69CORP have made an album. A perfectly sweet compilation of everything. Weird Japanese Toys from the future. And four chords from the past.
It is a huge sprawlling album that draws on 40 years of pop music. It is Spiritualized drifting over Screamadelica. It is Brian Wilson remixed by New Order. It is REM rubbing up to Kraftwerk. It is The Byrds as misheard by Derrick May.
It is beautiful, sad, discodelic wisdom.
Each tune/song has a common genetic thread;
10% Screamadelica’s shine. 15% Joy Division’s stealth.
The balance is all new angles; widescreen and pinhole; and never the same trick twice.
REMIXED: The Bravery / doves / HOWIE B / SFA / dalek / blocparty / The Silent League / Raveonettes
69CORP’s single Demonseed was championed by Steve Lamcq and Mary Anne Hobbs. It was played out in the clubs by Erol, Laurent Garnier, Richard Fearless, Weatherall, Howie B, dalek, Aim, Richard X and in scores of other clubs nationally.
Akira The Don: UK rapper. It is hip hop based but is mainly pop music. A tad political and keen on controversy. Interscope poached him from us and recorded a very expensive album and then dropped him and gave it back to us. Cheers! Somewhere between The Streets and Eminem but like neither. Press and radio fave. A huge online fanbase that have given his animated videos views in the hundreds of thousands (see: Animated version of 
A band, a duo, a six piece but really the superhero cape for singer/songwriter, Christian. Think Super Furries, Sparks, Elliot Smith, Floyd, Bowie and Queen. One mini-album released to minor but passionate acclaim, just finishing off their beautiful and strange virtuoso debut album. Classic English pop songs with towering ambition. Recently supported Silent League, Amanda Dresden Doll, Blackbud, Emmy The Great and Paddy Considine. Christian also plays in The Climbers, The Leisure Society and you too, for all I know.
4 noisy, skinny kids from Melbourne, Australia. Toured the UK twice, have opened for Test Icicles, Klaxons, Wolfmother, Kills, DFA1979, released one 7″ that sold out on pre-orders and an EP, “Patterns”. Large and devoted UK fanbase. Think Blood Brothers meets DFA 1979 meets Justice. Do seek out their warped remixes by everyone from Cut Copy to Midnight Juggernauts.
Barnstorming 5pc guitar band from Coney Island. Somewhere between The Shins, The Cribs, or The Violent Femmes and Big Star. Old School, blue collar songs about drinking and dancing and drinking and girls and regret. Party music.
LAZARUS is a resident of San Francisco and a purveyor of beautiful and shimmeringly sad songs of heartbreak and the lost American Dream.
Swedish. Sologne is Emil’s third album. It was recorded at home. Think Sufjan Stephen, Bright Eyes, Concretes. His band is between 5 and 9 people and rocks much harder than the records would imply. Signed to Sub Pop in the US and now Parlophone in the UK. Toured with Peter, Bjorn and John, Of Montreal, Low.
Something quite unique. And loud. A rock band from Brooklyn. Dark, heavy, massive, widescreen emotive guitar music. Somewhere between Syd-era Floyd and The Birthday Party. Jane’s Addiciton, The Cure, QOTSA, Morricone, Can, and Portishead can all be heard in there somewhere. Absolutely mind-blowingly good live. Incredibly hip in New York now and playing sold out shows everywhere. Dates are forthcoming with Calla and Secret Machines.
8 pc band and the vehicle for Justin Russo, responsible for the keyboards on Mercury Revs Deserters Songs and All is Dream. Chamber Pop from Brooklyn. Press and radio faves and just released album #2 “Of Stars & Other Somebodies” to universal acclaim.
