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Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action

Domino — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:05:34

Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action, the fourth studio album by Franz Ferdinand, will be released by Domino on 26^th August 2013.

Watch the trailer HERE

Pre-order all formats HERE.

This exuberant, unencumbered record is the first from the Glasgow band since 2009’s Tonight. They seem to have rediscovered the imagination, vitality and fun found on their classic, era-encapsulating debut Franz Ferdinand.

Recorded over the last year at Kapranos’s Scottish studio, McCarthy’s Sausage Studios in London, Club Ralph and a couple of trips to Stockholm and Oslo, the LP cements their status as a unique and adventurous British band: emboldened by a decade’s undreamt-of worldwide success, but still daring and defiant. It’s an ecstatic rejection of the drab conventions often accompanying that level of attention and expectation.

When asked for a quote, Kapranos came back with: “The Intellect Vs The Soul, played out by some dumb band.”* God knows what that means, but the lyrics do seem more poetic this time. There were a few interesting collaborations, but more of that later…

The ten songs that make up Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action take what propelled Franz Ferdinand from the incestuous Glasgow Art School world to, well, the entire world - painterly lyrical detail, heavyweight hooks, precise aesthetic vision and that uncanny ability to marry arch artistic sensibility with pop punch – and push it even further. The breadth of influence, musicality and invention on show here is enormous. If this is unmistakably a Franz Ferdinand record, it is as much by virtue of its sonic daring and perfectly patch-worked eclecticism as the timeless songwriting flair that has long been their calling card.

Franz Ferdinand are still Alex Kapranos, Nick McCarthy, Bob Hardy and Paul Thomson. There’s still no one like them.

Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action will be available on CD (WIGCD255), deluxe limited edition double CD (WIGCD255X), LP (WIGLP255), via digital download (WIG255D) and a Deluxe DomMart only double LP (WIGLP255X) - packaged in a hand numbered die-cut gatefold sleeve. The exclusive bonus disc in both the double CD and double LP, entitled Right Notes, Right Words, Wrong Order, is a document of a thrilling live session captured at the legendary Konk Studios in London.

In addition, Domino will be releasing Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action - The Passport Edition. Limited to 500 worldwide, The Passport Edition features a deluxe edition of each physical format of the album, all 7”s and 12” singles and access to the highest quality audio files possible as well as exclusive tracks and content.

The tracklisting for the album is as follows:

Right Action
Evil Eye
Love Illumination
Stand On The Horizon
Fresh Strawberries
Bullet
Treason! Animals.
The Universe Expanded
Brief Encounters
Goodbye Lovers & Friends

* He said something on his Twitter about being “The Last Bastard Of British Pop” which sounded better, but apparently he’s “bored of that one” now.

The Pastels Insane Energy Drop Competition

Domino — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:05:15

It's been a long journey, but a good one. People, we're nearly there now and on May 27, The Pastels fantastic new album, Slow Summits will finally be available from Domino Mart and all good outlets. We are extremely excited to announce a last minute addition for all first wave purchasers.

During the making of Slow Summits, The Pastels listened to a lot of music; they always do, but what? We think we have the answer because Stephen and Katrina have compiled a small edition mix cd called Insane Energy Drop which is the perfect companion to the making of the record. At this stage, we're not prepared to reveal anything that is on it, but it's a beautiful Pastelesque mix of friends, fellow travellers and odd corners of their record collection. We're quietly confident that no non-Pastel will be able to identify every single track, but the thing is, you never know…

For the person that gets them all, or gets closest we are offering a signed high quality print of the cover art, something special from The Pastels own archive, and one record of your choice from the Domino catalogue. To get into the competition we recommend that you pre-order your copy of Slow Summits immediately from Domino Mart, or your local record shop then send us what you think the tracklisting of the Insane Energy Drop mix is. Entries should be sent to: competition@dominorecordco.com by the 24^th June.

Good luck!

Disclaimer: CDs will only be available in selected UK indie shops & with worldwide Dom Mart orders. Don’t worry if you don’t get your hands on a CD there will be a way for everyone to enter, just watch this space…

Melody's Echo Chamber – Some Time Alone, Alone Video

Domino — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:05:42

For more info, head over to the Weird World site.

Jon Hopkins & the Creators Project premiere ‘Immunity’ video

Domino — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:05:41

With the release of Jon Hopkins' forthcoming album, Immunity, on June 3^rd, we are excited to premiere the extraordinary new audio-visual piece and collaboration with The Creators Project, ‘Immunity’. Watch it here: http://youtu.be/QWam1HlKGkI

The ‘Immunity’ video was an intricate collaborative effort between art director & typographer Craig Ward, biochemist Linden Gledhill and Jon Hopkins. Soundtracked by music from the forthcoming album, the piece features Gledhill's microscopic time-lapse photography of crystal growth and chemical reactions. Craig Ward explains:

"Jon's music is organic and flowing, yet with a hard and rhythmic electronic edge. The idea of delving down to explore chemical interactions under a microscope felt like the perfect solve to create the album imagery and our video for The Creators Project features much of the same - various immiscible liquids, dyes and chemicals interacting underneath the watchful eye of my collaborator on the project, biochemist Linden Gledhill."

To learn more about ‘Immunity’, visit http://bit.ly/10KQv4o. The Creators Project is an ongoing global arts and technology initiative created by Intel and Vice in order to support visionary artists, musicians, and filmmakers who are using technology to push the bounds of creative expression.

Jon Hopkins has added a date at KOKO in London on 21^st September. His album release show at London’s Village Underground on June 12^th has now sold out. Hopkins will also be performing at Green Man and Bestival in the UK. Full live dates are as follows:

Sat. May 11 - Geneva, CH @ Mapping Festival

Fri. May 31 - Montreal, QC @ Mutek [Metropolis]

Tue. June 4 - Brooklyn, NY @ Glasslands

Wed. June 12 - London, UK @ Village Underground~ - SOLD OUT

Thu. June 13 - Barcelona, ES @ Leisure System

Sun. June 23 - Westmeath, IE @ Body & Soul

Sat. June 29 - Derry, IE @ Celtronic Festival

Fri. July 5 - Amsterdam, NL @ Pitch Festival

Sat. July 20 - Gente, BE @ 10 Days Off Festival

Fri. Aug. 16 - Berlin, DE @ Berghain

Sat. Aug. 17 - Wales, UK @ Green Man Festival

Fri. Aug. 23 - Katowice, PL @ Nowa Musyka

Fri. Sep. 6 - Isle of Wight, UK @ Bestival

Sat. Sep. 21 - London, UK @ Koko

Thu. Oct. 26 - Munich, DE @ Münchner Kammerspiele

~ w/ The Field (support/solo live show), Nathan Fake (support/DJ set)

Open Eye Signal is the first single taken from the album and will be available on June 3^rd, with remixes from Happa, Lord of the Isles, Luke Abbott and Nosaj Thing. STREAM "OPEN EYE SIGNAL" (NOSAJ THING REMIX) here: http://snd.sc/104I1Jk.

WATCH "OPEN EYE SIGNAL" video, here: http://youtu.be/Q04ILDXe3QE

Pre-order Immunity, HERE.

Grant Hart - The Argument

Domino — Wed, 08 May 2013 13:05:02

Domino are proud to announce that we will be releasing The Argument from Grant Hart on July 22nd, 2013.

As founder and half of the songwriting engine that drove the mighty Hüsker Dü to his maverick solo work, Grant Hart has cut a singular path across the last three decades of music. It is with great confidence that we say he has made an album to rival his greatest achievements. A double album based on John Milton's epic Paradise Lost, Hart distills its essence into pop and rock concoctions that nimbly flit through the history of 20th century music from Irving Berlin and David Bowie to... Hüsker Dü, even. Ambition is the topic and Hell is the location for this project that is ambitious as Hell. Does he pull it off? We say yes!

While visiting James Grauerholz, former friend and secretary for William S. Burroughs, James showed Grant an unpublished manuscript for Lost Paradise, William's science fiction story which portrays the fallen angels as men from distant planets and God as none other than fellow Missourian Harry S. Truman. James and Grant discussed adding music to William's story much in the same way that Tom Waits and William conspired to turn the German folk tale Die Freishutz into The Black Rider as staged by Robert Wilson.

From that point the seed had been planted, and the seed grew into the most beautiful tree in the garden of Grant's career. Domino invite you to taste the fruit of this tree. Go ahead, taste it.

Although lines from the poem are rarely quoted directly, all of the menace, pain and devotion of Milton's best loved work are here found. But where Milton's poem was "unadorned by rhyme,'' The Argument contain many complex couplets, especially the title track, in which not only the ends of lines rhyme, but the word that ends a phrase is the same as the first line of the phrase after it, all while conforming to the original ten syllable structure devised by Milton. Anyone who has ever had a conversation with Grant knows how patiently he chooses the words he uses.

As a double album of two halves, we wanted to show both the light and the dark of the album in its initial introduction, so we are offering two tracks for preview. "Is the Sky the Limit?" is a melancholy song of the aftermath of rejection built upon the eerie and lonely sound of Sputnik 1. To counterbalance this somber paean, "Letting Me Out" follows in all its propulsive Buddy Holly glory as the Artist formerly known as Lucifer offers up his cunning business proposition to populate the netherworld.

Both can be heard here:

The Argument will be available on CD (WIGCD318), double vinyl (WIGLP318) and digitally (WIGDG318). And without further ado... the tracklist:

Out Of Chaos
Morningstar
Awake, Arise!
If We Have The Will
I Will Never See My Home
I Am Death
Sin
Letting Me Out
Is The Sky The Limit?
Golden Chain
So Far From Heaven
Shine, Shine, Shine
It Isn't Love
War In Heaven
Glorious
(It Was A) Most Disturbing Dream
Underneath The Apple Tree
The Argument
Run For The Wilderness
For Those Too High Aspiring

The campaign around the release of this album is going to include extensive touring with his band, Grant Hart and The Burn/Burning, with plans for a more conceptual presentation. Irish fans (and those in London) will be getting a special preview of the album with select dates leading up the album release:

May 31st Cork Stout Fest 2013

June 1st Clonmel O'Keeffe's

June 2nd Galway The Townhouse

June 7th Sligo McGarrigle's

June 8th Dundalk Spirit Store

June 9th Derry Sandino's

June 13th Belfast Voodoo

June 14th Kilkenny Cleere's

June 15th Dingle McCarthy's

June 16th Myrtleville Pine Lodge (afternoon)

Clonakilty DeBarra's (evening)

June 18th London, UK Water Rats

Watch Austra's 'Home' video + pre-order Olympia now

Domino — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:04:08

Austra are to release Home as the first single from their forthcoming much anticipated album, Olympia. A beautiful piano driven track with heartfelt lyrics expressing the anxieties of waiting up all night for a lover to return, Home will be released on the same day as the album - June 17^th in the UK (June 18^th in the US).

The accompanying video was filmed as one single take and features Katie Stelmanis and her band preparing for a show. The video was directed by That Go (Noel Paul & Stefan Moore - who have previously made videos for Bat For Lashes and Royksopp amongst others). "The band wanted the video to be intimate and simple, which we thought was perfect for the track. To that end we not only kept the format simple, but we also put the camera behind a 2-way mirror so the band couldn't see it. Whenever someone is looking at the camera they're only seeing their own reflection and the environment behind them."

Olympia is an album of transformation. Though it has only been two years since their2010 debut Feel It Break, it presents a quantum evolution in the Toronto-based band’s sound, structure and style. After three years of non-stop international touring with the likes of the XX, Grimes and the Gossip, when it came time to record Olympia, Austra had evolved into a complex collaborative effort between its six members.

Olympia is available to pre-order now via Domino on CD, limited edition double coloured vinyl and digitally via iTunes. All pre-orders through Domino will receive an instant mp3 download of the Home single and the six track Austra + Gina X ‘Mayan Drums’ 12” collaboration released earlier this month for Record Store Day.

Austra will return for a national tour in August and September. Tour dates below:

06-02 Dublin, IE - Forbidden Fruit
06-06 Zurich, CH - Plaza
06-07 Luzerne, CH - Sudpol
06-08 Yverdon-les Bains, SE - L'Amalgame
06-10 Amsterdam, NL - Bitterzoet
06-11 Gent, BE - DOKBox
06-12 Paris, FR - Nouveau Casino (SOLD OUT)
06-14 Berlin, DE - Lido (SOLD OUT)
06-17 London, UK - Hoxton Bar Grill (SOLD OUT)
06-20 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg ^
06-23 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour
06-26 San Francisco, CA - The Independent
07-18 Nijmegen, Netherlands - Valkhof Festival
07-19 Ferropolis, DE - Melt Festival
07-21 Suffolk, UK - Latitude Festival
07-26 Barcelos, PT - Milhoes De Festa Festival
07-30 Milan, Italy - Magnolia
07-31 Padova, Italy - Radar Festival
08-01 Feldkirch, AT - PoolBar Festival
08-02 Salzburg, AT - Stuck! Festival
08-03 Katowice, PL - OFF Festival
08-10 Helsinki, FI - Flow Festival
08-30 Detroit, MI - Crofoot Ballroom *
08-31 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall *
09-01 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock *
09-04 Seattle, WA - Neumos *
09-05 Portland, OR - MusicFest NW
09-10 Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom *
09-12 Dallas, TX - Trees *
09-13 Austin, TX - Mohawk *
09-14 Houston, TX - Fitzgeralds *
09-15 New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks *
09-17 Atlanta, GA - The Earl *
09-18 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle *
09-19 Washington, DC - Black Cat *
09-20 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer *
09-22 New York, NY - Webster Hall *
09-24 Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall *
11-25 London, UK - Koko

^ w/ Mozart's Sister
* w/ DIANA

Steve Mason has 'A Lot Of Love'

Domino — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:04:03

Steve Mason has announced the release of his new single, 'A Lot Of Love'. More information can be found HERE

The Pastels share video for 'Check My Heart'

Domino — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:04:39

Capturing a community spirit that these days is more important than ever, the video for The Pastels’ new single ‘Check My Heart’ is both upbeat and charming. Taken from the forthcoming album Slow Summits, ‘Check My Heart’ is also available to download now.

Shot on 16mm film with minimum set-ups, Blair Young’s ‘Check My Heart’ promo is the story of one early spring Saturday in Glasgow. Lives overlap, connect, coincide, the music is a constant; sometimes it’s only playing in our heads.

As a track, ‘Check My Heart’ is all optimism, boldly announced by Katrina Mitchell’s intrepid vocal overlaps and Stephen McRobbie’s more melancholic counter. The sound is 3D, vivid - The Pastels’ love of garage punk, soul crossover and first-wave independent clatter converging all too briefly, winding down the window and racing off into the summertime.

Pastelism 2013, Glasgow in the sun.

Promo by Blair Young for The Forest of Black.

‘Check My Heart’ is available to download now and will also be released on 7” on April 29^th including the b-side ‘Illuminum Song’. Both songs will be available digitally as a bundle from May 27^th. Slow Summits will be released on May 27^th through Domino. Pre-order the album on CD (WIGCD185) and LP (WIGLP185) HERE

The Pastels will be playing the following shows:

June 1^st Glasgow, CCA - Tickets

July 27^th: Indietracks Festival, Derbyshire Tickets

August 16^th: Green Man Festival, Black Mountains, Wales – Tickets

August 24^th: Doune the Rabbit Hole, Doune, Scotland – Tickets

Jon Hopkins to release Open Eye Signal plus video

Domino — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:04:23

Open Eye Signal is the new single from Jon Hopkins, and the first taken from forthcoming LP, Immunity (released on June 3^rd 2013 in the UK, June 4^th in the US). Open Eye Signal will also be released on June 3^rd and will feature remixes from Happa, Lord of the Isles, Luke Abbott and Nosaj Thing.

The video for Open Eye Signal was filmed by Aoife McArdle in California: "The track is really special. I saw it as a singular, hypnotic journey that's almost endless. You get lost in it. I liked the idea of a city kid taking us on that journey... just one day suddenly deciding to escape his life and see more of the world in the only way he understands...via skateboard.". Watch it below:

Immunity is a confident, dramatic record, defined by an acute sense of physicality and place and inspired by the arc of an epic night out. It feels like the hypnotic accompaniment to a journey of creativity, a trip inside Hopkins’ mind, using analog synthesis alongside manipulations of physical, real-world sounds to make dance music that feels as natural and unforced as possible.

Jon Hopkins will be performing a headline album launch show at London’s Village Underground on 12^th June. You can purchase tickets HERE.

Exclusive digital bundles of Open Eye Signal remixes will be available from 29^th April, with a white label vinyl available from May 20^th.

Animal Collective to release Monkey Been to Burn Town remix EP

Domino — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:04:29

Animal Collective is happy to announce the Monkey Been to Burn Town remix EP, set for release on 12” vinyl (RUG525T) and digital (RUG525D) on May 27th. Drawing from the band's latest record Centipede Hz, the EP features remixes of "Monkey Riches" by Gang Gang Dance's Brian Degraw, Chicago Juke producer Traxman and New York underground dance producers Teengirl Fantasy, as well as a remix of "New Town Burnout" by Seattle based hip-hop collective Shabazz Palaces. Listen to Brian Degraw's remix of “Monkey Riches” here.

The Monkey Been To Burn Town EP can be preordered on 12” vinyl here. Everyone who pre-orders from Dom Mart will get an instant gratification mp3 download of Brian Degraw's remix.

The band is returning to Europe next month for headline performances at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, Spain and at Field Day in London, before embarking on a summer North American tour.

For a taste of the band’s live show, watch the band’s live videos for “Applesauce,” “Moonjock” and “Amanita” here. Filmed in conjunction with The Creators Project, the videos catch the band’s impressive stage show, which was aptly described by Pitchfork as “giant, gap-toothed Nickelodeon dentures on either side, a curved inflatable structure that resembled scorpion tails dipped in PAAS dye, a centralized TV running constant, blaring images. Basically, the cover of Centipede Hz gone widescreen.”

Earlier in 2012, Animal Collective released their 10th and latest album Centipede Hz. The band’s first record since 2007’s Strawberry Jam to feature all four original band members, Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist and Deakin, Centipede Hz was hailed by critics as a return to Animal Collective’s experimental roots. The album can be ordered via the Animal Collective webstore here.

Tracklisting:

A1 - Monkey Riches (Brian DeGraw [Gang Gang Dance] Remix)
A2 - Monkey Riches (Tha Traxman Teklife Remix)
B1 - New Town Burnout (Shabazz Palaces Remix)
B2 - Monkey Riches (Teengirl Fantasy Remix)

Will Oldham on Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

Domino — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:02:39

A man who acts under the name Will Oldham and a singer songwriter who performs under the name Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy has, over the past quarter of a century, made an idiosyncratic journey through, and left an indelible mark on, the worlds of indie rock and independent cinema, intersecting with such disparate figures as Johnny Cash, Bjork, James Earl Jones and R. Kelly along the way.

These conversations with long-time friend and associate Alan Licht probe his highly individualistic approach to music making and the music industry, one that cherishes notions of intimacy, community, mystery, and spontaneity.

Alan Licht is a guitarist, composer, and writer.

Rekords Rekords badge and sticker pack

Domino — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:04:50

"Where the shit hits the fans" badge and sticker set.

Rekords Rekords Mug

Domino — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:04:14

Circle Square Triangle

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:44

Circle. Square. Triangle. is the new single from hotly tipped gonzo noise-punk trio Test Icicles. Fitting comfortably between Cookie Puss era Beastie Boys and futurist deranged metal-disco, Circle. Square. Triangle. is quite possibly the most dizzying three and half minutes of youth packed energy and excitement you�ll hear all year. Containing the FM-heading chorus �We could do with some more Poison� repeated over and over again until the listener explodes into pogo mania, this will certainly light the fires of the impending winter blues.

POSTER - You Could Have It So Much Better (portraits)

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:44

Live Aoiheya January 2003

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:43

Fifty Riffs

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:38

New on the Dorset Paeans label (home to CD-R releases from the likes of Directorsound, Plinth and Barefoot Walker), this live record features Bill and his sextet storming through 50 classic riffs you'll know, love and hate!

September Collective

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:37

September Collective may well be the most beautiful electronic record of the year. It features Stefan Schneider (To Rococo Rot and Mapstation), Barbara Morgenstern, and Polish born musician, Paul Wirkus, in a series of improvisations which originated from the encores they played together while touring Poland as three solo projects. At a time when improvisation often seems more about the musicians� egos than the music, September Collective is all about melody, rhythm, surprise, context; and it's impossible to listen to without imagining a time or a place. Perhaps because it was recorded there, it starts to feel Polish. Sleeve artist, Alison Mitchell, seems to have imagined a pastoral neo-1960s world which we sometimes see in the incredible Polish screen prints of that time. In other ways this record, which is by three absolutely modern musicians, has a soft-focus melancholy about it; in the outro of The Return for instance, an acoustic guitar suddenly seeps into the mix affecting the whole sound and recalling comedown moments in soundtracks by John Barry and Ennio Morricone. It also touches on Schneider and Morgenstern's recent work with Bill Wells, and on Wirkus's Intelletto D'Amore set. In the process, each musician is constantly adding something; a melody line, an atmosphere, a forward propulsion, and the whole of the record is always fluid and three-dimensional. Part of the September Collective magic is that it's never that easy to identify which member is doing what, although one thing all three members pay attention to is melody. Recently The Wire identified Wirkus as one of the true pioneers of laptop based music, comparing him to Fennesz in his ability to zoom out from the technical moment of the glitch, and to present a picture of the music which is taking place. Although less concerned with the glitch, this description applies equally well to Schneider who always seems to instinctively know exactly where he is in a piece of music, and has expertly added low-end melody lines and morse code signals to To Rococo Rot, and a complete design in his own Mapstation project. Morgenstern's music is perhaps the most eclectic of the trio, switching between an almost neo-classical sense of music structure and the avant-pop brilliance of her three Monika albums. If the September Collective always has a good energy or momentum, it's hard not to imagine Morgenstern driving things forward, and never allowing things to become stuck in the static moment. In its improvised roots, the September Collective always had an air of unrepeatable coincidence, but the fact that the coincidences were so memorable has inspired the group members to continue working together. No-one in the September Collective views it as a side-project and the quest is already underway to coincide once more.

Sia: Rewrite

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:36

Very rare indeed: 10 copies of a 10" white label single. Sia's 'Rewrite' is remixed by Adem on one side, and Justus K�hncke on the other. Adem's Rewrite is a full on duet with Sia - a beautiful new addition to your ever-growing Adem collection...

Just Beyond The River (Ltd.2xCD)

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:36

Just Beyond The River is James Yorkston and the Athletes' second LP, following their critically lauded debut, Moving Up Country (Rough Trade Shops' album of the year) from 2002. Recorded and produced by Kieran (Four Tet) Hebden over a period of 2 weeks at Bryn Derwen studios in Wales, Just Beyond The River is a bold record. James' subtle skills as a songwriter really come to the surface, and the playing, as always remains untouchable. During the sessions the guys sat around listening to a mixed bag of old favourites and newer discoveries; Faust, Michael Hurley, Anne Briggs, D'Gary. Not since Will Oldham took post-hardcore rockers Slint on as his backing band have such influences helped create so beautiful a record. In some ways Just Beyond The River picks up where Moving Up Country left off. The tight jazz-folk styled performances from Reuben, Doogie, and Faisal bubble away throughout this new record, whilst the songs have more authority, more clarity, and a slightly darker edge to them on this outing. It's like James has his very own great Coltrane quartet with him! Perhaps unsurprising, with Hebden on board. This limited edition double CD version features the Fearsome Fairytale Lovers EP on disc 2.

