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• Bryan Ferry Drafts Flea Johnny Marr and More for StarStudded New Album
  Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry is having himself a nice comeback year in 2014, returning to prominence with his excellent guest appearance on house producer Todd Terje's



• Australian anthems Icehouse  Great Southern Land
  No one had attempted to evoke the Australian landscape with synthesisers until Icehouse came up with this shimmering 1982 classicMany great Australian songs couldn't sound more different to the circumstances in which they were dreamed up and none more so than Icehouse's 1982 classic Great Southern Land. While the song evokes the vast emptiness of the nation's countryside, it was written and recorded in frontman Iva Davies's living room in the inner Sydney suburb of Leichhardt, right under the airport flightpath. Davies frequently had to stop the tape as the roar of the engines made the house's foundations rattle.Orginally named Flowers, the band started life in Sydney in the late '70s. They played the beer-barn circuit during the punk era, developing a style that was part-Roxy Music, part Ziggy-era Bowie. In 1980 they signed to Regular Records, soon changing their name to Icehouse (after their debut album) to avoid confusion with a Scottish band at the time called the Flowers. Anyone will tell you its a prisoner island,Hidden in the summer for a million yearsSo you listen to the land,It will tell you storyA story of a journey ended long ago Theyre gonna betray you,Theyre gonna forget you,Are you gonna let them take you over that way? Continue reading...



• Buraka Som Sistema is returning Portuguese dance music to the US
  Buraka Som Sistema are on the forefront of providing high paced performances featuring their own style of kuduro, an Angolan take on DANCE MUSIC EARMILK had the opportunity to catch up with them as they kick off their final US Tour tomorrow (4/7) in Los Angeles at the Roxy Theater.  I have to ask, since the [] The post Buraka Som Sistema is returning Portuguese DANCE MUSIC to the U.S. appeared first on EARMILK.



• Brian Eno and Karl Hyde make album
  The Underworld singer felt like he was 'nine years old again' working with Eno on Someday World, which features guests from Coldplay and Roxy MusicBrian Eno and Underworld's Karl Hyde are to release an album together, entitled Someday World. The two MUSIC ans previously collaborated on the track Beebop Hurry for the compilation album Athens, but this is the first time they've completed a full LP together."I had a big collection of beginnings sitting around waiting for something to galvanise them into life, to make them more than just experiments," said Eno, "That something turned out to be Karl Hyde."Someday World features nine songs and a plethora of guest names, including Coldplay's drummer Will Champion, Roxy Music's Andy Mackay and south London soul singer Don-E. Both Eno and Hyde will contribute vocals to their compositions.The Underworld man enthused about the pair's working methods: "It's a bit like being nine years old again. You have no idea what you've just been given, the record button has been pressed, and you're on. And then these unlikely patterns start to happen. The biggest surprise was discovering we both had a love of Afrobeat – cyclical MUSIC based in live playing. When Brian played me these early tracks, it was, 'Oh my God, this is home! Can I borrow a guitar?'"Someday World is due for release in May on Warp Records.Brian EnoUnderworldElectronic MUSIC op



• Brian Eno and Johnny Marr urge fans to vote Remain
  In a letter, Eno has highlighted the vested interests of campaigners who want Britain to exit the EU, while Johnny Marr has decried the ‘Nazi tactics’ of UKIPBrian Eno is the latest pop MUSIC an to caution against voting Brexit. In a Facebook post the composer, producer and former Roxy Music member has said that the European Union has, on balance, been a “net force for good”. Eno joins Bob Geldof, Jessie Ware, Johnny Marr and Alex Kapranos in favouring Britain remaining in the EU. Continue reading...



• Echos to Descend On Los Angeles For Roxy Theatre Show On Dec 3rd
  This Portland Oregon duo known as Echos have been creeping up on the DANCE MUSIC scene with their highly chill, highly AMBIENT indie sounds that you could pick out of a lineup. Their latest EP isnt the only appealing project they are on top of right now, which is self-titled and gives a perfect glipse [] The post Echos to Descend On Los Angeles For Roxy Theatre Show On Dec. 3rd appeared first on RaverRafting | We Are The Scene.



