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BlackPlastic fully admits that it knows jack about Cass McCombs and further admits that we haven't had time to go digging around either. What we DO know however:
Big love for this video from Jamie Jones. BlackPlastic carries a squidgy soft spot for Crosstown Rebels as it is - their brand of minimal is just far more interesting than minimal should be, which we like - and this video only makes us more gooey. For what is presumeably a small budget, independent project it's pretty lush.
The track is also hot too - like a 2009 update on the electro bebop of old, it sounds like Afrika Bambaataa's 'Planet Rock' brought bang up to date.
'Galactic Space Bar' is taken from Jamie Jones' forthcoming album 'Don't You Remember The Future' out on Crosstown Rebels on 31st August.
Big props to the always awesome Kitune Noir for finding this because it's pretty sublime / mental. Created by hell0jed (MySpace), it's a freaking IDM track made out of the sounds made from a little girl. As Bobby points out on +KN it starts weird but from 42 seconds in gets progressively more awesome.
Definetely worth two minutes of your time.
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Just a quick note to say that BlackPlastic has been checking out a new short-form music TV show SonyEricsson are hostingover at YouTube. It's early days and the show covers a fairly wide range of pop and dance music, meaning they end up talking to a few artists BlackPlastic would politely consider 'toss' (Chipmunk anyone?) but there is also some interesting content...
Check it out by clicking the badge - last week there was an interesting citizen journalist interview with Pop Justice founder Peter Robinson on the future of music journalism and the piece on the Friendly Fires recent blackout gig from a few weeks ago is cool.
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An interesting video from Ohio band THIS IS A SHAKEDOWN! who make an interesting mix of rock and electro - think the kind of mix that the likes of Adam Freeland are currently peddling but with bigger choruses. The video was made with apparently no budget at all using 21 borrowed Mac Books, with the video being shot on the embedded iSight cameras using Photobooth - creative!
THIS IS A SHAKEDOWN!'s debut album, entitled Love Kills, came out in May on Reversed Image Unlimited. Check out THIS IS A SHAKEDOWN!'s MySpace and Twitter for more.
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