This is so very indie, but I’ll be damned if this isn’t the perfect soundtrack for leaving summer behind and embracing the fall. Takka Takka really do sound like brown leaves and clear, cold skies.
Straight outta Brooklyn (the place to be from if you want to be hip nowadays) Takka Takka make for a moody minimalist’s version of Talking Heads or Yeasayer.
I am certainly no music journalist, so for your enlightment I’ll allow myself to quote Jon Pareles’ of the NY Times: “Despite some earthbound moments most of the music is rock as meditation, with orderly repetition trying to keep the deepest fears at bay.” I like that.
I’ll let you judge for yourself, as the band have – most generously – put three songs of theirs up for download. I like this band.
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The new album is coming along great. I am writing new material and trying to find out which way I want to go on this second release of mine. I have been very much into minimal and house lately and I am trying to find a hybrid between that stuff and the more melodic tunes that I like to do so much. A lot of my hours are spent in front of the computer.
I “accidentally” made a remix of one my new songs, and I thought that I’d share it with you guys. The tune is called “Nothing Comes To Those Who Wait”. The remix is somewhat dark and gloomy, but it’ll surely get you dancing, though. Hope you like it.
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I am really testing my webhost by uploading this. This is the full set I did for danish radio show Unga Bunga. Enjoy it.
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Agaric – Skin-Deep
The Cheapers – Fog
Extrawelt – NoButYeahButNo
Popof – My Toyz
Marascia, Dusty Kid – Plumbi
Style Of Eye – The Big Kazoo (Techno Dub)
Sascha Funke – Ey
Yankee Zulu – Prang Out
Yankee Zulu – Good For You (Worthy’s Bleeper Rise Remix)
Worthy – Les Tard
Remember to listen to Unga Bunga on P3 every friday between 1800-2100. Whuuuut!
I am currently working on a set for the danish radio show Unga Bunga hosted by Kjeld Tolstrup. If you want to hear the set, then turn on your radio and tune in on P3 (if you’re in denmark that is) between 18-21 this friday. Ta ta!
To follow up the post from yesterday, here’s the full set that James Braun and I played at Stengade 30 last friday. Hope you enjoy it.
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1. James Braun – Oi World This Is CPH
2. Veto – Unite (James Braun remix)
3. Supertroels – Special Is What Special Does
4. James Braun – The Shakers
5. Supertroels – Effort
6. Tomski * Fredboy – Cereal (James Braun remix)
7. Supertroels – Pieces
8. Supertroels – Gritty
9. James Braun – Spanish Fly
10. James Braun – Spanish Fly (postlude)
11. Suspekt- Sut den op fra slap (Supertroels remix)
12. James Braun – Pop Your Funk
Here’s some mighty fine video from the show that James Braun and myself did last friday. We couldn’t afford the full hollywood production so the video is a bit static at times but you catch the drift. Tracklist is:
1. Veto – Unite (James Braun remix)
2. Supertroels – Special Is What Special Does
3. James Braun – The Shakers
4. Supertroels – Effort
5. Tomski * Fredboy: Cereal (James Braun remix)
6. Supertroels – Pieces
7. Supertroels – Gritty
8. James Braun – Spanish Fly
9. James Braun – Spanish Fly (postlude)
10. Suspekt- Sut den op fra slap (Supertroels remix)
11. James Braun – Pop Your Funk
I heard this on the news some time ago. A danish woman supposedly helped smuggle 100.000 ecstasy pills from the Netherlands to the US, and now she’s being extradited to the US for prosecution. The trial for her fate is on today. I don’t know how the hell things have come to this. Or rather, I do know; irrational fear and overreaction.
After the twin towers fell in 2001 a lot of governments, including our own, decided (more or less without the peoples consent) that they needed specific legislation to target the growing threat of terror. The new laws gave the police, special units and courts better tools to apprehend and prosecute people who were “combatants” in “the war on terror”. Things like habeas corpus, the right to be put before a judge within 24 hours and the right to know what crime your charged with was suddenly not a given anymore.
The US congress passed a lot of new laws in 2001 that essentially removed all civil rights and made everyone an enemy combatant. With the highly criticized Patriot Act of 2001 – passed Congress on october 24th with a 357 votes against 66, and the Senate next day with a landslide vote of 98 against 1 – the government had essentially given itself the jurisdiction to arrest and charge any citizen of the entire world. Unlimited legislating power to convict any civilian in an american military court.
When you are a danish citizen, you expect the government to look after you, right? Even though you commit a crime, you expect a certain degree of public security. As things are right now, you can’t expect anything. When the danish government has no hesitation to extradite their own citizens to a country that is well known for it’s very hard line on crime and – not to forget – use of capital punishment(!) things aren’t looking to good for your basic human rights. I don’t think the danish woman that participated in the smuggling of 100.000 ecstasy pills, if proven guilty, deserves a mild sentence, but she deserves to be charged in the country she has citizenship in. The danish government should be ashamed of themselves for trying to extradite someone using the anti-terror laws, when it has absolutely nothing to do with that.
Had it been a country like Thailand, that had asked the government to give up the woman for prosecution, there would be no way in hell they would do that. When it’s the US that demands a danish citizen, it barely hits the media.
