Archive for June 2008
Holy F**k!
June 6, 2008, 1:02 pmA friend sent me a link to an entry for Radiohead’s remix contest - they guy turned a bunch of old computer equipment into instruments, like a scanner doing bass, and old harddrives acting as terrible speakers. The results were unique and kind of catchy, if you like strange, found electronic music.
What caught my eye is that one of the remix entries on the official site is by Toronto pseuper-group, Holy Fuck. I saw them open at Richard’s on Richards and they are a sight to behold. Drums, bass guitar, and tables filled with random electronics, which are plugged into other electronics, and not a single laptop to be seen. They find old Casio keyboards and wah-wah pedals and fuzz boxes, wire them up, and play them manually. The result is the most organic electronic music you’ll ever hear.
Now, granted, they wear their artistic credibility on their sleeves (you don’t pick Holy Fuck as a band name if you’re looking for typical fame and fortune in the music world), but that’s ok - they’ve got a good thing going, letting various musicians from other bands cycle in and out, sometimes for a single show, just to see what happens - the beep-boop version of a Grateful Dead jam session.
Thanks to a plug-in for Firefox making it impossible to play their entry on the official website, I’m going to have to embed it here - which is fine, I would have done that anyhow, but it means that I’m listening to this for the first time here. I have no feedback to write in this space.
So, fingers crossed that they don’t suck…
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