Trust Stage at Radio 1's Big Weekend. For those of you who missed it, you can check it out over HERE. ____________________________________________________________________
An almost all vagina collective consisting of 2 Le Tigre members & led by JD Samson (also a member of Peaches live band) rocking to the name Men & producing kaka-tongue lesbian sweat tropical-indie-electro-pop for the current wave of blog surfing weirdos. It's like lipstick white Santogold Santigold but with a more gelastic projection of real life; or like the New Young Pony Club led by Lindsay Lohan back in the late 90's after a round of umbrella cocktails.
Again like the last time with Womanizer, on the course of the next few weeks expect to see remixes of Off Our Back here on Ohh! Crapp.... I'll be updating this post every time a remix is sent in, so keep an eye on this space!
If you're a Band/DJ & interested in remixing Off Our Back, send us a request email with a link to your Band/DJ Myspace - I've got proper official stems.
MEN's Make It Reverse is featured on the soon to be released Kitsuné Maison 7 : The Lucky One.
Seriously good stuff, my kind of music, those MEN rawk!
A little spontaneous feature I wrote on Tiga's CIAO! now published in Germany's PUR Magazine, May 09 Issue. Click on the preview photo above to see it in higher resolution, it was translated to German but you can read the original English version below.
“Narcissism is a beautiful disease when the patient is an egomaniacal artist. Distinguished for his discombobulated sense of humor, blatant use of cosmetic products, and fascination with life’s luxuriant materials (time pieces above all things), fearlessly opinionated Canadian Tiga is a perfectionist and the world is his bucket of LEGOs, something expected from someone who’s far from shying over binging off the reference “I”.
Prostrating its 2006 critically acclaimed predecessor Sexor in somber frivolity, CIAO! is like a super racing car, always overshadowed by it’s driver (Tiga). Realistically it’s what’s under the hood does half the job of winning the race. In this case, the outrageously pricey professional spare parts are: Soulwax, Jori Hulkkonen, Gonzales, James Murphy, Jasper Dahlbäck, Phillipe Zdar on production and even Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears cooing syllables for the sake of necessary garnish.
Maintaining the uncommon pop-making-method’s heritage, his latest “DIY” concoction withholds ingredients ranging from Minimal, Techno, Trance, Ambient, Disco, Dance, Rave, House to Ballad all providing the Pop-phobics with an alibi in argument, and assigning each track to it’s own unrepeated fashion.
Tiga is a modern villain/popstar and CIAO! is his mechanically-emotional, intentionally futuristic & immaculately engineered spawn. Enter his mind to understand it, we all must - hubristic Tiga.”
French electro-rock duo that makes music in both neon & pastel, this is the kind of band I'd expect Kitsuné to scheme stealing from their current label. Sofia Coppola would love them (random I know).
If anyone speaks french is reading this, could you translate the lyrics from the video to English? I'm pretty sure Baby Baby Baby's lyrics has something to do with Tellier, Justice & Yelle!?
You can buy Baby Baby Baby digitally in 320kbps mp3 or wav formats with remixes from We Are Terrorists, No Kiss With Gloss, The Shoppings and Make The Girl Dance themselves - Here! The single sleeve is fugly..
Make The Girl Dance is officially filed under Ohh! Crapp's... bands to watch in 09.
New kids on the block The xx seem to be making quite a name for themselves after the release of Crystalised on 7". Their music is so good that it's almost sexual, making me wonder why there isn't a third X in their name, but jokes aside there is an incredible deep yearning quality which moves even the toughest of us.
When listening to their music there seems to always be an underlying story or symbolism to it, as with Crystalised the eerie tones make us feel like we're in the calm before the storm - a huge one. Almost uncomfortably, with the music under your skin you want more, well thankfully there are a handful of covers by The xx, namely Hot Like Fire (featured as a B-Side on the sold out 7") and Teardrops, both of which would be perfectly fitting for an incredibly gloomy independent film.
Their quite minimal indie-pop is pulled off perfectly and makes for highly addictive listening like a straight jacket you'll want to wear out and never take off. It's night music made at night, one that evokes nostalgia & feeds ominousness to the senses.
If you haven't grabbed their single yet, I recommend you do that immediately as it's getting sold out. An album is said to be on the way, from which we can expect them to "retain the simplicity and essence of the demos, but take them up a notch".
So here at Ohh! Crapp... we are more than happy to say that The xx are our favorite new band of the moment and we're already in stalker fan mode.
