Interview: Ghislain Poirier Chews Le Gros
photo credit: baladop45 If the idea of a Montreal artist brings anything to mind its out pourings of bleak post rock drone and lo-fi indie noise, and certainly not Ghislain Poirier’s bombastic bass heavy productions. Montreal’s Poirier pioneers a tweaked take on production that uses musical echoes from the global south, alongside the best elements of the dark side of raves decade long come down. He hits Dublin in promotion of his latest... Read More
Gig Reviews: Crystal Castles and DJ Sega
photo credit: Jalapeno It was quite by accident that I found myself dragged along to the home coming gig of Toronto’s Crystal Castles on March 29th last. It’s been quite some time since their supposedly accidental release blew up all over Myspace. And apart from enjoying one or two of their remixes, especially of that Klaxon’s track – I’d diverted my eyes from anything carrying their rather obscured visages. Apparently,... Read More
Flagged: April 19th Gig Madness
photo credit: ario_j Set to be confronted with a wicked volume of ‘shows’ (see I’s a yank now) to check out in what’ll be my first week and a bit back, it’s April 19th that really leaves me a little stuck. How does one decide between the nasty nasty bass and verse of Detroit’s Dj Godfather versus many the comedy capers courtesy of the Ursus Crew and their raggle taggle breakcore army? To be honest given the novelty... Read More
New Maga Bo Video and Doc
It’s pretty clear we don’t like politicians and their polatricks over here at Soundtracksforthem. The similarly minded Magabo, has just released this video accompaniment to his recording of “Fire” with Senegal’s Gunman Xuman. It’s out on Rupture’s Soot records soon enough. That last link there pulls up a video where the vocalist chats about how the internet has globalised hip hop, and how African artists... Read More
