banging pots and pans, footsteps hitting the pavement, disco, delay on everything, dark and cold city nights, hanging out, hanging around, lovefingers.org, 20 Jazz Funk Greats, A1 lebanese pizzeria, shanghai dumpling house
The Emergency make the music of tomorrow you imagined in a hazy
childhood daydream. By combining disco beats, shimmering synths and
dubbed out vocal effects they weave a web of heavy cosmic pop that avoids
sounding quotational or disposable.
Starting out in 2001 when Milo Kossowski enlisted two friends to play some
synthesiser instrumentals he’d written for a music festival in an art gallery,
The Emergency were pioneers of the current wave of Melbourne synth bands.
Always following their vision and always staying true to their DIY roots, The
Emergency have attracted attention worldwide which has seen them lauded
by taste-making blogs such as 20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk, headline the Hanoi
International Music Festival and be handpicked to support Glass Candy for the
US band’s only Melbourne show.
For the last three years a two-piece of Milo (vox/keys) and Morgan McWaters
(keys/machines), the Emergency have been busy in the studio producing a
series of vinyl singles (Spending Time 7” 2007, Forever/Too Much 12” 2008)
and remixes (Catcall, The Slits, SSION). In 2009 The Emergency will see their
second long player Dreams That Money Can Buy released, which includes
contributions from Catcall, producer D.Block and Outrun bassist Mark
O’Keeffe. The album was entirely recorded and produced by the band in their
own studio using a blend of vintage and modern instruments and effects, and
the freedom of recording and mixing at their own pace has allowed the songs
to be refined and polished to perfection. The band use the full-length format
to expand from their roots of 3-minute pop songs to longer workouts that
take the listener on a sonic journey to the outer limits of the cosmos, as well
as offering up some pure pop diamonds.
Here's the video for 'Forever', out now on Metal Postcard and Exo Records.
12" Too Much/Forever out now on Exo and Metal Postcard, with remixes from C.L.A.W.S, Brothers and Shazam!
News from Ibiza... disco is back in it's most psychedelic form. Names to drop: Hercules & Love Affair, Glass Candy and The Emergency. Vogue (UK)
I’ve meant to write about The Emergency for ages, and now it’s the moment, relish the second before you press play below as one of anticipation before bliss, an electric impulse later finds you floating in the zero-g space of their synthetic world, skies of an orange gradient such as those summoned by Vangelis in the mournful multi-track suggestions of See You Later, or hegemonic alchemists Chris and Cosey, an eternal carousel of neon tubes curling upon each other like genetic algorithms, coupling, swirling and growing into the perfect shape of an electroid pop gem endowed with the same baroque & languid sexuality of Sebastian Tellier’s vanilla butterfly soul, it could have well found a home in the perfectly curated museum of the LCD Soundsystem’s debut album, a statue of liquid metal of Rodinesque beauty getting off with Marc Almond in the luminous spaces of a modernist corridor. 20 Jazz Funk Greats (UK)
In a word stunning. More club floor decimation from the Metal Postcard stable. This brooding beauty will appeal to everyone from disciples of Kraftwerk to lovers of DAF, gloriously parched with a retro accent and liberally dipped with stark minimalist grooves, this dislocated euro disko funk wrap ripples warily like a ‘music for the masses’ era Depeche Mode. Losing Today (UK)
Forever / Too Much is… that rare form of dance music that's enjoyable on an inward-looking cerebral level as much as it is under the lights of the dancefloor. The dirty after-hours antithesis to the vacuous more polished proponents of the genre. thevine.com.au (Australia)
It's always nice to receive vinyl to review, but with The Emergency, I couldn't imagine it any other way- CDs or MP3s would just interfere with their antiquarian vibe. They use the vinyl form well, crafting a severe, modernist visual aesthetic. Musically, too, The Emergency are as stark as you like, offering a particularly enervated vision of death-disco for abandoned East German factories. With its endlessly layered, shimmering synth arpeggios, 'Forever' harks back to the oppressive electronic post-punk of Section 25's 'Looking from a Hilltop' (a curiously under-utilised reference point), while the ultra-slow strut of 'Too Much' reminds me more of Simple Minds circa 'Empires and Dance'. The Emergency's most distinctive feature is their vocalist, whose deep, rumbling moan of a voice at its best sounds like the final exhalation of breath from a corpse, and at its worst like you're playing the record at the wrong speed. Inpress (Australia)