• Giorgio Moroder – 10 of the best
  From inventing Eurodisco and hi-NRG with Donna Summer to Oscar-winning ELECTRO ic soundtracks and a glorious conversation with Daft PunkGiovanni Giorgio Moroder’s dream of rock stardom in the conventional sense was never truly realised, but once the schlager-meister inadvertently discovered the Moog, he was on the road to immortality as one of pop’s most important innovators. The Italian’s MUSIC l career began 49 years ago in Berlin, and he scored a moderate hit with Looky Looky three years later in 1969, and then another with Son of My Father in 1971. Chicory Tip recorded the latter song in 1972, which went to No 1 in the UK charts, becoming the first hit record with a prominent synth (played by Roxy Music producer Chris Thomas). Continue reading...



• Bees Knees drops official remix for Miami Horrors Love Like Mine
  Miami Horror has been one of our longtime go-to's when we're fiending those feel-good disco vibes. Hot off the heels of a packed show at LA's historic Roxy Theatre, their "Love Like Mine" record has been given an uplifting DANCE flip with the release of the track's remix EP. Ready to be...



• Gregor Tresher – Live Roxy Prague – 16092016
  Gregor Tresher Live @ Roxy (Prague) 16-09-2016 Download: Uploaded, Oboom, Zippyshare Unlimited Download: Buy Premium The post Gregor Tresher Live @ Roxy (Prague) 16-09-2016 appeared first on Mixing.DJ - Electronic Music Magazine.



• Roxy Music 10 of the best
  There are two Roxy Musics – and our 10 deals only with the first, those abrasive MUSIC l insurgents, not the smooth balladeers of later yearsAs mission statements go, the very first Roxy Music song on their self-titled debut album couldn’t be any more effusive or less idiosyncratic. Not since the Jimi Hendrix Experience had any one band sounded this good playing over one another in an almost competitive manner, though the glaring difference was that Hendrix’s trio were virtuosos to a man. Aside from steady rhythm powerhouse Paul Thompson, it’s fair to say the Roxy of 1972 were MUSIC ans finding their way, and Brian Eno on the VCS3 synth notoriously couldn’t really play a note (he still can’t, not that that’s hurt his career any). The gloriously egalitarian nature of pop means ability can come in a variety of different guises, and County Durham’s Bryan Ferry, with his trembling voice, turned apparent shortcomings into strengths. He also approached the serious art of songwriting with a dadaist playfulness, in opposition to the prevailing trend in the early 70s of earnest confessional singer/songwriters. Bryan also had a lovely head of hair, and still does. Re-make/Re-model is a relentless, pulverising, sonic car crash of a song, and one of the cars in the pile up bears the number plate “CPL 593H” (sung repeatedly as the song’s only chorus), apparently driven by a beautiful woman Ferry noticed in the rear-view mirror on the way to the studio. The outro features a post-modernist smash and grab, the band chopping up bits of Richard Wagner, Duane Eddy and the Beatles and mixing them all together in their own irreverent MUSIC l



• THE BIG GIG JON HOPKINS
  THE BIG GIG: JON HOPKINSSaturday 22nd February, London ForumIssue:530After collaborations with some of the biggest names in pop and a constantly moving MUSIC l direction, comparisons between Jon Hopkins and Brian Eno are difficult to refute. Both started out playing keys for a pop act (Imogen Heap and Roxy Music respectively) before going on manipulate the boards for film syncs and art installations in some of the most innovative ways in MUSIC Where the younger protégé Hopkins (he even contributed to an LP by Eno) differs to his AMBIENT guru,



• Tickets To The Roxy with BriskinTheHouse
  Toronto ARTIST and all around creative BriskinTheHouse released his latest mixtape titled Tickets to the Roxy. This laid back album promotes knowledge of self which is a theme that is very true to Brisk. Understanding ones self and your heritage is a subject that is rarely touched upon in todays...



