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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
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 Punk As Pussy 12" Lives on
First a couple of months ago reports of Bjork playing the our Dsico 12" in San Francisco and now we find out club
Friction hosted by Will Sergeant .. he of Echo & The Bunnymen features the track on his club playlist along with CAN, Beatles Sex Pistols etc.... |
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006
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The Campaign For Real Bread
We are the Toaster with the moster here at the 12.... We've now released upon an unsuspecting world Ollo's first 7" single The Campaign For Real Bread from their forthcoming album The If If
As you'll see below... we released something by Girl Talk a couple of years ago and now he's supporting Beck.
Expect Ollo at a Sigur Ross gig anytime soon(ish) |
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More Girl Talk Stuff
Now we find out he sold out the Mercury Lounge in New York last week and that he's supporting Beck at Shepherds Bush on 2 September
Good on yer GT keep it up |
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006
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World Catches Up With The Apostles
Over two years ago we released AP03 "Stop Cleveland Hate" 12" vinyl by the US's smartest and funniest masher upper.. his sound appealed to us at the time.... the reaction at the time was a deafening silence
Oh but how the world turns.. his latest CD has become a bit of a music media critics favourite..
We thought we'd reprint what Pitchfork wrote last week... and remember we do have a very ltd amount of the 12"s left... with court cases probably pending on his new release you can be sure that the only place to buy Girl Talk vinyl is here at the 12 apostles.
The Review
Girl Talk
Night Ripper
[Illegal Art; 2006]
Rating: 8.4
The element of surprise is gone from the mash-up. Hollertronix and 2 Many DJs mastered the technique, made it a staple of their sets, and next, everyone on the block was mix-matching hip-hop to electro and indie rock. The idea that two songs blender-ized can recombine to create something wholly new is thrilling in theory, but the execution is usually sloppy or samey, either simply aligning two similar beat structures or pairing up two completely disparate tracks for the slapstick novelty of a jokey title.
Pittsburgh native Greg Gillis (Girl Talk) absolutely detonates the notions of mash-up on his third album, the violently joyous Night Ripper. Rather than squeeze two songs that sorta make sense together into a small box, Gillis crams six or eight or 14 or 20 songs into frenetic rows, slicing fragments off 1980s pop, Dirty South rap, booty bass, and grunge, among countless other genres. Then he pieces together the voracious music fan's dream: a hulking hyper-mix designed to make you dance, wear out predictable ideas, and defy hopeless record-reviewing.
Night Ripper doesn't stretch the boundaries of mash-ups because there were no boundaries to begin with. As an illegal art form, it's surprising no one came along with an idea like this sooner. Still, it's doubtful they'd have the sturdy, meticulous hand that Gillis flaunts here. The record's pacing is astonishing-- with more than 150 sample sources (all thanked in the liner notes), it ricochets from Top 40 hits to obscure gems and back again like a cool breeze, clocking in at less than 42 minutes. The sampling is pure precision, slotting razor-thin (but highly recognizable) guitar stabs on top of blaring synths on top of anthemic rap couplets and so on, all at breakneck speed.
Part of the fun of listening is trying to figure out the source of each fragment used on these tracks. Familiar as they may be, you'll never place every sample. But at the risk of getting sucked into Gillis' name-game vortex, an example speaks to the power. "Smash Your Head" glides into the siren keyboards of Lil Wayne's "Fireman" less than a minute in, then abruptly shifts into the crushingly dense riffs of Nirvana's "Scentless Apprentice" while Young Jeezy spits the familiar flames of "Soul Survivor", before it all tumbles into a Pharcyde-Elton John-Biggie somersault. On "Minute by Minute", Gillis even slots Neutral Milk Hotel's "Holland, 1945" up next to Juelz Santana's "There It Go (The Whisper Song)". There are no ties, other than the miracle of chopping and looping.
Due to its overwhelming number of unlicensed sources, Night Ripper is practically begging for court drama. In the event of litigation, Gillis' label has armed themselves with a Fair Use argument, citing artists' rights to liberally sample in the creation of new works. Whether that'll hold any water in a courtroom remains to be seen, but for listeners it's an afterthought. Some may dock him points for lack of originality, but Gillis' schizophrenic attitude toward pop music is so novel it's impossible to stay mad at. Time will tell whether it's still fresh in 12 months, when the very recent samples (M.I.A., Gwen Stefani, Webbie) lose their chic appeal next to Smokey Robinson, the Pixies, and Public Enemy-- but for 2006, Night Ripper is the soundtrack of the summer.
-Sean Fennessey, July 17, 2006 |
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Monday, August 07, 2006
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Sink A Bite...
Our ltd edition 12" "Sink A Bite Into Life" remixed by Sydney's Dsico is going down a treat at the moment.
Disastronaut's latest chart dated 7 August he of Reading/V/Bestival/etc has placed it at no.1 two weeks in a row... phew
01. ROC "Sink a Bite Into Life" - Dsico remix [12 Apostles]
02. The Sunshine Underground - "Put You In Your Place" (Silent Pony
aka Dan Kahuna Remix) (City Rockers)
03. The Presets "Are You the One?" [Island]
04. Filth n Dirt - "i81u812" (Trevor Loveys & Joshua Harvey/Dave The
Hustler/Virgin Tears remixes) (Smoke n Mirrors)
05. The Boy Least Likely To - "Monsters" (Armand Van Helden remixes)
(Too Young To Die)
06. Crazy P - "Can't Get Down" (Ashley Beedle/Hot Toddy/Ron Basejam
mixes) (Shiva)
07. The Knife 'We Share Our Mothers Health' (Brille)
08. Buick Project and Extended mixes of The Shapeshifters - "If In
Doubt Go Out"(Positiva)
09. Alex Gopher "Motorcycle" (Kitsune)
10. Chris Lake feat. Laura V "Changes" Disaster Breaks Mix - [CDr]
Also the Punxsoundcheck guys (Marc Almond/Siobhan Fahey) say "it's a bomb, brilliant
and in the bag for me. More of this please".
And this is a first for us, daytime radio play on Spanish national radio ....Siglo 21, Rne3 RADIO NACIONAL DE ESPAŅA |
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The Campaign For Real Bread Is Here
As a taster (no pun intended) to the fortcoming album The If If by Sydney's mightiest duo Ollo the 12 have released a ltd edition 7" featuring their fantastic Campaign For Real Bread and the flip is a mightly dubbed version of Fun Boy 3's the Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum
Buy it now from great retailers like Rough Trade or order online from this site. |
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Re-Scheduled Mavs Show
The boys are playing The Medicine Bar, Old Street, Shoreditch London on Thursday
night (10th August) 9.30 is showtime, they hope to see you down there.
Their shows are great so don't miss if you happen to be in town. |
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