HEAVEN AND HELL Göteborg - 2nd and 3rd October, 2009. 8 fantastic live bands and 10 top deejays at a venue with two floors in the middle of Gothenburg, Sweden.
BAND LINE-UP: THE INCREDIBLE STAGGERS - Austria CIRCULUS - England FOX MACHINE - Gothenburg HORISONT - Gothenburg THE MOBSMEN - Norway TEASPOON - Gothenburg DAVID PETER AND THE WILD SECT - Denmark THE DON DARLINGS - Gothenburg
DEEJAY LINE-UP: KIM - WOODY WEST GBG EMMA RAND - GBG HOLLY - SCOTLAND SARAH - SCOTLAND ERIK - FRICTION GBG THOMAS - NORWAY SIMEN - NORWAY GAZZA - ITALY BIG T - GBG ALE - CLUB RADIO LONDON PETER - CLUB RADIO LONDON
VENUE: STARS N BARS, GÖTEBORG DATES: 2 OCT - 3 OCT, 2009. HOURS: 20-03 AGE: 18+
John's Candy har under två år stått och gormat så högt det bara går på de allra roligaste klubbarna i Stockholm. Nu har det så äntligen blivit dags för trion att släppa sitt debutalbum. 29 minuter snusk har pressats på skiva och fått digital distribution. Detta firas med höga skrik och smällfeta europunkindiediscobeats på Spy Bar fredagen 8 maj. 22:00 slår vi upp portarna och några livelåtar utlovas såklart.
My treasured album this week is 'Paradise' by DJ Foundation on the Metal Postcard label. . His first single 'God Is Dead' with 'I Shot You Babe' on the b-side provoked outrage. But he seems just too wonderfully post-modern to be real, what with the Gary Glitter loops and American Army troops marching and chanting over the top of 'God Is Dead'. Or am I just dealing in stereotypes? An Iraqi can be post modern too.
His first album kicks off with looped gunshots and an ominous bass riff. It's a sampladelic account of 'The War On Terror' taking in western news reports, politicians, religious leaders, arab pop and western dance music. It's packed with obviously uncleared samples used in an imaginative way. 'G-Had' has a Chic loop but the 'Freak Out' chant is replaced with 'G-Had!' It's funky and it's fun. It's also slightly unnerving, Then it ends with Phil Collins singing 'In The Air Tonight'. I laugh out loud but feel shivers down my spine as the Arabic music wafts over Phil. I can't even begin to describe 'USA' with it's Bruce Springsteen and Beastie Boys samples. It comes on like a frat boy party that both mocks and celebrates the American 'jock' mentality.
During the Vietnam War, protest songs were everywhere. People wrote about the world around them. Edwin Starr's 'War', Buffalo Springfield's 'For What It's Worth', the list goes on. Where are the songs now, recording our hopes and fears during the Iraq/Afghanistan War?
DJ Foundation's mischievous sense of humour prevails throughout but DO NOT file under novelty. The music rocks on both an aural and an artistic, conceptual level. I DJ Foundation has made one of the most joyous, disturbing, funny and sad albums I've ever heard.
