OnCue - remembered by the overwhelmig Inhale, Exhale - got something new going on: OnCue and DJ Mick Boogie put out another full-length CD entitled “Cueyfornication”. This tape is special, it’s all Red Hot Chili Peppers samples. They flipped alot of guitar riffs, and what was born was simply progressive music. Figuring that the majority of our readers isn’t really into “hip-hop oriented”, we figured each and every one of you will enjoy this project due to the simple fact of the creativity, and the overall sound to the CD. You may can enjoy it for your personal listening. It definitely got the potential to!

We give you the link to the full-package of the CD, plus the two favourites, that we picked.

Mediafire: OnCue - Otherside (prod. The Goonies)
Mediafire: OnCue - Make You Feel Better (prod. KidStarr)

zShare: OnCue presents Cueyfornication (full package)

Today in the studio with the crüe - the two guys of THE!, hailing from Germanys stronghold of poesy, Bauhaus and panjandrum - Weimar. Next to this one hour of very relaxed sound, the THE! guys were that kind to answer us a bunch of questions. Enjoy the mix and check what they’ve got to say.

What do we have to imagine if we hear the name “THE!”, how did you found each other and how did it all start?
Well, we go back a long way. In 2007 we were a trip though Iceland and wanted to play at a very famous cafe that’s run by a German couple. But their hi-fi system was lend to a camp of activists and so we had a gig at this camp without further ado.

Why did you choose the name “THE!”, which’s in fact a bit squishy?
We worked for a while on our music inside a sports hall. One day the sun projected a note of exclamation onto the floor, which was a bit of suggestion. Then we just put some microphone-cables on the flloor and formed the letters T.H.E. - that’s all.

How would you categorize your music and who or what maybe gave a concrete direction to?
We call it simply pop with very experimental alignment.

How are you both connected to the German city Weimar and what exactly are you doing there?
We do study musicology and media design in Weimar. And our netlabel Headphonica does play a decisive role for us.

Where do you see “THE!” in the future and where do you want to go with?
We do small steps. First of all we like to produce and record all our tracks very clean and tidy. Next we’d like to come up with a track-collection and maybe also an album.

Lots of artists move into music-metropoles to establish contacts. Do you have similar ambitions or are you more regional enrooted?
Of course we like to become well known, but in fact we don’t give that much thoughts to.

What do you think about the development of the music-blog-scene in the past years? Is this a very welcome media for promotions for you or do you take a more critical view on?
We’re fine with the blog-scene and use this media for promotion as well. And of course it’s a very welcome opportunity for all those fresh-water artists to publish their music.

Finally - what’s next? Where can we hear you playing live in the in the near future?
20.06.2009 - Leipzig: Galerie KUB
10.07.2009 - Weimar: Bauhaus-Label-Night

Thanks a lot guys and all the best to you!

MediaFire: The Fast Life FM - June Issue 2009 by THE!

Dave Wrangler wrote us a very kept to a minimum mail bud it made me prick my ears instantly:

I LOVE this song so much. I literally finished this remix and headed up to my show with it on a flash drive. I dropped it at 1:30am to a sweaty dance floor that nearly imploded at the break!

In Tallinn, Berlin, London and everywhere else the TFL crue’s present simply to be present, parties never really get started until ten minutes to 4am and Dave already burned down the floor at 1:30 am. I pay my respects to this guy.
But to be honest, this wasn’t really the fact that made me prick my ears. The headline of his mail already did that job. “Animal Collective” was everything I need to read to feel déjà vu.

The guys of Animal Collective were just yesterday a subject of discussion at my favorite radio station DLF and just spoke about their new record “Merriweather Post Pavilion”. The band’s genre-categorization doesn’t suggest to be my taste of music but I quickly needed to disabuse myself. Really something worth to take place in your record collection. Foremost in terms of CDs have become an endangered species. Animal Collective still do cling to that round shimmery medium and attached great importance to a perfekt appearance of their new record.

We deliver you below the keen Dave Wrangler remix of “My Girls” and Pitchfork delivers a most adequate description for their music itself: Animal Collective have wandered the territorial edges of music, scoping out where boundaries had been erected and looking beyond them. Nothing to add.

MediaFire: Animal Collective - My Girls (Dave Wrangler Remix)

Egadz! is a San Francisco-based electro/hip hop/experimental producer who recently put out some cool videos. The first one is called “Music Made With Buttons” and features Egadz! playing the MPC with all his might, that you can grab here.

Egadz! is currently working on a new album. He’ll be playing in San Francisco on December 3 with Lazer Sword and Mochipet at the Puma 60th Anniversary Party. He’s expected to do a few week tour in February 2009 to Oakland, Portland, Seattle, Boise, Denver, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Santa Fe and San Diego.