• AM Only Brings Back A Positive Spin This December
  Last year, AM Only revealed their very first A Positive Spin benefit concert for Inner City Arts at The Roxy in Los Angeles. The magical night of MUSIC memories, and melodic fun raised about $10,000 to provide arts education in the heart of Skid Row to the next generation of thinkers, doers, and creators. This [] The post AM Only Brings Back A Positive Spin This December appeared first on thissongslaps.com - Electronic Dance Music Hip-Hop Media.



• NEW HOTSPOT ALERT The Oyster Bar at the Roxy Hotel
  Perfectly paired with a show at The DJango Room. The post NEW HOTSPOT ALERT: The Oyster Bar at the Roxy Hotel appeared first on BlackBook.



• Hot Chips Guardian edit
  What happens when you give one of Britain’s best-loved pop bands the freedom to commission their own content? An interview with David Byrne, gaming with Peter Serafinowizc and nerding out over synths…Ever since they bounded onto the scene singing about toy monkeys and miniature cymbals, Hot Chip have stuck out as DANCE pop’s odd guys. They wear funny outfits, their singer sounds sombre, and they distil influences like Roxy Music and Prince, Arthur Russell and Madonna with a nerdy zeal. Ten years later, they’ve carved a distinctively eccentric sound, taking in four-to-the-floor house, silky RB and golden-era disco – and the canny ability to write songs that go straight for the emotional jugular and make you want to get on one on a mid-week night. Continue reading...



• Don Letts webchat – post your questions now
  Whether it’s punk rock or reggae, Don Letts has lived his life through music ... and has the film footage to prove it. He’ll be in the Guardian office on Tuesday 1 August from 3pm UK time to answer all your questions 1.50pm BST Nobody could dispute Don Letts’ punk credentials. He’s made videos for Public Image Ltd and the Clash, managed the Slits, DJ’d at London’s Roxy Club and played in Big Audio Dynamite with Mick Jones. It was Letts who put together The Punk Rock Movie in 1978 from his own Super 8 footage of the burgeoning scene, and Letts who returned to the story in 2000 for the Grammy-winning The Clash: Westway to the World. But that’s just one side of his character. The Londoner has been involved in fashion and films, and currently DJs across the world. He also hosts Don Letts’ Culture Clash radio on BBC 6 Music, and has partnered with the restaurant chain Turtle Bay for The 45 Podcast, which aims to deliver reggae’s underground sounds to diners. Continue reading...



• Is dubstep with 2step beat allowed here
  Hey, I am asking this because recently my post about Wookie - Stargate got removed. Interestingly Roxy El-B - Cuba posted at the same time didn't get removed. So I am just asking, obviously I don't want to post tunes that aren't supposed to be posted here. submitted by nikoma [link] [11 comments]



• Brian Eno reissues review – back to the future with his most beautiful music Alexis Petridis album of the week
  After leaving Roxy Music, Eno created solo albums – Here Come the Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Before and After Science and Another Green World – presaging everything from post-punk to My Bloody ValentineGlam rock made stars of some unlikely people. From Sparks’ Hitler-moustachioed Ron Mael to Slade guitarist Dave Hill, it was an era packed with people who, at any other point in rock history, might have struggled to get any further than a record company’s reception area.Among their number was Brian Eno. It wasn’t that he didn’t look the part – a man who can carry off blue eyeshadow, a diamante choker and a black cockerel-feather collar in broad daylight is clearly possessed of a je ne sais quoi that’s handy in the world of entertainment. It was more that no one seemed able to say what he actually did, including Eno himself: in interviews he would describe himself as “a non-musician”, and his role in Roxy Music as vaguely involving “treating” the other band members’ instruments with a synthesiser and “talking about the ideas behind the music”. Continue reading...



