Archive for November, 2011:
AraabMUZIK + Party Supplies
Winnie, Timbre and Scion Canada present AraabMUZIK and Party Supplies with djs Tristan Orchard and Relly Rels Saturday November 19th at Electric Owl.
AraabMUZIK is one of the members of the Dipset crew and recently received best new music from pitchfork for his album Electronic Dreams. The music mixes sampler based hip hop with dance music, dare I say trance and pitch shifted vocals in a delightful “thizzed” out manner.
Also on board, Party Supplies of A-Trak’s Fools Gold records. He has a new mix tape out now with some top notch remixes and a few original compositions.
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes - Home (Party Supplies Remix)
Party Supplies – Ain’t Nobody Remix feat. Clare Maguire
Arcade Fire -We Used To Wait (Party Supplies Remix)
**Enter to WIN tickets to ARAABMUZIK courtesy Scion Canada
www.scionsessions.ca
Tickets moving quick. $15.00 advance available online at http://tinyurl.com/6e8699b Also available at Red Cat, Scratch, Highlife, Zulu and Beatstreet Records.
posted by @tristanorchard
the interview show: Austra
Imagine yourself trapped in traffic on your way down the west coast. That’s when I caught Katie Stelmanis, the frontwoman of Austra.
Katie and her crew have made one of the best electronic albums for the year with Feel it Break.
This week, I get Katie to talk about The Knife comparison, her show choir childhood, sorcery and critics calling the record “sleazy new wave.” Hey, she was trapped in her car, I could pretty much get her to chat about anything! :) Do I get her to sing a Christmas Carol? Listen to find out!
the interview show with Austra
Austra “Beat and the Pulse” One of my fav tracks this year!
Austra is in town this Wednesday at The Electric Owl. See you there!
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www.radiocfxu.ca (Campus Community Radio, Antigonish, NS, Fridays 11pm-12am AST)
www.cfru.ca (University of Guelph Radio, ON, Tuesdays 3pm EST)
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www.caperradio.com (Cape Breton University Radio, NS, Wednesdays 2:30-3pm AST and Fridays 5:30-6pm AST)
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Gigamesh – Anthem Fridays
Winnie sponsors Gigamesh this Friday November 18th at Anthem / Post Modern.
Gigamesh is a personal fave and has garnered attention for his internet released remixes and lately for his own material. He has provided some big remixes of some of the top songs over the last few years.
I’m still waiting for a definitive Lana Del Rey remix and actually hope he is working on one. #weneedyou
Winnie have guestlist for you. Email us win.e.coop.r@gmail.com. duhhhhh
Foster The People – Pumped Up Kicks (Gigamesh Remix)
Deee-Lite – Groove Is In The Heart (Gigamesh Remix)
Lykki Li – Little Bit (Gigamesh Remix)
Radiohead – Everything In Its Right Place (Gigamesh Remix)
Animal Collective – My Girls (Gigamesh ‘Proper House’ Remix)
+++photos from last Friday via “the” @tomuribe.
posted by @tristanorchard
Winnie’s Fave New Locals
Winnie is back with a show for you this Thursday, November 17th at the Media Club. We have an exciting lineup of our picks of some of the best new acts.
Ville Kulla are a brand new Vancouver act we are quite excited to be supporting. They rehearse in a jam space I oversee and overhearing them wanted to put on their first show which they managed to hold their own opening for Craft Spells at. They have a polished sound, almost Beach House-esque? Wild Beasts? All you favourite bands? Reverb’y, percussive indie rock….
Debut performance. Gang Signs features Peter Ricq, one half of Humans with a more toned down indie approach to his electronic sound. The group also has Winnie contributor and DJ, Wobangs in it who is chasing her musical dreams.
Also on board our first show with them, Tough Lovers a young Vancouver act with a very polished tight sound. They are currently finishing recording on their first album
Djs inbetween and after.
9pm. $8 at the door. 19+
Tough Lovers 9:30pm, Gang Signs 10:30, Ville Kula 11:30
posted by @tristanorchard
Emeli Sandé – Daddy (Disclosure Remix)
Emeli Sandé – Daddy (Disclosure Remix)
Another gem from DISCLOSURE the south London duo made up of brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence. (Ages 16 & 19) I swear these two can do no wrong. Kind of obsessed. As long as they don’t stop any time soon I’ll be fine. Please come to Vancouver.
posted by Matea
Unconsolable
This is exactly the kind of thing we need before a Saturday night. Ambassadors‘ single, Unconsolable, is definitely one for your “pump-up” playlist. The track comes in with lead singer Sam Harris’s power hungry voice, drum sticks, and some hungry bass… keep listening and you’ll definitely be hooked. Although it’s hard to find any information about these guys, they’re from Brooklyn NY and I’m pretty sure they went on tour with our girl Lights not too long ago. Anyways… enjoy this track; it’s yours now.
Whipped up by John
A Superfries Halloween: Apollo Ghosts & EEEK
When you’re too old to sleep on floors, taking a group trip with your friends to see shows in exotic places like Nanaimo requires lots of planning. Hotels are a tricky choice as they really don’t like when you book one room and ask for 5 cots for your many “children” who you explain to the concierge only look like drunk and unruly adults because they have the “Robin William’s Jack Disease.”
Left with few options for Island shelter for my Halloween adventure, I called a hostel and rented a private cottage in the backyard. That part was easy because I have a really low phone voice and people usually think I’m very important, like a politician or a fireman or a special veterinarian for horses and larger animals.
