Computer Luv
- Mink Engine have web skills to pay the bills, a slick motion-graphics lineup that looked like it was being triggered by keytar, and brand-new (as of last year) EP. Bouncy tunes, great production and a sense of humor make for a compelling trifecta in my eyes. That, and the dick-chicken gags were also excellent. “I love dick-chicken,” and I love a band that packages themselves visually. Evidence: Tomato. It has been I while since I poked around the Aussie design sites, but the Mink stuff made me have a look around again. I had no idea AiF was even still operating, let alone running some great competitions.
- Electric Limousine. Missed ‘em at Moscow, made up for it here. Robot suits, dead synths and danceability included.
- Extended Summer Surgery. Their Myspace page says this: “EXTENDED SUMMER SURGERY fall down pissing before the dirty, blistered feet of 80s pop ghosts, disfigured heavy metal saints, vocoder glitz and squealing chromatic glamour. One can only conclude, their music is PUNCTUATED BY REGRET, weird, and ROTTING TEETH.” I can only agree.
- Computer Luv photos on Flickr.
I don’t know when the fuck the new-disco/electro-pop/indie-rave thing blew up, but I love it to bits. Technicoloured clowns vomiting rainbows while they beat unicorns to death with glowsticks is the new black.
Posted in Flatbeat on Sunday November 5, 2006.
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Wow…
Harsh, but honest at least.
Dan, if you ever refer to us as ‘new-disco/electro-pop/indie-rave’ ever again, we’ll rip your fucking eyes out. We are no such thing.
Eat shit,
Extended Summer Surgery
— ESS · 1401 days ago · #
If half the boardrooms in the world had “PowerPoint level animations” that looked like this, I think the world would be a better place.
“Since when did pushing play equal ‘playing live’?”
Since always. While you’re at it, why don’t you burble on about how DJs are “just dickheads changing cds” and punk “just people screaming.”
And if I sounded like Pitchfork, I’d write shit like: “With tunnel echo magnifying fluctuating drum sounds and lackadaisical zigzagging guitars layered over mercurial synth work, Extended Summer Surgery’s opening mission statement to the gathered crowd at the Bakery was quite clear: steamroll the indie-rave sound straight onto the dance floors of Perth.” Get over it.
Oh, and ESS, rip my eyes out at your own convenience.
Love,
Dan
OK then cunt I suppose your verbose pomposity is more along the lines of teen hype trash like the NME or something. Mink Engine are clearly THE BIGGEST BAND IN BRITAIN! MOVE OVER GRIME-STEP, INDIE-RAVE WANTS A PIECE.
And yeah, djs are just dickheads playing cds/records. Duh! What, do you think they’re developing cold fusion in between crossfades?
“Since when did pushing play equal ‘playing live’?”
Since fucking NEVER! Playing live = making some kind of physical attempt at producing a sound that is not being made in exactly the same way anywwhere else, and will never be again. That is why it is special. Obviously in the modern age people incorporate playback devices into their setups but when one is ONLY using a playback device with a few token clicks and pushs it is NOT playing live. Singing to a backing track is called KARAOKE. Don’t get me wrong, I like Karaoke as much as the next guy but its apples and oranges dude. I mean IDIOT!
- Doug Thailes
— Doug Thailes · 1396 days ago · #
Doug….
Your a fucking tool
— Karli · 1393 days ago · #
Hey sit on it and rotate you fucking bitch Karli!
And by the way, whats your point?
Clearly I am right on all the previous issues, so all you are trying to do is express some kind of bullshit man-hating dyke hippie agenda…well fuck you sister, go back to your placenta eating, natural fibre wearing fucken love parade, so I can shoot all of you at once.
Fucken hell, the fucken cunts who read this site….YOU SHOULD ALL BE EVISCERATED!!!!!
- Doug Thailes
— Doug Thailes · 1389 days ago · #
Commenting is closed for this article.
Clearly you were on some heavy duty drugs…Mink Engine were terrible, coffee table designers hiding behind a laptop and PowerPoint level animations. Since when did pushing play equal ‘playing live’? Electric Limosine? Worthless. And Extended Summer Surgery? The biggest joke of the night, flacid, incompetent amateur flailing. Crap. Totally crap. They are the furtherest thing away from ‘new-disco/electro-pop/indie-rave ‘ anybody could imagine. More like new-sance. They sounded like every 80s band that everybody has ever thought ‘god this is shit/what were they thinking’ about put through a rusty meat grinder. The whole night was stupid posing crap. CRAP! PS you sound like Pitchfork, loser.
- Doug Thailes
— Doug · 1401 days ago · #