January 2012
2 posts
Bones and Money Close
More fire from the Tuff...
December 2011
8 posts
Anonymous asked: What bands do you think will be big in 2012?
Anonymous asked: Pavement or Nirvana?
helpmepassthehoursaway asked: dream festival headliners? x
Anonymous asked: Dinosaur Jr or Sebadoh?
lobandwidthh asked: what's your favourite album of this year? (There's a QUESTION about MUSIC, even if it's a rubbish one).
simondowling asked: Lana Del Rey is really fucking shit, and is also not particularly attractive. Why does everyone love her?
Anonymous asked: Who is the hottest member of Dolfinz? I think Jordan personally.
November 2011
2 posts
real
Blueberries and cream feat. Decyfer (preview) by real
real’s a shady character. For one thing, the name is pretty much un-googleable, albeit I tried my hardest (needless to say, contemplation of cosmetic surgery and celebrities came up pretty fast). All I know is, it’s future garage sounds from Chester, dark bassy grooves punctuated with off-beat snapping snares, just down the...
Lana Del Rey - Video Games (Lockah remix)
Lana Del Rey - Video Games (Lockah Remix) by lockah
To be honest, Nous Aimons Danser doesn’t get the Lana Del Rey hype, but when it’s corrupted by Aberdeen’s Lockah (Tuff Wax), it’s easier to go with the vibes. A very, very smart remix. More Aberdeen news to follow…
October 2011
2 posts
Down on loving (via Beyonce)
“Seriously, Euan, you need to hear the new Beyonce video.” “ugh…” “No, really, it’s the purest, most fucking amazing expression of love and it’s also absolutely amazing.” “Um…” “I know how that sounded but seriously, listen to this.”
Okay, Countdown is a fantastic pop song but it’s forced such...
Hey it’s my friend Tom Gilbert again....
September 2011
1 post
TEETH
Like a private practice dentist, it’s okay to want to fawn over more than one set of TEETH. Before, Nous Aimons Danser featured the pretty ace Finnish producer, but instead we’re focusing on the ridiculous strobe-fucking techni-noise of a three piece who are relentless and so party-friendly that it makes you want to kick shit around yr living room and shout at yr parents. Their new...
August 2011
3 posts
1 tag
Chris Milne Watches The Throne
So I asked Australia’s Chris Milne to check out the new Jay-Z and Kanye record. Milne writes for the much more successful THE BUBBLEGUM GANG. ********************************
Watch The Criticism
Critics internet-wide are complaining that Watch The Throne, the collaborative album from Jay-Z and Kanye West, is full of too much luxury-rap. What’d they order? Fish fillet?
Anyone...
WAVVES
I Wanna Meet Dave Grohl
...
July 2011
4 posts
Nous Aimons Picks...
photo by Stanley Kubrick
Hey. Been away for a while with minimal internet/time, so I’m just going to round-up the new exciting things I’d like to recommend to you. That okay? When in London I was assigned to write about a newbie artist who records from his bedroom under the name of Gross Magic. I love my work. The guy’s got a totally glam style, almost T-Rexish, but with a...
"Hey Paul Carlin!" guest mix
Paul Carlin is a cool guy. Drummer for Dananananaykroyd and American Men, he also plays guitar and sings with his Ghost Pants project. Turns out he also makes a mean mixtape. He said a thing about each song, and from what I recall he actually talks in Italics.
Click here to download (INTRO) 1. WOMEN » SERVICE ANIMAL (from SERVICE ANIMAL/GREY SKIES 7” on JAGJAGUAR)
Okay, so...
ABERDEEN TRUTH >> BONES & MONEY Dubplate Mix
Nous Aimons Danser is a massive supporter of Tuff Wax. Partially because it’s great to see local labels/promoters/etc bringing a DIY attitude back into a stuttering local music scene but also because there’s music coming out of this collective that’s really fucking exciting. The awesome Bones & Money released this dubplate mix yesterday, with some fantastic local music....
Zola Jesus >> Vessel
ZOLA JESUS
We like Zola Jesus here. In a little way, it’s because their label used one of my quotes in the Fly for her press*, but it’s also because Zola Jesus has one of the best voices in music this decade; “equal parts haunting and comforting”. Her new record Conatus is out on September 26th, and from the quirky Vessel, it would appear that Nika Danilova is in a more...
June 2011
5 posts
Saved by the Mix
It’s alright…
CLICK ON THESE WORDS
Anti-G » Crack The Glass!
Deadboy » Afrika Starr
Kersha Bailey » Good Time (Silkie’s “Don’t Wait Up” Remix)
James Blake » CMYK
Lockah » 2 Much Flava
SBTRKT » Wildfire
tell yr friends.
Hurt their feelings
I started reviewing music for anyone who’d listen in about 2007. I think the first show I ever reviewed and sent away to anyone was Johnny Foreigner and ¡Forward,Russia! in Cafe Drummonds. I was nervous as hell about sending it, not only because I was a huge ¡F,R! fan at the time and said they were average, but also because I was worried the band would read it somehow, and it would upset...
WatchNew Raekwon video, Snake Pond. From Shaolin vs. Wu Tang, March 2011
Kersha Bailey - Good Time (Silkie's "Don't Wait...
