Despite the name, Rendezvous are an Israeli duo, Itai Simon and Hagai Izenberg, who will release debut album Another Round Please at the end of the month on Rough Trade. The songs could easily be confused with a bygone era of dance music, eschewing the David Guetta/Skrillex techniques that have [Read more]
Feb 062012
Jan 312012
Hailing from Liverpool, Ninetails have looked to Oxford for their sound. Taking the best of what Foals offer, the four-piece released debut EP Ghost Ride the Whip last October. The are readying their next EP, with the only confirmed track so far, ‘Rawdon Fever’, below to watch. There’s a classic [Read more]
Jan 252012
Sad Soul Circus is 19-year-old Cork-based producer Finn Yowell – add him to the list of amazing electronica artists that have emerged from the city over the past 18 months and that’s one mighty impressive list: REID, Toby Kaar, Replete and Bantum to name just a handful. Yowell was born [Read more]
Jan 232012
When you really like a band, eagerly awaiting new music from them, a sideproject can catch you unawares. As a huge Arctic Monkeys fan, I was initially disappointed to hear that singer Alex Turner was doing something called Last Shadow Puppets. It worked out – I love their album – [Read more]
Jan 042012
George Townsend & Adam Kaye, 17- and 18-year-old DJs and producers from Lancaster, England, are Bondax. There’s only a handful of original tracks in their arsenal so far, but did I mention that they’re only 17 and 18?!? ‘You’re So’ attracted me to the duo, with its subtle mix of [Read more]
Nov 072011
Professor Penguin call themselves a collective. They have a cast of six that rises to nine at times. And they take after another band with a completely daft name, Bombay Bicycle Club. BBC have defied what was expected of them around 2006 when they appeared on the landfill indie scene [Read more]
Oct 122011
You want more electronica made by Irish artists? Well, then look no further than Replete, AKA Peter Lawlor, born in Kilkenny and residing in Cork (which also houses Reid and Toby Kaar). He has a few tracks up on Soundcloud, my favourite of which is ‘Chill, Bro’, which does exactly [Read more]
Jul 182011
Hailing from Galway come The Debutantes. Thankfully, they have looked further west than the N17 and the Saw Doctors for their sound. Dreamy, sun-soaked fun flows throughout the three songs they have up on their minimal Breaking Tunes profile: “The Debutantes are an ever evolving recording and live project featuring [Read more]
Jul 072011
REID is Eoghan Reid, a 22-year-old producer from Cork who, only yesterday, released his debut EP for free download on Bandcamp. The Genesis EP clocks in at five songs and just under 18 minutes in length. And for every single second of every single track, nothing goes to waste and [Read more]
Jun 072011
Everybody agrees 2010 was a vintage year for Irish music. It’s unanimous. But 2011 is halfway through and so far there has only been a couple of bands who have made much of an impact on me so far: Retarded Cop, Hired Hands and Yeh Deadlies!, while I know Cashier [Read more]