The hostel is owned by an elderly woman. Early in the day she tried to convince us to let the members of “Loot” (a Tool cover band), into our cottage to use the Piano in our living room. Upon check-out, the kindly host pulled me aside to tell me “Loot“ had over 600 people to their downtown bar show. I guess we should have let them use the Piano instead of giggling, yelling “LooOOOooOOOOooooooT!!!” and locking the door.
The house party show in Nanaimo, although lacking Loot, was headlined by Apollo Ghosts, who are pretty rad. It was at a house that looked way too nice to be having the type of party that isn’t “shoes off.” Smartly, the homeowners blockaded the upstairs and the show was held in a huge two-roomed basement open to a giant yard with a porta potty. I think all parties and nightclubs should have porta potties because most people are scared to pee in them for fear of being tipped, and everyone turns into a super-fast speed pee machine who doesn’t waste time washing their hands or making pouty beauty face in the mirror.
The basement was fully decked out with lights, fog machines, and spooky things that looked like they came from the good Halloween decoration store, where they sell actually scary things like fetuses in jars.
There was a good-sized area for a stage on the big floor with no barrier preventing the fun of audience participation, such as hitting the high hat for the drummer, or screaming and shoving everyone in the band.
I love Halloween house party shows because they are mostly devoid of bar going “sexy” costumes on chicks that walk around like they invented grandparents. My notable costume favorites were: “Waterslide,” “Irish Guy with Small dick” and “Jay Mascis.” I think I saw a sprinkling of Goths too, but they may not have been in costume. I didn’t want to ask if they were dressed up because Goths are creative and sensitive, like a rare butterfly that only grows it’s wings in the dark caves of nighttime.
The first band I remember seeing that night was Warning Sirens. For the actual start of the show I went to the other room to play with the bubble machine that spat out bubbles with fog in them! It was amazing! Made up of two members of Vancouver’s EEEK!, Warning Sirens played their 15 minutes drone set in ghost sheets and it was awesome and haunting, the perfect soundtrack for Halloween or for taking too much acid and having to hike to the top of Candy Mountain through a forest full of fairy’s with demon faces and sharp teeth who don’t want you to get the candy.
Before EEEK’s set, a beautiful large man in a dress made a delightful public speech that involved lots of slurring and hair flipping. It must be so nice for larger gentlemen to be able to enjoy the little treasures of womanhood gifted to them by the acceptability of Halloween cross-dressing. Getting wasted and making tearful, incoherent speeches while your skirt rides up and your hair sticks to your lipstick is an experience I am delighted to share with the male gender.
EEEK! finally took over the microphone from sally-cries-a-lot and started a super good shove party in the front. Their set was a 40-minute aggressive and intimate little slam-dance pit party. I excel during these types of sets that enable lots of jumping, cardio and feats of strength; I’m very fit because I used to own a mini trampoline.
EEEK! – Single Moms
EEEK! – Cascadia
After a pair of bonfire illuminated pantless cowboys explained to me at length the meaning of “the danger zone”, I wandered back into the party to watch Apollo Ghost. I couldn’t see much for reasons involving my costume’s hood and my alcohol intake, but I could see some low ceiling crowd surfing and it sounded awesome.
Apollo Ghosts – Why can’t they all be like you
Apollo Ghosts – Night Vision
I had a bit of a sad because Slam Dunk, who was supposed to play as well, got stuck in Victoria because of a crash on the Malahat. Their absence was disappointing because last time I saw Slam Dunk I was super distracted as another Winnie alumni (guess who!) kept stagediving, continuously, like 10 times past the O.K stagediving amount and I was scared he would crush me and I’d die on the floor of the Astoria, which is definitely not in the audience of Ellen, where I dream of quietly dying of old age.
Slam Dunk – Feral Child
I’m told there were four other bands but I was drunk and it was my special princess birthday-day and I drank my body weight in baby duck.
So, instead of insightful reviews of the other bands, let me share with you some of the new words I choose to record in my notepad as my feelings during the show:
Sunburnx
Religios golowing
Bi duckis
Alan Man
posted by @superfries
Live Review : Holy Ghost
Holy Ghost were in to town on Tuesday November 8th. The Timbre show was at Fortune Sound Club.
Running late I grabbed two PBR and biked off to hang with my “ESL’s” before the show.
Photographer @tomuribe forgot his camera at home and convinced himself he could cover the show within the confines of his iphone instagram app…
Holy Ghost originally started out as a hip hop group that caught fellow Brooklynite, Murph-bro (James Murphy’s) attention.
Automato – Walk Into The Light
Reforming with a different sound, Holy Ghost rose to prominence with the post punk / Italo disco inspired jam “Hold On” on D.F.A and subsequent remixes for other acts but otherwise released only a few of their own tracks. Only recently have they compiled their work with new material on their highly recommended debut self titled album.
I was impressed to see the group are a young fresh faced six piece. They sounded amazing live. The site of their gear collection was worth the price of admission alone.
It looks like quite the effort getting everything setup and tore down at the end of the night but is pretty admirable they don’t use laptops and run everything live off the floor.
After the show I ran into lead singer, Alex Frankel and managed to foolishly gush like a fanboy. Lost my coat too. Some asshole stole it from my “hiding spot”. I stayed up way to late afterwards and gave away all of my booze stash to strangers at my house afterwards. Eff. If you find my coat I will reward you with cheese burgers should you bring it to me.
Check Holy Ghost out if they are coming to your town, do not miss it. One of my favorite shows of the year. 
photos by @tomuribe
posted by @tristanorchard