This Fffire

Domino — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:05:05

That Might Well Be It, Darling

Domino — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:05:12

King Creosote has revealed the punch-line to the three EPs he released last year with a CD album, That Might Well Be It, Darling. It compiles all the songs from 2012’s vinyl series, and marks the CD debut of such tours de force as cosmic 80s hoedown ‘Doubles Underneath’ and devastating prog-pop psalm ‘Ankle Shackles’ (all 11-plus, wine-glass droning minutes of it).

Take Me Out - Daft Punk Remix

Domino — Tue, 07 May 2013 12:05:47

We've got a limited number of 12" Daft Punk remixes of Franz Ferdinand's 'Take Me Out' available exclusively via Dom Mart.

Monkey Been to Burn Town EP

Domino — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:04:21

Drawing from the band's latest record Centipede Hz, the Monkey Been To Burn Town EP features remixes of "Monkey Riches" by Gang Gang Dance's Brian Degraw, Chicago Juke producer Traxman and New York underground dance producers Teengirl Fantasy, as well as a remix of "New Town Burnout" by Seattle based hip-hop collective Shabazz Palaces.

Pre-order now and recieve an instant grat MP3 of the Monkey Riches (Brian Degraw [Gang Gang Dance] Remix) AND the Shabazz Palaces remix!

3 Song EP

Domino — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:04:59

Originally released in August 1998, 3-Song EP was required to quench the fans’ thurst. The combination of wack-ass knob twisting and crowd-pleasing singalongs that featured on Accelerator reflected some absurdly inverted sense of What People Wanted. Having assembled a band made up of artists on their American label Drag City, several domestic shows were scheduled, and the players arrived at Royal Trux’s rural Virginia ranch ready to rehearse, only to be told that a recording session was the first order of business.

In short order, the three songs were recorded, along with a fourth, a cover of Dire Straits’ ‘Money For Nothing’ which was set aside to be used as a b-side for a planned UK single release.The songs were a funky bunch — ‘Deafer Than Blind’ was a sweet ‘n’ sour ballad built off a drum loop, ‘Run, Shaker Life’ was a Richie Havens cover with spiritual overtones and later became a favourite live opener. ‘The United States vs One 1974 Cadillac El Dorodo Sedan’ was a proggy group jam that featured an extensive libretto and comprised one of the longest Royal Trux song yet. The static-crisp high end of Accelerator was abandoned in favour of a smeared, bottom-heavy sound, showcasing the thunder in the stomping rhythm section and a darker tone in Neil Hagerty’s bent-neck histrionics.

The Socialites (remixes)

Domino — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:03:36

Dirty Projectors are set to release "The Socialites" Remixes 12", an unreleased set of remixes of the standout track from last year's critically acclaimed Swing Lo Magellan album.

The white label 12" vinyl features remixes from Joe Goddard, AlunaGeorge and FaltyDL, and will be available digitally and physically on 13th May 2013.

Fly

Domino — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:03:10

A very limited double A-Side from one of the world’s most exciting emerging talents. Fly is perhaps the crown jewell of the heavily gem encrusted Child of Lov debut. It's modern soul music of epic proportions, a roaring, triumphant farewell to the world from a man who's seen his end. The track's sheer muscle, energy and attitude however signal that this is just the start for The Child of Lov. As with previous singles the production pays respects to America's south, with the result sounding something like the RZA producing for Muscle Shoals. What's not to like!

Give Me meanwhile has been one of the most talked about tracks of recent months, a gritty southern soul banger that came out of nowhere and established The Child of Lov as a one to watch in most end of 2012’s end of years.

Open Eye Signal (+ remixes)

Domino — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:03:33

Jon Hopkins is set to release "Open Eye Signal (Remixes) 12", a set of remixes of the lead single from his forthcoming album Immunity.
The white label 12" vinyl features remixes from Happa, Lord of the Isles, Luke Abbott, and Nosaj Thing.

Check My Heart

Domino — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:03:30

Solemns

Domino — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:01:28

It's been a long road through time and other things from "Get On Jolly" to "Solemns," but suffice to say, thirteen and some increasingly endless years later, the Bonnie 'Prince' and the Marquis de Tren have not only sat down for another royal audience with each other, but have also several reports from their sessions to share with all of us.
That their paths managed to converge after all this long was both incredible and yet inevitable - after all, the 'Prince' had over the years received compliments about "Get On Jolly" in the oddest places. And they were the oddest compliments, at that...it led him to wonder. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, the Marquis sat in front of his easel, rending the world as he saw fit. With every year that passed, his admiration of "Jolly" EP had only grown. Would it surprise anyone to know that the missive that restarted it all bore the MdT seal? Or that the correspondence, once followed upon, was nonetheless burned in Bonny's hearth by night's end?
Dream on, suckers.
History was reversed with "Solemns" though - instead of collabing ideas at a distance, which was how "Get On Jolly" was rolled (and which is, of course, much easier today than it was back in the good ol' pre-millennial times of "Get On Jolly"), they met in the same room. Face to face, nose to solar plexus, the 'Prince' and the Marquis unfurled the scroll together, with Tren Bro Jim White rumbling and banging things and playing drums, and Bonny gang crew Van Campbell, Emmett Kelly and Angel Olsen adding invaluable dimensions to the moments. It happened during the summer of 2012 on the one day it could, during a break between Bonny and Marqie D tour obligations, at last in the same hemisphere again - and thanks to local libations, all on the same level. The musical tapestry was strange and unchanged and yet thoroughly evolved from the olden times. But what words to float over the sensuously lapping wave phantasms of Tren's? In the days of "Get On Jolly," the 'Prince' reached for something to inspire a bit of verse - Rabinadranath Tagore's classic tome of pomes, Gitanjali. Of course! Every household had a copy on their bathroom shelf back in the queer ol' 90s. And the adapted words Bonny used suited the Marquis' gentle sighs a treat! For "Solemns," something equally curious, intense and deep was needed, a thing that seemed to come from the earth itself; words to sooth for peace but also cause oceans of gore to spill forth. In the end, there was no other document that could be used but to cull from Biblical Psalms. This cuts down on publishing woes too - public domain, you see? The mechanicals are just between them and their god.
In the end, the intensity could only last for three songs - any much more might have caused blood to rise and the sun to boil, and both the Marquis and the Bonnie 'Prince' like their sun slowly rising, not falling upon them. So they did their songs of music and etched the b-side and here it is. Let the philosophers stone up and take the measure of their words and music. The rest is up to them, and us, and you.

Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action

Domino — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:05:27

01. Right Action
02. Evil Eye
03. Love Illumination
04. Stand On The Horizon
05. Fresh Strawberries
06. Bullet
07. Treason! Animals.
08. The Universe Expanded
09. Brief Encounters
10. Goodbye Lovers & Friends

Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action, the fourth studio album by Franz Ferdinand, will be released by Domino on 26^th August 2013.

Recorded over the last year at Kapranos’s Scottish studio and McCarthy’s Sausage Studios in London, the LP cements their status as a unique and adventurous British band: emboldened by a decade’s undreamt-of worldwide success, but still daring and defiant. It’s an ecstatic rejection of the drab conventions often accompanying that level of attention and expectation.

When asked for a quote, Kapranos came back with: “The Intellect Vs The Soul, played out by some dumb band.”* God knows what that means, but the lyrics do seem more poetic this time. There were a few interesting collaborations, but more of that later…

Franz Ferdinand are still Alex Kapranos, Nick McCarthy, Bob Hardy and Paul Thomson. There’s still no one like them.

Between The Walls

Domino — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:03:27

"Between The Walls" captures the sound of a band 'playing' together, in both senses of the word - experimenting and trying things, being playful, as much as being a group performing as a unit together. Between The Walls is the sound of people pushing towards and pulling against one another simultaneously. It is the sound of buzzing amplifiers, sudden musical non-sequiturs, loud blasts of straight synth lines cutting through melody and structure. And it is also the sound of beautiful and odd electronic textures and brilliantly defined and deliberate drums, underpinning fragile but deliberate performances of sad songs and country ballads.

Olympia

Domino — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:03:23

Pre-order any format of Olympia and receive an instant grat download of album track 'Home' and the six track Austra + a download of the Gina X 'Mayan Drums' EP

After three years of non-stop touring following the release of 2010's debut Feel It Break, when it came time to record Olympia, Austra had evolved into a complex collaborative effort between its six members and presents a quantum evolution in the Toronto-based band’s sound, structure and style.

You Can't Hide Your Love Forever

Domino — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:03:10

These vinyl editions represent the only existing physical versions of the album available at this juncture. Each have been re-mastered for vinyl, include the original lyrics sheets and printed inner sleeves (save Texas Fever which had none) and will come with free digital download card.

Plus recieve an Orange Juice Badge Set.

The Orange Juice

Domino — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:03:23

Plus recieve an Orange Juice Badge Set.

Texas Fever

Domino — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:03:25

Plus recieve an Orange Juice Badge Set.

Rip It Up

Domino — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:03:30

Plus recieve an Orange Juice badge set.

Singles, Demos & Rarities 2007-2010

Domino — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:03:19

OLR is one of several artistic monikers adopted by prodigiously talented songwriter and bedroom pop pioneer Sam Mehran - an artist with which we have been fascinated for some time and from whom the world will be hearing brand new music soon. Before that, however, this new compilation, released on double LP in a one-time run of 500 copies, documents one of the most prolific creative periods in his career so far, pulling together twenty solid gold pop nuggets from various limited edition 7" and cassette releases scattered across some of the world's best underground labels (Olde English Spelling Bee, True Panther Sounds, Not Not Fun) as well as a host of hitherto unreleased material recorded in the same relentlessly inspired moment in time.

Christened after a popular 1970s sci-fi television programme, the songs of Outer Limits Recordings sound like surreal, alternate dimension AM radio smashes -- deliriously woozy power-pop earworms that are equal parts fantastically childlike and unsettling in the way their instantly memorable, candy-coated hooks evoke peculiar tales of longing, alienation and anxiety.

Long revered as a uniquely enigmatic and iconoclastic figure in the US underground by discerning publications, crate-diggers and contemporary artists alike but criminally over-looked by the wider media, this compilation represents the perfect portal into a special artistic imagination, a thrilling outsider-art artefact and even more reason for excitement regarding whatever Mehran dreams up next.

Immunity

Domino — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:02:23

A powerful, multi-faceted beast, packed with the most aggressively dancefloor-focussed music Hopkins has ever made, Immunity is about achieving euphoric states through music. Inspired by the arc of an epic night out, the album peaks with Collider, a huge, apocalyptic, techno monster and dissolves with the quiet, heartbreakingly beautiful closer, Immunity, a track featuring vocals from King Creosote which could sit comfortably alongside the gems of their Mercury-nominated collaboration, Diamond Mine.
Immunity is a confident, dramatic record defined by an acute sense of physicality and place. It feels like the hypnotic accompaniment to a journey of creativity, a trip inside Hopkins’ mind, using analog synthesis alongside manipulations of physical, real-world sounds to make dance music that feels as natural and unforced as possible.

Immunity is the most human electronic album you’ll hear this year.

"Purchase any format of this release and get an instant grat download of album track 'Open Eye Signal' "

The Child Of Lov

Domino — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:02:50

The Child of Lov heads back to the future as both modern soul man and funk revivalist on his self- titled debut album soon to be released on Double Six. It possesses a nostalgic reverence for the heavyweight roots of early trailblazers like Little Richard, Otis Redding and James Brown and as well as a penchant for the later neo soul of Dilla and D’Angelo. The Child of Lov certifies his scholarly underpinnings with a consummate cool that makes him feel like the rightful successor in the long line of important soulful beings.

The album was recorded at Damon Albarn’s 13 studio in London and features contributions from Albarn and DOOM and features artwork designed by The Child of Lov himself.

What The Domino Team Loved in 2011

Domino — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:12:02

With Christmas looming it's that time when we all look back on the things that helped get us through the previous year, so here at Domino we've compiled our lists of the things we happened to like the most, be it songs, food, gigs, basically whatever made us happy.

Mark Austin
- Helplessness Blues – Fleet Foxes
- My Morning Jacket at Somerset House – (gig)
- Josh T. Pearson – Last of the Country Gentlemen
- Being asked to join one of my favourite bands
- The Rolling Stones – Live in Houston (DVD)
- Le Tour
- Tom Waits - Bad as Me
- The Black Keys – El Camino
- Kool and the Gang at Glastonbury – (“This one’s for all the Ladies!”)
- The Beano

Emily Beaver
1. I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan
2. The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient / Future Weather
3. Austra - Feel It Break
4. Vivian Girls - Share the Joy
5. Jessica Lea Mayfield show @ Bowery Ballroom, NY
6. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
7. Ronnie Spector @ 'She's Got The Power' - A Girl Group Extravaganza, The Lincoln Center, NY
8. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
9. Beady Eye show @ Webster Hall, NY
10. The Smiths box set. I can't afford to own it but Mona lets me look at hers.

Peter Berard
- The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (LP)
- Blue Daisy - The Sunday Gift (LP)
- Planningtorock - The Breaks (10")
- Fucked Up - Live @ LPR (NYC)
- King Krule - King Krule (EP)
- Nicoals Jaar - Space Is Only Noise (LP)
- The Field - Looping State of Mind (LP)
- Holy Other - With U (EP)
- Katy Perry - Firework (single)
- Balam Acab - Wander/Wonder (LP)

Matthieu Bourrit
- Still Corners "Creatures Of An Hour"
- EMA "Past Life Martyred Saints"
- Iceage "New Brigade"
- Baxter Dury "Happy Soup"
- Anna & The Atlas Mountains
- seeing Low, twice
- renting a flat in Lisbon
- Pitchfork Festival Paris
- being offered some Sub Pop sneakers

Paul Briggs
(In no particular order)
1. Garrard 401
2. Tannoy IIILZ
3. The Ginger Pig meat book
4. Dorati / LSO: Wagner Preludes and Overtures (Mercury Living Presence)
5. King Creosote and Jon Hopkins: Diamond Mine
6. Anna Calvi: Anna Calvi
7. Pol Roger "Cuvee Winston Churchill" 1999 vintage
8. Beethoven Violin Concerto / Brahms 2nd Symphony (LPO / Thomas Zehetmair / Jukka-Pekka Saraste): Front row centre seats at RFH
9. Visiting Vinyl Factory (ex-EMI Hayes pressing plant)
10. LBs AIM award

Lynden Campbell
1. Kurt Vile Smoke Ring for My Halo
2. PJ Harvey Let England Shake(can't help myself)
3. Arthur’s Landing
4. Crystal Stilts - In Love with Oblivion
5. Gruff Rhys – Hotel Shampoo
6. Panda Bear - Tomboy
7. Alessi’s Ark – Time Travel
8. Veronica falls (total teenage indie nostalgia indulgence)
9. Real Estate - Days
10. Paper Cuts - fading parade (second indie teen indulgence)

Mona Dehghan
1. The Smiths Box Set (so wonderful it literally takes my breath away...i'm still hyperventilating)
2. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
3. Dirty Beaches - Badlands
4. Austra - Feel It Break
5. Future Islands - On The Water
6. The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
7. Trust - Candy Walls 7"
8. Alex Turner - Submarine Soundtrack
9. David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time
10. The Horrors - Skying
Honorable Mentions: I showed some restraint, but really wanted my top 10 to be overrun with our artists...(Please stop brainwashing me Domino!)
Arctic Monkeys Suck It And See, The Kills - Blood Pressures, Wild Beasts - Smother, John Maus - We Must Become Pitiless Censors of Ourselves, King Creosote + Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine, PJ Harvey - Let England Shake, Real Estate - Days, Cass McCombs - Humor Risk, Blood Orange - Coastal Grooves, Baxter Dury - Happy Soup, Amy Winehouse - Lioness, and that one M83 song is awesome.

Katie Dunne
1. Queens Of The Stone Age at O2 Academy Glasgow
2. Cass McCombs - "Humor Risk"
3. Ian Rickson's "Hamlet" at The Old Vic with Michael Sheen
4. Pulp at Hyde Park
5. Liza Minnelli at Kenwood House
6. Glastonbury
7. Bob Dylan at Feis
8. Wild Beasts at Pitchfork Paris
9 "The Shadow Line" on the BBC
10. "Days Of Heaven" lovingly restored on the big screen at the NFT

John Dyer
- Jay Z and Kanye album - Watch the Throne
- Girls album
- Real Estate album
- Kenny and Jon album
- Aerotropolis book - Greg Kasarda
- Polly Harvey album
- The 2 Cass albums
- Lykke Li album
- New series of 30 Rock

Fiona Ghobrial
1. Discovering New York
2. John Maus - Hey Moon
3. Washed Out - A Dedication
4. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
5. Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX - I'll Take Care Of You
6. Discovering Escape Bar, Soho
7. Peaking Lights - 936
8. Main Attrakionz - Perfect Skies
9. Lana Del Ray - Video Games / Blue Jeans
10. Glastonbury (Sunday) - healing & green fields in the sun

Kris Gillespie
1. The Smiths : Complete Smiths (Rhino)
The only band I would ever spend $500 on a box set for, but didn't: I could not have asked for a better 40th birthday present... thanks to my family.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGnjrTkv1gs
2. Ada : Meine Zarten Pfoten LP (Pampa)
It took seven years, but the wait was worth it... rich, melodic electronics galore...
http://snd.sc/oYMCVp
3. Vetiver : The Errant Charm LP (Sub Pop)
This record could have easily been made in 1975, and I mean that as a compliment...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQsBdi4IFGg
4. Nest : Body Pilot 10" (Serein)
Twenty minutes of melancholy ambient bliss...
http://snd.sc/vo2V7G
5. Wilco : The Whole Love (dBpm)
Wasn't expecting something so playful out of them...
http://snd.sc/v8POq0
6. Night Moves : Colored Emotions (self-release)
There's a weird mix of Buckley (Tim, not Jeff) and Rev (Mercury, not Martin) in this young trio from Minneapolis...
http://snd.sc/v7CBTn
7. Carter Tanton : Freeclouds (Western Vinyl)
Erstwhile Tulsa frontman and now Lower Dens member somehow makes drum machines and acoustic guitars play nice with one another...
http://snd.sc/q5hAxh
8. Eleanor Friedberger : Last Summer (Merge)
This the record I wish Fiery Furnaces would have made after "Gallowsbird's Bark."
http://snd.sc/tQynne
9. The Young : Voyagers Of Legend (Mexican Summer)
Imagine if you left a copy of "Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash," "Alien Soundtracks" and "Vampire On Titus" on the sidewalk and they melted down into one, it might just sounds like this messy noise from Austin, TX.
http://snd.sc/v33ws9
10. The Weeknd : House Of Balloons (self-released)
Dark 'n' moody r 'n' b from Canada that samples Throbbing Gristle, Beach House and Siouxsie &The Banshees? Sign me up.
http://www.the-weeknd.com/TheWeeknd_HouseOfBalloons.zip
honorable mention tunes of the year:
Cass McCombs - "County Line" (Domino)
Boof - "Joi Is Smiling" (BubbleTease)
Real Estate - "It's Real" (Domino)
The Bombay Royale - "Solla Solla Enna Perumai" (Hope Street)
Colbie Caillat - "Shadow" (Universal Republic)

Justin Gressley
- J Mascis - Several Shades Of Why - Sub Pop
- Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues - Sub Pop
- Fucked Up - David Comes To Life - Matador
- Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne - Def Jam
- Iceage - New Brigade - What's Your Rupture?
- Wilco - The Whole Love - Anti–
- Male Bonding - Endless Now - Sub Pop
- Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler / The Dream - In The Red
- Milk Music - Beyond Living - Perennial
- Jessica Jalbert - Brother Loyola - Old Ugly

Anne Haffmans
1.The Kills "Blood Pressures"
2. PJ Harvey "Let England Shake"
3. Apparat "The Devils's Walk"
4. Unthanks "Last"
5. Metronomy "The English Riviera
6. Wild Beasts "Smother"
7. S.C.U.M. "Again Into Eyes"
8. Beirut "The Rip Tide"
9. Anika "Anika"
10. Feist "Metals"

Paul Lambden
1. Drive - film and soundtrack
2. PJ Harvey live at the Troxy
3. Lake Garda, Italy
4. West Ham Utd 1 - Aldershot Town 2
5. Real Estate "Days"
6. The Cure "Reflections" live at the Royal Albert Hall
7. Stewart Lee live at Leicester Square Theatre
8. Wild Beasts "Smother"
9. My Brightest Diamond live at St Giles In The Field Church
10. Bobby "Bobby"

Steve Lowe
- Todd Rundgren at the Jazz Café
- Glen Campell at the Royal Festival Hall
- Real Estate at the Garage
- Dan Sartain at the Buffalo Bar
- Beautiful Rivers And Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound Of South Korea's Shin Joong Hyun 1958-74" - Shin Joong Hyun LP
- Real Estate - Days LP
- Dan Sartain - Fuck Friday 7”
- The Nightmarchers - Thar She blows 7”
- Skiatikus at the Bethnal Green Workingmens Club
- Metronomy – English Riviera LP

Nikki Mahmood Chee
- Owen Pallett LIVE @ The Esplanade Recital Hall in January
- Villagers LIVE @ The Esplanade Recital Hall in January
- Cass McCombs “Humor Risk”
- King Creosote & Jon Hopkins “Diamond Mine”
- St Vincent “Strange Mercy”
- J Mascis w/ Kurt Vile LIVE @ The Great Hall in March
- In Each Hand A Cutlass “A Universe Made of Strings”
- Belle and Sebastian LIVE @ The Esplanade Concert Hall
- Efrim Menuck “Plays High Gospel”
- Kate Bush “50 Words For Snow”

Harry Martin
In no particular order
1. Domino Radio
2. Other Voices 2011
3. The Alabama Shakes shaking it up in Nashville.
4. Wilco – The Whole Love
5. The South Wind Blows on your radio on a Sunday night. Music, poetry & chat from the most westerly tip of the Dingle Peninsula
6. And the winner of the Ivor Novello Award 2011 is.......Villagers…Becoming a Jackal.
7. Ripping it up on a duet with Johnny Cash in Sun Studios, Memphis. Hard to believe, isn’t it?
8. Cass McCombs - County Line
9. Let England Shake
10. The City of Barcelona.

