The London lurking trio of Lepke B, Xentos Fray Bentos and Ted Barrow have played in numerous combinations over the last 25 years
影響
Varese, Harry Partch, Alice Cooper, the Residents, Sun Ra, Stockhausen, Billy Piper, Spike Jones, King Tubby, Klaus Wunderlich, John Barry, Pink, the Kinks, Milk from Cheltenham, Beck, Cell Block H, Tripe Mutter, Russ Meyer, Gus Coma,
風格近似
"Sampler-led compositions and improvisations with a genuinely weird slant, unexpected twists and turns, humour and violence. The only group in Britain really testing the borders of virtuosity, suggesting a new way of playing and listening - abandoning traditional instruments, eschewing laptop and grabbing the jugular of bricolage. Mainly dense instrumental work, some strange and light-hearted songs, enigmatic artwork. The trio is forging ahead with their corrosive brand of pastiche, impossibly fiendish sense of aural space and encyclopedic knowledge of music....."
"The new CD' die like a rock' is a radical turn for the DTCDs. This is a CD of coherent songs that crush and elide time. It's wholly contemporary; it breathes the '60s and '70s in the best way. Now and then The Velvet Underground or The Residents might spring to mind, not to mention Marc Bolan, but the association will be quickly repressed as something else takes over. Performed, these songs hold together the way played music does; solid with samples and studio manipulation, it bristles with detail and surprise. The production is radical, the arrangements highly imaginative, the texts pitched between brilliant and taking the piss. It is a perfectly judged CD and a pleasure to listen to, with great singing . These songs listen well, they make sense, they have all the qualities that good songs have - and they sound great. The mix of playing and electronics, of familiarity and strangeness, are in a class of their own. This is DTCD in from the cold, having its cake and eating it too. A very classy and evolved record." Chris Cutler
The new 2005/6 Die Trip Computer Die CD - 'Die Like a Rock' is brilliant. I felt that the band have really come of age with this collection of intelligent, funny and, yes, catchy songs performed and constructed with a sonic knowingness, inventiveness and skill that is by turns breath-taking, hilarious and dumb-founding. This may be a classic. Everytime I listen it sounds as fresh as the first.
fats (fat...), January 7th, 2006.
Die Trip Computer Die is a British underground rock trio led by noise decomposer/ video artist Lepke Buchwater (Milk fron Cheltenham) with Xentos 'Fray' Bentos (also known as Pete the Drummer, Dr. Shagnasty and 'Bubbles' in the Beyonce fan club) and Ted Barrow. inventor of various un-instruments, most notably 'The Baxtertron' which was an electronic 'black box' constructed inside a recently vacated Ferrero Rocher box.
The band has endured the affection and warm embrace of the London experimental music community, despite which they have retained an authentic and some would say omnifarious sound. The band's first release, on the Alcohol label was the notorious Stadium Death, of which the outstanding track was the indeterminate anti-war anthem ""Headless"" (play above). The track is narrated by a young hero, lying in a Vietnam ditch, having been severed by a gigantic Communist spoon. Buchwater's next outing ""We are your friends"", with a bonus track utilising Christopher Hitchen's prose, was a deliberately low key shopping mall album predominantly composed of misfeasant soundtracks. A reviewer for the The Wire magazine described the music as having been made by 'Pod People', a clear reference to the classic cold war sci-fi chiller Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Die Trip's third release was entitled Die Like a Rock and Buchwater produced an album fueled by a delibrately trite song form which enforced the underbelly of the Rock in the kindest manner available. The new work featured dense layers of circuit bending overlaying blatantly ripped off music loops processed to sound wearily contemporary. Buchwater is currently overseeing the production of a short black and white super 8 movie to showcase his band's exemplary lack of direction."
Club Integral @ Whitechapel Gallery, 18th December 2009.
Featuring music from Lotus Pedals, Nobodies, MayMing, Boycott Coca-Cola Experience and Jack Shirt. + DJ Chris Cornetto and projections from Jaime Rory Lucy of Rucksack Cinema
Lotus Pedals: - "Gorgeous live music from the supremely strange Lotus Pedals, who remained on stage throughout the show...shambolic, bold and beautiful...offers truly unique rewards." Beccy Smith - British Theatre Guide.
Heya! Thanks for the request! We're playing Turning Point Festival @ The Camden Roundhouse on Sunday 10 May, tickets are really cheap so if your not busy we'd love it if you could come down and support us, if not spread the word :) There are tons of other amazing acts playing plus a fashion show and circus performers so it should be pretty insane. You can buy tickets here: http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/productions/turning-point-3054
Also we have a new demo up, The Ballad Of A Purple Sasquatch. It would be wicked if you could check it out and drop us a comment.
Ever wondered what to do in the event of a nuclear threat?
A while ago I found stuff that inspired me to make this film:
Living Under the Shadow of the Nuclear Umbrella
Both artistic (ensure you get the background music!) and educational, it primarily comprises official British government civil defence advice.
Though source materials are quite aged, much remains relevant today.
