Podcast 4 Featuring Kazoo Funk Orchestra, Dirty Summer, Ulrich Schnauss and Lach
By Milo | August 31, 2008
Podcast 4 (featuring Kazoo Funk Orchestra, Dirty Summer, Ulrich Schnauss and Lach)
The Kazoo Funk Orchestra – Robots in Your Eyes
All songs about robots are brilliant – FACT. This 1:12 minutes of
mechanical mayhem is even better than that one from the Flight of the
Conchords and will probably single-handedly hasten the onset of the
singularity, when machine intelligence finally overtakes our own (if
that hasn’t happened already). Plus, these prolific membranophonists
are releasing an album with 50 of these gems on it for free via iTunes.
Dirty Summer – Knees
A blistering hurricane of noise almost drowns out a female voice
imploring you to get on your knees, and at the very least you will find
it hard to resist jumping about like a Tasmanian Devil to this. Dirty
Summer might just be Scotland’s best new band, young pop noiseniks who
sound like an entire army of off-their-tits teenagers trashing the
local Sound Control and recording it on their mobile phones so they can
terrify old biddies on the bus. Download their new EP for free via
winningspermparty.com.
Ulrich Schnauss – Medusa
The German-born Schnauss recently made a rare trip to Scotland for a
treat of a Tigerfest gig at the Voodoo Rooms. In case you missed it
(why, oh why?) his music combines the songwriting of shoegazing greats
My Bloody Valentine and the Cocteau Twins with the experimental
electronica of a true pioneer. As monstrous as its namesake, Medusa
destroys all in its wake, and with it any preconception that ambient
music has no balls – aptly enough as Freud interpreted the snakes
protruding from Medusa’s head as multiple phalluses.
Lach – Former President Bush
At last, those bloody primary elections are over, and even the
mighty Dylan has given Obama his backing. However, no matter who is
eventually elected as All Conquering Big Cheese of the “Free World”,
Lach (the New York king of anti-folk and composer of such classics as
Drinking Beers with Mum) wants us to know there is already reason to
celebrate – Bush will soon be gone, and for that at least, every
right-minded person on the planet ought to rejoice. Unsurprisingly, he
also has a few strong words for Mrs Bush and vice president Dick Cheney.
Published in the Skinny column accompanying this podcast
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