Ryan McCann
Alva Noto - Univrs
Byetone - Symeta
Oneohtrx - Replica
Death Grips - Ex Military
Rustie - Glass Swords.
John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
Autechre - EPs '91 - 2002
Music From Saharan Cellphones Vol.1
Seeing Khaira Arby at Cafe Oto
Senna (Film)

Clare McKinney
- Pinch & Shackleton "Cracks in the Pleasuredome"
- Mein Tay's goat curry
- Domino Radio
- Blawan "Getting me Down"
- Mouse On Mars Paeanumnion at the Barbican with Oval in support
- Mountain High - cycling climbs sure to inspire next years' holiday
- "If on a winters night a traveller" the book and Bill Ryder Jones score "IF"
- Clone Basement Series
- Getting some Budokon in my life
- Scuba - "Adrenaline" & SCB "Loss"

Michael Mercer
1. Beano Cheltenham 2012
2. Rihanna ft Calvin Harris – We Found Love
3. Skype emoticons
4. Essáy – Morning Mountain
5. http://www.hulu.com/watch/287085/saturday-night-live-digital-short-v-necks
6. The Field – Looping State of Mind
7. Purity Ring – Ungirthed (Sun Glitters Remix)
8. M83 - Intro
9. Washed Out – Within and Without
10. Joey Essex – Reem (Original Mix)

Christophe Moracin
- spending the year with Anna Calvi in France
- Seeing amazing Godspeed You ! Black emperor in many cities
- crying at Diabologum Reunion gig in Vendomes
- losing ears at Mogwai gigs (Roundhouse / Follie Bergère)
- Listening to Chad Van Gallen "Dipaer island"
- watching " Polisse"
- being amazed by Gisele Vienne's "This is How you will Disappear"
- Hoping Sonic Youth hadn't really split
- and Soyons les plus Beaux !

Ben Morris
1. Becoming a dad twice in the space of a minute.
2. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
3. Kogi Taco Truck
4. Amazing TV: Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Game Of Thrones, Boss.
5. WU LYF - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
6. Future Islands - On The Water
7. Sexy Sax Man Sergio Flores - Careless Whisper
8. The return of saxophone. Thank you Bon Iver, M83, Iron & Wine and many more.
9. Purchasing and watching every episode (again) of "Lost: The Complete Collection" on Blu Ray disc. Google it to be wowed.
10. LCD Soundsystem's (epic) final show. SAD FACE.
11. Joining the Domino family.

Elena Nehrman
Concert: Sade live at the O2 Arena Berlin
Concert: The Kills live at C-Halle Berlin
Journey: Hiking in France/ Central Massiv in September
Theatre: 50km of files - a walkable radio play about the STASI
Album: Bill Ryder Jones - If
Album: Grace Jones - Hurricane Dub
Album: Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting
Film: Winter´s Bone
Food: Beetroot a la Stroganoff
Book: Thomas Harlan. Hitler was my dower. A conversation with Jean Pierre Stephan.

Stephen Newell
Records 2011:
- Wye Oak - Civilian
- Blood Orange - Coastal Grooves
- Zomby -Dedication
- Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
- The Field - A Looping State Of Mind
- Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming
- Walls - Coracle
- Washed Out - Within & Without
Sporting Highlights 2011:
- Ireland beating Australia in the Rugby World Cup
- Leinster beating Northampton in the Heineken Cup Final

Dan Ogden
1 – Going to Tokyo.
2 - Queens of the Stone age at the Roundhouse, London
3 – North Sea Radio Orchestra at St.Giles in the Field, London
4 - 'Limbo' Videogame
5 – Still Corners 'Creatures of an Hour'
6 – Blood Orange 'Coastal Grooves'
7 – 'Portal 2' Videogame
8 – 'The Walking Dead' TV Series 2
9 – Boris 'Attention Please'
10 – Toro Y Moi 'Underneath The Pine'

Jeff Pachman
My Brightest Diamond w/Y Music - All Things Will Unwind (Asthmatic Kitty)
Low – C’mon (Sub Pop)
LA Noire – (Rock Star Games)
DRIVE – feature film
Wilco – The Whole Love
Tom Waits – Bad as Me
Jenifer Jackson – “Bring on the Night”
The Miracles Club – “Light of Love”
YACHT – “Shangri La”
Keren Ann – “My Name is Trouble”

Dan Papps
- Real Estate - Days.
- Azari & III - Reckless With Your Love.
- Sun Ra Arkestra (directed by Marshall Allen) - Cafe Oto, 07/12/11.
- Julia Holter - Tragedy.
- Oral B Complete 'Fresh Mint' Toothpaste.
- Thundercat - Daylight.
- Sharon Van Etten - Serpent.
- Nas - Nasty.
- Juliana Barwick - The Magic Place.
- Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For Your Halo.
Special mention for the colour Navy Blue.

Pat Riley
1) Jackie (Woman)
2) Hiro (Canine)
3) Dirty Beaches "Badlands" (Compact Disc)
4) Handsome Furs "Sound Kapital" (Compact Disc)
5) Various Artists "Wheedles Groove Limited Edition 7" Box Set" (Vinyl)
6) Mogwai "Earth Division" (Compact Disc)
7) Austra "Feel It Break" (Compact Disc)
8) Shabazz Palaces "Black Up" (Vinyl)
9) Arctic Monkeys "Suck It and See" (Compact Disc)
10) my Cowichan sweater (Wool)
Honorable mentions: Anna Calvi live at Le Poisson Rouge, Adam Marnie "Locus Rubric" at Derek Eller Gallery, Daniel Chester French "Mourning Victory from the Melvin Memorial" and the Animation Hotline. I'm also enjoying Spotify even though I prefer my own version of it that I like to call Boughtify.

Alex Rose
top 10 songs of 2011 (in no particular order):
- The People's Temple - "Sons of Stone" (Sons of Stone, HoZac)
- Austra - "Lose It" (Feel It Break, Domino)
- OBN III's - "No Enemies" (The One and Only, Tic Tac Totally)
- Christmas - "Namiot" (S/T, Highfives and Handshakes)
- Real Estate - "It's Real" (Days, Domino)
- Föllakzoid - "IV, III, II, I" (Föllakzoid EP, Sacred Bones)
- Coasting - "Kids" (You're Never Going Back, M'Lady's)
- Thee Oh Sees - "Contraption/Soul Desert" (Carrion Crawler/The Dream, In The Red)
- Quilt - "Penobska Oakwalk" (S/T, Mexican Summer)
- YACHT - "I Walked Alone (Larry Gus Remix)" (Shangri-La, DFA

Paul Sandell
Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient
Julia Holter - Tragedy
Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer
Craft Spells - Idle Labor
Bo ningen - Live at THe Raw Power Festival
The Caretaker -An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
Low - C'Mon
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
Moon Duo - Mazes

Steph Seager
- Starting at Domino and trying my best not to drive Dan completely insane.
- Some amazing gigs since I’ve been to here so far – Anna Calvi at Shepherds Bush, Wild Beasts at Shepherds Bush, Arctics at the 02, Real Estate at the Scala, The Kills at Brixton… the list continues.
- Two words - Eugene. Mcguinness. Exciting times are most definitely ahead in 2012!
- Great times at Columbia and making some friends for life there. Highlights include - being part of team Miles Kane - watching him going from playing the Water Rats a year ago to two sold out Electric Ballrooms and finishing my Columbia career with a brilliant Radio One Live Lounge (well, I am a radio geek), working with the Manics - the nicest band ever - officially. The journey to Isle Of Wight and the discovery of Nick Nav. Being in the same room as Bruce Springsteen. Um, Madcon… or possibly not.
- The return of a deeply unhealthy obssession with the Foo Fighters at gigs from Carlisle to the Roundhouse to Milton Keynes. Tears were most definitely cried, pride was lost, it was all amazing.
- Finally learning after years of ignorance how to make a yousendit link and realising its really not very hard after all.
- Arthur!
- My friends, coffee and Jimmy Eat World 'The Middle' – the three things that can get me through any day.
- Films of the year include – Senna, Moneyball and anything with Ryan Gosling in it (even the shit ones), Back And Forth, Pearl Jam 20.
- Favourite non Domino albums of the year include – Foo Fighters, Noah And The Whale, The James Cleaver Quintet, Drake, Tom Waits, Tyler The Creator, Fucked Up, City and Colour, Bombay Bicycle Club.

Jack Shankly
1 - Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
2 - Pure X - Pleasure
3 - Zomby - Dedication
4 - Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
5 - The Sandwitches - Mrs Jones' Cookies
6 - A$AP ROCKY - Live Love ASAP
7 - Araabmuzik - Electronic Dream
8 - Cass McCombs - Wit's End / Humor Risk
9 - Kuedo - Severant
10 - John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves

Sarah Stewart
- Phenomenon: Anna Calvi
- Party: Cityfox Street Parade Pool Party at Rimini Bar / Zürich
- Dancefloor: Daniel Steinberg at Salon Zur Wilden Renate / Berlin
- Festival: Four tet / Playground Weekender
- Album: Kurt Vile / Smoke Ring For My Halo
- Song: King Creosote & Jon Hopkins / Bats In The Attic
- Feel Good Music Video: Real Estate / It’s Real (also best T-shirt!)
- Gig: Sufjan Stevens & Owen Pallett / Sydney Opera House
- Exhibition: China de la Vega / Riding Fences
- Inspiration: Steve Jobs / How to live before you die Stanford Commencement Address (albeit from 2005)
- Heartbreaker: Cass McCombs

Matt Sweeney
TOP 10 TRACKS (THAT ARE NOT DOMINO)
1. Todd Terje - Snooze 4 Love
2. Metronomy- The Look
3. Betty Harris - Mean Man
4. Bon Iver - I Can't Make You Love Me
5. M83 - Midnight City (Trentmoller Remix)
6. Kurt Vile - Runner Ups
7. I Break Horses - Winter Beats
8. Burning Hearts - Into The Wilderness
9. The War On Drugs - Baby Missiles
10. Julio Bashmore - Battle For Middle You

Henry Thomas
- The Apache Relay
- Two half cups of tea from Matt
- Zomby
- Mahavishnu Orchestra on office stereo during my 3rd interview
- Clare’s Hackney bike route
- White Denim
- Being sandwiched between a Michael Mercer and Stephen Newell bromance
- Real Estate at the Garage and in general
- Lianne La Havas
- Being bottom of the Domino Fantasy Football league for so long that I had to leave

Nathan Thompson
- The Rapture - In The Grace Of Your Love
- Civil Civic - Rules
- M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
- The Do - Both Ways Open Jaws
- Sebastian - Total
- Real Estate - Days
- Wild Flag - Wild Flag
- Peaking Lights - 936
- Korallreven - An Album By Korallreven
... And at number 10 my Spotify premium account which has helped me discover so much great music this year.

Donna Vergier
- Domino Radio – the Event of the year
- The Kills – Blood Pressures album
- The Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde album
- Arctic Monkeys live at Rock En Seine
- Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes album
- Francois and the Atlas Mountains live at QEH
- Crystal Fighters – Star Of Love album
- The Night Circus - book
- Anna Calvi live at L’Olympia Paris
- Independent Label’s Market Stalls

Anna Warchol
1. Editions Mego
2. Conrad Schnitzler: Ballet Statique - 2011 edition (M=Minimal)
3. Mika Vainio: Life (...It Eats You Up) (Editions Mego)
4. Mist: House (Spectrum Spools)
5. Throbbing Gristle reissues (Industrial Records)
6. Mordant Music: ModernismuseuM (Mordant Music)
7. Regis: In A Syrian Tongue (Blackest Ever Black)
8. Shackleton: Fireworks (Honest Jon’s)
9. Dopplereffekt @ XOYO
10. Sacrum Profanum 2011

Paula Williams
- ClayPigeon – Time Won’t Cease
- Incubus – If Not Now, When?
- Skindred – Union Black
- Random Hand – Seething is Believing
- New Town Kings – M.O.J.O
- Korn – Path to Totality
- Jaya The Cat - More Late Night Transmissions With...
- One Day by David Nicholls (The book, not the film)
- Incubus @ HMV Forum 14/06/2011
- Capdown, The Skints, The Filaments & The JB Conspiracy @ Koko 06/11/2011

John Williamson
- Sky Full of Holes - Fountains of Wayne
- Real Estate - Days
- Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
- The Guard
- Moscow Olympics - Cut The World
- Metronomy - The English Riviera
- Midnight In Paris
- Those Dancing Days - Daydreams and Nightmares
- Silver Seas - Chateau Revenge
- The Feelies - Here Before

Kay Wrate
1. Toro Y Moi – Freaking Out EP
2. Major Lazer Party at Notting Hill Carnival
3. Zombie Boy
4. Ghostpoet live/album
5. Bobby
6. Beyonce at Glastonbury via the TV
7. Portishead ATP
8. Conor O’ Brien’s swag at the Ivors
9. The Horrors- Skying
10. Yacht – Hoxton Bar and Grill

New Anna Calvi Video - Jezebel

Domino — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:10:46

Presenting "Jezebel", the debut single from Anna Calvi. This live version of "Jezebel" (originally made famous by French chanteuse Edith Piaf) is an intense performance full of passion and startling beauty.

Her debut single for "Jezebel" is available for pre-order: http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/singles/01-09-10/jezebel

Domino Yeah Podcast - Sept 2010: Tricky on 'Mixed Race', Mercury Prize nominees Villagers and ...

Domino — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:09:51

In this episode: Billy Reeves spends some time with Tricky, discussing his new album Mixed Race, his collaborators, his new base in Paris and whether he’ll work with Massive Attack again.

We also preview a few tracks from the album, plus songs from Mercury Prize nominees Villagers and Wild Beasts. As well as a couple tunes from Chief and newcomers Twin Sister.

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Chapter 1: Intro with Billy Reeves (0:00)
Chapter 2: Clinic "I'm Aware" (0:32)
Chapter 3: Wild Beasts "All The King's Men" (3:13)
Chapter 4: Villagers "The Pact (I'll Be Your Fever)" (7:05)
Chapter 5: Tricky "Murder Weapon" (10:48)
Chapter 6: Interview with Tricky (13:42)
Chapter 7: Tricky "Ghetto Stars" (20:59)
Chapter 8: Chief "This Land" (24:15)
Chapter 9: Chief "Night & Day" (28:01)
Chapter 10: Twin Sister "Ginger" (32:19)

Domino Yeah Podcast - August 2010: The Count & Sinden Get MEGA and loads of new tunes from ...

Domino — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:08:35

In this episode, hit-makers The Count & Sinden speak with our genial host Billy Reeves about their debut LP ("Mega Mega Mega"). Villagers have been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and we celebrate with "Ship of Promises". Plus new songs by Tricky, These New Puritans, Lightspeed Champion and Chief.

Oh! and remixes galore with Four Tet's remix of Jon Hopkin's "Vessel", Reeboot's "Un Dia" remix and the Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip) remix of Steve Mason's "Am I Just A Man".

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Chapter 1: Intro with Billy Reeves (0:00)
Chapter 2: Tricky "Murder Weapon" (0:21)
Chapter 3: These New Puritans "Hologram" (3:19)
Chapter 4: Steve Mason "Am I Just A Man (Alexis Taylor remix)" (5:54)
Chapter 5: The Count & Sinden interview (10:20)
Chapter 6: The Count & Sinden "After Dark" (18:22)
Chapter 7: Juana Molina "Un Dia (Reeboot Remix)" (22:21)
Chapter 8: Lightspeed Champion "I Don't Want to Wake Up Alone" (30:49)
Chapter 9: Jon Hopkins "Vessel (Four Tet remix)" (33:30)
Chapter 10: Villagers "Ship of Promises" (38:47)
Chapter 11: Chief "Night & Day" (38:47)

Mount Wittenberg Orca special on Radio 1

Domino — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:07:10

This Saturday morning (July 10th) between 05:00 - 07:00 on UK’s Radio 1, and following on the iPlayer, Rob Da Bank will play the entire 'Mount Wittenberg Orca' collaboration record, track-by-track. The show will also feature exclusive interviews with both Dave Longstreth and Bjork.

Here's a link to where you can find the programme http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wknd

Domino Yeah Podcast - July 2010: Chief on the finer points of brotherly love and tunes from ...

Domino — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:07:14

Time now for the July edition of Domino Yeah!

Let's see what our good pal Billy Reeves has to say about this episode:
Billy Reeves here, hello. I’ve been looking all my adult life for the band who will marry to emotion of the Go-Betweens with the skill of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, and here they are, four laid-back dudes from L.A. - Chief. Said chaps have been playing the 2 biggest UK festivals recently (Hyde Park & Glastonbury) so just before they left London, England I caught up with them; and herein play you two tracks from their forthcoming beautiful LP.

PLUS how about some Dirty Projectors? Some She & Him? Jon Hopkins ambient re-thinking of ‘Angel Echoes’ by Four Tet? And an announcement of a very special show from Villagers too. (#1 in Ireland don’tcha know). Balmy!

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Chapter 1:Intro with Billy Reeves (0:00)
Chapter 2: Dirty Projectors "Stillness Is The Move" (0:31)
Chapter 3: Wild Beasts "Hooting & Howling" (5:20)
Chapter 4: Chief "Night & Day" (10:39)
Chapter 5: Interview with Chief (14:34)
Chapter 6: Chief "Breaking Walls" (18:35)
Chapter 7: She & Him "Thieves" (23:14)
Chapter 8: Four Tet "Angel Echoes (Jon Hopkins Remix)" (23:14)
Chapter 9: Villagers "Ship Of Promises" (32:26)

Steve Mason - Boys Outside

Domino — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:06:26

Boys Outside, the new album from Steve Mason, available everywhere.

Having previously recorded as The Beta Band, King Biscuit Time and Black Affair, Steve Mason has just released his first album under his own name, Boys Outside. The 10-track album, produced by Richard X and Steve Mason, is at once fiercely contemporary, and unlike anything else you’ll hear in 2010. The tracks on Boys Outside are every bit as singular as the Beta Band's standout album, The Three EP’s. 'All Come Down' is a beautiful song that is very much indicative of the fragile and haunting sounds found throughout Boys Outside.

"Mason’s best post-Beta Band work" - Mojo

"Boys Outside is a confident, stripped-down affair... Mason always had an appealing voice, but it’s never been as soulfully expressive as it is here" "8/10" - Under The Radar

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Domino Yeah Podcast - June 2010: An interview with The Fall and new tunes from Villagers, ...

Domino — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:06:30

A new edition of Domino Yeah is up!

Ever wondered what it’s like to be in The Fall? From what your genial host Billy Reeves sees, it’s a right good laugh! Peter, Kieron and Dave invite Billy to help set up the stage for Mark in Birmingham, and talk about the current LP "Your Future, Our Clutter". The relatively new two young lads explain how they got invited to join the band and the chaps sift through an enormous pile of 10p records bought in the excellent Birmingham branch of Record & Tape exchange.

So, two tracks from The Fall to hear, as well as a special Archie Bronson Outfit remix, the next single from "Becoming A Jackal" by Villagers, a lovely bit of Robert Wyatt and the beautiful sound of young L.A. new boys Chief.

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Chapter 1: Intro with Mr. Billy Reeves (0:00)
Chapter 2: Chief "Breaking Walls" (0:29)
Chapter 3: Archie Bronson Outfit "Hoola - Moscow Remix" (4:58)
Chapter 4: The Fall "Cowboy George" (11:11)
Chapter 5: The Fall interview (16:32)
Chapter 6: The Fall "Bury Pts. 1 + 3" (23:55)
Chapter 7: Villagers "Ship Of Promises" (30:43)
Chapter 8: Domino Glastonbury Line-up (34:24)
Chapter 9: Robert Wyatt "Sea Song" (35:18)

New The Fall Video - "Bury Pts. 2 + 4"

Domino — Wed, 05 May 2010 22:05:11

The legendary Fall have released their much anticipated 28th album, Your Future Our Clutter. This is the first video off their new record.

Directed by ThirtyTwo.

New Malachai Video - "Snowflake"

Domino — Wed, 05 May 2010 18:05:41

Check out the video for Malachai's "Snowflake" off of their album Ugly Side Of Love. Directed by Rob Hall.

Wild Beasts' Top 10 Moments of 2007

Domino — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:05:17

*England not qualifying for euro2008, in a very English sado masochistic, cruel to be kind and I told you so sort of a way
*Leaving England to live in Sweden for 6 weeks, in the same sort of way
*Helping Liz Hurley reverse her Range Rover, true story, she won't remember us, but we think back fondly of her
*Being bottled and abused at London Astoria by over hormonal 14 year old boys and walking off proud and pigeon chested
* Playing the highest pub in Britain with BSP and watching 100 campers fight for there lives on the November hill side.
*Discovering our farm house practice room and learning how men can love horses... woody, joey, jigsaw, badger...big up yourselves
* Discovering Junior Boys-So this is goodbye, a great moment of 2006, a year late in 2007
*Without naming names, or placing places....witnessing a Glasgow bouncer getting hit in the face with a flying apple during over-zelous post gig celebrations and making a hasty exit via black cab, leaving civil war in the club behind us
*Realising this year feels like it's been ten minutes
*Realising it has been more like ten years

Roxanne Clifford top choices of the year

Domino — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:04:20

Roky Erikkson - Royal Festival Hall, June '07 (live) Roky Erikkson - Royal Festival Hall, June '07 (live)
Joanne Robertson - The Lighter (album)
Black lips - Bad Kids (song)
Correcto - Joni (song)
Marnie Stern - In Advance of the Broken Arm (album)
Anni Rossi - Oklahoma, Manchester, June '07 (live)
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yqJhX9EIotk (best youtube thing)
S.A.W Exhibition - The Sawmill, Glasgow - May '07 (Best Event)
WOELV -Tout Seul dans la Forêt en Plein Jour (album)
Asia Style - Charing cross, Glasgow (best restaurant)

Patrick Doyle's Top 10 Episodes of 'Gilmore Girls' 2007

Domino — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:04:36

Best to Worst.

1. Lorelai? Lorelai?
2. To Whom It May Concern
3. It's Just Like Riding a Bike
4. Unto the Breach
5. I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia
6. Will You Be My Lorelai Gilmore
7. I'm a Kayak, Hear Me Roar
8. Gilmore Girls Only
9. Santa's Secret Stuff
10. Bon Voyage

Eugene McGuinness' favourite things of 2007

Domino — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:04:49

This Is England- Shane Meadows film This Is England- Shane Meadows film
Wild Beasts gig @ hoxton bar, 26th November
Dizzee Rascal - Pussyole (old skool) single
The Good the Bad and the Queen album
The Jungle Book- DVD re-release
Arctic Monkeys- Favourite Worst Nightmare
Radiohead- In Rainbows
Joe's Palace- BBC1 thingy
American Gangster- Ridley Scott film
Mighty Boosh- Eels

Paul Robert Thomson's (Correcto / Franz Ferdinand) top 9 songs of 2007

Domino — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:04:27

Of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal Of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal
Pete and the Pirates - Come On Feet
Late of the Pier - Bathroom Gurgle
Prinzhorn Danceschool - Crackerjack Docker
Liars - Plastercasts of Everything
The Royal We - Willy
Deerhunter - Flourescent Grey
Foals - Balloons HTRK
Ha Panico – Guadalupe

Scott Paterson's favourite monemts of 2007

Domino — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:04:16

1.record! that grinderman is fucking awesome!
2.drink! getting heavily, heavily into coffee. especially tinderbox in glasgow, that shit will give you palpatations! 3. film! seeing the new lynch film 'inland empire' in the cinema!
4. live! the archie bronson's tearing glasgow's arches a new one! the horns were so loud they actually started two fights in the crowd! wow!
5. film again! 'grindhouse' uncut on opening weekend with a brilliantly rowdy new york audience!
6.meal! that curry we all had on tour that day off in london the other week. king prawn tandoori with tons of ginger and lemon and cashew rice. hooo weee!
7. self improvement! mr butler helping me attain my own personal guitar nirvana!
8. bbq! the one in the domino car park!
9. live! seeing the fabulously adam and the antsy 'fangs' play at a house party in glasgow!
10. self improvement! finally learning to cook. i now do a mean salsa verde. in your face, gordon ramsey!

