Hey all – the Copenhagen X Sessions is back in full effect with a fantastic double feature of the Specters and White Pony. Who do you love more?
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Hey – The good mr. Andreas Møller just diverted my attention to this article on coolhunting.com. Very cool.
Quote Coolhunting: “For the release of Matthew Dear’s latest album, Black City, his label decided to take a slightly more inventive approach to packaging. Teaming up with award-winning design firm Boym, Ghostly International will release an ominous-looking totem, inscribed with a unique four-character code that accesses a download and stream of the full digital album, as well as an exclusive track.
The Black City mini-sculptures, described as “skyscrapers that might populate Dear’s creeping, nameless city,” references the Boym Buildings of Disaster, a series that darkly riffs on the object-history of architecture. Known for their clever takes on everyday objects, by leaving the surface of the hand-cast aluminum totem almost completely blank, the designers leave the real meaning up to its owner.”
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Just revisited this clip. This is a video for an Unkle track called Heaven. Great track… but even more spectacular are the visuals, which are taken from a skate video called Fully Flared, which is directed by Spike Jonze (of course). Just crank up the volume, lean back, watch and dream away. Makes me wish I still skated… but alas…I got all the equipment and no skills left. One of my colleagues revisited the old passion on his stag party… and broke his arm. Getting old.
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While we wait for more X Sessions. They will return next week. I’ll share this artist which I just discovered. Marnie Stern… an American Indie Metal artist. Sounds like a contradiction. Yes! Is it? Well yes. It sounds like Arcade Fire meets Iron Maidon. Pretty? If you like Arcade Fire and Iron Maiden – you should love it. Otherwise, check out this video before you hit up iTunes.
Enjoy.
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Just saw this. Damn that’s a lot of work, but it looks excellent. blublu.org are graphic artists. Never heard of them before, but will surely check back. Thanks to Lachlan Williams for the heads up.
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So it’s all over now and all that is left is echoes of the music in the form of static hiss in the ears. Great festival. Not the best program, but very good concerts from Alice In Chains, Them Crooked Vultures (perhaps the best of the festival), Möterhead, Kasabian, Beachhouse, LCD Soundsystem (from a-very-far – now that’s a lot of people in a small tent) and Kissaway Trail (Our very own X Sessioneers). Much to my regret, I missed Robyn, Die Antwoord and Dirty Projectors, because of conflicting concerts. National were excellent. Pavement were decent. Titus Andronicus was a bit of a dissapointment… Prince was ridiculous – he actually wore a jumpsuit – Elvis style and with a picture of Elvis on it. No song played in at under 15 minutes, with at least 4 solo’s, gospel choir call and response… in every fucking song. But that boy can play – gotta give him that.
I kind of missed more digital stuff this year – maybe a bit of programming and maybe I was just in a rocky mood. I also missed a big metal name. Meshuggah and The Kandidate were OK.
See ya next year.
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So Sparklehorse and Dangermouse made an album… which is excellent… and they launched this interactive website, where you can also stream the album. Its is extremely cool. David Lynch did some of the photos for the album artwork – not sure if he was involved in this, but it rocks. The release was naturally scarred by the suicide by the great Mark Linkous in March. Nonetheless a great effort on all counts.
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Cool case from Germany – they used packaged meat from prehistoric animals and placed them in the supermarket shelf space…
The take-out naturally is that it is still fresh even after thousands of years… They used QR codes to give more information and tell the story. Pretty cool. Read the case here at ypsylon2.
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The fantastic band Chimes & Bells are released as this week’s X Session. It sounds outrageously cool. Download the free tracks
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Hey folks. I mentioned this before. We did a very cool activation for Sony Ericsson here in DK, for the launch of the Xperia X10 smart phone. Basically the X Sessions is taking 17 of the best bands in Denmark and recording about four songs with each of them per session. So far we’ve launched 16 songs and videos, for free streaming and download . And we wont stop until all 70 songs are out there… and then we will record some more. God willing…and Morten from Sony Ericsson:-) If you want updates then follow The X Sessions on facebook or twitter or even Youtube. Of course you can just follow us on www.xsessions.dk. Uh and we launch Oh No Ono on thursday. Don’t miss it.
Here are my favorite tracks so far. Enjoy.
Kissaway Trail – New Lipstick
WhoMadeWho – Rose
I Got You on Tape – Spinning for the Cause
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