Charlotte Gainsbourg & Beck “Heaven Can Wait”

I’ll be honest, as blogging goes I’m f*cking lazy. Unless it’s promoting a night or podcast  I won’t be tapping away about the latest producer or sub genre. However sometimes a music video hits me so hard I need to share it. Charlotte Gainsbourg & Beck’s “Heaven Can Wait” might just be the greatest video ever made. Concept – take a hundred stories and smash them into one video. Weird, obscure and visually stunning, each shot somehow seems to have a back story. A montage from the dark side that seems to glide in time with Gainsbourg’s vocal and it’s southern hick style backing.

Directed by 09 super man Keith Schofield ‘Heaven Can Wait’ already sits within a strong portfolio of videos.  Check Justices’ remix of Lenny Kravitz doing the rounds and if you missed it the Diesel NSFW.

Push Music play Tigerlilly bar 08/01/10

Ease yourself into 2010 with Push Music at Tigerlily Bar on Friday 8^th of Jan. Expect a unique mixture of Indie, electro and re-edited material from the world of rock and soul. We won’t be grooving to just one genre. It’s also free.

Happy New Year

So that’s it. The noughties and 09’ are over.  Dubstep hit daytime airwaves, Diplo and Switch swapped Camden for Kingston and certain arms of the music press hailed the disco revival (Although Todd Tejre, Greg Wilson and any DJ worth their pay check have been playing and re-editing disco since erm…disco)

It’s been a steep learning curve for all involved in Push Music and we wouldn’t have had it any other way.  In 12 months we’ve played at over 15 different venues playing tracks that made you dance and scratch your head in equal measure. Thanks to friends, friends of friends, podcast listeners and klub kids that have made it through the doors into a Push Music party. As a heartfelt thank you we’ll keep dropping 60 minutes podcasts throughout 2010. Please keep the feedback coming, it’s good that people appreciate something different.

Back to the music. 2009 became the year the dance borderlines where crossed. House DJ’s played Dubstep (Skream’s stripped down amen loving re-fix of in for the Kill dominating sets)  Drum and Bass had a definitive year in the overground and underground with stand out albums for Sub Focus, Alex Perez and Danny Byrd.

Fidget became a dirty word as UK Funky took over London’s urban scene with a few stand out tracks but ultimately becoming a grooveless sub hybrid of UK garage. On the subject of UKG, Joy Orbison took major influence from the atmospheric dubbier tracks of the 90’s (think Zed Bias & Groove Chronicles) and injected some soul into the dubstep sound with ‘Hyph Mngo’,  Orbison’s eerie stomper sitting high as the tune of the year for most critics.  After inventing the genre the Yanks tried as hard as they could to destroy house (With the help of the French) let’s get this straight, charts or no charts, there’s no need to put Akon or the Black Eyed Peas on house records. Guetta, Larry Levan is turning in his grave.

Stand out tracks for myself this year have been Major Lazor’s ‘Pon the Floor’ for the WTF! screwface expressions at dancehall nonsense at house speed, Fake Blood’s ‘I think I like it’ for the sheer cut and paste funk and string section and Grum’s 80’s electronic winner ‘Heatbeats’.

The Push Music best of 09 is currently on a crashed hard drive (Merry f*cking Chrimbo Dell) but once it’s recovered it will be up to kick off 2010 in style.

Happy New Year.

Bill

Podcast 5 The Recession Session

What’s the worst thing about leaving a job where people can barely say hello in the morning and the general moral is morgue like. Not not a lot really -
So, pastures new, fresh start etc (Also means a bit more time to knock out some mixes) Here’s 60 minutes in the Push Music Indie electro disco.

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(Dont forget you can drag and drop a podcast into an i-tunes playlist and burn the mix onto a CD)

Tracklist:

Recession Session Intro
Franz Ferdinand Kiss Me (Dances with White Girls Remix)
Alex Gopher Aurora (La Mode Remix)
Chromeo Night By Night (U-Tern’s Aeroplane Blend)
Golden Bug Last Dance In Tokyo
Alex Metric Gusto
Day And Night Acapella Push Musics Re-Edit
Keenhouse Aries (Grum Remix)
Mr Oizo Cut Dick
The Prodigy Invaders Must Die (Yuksek Remix)
We Have Band Honey Trap (Le Matos remix)
Mujava Township Funk Crazy P Remix
The Juan MacLean Happy House
Daft Punk Robot Rock (Soulwax Remix)
Eurhythmics Vs Erol Vs PM VS Empire of the Sun Walking on Dreams
Prince Raspberry Berry 12 Edit
Gonzales Working Together Boys Noize Vocal Mix

For more info and forthcoming gigs join the Push Music Facebook Group

 

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NYE with Push Music

The only place to catch Push Music over New Year’s Eve is a cheeky warm up set in Dalston before I dash to Islington to catch Olly from the Macabee’s spin at Zoo Year’s Eve.  Drinks, good friends and an old school boozer to see the New Year in (sounds good to me)

If you’re game for a few pre NY drinks, the Hobby Horse’s first New Year’s Eve kicks off at 8 with Push Music.