Jeremy Greenspan's (Junior Boys) Top 10 of 2007

Domino — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:12:04

Kelley polar-chrysanthemums
Caribou-irene
Mayer/Thomas-Uber Wiesen
Metro area-read my mind
Stereo image-dark chapter
Studio-life's a beach(remixes)
Ame-Fiori
Rihanna-Umberella
Grinderman-No pussy blues
Bobby Vee-Singles Collection

Max Tundra's Thirteen Highlights of 2007

Domino — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:12:13

Album: Marnie Stern - In Advance Of The Broken Arm
Single: Goodbye The Band - Sky Tiger
Band: Dirty Projectors
Gig: The Old Signs, Hartest And Boxted Institute
Reissue: "Blue" Gene Tyranny - Out Of The Blue
Radio Station: wfmu.org
Film: Du Levande (You, The Living)
YouTube Clip: youtube.com/watch?v=HEfYI94LzDs
Overlooked Masterpiece: Andrew W.K. - Close Calls With Brick Walls
Exhibition: Christoph Büchel - Simply Botiful
Restaurant: Ran, Great Marlborough Street
Shop: Prick Your Finger, Globe Road
Timewasting Distraction: Scrabulous/Facebook

Robert Wyatt's 2007 Top Ten List

Domino — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:12:03

1. Carleen Anderson singing 'The Man I Love' live with Johnny Dankworth
2. Theme and incidental music for the TV 'Poirot' series with David Suchet
3. Paul Weller and Amy Winehouse 'Don't go to Strangers' live on Later
4. Bjork live on Later
5. The nifty footwork of Rachel and Becky Unthank
6. Reem Kelani live on radio with Andy Kershaw
7. 'Tu Connais Lo'Jo?' (AZ Universal)
8. 'Yo No' from Juana Molina 'Son' (Domino)
9. 'Welcome to the Voice' Steve Nieve/Muriel Teodori. (Deutsche Grammophon)
10. The London/Caracas Day in Trafalgar Square

Favourite moments of The Kills in 2007

Domino — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:12:37

2.place we were happiest to visit: Key Club, Benton Harbor Michigan
3.place we were happiest to leave: Los Angeles
4.movie: pie in the sky, the story of Bridget Berlin
5.art: Christian Marclay film at White Cube, london
6.event: getting metal removed from Alison’s eye
7.bar: Silver Dollar, Benton Harbor, Michigan
8.people: the post code warriors that broke all our windows
9.song: cheekbone hollows by Child Ballads
10.best thing that came in the mail: 20 heat sealed bananas in plastic
11.books: all Truman Capote all year.... interchanged with coney island of the mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Listen Up! Now or whenever

Domino — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:04:10

Reassure your unforgiving hours with our delightful Domino DJs transmitting an eclectic mix of personal favourites from past guests including, amongst others:

The Kills - Boom!
Steve Reid and Kieran Hebden - Damn straight
Telepathe - Uh Hur
Battles - Darn tootin'
Antony Hegarty - Whoo-hoo!
Randall Poster (Of I'm Not There, The Royal Tenenbaums and Rushmore fame) - Grrreat
Animal Collective - Oh yeah!
Ratatat- Radical
Andrew Kuo (Famed blogger and graphic artist) -TotallyWhite Williams - Swwwweet
David Garland from WNYC - Preacher man
Sal Principato and Richard McGuire of Liquid Liquid - Righteous!
Patrick Doyle (Correcto & The Royal We)
David Longstreth of Dirty Projectors - testify!
Eric Fensler ( the man behind Fensler Films of course) - Bodacious

Mixed with cosy chit-chat, introductions to encyclopaedic new music and sporadic specimens of the past and future from the world of Domino, then tune in now.

AND, dear friends, despair not if you foolishly forget to tune in, we've just archived all our recent show and you can listen now or whenever you like.

How about that eh?

Screamers T-Shirt

Domino — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:05:01

“Using original LA punk art this is a collaboration with Stussy to celebrate the release of the Jon Savage compiled Blackhole album.”

Randoms T-Shirt (Black)

Domino — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:05:46

“Using original LA punk art this is a collaboration with Stussy to celebrate the release of the Jon Savage compiled Blackhole album.”

Negative Trend T-Shirt (White)

Domino — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:05:47

“Using original LA punk art this is a collaboration with Stussy to celebrate the release of the Jon Savage compiled Blackhole album.”

Negative Trend T-Shirt (Black)

Domino — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:05:41

“Using original LA punk art this is a collaboration with Stussy to celebrate the release of the Jon Savage compiled Blackhole album.”

Weirdos T-Shirt (White)

Domino — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:05:34

“Using original LA punk art this is a collaboration with Stussy to celebrate the release of the Jon Savage compiled Blackhole album.”

Weirdos T-Shirt (Black)

Domino — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:05:18

“Using original LA punk art this is a collaboration with Stussy to celebrate the release of the Jon Savage compiled Blackhole album.”

Black Hole T-Shirt (Black)

Domino — Fri, 25 May 2012 11:05:55

A collaboration with Stussy to celebrate the release of the Jon Savage compiled Blackhole album

Black Hole T-Shirt (White)

Domino — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:05:58

A collaboration with Stussy to celebrate the release of the Jon Savage compiled Blackhole album

Face T -Shirt

Domino — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:12:37

John Cale (white) T-shirt

Domino — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:08:47

ODDSAC: A Visual Album by Animal Collective and Danny Perez

Domino — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:06:22

ODDSAC is a feature film collaboration between the band Animal Collective and filmmaker Danny Perez, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in early 2010 and has screened to sold-out audiences in dozens of US cities. The film was co-conceived by and stars Animal Collective. ODDSAC is a dense and surreal layering of audio and visual elements that eschews conventional narrative to create a visceral viewing experience.

ODDSAC represents a new synthesis of music and film, a “visual album” whose songs will not be released in any other form. It features an original score with new songs from the band and complex digital manipulation by Perez, a debut filmmaker and visual artist known for his concert projections with musicians such as Black Dice and Panda Bear.

Perez and Animal Collective have also collaborated on two music videos (“Who Could Win A Rabbit” and “Summertime Clothes”), and a major art installation piece Transverse Temporal Gyrus, which occupied the entire Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste: Galaxie 500: 1987 - 1991

Domino — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:05:34

Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste is a comprehensive visual document spanning the history of Galaxie 500. The 2-disc DVD set is a compendium of all their music videos, a rare TV appearance and an archive of over 40 songs performed live, including two unreleased songs. From fan footage to professionally-produced segments, the collection of live performances was curated by the band to best represent their brief but illustrious career.

This 2-DVD set includes a performance of an unreleased original song "Buzz in My Head" and a live version of Jonathan Richman's "Back in Your Life," both of which were never recorded or released in any other form. The deluxe booklet contains photos and a new interview with all three members, Dean Wareham, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang conducted by Yo La Tengo's James McNew.

From fan footage to professionally-produced segments, the concerts have been compiled from over 20 hours of performances, starting from an early local show at the Middle East in Boston in 1988, to a full set at a November 1990 concert at the University of London. The NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS raved about a concert, "Galaxie 500 are the world's premier softness trio. Live, they leave you stunned."

The first disc contains all four of their videos, directed by friend and photographer Sergio Huidor as well as segments taken from five concerts--from early local performances in Boston to 1990 west coast tour dates--which all came from the band's personal collections. It is rounded out with a performance and interview for UK television, taken at the band's peak in popularity.

The second disc, or "Bootlegs" disc, has two full concerts from 1990: the first in Atlanta and the second in London, both shot by audience members. After receiving tapes by a call-out to fans from around the world, the band curated all the footage and picked what best captured their career.

"Galaxie 500 could be one of the most influential bands to emerge from the late-80's independent rock scene." Karen Schoemer, -THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Galaxie 500 made some of the starkest, most beautiful, American underground music of the past decade." -MELODY MAKER

"Galaxie 500 is a wintry opiate. A hypnotic open loop of gentle drums, a bass that becalms like a mother's finger to her lips, and a guitar that drifts purposefully from languid to leveling. A voice singing high and strange. Sounds like love (lost) in a cool snap."
-Pat Blashill, SPIN

Scummy Man

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:46

Please note this DVD is a certificate 15 and region 0 - PAL. Warp Films and Domino presents Scummy Man, a short film inspired by the Arctic Monkeys recent single When The Sun Goes Down. The film shows the relationship between a fifteen year old prostitute and one of her nastier punters. Just Another Day looks at the same events from a different perspective, so they take on different meanings, plus the original promotional video for the track. The bars fill up with lairy boozers anticipating drunken frolics in nightclubs, whilst on the edge of town in leafy suburbia Mum and Dad settle down to their Chinese takeaways and Pop Idol phone-ins. Meanwhile, couples stroll arm in arm to see the latest Hollywood shit flick, with plans hatched to see the family for Yorkshire puddings at three the next day. . . And the mind wanders to those who slip between the cracks of the surface in the City at night - the underclass, or those who don't walk beneath the neon lights of the high street shopfronts. These are the people who lurk in the dark shadows over the river going out of town. It's a world where girls roam the streets, out of sight and out of mind of the moral majority. Scummy Man!! A window into that world. I'm watching now and I'm stuck to the wall in horror. Maybe my mind is too attuned to wanting to believe this doesn't exist in the place where I live. But it does, and here it is in full-frontal widescreen grimness; the irony being that this world seems a million miles away, yet it's on the doorstep, these are the characters with which you and I share our Cities. All of this begs the question of why and how these characters come to interact. How does our street girl come to allow herself to be bought and sold like a commodity or used car? What draws the punter to the street like a moth to a flame? How does the scummy man keep his hand on the leaver, controlling his girls like dogs on a leash, making promises, and keeping her scared and the like...? And much like the coin there's a flip side to the grim picture. Just Another Day. A glimmer of hope and a chance to step out of the shadows and back into the light. And the cars that cruise the streets might not be all you might think. All things being about perception, this underworld can be seen in a different light depending on how each person comes to experience it. Each person has a story to tell, and this is theirs...

Everything Ecstatic films & part 2

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:45

Franz Ferdinand - The DVD

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:44

Over 4 1/2 hours of footage! The two discs will not only include live performances from around the globe but also a myriad of very special bonus features. The first disc features tracks drawn from live performances around the world including last year's legendary performances at T in The Park, Glasgow Barrowlands and the Brixton Academy in London. This first disc also includes extensive footage of the bands 5th ever gig at the Glasgow School of Art in 2003 as well as karaoke films for Matinee & Take Me Out giving viewers a chance to sing along to their favourite Franz classics! The second disc features 2 full live performances from last years shows at Brixton Academy and San Francisco. The second disc also includes 3 extra live songs taken from the bands 2004 Australian / New Zealand tour.

Everything Ecstatic DVD

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:43

New film-shorts made for all the tracks on Four Tet�s synapse-fusing recent album, �Everything Ecstatic�, are collected together for release on DVD by Domino on Nov 7. The never-before-seen material* comes as a DVD/CD double-pack with �Everything Ecstatic Part 2�, 35 minutes of brand new music, some radical rethinks of material from �Everything Ecstatic�, which together represent a current snapshot of Kieran�s ever-changing musical thinking.

Live at King Tut's

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:35

Unpoc's first ever live show (he tells us!), featuring the vocal and instrumental talents of James Yorkston, King Creosote and The Pictish Trail, accompanying the young Mr Bauchop. This 27 minute spectacular captures a great moment in Fence and Unpokistani history. LIMITED EDITION!

Live In Copenhagen 30th March 2004

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:34

ALL STOCK NOW SOLD OUT. 73 minutes of live Four Tet - recorded at Rust, Copenhagen, Denmark, 30th March 2004. Capturing Kieran Hebden in the midst of his ALL STOCK NOW SOLD OUT. 73 minutes of live Four Tet - recorded at Rust, Copenhagen, Denmark, 30th March 2004. Capturing Kieran Hebden in the midst of his Rounds tour, this frenetic live CD-R is super-limited and won't be sticking around long. Check back here for future limited edition releases.

Slow Century

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:24

Incredible but true, the long rumoured definitive Pavement DVD is now but a couple of clicks from your collection; put together with the help of Scott Kannberg (Spiral Stairs), this is a bumper double-set with so much content that we've detailed it here for you. Here comes the big one! A double DVD set including: # a 60 minute documentary incorporating footage from '89-'99 # all 13 Pavement music videos with commentary from the band members and the director on each # two FULL live concerts, Seattle '99 and Manchester '99 # selectable camera angles # hidden extras!

Jon Hopkins on RBMA Radio's 'Headphone Highlights'

Domino — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:06:01

Jon Hopkins is featured on the Headphone Highlights show from the lovely guys over at Redbull Radio. Jon demonstrates his almost bi-polar interest in folk-inspired song-writing and cutting edge electronics which in turn seems to be reflected in his dual career as a producer / composer for hire and an artist in his own right.

The playlist from the show is here:

Bullion - Get Familiar - One-Handed Music
School Of Seven Bells - Connjur - Ghostly International
Jon Hopkins - Insides - Domino
Franz Ferdinand - The Fallen (Ruined By Justice) - Domino
King Creosote - No One Had It Better - Domino
Jon Hopkins - Colour Eye - Domino
Voltek - Power Tools - Hot Lover
Clark Growls - Growls Garden - Warp Records
Songs Of Green Pheasant - I Am Daylight - Fat Cat
Smog - Running The Loping - Domino
James Yorkston - The Capture Of The Horse- Domino
Headless Heroes - Hey, Who Really Cares (J.Hopkins Mix) - White
Bruce Langhorne - Ending - Blast First Petite

Also on the player you can hear the archived shows from King Creosote, Dirty Projectors and Animal Collective.

Enjoy!

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DANGER MOUSE ON ALL THINGS JOKER'S DAUGHTER

Domino — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:06:03

Q. How did you discover Helena?

A. A friend of mine saw her singing somewhere and told me about it. This was back in 2003, I think. She came out to LA and we worked on a couple of things. It wasn't quite the direction either of us wanted to go in, that first stuff. After she got home, she started sending me demos that were a little bit more her. When I heard those, I encouraged it a little bit more, because I really liked the new direction.

When I was working on the Gorillaz album, I spent some time in London, and I met up with her on the weekends. Usually on Sundays. She brought some of her new ideas, and we recorded them in my apartment. After doing that over and over again, we had an album's worth of material, thirteen or fourteen songs. That was 2005.

Later, she sent even more stuff that went even further, that I thought was even better. Little by little, we rerecorded some of the old stuff and then worked on some new songs. We never really did release that first one. There are a couple of songs, like "Jesse the Goat," that survived. But she was really coming into her own style now, so we kept recording. Over the last couple of years, we put together this album.

Q. What about her music made you want to collaborate with her?

A. She has such a fantastical mind. She goes all over the place. She's got a crazy imagination. I love that element of it. It reminds me of being a kid. I knew that when she was singing this stuff, she wasn't doing it for a big audience. It was just what was going on in her head. She had no intention of writing a song so a whole bunch of people would be affected by it. She was writing songs based on having fun, and on having an amazing imagination. But there was a dark side to the whole thing, as well, that I really related with. As with other people I've worked with, I didn't need to understand everything she was talking about. But it was important that I thought it was genuine. And with her, it absolutely was.

Q. How would you describe your role in the project?

A. A collaborator, I guess. All the ideas initiated with her. I heard things in the music that were undeveloped - whole passages or instrumental parts that I would hear in my head. I went into the studio and worked on those things, just to flesh it out a bit more. Some of the songs, I didn't add much at all because I didn't think she needed it. But I knew that she left certain parts open for me to interpret. In some cases, there was a lot going on, and I took some stuff away. I felt like, on most of the stuff she sent, there was a place for me. I think that's why she sent it.

Q. How it is different collaborating with someone over a long distance, when you're not in the same city?

A. It takes a lot of trust. When I'm working on stuff, I know that she wants me to do what I feel, just like I want her to do what she feels. So when I'm doing the music, I'm not asking her if she likes any of the stuff I'm doing. I just go for what I feel and send it back. An overwhelming majority of the time, when I sent her back stuff, she was very, very into it. It would have been a lot more difficult if she'd wanted to make this change and that change. It would have been hard for me, when I got the next song, to feel like I could do whatever I wanted with it. It wasn't a back-and-forth process. She sent it to me, I sent it back. Some of the songs, I didn't like as much, and I didn't work on. I worked on the songs that I really loved.

Q. Is there anything about Helena that you're still curious about?

A. She's a very mysterious person. I don't even begin to try to understand some things about her. She's one of the few people that intimidate me with their imaginations.

Tricky on Englishness And The Country That Made Me

Domino — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:10:54

He might have spent the past few years in Los Angeles, but Tricky is a proud Englishman.

He tells our friends at The Quietus about his loves and fears for his homeland.

Here's a quick taster here:

English food is underrated

Things like sausage and chips and fish and chips, real basic food, bubble and squeak and stuff – I made that for myself in LA. My mate Caesar in LA, he loves it. I just went to Paris, and I talk about English food and they says ‘English food? What English food?’ I think it gets a bad rep. But perhaps you have to be from here to appreciate it.

Check the complete article by clicking right about here

Our Little Corner of the World: Domino's (other) man in Russia

Domino — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:09:52

Short intro:
Alexey Aliaev. Ex-Hodorkovskiy employee & second hand vinyl trader. Nowadays push good music in Russia under SOYUZ roof.

How did end up working in music and with Domino?
No A&R guy in the world can miss Domino acts.

What do you love about music?
My life & love battery.

What’s your favourite Domino Artist and song?
Clinic “Gideon”. Real psychedelic! The guys caught the flag of Rocky Erickson!

What is the best live show you’ve been to?
Iggy Pop at Tushino open-air festival 2002

A snap shot of where you are:
Moscow - my city. Tough & lovely. Full of luxury & poverty. You wake up today & it's damn good thing - we can't predict what is going to happen with our land next year but we always dream. Life here is not easy but full of fun - you just need to find the right angle. We live at full force.
Work hard, drink hard, love hard.

Are there many different music scenes where you are?
I’d say that any music style is presented. There are special clubs & communities for different kinds of music with sufficient amount of bands.

Where are the best places to hear new music?
IKRA Club, AFISHA Picnic Festival, AAVANT Festival, ZDH Book Festival, Mezzoforte Club, OGI club, DOM club

Which local/national new bands are ‘breaking through’ and getting popular at the moment?
Besides commercial mainstream shit (which is always popular due to obvious reasons), we do have original artists mixing Slavic music & poetry culture with western styles:
BARTO – rough electro with antiglobal lyrics
GULAG TUNES – surf versions of Soviet/Russian jail songs
Anatoliy Blagovest – Slavic orthodox garage punk with opera tenor vocals
PROHOR & PUZO – Russian version of Biafra/Nixon duet

If your city was a Domino record, what would it be?
’Four Tet - 'Rounds’ – a mix of cultures and tastes, complicated and compelling in equal measure.

Our Little Corner of the World: Domino's man in Russia

Domino — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:09:04

Ladies and gents, you might not think it but since Domino's acorn-like beginnings, we now have branches that stem all over the planet.

Possible only by the wonderful, intriguing and darn right obsessive friends and associates planting little Domino seeds where ever they are. Digging the groundwork, nurturing the routes and growing a venerable garden of musical pleasures.

First off, we head east to Mother Russia to meet the man who puts the ‘star’ in Stalin - Maseev Maxim.

P.S: Maseev isn't the stunner in the red dress.

Short intro:
I'm a smart guy who had an idea to become a football shooter. But my mum was against it and I became the serious man working in the serious Russian company Soyuz Group.

What do you love about music? What makes it personal and special to you?
“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don`t start measuring her limbs” P.Picasso.

What’s your favourite Domino Artist and song?
The Pastels “Everybody is a star”. Yes, it’s true and I like it!!!!

What is the best (or one of the best) live show you’ve been to?
Paul McCartney at Red Square Concert

What’s life like where you live?
I live in Moscow – the capital of Russia. We work all the day long and we like to eat caviar, drink Vodka, play on the Balalaika and shoot bears. We have the most luxurious parties with the most beautiful girls in the world.

Short history of Russian music:
The world famous classical composers: P.I.Tchaikovsky, Glinka M.I., Rakhmaninov S.V were born in our country. The most popular styles now are dance music and rock. The most popular Russian artists are T.a.T.u and Zemfira.

What do you love about where you’re from?
In our country things are constantly changing, the social structure has been changed three times through last 100 years (monarchy-kommunizm-democracy). The way of life in our capital is so speedy as well as the terrible traffic jams we have. Our City is the city has more than 50 billionaires are living. I like our ancient architectural style which comes to us through the ages starting with Kremlin in 1367.

How do Russian people hear and get into new music?
All different ways but I think Radio stations are the 1st place.

Where are the best places to hear new music?
The best place for classic music is The House of Music or the Bolshoi Theatre. For modern music Olimpiisky and nightclubs.

Which local/national new bands are ‘breaking through’ and getting popular at the moment?
I think that last year was the year of our Russian local singer Maksim. As we don’t have the Latin alphabet (we use the Cyrillic one) we have a lot of Russian music. I think there is a new trend when the popular Russian singer is singing with the popular western artist for ex. Arash/Semenovich, Slava/Craig David.

Which Domino artists are the most popular in Russia?
Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, Tricky. I think that people identify these persons with independence, freedom and Internet.

Domino's Favourite Record Shops The World - Road Records, Dublin, Ireland

Domino — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:08:08

A short biog of Road Records:

Road Records was opened in September 1997 by Dave Kennedy [that’s me] and Julie Collins [that’s my partner]. A lot of people ask how and why so heres the answer in a short concise form. We originally met in another record store we both worked in here in Dublin, yes it’s a mildly romantic story.

After several years toiling away in a store neither of us really loved we managed to get very very drunk one night and decided we should open our own shop, this was back in the day when ideas like this sounded good. We sobered up the next day and thought to ourselves we should finally stick to a drunken promise and 6 months later we were the proud owners of our very own little record store. It all happened so fast that neither of us had even a chance to get scared of the idea of running our own business, which is a good thing really as I don’t think we would have gone ahead with it if we had really put a lot of thought into it. We both knew there was a huge demand in our city for a proper Indie shop willing to look after unsigned Irish artists who were out there doing things for themselves and also to cater for the huge hunger in this city for quality underground music, something we both dearly loved, old fashioned Indie kids that we were at the time.

The shop has developed massively over the years to include so many different genres of music that neither of us would have even dreamt of carrying at the initial stage 11 years ago.

Dave Kennedy of Road Records

1) How did you end up working in a record shop?

I began working in a record shop about 3 years before opening Road Records. I worked in another small store in the Temple Bar area which came about due to my previous occupation as a furniture maker. I was employed at the time by the store during an expansion into a second premises, I was basically building all the racks and display units. I noticed during the final days of fitting out the shop that a sign appeared in the window looking for staff so I took it down from the window just to make sure nobody else could apply and hey presto I got the job, not a difficult job for the owner with only one application sent in. Music has always been a passion of mine and my back was getting tired of making furniture.

