We have two new variants of our classic SHOEGAZER T-shirts in colours voted for by you lot.
Black shirts with a @pantone 225 pink print and yellow shirts with @pantone 165 orange, expertly screen printed by @Vinosangre on @GildanOnline Softsyle shirts in sizes S to 4XL...
‘Cold Stones’ – the closing track from XAM Duo’s recent album ‘XAM Duo II’ – has been remixed by legendary electronic artist and DJ @mrjamesholden!
He has taken the original’s calming, comedown energy and transformed it into an epic journey, which somewhere around the five-minute mark comes right back up... xammusik.bandcamp.com/track/cold-sto…
“It didn't turn out quite how I expected, but as they say the sculpture is already in the stone, we just have to find it,” says @mrjamesholden.
“It's like the most rave thing I’ve done for ages and also not rave at all, like a blurry dream about a rave?”
It’s out on all streaming services and @Bandcamp now.
It features the previously announced “rave dream” reworking of the album’s closing track, ‘Cold Stones’, by legendary electronic artist and DJ, @mrjamesholden as well as mixes by @earlyyearsband and Richard Pike.
The former resurface after another lengthy hiatus and reframe ‘LGOC’ as a divine astral jazz / krautrock crossover, while the latter turns ‘Blue Comet’ into a glitchy and discordant soundtrack to the best 1980s computer game you never played...
“It’s lovely to hear three different interpretations of songs that we already tend to keep quite loose and elastic,” says Matthew Benn.
“These remixes feel like a natural extension of the music on the album, like they're from the same world, but perhaps in a different language.”
Aaaaand I didn't tag @_richardpike in the above ramble, but his remix is incredible 🙌
The new @talktopeters album ‘Red Sunset Dreams’ is released in two weeks’ time (September 16).
There are a few copies of the @Bandcamp exclusive orange and red vinyl version left, so why not grab one today as it’s #BandcampFriday?
If you need convincing, here’s a snippet of another one of the tracks. This is ‘Golden Cloud’, which was the real name of Roy Rogers’ horse, Trigger...
The album is inspired by the symbiotic relationship of Western movies / country music and the northwest of England.
Roy Rogers and Trigger visited Liverpool in 1954 and even stayed in the city’s Adelphi hotel.
(They weren’t bothered by the two-star rating on Tripadvisor)
🤠🐴
That's all we have for @Bandcamp Friday – off to buy a few things myself now. Thanks to anyone who’s bought anything, it all helps! 🙏
This is a clip from the beautiful ‘Silver River’, a track from the forthcoming @talktopeters album ‘Red Sunset Dreams’.
It features the legendary BJ Cole on pedal steel and had its first airing on our @sohoradio show the other night. Listen again here: mixcloud.com/sohoradio/soni…
@talktopeters@sohoradio The song was inspired by a US road-trip that Mark went on back in 1999, during which he stayed in a small town in California called Bishop...
When he recalled this as he was putting together the album – which is all inspired by our view of America as a means of escape from humdrum Britain – it turned out that Errol Flynn had filmed a Western there in 1948. It’s title? ‘Silver River’.
Press play at 6pm, and let's head back to the halcyon days of 1991 when Bruce Dickinson could tour in Europe without any issues (the prick): mixcloud.com/soniccathedral…
We open with the late, great John Peel talking about @MBVofficial in 1991 and seeing them having three albums in the charts simultaneously in, ooh, about 30 years’ time…
Tonight! From 6pm! In the middle of the football! We'll be hosting the afterwork drinks for @thesociallondon!
Join us in the time machine back to 1991, with a selection of tunes to soundtrack the second half, the post-mortem and beyond! #partylikeits1991
And if you can't make it tonight, the next one is IRL... 👀
So excited to be celebrating our return to @thesociallondon (and the 30th anniversary of the Slough Festival) on Saturday, July 24 with guest DJs @Andybebop (@rideox4), Christian Savill (@slowdiveband) and @matflint (Revolver)!
Join us in the time machine back to 1991 for The Social Gathering (@thesociallondon) from 6pm tonight. There’s a bit of a Twin Peaks theme to today’s mix... 🪵
Join us for a drink and some tunes, including this one by The KLF, which is today’s Daily Devotional...
Also, you'll be excused for being late because you really should be watching @cheval_sombre’s live set for @RoughTrade over on their Instagram, which is also at 6pm!