MAJORMINOR 2 - Hallow's Eve Spooktacular

Hi friends! Hope you've been well. Hope you're working up a healthy tan. Spring is upon us and the beach is deeply tempting.

IN THE PAST....

Speaking of the beach, thanks to everyone who came down to our CALIFORNIA DREAMIN event a month ago. It was a thoroughly diggable affair featuring the talents of RABBIT ISLAND, GILBERT FAWN, BERMUDA and SONNY ROOFS.

Ash, who does killer graphic design as The Design Threat and also plays a mean guitar in Bermuda, did this sweet flyer for the show:


Which was circulated as a faux-postcard. Not much use to you now in terms of information, but this glorious image of guerilla local music promotion at work recently came to light and I thought I'd share:


Ha! Talk of Ash's design talents segues nicely into the next big Indigo Children venture - and I can't belive it's been a year (well, almost) already.... fast approaching is the second annual MAJORMINOR FESTIVAL.

IN THE FUTURE...

This year it's a Hallow's Eve (not quite Halloween) SPOOKTACULAR, on OCTOBER 30 - featuring these killer bands from 4pm:

• Smrts
• Astral Travel
• The Wednesday Society
• The Tigers
• Diger Rockwell Band
• Bermuda
• Naik
• Injured Ninja vs Mathas
• Seams (performing their 'Abominable Dr Phibes' soundtrack)

and these hellishly good deejays from 1pm:

•Erasers DJs
• Agent 85
• Maxy Bills
• Nick Sweepah
• The Voice Of P.C.J.
• Andrew Sinclair


Andrew Sinclair also co-curated this creepy jive of a festival, as did Andrew Ryan.

What's this got to do with Ash's design? Well, he did up THIS cracking poster:


Which is meant to flash all freaky-like, but my technological nouse probably fails. In any case. Rad. More to come.

LOTSA <3

-IC

HAPPY 1ST OF AUGUST

So I've been REALLY slack lately! So here's a few different things for ye...



Random mp3:

5. Seekae - Void
From The Sound of Trees Falling On People



Man I love this track. Warning, highly addictive. I saw these guys supporting Pivot (or PVT as they're now called) a while back and was seriously impressed... an alluring fusion of hip-hop, ambient electronica and groovy smooth guitar rock.



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A COUPLE OF ARTY DELECTABLES

Daliscious!

kablam

RANDOM MP3 OF THE WEEK

4. Karen Dalton - How Did The Feeling Feel To You

From It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best

Was thinking this evening about singer-songwriters. The name of Karen Dalton popped into my head; I hadn't listened to her for ages and had one of those "...oh yeah!" moments.

Wondrous singer/banjo player with ties to the Greenwich Village folk scene and a voice huskier than an actual husk. It's certainly likely to be a 'love or hate' type voice. In any case, this is the first tune of hers I heard and I love its lilting, winding sound. Its mood seems half pensive, as if flowing with ease from a candlelit room in the wee hours of the morning; and half resigned to a certain melancholy. Intricate arrangement paired with her idiosyncratic distant croon, and excellent lyrics.

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RANDOM MP3 OF THE WEEK

3. The Creators - Kronkite

So I went and saw the Banksy Movie last night and maybe twenty minutes in, after a focus on figures such as Space Invader and Obey, the famed Bristol street artist is introduced. When his name and a series of his iconic rats appear on screen, my jaw drops, I turn to my friend sitting beside me, and see that he's equally blown away. It has nothing to do with Banksy's name or his stencils. It's the preposterously hot beat that's accompanying these images. 

Holy shit, we both agreed, this is one of the phattest hip hop beats we've ever heard. Yes we used the term 'phat.' It gave us no choice.

I forgot to check what the track was during the credits, by aforementioned pal hunted it down. It's by the Creators and the version in the soundtrack was instrumental, but this one features lyrical additions from Phil Da Agony. Phil's contribution is a tad lacklustre in my opinion, so it might be worth hunting down the instrumental version too. But for now, here you go. Not-so-random MP3 of the week, resplendent with an addictive harpsichord loop. Fuck yeah.

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Brandi Strickland

Loving the collage/illustration styles of North Carolina resident Brandi Strickland. Yeah, this blog is meant to focus on Perth artists/musicians/events/adventures, but I'm sure no-one will be offended by this little slice of colour-rich, finely textured, magickal goodness, even if it does come from the US of A.

And if they are... oh well.

^ Rather 'Dark Side,' innit? Comes from the totally neat DARK CRYSTAL series. And yes, I did stumble across it whilst searching for pictures of the utterly terrifying-looking (I've still never seen it) Jim Henson film of the same name.

RANDOM MP3 OF THE WEEK

2. Best Coast - Far Away

From Far Away 7"

This tune's been drifting about the internettles since early May so if you dig on Bethany Consentino's fuzzy, coastal-sounding pop duo, you've probably already nabbed it. However I thought I'd revisit the track in light of the Best Coast album being visible on the horizon. Here's the cover:

Exciting stuff! 

So while you wait for this cat-adorned LP to enter the world, you can download Indigo Children's Random Mp3 of the Week.