There are many things that makes working in a music shop so special but I think the really important one for me is the fact that I probably would sit at home all day listening to music anyway so I may as well spend my time productively. I also love the buzz of metting like minded music freaks like myself and nothing is more enjoyable than chatting for hours on end about the ins and outs of your favourite albums, not live changing conversations but it certainly seems like it to us.

2) What do you love so much about music?

I think for me that music can just bring out so many different emotions in people. The fact that you can pick any particular record and it can evoke so many different feelings from people, some will love it and then some would rather walk out of the room than have to listen any further. I love the way music which can sound so blissfully heavenly to one person can also annoy the hell out of others. I love the way some music can be just so uplifting to you and also when moods change you can find something that just soothes you out of a bad mood or even just takes the pain away when you have a bad day. I also love the way live music can bring so many likeminded people together under one roof, be it 50 people in a small upstairs room over a bar or several thousand in a stadium.

3) If your record shop was an album, what would it be?

Its hard to believe that this question took me nearly 3 weeks to answer and finally I come up with an album that doesn’t exist [and most likely won’t either].

The album would feature the work of three different staff favourites. Julie is the expert on indie pop around here and the shop would not be the same without listening to Camera Obscura at least once a week, if you need any help in finding top notch melodic indie pop then head straight to Julie’s corner. Then we would throw in Japanese noise terrorists Boris, just for me. And then the only one all three of us can agree on here would be the vocals of the mighty Bonnie 'Prince 'Billy. So there you have it, an album features the noise of Boris, the twee pop of Camera Obscura and held together in a country roots fashion by Will Oldham. If this collaboration ever happens I think a tour would have to happen too.

4) Do people come to your counter knowing what they want or do you have a huge role in turning people onto great stuff still?

I think that would pretty much be split 50 / 50 at this stage in our experience. We have quite a lot of customers who know exactly what they want each and every week, some come in with a list from our weekly mailout and some a case of browsing and picking maybe 2 or 3 albums every week that they know they want.

Then there are a fair amount who will either trust our judgement with a few hints regarding what they like and dislike. We also print out short reviews of every title we carry in the shop and stick them in with the display copies so at least people can get an idea if they want to try something out. We have a listening post for both vinyl and cd so we do recommend people try out a few things that they may not be familiar with, this is very important when you carry a lot of underground music. Quite a lot of purchases are made on the basis of albums playing in the shop too, there are times when we hear a real gem and it just stays on the stereo all day, its that exciting feeling you get when you hear something amazing and you just feel the whole world needs to know about this band.

A lot of the Irish music we stock deserves to be heard by a wider audience and the exposure a lot of bands get is pretty minimal nowadays so we do try and encourage people towards something special that we hear from week to week. We have also introduced a regular album of the week and month, just as a way of maybe pointing people towards some of the real quality.

5) What’s the local music scene like in your city? Is there a distinctive identity to the type of music coming out?

The local music scene here at the moment is probably as healthy as it has ever been in my experience. We have seen a real change over the last 5 years from the solo singer songwriter and now more people are getting involved in both bands and collective style setups. Quite a lot of solo artists are now pooling their resources together to form little micro labels and promotions companies. We have also found a huge increase in the amount of top quality electronic and laptop style sounds coming into the shop, I think digital recording has made it easier for people to get their ideas down onto disc than it was previously. We have a really really healthy free folk kind of improv scene going on here beneath the mainstream venues with lots of likeminded folks gathering for a good old fashioned improv bash, its kind of reminds me of the older days in this country with the way traditional music was played live in bars and was totally unrehearsed and freeflowing.

There is still a really healthy underground rock scene going on here and has been for many many years now, particularly in the experimental post rock side of things with local bands like The Redneck Manifesto playing to crowds of 700 / 800 people.

6) What’s the place for record stores in the 21st Century?

If I had a crystal ball I could answer that question more accurately but I don’t so I will have to answer it from the heart.

I think a certain amount of hard working stores will survive through this transitional times we are in at the moment. It is very important for stores to keep ahead of things, in particular what styles and genres people are looking for and also its important to make sure people are aware of the importance of the smaller independent stores. I don’t simply have this opinion because I am a shop owner myself but as I say to people all the time do we really want a situation where the only place to buy music are either online or through the major chains. This will inevitably see smaller bands and labels fall by the wayside because I can assure you that the big chains won’t care about them unless they are selling thousands of copies a week.

I do think smaller stores will survive through this because there are enough people out there who actually want to buy physical products and also music is one of those things that people like to interact about, be it at concerts or just have a good old fashioned bit of banter in a store with somebody of likeminded tastes.

We have recently begun to notice a very small turn towards an increase in vinyl sales over the last year or two, people are going back to one of the first and finest formats again. Its kind of strange to see customers come in with I-pods in their pockets and buying vinyl but have noticed a lot of our customers are beginning to get a wee bit bored with the I-pod phenomena, they find the whole thing rather cumbersome and just want to sit at home and relax with a slab of vinyl on their turntable, as Jon Bon Jovi said in an interview a few years back “You can dance on an I-pod and dance to a record”, that raised my opinion of that man tenfold.

7) If you could make a perfect mix tape from your record shop collection – what would be on it?

1. Anything by Camera Obscura – for Julie. Its all about indie pop around here somedays, you have to stick with your roots.

2. Anything from Boris – for Dave. I’m just a sucker for long droning [and evil]

3. Anything from Teenage Fanclubs “Bandwagonesque” album. They are probably one of our all time favourite bands in the shop, how could we not include them

4. Ramblin’ Man by Hank Williams We have quite a passion for country and roots music around here, so best to go back to the original of them all

5. “Dress Sexy At My Funeral” by Smog, I think we both would love this played in a church after a good funeral.

6. “54 46 Was My Number” by Toots And The Maytals, we all love quality reggae around and really could have picked at least 40 tracks but we have gone for this one just for the stunning vocals.

7. My Bloody Valentine’s “When You Sleep”. A classic from MBV, this I think is a standout track on a standout album. Romantic and loud at the same time, what a combination! 8. “New Partner” by Will Oldham, we could have picked any track from Mr Oldhas but why not go with the popular choice.

9. Anything from “36 Strings” by Irish band The Redneck Manifesto, they are probably our favourite Irish band from the last 10 years and their debut still stands up as one of the finest post rock albums to date.

10. “Two Wooden Spoons” by This Is The Kit which was probably our single of the year last year.

11. “Jackson” by Johnny Cash and June Carter, if we ever get married then this will be the first song of the night.

12. “Tupelo” by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, its kind of apt at the moment considering the weather we are having.

An Insightful Interview With Tricky

Domino — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:08:11

Check out the wise words of the incomparable Tricky as he talks about...friends, the music scene, making movies and being inspired.

Tricky will be makring his first live appearance in London in over 5 years at Domino's Crystal Anniversary show at the Barbican on 6th October, tickets are avaialble here.

Knowle West Boy is out now on CD, LP and digital download

"on a record thick with tales about his Bristol upbringing, Tricky more than seduces" The Guardian – 4*

"his best album in at least a decade" – Uncut – 4*

"this is pure Tricky; sometimes at his near-best, sometimes coasting, but always unique [..] Slaughter the fattened calf and get the dinner party going – Tricky’s back" - NME – 7/10

Domino's Favourite Record Shops around the World - Spiller Records, Cardiff, Wales

Domino — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:06:56

A short biog of Spiller Records:

Fact : We are the oldest record shop in the world (Est. 1894!!) and we are also very proud to be an independent store! We also just had a TV programme made about us documenting the history of the shop... We also love having bands in for instores and generally 'keeping it real' in the old fashioned 'face to face' shop experience kind of way : )

We stock a very diverse range of music with Punk and old blues records selling just as strongly as more mainstream release and are uplifted by the apparent increase in VINYL sales!!

Our Spillers T-shirts have been worn all around the world but not yet to the moon...(to our knowledge)....one day!

Nick, the owner got offered the job of manager while a customer here over 30 years ago! He was a dj at the time and was on his way to becoming a bank manager too! A lucky escape as some might say!?!

Ashli at Spiller Records

1) How did you end up working in a record shop?What makes it special?

I'm Nick's daughter , I worked here through school and Uni and ended up staying because I couldn't find a job as fun as this one! What makes it special? Every person I meet has the potential to make it special! That and listening to amazing tunes all day, everyday!

2) What do you love so much about music?

Well.. It's the power of music that gets me…how it can either compliment or indulge a certain feeling. More so, I love its ability to over ride a bad feeling. It sounds corny but music is drugs to me! That feeling when you hear something for the first time and know it’s going to be with you for life...or when you eventually get to see the artist make their music live in front of you… I pray I never tire of that excitement!

3) If your record shop was an album, what would it be? What does this album definition say about the shop?

Oh, now you're asking…Ummm! Well, I think we'd like to be as "relaxed" (!) as the Grateful Dead … but then we'd never get to work in the morning...! And like the Grateful Dead we do have a tendency to go off on a meandering tangent ... but if we we're an album by them we would probably be a rusty old tape recording of a live gig from waaay back when (made by some bloke called Dave who you haven't seen for 20 years!)

4) Do people come to your counter knowing what they want or do you have a huge role in turning people onto great stuff still?

I'm glad to say that really does works both ways. In a small shop like ours (and in a small City like Cardiff) you really get to know the people who come in and get to know their tastes. I'd say there are some casual music buyers who are keen to be turned on to something new and then there are those who know exactly what they want and are enthused to tell us about their new find! Our favourite thing that happens has to be when someone asks what we're playing and likes it so much they buy it…when you get 3 of those situations in a day you know you're playing the right stuff! It's all about sharing for us!

5) What's the local music scene like in your city? Is there a distinctive identity to the type of music coming out?

Cardiff has always had a strong Punk / Rock scene – but there's definitely more going on under the surface… there’s still a good DIY ethic here if you look hard enough… a lot of local promoters and independent labels… I wouldn’t say that it would be possible to bunch the music made together as an Identity as such… but, again, down to the size of Cardiff, people do end up playing / guesting on each other’s records or 'borrowing' band members from other bands.. It's a good economy of talent I'd say!

6) What's the place for record stores in the 21st Century?

You tell us! We certainly hope so… It seems like the world is getting way too homogenised… (We’re in the middle of a construction site at the moment) I don't think the average person realises how manipulated they are by the Majors and their advertising / promotion tactics… It's a tough one this virtual thing…We do like the internet but fiercely believe that there is still a place for real record shops as music is a social experience which can't be replicated on a computer ... the human aspect of music should be shared in real life with people face to face!

7) If you could make a perfect mix tape from your record shop collection* – what would be on it?

1)JJ Cale - After Midnight Mellow as fuck, effortless + cool! Saw a doc' on him recently and even as a 70yr old he is way more hip than some off the young kids these days!
2) Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a gravel road Evocative song writing, brilliant lady!
3) Skatalites - Phoenix City Awesome + uplifting! Happy smiley faces all round when this is on!
4) Half Man Half Biscuit - 24-hour garage people Hilarious and just plain silly!
5) Mazzy Star – Fade In To You A tender song that makes us want to fall in love again and again and....!
6) Young Marble Giants – Searching For Mr Right Beautiful and subtle track from a great Cardiff band from the 80s- and Neon Neon covered it recently and did a damn fine job of it too!
7) William Elliott Whitmore – Our Paths Will Cross Again This lovely chap always comes in to play instore for us when he's in the area - his songs send a life affirming message that every things going to work out ok!
8) Gindrinker - Work It Out Jerky 2 piece from Cardiff, one of our favourite bands of recent years - and this was their debut 7" on an independent +local label, yay!
9) Dinosaur Jr – almost ready J Mascis IS god! (but nobody seems to be making enough fuss in the press over here about his Witch project - criminal!)
10) Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham - You Left the Water Running - A song about heartbreak ... who can't relate to that, huh? Classic!
11) Chambers Brothers - You Can Run (But You Can't Hide) - It's off a great live album and has a wicked rhythm going on!
12) Yo La Tengo - You Can Have It All - again, a track with a positive vibe, "take it baby.. .. take it baby" and GREAT rhythm to it...ba ba ba ba da ba ba .... take it baby.(take it take it) !!
13) High Contrast - If We Ever Banging (and I mean BANGING!) drum'n'bass tune that when heard induces mental / crazy dancing from me! : )
14) Arab Strap - The First Big Weekend I can remember the 1st time I heard this track some 12 years ago. It's about the down sides of too much indulgence, which on a Saturday morning in work is apt for me!

Domino's Favourite Record Shops around the World - Piccadilly Records, Manchester, England

Domino — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:05:47

Short bio of your record shop:

Piccadilly Records opened in 1978, but were owned by a white goods retail company. When this company went bust, some of the staff decided to keep the shop going, re-launching Piccadilly Records in 1990. Our main reason was that a) Manchester needed a good independent record shop, and b) we couldn’t think of anything else who’d be any good at, or want to do!

Philippa at Piccadilly Records

2) How did you end up working in a record shop?

For me personally, I’m here because of John Peel: Listening to his show meant I used to go up to Rough Trade to get a monthly fix of new records. When I came to Manchester I was asked to start DJing at Mcr Polytechnic because “you’ve got lots of records, you should DJ here”. I used to spend my DJ wages at Piccadilly, so when one of the staff was due to go on maternity leave, I was asked if I wanted a job. The answer was yes, and I’m still here 22 years later. What makes it special is the excitement of hearing something new that totally blows you away – it’s always a thrill, and then passing this enthusiasm on to our customers.

3) What do you love so much about music?

It lifts your spirits! Emotionally engaging, thought provoking, heart-wrenching, visceral, quiet, loud, clever, stupid, melodic, noisy… How could we live without it??

4) If your record shop was an album, what would it be?

It would have to be the most eclectic compilation, because everyone that works here has different taste in music, from the most melodic mainstream soft rock, via dreamy Nordic electronica and wistful alt-folk, to crazy electro and rib-shaking dubstep (with way too much to mention in between!) We’re always pulling in different directions!

5) Do people come to your counter knowing what they want or do you have a huge role in turning people onto great stuff still?

A bit of both. There are always people who know what they want, but plenty more who want recommendations, which we’re always happy to give out.

We have 'recommended this week' racks, and play a selection of our favourite CDs (new, recent, old) all day long. Experience tells us that you can’t sell any old shit, so we just try and stock things we think are good.

6) What’s the local music scene like in your city? Is there a distinctive identity to the type of music coming out?

There's a really vibrant music scene in Manchester, with gigs and club nights going on pretty much every night of the week. Local upcoming bands / artists include The Ting Tings, The Courteeners, The Travelling Band, Twisted Wheel, The Whip, Elektrons and Nancy Elizabeth amongst many others that we’ve probably forgotten to mention – so, as you see, there’s not one defining sound here!

Besides local bands, the club scene definitely influences the music we sell: Clubs like El Diablo's Social Club and The Electric Chair (RIP) play a mix of disco, soul and house, Contort Yourself and Homoelectric are more aimed at electro kids, and there are also big nights for techno, hip hop and breaks, so we stock a wide range of dancefloor tunes for DJ who play at these nights, and punters who want the tunes the DJs play.

7) What's the place for record stores in the 21st Century?

I reckon it’s the personal touch – being introduced to new music by enthusiastic staff, or just hearing something on the shop stereo that takes your fancy. There’s only so far 'People who bought this also bought…' sections take you, and generally not to some music completely outside what you’d usually listen to.
Buying online is quick and easy (we have an online store that does really well), but nothing beats going into a record shop and coming away with an amazing record that’s been recommended to you.

8) If you could make a perfect mix tape from your record shop collection* – what would be on it?

Everyone in the shop chose a track for this, it gives a pretty good idea of what our shop’s about I think, although if you asked us again tomorrow we’d probably all come up with something different:

Nancy Elizabeth: 'I'm Like The Paper'
Ryan Adams: 'I See Monsters'
Elliott Smith: 'Let’s Get Lost'
Glissandro 70: 'Analogue Shanty Town'
Cody ChesnuTT: 'Serve This Roalty'
Fire Engines: ‘Candy Skin’
The Smiths: 'This Charming Man'
The Strokes: 'The Modern Age'
Sonic Youth: 'Teenage Riot'
LCD Soundsystem: 'Losing My Edge'
Syclops: 'Where’s Jason’s K'
Alice Smith: 'Love Endeavor'
Joy Division: 'Atmosphere'

For more info, check out www.piccadillyrecords.com

Domino's Favourite Record Shops around the World - Ground Zero in Paris, France

Domino — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:05:57

Short biog of Ground Zero:
Ground Zero opened in Paris in fall 2004, it's a record store specialised in indie rock, pop, a bit of electro, reissues of 60s, post-punk, new wave, etc. cds & vinyls.

Julie / Franck from Ground Zero

1) Why did you start it up?
Franck: Because there was simply no more place like this in Paris. At the time, considering the fall of market, it seams the craziest challenge, i loved it!

Julie: Well, I’ve always been into music, but I never thought of working into it. When Groundzero opened I became a regular customer. Eventually I asked Franck if he needed a help for his site (as I’m graphic designer). then a few months after that I was at the shop for my regular shopping and told franck he won't see me so often as I quit my job to get freelance.

He went : "No? that's fantastic! Would like to work here?"

I phone my friends euphoric, and they were all like "ha ha, I knew you end up in music"

It's the best job in the world. It's all about spreading the love of what you think deserves attention to all the people passing by.

1) What do you love so much about music?

It can moves your hips, moves you to the very heart of your soul, makes you happy, makes you melancholic… It is all about "soul and fire", isn't it? There's always some new bands to discover who're going to blow off your mind, It's a never ending thrill, that’s exciting!

Also provides the best subjects for badfaith argument when you’re with your friends. Lovely.

3) If your record shop was an album, what would it be?

I guess we could be the last Ruby Suns Sea Lion, we’re refreshing, nice and warm, been listening to Animal collective and Panda Bear all last year but do also know and love our pioneer New Order, we're looking for bright and shiny future.

4) Do people come to your counter knowing what they want or do you have a huge role in turning people onto great stuff still?

A good part of people that are coming to us are indie lovers, and know what they want, but they know we're here if they need recommandations.

Hopefully yes we do constantly turn people into what we think is great!

Because we're music fan ourselves, we can't help but telling everyone when we think we've got great stuff. That would include playing it all the time on the stereo, and telling everyone about until I’m sure everyone know about this band/ record. at the end of the year we do a top with our fav' top 10, and one with 50 best sales, and it's nice to see what's our favourite in the top sales.

It's lovely to see we have the influence to spread the love of Panda Bear, Fiery Furnaces or Archie Bronson Outfit. It's our pleasure and privilege to serve what we think deserves attention.

5) What's the local music scene like in your city? Is there a distinctive identity to the type of music coming out?

There's plenty of bands playing around. We love and support our fellow Zombie Zombie, Herman Düne, Cyan & Ben, Go Go Charlton, Maison Neuve, each in their very own style have a good fan base that comes to us in search for their records.

6) What's the place for record stores in the 21st Century?

There has to be more place for record stores. There's no other experience like going to a record store, chatting with some people there, and going home with exciting records you didn't know anything about.

I love my iPod, it's useful for holidays, but I'll never buy anything on digital. Just don't see the point. And I'm not even talking about the sound quality...When I love a record I want the cover, want to read the full notes, it's part of it as well…Must be quite oldschool and romantic though.

Will there always be a value and need for record shops against the tide of virtual experience.

7) If you could make a perfect mix tape from your record shop collection – what would be on it?

This is a tough one. Here you go.

1 Belle & Sebastian – Dogs on Wheel
2 Neil Young - On the Beach
3 Panda Bear – Bro
4 Pavement – In the Mouth of a Desert
5 The fall. The Classical
6 David Byrne covering The Fiery Furnaces – Ex guru
7 Herman Dune – Nickel Chrome
8 Franz Ferdinand covering LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
9 The Black Angels - Manipulation
10 Pale Saints – Sight of You
11 A Silver Mount Zion – Mountains made of steam
12 Arab Strap – There’s No Ending

Oh la la, for more info, go to www.groundzero.fr

Franz Ferdinand - 'Get Up and Use Me'/The Fire Engines - 'Jacqueline'

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:38

The first release on Paul Thomson's New! label, initially given away at the Franz December 18th Glasgow SECC show, and now available here on Domino Mart! This limited 7" features The Fire Engines' recording of Franz's 'Jacqueline', and Franz Ferdinand's version of the Fire Engines' 'Get Up and Use Me'.

Boys and Girls

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:38

A new 7" from our friends at The Thin Man records. This one's strange and funksome. Find yourself a new position.

Hella/Four Tet Split Seven Inch

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:37

Limited import split single on Ache Records, featuring Four Tet's 'Both When I Am Alone and We Both Are' on side A, and Hella's 'Stephen Hawking Has A Posse' on the B side. This is a rarity, and the Four Tet track is exclusive to this release!

Operating At A Theatre Near You Vol.1

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:36

Limited edition 2004 Tour EP, featuring live and alternate versions of Clinic tracks old and new!

Tales From The Tightrope vol.1

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:34

Haha Sound

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:33

10,000 Things

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:32

Rumour has it there�s a volcanic new scene waiting to erupt in the vicinity of Leeds, if that�s so then at its core must surely be 10,000 Things, a six-man explosion of riff and mischief who are stunning large, rowdy crowds every time they play in the city. This is the debut EP from 10,000 Things, recorded by Phil Brown, a man who was in the room when All Along The Watchtower, Stairway To Heaven and Sympathy For the Devil were recorded. It took one look at 10,000 Things live in a Leeds backstreet, to convince this venerable producer that here was the stuff of future legend. And yes, the sessions included a run-in with the law, a cross-country dash, a sideboard full of skunk and a lake of milky tea. And that was just day one. Out on Dusty Company/Domino.

Recordings Of Music For Film

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:31

In 1983, director Eric Mitchell cast Vincent Gallo in his independent film "THE WAY IT IS." Vincent would later be tapped by Mitchell to score the film. Recognizing his talents and acute knowledge of tape recording techniques, Mitchell also bestowed the score's engineering duties to this 22-year-old monophonic wizard. With 4 previous short film scores under his belt, Gallo went to work with his array of vintage instruments and recording gear to produce a brooding, at times surreal, score for the film. It would be the world's first glimpse of Vincent Gallo as a solo artist. The score is a collection of beautiful melodies and multi-tracked guitar work reminiscent of classical Italian pieces. Some tracks seem to hark back to influences from the earlier BOHACK recording with brief (sometimes 60 seconds or less) tracks utilizing repetitive, yet sparse melodies on piano woven around static rim shots or simple rhythmic beats. Other songs explore somewhat deeper moods with the characteristic sounds of Gallo's vintage Gibson guitars layered into multiple tracks and playing off each other in an almost conversational manner. One track in particular, "And A Colored Sky Colored Grey," interestingly reappears in slightly altered form including vocals 14 years later on the soundtrack to "Buffalo 66." In the song Gallo professes his inescapable tag as the "Lonely Boy" forever destined to be the chairman of the lonely-hearts club. Hearing the instrumental take of this track on "THE WAY IT IS" makes one realize that the lyrics were always there. The guitar notes expressed the words to this song just as clearly in 1984 as they would in the 1990s when Gallo applied his vocals to the song.