I encourage all to visit the YouTube page to learn more (Show support! Rate! Comment!) and responsibly circulate as widely as possible, here: http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=UaIim3Rj7L4
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CLUB INTEGRAL PRESENTS - HEXA / BENJAMIN BRUNEL / THE NOBODIES/THE BOYCOTT COCA-COLA EXPERIENCE
Club Integral present two concerts featuring Hexa from Manhattan, NYC on 20th and 22nd February at The Canterbury Arms in Brixton and Cafe Oto in Dalston
20th February: Club Integral 8:30 PM Friday 20th February 2009 Featuring irrepressible, adrenalized garage-band paeans from New York's finest - Hexa; mournful ballads about relationship breakup, with laughs, from the Nobodies; and agit-prop blues from Boycott Coca-Cola Experience. Entry: £5 before 9pm and £7 after 9pm. Canterbury Arms, Canterbury Crescent, Brixton, London SW9 7QD. (two minutes from Brixton tube)
22nd February: Club Integral @ Cafe Oto 8:00 PM Sunday 22nd February 2009 Hexa play an acoustic set. Singer/composer Benjamin Brunel plays a piano set of his caustic and original songs. Arch miserablists The Nobodies perform tragic cheap tavern songs about love. Entry £5 before 9.00 PM £7 after. Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8
CLUB INTEGRAL on Friday 30th January 2009 - 8.00 PM until late. At THE CANTERBURY ARMS, Canterbury Crescent, Brixton SW9 - two minutes from Brixton tube station.
Entry: £5 before 9.00 PM, £7.00 after.
Featuring music from: Trumpet and beats duo LOOP ELLINGTON Avant-garde wayfarers KOBAYASHI Australian folk chansonniers THE DOOMED BIRD OF PROVIDENCE. + a special guest to be announced.
With projections from JAIME RORY LUCY of RUCKSACK CINEMA DJs CHRIS CORNETTO and KARINA TOWSEND (Chalkwell Ladies).
CLUB INTEGRAL on Friday 30th January 2009 - 8.00 PM until late. At THE CANTERBURY ARMS, Canterbury Crescent, Brixton SW9 - two minutes from Brixton tube station.
Entry: £5 before 9.00 PM, £7.00 after.
Featuring music from: Trumpet and beats duo LOOP ELLINGTON Avant-garde wayfarers KOBAYASHI Australian folk chansonniers THE DOOMED BIRD OF PROVIDENCE. + a special guest to be announced.
With projections from JAIME RORY LUCY of RUCKSACK CINEMA DJs CHRIS CORNETTO and KARINA TOWSEND (Chalkwell Ladies).
26 Sep 2008, 20:00 - The Canterbury Arms Canterbury Crescent, Brixton SW9, 2 minutes from Brixton tube London, SW9 UK Cost:£5 before 9.00 £7 after An evening of the finest music in the clubbable Victorian ambience of The Canterbury Arms - featuring sets from The Otters (featuring Mark Astronaut), Geoff Leigh (Henry Cow, Ex Black Sheep etc), plus machine-tooled psychedelic evocations from Jack Shirt, and the unpredictable rock improvisations of Superstrings (Atsuko Kamura - vox, Paul May - drums, Simon King - guitar and effects). Esoteric visual peregrinations from Rucksack Cinema (Jaime Rory Lucy)
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August 21st , this Thursday, is a very special show at the Buffalo Bar with Cibelle / Serafina Steer and Horton Jupiter from They Came From The Stars (I Saw Them) Djing. Cibelle’s only other London date this year is at Bush Hall which is much more expewnsive than ours so this may well be the only time you get to see her in such an intimate venue.
Plus have a look on our front page for updates on the new nights at the Luminaire (we’re rather excited) and have a look at the website www. bigcityredneck. co. uk for new interviews with Cindy Wilson of the B-52s, Mudhoney and Brute Chorus. Looks out for new interviews with Don’t Letts and Health….
Who needs shit-smeared, vomit-strewn toilets, warm, expensive beers and all your stuff nicked when you can stay in London and enjoy these tasty treats?
TICKETS FOR ALL BIG CITY REDNECK EVENTS ARE AVAILABLE FROM WEGOTTICKETS. PLEASE FIND LINK ON OUR FRONT PAGE.
Big Bad Love at 93 Feet East July 10th Doors: 7pm £6.50
This is our first 93 Feat East gig and we’re happy to be gracing this illustrious stage so look out for special door price offers a few days before the gig… Or you can buy in advance here: http://www. wegottickets. com/event/32336
Join us for another Big City Redneck Presents! Another wonderful eruption, nay, ejaculation of good music at the Buffalo Bar this month!
What can I say? We won’t disappoint.
Buffalo Bar June 19th £6 on the door… 8.30pm till they kick us out…
Mama Shamone http://www. myspace. com/mamashamone “Put Mama Shamone on at any venue and they are likely to take the roof off, this was one of the best live shows I’ve seen in years - certainly one of the best in London. In my opinion these guys are destined for greatness, it felt like I was witnessing history being shaped-something was just so right about what they were doing up there.” Vibe Bar
We Yes You No www. myspace. com/weyesyouno “We Yes You No sing about the end of the world, the end of everything. But in an apocalypse that would sound like this I would buy god’s last EP” – Big City Redneck
Language http://www. myspace. com/languageuk “"The verbosity of funk, the poetic twang of intelligent pop. The bridge between Franz Ferdinand and Smashing Pumpkins perhaps" – Bugbear
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