Man, Light Year are just terrific. The Sydney duo take things back to when electro was yet to be overrun by lousy imitators and scene jumpers, and hadn’t splintered off into a bajillion little sub genres. Crushing synths, pounding drums, ear-wormy melodies, oh shit, is this the return of the banger? I hope so. Whatever it is, you definitely need their Bang Gang 12 Inches produced EP in your life.
Light Year – Troublesome
MYSPACE
Tags: Australia, Bang Gang 12 Inches, Light Year, Sydney
The Aston Shuffle are back again with another slice of delirious clubby goodness. There’s been some discussion on the Grindin network about the boys, but really it couldn’t be more simple. This is straight-forward, effective, fun dance music. Squiggling synths, machine drums, loads of bass and some fuzzy vocoders. Great. Don’t overthink things here, sometimes you just gotta dance for a few minutes.
The Aston Shuffle – I Wanna See You
The Aston Shuffle – I Wanna See You (DCUP Remix)
Tags: Aston Shuffle, Australia, Canberra, DCUP, Remix
Speak have got some serious heat behind them right now, and thankfully they’ve got the energetic pop rock chops to back that buzz up. As an indication of the big things ahead, they’ve already received the remix treatment from every electro blogger’s favourite, RAC, and Andre was kind enough to hook us up with the file for blogging. Grab the mix below for some extremely funky pop goodness.
Speak – Carrie (RAC Remix)
Pony Pony Run Run have gone and staked their claim for this week’s blog domination, releasing a giant sized remix package for their tune Walking On A Line. Re-rubs come courtesy of folks like The Subs, French Fries, Beataucue and a whole bunch of other producers I’ve never heard of since dropping out of the daily hunt for exclusive bangorz. But if anything gets my attention it’s a new Lifelike remix and his take on the tune is nothing short of vintage Lifelike. Clouds of synth-smoke billow, the bass and drums may as well be fused together they’re so tight and the whole production is just pristine. Lifelike stretches things out to nearly 8 minutes here and you know what? He doesn’t waste a second of it.
Pony Pony Run Run – Walking On A Line (Lifelike Extended Remix)
Tags: Anoraak, France, Lifelike, Pony Pony Run Run, Remix
So yeah this track has been remixed into oblivion, and by some seriously great artists no less. So before you shake your head, cross your arms and say ‘no, sir I will not download another remix’ just cool your jets and know that you’d be missing out on something pretty terrific if you were to do so. So, uh, don’t!
This new mix comes courtesy of Fool’s Gold – the collective of indie crazies, not the NYC label – and twists Marina into some more wonderful electronic positions. Stuttered vocals are a must.
Marina & The Diamonds – I Am Not A Robot (Fool’s Gold Remix)
Tags: Fools Gold, Marina & The Diamonds, Remix
Labrador dudes The Mary Onettes dropped this tune, The Night Before The Funeral, in conjunction with Record Store Day and as always it’s a pearl. Dramatic string arrangements and that dense production that they’ve completely mastered. Grab it.
The Mary Onettes – The Night Before The Funeral
Tags: Labrador, Record Store Day, Sweden, The Mary Onettes
I’m determined to retrieve the old posts from my blogspot account, so bear with me with this re-post on the new site. This tune is definitely worth it.
It’s increasingly rare that you can stumble across a song that is so utterly perfect that you fall in love immediately like a 16 year old kid hearing their first vocoder line. But that’s what’s happened to me and the CSLSX track Futuretapes.
This tune sounds is kind of in a league of its own in that it doesn’t sound like anything else right now. Sure the synthy style is du jour, but here it’s done in this booming, cluttered fashion that’s constantly twisting, turning and surprising for four terrific minutes. If I were still doing ‘high recc’s’ on this blog then this would come with the highest recommendation possible. Instead, just fucking download it, okay?
CSLSX – Futuretapes
So I’ve managed to find copies of all of my all posts on the Hyperbole blogspot address and to flesh things out in this new home I’ll be posting up a few and maybe all of the oldies right here.
Beaufort – She Don’t Care (Tiger Version)
Myself and Mandu caught the full band show from Beaufort last night in Sydney as a part of the launch for the dude’s new feature film(!) Tiger. The movie looks great and some of the vignettes that Beaufort and co. played were pretty wonderful. This in particular, She Don’t Care. Think pristine ’80s pop with wonk lyrics.
Tags: Australia, Beaufort, Before The Fire, Remix, Sydney, Tiger
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Hyperbole is a dope music blog which was formerly located at http://masshyperbole.blogspot.com for around four years before the plug was pulled by the powers that be. It lives on, hopefully better than ever here on Hyperbole.tv.
Dave Ruby Howe is a music journalist, blogger and editor from Sydney, AUS. Hyperbole is his music blog about music, writing and music writing. But not writing music. Get it? Cool.
Dave Ruby Howe is also the Assistant Music Director of Australia Music at triple j, serving as the music director for the recently launched digital radio station, triple j Unearthed. As such a lot of what's blogged on here comes from there. Because it's all so awesome.