Elongated Cat

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:29

This is the second in Bill Wells' ultra-limited Loathsome Reels CD-R series, available here at Domino Mart for your listening enjoyment. The concert was recorded at the Tron, Edinburgh 21.2.93.

Live '96

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:29

This is the third in Bill Wells' ultra-limited Loathsome Reels CD-R series, available here at Domino Mart for your listening enjoyment. The concert was recorded at the International Jazz Festival 1.7.96.

Songs For A Simple Moment

Domino — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:12:58

Songs For A Simple Moment was conceived as a retrospective of the music of Shinji Shibayama and the two great groups he has led - The Hallelujahs (1985 / 88), and since 1992, Nagisa Ni te, a co-venture with his partner Masako Takeda. These two projects, alongside Shibuyama's sterling work for the legendary Osaka based record label Org (Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Naoki Zushi) place him absolutely at the vanguard of a type of Japanese music which is sometimes referred to as folk-psyche. The Shibayama (and Takeda) variation is particularly beautiful, characterised by honesty and emotional nakedness, and by complex melodic structures and fragile vocals, which often give way to incredible soaring guitar solos. In Japan, Nagisa Ni Te's music is on the ascendance and a new album, Feel has just been released.

Limited number of vinyl copies now back in stock.

Also In White

Domino — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:12:09

"When we took Bill's new album with us on an Italian tour, it accompanied us every day through most exceptional landscapes; Adriatic sea images and night drives in city centres. Not only did the music fit in a most enjoyable way to many of our situations, it also made the joy of hearing and seeing at the same time a pleasure we recognised together."

- Stefan Schneider, To Rococo Rot, February 2002

The Last Great Wilderness

Domino — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:12:49

The Last Great Wilderness is the soundtrack to the debut movie by David Mackenzie. It was produced with John McEntire, and features a guest appearance from Jarvis Cocker.

Movietone (First Album)

Domino — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:12:44

This is a remastered reissue of the hard-to-find debut Movietone longplayer, originally out on Planet Records in 1995, and available now with new liner notes and bonus tracks from singles: 'She Smiled Mandarine Like', 'Under the 3000ft Red Ceiling', and 'Orange Zero', as well as an unreleased track, 'Chance Is Her Opera' (demo).

September Collective

Domino — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:12:07

In other ways this record, which is by three absolutely modern musicians, has a soft-focus melancholy about it; in the outro of The Return for instance, an acoustic guitar suddenly seeps into the mix affecting the whole sound and recalling comedown moments in soundtracks by John Barry and Ennio Morricone. It also touches on Schneider and Morgenstern's recent work with Bill Wells, and on Wirkus's Intelletto D'Amore set. In the process, each musician is constantly adding something; a melody line, an atmosphere, a forward propulsion, and the whole of the record is always fluid and three-dimensional. Part of the September Collective magic is that it's never that easy to identify which member is doing what, although one thing all three members pay attention to is melody.

Recently The Wire identified Wirkus as one of the true pioneers of laptop based music, comparing him to Fennesz in his ability to zoom out from the technical moment of the glitch, and to present a picture of the music which is taking place. Although less concerned with the glitch, this description applies equally well to Schneider who always seems to instinctively know exactly where he is in a piece of music, and has expertly added low-end melody lines and morse code signals to To Rococo Rot, and a complete design in his own Mapstation project. Morgenstern's music is perhaps the most eclectic of the trio, switching between an almost neo-classical sense of music structure and the avant-pop brilliance of her three Monika albums. If the September Collective always has a good energy or momentum, it's hard not to imagine Morgenstern driving things forward, and never allowing things to become stuck in the static moment.

In its improvised roots, the September Collective always had an air of unrepeatable coincidence, but the fact that the coincidences were so memorable has inspired the group members to continue working together. No-one in the September Collective views it as a side-project and the quest is already underway to coincide once more.

The Royal We

Domino — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:12:32

From her Los Angeles home, future Royal We singer, Jihae Simmons had an idealised image of Glasgow, mostly drawn from Orange Juice and Belle & Sebastian lyrics. She was looking forward to moving to a place which would be like an 'amazing tweeland' where everyone had a lot of respect for nature and buildings which they'd want to explain in cafes like in a Godard movie far from the scuzz of the LA music scene. Meanwhile, Patrick Doyle was on his way to university and had stopped off in Glasgow. 'It seemed more promising than where I was supposed to be going. Sunderland.' Roxanne Clifford had come to the city from Manchester to study art... and because the music scene was strong. Other Royal We personnel, Graeme Ronald, Joan Sweeney and Colin Kearney were already here, on the fringes of things, with Colin already a member of Eska, and various other groups.

Slowly, by the beginning of 2006 the group started identifying each other on the streets and at parties as possible collaborators, eventually rolling up as part of a 20-person super-session in Jihae's front room. Even for a conceptual group this was too much, and in the end there was a hardcore of six and they became the The Royal We. Jihae wanted it to sound glam and to be quite extreme. Other members had different ideas but all remember it as an exciting and fast-moving time, with songs coming together really quickly. The night they wrote All The Rage, they took over a party, plugging in a laptop and playing it over and over until they realised everyone else had left.

In a city like Glasgow, there's always an 'it' group - in recent times it was Franz Ferdinand and before that the Optimo club and before that Belle & Sebastian and so on. By summer 2006 The Royal We had become the 'it' group - everyone was talking about them and members were turning up on Belle & Sebastian and Franz Ferdinand covers and even the NME was into them. If that all sounds a little too hype, then ok, but The Royal We were the most fun in town; their shows had it down and they had great songs and a great sound. There's no doubt there's something pop about The Royal We but it's an older, odder kind of pop - the experimental pop of Orange Juice or ESG or even The Raincoats. In a way this is partly designed, the lyrics reference pop language, but mostly it's just exuberant brilliance which has carried The Royal We through.

This, their debut album features mostly songs written in their first six months of existence, their polaroid moment. It starts out slow and ends up in Chris Isaac's Wicked Game. In between are all the reasons The Royal We were and are completely special. They won't be making a second album, Jihae is moving back to LA in for one thing, other members of the group want to move on too. Meanwhile they're going to play some

All The Rage

Domino — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:12:43

Geographic is thrilled to present, at last, the fabulous debut single by The Royal We. All The Rage encapsulates their staggered swagger perfectly, glam on the cheap, sassy and fun, but sadly not built to last. In a way that's why it's a perfect pop moment, touchable but not really - you could fill a weekend scanning youtube for these kind of moments and maybe find yourself looking at The Move (with Carl Wayne) singing Flowers In The Rain or The Fire Engines singing Candy Skin or Francoise Hardy or T.Rex or anything really. The Royal We are on youtube too singing All The Rage. The singer gets eaten by the rest of the group. How come?

The Royal We were, and are, six young dreamers who came together in early 2006, under inevitable Glasgow rain to plot and do stuff and hang out in cafes as if in a Godard movie. Some of them were on their way to university or art school and others were just waiting. Singer Jihae Simmons had come all the way from Los Angeles with an idealised image of Glasgow and how a Glasgow pop group should be. It's fair to say that the other members, Roxanne Clifford, Patrick Doyle, Graeme Ronald, Joan Sweeney and Colin Kearney had their own take on a 'Glasgow pop group' but things seemed to coincide and very quickly they'd a bunch of songs with winning names like All The Rage. They were fast and they knew they were already pretty good.

So good by summer 2006, The Royal We had kind of taken over and everyone was talking about them and members were turning up on Belle & Sebastian and Franz Ferdinand covers. If that all sounds quite hype then ok, but The Royal We were the most fun in town their shows had it down and they had great songs and a great sound. On All The Rage and on their forthcoming self-titled album you can, like with everything else on youtube, almost be there in this polaroid moment. Only better than that, this group still exists, they're not history, you might even see them at one of their shows, Jihae never really got eaten by the others, not really. L'Enfant Terrible is only about two months old, but it's very much like a later polaroid, with different colours, different film. They changed, but that's good.

The Royal We are so pop it's almost over already. In December Jihae is moving back to LA and the other members are ready to move on to new things too. But for now, they're plotting and dreaming new schemes, together and apart. People, The Royal We are here.

How's Your Bassoon, Turquoirs

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:46

Music Activist

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:36

Association!

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:36

Association! is the lead-off track on the stunning new International Airport album, Reunion Of Island Goose. Immediately we thought it should be a single, and that people would want to join in with this association without rules, a rule book or leaders. They�ve got a good song though, and when we started to think of it as a single, rather than abstracting out into the world of remixes, we invited the kings of song, Teenage Fanclub to play it straight with a simple cover version. Teenage Fanclub are just back from Chicago where they�ve completed a new album with John McEntire, who also mixed International Airport. Members from both groups play in The Pastels, so there�s a familiarity with the form and style of the Airport�s avant pop. Teenage Fanclub�s cut is a little harder with more focus on the groove, with soul handclaps and a great cutting guitar sound. It sounds close to some of The Beatles 1966 / 67 out-takes with double-tracked drums, and a �come by and play on it�, community vibe. Mostly it sounds like Teenage Fanclub of course, but it sounds like Teenage Fanclub moving towards a new sound once again full of possibilities. The instrumental cut is also really fantastic. Finally, Airport leader, Tom Crossley, imagining both versions running together, decided to make a mash, where they do run together, one in each channel, and bringing the subtle clang of the original into a somehow more physical space. Everyone�s singing �I�m part of the association!�.

Fence Reunited

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:34

Psalm Clerk

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:33

Fence�s ringleader, the inexhaustible KC, spent the entirety of 2003 concocting Psalm Clerk � astoundingly, his 23rd album (this year). For those who doubt the King�s reputation for musical fecundity, let it be known that NONE of the 23 (that number again) tracks that feature on the album can be found on �Kenny and Beth�s Musakal Boat Rides�. Also features a reworked and exclusive version of the single �Love Your Present�.

The Pictish Trail

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:33

�The work of Johnny Lynch, The Pictish Trail, is more stirringly subversive stuff from the Fence Collective. Lynch writes warm, welcoming, yet quite isolated, singer-songwriter tales of a life locked away somewhere near St. Andrews � tiny keyboard patterns, acoustic neo-folk rumblings and all manner of unidentifiable oddball noises, wrapped around an infectious mysterious x-factor somehow inherent in all Fence output. Akin to Lou Barlow sobbing his tiny heart out while submerged in Loch Ness, this is the sound of Scotland quietly floating far, far out to some deep enchanting waters. And never dreaming of floating back� Comes With a Smile #12

John's ABC

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:33

A largely instrumental East Neukian album featuring works from King Creosote, Clock, Cheehi, Lone Pigeon, Weasel Squeezer, James Yorkston, Pip Dylan, MC Quake and of course John. Also includes the full length version of Lone Pigeon's "the rain king" (an abridged version appears on Concubine Rice). 26 tracks worth of folkytronic ramblings.

Immigrant

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:33

�Immigrant exports tiny fragments of folk-pop songs, gently whispered, even more gently played. Like Badly Drawn Boy stripped of his electric guitar and with far denser beard growth, Immigrant has a soppy heart that flutters in mysterious ways. As always, sitting on this Fence is such a smart decision to take� The Crack, 14/07/03

L'Argent de la Mer

Domino — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:33

Fence�s �sole� songstress, Jenny Casino�s debut album for Fence is quite literally �awash� with sea-shanties, stories and Anstruther town gossip. Possessing both an extremely emotive voice and an uncanny knack at penning the wittiest of lyrics, H.M.S. Ginafore has created one of the most engaging of all of Fence�s back-catalogue.

Slanted and Enchanted

Domino — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:03:57

Roman Candle

Domino — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:02:58

Domino is very excited to announce that on April 6th, 2010 we will be reissuing a re-mastered version of Elliott Smith’s Roman Candle. Roman Candle was Elliott Smith’s first solo album and was originally released in 1994.

Roman Candle has been re-mastered for the re-release by Larry Crane, editor of Tape Op Magazine and archivist for Elliott's family, and Roger Seibel at SAE Mastering.

Larry explains, “The intention that I had was to make the album more listenable. I felt that a lot of the guitar “squeaks” were jarring and very loud, and that many of the hard consonants and “S” sounds were jarring and scratchy sounding. I felt by reducing these noises that the music would become more inviting and the sound would serve the songs better. When I went to Roger Seibel's SAE Mastering, he proceeded to equalize the tracks a small amount and to make the volume slightly louder. We never tried to make this CD as loud as current, over-limited trends, but just to match the volume of the rest of Elliott’s KRS catalog in a graceful way. Please note that none of this album is “remixed” from the master tapes - it is still composed of the mixes Elliott created himself.”

On Fire (Deluxe Edition)

Domino — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:02:37

‘ON FIRE’

“SUN BLINDNESS MUSIC”

Richard King

Bliss through noise and the escape into a psychedelic headspace were both attractive propositions in 1989. On Fire arrived dressed in a beautiful typeface cast in the hues of a hallucinatory dawn. The sleeve, a wash of refracted filters, shows a band looking exactly like they are: three New England students so comfortable in their own skin they can allow themselves a smile. Behind them is the trail of passing clouds. Stare closely, let your eyes dilate and the clouds are now plumes of smoke. The elements aligning into a beguiling, almost menacing, drift.

On Fire inhabits an awesome, distorted reality. The band, ostensibly a trio of guitar, bass and drums, sound more like a sun carriage. Damon Krukowski’s cymbals and Dean Wareham’s falsetto become lead instruments. Naomi Yang doesn’t so much play as paint with her bass. These abstract tones and spots of primary colour are the sound of three people locked somewhere in a beautiful space, the midpoint between telepathy and propulsion. From the languorous opening bars of ‘Blue Thunder’ to the euphoric closing refrain of “What a pity, what a pity” the record moves back and forward allowing waves of electricity to swell and break across its ten tracks. Few songs have been more appropriately titled than ‘Snowstorm’ and few bands have been in such graceful control of a maelstrom. Has anyone played a wah-wah with such equine grace as Dean Wareham? Each note in the solo crystallizing the reverie of a snowflake hitting the ground.

Lyrically, On Fire is disorientating. If this is a psychedelic record it is un-pastoral. Its characters wander round the city trying to make sense of their surroundings. A ‘Plastic Bird’ has its legs broken, its nose smashed and gets discarded on First Avenue. In ‘Snowstorm’ the TV is going wild. Put your clothes on and ‘Leave the Planet.’ The record is full of unanswered and unanswerable questions: “Why does everybody look so funny? Why does everybody look so strange? When will you come home?” rhetorical and almost numb. The only response is the emotional pull of such beautiful music. The searing despair of ‘Strange,’ the distortion at the end of ‘When Will You Come Home’ and in the detached confirmation in Yang and Wareham’s voices, “That every day is not the same.”

On Fire moves at an almost erotic pace, aglow in its strange and visionary world. A perfect, liquid equilibrium. Listen, and lose yourself, in the heat of this alchemical masterpiece.

This Is Our Music (Deluxe Edition)

Domino — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:02:09

‘THIS IS OUR MUSIC’

Chris Roberts

As Oscar Wilde once said, among many lovably smart-ass things he said, “He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.” Galaxie 500 purred at a time when others were shouting. Things were different then. “Indie” or “alternative” music really was a minority taste, and a different colour and texture to the music flooding the mainstream. This was their music. “Slowcore,” “dream pop,” call it what you will, it was sleepy yet somehow buzzing. Cool, yet somehow trembling with anticipation. Laid-back, yet brimming with the minute emotions and implosions of the everyday inner life.

So they stole the title, from a 1960 Ornette Coleman masterpiece. A successful heist is all about the attitude. Galaxie 500, named after a car, never raced. They let the world, or the more discerning components, come to them. They met in New York, improved at Harvard University, and became known as a Boston band. It was to be, as nobody had predicted, a golden age for Boston bands. With Kramer producing alchemically, they made Today and On Fire, drowned in rave reviews (at least in the UK), found themselves compared to the Velvet Underground and Jonathan Richman and New Order. This Is Our Music, the third album, came in 1991, after Dean Wareham had moved back to New York. After much touring, he left the trio, whose last European show was released as a swansong live album, Copenhagen. See if you can guess in which Danish city that took place.

The members of Galaxie 500 went on to do further stirring and lovely things in music afterwards, but their legacy had already begun. The influence of these sounds spans far and wide to this day. It’s about restraint, delay, poise. Galaxie 500 records are as rough as sandpaper yet as elegant as jewellery. There’s a happy, maybe lucky blend between Dean’s so-wrong-yet-so-right voice and his deceptively brilliant guitar, between Damon’s minimal yet mesmerising rhythms and Naomi’s loping, groping bass. They’re gentle yet diamond-hard, sweet yet capable of savagery.

From the opening intro drone of the exquisite ‘Fourth Of July,’ This Is Our Music asserts its sparkle and self-sufficiency. There are ebbs and flows within every Galaxie 500 track and the magic is that you can never quite pin down the moments when a surge begins, when a retreat occurs. We’re hearing shards and trills of Verlaine-esque guitars, a pace stately yet seductive. We’re writing “a poem on a dog biscuit,” evidently, and even if the dog refuses to look at it, we’re hooked on a mystery. We’re getting drunk and looking at the Empire State Building, which is “no bigger than a nickel.” It’s evocative, a fresh twist on classic Manhattan lore, and for we Brits that makes for a head-full of Warhol imagery, from Edie to Lou, from grids to rooftops. There’s a lazy, languid air of almost accidental romance. “Maybe I should just change my style/But I feel all right when you smile...” Their music is both relaxed and relentless.

There are echoes, psalms, clinches. On the centrepiece, ‘Summertime,’ they are “just delicious.” How this track builds and falls and builds again. It’s a sea, a shapeshifter. There’s a kind of brittle faith and hope in Naomi’s vocal on Yoko Ono’s ‘Listen, The Snow Is Falling.’ On ‘Melt Away’ we warm our hands on a glow. ‘King Of Spain, Part Two’ brings us around and tells us all good things are timeless.

This Is Our Music was out of time and in its zone and so now sounds as timeless as birth and death and beauty. It’s just three people with guitars and bass and drums, going “doo doo doo wah.” This is deferred gratification.

Today (Deluxe Edition)

Domino — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:02:21

‘TODAY’ (REISSUE LINER NOTES)

“DON’T LET OUR YOUTH GO TO WASTE”

Stewart Lee, writer/clown, Stoke Newington, November 2009

When Today was first reissued in 1997, nine years after it was recorded, Byron Coley’s illuminating sleeve notes compared Galaxie 500’s astonishing and all but unprecedented land-grab of the margins of late 80s mainstream rock culture to the post-Nirvana landscape, where previously alternative combos were suddenly hobnobbing with Hollywood stars and hogging the headlines. And it must be difficult for the cultural consumers of today, hardwired into a worldwide web of culture from their bedroom laptops, to imagine how shocking Galaxie 500’s unexpected debut album sounded when the band first hovered over the horizon, and how comforting it was to have found them -- how we all felt just a little bit less alone. But there’s more to the magic of the short-lived Boston trio than the fact that their velvety pop-drones somehow snuck into the fringes of a world that appeared to have no need for them. There's that all but indefinable extra ingredient, that can somehow make yet another combination of bass, guitar, drums and vox timeless and precious.

Today, which I took a punt on when its blurred foliage sleeve loomed out from the racks of Avalanche records in Edinburgh’s West Nicholson Street in August 1989, was an amazing record. The opening track, ‘Flowers,’ deceptively defeats expectations and leaves the listener bewildered and susceptible. The jangly strummed guitar seems predictable enough, but the drums are playing jazzy off-beats, the bass is charting its own wayward path, and then, minutes in, there’s a guitar solo so audacious and unwarranted that it’s immediately clear all bets are off. Then a harmony vocal joins in, echoing with toilet cubicle mysticism, and the start of the second solo is fumbled, drums clattering through uncertain clusters of notes. ‘Pictures’ stumbles into being, audibly finding its feet for the first minute. ‘Parking Lot’ begins at a gallop it can barely sustain. And ‘Instrumental’ is the sound of a band racing excitedly ahead of itself towards an unknown future.

Dean Wareham, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang were New York high school friends, transplanted to Harvard, who decided to form a band after graduation and started recording the following year. Today had precedents, sure, hip signature sounds drawn from the canon of cool: the minimal melodies of the Velvet Underground’s relentlessly strummed riffs, expanded by way of the Dream Syndicate’s extended workouts. Damon’s fluttering and pounding percussion suggests Mo Tucker shuffling into Kind Of Blue’s narcoleptic haze; Dean’s heretically overlong guitar solos, like Television’s, combine visionary psychedelic stretches with sloppy punk mess; Naomi’s yearning, aching bass, carries the melodies high up the frets, like Kendra Smith’s collaborations with David Roback; and those reedy indie-boy vocals, already a default setting for floppy fringed C86 shamblers this side of the Atlantic, were dignified and made distant and holy by the band’s genius producer Kramer, as he shifted them to the extreme corners of the mix, and kept the mistakes in.

I was instantly smitten, in time to make Galaxie 500’s introductory Institute Of Contemporary Arts appearance in London in September 1989. I had a new life in a shared flat way out west, and a walkman primed with a tape of Today soundtracked a year of snowy winters, data input jobs in offices on industrial estates, and cigarettes smoked on night bus journeys back from unpaid open-mike stand-up gigs in far flung corners of the city. I saw Galaxie 500 three times in 1990, every gig a transcendental experience, and I clocked the back of my own head bobbing on live TV footage of a show in Ladbroke Grove. Soon, previously hardcore strummers the world over had taken note, slowed down and blissed out, but Codeine, Low, Bedhead, Bay, and the rest of the slowcore scene never packed the punch implicit in the fuzzy felt-wrapped fist of Galaxie 500. And maybe it’s only now, decades on, that it’s possible to hazard a guess as to why the whole of Today seemed so much greater than the sum of its parts.

Since their split not quite three years later, the two factions of Galaxie 500 have pursued subtly different paths. With Luna, Dean Wareham scrubbed and polished those Lou Reed-style licks until they shone, searching for a holy grail of indie-pop perfection, with chiming solos and gently chugging riffs. But on Today’s cover of Jonathan Richman’s ‘Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste’ you can hear the younger man playing at the edge of his wits, as the gap between his hopes and his abilities fills with imperfect synaptic cascades of notes, redolent of late period Coltrane or the Byrds’ attempts to ape free-jazz solos with fuzzed guitars on ‘Eight Miles High.’ And this flawed ambition is utterly irresistible. Meanwhile, Damon & Naomi’s post-Galaxie career has seen them foster their own, hushed and wondrous, global avant-folk sound as a low-key duo; explore the absolute limits of psychedelic hard rock jamming as the rhythm section of Magic Hour; and set up a Surrealist publishing company, Exact Change. In Galaxie 500, even as Dean Wareham pulled towards pure shimmering pop, Damon & Naomi couldn’t help but complicate the results.

And perhaps it’s this sheer incompatibility that makes Today a once-in-a- lifetime, never-to-be-repeated classic. Lucky for us, Kramer, an uncommonly sensitive producer, had the sense to capture Galaxie 500 for posterity, like insects in amber, as they really were, rather than how they might have imagined themselves to be. In the twenty years since the album’s release, various alternative rock trends have withered on the vine, shrivelled and become meaningless. Trip-hop makes me think of dinner parties hosted by young professionals, chilled to fuck on half an e. Nickleback’s wholesale robbery of grunge tropes, for example, means no one can ever listen to the sound of Seattle ever again without vomiting into a hat. And the Britpop era, it is now clear, was just 1967 with bigger amps, worse tunes and nastier drugs. But Today, …. well Today still sounds like it was recorded today. Those crazy kids! What were they thinking?