Funk is one of the most grossly overused words in music journalism, but one can't help thinking of the term when listening to The Emergency's "Spending Time." The basslines groove, the the harmonies slink, and if the vocals didn't remind us of pasty white Englishmen from the mid-'80s, we might be convinced this track is straight from the 1960s. Love those handclaps! XLR8R (USA)
The Emergency are from Melbourne, Australia and their brooding, indie electro sound reminds me so much of Colder (who has since stopped making music much to my dismay) Well, maybe Colder mixed with Cut Copy mixed with Chromatics. Maybe I’m just a sucker for things that sound like they are recorded by tall, dark and handsome gentlemen playing synths in long, concrete hallways. Bigstereo (USA)
As fresh and breezy an effort as anything produced by the much hyped Italo-Disco school... while all the signifiers of that movement are here, The Emergency never sound quotational or calculated like so many new club acts.... this single is a classy outing by one our most futuristic sounding groups. Threethousand.com.au (Australia)
Perfect electro pop. Monster Children (Australia)
The Emergency make cold and controlled android music that, at its roots, is also simple electro pop. Magic. Inpress (Australia)
Are you the type of person who could enjoy listening to The Human League's Dare album through a heavily distorted transistor radio? It's not something that you'll ever listen to when you're coming down, but it's a whole lot of fun on the way up. The Brag (Australia)
Some bands we've played with... Glass Candy, Enon, Trans Am, ARE Weapons, Cut Copy, The Presets, Midnight Juggernauts, and Architecture in Helsinki.
Discography 2008 - Forever / Too Much - 12" on Exo / Metal Postcard with remixes from C.L.A.W.S. and Brothers 2007 - Spending Time / Switch Me - Digital version available from iTunes and eMusic, with bonus remixes by Ajax and Harris Robotis 2007 - Spending Time / Switch Me - 7" on Metal Postcard 2006 - Mess and Noise Cover CD - The Highway 2006 - Melbourne Water 2 - Various artists. 'Close all Doors' 2005 - Ministry of Sound Bang Gang mix CD - remix of our tune, 'We Got the Horror' 2005 - The Spectrum Deadly - 14 track LP - out through Feral Media 2005 - We Got the Horror - Remix single - mixes by Electronicat, G.D Luxxe, Dsico, Spod, Talkshow Boy. Out through Feral Media 2004 - The SBS Whatever Sessions - two tunes 2003 - Sound the Alarm - EP - self-released / sold out
Hi, I have really good news! I recently got a job at a radio station and would love if you were able to send me your music to play on the air over the Boulder, Denver, Castle Rock and Ft. Collins area here in Colorado.
I currently host two shows. One is on Saturday night, called SubHarmony, in which I am able to play all sorts of electronic robot computer music of all techno genres that I love and one show on Mondays, called Allen, for all the other types of music genres. With both shows I am able to play all music from all over the planet from all musical genres. If you can send me a cd, then all the other dj's here at Radio 1190 can access your music for their radio shows also.
Mail cd to:
Allen Miller SubHarmony Radio 1190 Campus Box 207 University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado 80309 USA
Also, if you tour around our area, we can help promote if you contact our Promotions Director, Traffic Director and/or our Street Team Volunteer Coordinator. We can also set up an on air interview too if you have time.
I am contacting you because I love your music and would like to see it played to our audience. Thank you for your time and thank you for making great music:) Cheers mate, Allen
P.S. You can listen to us anywhere in the world by visiting www.radio1190.org
hello untypical one! thanks for being a pal. Join us in celebrating the 30-year anniversary of Cut with this upcoming official book about The Slits - 'Typical Girls?' You can pre-order it at a great discount (from Amazon).
miles is bringing it over tonight for me to check out, he reckons it's pretty swell, I'll try get an mp3 for you asap. thanks again for the midas touch.
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