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Three-day Match&Fuse Festival brightens East London this week

30 September 2014

Match&Fuse Festival London 2014

Following the first edition of the Match&Fuse Festival in London in 2012, and after landing in Oslo in 2013 and in Rome last June, the unmissable three-day festival is again descending on London this weekend. Match&Fuse will take place across three venues in East London – The Vortex, Rich Mix and Café Oto – this Thursday 2nd, Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th October. Spanning a diverse range of genres, from jazz and hip hop to ambient and electronica, the festival will feature an immensity of groundbreaking artists from Italy, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, Scotland and England. Some of the bands setting their sights on Match & Fuse include the likes of Elliot Galvin, Shabaka Hutchings, James Allsopp, Rebecca Sneddon & Lunch Money and featuring SynKoke. Pixel, Lazy Habits, The Comet Is Coming, Eirik Tofte M&F Orchestra, Monkey Plot with Frode Gjerstad, Lana Trio with John Butcher, Snorkel, Physics House Band, Wolfram Trio and many more. Head over to the festival’s website for the full line-up and all other info and tickets.
“With an emphasis on local culture and its transmission across borders”, as the press release states, Match&Fuse “facilitates shared platforms for like-minded artists and the creation of new artistic material through international collaboration and works within underground scenes that comprise distinctive audiences built through cutting-edge artistry.”

Wrapping up the festival on Saturday 4th at midnight, The Eirik Tofte Match&Fuse Orchestra will march from Cafe Oto to The Vortex where they’ll play a short set before the closing performance by British band Snorkel.

The good folks behind Match&Fuse put together a fantastic playlist featuring many of the acts on this thrilling line-up. Check it out below and get down to the festival if you’re near London this week.

Orchestra of Spheres share video for ‘2,000,000 Years’

29 September 2014

Orchestra Of Spheres - 2,000,000 Years

At the end of last year, inventive and outlandish outfit Orchestra of Spheres released their extraordinary second album Vibration Animal Sex Brain Music. One of the album’s standout cuts, ‘2,000,000 Years’, has been given a very fitting visual treatment, directed by Simon Ward. Here’s what Orchestra of Spheres said about the video:

“Simon Ward is one of the best music video directors in NZ. It was a total pleasure making this with him. We came up with a plan of making four miniature ‘concept worlds’, and set about gathering objects from people’s flats, the rubbish dump, things found on the streets… we got a stuffed crocodile, a decomposing pig’s head, a box of 30 vibrators and other assorted goodies. The idea is that each world starts getting filled up with the little people until they breed uncontrollably and it ends up with the froth/sperm/snow stuff eventually taking over… relates to the song, which is cryptically apocalyptic. Simon’s turned our crude concept into a really amazing video.”

Here’s the video for ‘2,000,000 Years’.


Vibration Animal Sex Brain Music is out now on Fire Records.

Boxed In drops brand new single ‘Foot Of The Hill’

24 September 2014

Boxed In - Foot Of The Hill

London based Oli Bayston boasts an impressive CV centred around his production duties with the likes of The Voyeurs, Rosie Lowe and The Bohicas. He also plays and writes for a number of bands but it’s his solo project, Boxed In, that caught our ears. Comes November 3rd, Boxed In will release a brand new single, the vibrant and hypnotic ‘Foot of the Hill’. The single precedes Boxed In’s yet-to-be-titled debut album, due out on January 19th 2015 via Nettwerk Records. Don’t wait any longer, listen to ‘Foot of the Hill’ right now.

Son Lux premieres video for ‘Lost It To Trying (Mouths Only Lying)’

22 September 2014

Son Lux - Lost It To Trying (Mouths Only Lying)

Back in May, producer and composer Son Lux aka Ryan Lott released the Alternate Worlds EP, featuring reimagined versions of four tracks from his last year’s album Lanterns and a collaboration with Lorde. Son Lux has recently unveiled a video for ‘Lost It To Trying (Mouths Only Lying)’, lifted from the Alternate Worlds EP. Here’s what director Imogen Murphy said about it:

“The lush musical production and beautifully layered melody merited an intense narrative. The song is full of melancholy emotion so the treatment had to go deep and dark. The film shows a couple in a disintegrating relationship, unable to move on because of the weight of mutual negativity they carry.”

Watch the video for ‘Lost It To Trying (Mouths Only Lying)’ below.


Alternate Worlds is out now via Joyful Noise Recordings.

Deerhoof reveal second track off upcoming album La Isla Bonita

20 September 2014
Photo: Photo Yasuhiro Ohara

Photo: Photo Yasuhiro Ohara

Following the punky and catchy first single ‘Exit Only’, Deerhoof have shared a second track from their forthcoming album, La Isla Bonita. The rebellious ‘Paradise Girls’  is a call for smart and strong women to challenge and fight against a patriarchal society. “Our heroes on this song are Joan Jett, Janet Jackson, Kim Gordon, Kathleen Hanna. It’s about how girls are and have always been smarter,” said drummer Greg Saunier. Here it is.


La Isla Bonita is out on November 4the via Polyvinyl.