{"id":10571,"date":"2004-11-22T15:53:48","date_gmt":"2004-11-22T04:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/?p=10571"},"modified":"2021-01-31T05:12:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T05:12:41","slug":"hexes-ohs-styrofoam-maher-shalal-hash-baz-balun-white-hole-mfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2004\/11\/22\/hexes-ohs-styrofoam-maher-shalal-hash-baz-balun-white-hole-mfa\/","title":{"rendered":"Hexes & Ohs, Styrofoam, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Balun, White Hole, The MFA"},"content":{"rendered":"

here we are again, another week in international music-land. playlist for yesterday’s radio show can be found right\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and what follows is a slew of likely contenders who muddled their way on-air during our 120 minute round-the-world excursion >>
\nHEXES AND OHS\u00a0[CANADA] (pictured)
\nalive until saturday night<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\nthanks to\u00a0mystery and misery<\/a>\u00a0for turning me onto these guys, a rare fusion that takes the all the most electrifying parts of the electro-rock-post-punk boom, and mixes it up with smart-ass electronica. truly a tasty treat. they are a couple (this fact seems to surface a great deal, yet only in the context of them trying to distance themselves from the concept – odd…), heidi donnelly and edmund lam and were formerly known as\u00a0a vertical mosaic<\/strong>. influences cited include\u00a0new order<\/strong>,\u00a0the velvet underground<\/strong>,\u00a0stereolab<\/strong>,\u00a0tortoise<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0simon and garfunkel<\/strong>\u00a0(i wonder who plays who in that role playing game?). check them out, ahead of their 2005 debut, at\u00a0hexesandohs.ca<\/a>.
\nSTYROFOAM<\/strong>\u00a0[BELGIUM]
\nvs TRISTEZA casio (styrofoam mix)<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\nstyrofoam<\/strong>‘s new album ‘nothing’s lost’ is a killer – certainly the album of the week over at fat planet, if ever we had such a thing.\u00a0styrofoam<\/strong>\u00a0is belgian producer arne can petegem and for this new album on morr, he’s pulled together an a-list supporting cast – markus from\u00a0the notwist<\/strong>, valerie from\u00a0lali puna<\/strong>, ben from\u00a0death cab for cutie<\/strong>\u00a0\/\u00a0postal service<\/strong>, andrew from\u00a0american analog set<\/strong>\u00a0and, lo and behold, the wonderful\u00a0alias<\/strong>\u00a0from the anticon collective. with that kind of assistance, you can expect some fine results. you hear samples from the album over at\u00a0morrmusic.com<\/a>. free’n’legal sytrofoam mp3s seem hard to come by, so i’ve posted this one from epitonic, taken from\u00a0tristeza<\/strong>‘s 2002 release mixed signals. more on\u00a0tristeza<\/strong>\u00a0here<\/a>.
\nMAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ<\/strong>\u00a0[JAPAN]
\nsunrise<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\nthe domino records site doesn’t reveal a great deal about duo tori and reiko kudo. this track is taken from an album entitled ‘blues du jour’ – a collection of 41 tracks recorded over two sessions in east kilbride in scotland. their previous album ‘return visti to rock mass’ featured a modest 83 songs. it took some google-digging, but i finally found some information on the band –\u00a0a 2002 interview from the independent<\/a>. on my searching the words ‘shambolic’, ‘syd barrett’ and ‘kitchen sink ‘surfaced a great deal, so hopefully you’re beginning to get a sense of where this odd japanese excursion might take you.
\nBALUN<\/strong>\u00a0[PUERTO RICO]
\nsenecio (revisited)<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\nseems that i owe quite a favour to\u00a0mystery and misery<\/a>\u00a0this week – this is the second post that i’ve drawn music from today. well, now you know. mp3 blogging is one huge happy(ish) family, we all learn from each other, right? moving on…\u00a0balun<\/strong>\u00a0are a three-piece from puerto rico, with\u00a0a sweet site<\/a>\u00a0and a quartet of tunes available to download from\u00a0archive.org<\/a>. i’m getting the feeling that central and south american electronica is growing in favour and it’s certainly finding some public attention beyond appaearing on the now-standard ‘neuvo latino’ compilations. i tried to have a crack at\u00a0beatwave’s argentinian electronica<\/a>\u00a0comp, but apparently there’s itunes issues which prevents it from being sold in the US or UK. worth keeping an eye on for future developments.
\nWHITE HOLE<\/strong>\u00a0[GERMANY]
\npeter builts<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\ni’ve been wanting to get a post together for this band for a while, following their very smart ‘pink album’ on kitty-yo. their track ‘charterflug’ on kitty-yo’s ‘futurism ain\u00b4t shit to me’ was the first pointer that this was going to be an interesting release. there’s so much great german electronic music out there that’s it very hard to keep track of what’s going on – there seems to be another great berlin artist every other week dropping into the fat planet sphere (what are gonna do?).\u00a0white hole<\/strong>\u00a0are however adopting more hip hop influences into their music, side-stepping the clean purity of most germanic electronica for something a little more organic. tasty.
\nTHE MFA<\/strong>\u00a0[WALES \/ LONDON]
\nthe difference it makes (edit)<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\ni don’t like to post edits, but i’ve been loving the\u00a0superpitcher<\/strong>\u00a0mix of this track. eight minutes of glory that grabs the honour of being the first track in a long while to give me goosebumps on five consecutive listens. amazing. this is the original mix and is sadly curtailed, but hoepfully you’ll get an idea of what’s going on… the superpitcher mix is out through\u00a0kompakt<\/a>\u00a0and the original can be found on\u00a0border community<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

here we are again, another week in international music-land. playlist for yesterday’s radio show can be found right\u00a0here\u00a0and what follows is a slew of likely contenders who muddled their way on-air during our 120 minute round-the-world excursion >> HEXES AND OHS\u00a0[CANADA] (pictured) alive until saturday night\u00a0mp3 thanks to\u00a0mystery and misery\u00a0for turning me onto these guys, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[529,49,561,619,622,795,445,169,893,1060,1175,1254,1395,1437,1528,1540],"class_list":["post-10571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-planet","tag-asia","tag-balun","tag-belgium","tag-canada","tag-caribbean","tag-europe","tag-fat-planet-blog","tag-germany","tag-hexes-ohs","tag-maher-shalal-hash-baz","tag-north-america","tag-puerto-rico","tag-styrofoam","tag-the-mfa","tag-wales","tag-white-hole","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15579,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10571\/revisions\/15579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}