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Friday, December 07, 2007

Moving On Over.

Thanks to an early Xmas present, I finally got myself some web space and a domain. So I'll be moving over to sountracksforthem.com some time in near future once I get a skeleton site up and runningthere. All in all, this will mean a significantly different approach to doing this thing we call Soundtracksforthem once all is up and running. Stay tuned to here for now...

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Thursday, October 11, 2007

Well Worth A Gander

Rio Baile Funk always brings some excellent on the ground coverage (see the Sandrinho interview for a one of those voices seldom heard..) of that happy clappy partying taste of exotica that gets western hipsters falling over dancefloors - courtesy of it a new site out of the Czech Republic has been brought to my attention with a wicked compendium of mixtapes. Well worth a gander..

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Monday, September 24, 2007

A Street Car Called Slut

(Photo: taken from HeyRocker on Flickr)

A fine example of marketing types lashing a branding exercise together with the foresight of a particularly sheltered 7 year old comes from Seattle, where the people behind the South Lake Union Streetcar, a light rail system due to open in December with upwards of 50 million dollars poured into it have had their noses dusted by residents upset city developers spent little time on their concerns.

The locals have turned the SUAS acronym on its head, refusing to forget the project's earlier use of "trolley" instead of "street car" - leaving it with the acronym SLUT starring them back in the face, twisting like a knife in their eye. Now with popular posters and t-shirts selling like hot cakes, the slogan they are using to promote its usage"ride the slut," gives the project its own weighted humour for a Dublin audience.

I know that less than gracious Dublin insult "wagon" owes more of its origins to a disproportionately large female posterior, than suggestions that anyone might be riding her - but surely if there was even a half decent acronym that spelt out WAGON/SLUT for a Dublin project, something like the Luas say - it wouldn't get by the monkey crew management responsible for our own public transit?

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Bounce Back and Forth

Saw Yo! Majesty smash down it down in Toronto again tonight, as two of the notorious three and Taxlo Dj Chris O passed through for the first time since their NXNE show case. It seems the last time they came through one of them was refused border crossing due to "habitually driving without a license," well she was present and semi-nude on this occasion - the others absence went uncommented on.

The new material sounds as rough and in your face as their past out put. The gig bordered on a karaoke session in parts as they performed this rather riotous cover of Justice/Simian's "We Are Your Friends," some old soul number and countless bursts of cheese, including pushing the crowd along in joint sway to Daft Punk. Then there was a preachy moment where we were advised not to fall for the "deceptions of the devil," that left most of the crowd standing their wide eyed but dripped in sweat.

Overall left feeling that I'd rather have seen Chris O do what ever it is these Taxlo sorts get up to on one of their nights down in Maryland, all the right names seem to pass through their outings and the noises his drum machine/pad were setting off were well to my liking. If you like this sort of buzz then do check out Thunderheist.

Speaking of Simian, I was dragged along to see their new Mobile Disco last week too - their stage set up is pretty impressive, with so many wires and knobs being twiddled that its hard to figure out how much is for show, how much they are actually affecting the music and whats just performance for a generation that never really sees much hardware used to play dance music these days.

It got nice deep and bassy in parts, but really that was used to elicit cries of "what the fuck was that!" from the crowd of indie-dancers present. When it got heavy it got real heavy, unfortunately they never kept it throbbing enough to sway you, moving up the scale and back to distorted effects and squelches as fast as they could for some mass - but enthused - head nodding. I'd really gotten some kicks from the New Rave mix they put together for NME about a year and a half ago, to see them DJ would be far more interesting I think.

Elsewhere: In anticipation of the upcoming Nuit Blanche, the Toronto Star carried an interesting article that weaves its way through the meanings given to darkness and night time through history and by different societies.

Labels: Blogging, Gig Review, Music, simian mobile disco, yo majesty

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Thursday, September 13, 2007

Soundtracksforthem Blog Mix Two

Soundtracksforthem Blog Mix 2
75mb / 40:57 sec (Download here at Zshare)

Just a heads up on Zshare, where once you could listen to a mix through on it they now jump to an ad screen after you stall on a page for a bit too long for a listen like. So you are probably best downloading the MP3 and listening off your hard drive.