His music is honest, personal and something easy to relate to. He’s definitely someone to look out for in the electro/experimental music world.

And I can only sign this statement! Egadz! is going deep.

Holy fellas Teat Cru from Puerto Rico jumped into the game of kicking Digitalisms “Taken Away” to mud and suprise with a sticky spliff reminding of a 4-year-old playing the accordion all day til sundown and daddy screaming out of the basement. It is more a collage, appearing like an experiment what listeners can survive nowadays, but this is what we (especially Pseudo.Kicks and his kick.Cat) are used to Teat Cru by now. Full stop.

Mediafire: Digitalism - Taken Away (Teat Cru Planetarium Field Trip Remix)

This great one already sleeps quite for a while on my desktop, but I’m a bit pinched for time these days and need instantly a clerk! So if you’re young, pleasing to the eyes, got skills in advertising graphic design, can write like Tolkien and don’t answer to the name of D*** - holla at cha girl!

SKEW is a musician, producer and multi-instrumentalist operating out of NYC. He has had recent releases on RCRD LBL and has been performing live sets alongsides a lot of skilled musician. His music has appeared on Ninja Tune’s highly acclaimed Solid Steel radio show as well as on big radio stations in the New York City area and Los Angeles. SKEW’s formative years were divided between playing guitar in hardcore bands and making beats for MCs. Just now he’s giving his debut album “Stadiums Are OK Too” the final touch and we give you the chance to listen to some tracks thereof in advance.

zShare: SKEW - Oh The Drama
zShare: SKEW - Stadiums Are OK Too
zShare: SKEW - In Other Words

Latest news from Great Britain are saying that famous Czech Beer Staropramen has already conquered the European Islands. Reliable sources are telling that this might also be the reason why Various Production makes Great Britain go Polka.

On their forthcoming release ther’re successfully sticking their noses into nearly every imaginable musicstyle.

We’re raising our glasses for that nice one!

zShare: Various Productions - Meskmen
zShare: Various Productions - Wot U Say

image: David Fischer

Sometimes when I get sick of these four walls, my head feels like gaga and my eyes appear to be triangled because of staring too long on this box full of pixels and bright little glow inside, I swoop for my car keys and go on a cruise. Last Saturday was such a day. So I was driving around and listened simply to the “Deutschlandfunk” (DLF) over my car radio which just broadcasted about several new record releases. One of these bands they spoke about, the Berlin based project Bodi Bill, caught me immediately - and that’s something I would call really uncommon.

To write about music is sometimes comparable to dance to modern architecture - kind of absurdity. And Bodi Bill doesn’t make it much easier for me to find words that measures up to ‘em. They’ve got such an huge repertoire of versatility and individualism, you shouldn’t try to pigeonhole ‘em unless you’ve got a very large “music-cabinet” with thousands of drawers inside.

Brute techno elements, bubbly beats, unobtrusive samples, varied selection of floating melodies, breaks of breathless suspense, virtuoso programming and innumerable inconspicuous gadgets are gathering around vocals that slide from spirit full of heaviness to impulsive and thrilling announcements of straightforwardness. These boys got the formula to combine truthful and sometimes very melancholic lyrics with also dance able beats that work. And so it could happen, that you leave one of their concerts with tearful eyes and totally all in a sweat at once.

One year after their considered debut album “No More Wars” Bodi Bill releasing its legal successor “Next Time” on Sinnbus Records. With a lingo even more concise and a pinpoint execution of their pleas and appeals, Bodi Bill up the ante with a delicate and charming, yet demanding masterpiece, contributing their share to the debate of our times.

Play ‘em on random loop - you will continuously find more and more delicacies inside of their tunes.

zShare: Bodi Bill - I Like Holden Caulfield
zShare: Bodi Bill - Kirsten I Miss Them

Let’s get into the Saturday with soft and gentle Zachary Lipkins, that got in touch with us last Friday, serving high-melodic, dramatic and heartrending tunes from his base in Long Island, discreet and glamorous like a perfect gentleman.

“While Juggling Cobras” is such a style of track sliding soft and slow into your ears and remind you, that you have been a child once upon a time and how easygoing life can be. This is something all tracks of Zach carry around with themselves. The other 3 come more concretely, up-and-down-tempoid with a lot of breaking behaviour and an armada of heartbreaking melodies, that deep touches you in your innermost being.

zShare: Zachary Lipkins - While Juggling Cobras
zShare: Zachary Lipkins - Bernie Williams
zShare: Zachary Lipkins - Overneath
zShare: Zachary Lipkins - Fine Tea