Like the greatest mix tape ever made we’re going to be spinning everything from Electro to disco, Funk and Soul, there’ll be some Indie and Rock ‘n’ Roll, expect hidden treasures and guilty pleasures, 80’s favourites and 90’s classics.

The juicy details and guestlist instructions:

Guestlist and Face book group for NYE at The Hobby Horse

More info on Zoo Year’s Eve at The Old Queen’s Head

Cheers!

Bill

The X-mas Indie Electro Disco at Tigerlily Bar

Push Music bring the Indie electro funk back home to Leigh this Saturday 19/12/09

Expect a unique mixture of Indie, electro and re-edited material from the world of rock and soul. The dance floor won’t be grooving to just one genre!

Think …

Arctic Monkeys, The Clash, The Cure, Editors, Enemy, Foals, Franz Ferdinand, The Fratellis, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, The Gossip, The Hives, Hot Chip, Iggy Pop, Jack Penate, Jaime T, Joy Division, Kasabian, Killers, Klaxons, Kings Of Leon, LCD Soundsystem, Maccabees, Maximo Park, New Young Pony Club, Nirvana, Queens Of The Stone Age, The Raconteurs, , Stone Roses, The Strokes, White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Young Knives, Zutons, Herve, Justice, Boy 8 Bit, Crookers, Fake Blood, Alex Metric, Sinden, Alex Gopher, Daft Punk, Soulwax, Boys Noize, DIPLO, Mr.Oizo, The Bloody Beetroots, Surkin, Kissy Sell Out, Laidback Luke, A-Trak, MSTRKRFT, Late of the Pier, Klaxons, Bloc Party The Whip, The White Stripes, The Strokes. The White Stripes Peaches, The Thrills, Empire of the Sun.

PushMusic & Cutler

Free entry.  Here’s the facebook group.

http://www.tigerlilybar.com/

X-mas at Franken Bar with Push Music

Push music are back with a X-mas bang at Franken Bar on Friday 18th December.

Cutler and Cuthbert Colossus are back alongside Push Music, so expect re-edits, acapellas and a huge dose of electro as we join forces to rock the festive dance floor.

For free guest list entry, either drop the names of people attending to info@pushmusic.org or add yourself to the facebook event.

For table bookings call 0207 704 2332

http://www.frankenbar.co.uk

Push Music at Barfly, Camden

Another sweaty session at the Barfly with a 2 hour set from Push Music. Daft Punk, Soulwax, Grum and Fake Blood alongside the Stooges, the Killers and Bloc Party (In the infamous Push Music style)

Podcast Number 4

This month sees Ben Playing you a no nonsense mix of some of Push Music’s favorite tracks of the moment, and some bangers thrown in there just for fun. Mixed to resemble our track selection for the dancefloor, this mix wont fail to please.

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Get A Move On- Mr Scruff,
Phantom pt 2 (Soulwax rmx) – Justice,
Click Click – MSTRKRFT,
What Evil lurks – Prodigy,
Crimewave – Crystal Castles,
Space And The Woods – Laste Of The Pier,
Paranoid – Black Sabbeth,
Bonafide Lovin’ (Yuksek rmx) – Chromeo,
Coffee – Aquasky & Masterblaster,
Thief (Shinichi Osawa rmx) – Lost Valentinos,
Silence Is Talking (Alex Metric rmx) – Reverend And The Makers,
Kids (80Kidz rmx) – MGMT,
Divine Rhythm (Push Music’s No More Warriors edit) – DJ Rap,
Jeffer (Para One rmx) – Boys Noize,
Where Did All The Love Go (Burns rmx) – Kasabian,
The Dozens – Fake Blood,
Black And Blue (Savage Skulls rmx) – Miike Snow,
Peanuts Club (Beataucue rmx) – Noob & Broadinski,
Killing In The Name Of (SebastiAn rmx) – Rage Against The Machine

Enjoy …….

 

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Push Music rock Franken Bar 27/11/09

Push music are back with a bang at Franken Bar on Friday 27th November.

Fresh from Kiss 100 airplay for his near genius bootlegs, Cuthbert Colossus is back alongside Push Music. Expect re-edits, acapellas and a huge dose of electro as we join forces to rock the dance floor.

For free guest list entry, either drop the names of people attending to info@pushmusic.org or add yourself to the facebook event.

For table bookings call 0207 704 2332

Line up:

Push Music [Ministry of Sound, Digital, Barfly, The Hoxton Pony, Queen Of Hoxton]

Cuthbert Colossus [The Village, Island, Urban Nerds]

For more information, free mixes and sneak peek of the bars distressed decor head over to:

http://www.frankenbar.co.uk (or see photos below)

Get there by tube (Closest tube station in Angel)

Get there by foot

See you there!