Wide Open Road: The Best of The Triffids

Domino — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:01:14

Continuing with the Triffids reissue program that we started in 2006 with the release of the band’s classic Born Sandy Devotional album, and which has seen Calenture, In The Pines, Black Swan and Treeless Plain all remastered and released as deluxe CDs with additional music and sleeve notes, comes the 18 track Wide Open Road - The Best of the Triffids compilation. This is a tremendous introduction to a band with an impressive body of work.

(words from the sleeve notes by John O Donnell)
"...Eleven years after his death (in February, 1999), the songs of David McComb and the music made by The Triffids still lives and breathes and resonates. As evidenced here...For me, The Triffids had the perfect arc...They remind me of that great line by Jack Kerouac in On The Road where he says 'the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centrelight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"'... With The Triffids, the middle of the arc, the blue centrelight pop, where everybody goes "Awww!" is the song "Wide Open Road", which is why it’s right that it’s the lead-off and title track of this collection...

But all around and before and after "Wide Open Road" were great moments of wildly varying colour and kind. Forming in Perth, Western Australia in the late 70s, around drummer Alsy McDonald and David McComb on guitars/vocals, the Triffids mutated through a number of different lineups as they released a handful of crude cassette 'albums', compiling more than 80-90 songs. Graduating to vinyl, their 7" singles were naive gems, tracks like "Reverie" and "Spanish Blue" full of pop smarts and sharp lyrics but with a clumsy, awkward charm. "Beautiful Waste" was their first great song. By the time of their debut album Treeless Plain, they had settled on their lineup of David McComb (vocals/guitar), Alsy McDonald (drums, vocals), Jill Birt (keyboards, vocals), Robert McComb (guitars, violin, vocals), Martyn P Casey (bass) and 'Evil' Graham Lee (pedal and lap steel, guitars, vocals) was to complete the definitive version of the band shortly after Treeless Plain...

The studio albums and the songs end up being the lasting document and the Triffids stand proud and tall on this measure. Their live shows are simply burnt in my memory, as visceral, brilliant, intelligent, haunting, pretty, dark, petulant, sloppy, irresistible...kind of like 'fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centrelight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'"

Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement

Domino — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:01:10

Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement comes out on Domino on Monday the 8^th of March 2010. This fully re-mastered 23-track compilation will be available on double LP, CD and digital album formats. The tracks span the entirety of Pavement's career from 1989 to 1999, from the scratchy and mysterious sounds of their early vinyl-only releases to the rich, multilayered warmth of their final recordings. Although the compilation does not include any unreleased material, it definitely goes deeper than the "hits."

Quarantine The Past lands in stores as Pavement embark on their first live appearances since the fall of 1999. Dates begin in New Zealand on March 1 and continue through Australia, UK and Europe over the spring and summer, with 4 dates at London’s Brixton Academy in May and the band curating and performing at All Tomorrow’s Parties.

We are holding a Guess The Track Listing Contest. The album contains 23 tracks, all previously released, and the first track is "Gold Soundz" (MP3 of remastered version below). Prizes will be awarded as follows:

FIRST PRIZE for the track listing closest to the actual track listing

SECOND PRIZE for the most imaginative track listing

FOUR RUNNERS-UP in either of the above two categories (4 runner-up prizes total)

First prize will be a pair of tickets, with flights and hotel rooms, to see Pavement at Central Park Summerstage on Tuesday, September 21, 2009. Plus a complete set of Pavement 12" vinyl.

Second prize will be having your track listing pressed up in a special limited-edition vinyl double LP for Record Store Day (April 17). You will receive 5 copies of your best of selection. Plus a complete set of Pavement 12" vinyl.

Runner-up prizes will be complete sets of Pavement 12" vinyl.

To participate, please click the below link and enter your choice of 23 tracks (remember, the first one is "Gold Soundz"): http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/01/05/pavement-quarantine-the-past/.

Deadline for entries is 2 weeks from today: TUESDAY, JANUARY 19.

Entry is open to anyone worldwide, with the exceptions of those listed under the contest rules. Contest rules and restrictions are listed at the bottom of the song titles page.

Download the re-mastered MP3 of "Gold Soundz": http://www.dominorecordco.com/quarantinepavement/

Be Here To Love Me (Soundtrack)

Domino — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:08:53

Flyin' Shoes

Domino — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:08:20

Live At The Old Quarter, Houston, Texas

Domino — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:08:38

Mott The Hoople

Domino — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:10:13

“MOTT THE HOOPLE ARE IN THE HOUSE! THE ROCK’N’ROLL CIRCUS IS IN TOWN!”

And they were and Jesus Christ it was! When Mott hit the stage the love from the ‘kids’ hit them like a hurricane. Last night everybody in the Hammersmith Apollo was a ‘kid’ and the vibes were so powerful that for two hours THE FABRIC OF Time itself was turned back and the golden age of rock’n’roll re-materialised right here on earth . The stone was rolled away, we told Chuck Berry the news - and we were dudes dad! Alright!

These vibes were so potent that fellow rock provocateur Laurence Bell, the Domino Top Dude, who rarely allows strong drink past his lips, was drunk as a lord and dancing in the aisle, and he doesn’t do that for just anybody you know. Oh dear. Oh gawd, oh my oh my!!.

Hit me with the facts jack: MOTT RETURNED TRIUMPHANT.

Hunter was in TOP voice, Ralphs cranked out some ace axework, Phally had the old Hammond licks down man, and Overend is STILL a Rock’n’Roll Star. Hats off to substitute drummer, Martin ‘Powerhouse’ Chambers, a Hereford lad, filling in for Buffin who is in pretty poor health, though he did come out for the encores on a second kit.

According to Hunter’s website it had been Dale’s dream for so many years to be back on stage with the original Mott. I shamelessly admit to a tear in the eye and a lump in the throat during, well, most of the show really.

David E Barker - 2nd October 2009

On The Domino Stereo

Domino — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:04:31

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Shelagh McDonald - Let No Man Steal Your Thyme
June Tabor & Maddy Prior - Silly Sisters
Steeleye Span - Hark The Village Wait
Tame Impala - Tame Impala
A Mountain Of One - Collected Works
Merle Haggard & The Stranglers - I'm A Lonesome Fugitive
Chief - Untitled
Animal Collective - "What Would I Want Sky"
The Fall - Slates
Julian Cope - Skellington
V/A - La Discotheque Psychedelique
Fallen Angels - It's A Long Way Down
XTC - Drums And Wires
Bat For Lashes - "Daniel"
Nigeria 70 - The Definitive Story of Funky Lagos
Phosphorescent - To Willie
The Handsome Family - Through The Trees
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains

Domino 2008 Top 10s

Domino — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:12:05

Laurence Bell & Jacqui Rice Joint Top 10

Blind - Hercules & Love Affair
Sabali - Amadou and Mariam
Third - Portishead
Wearing My Rolex - Wiley
Township Funk - DJ Mujava
Made In The Dark - Hot Chip
Safe Inside The Day - Baby Dee
Leonard Cohen in Concert
Bjork in Concert
Primavera Festival, Espana

Morgan

1. my brothers carrot soup..
2. old book but new to me - Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
3. Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
4. hearing Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavillion for the first time
5. ping pong at Bacchus Restaurant
6. The Seagull @ Walter Kerr Theatre
7. getting crushed by waves at Crane Beach
8. racing wild boars in an air boat
9. "are we human? or are we dancer?"
10. my walk to work

Jonny

sun electric - toninas (ricardo villalobos mix)
fennesz - the black sea
black carrot - drink the black forest
the wire - better late than never dvd catch up
animal collective - merriweather post pavilion (forthcoming)
the residents - eskimo (reissue)
gene clark - no other
gas - 1-4 reissues
autechre - quaristice
theo parrish - dj set @ plastic people post liquid liquid show

Stephen

Optimo (espacio) - Sleepwalk
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
The Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain
Briggo falling off his chair
The last minute of the Brazilian GP
This!
Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto
Metallica at Reading
Deerhunter - Mircro Castle
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue (Reissue)

Clare

(Album) Animal Collective - Post Merriweather Pavilion.... so many memories already!
(track) Roland M Dill's remix of Space by Minilogue (i love Roland)
(Club) Theo Parrish at plastic people incense darkness techno magic
(Gig Album Track) Health - three in one..... live at the Scala, their album, and Perfect Skin (Curses remix)
Presenting a techno show on Diesel U Music Radio with the wonderful Paddy
(Gig) Liquid Liquid at Barbican Hall for Domino Crystal Anniversary, simply AMAZING
(track) Joakim and the Disco - A new Place In a New Town
(12") Can - Future Days (Blade Runner mix)
(Gig/Album) Celebrating my 30th at the Genghis Tron gig in Islington Carling Academy and their album "Board Up The House" (Relapse)
(Gig) Leonard Cohen live at the Royal Albert Hall

Dan

Le Tour De France
Chuck Palahniuk – ‘Snuff’ (book)
Ween – ‘La Cucaracha’
‘In Bruges’ (film)
Iron Maiden – ‘7th Son Of A 7th’ Son
Beach House – ‘Devotion’
Fleet Foxes – ‘Fleet Foxes’
Simple Minds – ‘Empires And Dance’
Metallica – ‘Master Of Puppets’
Lindsey Buckingham – ‘Go Insane’

Paula

1) The JB Conspiracy @ The Underworld, London (Gig)
2) The King Blues & The Skints @ Roadmender, Northampton (Gig)
3) Finch @ Scala, London (Gig)
4) Heroes: Saving Charlie by Aury Wallington (Book)
5) Random Hand - Change of Plan (Album)
6) The King Blues - Save The World, Get The Girl (Album)
7) The Subways - All or Nothing (Album)
8) The Kills - Midnight Boom (Album)
9) Heroes Series 2 on DVD and Series 3 on TV (TV Series)
10) Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock for the Wii (Computer Game)

Matt

1. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
2. Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
3. Aeroplane Remixes - Paris & Willams Blood remixes rule.
4. Merriweather Post Pavillion has blown my tiny mind.
5. Wild Beasts - Year of the Beast(s) - Great album and get better and better with every live show...
6. The Moroccan in Wandsworth - I could eat there everyday.
7. Computer Incarnations for World Peace II - cosmic disco magic
8. Diesel xXx NYC - Hot Chip + Chaka Khan + Franz + O Fracas + New York = Time of my life.
9. Malkmus @ Shepherds Bush... was soooooo good and the bizarre taxi ride (half way) home when our dodgy cab ran out of petrol made it all the more memorable...
10. The Seventeen with Bill Drummond
11. Yeasayer @ Bardens Boudoir

Mona

1. Foals - Antidotes
2. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
3. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
4. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
5. Beach House - Devotion
6. No Age - Nouns
7. Deerhunter - Microcastle
8. Santogold - Santogold
9. The Muslims - The Muslims (The Soft Pack?!?!)
10. Antony and the Johnsons - Another World

Steve

These are a few of my favourite things...of 2008...

Albums: Department of Eagles In Ear Park, Raphael Saadiq The Way I See It, Wild Beasts Limbo Panto, Shearwater Rook
Reissue: Dennis Wilson Pacific Ocean Blue
Artists: Beach House, Deerhunter, Fleet Foxes, Santogold
Shows: Liquid Liquid (Santo's Party House), Robert Plant/Alison Krauss (Theatre @ MSG), My Bloody Valentine (Roseland)
Meal: Pok Pok (Portland, OR)
Book: The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
Art: Cai Guo-Ciang (Retrospective at Guggenheim)
Movies: Wall-E, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Website: iLike.com

Kris

10. Joel Gibb's achingly beautiful acoustic rendition of Arthur Russell's "That's Us/Wild Combination."
9. The June 17th, 2008 episode of The Best Show On WFMU where the order of everything is determined by host Tom Scharpling and his listeners. Pricelessly funny.
8. Sigur Rós - "Gobbledigook"
7. Mad Men Season One on DVD.
6. The Notwist live at Webster Hall, October 13th, 2008.
5. dining at Babbo, November 29th, 2009.
4. finding a high quality compact disc bootleg of the 1973 self-titled debut album from Buckingham Nicks at Amoeba Records, San Francisco.
3. the Kansas Jayhawks' stunning comeback victory over Memphis University in the NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship.
2. the election of Barack Obama.
1. the birth of Justin Zachary Underwood Gillespie.

Caroline

1. Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto (2008 the year of the beasts!)
2. Merriweather Post Pavillion - AC - try not to love it, just try you fool.
3. Glass Candy reminding me how to do the snakey ravey arm dance at ATP
4. Animal Collective @ Primavera Sound (it was emotional..)
5. My green bicycle finally arriving (also emotional, in a joyous 5 year old child kind of way..)
6. Cass McCombs - Dropping The Writ (and finally live at the Luminere)
7. Pentangle @ The Green Man Festival (best friends, bloody mary, rain, mud, country dancing, FOLKED UP!)
8. The Seventeen with Bill Drummond (ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....)
9. Yeasayer Live (How many times? And better and better with each.. Bardens, ATP and finally King's College!)
10. Dirty Projectors Live at Astoria and then Primavera (ahh... twas revelatory.... roll on 2009, we are ready!)

Dan Papps

Briggo Falling Off His Chair (Incident)
Portishead - The Rip (Track)
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion (Album)
Earthless - Austin, USA (Live)
Dirty Projectors w/ David Byrne - Knotty Pine (Track)
Hey Colossus - War Crows (Track)
Sleeping States - Sleeping States, Or Who Has Been Rocking My Dreamboat (Track)
Theo Parish - The Rink (Track)
Percival Everett - Erasure (Book)
Q-Tip - Won't Trade (Track)
Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those... (Album)
Clinic - Tomorrow (DFA Remix) (Track)

Joanna

merriweather post pavillion - animal collective
brown trout blues - johnny flynn
knotty pine - dirty projectors & david byrne
my bloody valentine @ the roundhouse
BIG DJs !
crystal sunshine - society
quarantined - atlas sound
stereolab @ brixton windmill
our amazing mini cow tent at latitude festival
hotel hopping & no sleeping @ reading festival

Paul Lambden (Top 5)

Aldershot Town's return to the Football League
Portishead "Third" (Island)
The Muslims "The Muslims" (1928)
Wild Beasts live at the Borderline 26th November
Mary Hampton "My Mother's Children" (Navigator)

Fiona

1. telepathe - in your line (track) absolutely perfect
2. the kills - midnight boom (album) the very finest from The Kills, will never get bored of it
3. dj mujava - township funk (track) try not to move listening to it, and video is pretty fuckin cool
4. these new puritans - elvis (video) saam made stunning video for stunning track
5. glastonbury 2008 (festival) flooded tents and parties with mcguinness and crew
6. glass candy, cargo - may 2008 (show) and i got a tshirt
7. buraka som sistema - sound of kudro (track) infectious
8. tilly and the wall - beat control (track) pop song magic
9. santogold - say aha (track) great track, great album
10. hercules and love affair - blind (track) each time see 'em live, makes me love this track even more

Paul Sandell

1. Briggo falling off chair (spectacularly)
2. Acid Mothers Temple Live at White Heat
3. Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto
4. My Bloody Valentine Live At The Roundhouse
5. Deerhunter - Microcastle
6. Shearwater - Rook
7. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes EP
8. Spurs Cup 2 -1 Final win (unlucky chelsea)
9. Penguin Cafe Orchestra (Re-issues)
10. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Dig! Lazaus Dig!

Jodie

White Denim (Workout Holiday)
Cass McCombs (Dropping The Writ)
Friendly Fires (Friendly Fires)
Vampire Weekend (Vampire Weekend)
Dodos (Visiter)
My Ex-Boyfriend’s Records Bastille Day Special (John & Jehn / Underground Railroad live, plus Laetitia from Stereolab DJing)
My Bloody Valentine at the Roundhouse and The Sonics live at the Forum
ATP weekend at Camber Sands
Driving a convertible through Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Park
The forthcoming Animal Collective album (Merriweather Post Pavilion)

Ashley

Getting My job at Domino Publishing in August!!
MadMen
Fleet Foxes show at Webster hall
Spiritualized show
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell Documentary
Finally watching the entire series of the Wire
Notwist- Good lies
Soup Mondays
Dub Sundays at Ionas
All points West (finally seeing radiohead live)

Pat

This is in no particular order:

Neversink, New York

Joe Higgs "Life Of Contradiction"- An incredible reissue by the criminally underrated 60's and 70's reggae great. I first heard him on a Jimmy Cliff live record as a back up singer and was just blown away by his voice. LOC was originally released in 1975 and is brilliant.

The Secret Machines "Secret Machines"- I just really like this band.

Fucked Up "The Chemistry Of A Common Life"- As my friend Morgan says "Whenever I listen to the Fucked Up record the only thing I want to do is listen to the Fucked Up record again."

The Stills "Oceans Will Rise"- This is an amalgam of the hooks of the first album and the depth of the second album. They were great at the Music Hall of Williamsburg this fall.

Motorhead live at Stubbs in Austin, TX- It was just tremendous. I can't wait for the Lemmy the Movie to be released in 2009.

My new Bianchi- many gears are better than 1!

Raphael Saadiq "The Way I See It"- A real rarity: a great new/old R&B record.

Various Artists "Visionaire 53"- The best packaging I've seen in
years: 3 picture discs, a black Mini Cooper "vinyl killer" record player, 2 CDs and it came in a black flying saucer!

SXSW!!

Buzzy

1. Panzerotti
2. Soul Jazz's "Tropicalia: A Brazilian Revolution In Sound"
3. C86 (shameful, I know)
4. Eggstone
5. Canada
6. Rent Controlled apartment in alphabet city
7. The Nightman Cometh
8. "Technosis Externality Cluster-Fuck"
9. My Pod (Morgan, Ashley, Pachman)
10. Batphone

Galia (Psapp)

Discovering Budgieman, the UK’s premier budgie entertainer
Hearing Sam and the plants
Watching Bad Boy Bubby for the first time
Catching a pike in Scotland
Seeing Wildbirds and Peacedrums Live at QEH
Making The Bone-o-phone

Dev (Lightspeed Champion)

1. The Walkmen - You And Me.
2. Lost season four.
3. Gossip girl season 1 and 2.
4. Potato Samosas.
5. Michael Nyman - Mozart 252
6. My Friend Fred discovering the band Coil.
7. The Happening ... (This film defys all logic ...regardless of whatever I may say about this movie in conversation, there's no doubting that i'm overtly obsessed with this phenomenon.)
8. Cass Mccombs - Dropping The Writ
9. Richard Hamilton of the Detroit Pistons
10. Nicole Michalek.

On The Domino Stereo This Week (27th Oct - 2nd Nov 08)

Domino — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:10:30

Gene Clark - No Other

Pavement - Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Edition

Shudder To Think - Funeral At The Movies

Roxy Music - Roxy Music

El Guincho - Alegranza

The Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me

On The Domino Stereo This Week (13th - 20th Oct 08)

Domino — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:10:53

Notwist - Good Lies

Lula Cortest e Ze Ramalho - Paebiru

Blaze Foley - Clay Pigeons

Arthur Russell - Tell You toda

Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen/Two Wheels Good

Andrew Weatherall - Watch The Rode Mix Cd

Antony & The Johnsons - Another World EP

Buckingham Nicks - Buckingham Nicks

A Track - Say Whoa! (DJ Spinna Remix)

Blood Red Shoes - Box Of Secrets

On The Domino Stereo This Week (6th - 13th Oct 08)

Domino — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:10:50

Just some of things on the office stereo...

Sun O))) - Black One

Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant

Clinic - Tomorrow (DFA Remix)

Joakim & The Disco - A New Career In A New Town

Busy Signal - Tic Toc

Abe Vigoda - Skeletons

Radiohead - The Reckoner (Diplo Remix)

The Constantines - Kensington Heights

Liquid Liquid - Optimo: The Loving Hand (Remixes)

On The Domino Stereo This Week (7th - 12th Sept 08)

Domino — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:09:25

Just some of things that have rung in our shell likes this week...

The Sleeping Years – We’re Becoming Islands One By One (Rocket Girl)
Easy Rider soundtrack
Mogwai – The Hawk is Howling
The Best Of The Flamingos
Glasvegas – Glasvegas
Julian Cope – Fried
Ethiopiques -The Very Best of Ethiopiques: Hypnotic Grooves from the Legendary Series
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
All Night Radio - Spirit Stereo Frequency
Archers of Loaf – Icky Metal
Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
Volcano! - Paperwork
Yo Majesty ‘Club Action' on Jo Whiley’s Radio Show
Bobby Charles – Bobby Charles
Quasi – Featuring Birds
Orange Juice – Glasgow School
Clinic – new DFA Remix
Liquid Liquid - Optimo Remixes
TV On The Radio – Dear Science

Other Things We Enjoyed This Week:

Yo Majesty shout out on Jo Whiley: ”Yo Majesty are totally real – I choked on those notes”

Domino in The Guardian Talking about the Domino office: "Even (Laurence) Bell's desk is here, its only distinguishing feature being the light-up Domino logo that the staff had made for his 40th birthday. He switches it on when he's here, says Maloney, "like raising the flag for the queen".

Merchant bankers at the Mercurys Music Awards Story:
“It's coming to something when the most rock 'n' roll moment of a Mercury Music Prize evening is a bunch of merchant bankers behaving worse than the musicians or the hacks. But such were the scenes at last night's event at Grosvenor House hotel. During one of the acoustic tracks, some corporate types continued braying to each other - to the annoyance of nearby tables and musicians. The Mirror's Gavin Martin and Alun Palmer stepped up to the mark and politely asked the riotous group to pipe down. The pair were rewarded for their efforts by a bread roll being lobbed in Gavin's direction. It was then followed by a group of the refreshed bankers emptying an ice bucket of water over Alun. Cue the arrival of a phalanx of bouncers to bundle the miscreants away. As one wag put it: "The bankers thought they were being like Chumbawamba. They were more like Chump-awambas."

News of a release of the seminal 1980 anti-Thatcherite dub reggae film Babylon on DVD.

Dick Cavett & Woody Allen discuss particle physics:

On the Domino Stereo this week (1st - 5th Sept 08)

Domino — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:09:02

Just some of the sounds swirling around Domino HQ this week:

Juana Molina – Un Dia
Darker, looser and more hypnotic than ever, we can't wait to see these songs live.

Plush – Fed (Broken Horse)
Finally! The worldwide release of this luscious, fully orchestrated, (proper) follow up to the skeleton classic More You Becomes You.
Currently doing a rare handful of solo shows in the UK, go see if you can, it'll make you very happy.

Marvin Gaye – Lets Get it On
Briggsy's original vinyl pressing arrived. Within the first grooves of its intro, the office was in drunken wedding rapture.

Rodriguez – Cold Fact (RCA)
Reissue of the forgotten classic, destined to be made famous in some future Wes Anderson film. Massive in South Africa apparently.

Air France - No Way Down EP (Sincerely Yours)
Sort of like the Avalanches of the Fjords...no, better.

