2019 albums

Just getting round to this and it's excellent.  Big fan of Cataracts.

Anyone after an interesting listen, try WaqWaq Kingdom – Essaka Hoisa. 

The exy write-up:


When you sit down and think about it, electronic music fits fairly neatly into two distinct categories: “Thinking Music” and “Feeling Music”. “Thinking Music” is, believe it or not, all about the mind; the sort of music filled with surreal bleeps and bloops that take you away from reality and inside of that little brain of yours. Conversely, “Feeling Music” is all about movement. It’s music with its heart set on the dancefloor: music with big breaks, catchy hooks and throbbing loops; music built for the club, rather than the bedroom. Some artists are able to straddle the two masterfully. However, rarely, if ever, does a group fall outside of the categories all together. Enter WaqWaq Kingdom.

Essaka Hoisa, the second record to come from Japanese musicians Shigeru Ishihara (aka DJ Scotch Egg) and Kiki Hitomi of King Midas Sound, melds together the remnants of dance music’s past, present and future to create a dense if sometimes confusing blend of modern electronica. You’ve got hip hop, you’ve got 8-bit, you’ve got schoolyard vocals, you’ve got… well you’ve pretty much got it all. Take standout ‘Hototogisu’ for example, which builds on everything great about WaqWaq Kingdom, forming a freak scene kaleidoscope of anime themes and dancehall decadence, almost questioning the purpose of modern dance music in the process.



From the opening synth stabs of ‘Mum Tell Me’ to the ghostly finale of ‘Medicine Man’, WaqWaq Kingdom deliver a lesson on the values of sitting outside of recognised genre tropes. It turns out fitting inside a box isn’t all its hyped up to be


Kev, you might have heard this lot already about 12 year ago.  This post is aimed at the uncool and the under-informed.

Fucking great EP, shame he and The Alchemist didn't make this a full length here.

WHERE IS THE GODDAMNED WHO ALBUM, EXY?

I'm surprised you don't have the 880gram special edition version produced from the blood of Townsends scrotum.

It's not out until Friday, but I want a taste.

(re-reads Mahoney's post.)


I stand by what I wrote.

I'd imagine you're a bit too old for Pete's tastes.

Fuck I forgot about this. Need to give it a spin.

Fake edit: You watched The Irishman yet? I was fucking delighted when up pops BRONSON in a scene with De Niro.

posted on wrong threasd ffs

JP, you turned down the chance to see the La’s in TCOTU in 2011 because of train fare, don’t start telling me where I can and can’t post on the forum!

It was an edit of my own post mate. I was the one who posted in the wrong thread.

My point about The La’s still stands!

I know it’s a cliche from me at this point, but I don’t care: the new who album is really goddamn good.

I bet it’s not

I missed this at the time but apparently the juan maclean released a new singles compilation this year that sounds pretty good...

diymag.com/2019/06/12/the-juan-maclean-to-release-new-singles-compilation-the-brighter-the-light

Thanks, sounds proper! I am in no hurry to listen to it though, not like I would dare to put one of that kind on my list

So you might not have been that wrong in the end, after >10 years they're releasing a long EP in October

the-aliens.bandcamp.com/album/electronville

Superjohnny 4 years ahead of the critics here