I’m REALLY sorry but it seems I may have tapped out my download cap for the month and I don’t quite know when it will tick over to the next month’s allocation of tasty tasty bandwidth. Until then I’m rather hamstrung in what I can post.
Our captain is similarly indisposed so please bear with us.
We’ll make it up to you. You can be sure of that.
Following on from the awkward fawning over Ladyhawke earlier, I’ve since managed to dig up from the vault a couple more Ladyhawke songs that I thought you might enjoy.
First up is Paris Is Burning. This is arguably the song most of us have come to know and love while it sat for so long on her myspace, almost as a herald of good times ahead.
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It just screams carefree summers spent in continental climes, of happy 60s films and summer dresses. Every bit the summer anthem. I love it.
Next up is Manipulating Woman. This is a more recent addition to her myspace page and what an addition it is too.
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Ladyhawke – Manipulating Woman
I could wax lyrically about how this sounds more modern and more immediate than Paris Is Burning, but that doesn’t matter quite as much as simply knowing that this is really quite good. Simple as that.
I remarked in another post that we’re starting to see the blogosphere mark their picks of “artists to watch in ’08″. Well, ladies and gentlemen, Ladyhawke is on my list of artists I’ll be watching this year.
Watching to see if she performs live the next time she’s in Wellington.
Watching to see if she busts out any new material.
Watching to see if she rekindles her collaboration with Pnau‘s Nick Littlemore in Teenager.
Expect greatness people. I know I do. On the basis of her work so far, how can you not?
It seems being on the other side of the world has its advantages after all. Upon hearing Culture Prophet would be handing out CDs at their NYE set in Spartanburg (I have no idea where this is other than somewhere in the US of A), an immediate if plaintive cry for help from down here in the deep dark bowels of the South Pacific saw a little treasure arrive in my inbox almost anon-like.
Ladies and gentlemen, Culture Prophet have just dropped their latest homegrown effort and it is rather good. The song is Here Comes Nasty.
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Culture Prophet – Here Comes Nasty.
You can taste hints of their earlier song Hustler, the familiar hand clap-thump refrain in their remixes of other people’s work, and the lashings of distortion we’ve come to know and love. I really quite like this. I really do.
I’ve been sitting on this for a few days now, not really sure what to do with it. Its a good song and I’m really enjoying it, so it wasn’t through damaged pride or disappointment. I guess I just didn’t want it to get lost in the thunderous torrent of fairly-banal end-of-year lists that have stricken the blogsophere in recent weeks.
With attention seeming to have since shifted to “artists to watch in ’08″-type posts and with so many of their remixes getting more and more attention on the blogosphere, I’d say the time is right for more of their own work to be given a chance to shine.
