Monday 29 June 2015

NEW-ISH BAND TIM AND THE BOYS 
RELEASE "HARD WON" TAPE

We are the hopeless. We are the sexless. We are the sexist. 
We are the sexiest.


Drum machine, microbrute, bass, guitar and vocals. 
Sydney. Good lyrics. Not weak.
Six tracks. Self released by T&TB
Playing shows with Aloha Units in the past/future


Available at Repressed Records or from Tim or the Boys. 

Wednesday 24 June 2015



GREAT WEEKEND FOR MUSIC

GIGS TO BE ATTENDED

FRIDAY NIGHT SOUTHERN TRACKSIDE BOYZ ATTEND COLD TECH DANCE MUSIC PARTY


SATURDAY ALL DAY GREAT NEW/UN-NEW BANDS CAPPED OFF BY BEHEMOTHS HOLY BALM and LUCY CLICHE

ALOHA UNITS PLAY SUNDAY RIP SOCIETY BENEFIT SHOW
WITH MANY EXCELLENT BANDS

BWBB, MOB, HOUSEWIVES, TIM N THE BOYS, RED RED KROVVY




LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS WEEKEND




Monday 15 June 2015

TRACKSIDE #02 - SEX TOURISTS

SEX TOURISTS - DEMO CS


SECOND RELEASE FROM TRACKSIDE. MOSTLY ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS. MEMBERS OF ALOHA UNITS.  SHOWS IN NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS.






BUY TAPE HERE $6

Also available at Repressed Records or your local Sanity store.

Wednesday 10 June 2015

MIX - NHẠC ĐÁM MA - VIETNAMESE FUNERAL MUSIC




Sad and otherworldly sounds of Vietnamese funerals ripped from YouTube





The music on this short mix is from North and South Vietnam. It features prominent electric guitar, and is for fans of (Mekong) Delta Blues, Reverb, and Bent Strings. 



Modern Vietnamese funeral music seems fluid and adaptable to different instrumentation, styles, and class. A well off restaurant owner might have a large brass band play on the street outside their business as part of the funeral procedures. A manual labourer from the South might have a group play stringed instruments and modified electric guitars through a digital reverb unit outside the family home.  The different styles of funeral music serve the same purpose and are not differentiated by name (as far as I know).



 "It [funeral music] has an important position in the life of the Vietnamese, but people do not look at it as an artistic activity," said Dang Hoanh Loan, deputy head of the Vietnam Institute for Musicology and a traditional music researcher.

"The picture of the funeral music nowadays is a musical mixture of several types," Loan said. "There are no more eight-piece bands.... It is no longer genuine."

[Funeral musician]Hoang Hiep Binh said most of the fault lies with the musicians, who were mostly less-educated rice farmers more accustomed to hard labor than to fine art. Their crude demeanour spoiled the image of funeral musicians, he said.
"They have themselves caused the disrespect," he said. "Sometimes I wanted to quit because of that social concept."


*It is bad luck to listen to funeral music outside of its context. 
** Second last song is not funeral music, but a type of mournful sounding folk music often sung by lottery ticket vendors and street musicians.

Kool fact - The scene in Apocalypse Now where the helicopters fly over the jungle playing "Ride of the Valkyries" was based on American helicopters blasting Vietnamese funeral music to demoralise NVA soldiers during the war. Movie woulda been cooler if they kept the funeral music. 






Monday 1 June 2015

TRACKSIDE #01 - ALOHA UNITS


ALOHA UNITS CS



First release on Trackside. Late 2014. Six piece. Sydney.
Four track cassette.
Expect more in the near future. 

"...steps in odd realms while carrying strong, conventional ideas."





buy here 

or 
listen


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