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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
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 Campaign For Real Bread - The Video
The video is now up on You Tube
If you wish to view it .. have a look here
Features fantastic good looking Ollo types, great cycling and letters made from bread.
What more could you ask from a video |
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Sunday, September 10, 2006
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Australia's Leading Underground Music Publication "Cyclic Defrost" Reviews Advance Copy Of Ollo's "If If"
In an advance review of the forthcoming album by Ollo on 12 Apostles The If If Cyclic defrost write:
Things have changed since Ollo released their first album four years ago. Jobs have been applied for (and got), houses moved, record labels replaced, and the musical zeitgeist has kept up its relentless circuit. The palindromically titled pair – Alex Crowfoot generally makes the music, Lars Chresta does most of the DJing, both are contributors to this magazine – have finally released a follow up. Their debut, Sleeper, was a shifting instrumental soundscape generally influenced by producers like Matthew Herbert. But as they say, things change. Two years ago, they recorded a cover of Fun Boy Three’s The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum) with Alex singing. It was the first suggestion Ollo would (or could) make a leap sideways, and up, to pop, albeit off-kilter pop.
The positive reaction to that song encouraged Alex to step out into the anti-gravity of writing his own songs, and singing them. His vulnerability is there in every lyric on this new album, in the restraint of his delivery, mouth right up near the microphone, his whispering voice spread across the speaker output. That’s how the album starts, with the awkward insights of Trouble Is: “I really should eat more bananas and get more exercise / fend off this downward spiral.” That vignette leads into Shaky Flaky, a tough drum break and organ-led Krautrock groove touched by Alex’s relationship with Sydney band Tooth. A minute or two in and Alex starts singing, “Wakey wakey / hands off snakey,” sounding just like Jarvis Cocker singing over a Barry Adamson number. The If If is an ambitious album. But at almost an hour, including hidden tracks, the album focusses on Ollo’s intimate and affecting songs, rather than the guests, making Alex’s decision to bare his soul more sound investment than risky gamble. |
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Ollo's Campaign For Real Bread "hip jerking exotica" Says the Sunday Experience
The Full Review......
OLLO Campaign for real bread (12 Apostles). There have too numerous to mention reasons for us to feel a tad disappointed with ourselves this year in terms of records that to date we still havent had a chance to write up about, perhaps if not topping that list being pretty damn close would be this labels last outing - the third full length from ROC - so good (and arguably one of the releases of the year) that wed frankly had so much fun with wed forgotten to review the blighter. Still theres no mistaking well be making the same inexcusable oversight with this baby the latest offering from Sydneys OLLO. Campaign for Real Bread is a taster it seems for their forthcoming (and long overdue) full length The If If which all things being well is tentatively scheduled for Autumn release and based on the evidence provided within should prove something of a corker. A fit to burst display of amorphous aural adventure that blends a head expanding luxuriant recipe of beats, arabesque accents, dusty noire-ish landscapes, spongy funk informed electronica, dub and down tempo elements into an ever evolving brew that ultimately mushrooms splendidly into a sweaty and heaving carnival of hip jerking exotica thats almost impossible to leave alone. Flip the disc for a kooky recalibration of the Fun Boy 3 forgotten classic the lunatics have taken over the asylum here dressed with a deeply seductive dub-tronic re-drill and a veritable after hours demeanour, take special note of the cleverly factored dippily haddled delivery of the lunatics contrasting superbly with the calmly collected lead vocal. Now all we need is a suitably re-trod update of Hall and Cos other lost 80s gem the telephone always rings and Ill be like a kid in his own sandpit replete with sweets and comic shop. Classy stuff. Initial copies come adorned with a two badge set which apart from looking well snazzy will ensure much envy among your friends and peers alike. www.12-apostles.com
http://blog.myspace.com/thesundayexperience |
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Roc's Journey To Brixton 12" on 12 Apostles gets Airplay In Germany
Popscene With Jalal in Germany has featured 12 Apostles release "Journey To the Centre of Brixton" in his latest playlist
POPSCENE PLAYLIST 09.09.2006
SANTANA Head Hands & Feet [Drum Solo]
STAR Violence Against Star
SARANDON Angela
RACE Find Out
BEARS Never Have To Guess
DATSUNS Epmeror's New Clothes
FIONN REGAN Be Good Or Be Gone
FIONN REGAN Black Water Child
DEEP CUT As Long As The Sun Shines
MARS VOLTA Automatic Instant
SAILPLANES Underwound
BIG SANDY & HIS FLY-RITE BOYS Slippin' Away
PAPERLUNG The Days That God Sold You
BOO RADLEYS Does This Hurt?
HOT PUPPIES Green Eye Liner
MOGWAI Summer [7" Version]
ROC Journey To The Center Of Brixton
DAMER Supersiren
WEBSITE : www.popscenewithjalal.com
MYSPACE www.myspace.com/popscenewithjalal |
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Friday, September 01, 2006
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How Much GirlTalk Can We Take!
Now he's been given a Pitchfork feature and he's extended his N.American tour.... 3 cheers for biochemistry |
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