Not enough people do the Quasimoto thing, like I don’t know if La Rat do pitch up the vocals but it’s a cool sound, relentless weird-pitch-hop. The slippery slick beats, luxurious soul meets ghostly hypnagogia, are nice, too

Hollandalı ikili Goya van der Heyden ve Tobias Jansen’in projesi La Rat, Amsterdam merkezli South of North etiketiyle kendi ismini taşıyan albümünü yayınladı.

Madlib’in Quasimoto karakterini veya Rammellzee’nin fütüristik vizyonunu andıran proje; funk, soul ve caz sample’larını kirli, "lo-fi" ve deneysel bir hip-hop estetiğiyle birleştiriyor. Kes-yapıştır (cut-and-paste) tekniğiyle oluşturulan ritimler ve spoken-word vokaller, dinleyiciye yağmurlu bir gece sürüşünün soundtrack’ini sunuyor. Albüm, hip-hop’ın "beat tape" geleneğine saygı duruşunda bulunurken, onu saykodelik ve soyut bir düzleme taşıyor.

South of North presents:

  This playlist was compiled by NME feature writer April Welsh, for an online NME Blog post to accompany her feature on Flying Nun Records and "The Dunedin Sound" published in the NME last week. "Dunedin Sound" is a loaded term here in Dunedin and New Zealand, and can still polarise and irritate people here 30 years after the phrase was first used. Overseas it is used as a short-hand code for a style of music, although it is never explicitly clear what that style actually is, because there is no "sound". Even the supposed DIY attitude, considered to result from isolation & necessity was not unique to the City.  

Regardless of the framing of the feature around a mythical "sound" on a label with a very diverse catalogue, the feature is a refreshing perspective on a familiar theme. The writer approaches it from the perspective of a recent fan - she was so taken by what she discovered she wrote and published a fanzine last year called ‘Brave Words - NZ Indie 1980-95’  http://issuu.com/prilpet/docs/bravewordsnzindiezine1980-95

While the NME article is obviously based around a scene from the past, it is written from the perspective of what it means to a new generation of bands from the US and UK today (Parquet Courts, Hookworms, Veronica Falls). It also has a link through to what's happening here in Dunedin today, mentioning the current scene and our upcoming compilation LP. And as you can see above, including songs from current bands on Fishrider - Opposite Sex ("La Rat") and Males ("Madeline).

Opposite Sex - La Rat