1/ Starting Something - Unknown Reggeaton
2/ 10 - Mia
3/ Hot Like We - Cecile
4/ Beanie Man - Beanine Man (feat Dangel)
5/ El Tiburon - Baby Ranks (feat Looney Tunes)
6/ RDB feat. Elephant Man - Ishq naag reggeaton Remix
7/ Personal Jesus - Depche Mode (Boys Noize Rework)
8/ Sem Makas - Burka Som Sistema
9/ Doi Festival - Ghislain Poirer
10/ Party - Unknown Reggeaton
11/ We're Broklynites - Tittsworth
12/ Minute by Minute - Girl Talk
13/ Super Freaks on Film - Rick James Vs Duran Duran (Bass211.com)
14/ Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Clash
16/ What I Like About Crunk Music - Lil Jon (Menegaux Mash)
17/ Oh Sheila - Ready for the World
18/ Oh Sheila - SneakMove (Quarterbar remix)
19/ Popuzuda Rock n' Roll - De Falla
20/ Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz
21/ North American Scum - LCD Sound System
22/ Bump - Spank Rock
23/ My Love - Justin Timberlake (Diplo Remix)
24/ Do I Look Like A Slut - Avenue D
25/ Yah - Buraka Som Sistema
26/ LDN - South Rakkas Crew (Crack Whore Riddim)
27/Crank Dat - Solja Boy (Rough)
28/ Ain't Nothin To Fuck With - Wu Tang Clan (Bird Peterson Remix)

Labels: Blogging, Mix, Music

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007

On The Dancefloor They Call It Murder

(Photo from Each Secure Note)

Girl Talk and Dan Deacon tonight, Girl Talk and Dan Deacon tonight, Girl Talk and Dan Deacon tonight. I don't think I've been this excited about a gig, oh since the last time I drank too much Buckfast before rushing down Thomas St to one. Rooting around for my tickets last night it dawned on me and herself that in one of those foul humored, strop around the gaff tidy ups I had managed to throw them in the recycling along with the wad of paper they were sitting in. Last minute panicked calls to the credit card ticket sales line and a rush to the home of the Toronto Blue Jay's baseball team to pick up re-issues and all was sorted. Ants in my fucking pants.

The second of the Soundtracksforthem Summer Mixes will be online tomorrow and possibly some ramblings post Girl Talk. There's a pretty in depth interview completed with Maga Bo that I'm holding off putting online in case I can get it published first, as well as one with an unembedded journalist in Iraq called Dahr Jamail. All will be revealed soon, same irregular time, same irregular bat url.

Labels: Blogging, Gig Review, Mix, Music

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Get Yo Ass On The Floor: Me Summer Mix

So here it is, a Soundtracks for Them summer mix. With bits of baile funk, kudoro, old school rave, electro and club rap all lazily squished together with the powers of Sony Acid, so there should be something in it to satisfy one or two of you out there. Sorry about the unknown tracks, they were just things that were sitting around my computer for the past week or two, and liking them I couldn't really leave them out. I can't even remember where the hell I got them from to start with now, the Beanieman number however came from a reggaeton MP3 collection bought in Bolivia but it has no ID tags. Thanks to Nialler9 for the Kid Sister track, it's a killer.

Track Listing (71.5mb length: 39:04)

1/ Peter, Bjorn and John, Young Folks (Diplo Drums of Death Remix)
2/ Beanieman Unknown Reggaeton.
3/ Unknown Baile Funk, Impostra De Cur
4/ 2LiveCrew, Get It Girl
5/ Bondo De Role Gasolina (Buraka Som Sistema Remix)
6/ DeBonair The DJ Killer
7/ Josh Wink Higher State of Consciousness (TV Rock and Dirty South Remix)
8/ Technotronic Pump Up The Jam
9/ CSS Lets Make Love and Listen to Death From Above (SMD Mix)
10/ Yo Majesty Club Action ( Dj Paul V)
11/ Spank Rock Sweet Talk
12/ Justice Dance (Tittsworth Bmore Mix
13/ Drop The Lime Juggernaut
14/ Dj Branquinho Danca Da Maluca
15/ Kid Sister Control
16/ Thunderheist Suenos Dulces
17/ MIA Boyz
18/ Unknown Rock and Roll Is Here To Stay (Pulled from the DJ C Baltimore Mix)
19/ Lady Sovereign Hoodie (Alternative Medysne Radio Mix)

Download it NOW at Zshare.

Labels: Blogging, Mix, Music

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Saturday, February 10, 2007

Irish Blog Awards: Feed Me Your Votes.

Soundtracksforthem has been on the go for about two years properly now. This year for the first time it has been nominated for best music blog, best designed blog and best arts and culture blog in the Irish Blog Awards.

