IM // UR | White Noise by Clock Opera

This is probably the most exciting album we've heard in a while. Can you imagine a metal band not made by (and for) teenagers who worship Iron Maiden like their sisters worship Miley Cyrus? Invasion's The Master Alchemist is a compilation of 12 songs created with noisy guitars and fearless female vocals that will teach future generations about the emerging punk attitude; all with a metal sound and new rave style that might actually be the future of hairy metal. And we all thought heavy metal had no future...

WE // R \\ WEARING

No matter what part of the world you live in, you really can't ever have enough tees. Specially white ones. And black ones. With cool graphic prints on them. Meanwhile, in hipster-dom, crystals are still an ever popular theme, but in this case, we prefer this one in particular from Canadian based operation Handsome Clothing, christened the 'Lunar Crystal' (//Christel) tee. 'Handsome', despite being a kind of old school, highly civilised type of word, does describe this tastefully hip label justly. They also have a darn good-looking blog too, so go check that out while you're at it.

WE // R \\ WATCHING

Burn Notice is a USA Network series about a spy who got burned - which they remind you of in every scene. Although following the
basic style of American television, the series will catch all you dudes out there (sorry, girls won't like this) who like watching things explode in the most diverse ways. And like any good spy show, it teaches you how to make homemade bombs with boring things (a modern version of MacGyver). Plus Bruce Campbell is a lead character. And he's looking all Morrissey like.

WE // R \\ GOING

Imagine a youth house transformed into a club. Now charge 4 reais for a (long neck) beer and from 10 to 15 reais to get in. If you did it all right this would be called Neu (read in German) and actually already exists in São Paulo. My favorite night there is Friday, when they host Explode, a party where they basically play third world inspired songs (from Vampire Weekend to the whole club rap scene from Baltimore). Some great underrated DJs play there from time to time, and when you least expect it, you might find yourself laying on the dancefloor busting out some drunky town moves.

WE // R \\ READING

So yes, we've been wayyyy slack in updating the We//R\\Stuffs, which is why I'm going to say now that we began and finished Oscar Wilde's A Picture of Dorian Gray well before we knew it was a film. This is a classic novel about art, vanity, beauty and the consequences of such. 'A Picture of Dorian Gray' is brilliant; exploring and exploiting the potentially corrosive characters of beauty and what beauty can do to a character. Navigating through the deeply dark and light sides of human nature, Wilde's novel is a wickedly good study of society, and echoes with a cackling delight (and despair) at humanity's foibles.

White Noise by Clock Opera

Monday // November 16, 2009 at 01:44 // filed under Music

Guy Connelly's aptly named project Clock Opera is just that - Guy being the maestro conducting a symphony of samples, cuts and percussion. And whilst here in Sydney the air is smelling sweet and the sun shining bright enough to burn you to a fluorescent crisp, if you happen to be in grey London, seek some - metaphorical - sunshine in the Levi's Ones to Watch program; where Clock Opera happens to be one of the acts hitting the stage.

I keep getting the urge to say Clopera. Or Operock. Anyway.

Clock Opera dropped the b-side to their first single ' White Noise' called 'Alouette' over at Discodust a month or so back, which brought to my mind a kind of weird Coldplay/Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 'Pure Imagination' collision, in a good way. Here's single 'White Noise', a soundscape full of ambition; the project harbours rather grand sonic ideas. It's only in 192 kpbs so go hit Puregroove for the vinyl.

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Clock Opera - White Noise [mp3]

Dalstonites Django Django hand over a marchingly good remix; starting out with a clanging, robotically dancey bit of syncopation, before the drums kick in and the epic delay filters on. It moves on to be more epic sounding than the original in some ways. This remix is kept grounded though with Django Django turning up the progression that the track is built around in muzzy guitar form - which, in the original is much more subtley synthy.

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Clock Opera - White Noise (Django Django remix) [mp3]

P.S. Billed with Clock Opera at the Levi's Ones to Watch gig are also Marina & The Diamonds and Wolf Gang who will all be playing in Hoxton at the Bar & Grill on the 18th. Go check 'em.

POSTED BY CHRISTEL ESCOSA

TAGS: Django Django, Clock Opera