LOVELOCK.
Posted on January 21, 2010 2 Comments
After a brief silence, Lovelock is back to continue it’s reign as the cream of the crop. This week he released the 3-track vinyl, ‘Pino Grigio’, which features edits of Pino Donnagio, Mike Oldfield and Simple Minds. This very limited and vinyl-only release is out now on Belgian edit label Mindless Boogie. Stream one of the tracks below.
The finest display of highbrow sophistication here is the title track, ‘Pino Grigio’. I completely adore what Lovelock has done with this. He chooses an already superb song from the great Pino Donnagio and transforms it into a cigarrette-boat-cruising jam packed with plenty of white linens and $700 leisure suits. So fire up the engines, grab your dream girl and prepare for a trip across vast oceans and into uncharted horizons.
FUTURECOP – 1988 GIRLS [VIDEO PREMIERE].
Posted on January 7, 2010 16 Comments
Been a little slow around these parts lately due to a week-long, holiday Quaalude bender. All that matters is that Uncle T is back and ready to show no mercy. The TNUC book of excellence and elegance didn’t thrust into the new year to bore you with another 09′ Best-Of List like the rest of them because, frankly, we can’t remember what happened in the past decade, never mind 2009.
So here it is! After a lengthy wait, the new TNUC video for Futurecop!’s ‘1988 Girls’ is among us. If you caught the original video which features the vocal stylings of Keith Masters, then good job, but this is the TNUC final cut. This instrumental version of the track pairs up with a slightly altered video that brings a little skin for the dudes and some legendary skin for the dudettes. So turn it up, maximize the screen and make sure Mom’s gone to bed…Get set to get wet.
PROUD TO BE LOUD.
Posted on December 28, 2009 Leave a Comment
Sorry Santa, but those Mariah Carey winter tour tickets that were nestled so nicely under the tree this Christmas are about to be scalped on the street for a couple front row seats to Jim Gillette! Besides being an original member of the band Tuff and co-founding the band Nitro in 1987, this glam metal hero was most famous for his extremely high voice, which he often used, with audio amplification, to shatter crystal goblets as part of his act.
The above clip is an excerpt from Jim’s vocal training video he released through Metal Methods in 1993. He is often cited to have had a range of over 6 octaves,though this has never been proven. An examination of his recorded output puts his range at 4 octaves, from E2[1]-D6[2] (which is still in itself quite an accomplishment) and on the Nitro song “Machine Gunn Eddie”. he was able to hold a soprano high B note (one semitone below soprano high C) for 32 seconds, whilst sliding between a high A and G in full voice. I hoped that these days one could find Jim still shattering crystal goblets, as seen in the picture below. Sadly, his days of ear-splitting have come to and end, as Jim is said to now be focusing on personal training, being a father and most importantly, being a husband and boning Lita Ford…Jackpot!
A REAL HERO.
Posted on December 15, 2009 4 Comments
Position your television antennas correctly and adjust the tracking on your BETA player, because the new EP from Valerie’s main man, College, is making its way through high-frequency airwaves and into our living rooms.
College – A Real Hero
1. A Real Hero (starring Electric Youth)
2. Closer
3. Critical Mass
4. The Mirage Makers
5. Susan Waiting
AMBERVISION.
Posted on December 14, 2009 1 Comment
Essential for those late afternoon boat rides into the horizon.
QUEST YOUR HEART & MIND.
Posted on December 9, 2009 Leave a Comment
Oneohtrix Point Never – Zones Without People LP
Tracklisting:
01 Computer Vision
02 Format & Journey North
03 Zones Without People
04 Learning to Control Myself
05 Disconnecting Entirely
06 Emil Cioran
07 Hyperdawn
This winter, Uncle TNUC is guiding you on an icy trip to foreign lands of the future with the Oneohtrix Point Never album, Zones Without People. This release has been out for a few months now, and OPN have since put out a double-disc collection entitled Rifts, spanning the work of 3 essential albums from the OPN project. The reason why Zones Without People has been selected for spotlight now is because we feel it encompasses every thing you need to quest for in the coming cold months that lie ahead.
The name, Oneohtrix Point Never, is derived from the infamous Boston soft-rock radio station, Magic 106.7. Anyone who spent their childhood in the Boston area running errands with their mom in her station wagon is most likely familiar with this radio station. The man behind the curtain in OPN is Daniel Lopatin, who had this to say about the mysterious name of his project:“There’s a local soft rock station in Boston called Magic 106.7 so it was a play on that. One and Zero is of course computer binary code… tricks are about manipulation… point never is about infinity…so those are the elements.”
OPN’s sound has nothing to do with soft rock. I’ll let the blog comintoland.com take this one…“Zones Without People denies the 90ies, the Millennium and maybe even the 80ies. This one is pure esoteric and futuristic at the same time. Daniel Lopatin from Brooklyn offers you seven tracks of simple synth rhythms that leads you to a lost world where mankind and machines are living in harmony and peace. Its like watching the movie Tron where the mastermind is a good guy instead of being an asshole.
The second side feels colder and a bit confused, but the last track lets you imagine flying cars passing trough the hyperdawn and leaves no doubt that in near future everything is possible, like x-ray glasses or time traveling.
Zones Without People is the second LP of Oneohtrix Point Never after a few tapes, cdrs and his first longplayer Betrayed In The Octagon on Carlos Giffoni’s No Fun productions. Mastered by Pete Swanson and packed in beautiful artwork by Christelle Gualdi. Mike Pollard brings you this beauty in an edition of 450 copies on Arbor. Welcome to the new age!”
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