The dark brown sound of Parkside
It’s a short interview with Parkside (in dutch), as recorded by Lopend Vuur, a platform for the Dutch indie scene.
May, 2008
Toxic Toxic Toxic
Toxic Chicken is going strong. He just released another bunch of messy, lo-fi punk pock tracks through WeirdAndWired and he’s been selected to participate in Glued, a project by Muziekcentrum Nederland.
Also check out his Dream Society blog overhere.
POKE 20 remix?
Mano Scherpbier of ON asked me to relay the message below to esc.rec. artists and other interested parties. And it does seem like an interesting remix project… so here it is:
“Remember the groundbreaking Commodore 64 computer? And did you play the games? Did you know there is an orchestra actually performing this old game tunes and that it is called the C64 orchestra? You can find them on www.myspace.com/c64orchestra and the songs have been played over 140.000 times. And did you check the extra ordinary CD design? Way better than the usual stuff isn’t it?
It gets even funnier if you are a musician, because the sequel of the C64 orchestra is called POKE 20.
Poke 20 offers you the possibility to get in the footsteps of the great Commodore 64 composer as Rob Hubbard and Jeroen Tel by downloading Monty On the Run in separate tracks and creating your own remix. You can find the stuff you need at: http://fotos.oninternet.nl/listpics.asp
Download the midi file of the original score and the separated tracks of the C64 orchestra score in Flute/ Horns & double bass, strings and you are ready to go.
When you are finished creating, make it an mp3 file and send it to poke20@oninternet.nl. Please limit your work to 5 minutes and deliver your music to us before the 31 august.
We will release all remixes on our internetsite and a selection on CD.”
20th esc.rec. release!
Release number 20 is here! Time to celebrate? Or was that at 25?
Anyway, A Ltd. Lion Pup is the debut of Yop, a very talented Rotterdam based singer/songwriter. It’s really quite a magnificent release. Yop is a skilled songcrafter, limiting the length of his songs to the bare essential. Compact beauty. And you can download it here for free (thank you Yop!).
In fact this is a re-release of Yop’s self released 2006 original, so you could be one of those people who have downloaded most of this release already, but this version holds a previously unreleased bonus track, that makes downloading it again worth your while. The main reason for this re-release is more exposure, because if anything A Ltd. Lion Pup deserves that!
Oh, and I added some reviews of the 2006 version overhere.
A Ltd. Lion Pup
Title: A Ltd. Lion Pup
Artist: Yop
Format: MP3
Catalog#: esc.rec.20
Price: free!
Click on image to view/download artwork
Click here to download this release (46,2MB)
Tracklisting
01 Pop Ain’t Dull (1.15) mp3
02 Don’t Forget About Bob Moog (I Won’t) (1.48) mp3
03 No-Go Area (2.03) mp3
04 Napoleon’s Angry Avalanche (1.22) mp3
05 Snowball’s Melody (1.23) mp3
06 Psalm With Keys And Lunch Box (1.41) mp3
07 Tell Him Now (2.44) mp3
08 Breakin’ Down, Baby! (1.15) mp3
09 Harmony (41-105b) (1.58) mp3
10 Can’t Get A Grip (2.37) mp3
11 It’s Raining Farewell’s (3.29) mp3
12 Everybody Wants To Have A Ball (2.51) mp3
13 Commercial Girl (1.44) mp3
14 The Bikini Blues (1.54) mp3
15 Seventeenth (1.24) mp3
16 Salmon Plate (1.50) mp3
17 Last Question (1.59) mp3
18 I’m Asking For Your Time (bonustrack) (3.21) mp3
Credits
All songs written and performed by Yop with help from Maaike, Luuk, Martijn, Christiaan, Stefan, Jamaal.
Artwork by Korneel, design by Harco.
Click here to view the Creative Commons License (BY/NC/SA) that applies to this work.
Press release
Yop is a singer/songwriter from Rotterdam. Like some sort of home-made Brian Wilson variety he layers his songs, while at the same time stealing some tricks from the likes of Robert Pollard, Grandaddy, Kristin Hersh, Frank Black and Ray Davies.
This free download is an esc.rec. re-release of the 2006 original that was self-released by Yop, but holds a previously unreleased bonus track to top the cake.
Reviews
If you feel compelled to share your opinion after listening to this release, please feel free to leave your review in the comments below.
Transfolmer remixes Radiohead
Transfolmer joined the mass of remixers who took a shot at remixing Radiohead’s Nude. Check (and vote for) Transfolmer’s remix overhere.