• Brian Eno and Karl Hyde Someday World exclusive album stream
  Coldplay's Will Champion and Roxy Music's Andy Mackay are just two guests on the new collaboration between Brian Eno and Karl Hyde of Underworld. Listen to the playlist and let us know your thoughtsSomeday world is not the first time Brian Eno has collaborated with Underworld's Karl Hyde, but it's by some distance the biggest project they've worked on. Their first album together features nine songs, composed and sung by the two musicians, although it's fair to say they've had a little of help from their friends. Indeed, the list of guest musicians is impressive: from Coldplay's Will Champion and Roxy Music's Andy Mackay to newer names such as 22 year old Fred Gibson, who helped produce the record with Eno. Continue reading...



• Hot Chip Why Make Sense review – growing maturity and insight on excellent sixth album
  (Domino)Not many current acts will make it toasixth album, but Hot Chip’s latest reflects their growing maturity and comprehensive knowledge of dance music. They nod to Kraftwerk, Orbital, funky 80s pop and the golden age ofdisco, while Roxy Music-like dancefloor ennui nestles comfortably againstamasterful juggling of ecstasy and melancholy that recalls peak-era NewOrder. De La Soul’s Pos even drops in toadd a rap to Love Is the Future, without ever compromising the band’s distinctive sound. The ace, though, liesin their sharp songwriting: the likesof Dark Night and Easy Bet are superb pop constructions; White Wine and Fried Chicken comes from the same sphere as Prince’s Starfish and Coffee. There are subtly insightful lyrics from Alexis Taylor, who is becoming a beautifully understated vocalist. “Why make sense, when the world around refuses? Whybe tough, when strength is just forlosers?” hesings on the killer title track. It’s another classy effort from an increasingly great band. Continue reading...



• Gwilym Gold Muscle video premiere
  Directed by White Cube's Eddie Peake and featuring dance artist Fernanda Munoz-Newsom, take a look at the innovative singer's new video Read more about Eddie Peake here Gwilym the album that will never sound the same way twiceHe may have started life dressed as the gold suited frontman of the Roxy Music-aping indie band Golden Silvers, but you can't knock Gwilym Gold's recent endeavours for their lack of innovation.His solo album, Bronze, was delivered in the form of a groundbreaking app, a high-concept debut that played a different version of his tracks with each press of play, so that you never heard the same song twice. It was the kind of experimentation that, had it been released by Radiohead or Bjork, would've scooped up every prize under the sun; Baftas, Brits, Oscars, Pulitzers, NME Awards, the lot of them (You can read more about that project here). Continue reading...



• Brian Eno and Karl Hyde Someday World exclusive album stream
  Coldplay's Will Champion and Roxy Music's Andy Mackay are just two guests on the new collaboration between Brian Eno and Karl Hyde of Underworld. Listen to the playlist and let us know your thoughtsSomeday world is not the first time Brian Eno has collaborated with Underworld's Karl Hyde, but it's by some distance the biggest project they've worked on. Their first album together features nine songs, composed and sung by the two musicians, although it's fair to say they've had a little of help from their friends. Indeed, the list of guest musicians is impressive: from Coldplay's Will Champion and Roxy Music's Andy Mackay to newer names such as 22 year old Fred Gibson, who helped produce the record with Eno. Continue reading...



• DJ Roxy June – The Late Night Sessions 005 – 27042014
  // The post DJ Roxy June The Late Night Sessions 005 27-04-2014 appeared first on Mixing.DJ - Electronic Music Magazine with the Best Live Sets DJ Mixes .



• Man falls 17 feet through the ceiling at DJ Snake show in Orlando
  Dancing Astronaut - house, electro, progressive, dubstep At a DJ Snake show in Orlando, Florida a man fell seventeen feet as he attempted to crawl through the drop ceiling at Roxy night club. According to Click Orlando, emergency crews were called just after 1:30 am when initial reports came in calling the incident a "roof collapse." Upon arrival firefighters found the roof intact with a large hole in the drop ceiling inside. Man falls 17 feet through the ceiling at DJ Snake show in Orlando was posted by Andrew Spada, and appeared first on Dancing Astronaut.



• A Man Fell Through The Roof at a DJ Snake Show Last Night
  The twittersphere was a blaze last night after the DJ Snake show at the Roxy was canceled early, apparently due to a fan falling from the ceiling at the venue. Leave it to the...The post A Man Fell Through The Roof at a DJ Snake Show Last Night appeared first on Trap Music Blog - Run The Trap: The Best Hip Hop, EDM Club.



