Roam The Hello Clouds – ‘Pretender’s Hand’

Most of the stuff get sent to this blog nowadays are either indie rock/pop, electro clash or singer songwriter stuff. So it’s refreshing to get this one that does not fit into any of the above. This is very obscure, so much so when the label sent me more info on another website, it’s in German. I guess that they’re some sort of internationally aimed laptop-jazz-world music outfit with little or no expectation of making dosh anytime soon. It features Laurence Pike of Pivot/Triosk on drums. This guy’s drumming skills is worth the price of admission, and he shows it off again on these songs.

www.myspace.com/roamthehelloclouds

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The Scientists Of Modern Music – ‘Easy’

Last week my mate Rohan bought a $700 Korg keyboard. Soon another mate Ross was showing off his skills with the built in vocoding effects, I believe his words were something to the effect of “give us a few weeks and we’ll write better songs than the (Midnight) Juggies!”

I have a feeling similar proclamations could have been made when Tasmanian duo The Scientists of Modern Music started out. Maybe they are victims of bad timing, but their sound is a bit old now considering how ubiquitous Oz electro-clash is. Signed to Rubber Records and recorded by Daniel Jones (of Savage Garden, remember them?) they’re not short on resources to come up with quality record, but the material and style is not exactly fresh.

Too bad because they are pretty good live, and the organisers of Falls Festival must really like them because they are playing both days this year. I saw them played on new years’ eve last year and they sounded pretty good then. Funny thing is the promoter told me “give these guys a year they will be bigger than the Midnight Juggernauts!!” True story.

www.myspace.com/thescientistsofmodernmusic

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The John Steele Singers – ‘Smashing the speed of Sound on An Empty Lake In Utah’

A while ago I posted a band called Stature:Statue. The drummer Ross emailed me a few weeks ago about his side project, The John Steele Singers, 6 piece Beach Boys-ish brass/pop band from Brisbane. I went to see them play in Melbourne in Geddes Lane and unfortunately for them that was the shittiest sounding room in town, so they played a really short set and didn’t show off much after travelling over 2000kms for this gig. But the recordings sounds great, and they were once approached by the late Grant McLennan of the Go Betweens after a performance in Brisbane. Talk about a confidence booster. Their 5 track EP is out now, watch out for an album.

www.myspace.com/thejohnsteelsingers

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DJ Waxmaster – ‘Mr. Ice Cream’

We blogged this song in March, though it is finally getting an official release via on the Below Par label last Saturday. Included in the B side of this single are remixes by Japanther, Girl Talk and DJ Waxmaster, featured above.

Melbourne producer Miami Horror also had a go at remixing/covering this track:

Miami Horror – ‘Mr. Ice Cream’

www.myspace.com/softtigers

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I do believe this is the first blog to feature this video clip, an exclusive of some sort. The second signing from Levi’s Jeans Levity label, hypesters Mercy Arms dish out this rather fun take of the slightly over-used stop motion trick.

www.myspace.com/mercyarms

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Cassette Kids – ‘Acrobat’

Trendy kids from Sydney, this foursome play a lot of the Boom Boom Mega Boom  parties. Even before I read the bio I knew producer John Hardy was somehow involved, this features a lot of his distinct drum/guitar sound. Don’t really know much else about them except that I’ll be checking them out next week at the Sparkadia single launch.

www.myspace.com/cassettekids

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