Several other blogs well worth voting for in the second year of the awards are OldRottenHat and Nialler9's shit hot music blog, which I predict will storm it home for a well deserved win in the music category.

The voting closes this Friday 16th so get lively, do what the grinning punter says and get your vote in now.

Labels: Blogging, Internet, Irish Blog Awards

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Monday, January 15, 2007

Categories Arrive and The Blog Awards Open.

With the volume of stuff gathering dust behind curtains on this blog, I've itched for a categorisation system for some time now. Finally its arrived. The new Blogger system of labeling has gone live, leaving us net real estate poor bloggers with the ability to display our work under filtered headings and topics. Over the next couple of days I'll be racing through the back catalogue and coming up with some sort of system to compartmentalise material published here under headings.

After winning this year's Time person of the year, the 'you' of the Irish blog glitterati will be fawning over itself in praise for the next few months as he nominations round for the 2007 Irish Blog Awards goes live. From now until Friday the 26th of January 2007 you have a chance to stick your favorite blogs in for a shot at the title. So get your arse over to the awards nomination form if you want to stick me down for something, it'd be appreciated - you may as well get your Bebo and Myspace hordes on to it. There's some photos over here for anyone curious about just what happens when the obscure and the ranting come out in the public eye - you'll be disappointed to find nothing more than a session in some posh hotel.

Labels: Blogging, Internet, Irish Blog Awards

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Monday, December 25, 2006

Normal Service Will Soon Commence

A relatively spontaneous trip to South America for two months should provide enough pig feed for the mouths of most bloggers, unfortunately such an escapade instead led to a sudden interuption of normal service for Soundtracksforthem. All transmission problems will now be shortly resolved as we return to a steady broadcasting stream.

In coming days we will feature an exclusive inteview with Alec Empire, former lead screecher with techno punk darlings Atari Teenage Riot. Empire, set to crash land for a Kaboogie session on December 29th, gives us his insights on the conservatism of the current music scene as a pathological reaction to turn of the milenimum global governance. He also details how ATR emerged from the mileu surrounding a combatative anti-fascist movement after the Berlin wall fell.

In a related focussing of the mind we'll follow up the Empire interview with a review of Katsiaficas' The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life. The South American experience will not escape us lightly as we re-adjust to normal service via the presentation of an exclusive Flickr set of recent street art from the cities of Buenos Aires, Santiago, Mendoza, Arica, Lima and some isolated incidents from the banks of the Urubamba river accompanied by brief commentaries. Returning to the political we'll carry an interview exploring the gaps between Western proclamations of social movement strenght with an assembly member's own experience of weakness and decline in the heart of Argentina's autonomous struggle.

Our momentary South American obsession will be closed with a buttressing review of recent books on the social movements tenuously threading the space between autonomous organisation and statist paths to social revolution. Jumping to the global north for an instance, the street dynamics of a protest against police brutality in New York city will be set up in the theatre of the city's refoundation along police state lines in a post 9-11 world.

Labels: Blogging, Personal

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Saturday, October 14, 2006

Support a Community in Resistance - The Rossport Saga Continues.

The Cork dawn really is no different to any other dawn. Just like Dublin it has that desolute urban feel, the only thing on display being the gut workings of the city's infrastructure and the isolated dash of grim looking early morning workers rushing to open shops before the coming commuter heave.

It's against this drab backdrop of another breaking October sky that we find ourselves doing the pirouette of the picket at the entrance to a Shell forecourt, repeatedly walking the circled line - turning in unison to ensure a banner proclaims a boycott of the station to passing cars and equally blockades the garage for them. The pirouette of the picket is an almost timeless method, thrown up by those in struggle against tediously pedantic acts of legislation on loitering that are turned time and time again against striking workers and protesters.

Before the Gardai arrived, all eight of them for the twelve of us - the Corkonion mirth dropped away as an SUV complete with bull bars drove through us leaving two protesters to throw themselves on the bonnet to avoid their legs being crushed and folded under its forward weight. The discourse of the right to consume clashes with the discourse of the right to protest, as a raging anger overcomes this small business man with all the ferocity of Bill Foster on a log jammed Californian highway in the movie Falling Down.

