November 30th, 2007 dukelukem
The cover of Time Magazine caught the eye during the week. It read something like:
“Name a significant contemporary cultural figure from France”.
The idea being that you couldn’t.
I was with Leon at the time and we both agreed that Michel Houellbecq and Daft Punk both sprung to mind immediately. So the cover didn’t exactly work as they planned.
Houellbecq’s novels are JG Ballard respun with the all the modesty and prudishness of Serge Gainsbourg on a Viagra binge.
And Daft Punk just rule - even if their last proper album was a bit of a dud. The best bit was Robot Rock, and the best bit of Robot Rock came from this banging bit of psychedelic funk.
Breakwater - Release The Beast
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November 23rd, 2007 Justin
damn, new job, no time to blog :(
I’ll just grab a few seconds to note that I went to see Go! Team play Tripod on wednesday, and they were amazing. They really rocked. Amazing backdrop visuals, amazing stage presence, jam-packed venue with an up-for-it crowd… really good gig.
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November 15th, 2007 Justin
More great ’space disco hits Dublin’ news… State of Shock says:
‘Good news for those based in Dublin (as if we needed any) there’s two DFA nights in quick succession on the way. The first of which is T&T aka Tim Sweeney & Tim Goldsworthy at Ri-Ra on the 30th November and the following Friday (7th December) Shit Robot & Juan Maclean bring their acid/disco chaos to Crawdaddy with our good selves on warm up.
We’ve been given a discounted guestlist at 10eu so anyone that wants to come along just drop us a mail to info@stateofshock.net and we’ll sort you right out.’
wow, it’s like buses. You wait for ages then they all turn up at once…
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November 1st, 2007 Justin
This is one of those amazing, and amazingly off-the-wall, tunes
you come across on Lovefingers’ blog –
Exuma - Dambala
From 1970, it’s a psychedelic, half-chanted song to Dambala, a voodoo lwa –
There are also certain lwa who are mute, who never speak under any
circumstances. One such lwa, in the Rada group, is Dambala. Dambala is a
serpent, and as such he does not speak. A person possessed by Dambala
immediately falls to the ground and crawls, like a snake. The possessed
person may climb trees, or the centerpost of the peristyle, without using
their hands, because a snake does not have hands. Like a snake, too, Dambala
will eat a raw egg, and sip milk.
Check out these lyrics:
You slavers will know
What it’s like to be a slave
Slave to your mind
Slave to your race
You won’t go to heaven
You won’t go to hell
You remain in your graves
With the stench and the smell
Oh Dambala come Dambala
Oh Dambala come Dambala
Here’s a good write-up
on Exuma’s career. Amazingly, Nina Simone covered ‘Dambala’, it seems, on her 1974 LP, ‘It Is Finished’.
I’ve got to get hold of Exuma’s first two albums, I’d say they’re great (if terrifying).
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