• Brian Eno calls for rethink about meaning and value of culture
  Delivering BBC’s John Peel lecture, musician says role of culture goes beyond economic value, keeping us ‘in sync’ with a fast-changing worldThe musician and producer Brian Eno has called for a rethink of culture due to “complete confusion” around the subject.The former Roxy Music star said arts and culture were worth pursuing for reasons that were not just economic and should play a central role in people’s lives in a world of rapid change. Continue reading...



• Jacob Young Forever Young review polished grooves
  (ECM)Guitarist Jacob Young is once again partnered by his closely attuned old friend, the delicate saxophonist TrygveSeim but following a meeting with Marcin Wasilewski at the 2012 Oslo jazz festival, that relationship blooms in fertile new ground laid by Polish pianist Wasilewski's brilliant trio. Young often plays quietly and obliquely (not only is he Norwegian, but those masters of guitar meditation Jim Hall and John Abercrombie taught him), but he likes grooves and this fine set has plenty. There's a Brazilian feel infusing the tranquil I Lost My Heart To You, and the silky Therese, while the steadily strummed, horn-purring Bounce is a louche swinger that sounds like a Roxy Music song And the smoky, late-clinch sway of We Were Dancing contrasts with the supple 7/4 that underpins the playful Time Changes. The combination of Young's acoustic sound with the vapour trails of Seim's gently pungent improvisations, or his rounded electric tone against Wasilewski's probing piano figures, make this a set full of undemonstrative surprises and contrasts, and the quality of the composing matches the formidable powers of the band. Continue reading...



• Breakbot announces US tour dates
  Breakbot just announced three US tour stops to accompany a series of weekend Coachella performances.The tour kicks off Thursday 13th April in Phoenix at the Crescent Ballroom.Following their Coachella set on Saturday 15th, Breakbot head to Los Angeles’ Roxy and San Francisco’s Mezzanine before a return trip to Indio Valley for round two at the famous LA festival.Ed Banger boss Busy P will be joining Breakbot at the Roxy on 18th of April. No details on support for the other club dates.  Breakbot returns to the East Coast of the United States for a scheduled Panorama Festival appearance in late-July at New York City's Randall's Island Park. Check out a behind the scenes videos from Breakbot below. Media: Screen Shot 2017-04-12 at 15.42.19.pngBreakbotBusy PEd BangerCoachellaPhoenix, Los Angeles, and San Francisco round out quick US jaunt...Navigation Section:NewsClubsSection Priority:Priority 1



• Lloyd Cole ‘Quite a number of fans have been completely bemused’
  The Commotions’ former frontman on swapping his guitar for a synthesiser, living in the US and being an indie darlingThe literature-loving singer-songwriter and 80s indie heartthrob is releasing his second album of instrumental compositions on a modular synthesiser in three years. When did your love of electronic music begin?When I was a 12-year-old boy. Almost everything in my musical education came from T Rex, David Bowie or Roxy Music, and from Roxy, of course, came Brian Eno. I got a copy of Fripp Eno’s (No Pussyfooting) in 1973 – the sleeve was very attractive – and that was it, really. It’s an incredibly spare record. I don’t think there are any chord changes on it, just drones and harmonic scales. I didn’t really think about trying to understand it; I just liked the sound of it, in the same way that I liked the feel of the rhythm section in T Rex. Continue reading...



• Brian Eno refuses to let Israeli dance company use his music
  Composer, who backs boycott of Israeli government, says Batsheva cannot use his music at embassy-sponsored event The composer and producer Brian Eno has denied permission for one of Israel’s most critically acclaimed dance companies to continue using his music for a series of performances in Italy after he discovered that the Israeli embassy was sponsoring the event.Eno, 68, who started his career with Roxy Music but has latterly become known for his ambient music compositions, said he had not been aware his music was being used in a piece by the Batsheva dance company. Continue reading...