Ever more text messages bounce across the informal messaging trees as another Rossport resident is pushed to the ground by the state forces laying seige to the Erris area. Over the radio, Willie Corduff crackles through with the tension of the area palable all around him surrounded as he is by shouting voices, while a radio presenter called Jim Fahey attempts to retain the air of obective composure that makes his coverage credible and that of sites like Indymedia irrational and hsyterical, well at least in the eyes of its critics. While the voice of Fahey is questioning and investigative, the voice from Rossport contains no doubts, it is assertive and strong. Struck through with that resilence gained from rising every morning at dawn with your whole community standing behind you. There is no question - Shell can fuck off out to sea.

I've rarely interjected in inter-blog discussions, apart from commenting on music reviews. Does the stark silence of the Irish blogosphere mean apathy to Erris? Consent to Shell and corporate governance or something else?

So here it is, why don't those Irish blogs willing to line up behind the people of Rossport in their momentous struggle against bullying powers take this code and add it to your sidebar? Don't ask why it's comtaminated with myspace code, is Blogger bugged? It links to the news archive on Indymedia which has been breaking this struggle since day one, while the west was awakening the mainstream media was slumbering. Show your support.

Other Links: an interview I did with some of the Rossport Five back in June 2005.

Labels: Blogging, Interviews, Politics, Rossport, Social Movements

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Monday, March 27, 2006

The City Is Awash With Live Music

The city is set to be awash with a flood of live music in coming weeks, with several major gigs taking place. The world of left-field electronica sees a Planet Mu/Warp/Leechrum showcase on this coming Friday and Autechre take up the laptops in the same venue a week later. The Irish underground will be bubbling away as usual, with some added froth dished out on top with the prestigious touching down of DC era hardcore hero Ian McKaye with his new folk outfit The Evens. Regular gig merchant collectives Organised Ideas and Gz continue their useage of one of the cities hidden gems venue wise in the Bohs Bar with a mashed up night of musical difference with Kilkenny hip-hop deviants Captain Moonlight waxing lyrically alongside the chugging stoner rock drone of Mongolia who consist of the guitar player from Easpa Measa, and the drummer of demised hardcore greats Knifed.

The Redneck Manifesto will also be launching their new mini album in Vicar St on the same night. The madness of the Leechrum gig can be preceeded by checking out some of the cream of the indie underground who remain outside the remit of jounalistic wasters like Hot Press, with rising stars the Betamax Format delivering their brand of searing synths with straggly haired, rocked out thumpeders Oak, in a free gig put on by the Ballroom Of Romance in the Lower Deck in Portobello. Like a phoenix from the ashes, legandary gig collective Hope Promotions are back to present us with a nice hungover evening by putting on Ian Mckayes new band The Evens in an all ages gig in St Nicholas Of Myra Community Centre which is about two minutes from my door.

Blogwise I'll have a preview slash profile of Autechre alongside a review of their new album by the time the gig is on which is I can only assume sold out. So if anyone wants to give me a pass... Hopefully, I'll get one done for the Leechrum event too, there's a review of the new Coldcut album in the pipeline as well seeing as they too are going to be throwing some soundwaves on these shores next month. My system needs to work its way through V For Vendetta but expect a review mid week. And oddly enough, there's bound to be a another muppet of the month soon when I catch sight of a victim and more TV tantrums in the making from a bored bloke stuck at home on a Friday night rural style.

Upcoming Gigs This Week:

Thursday March 30th, Mongolia, Captain Moonlight, Dograck, Dropping Bombs, Swing Youth, Boh's Bar, Phibsborough, Doors : 8pm, five yo yo's in
The Redneck Manifesto, Waiting Room, Si Schroeder, Vicar Street €18.50 including free 2 track CD
Skinny Wolves Club presents Decal (Live with David Lacey), Northstation, Tremors w/ Guest DJs Gib (U:Mack) & Emmet (Lazybird) Doors 9 until 3am. First band 9.30pm.This is in the Hub, on Eustace St
Friday March 31st,
Oak, Betamax Format, Coldspoon Conspiracy and more at the Ballroom of Romance. Lower Deck, Rathmines. free in. Doors 8pm
Vex'd, Chris Clarke, Milanesse, The Person, T-Woc and more in TBMC, courtesy of Mantua and Leechrum. Doors 11pm, €16 yo yos.
Saturday, April 1st, The Evens, St Nicholas Of Myra, Carmens Hall (Off Francis St)

Labels: Blogging, Music

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Sunday, September 04, 2005

Welcome To The New Look

The hideous orange back ground and blurry night time Dublin street scene banner has been chucked out the window, and just for good measure we're going to ensure a regular flow of material on the blog for the next while.

Labels: Blogging

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