<a href=”http://juslikemusicrecords.bandcamp.com/track/good-time-silkies-dont-wait-up-remix” _mce_href=”http://juslikemusicrecords.bandcamp.com/track/good-time-silkies-dont-wait-up-remix”>Good Time (Silkie’s "Don’t Wait Up" Remix) by Jus Like Music...
DOLFINZ
WE R THE DOLFiNZ by DolfinZ
Gotta be honest, I didn’t know what to make of this at all when I first heard it. I know this two-piece from school, and the band Pre-Teens they formed after graduating from celebrity hang-out Mackie Academy, it’s a side project littered with lo-fi hiss, reverberating vox and squealing guitars. Turns out it’s really, really good stuff....
May 2011
4 posts
Gil Scott-Heron
Rest in Peace.
Black Flag demos (via Forest Roxx)
Okay, these are amazing demos from 1982, via the Forest Roxx blog. They’re so raw, with “some DC dude named Garfield taking the mic”. Amazo. Clickity click here
freckle tan
<a href=”http://freckletan.bandcamp.com/album/a-b” _mce_href=”http://freckletan.bandcamp.com/album/a-b”>A/B by freckle tan</a>
I’ve got a sort of envious hatred for the prolific. Like those kids at school who were really good looking, great at all the sports (even rounders, and everyone’s at least...
April 2011
5 posts
Julian Lynch >> Roads
You’ve got to hear this. Fuzzed out and meandering, this 7 minute track is a savage, psychedelic swarm of guitar trills and thumping triplets. From New EP, which is a working title, surely…?
<a href=”http://julianlynch.bandcamp.com/track/roads” _mce_href=”http://julianlynch.bandcamp.com/track/roads”>Roads by Julian Lynch</a>
Pon de Jesus Easter Mix
If you don’t mind me saying, I think this is my best yet. Have a dance, dance away the stigmata.
Bruises » White Blood D1 » Effect 10 Atropolis f. Noelia Fernandez » Asi Asi Asi Pictureplane » No Eyes
Rich Boy » Drop (Instrumental)
Grillo » Fronting The Weekend
Gold Panda » Back Home Alex B » Murked ...
Tyler, The Creator (Lil Silva Remix)
REMEMBER HOW I COVERED WOLF GANG BEFORE THE OTHERS BLOGS OKAY ETC? Nah, right. Tyler, The Creator’s Yonkers has been given the chop and screw treatment from Lil Silva, and it’s pretty hot. Where Toro Y Moi’s remix of French meandered in gargling woozy synth for the chin-strokers, this goes really fucking hard.
You can download it via THE FADER, which is nice. (more music...
March 2011
7 posts
Lockah
Lockah DJ/Producer
Y’already know TUFF WAX, yeah? A totally posi DIY label/promoter/etc collective, they’re helping revitalise a resurgent Aberdeen scene. DJ and producer Lockah gravitates towards hip-hop; while his DJ sets tend to be frenetic and breathless, his own beats tend to be more chill, think Madlib, Dilla etc. Or something.
This is a particular favourite, but...
iceage
New Brigade
God, this band are...
digital mixtape #19
Hi
Tyler, The Creator » Sandwitches (ft/Hodgy Beats)
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx » My Cloud
Tough Knuckles » Downtown Girl
Minutemen » Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing
Mogwai » San Pedro
Osborne » Afrika (Bullion Remix)
Closed Sessions » Heads Of The Heads (ft. Freddie Gibbs & GLC)
Rich Kids » Patna Dem (Mad...
Any writer can offer excuses, but I don’t feel...
January 2011
6 posts
James Blake | The Wilhelm Scream (VIDEO)
One day I will get news of something before Pitchfork. One day. New video from the ridiculously exciting debut LP from James Blake, who, if it helps any, absolutely killed it in Origin the other night.
Times New Viking
No Room To Live
Frantic...
VIDEO|Visions of Trees >> Sometimes It Kills
I fucking rave about these guys. For the uninitiated, Visions of Trees are the best new band in Britain. They’re a duo who layer woozy, ethereal rhythms with bittersweet, melancholic vocal melodies, creating the perfect musical landscape for amazing dreams, spacing out or whatever. If you can, catch them live; you’ll forget where you are in the best possible sense.
Here’s the...
digital mixtape #18
Hey, you. Got a new mix for ya.
Click on me
Eternal Fags Driving
Earl Sweatshirt epaR ft. Vince Staples
Avey Tare Lucky 1
Erling Vinne the triple jump
Joe Germlin Ghetto Backpack’r
Battery Face Lurch
Beans Deathsweater
8Bitch In The Moog For Love
Blackbird Blackbird Sunspray
Weird Dreams Hurt So Bad
A Sunny Day In Glasgow Hybrid Moments (Misfits cover) tell yr friends.
We like Aaliyah here. We like her even more when...
December 2010
3 posts
Twelve Months Older
Y’know what? I was going to try very, very hard for you guys in December, but it’s not worked out like that.
You’ve earned it. I wasn’t expecting much from this blog, entirely. I mean, music blogs are ten-a-penny, if that, given the amount of legal, free music out there from bands and artists who are willing to get their name heard before gambling on profits. But what...