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News/BlogRose's bit in the Tracey Fragments# On Fri 2nd May 2008 @ 3:19pm John said... whoop whoop whoopthis film is going to be GREAT, and here's the bit featuring a track from ROSE MELBERG's album, "CAST AWAY THE CLOUDS" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXRvleoBpNo exciting, hope you like it Singles, remixes, SHRAG and DJ Downfall# On Mon 28th Apr 2008 @ 11:45am Bob said... To excite your aural tastebuds, here's an internet only remix of the jawdropping last single by SHRAG, by the mighty DJ Downfall... keep your mince pies peeled for new singles from both of 'em in May... splendid...Download Talk To The Left (DJ Downfall Entente Cordiale Remix) Indietracks, Shrag and Gregory# On Thu 10th Apr 2008 @ 12:46pm John said... phew... it's all go round here... keep checking back in the next few months, there'll be lots of goodies waiting for you...anyway, if you've been keeping your mince pies peeled you'll have noticed that they legendary Sir Gregory Webster and the mighty SHRAG have confirmed their turns at the indietracks festival... £45 for 2 days of rock and pop merriment... more information (obviously) on the website... http://www.indietracks.co.uk/ COME... and say hullo... Rose Melberg and the Tracey Fragments# On Tue 1st Apr 2008 @ 9:31am John said... woo... very excitingly, Rose's track "each new day" is in the new Ellen Page (y'know, her that was great in Juno) film, screening on the 23rd April at the East End Film Festivalhttp://www.sodapictures.com/blog/?p=42 http://www.thetraceyfragments.com/ go see it, buy the soundtrack, and all that stuff... while we're here Gregory Webster and Rose Melberg have been doing some more recording together - i haven't heard the tracks yet but i'm sure they'll be greater than the sum of Rose and Gregory (more like Rose x Gregory) - yup... THAT good... more on that as soon as i know about it, but in the mean time you can content yourself with downloading their christmas track, still available below... Xmas Goodness# On Thu 13th Dec 2007 @ 10:55pm John said... woah... the holidays seem to be upon us already, and the wiaiwya department of seasonal cheer has once again pulled out all the stops to give you a christmas present o' pop, a stocking full of melancholy and merriment, and a turkey (in the fowl sense) stuffed with the sage of rock and the onion of roll...thank you all for your, well... everything... this year... next year will finally bring us the shrag album, an all new action biker record, and all sorts of other surprises we'll keep you abrest of... so here goes, pour yourself a warming whiskey, download the pop, and share it with the ones you love.. Rose and Gregory - Merry Christmas (I Don't want To Fight Tonight) the Mary and Joseph of indie (Rose Melberg and Gregory Webster) play the Ramones - that's a little bit WOW! www.myspace.com/rosemelberg The Vatican Cellars - Christmas Island. downstairs at the papal abode, and a Christmas song for everyone who knows that mistletoe is toxic www.myspace.com/thevaticancellars DJ Downfall - In Dulci Jubilo and hence the angel Downfall came unto them and proclaimed "that mike oldfield, he's alright" www.myspace.com/johndownfall the Birthday Girl vs. Alexander's Festival Hall - Hey Santa! (Black Snow at Xmas) wise men (and women) from the Gold Coast to Frankenfurt and Mirthyl Tydfil will soon follow stars to lay gifts at the feet of the Birthday Girl and finally nowwearesix - while shepherds watched their flocks by night no sock washing for the nowwearesix cats... oh no... have a great christmas, and see you in the new year... www.myspace.com/wiaiwya DJ Downfall - Bon Viveur# On Sun 2nd Sep 2007 @ 8:04am John said... the new DJ Downfall album (Bon Viveur) is now available for you to buy direct from me (a tenner, from 33 barons keep, gliddon road, london, W14 9AT) and will be in the shops any day now... i don't know if you've seen, but it's been getting some blinding reviews (and there are more to come...the guardian said: Back in 1997, only two people seemed interested in an 80s revival. One was future Madonna producer Stuart Price, gamely trying to persuade people to trade Britpop casual for Miami-Vice style rolled-up jacket sleeves. The other was the perennially underrated DJ Downfall, whose first single was dedicated to Weird Science star Kelly LeBrock. Now he has broadened his palette and enlisted vocalists to create exquisitely melancholic bedsit synth-pop. Stronger on the Breaks is a woman's heartsick address to a gay friend ("Yeah, I wish you were straight"), while The Hours mourns "the hours that I put in to be the other girl". There is dancefloor propulsion, too, on the Bangles-meet-Goldfrapp Seven Dials and the gorgeous retro techno title track. Acknowledging kinship with Stephin Merritt's Future Bible Heroes project, the last track is a cover of Merritt's All Dressed Up in Dreams: the perfect end to an immaculate album. (4/5) http://music.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,2159362,00.html time out said: Outside his duties as drummer for cultish indie outfits Marine Research and Tender Trap, John Stanley has remixed the Postal Service and worked on the soundtrack for Channel 4 series The Trip, but it’s as DJ Downfall that he deserves serious props. His second LP is a (nother) wittely dysfunctional delight, mixing up deadpan digital funk with free folk, electro, krautrock, French filtered disco and freaky vocal samples. Clearly as fond of Cyndi Lauper and Feist as he is Daft Punk, DJ D’s focus is non the less impressively sharp. (4 stars) Sharon O’Connell - August 29th 2007 NME said: djdownfall largely makes rude beats to listen to in your own home, and, if you're a jammy little bastard, music to "have it off" to. "You Want Me" is a slow jam of the Prodigy's "girls" meets Simian Mobile Dosco's "the beat", while "I Can Do Anything" is a randier, bragging Uffie. DJ Downfall : providing your new hot sex. (7/10) M8 said: Mr Downfall classily set the scene for his second album by raising a finger at the download brigade with the lavishly-packaged white vinyl 'Sinking Into The Quagmire' EP. This more than follows through its sumptuous, floor-burning episodes and guest hostesses, following an event-packed path straddling post-punk, electro, boogie, house and even quality pop. Homaging to the past is subtly-executed - 'I Can Do Anything' hoists itself onto its hind legs aboard the cowbell and guitar mutant from the Stones' 'Honky Tonk Women' - but the sound is all his own with 'Seven Dials' even invoking the >sunshine LA pop of the 80s. In contrast, 'The Hours' brings in John Fahey-style acoustic guitar. 'Stronger On The Breaks' winds bell-tones around the velvet female vocals to haunting effect. Above all, Downfall's work is bursting with ideas, cheek and passion. Wahoo! (5/5) post Rose woe# On Thu 16th Aug 2007 @ 9:43pm John said... wow... i hope everyone who came to see Rose and Larissa on their whistle stop tour of the UK had as great a time as i did... thanks again to all involved... now could somebody please give me something new to look forward to?..Rose Melberg UK tour# On Mon 23rd Jul 2007 @ 8:28pm John said... next up are the first ever UK dates for ROSE MELBERG, songwriting legend and owner of the most beautiful voice in Canada... if you get the chance you should really come and see her, and... well... now you have the chance... just have a look under EVENTSUpdated Website# On Mon 23rd Jul 2007 @ 8:26pm John said... as you can see, everything's changed here at wiaiwya... all very exciting... thanks, as ever, to Bob for all his hard work... you should pay him a visit at www.lineoutrecords.com... thanks Bob... |
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