Late Night Tales with Matt Helders from Arctic Monkeys
Not only the best drummer in town but a wicked rookie mix master to boot.

Stereolab - BBC Radio One Sessions recorded between 1991 and 2001 (Strange Fruit)
A favourite raison d'être for the ackwardly dancing

Colosseum – The Valentyne Suite (Sanctuary)
An obscure mile stone from when Jazz Rock ruled the earth.

Apples In Stereo – Two Tone Evolution (Elephant 6)
Basking in audio psychedelic sunshine

The Wackness Soundtrack (Jive Records)
Another attempt to rekindle hopes of an Indian summer with some classic early 90's hip-hop.

Some other things we've enjoyed this week:

Choke Trailer

An interview with Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel with John Kennedy back in 98

Finally the legacy of Chris Needham gets its comeuppance

Ian Anderson/Jack Bruce/Fela Kuti: African Jam Session 1983

Domino classics in The Guardian's 1000 Albums To Hear Before You Die

Domino — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:08:13

No one needs to be told to hear The Beatles' Revolver or The Velvet Underground and Nico again right?

Well, based on this premise, this week The Guardian newspaper has compiled their 1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die which quite rightly features some of the best works of Domino's finest.

There's some unusual choices and genres featuring forgotten gems amongst the albums worth re-celebrating from Soundtracks to Trip Hop, Krautrock to 60’s Pop and Jazz and Rock classics but albums that for whatever reason demand to be heard – you might not agree with them all but it's intriguing to see the jumble of artists sit next to each other and turning people on to the unobvious is somthing we applaud.

The featured Domino albums include:
- Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
- Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
- Junior Boys – Last Exit
- Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
- Neutral Milk Hotel – In An Aeroplane Over The Sea
- Palace Brothers – There Is No One What Will Take Care Of You
- Silver Jews – American Water
- Smog – Knock Knock
- Young Marble Giants – Colossal Youth

All these amazing albums and more are available from our Mart.

BRUTALITY, RELIGION AND A DANCE BEAT: A SHORT STORY by Bill Drummond

Domino — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:06:22

October 1975, I was 22 and back in Liverpool, after a two year absence. Just started a new job, building stage sets at the Everyman Theatre on Hope Street.

I had a room at the top of a rundown house in Fairfield Street off Prescot Road. Shared the kitchen and bathroom with a Karl Terry. Karl Terry had a band called The Cruisers. They also lived in the house. Karl Terry and The Cruisers were also-rans in the Mersey Beat boom of the early sixties. Not only was Karl Terry fuelled with a bitterness that he was not John Lennon, but Karl Terry and The Cruisers were not even The Searchers, The Swinging Blue Jeans or Gerry and the Pacemakers. This meant they were not able to make a lucrative living on the Mersey Beat nostalgia package tours that had been going ever since the genre had outstayed its Hitsville welcome.

"He also regaled me late into the nights about what an arsehole John Lennon was and what a crap live band The Beatles were"

Karl Terry and his Cruisers eked out a living playing working-men's clubs across Merseyside. He also regaled me late into the nights about what an arsehole John Lennon was and what a crap live band The Beatles were.

At 22 I had long since lost any interest I may have had in contemporary pop. It was the arse end of progressive and glam held no interest for me. I was just too old for all that stuff. Each weekday morning I got the number 78 into work. I was still young enough for the top-deck front seat to be my one of choice.

One Monday morning I found a bundle of magazines on the seat next to me. The first thing I noticed about the magazine was the word FREE on the cover. Back then the world was not awash with giveaway papers, magazines and periodicals stuffed with meaningless adverts and column inches full of shit that nobody reads.

Back then for something to be free was a radical statement. Almost like burning the Stars and Stripes or smashing down the gates of the Bastille.

The only other words on the cover other than FREE were 'Trumpet', 'Last' and 'The'. If The Last Trumpet was the name of this magazine it was the best name for a magazine I had ever heard. It instantly resonated with something deep and lost. A clarion call from the edge of time.

Looking round first to make sure no fellow travellers thought I was nicking one of these free Last Trumpets, I picked up a copy. On opening it up I was disappointed to find that it was not packed with revolutionary rhetoric, there was no call to arms, it was just stuff about local bands, adverts for record shops and gig lists. Then I turned to the back cover. This was taken up by a black and white photo of a man who looked and dressed like he had just escaped from the high-security ward of a mental hospital. Whatever this man was or did he was my instant hero. The intense and demented stare, the crap haircut, the bad suit all screamed "I am Legend, worship only me." And I did. Under the picture was one word WILKO. What this word referred to I had no clear understanding.

On arriving at the Everyman Theatre that Monday morning, I showed one of the actors this Last Trumpet magazine and asked him if he knew who or what Wilko was. The actor was called William Nighy and he knew about such things.

"Where have you been, Bill? That's Wilko Johnson, the guitarist with Doctor Feelgood." "What, a British band?" "Yeah, from Canvey Island, Southend. They are playing at the Liverpool Stadium tonight. We're all going. You wanna come?"

I went, but by myself. I didn't like going out with other people. The Liverpool Stadium was a pre-war indoor boxing stadium. It was down some backstreets north of the old Exchange Station. Not a residential area: industrial mills, bonded warehouses and a severe lack of street lighting.

"The dress code seemed strict and decidedly downbeat: dark anoraks or tracksuit tops, straight leg jeans, trainers and short haircuts with lank fringes."

The queue to get in was five deep and at least a couple of hundred yards long. I joined the back. Things had obviously changed since I had last been to a rock concert some four years earlier. Gone were the loon pants and waft of patchouli oil. Gone was the pseudo West Coast peace and love vibe. Punch ups kept erupting in the queue as youths tried to push in or shove those in front. The dress code seemed strict and decidedly downbeat: dark anoraks or tracksuit tops, straight leg jeans, trainers and short haircuts with lank fringes. A large man with a bright red shirt and black trousers appeared on the steps that led up to the doors of the Stadium. He must have been six foot four and he must have been in at least his mid- thirties. He was a figure of natural authority. His mere appearance quelled whatever punch ups were erupting.

"Any more of that and none of you get in and I don't care if you've already got tickets." Silence fell and order was regained.

Inside the Stadium the atmosphere was equally oppressive. Drab paintwork, little house-lighting. The P.A. and band gear were set up on the boxing ring rise, the back half of the hall was partitioned off. There was a woman selling hot dogs and hamburgers from a kiosk. Everyone seemed to know she was called Doreen. "Go on, Doreen, more mustard than that." She represented the only ray of femininity in the whole place.

The walls were covered in faded and torn bills advertising past and future fights.

The house lights went down and the support band came on stage. They were fronted by an American in glasses who looked like a chunky Jewish Buddy Holly. His band played a loose, stuttering and jazz kind of boogie.

The crowd didn't like it, but instead of talking about the football or some bird they almost shagged, they en masse decided to let the Jewish Buddy Holly and his band know how they felt.

The band I learnt were called Roogalator and they were not for giving into the crowd's displeasure. They carried on with their lazy southern boogie shuffle thing. The crowd took to more radical measures to make their point known. They started to smash up the wooden tip-up seats and hurl them towards the stage. Most didn't reach that far, but hit the back of the heads of other disgruntled punters. This then caused fighting to erupt between those near the front and those further back. By now, nobody was taking any notice if Roogalator were still grooving on stage.

Then suddenly a great booming voice filled the Stadium. "Right, that's it. You can all go home. I've had enough of your pathetic behaviour. I bring to Liverpool the best working bands around for you and this is how you show your appreciation. Well, you can forget coming to the Stadium for any further shows because I'm going to cancel them all." The place fell silent. It was that big man with the red shirt and black trousers again. I asked the lad next to me "Who is that man?"

"You don't know? That man is Roger Eagle, the greatest man on Merseyside after Bill Shankley."

"You don't know? That man is Roger Eagle, the greatest man on Merseyside after Bill Shankley."

Roogalator played three further songs, not a sound from the audience, not a jeer or a clap. After the third, they left the stage to complete silence.

Fifteen minutes later, four ugly convicts sauntered onto the stage, picked up their sticks, Fender Precision, mike and Telecaster respectively, someone counted to four and the place erupted. What I witnessed over the next sixty minutes may have been the greatest rock'n'roll event ever on earth. Fuck all that Woodstock shit, this was the real thing. Wilko, the guitarist, was everything and more his picture on the back of The Last Trumpet had promised. He was the ultimate guitar hero for a decade that so far had only delivered bollocks like Steve Howe as a blueprint for young hopefuls to follow.

I was one of the last to leave the Stadium. 1 just wanted to stand there, stare at the smashed up seats, the ripped boxing bills and roadies clearing the stage and try to work out what was happening and why I had had to wait since 1969 for whatever it was to start happening.

I went back to my room in Fairfield Street thinking maybe I should start playing guitar again. Karl Terry and his band had just got in from doing a gig up in Bootle. They were chopping out lines of coke on the kitchen table. It was the first time I saw someone sniff cocaine. Suddenly that line about a ten bob note up your nose made sense. I'd led a sheltered life.

I tried to explain to Karl what I had witnessed at the Liverpool Stadium. He didn't want to know. He was too full of the fact that they might get the opening slot on the upcoming Billy J. Kramer Australian tour.

A thousand rock journalists have tried to define that thing the Feelgoods had for those barren months that led up to the punk onslaught of late '76. By the time the onslaught hit, Doctor Feelgood were irrelevant. Their job had been done. Rock'n'roll Lesson Number 7 - all success is on borrowed time. A year or so after seeing Doctor Feelgood at the Stadium, that man called Roger Eagle opened a club on Mathew Street opposite to where the Cavern had been. The club was called Eric's. Via Eric's he turned a Liverpool generation on to a weird and wonderful world of strange records and the possibility of making even stranger ones. But all of that is another story better told by others.

Yesterday afternoon I learnt that Roger Eagle had died of cancer. Plenty of people die but Roger never seemed like he was going to be one of them. No, Roger don't die, he wouldn't allow it. Whatever else may go by the wayside Roger Eagle carries on. There is always another club for him to open, concert to promote, record to buy. My mind filled with a memory. The memory was of me sitting on a chair in a flat off Lark Lane in Liverpool and pacing around the room was a large man in a red shirt and black trousers. The man exhaled clouds of smoke before taking another toke from the giant spliff in his hand. Behind the man was a wall of shelves stuffed with albums and reggae 12" 45s. It was August 1977. The man was Roger Eagle and he was the manager of the band I was in, Big In Japan.

"'All great pop music, from John Lee Hooker to the Bay City Rollers, from Captain Beefheart to Augustus Pablo, from the Buzzcocks to Johnny Kidd And The Pirates has it. 'Brutality, Religion And A Dance Beat'"

"But, Roger, why have you called our record 'Brutality, Religion And A Dance Beat'? That's got nothing to do with us." "Bill, if it hasn't it should have; without those three ingredients pop music is nothing. All great pop music, from John Lee Hooker to the Bay City Rollers, from Captain Beefheart to Augustus Pablo, from the Buzzcocks to Johnny Kidd And The Pirates has it. 'Brutality, Religion And A Dance Beat', it's rock'n'roll; rule number one, and don't forget it.

"But the cover looks shit, Roger."

"Fuck off, Bill, I got work to do. Shouldn't you go and rehearse or something?"

For some, there was rather a quaint notion that the size of a man's record collection was somehow symbolic of his size in other departments. Whether this was ever openly articulated at the time I'm not sure.

Roger Eagle had the biggest record collection I had ever seen.

I'm sitting in my workroom at home. I've just looked up at the clock - 18 minutes past two. The funeral service started at two. They will all be there, the Normans, the Bernies, the Steve Hardstaffs, maybe not the ones that got to the cover of the NME, but the ones that counted. The ones that understood. The ones that had to put up with the pig ignorance, the arrogance and even the bullying of Roger. And, of course, Doreen, she'll be there.

Roger Eagle was never bothered about being a record producer or going to London and making it big as a wheeler dealer in the music business. Roger was a record collector first and foremost. What he was driven to do above all was play people records they had never heard before. "Listen to this Bill, Bo Diddley meets Beefheart at the Black Ark produced by Lee 'Scratch' Perry, the greatest record ever made" - and it probably would have been if it ever had.

In many senses that record collection was the man, or at least in my head stands as a perfect symbol of the man.

An idea presents itself. Roger's record collection should not be sold off piecemeal by his executors to pay off funeral bills and whatever debts he may have left behind. I should use some of the cash that came my way and never would have if he had not existed and put an offer in for the collection.

A towering cabinet could be made from iron or oak or concrete or granite, whatever feels right to encase the collection.

It could stand like the monolith at the beginning of Kubrick's 2001, shelf upon shelf of worn grooves and dog-eared sleeves, a monument to the man. A monument in a public space that we can walk around and admire its size, its girth. Those records' playing days would be over. No needle should ever touch their grooves again. Without Roger there to play them to you, they would lose their meaning. You may as well just get the CD box set down your local HMV or Virgin. Tonight I will make some phone calls, see what can be done. Of course I could be wrong. Maybe my idea is just me jerking off - "Look at me, Bill Drummond, didn't I do well for myself" - as I wave my diminishing wad at the thinning crowd.

Bill Drummond, May 1999

Everett True's International Pop Underground - Young Marble Giants

Domino — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:10:04

Young Marble Giants

Colossal Youth
(Rough Trade, 1980)

The sleeve to Colossal Youth - Young Marble Giants' first and only album, shows three faces shadowed against the light, faces seemingly hewn out of granite. Two angular boys flank an equally mysterious girl. It's a black and grey, almost brutal, minimal picture that gives no sense of the beauty hidden inside the cover.

I was 19 when I first heard Colossal Youth in 1980. To say it tore my world apart is an understatement. Never before had I heard such unsettling, eerie, wonderful music. (And rarely since.) The trio's formula was outrageously simple. Over drum machine tapes, the odd throb of bass and occasional keyboard, Alison Statton would sing in a curiously disconnected, melodic style. The bare bones of music, fleshed out by brothers Stuart and Philip Moxham's considered, mannered arrangements. The beat never sounded out heavier than a faint click, guitars were kept to an absolute minimum. You could draw parallels between Young Marble Giants' hurt alienation and the spooked, dark sound of Joy Division, but I never did. The latter were clearly almost crazed. The former were endearing precisely because they were so ordinary. Lyrics spoke directly of disaffection and despair; the mundane made extraordinary by the focus applied. 'It's nice to hear you're having a good time,' sang Alison, almost supernaturally dispassionate, on 'N.I.T.A', 'But it still hurts 'cos you used to be mine.' Who couldn't relate to a stiff upper lyric like that?

There was an all-consuming darkness surrounding Young Marble Giants - not just on the album sleeve, but in the music itself. Strange how something so frail, so fragile and solemn, so commonplace can give off such an aura of bleakness. You could almost hear the emptying pits of Wales' mining villages as Alison sang about a girl painting her nails on the chilling 'Eating Noddemix', while she denied all charges of being neurotic on 'Music For Evenings'. It's not a claustrophobic darkness like that engendered by Joy Division and all the bands that followed, however. There's too much beauty shining through - like a lighthouse beam in a storm, Alison's voice was always there to guide us home. And when it wasn't, as on the instrumental 'The Taxi', there's an upbeat, Casio keyboard sound, a burst of static radio.

I soon became besotted with this most unassuming of bands. Indeed, I was privileged enough to see all six or seven of their six or seven London dates - including one which clashed with The Slits. I must have been besotted. On stage, the trio were even more unsettling and beautiful. Alison always wore white. The band always stood in shadows, with the barest of instrumentation around them. Phil and Stuart were lanky, and how I envied them standing next to someone who could sing with such purity of voice. Always, the drum machine would start up, and then would come the song - perhaps the album's opening song of desire 'Searching For Mr Right', perhaps the single 'Salad Days' with its brief ending burst of longing from Alison, perhaps 'Nostalgia'. The latter was certainly the finest song YMG never recorded - an emotional look back at old friends and past-times sung with all the naivety of youth. (It later ended up on the debut Weekend album, the post-YMG nouveau cool jazz band formed by Phil and Alison.) Sure, I would be down the front, cheering. Dancing even, to the barest of dance patterns.

Listening to Colossal Youth now, the record still sounds as mystery-laden, poignant and life-affirming as it did all those years ago. Side one is edgier and more brittle. Side two is more rounded off. Indeed, Colossal Youth possibly sounds even more poignant now, with the passage of time and memories added. There are three scenarios I would like to share with you now:

A photo of me with shoulder-length hair, badges covering both lapels on my wide-brimmed jacket, standing outside Rough Trade record store in 1980, holding up an autographed Young Marble Giants single. I'd been so besotted, I phoned up Rough Trade and, claiming to be writing an article for a fanzine, got to interview the band alongside the NME (odd - but perhaps that was Rough Trade policy back then). I didn't ask a single question, just shuddered with delight. It was my entrance into the music business. I never wrote the article - this, then, is my belated tribute. Thanks guys.

1989, Melody Maker reviews room. Someone has just passed me the new single from Devine & Statton, a cover of New Order's 'Bizarre Love Triangle'. It is so damn beautiful, it almost breaks my heart all over again.

Seattle, some time in the early 90s. I have no idea how Courtney Love came to hear of Young Marble Giants, even less why she picked upon their sadly cynical 'Credit In The Straight World' to desecrate. I have a nasty feeling I might have been raving about the self-same Devine & Statton single. Anyway. I apologise. (There's a weird link here, inasmuch as soulful Olympia singer Lois was once in a band called Courtney Love, and Stuart Moxham later went on to produce one of Lois' solo albums.) Sorry.

That's it. Young Marble Giants only ever released one album, and it happens to be almost surreally beautiful. More than enough reason to cherish their memory.

Drawings of Your Favourite Domino Album Covers

Domino — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:08:29

Albums can move you different ways.

Some make you dance, some make you cry and some have made you pick up your pencil n' crayons and draw your very own homage.

Check out the selection of drawings of your favourite album covers below which you've kindly sent in.

There's painstaking recreations in pencil and pixel and wild and some pretty wild and loose interpretations but all have that special homemade quality that makes us want to exhibit them on our refrigerator like a proud parent.

If you'd like yo add your own drawing to the Domino Gallery, please email competition@dominorecordco.com (Less than 2MB in size) and we'll get 'em up.

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not By Sandra Arroyo

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not By Chris Watson

Jim O'Rourke - Eureka By Scarlett Fall

Palace Brothers - There Is No One What Will Take Care Of You By Scarlett Fall

Palace Music - Viva Last Blues By Scarlett Fall

Ligthspeed Champion - Falling Off The Lavender Bridge By Troy Zimmer

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Mater And Everyone By Troy Zimmer

The Kills - Midnight Boom By Troy Zimmer

Ligthspeed Champion - Galaxy Of The Lost By Matsuoka Saori

Psapp - The Only Thing I Ever Wanted By Sandra Arroyo

Pavement - Terror Twiglet/ Twilight By Jonathan Lewis

Sebadoh - III By Chris Shade

Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor By Carolin

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not By Antonio Rocha -
Yes the boots, yes the Spice Girls' Union Jack top. And the sunglasses and attitude make him coolest kid ever

Smog - Knock Knock By Annie Tremp - "MEOW!"

Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks - Real Emotiona Trash By James Houseman

Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic By Erwin van den IJssel

Ligthspeed Champion - Falling Off The Lavender Bridge By Erwin van den IJssel

Fridge - Happiness By Erwin van den IJssel

Four Tet - Rounds By Erwin van den IJssel

Adem - Takes By Erwin van den IJssel

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Brave and Bold By Erwin van den IJssel

The Royal We - The Royal We By Erwin van den IJssel

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lie Down In The Light By Erwin van den IJssel

Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better By Erwin van den IJssel

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The Last Shadow Puppets By Jeffery Schofield

Quickspace Supersport By Zorba

Four Tet - A Joy By Tom Carstairs

Turtle Cover By Christie Podioti

Roza Cover By Christie Podioti

Wanna do your own? Email competition@dominorecordco.com

Domino's finest...when they were young and at Underage

Domino — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:08:12

Fun, games, face paint and non-alcholic beaverages and amazing music were the order of the day as we celebrated our 15th birthday at our Domino Stage at the Underage Festival.

Here's some pics and video of a load of kids doing a jungle limbo. It looks really daft and immature but exactly the kind of nonsense excitement you didn't have to justify and puts a big stupid grin on your face.

Owen Pallett - Scandal at the parkade

Domino — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:08:00

Watch Owen perform "Scandal at the parkade" LIVE from Tavastia (Helsinki, 2010). "Scandal at the parkade" appears on the forthcoming A Swedish Love Story EP.

New Clinic Video - I'm Aware

Domino — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:08:23

Rewiring their trademark hyped up sound Clinic have entered a dream state of harpsichord, dulcimers and strings. And that dream state is best visualized by means of the psychedelic puppetry in their new video for "I'm Aware", their first single off of Bubblegum.

Directed by Peter Fowler (the gentleman behind many Super Furry Animals artwork and visuals).

New The Count & Sinden Video - After Dark

Domino — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:07:15

Here's the new video for the summer smash "After Dark" featuring Will and Kai from the Mystery Jets. This was the first single to come from The Count & Sinden's album Mega Mega Mega, which was released 23rd August 2010.

Video directed by Jo Apps.

New She & Him Video - Thieves

Domino — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:07:18

Following the release of their much acclaimed second LP, Volume Two, She & Him are back with their next single, "Thieves". "Thieves", the gorgeous sugar-sweet album opener forms the sonic backdrop for this silent film-inspired new clip.

New Chief Video - Night & Day

Domino — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:07:56

The new video from Chief for "Night & Day" from their forthcoming debut Modern Rituals.

"Night & Day" is overflowing with West Coast sunshine and charm, with a sweeping, fiercely infectious chorus and lyrics full of romantic yearning.

Directed by Matt Creed.

Animal Collective - In The Flowers - Video

Domino — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:11:36

Directed by Abby Portner Filmed and Edited by Joey Gallagher Animation by Dan Boujoulian with Additional Filming by Jason Goodman and Special Thanks to Murdoch Nolan Starring Jason Dill and the Dan...

Video Gallery

Domino — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:11:02

Video: Cornerstone

Domino — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:10:43

Video: Mary Connaught and James O'Donnell

Domino — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:10:03

Lou Barlow: Video Gallery: Goodnight Unknown

Domino — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:10:41

Ghetto Stars

Domino — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:11:08

Chunk

Domino — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:11:22

Boys outside

Domino — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:11:45

Addicted to you

Domino — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:11:46

Bye Bye Blackbird

Domino — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:05:08

Attack Music

Domino — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:04:51

Lost and Found

Domino — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:04:38

Snowflake

Domino — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:04:34

Seven Gulps of Air

Domino — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:11:00

Seven Gulps of Air features two brand new tracks from Jon Hopkins alongside three radical re-mixes from this year’s Insides LP. Full of directional shifts in colour and sound the canvas of Insides is stretched into new possibilities by remixers Tunng, Geese and Tom Middleton. Their adventurous treatment of the material is echoed in the sources and free spirit of the two new tracks: Seven Gulps of Air & A Drifting Down.

Seven Gulps of Air came into being via a commission from designer Christopher Kelly, for his label Theatre De La Mode’s latest fashion film, shown at London Fashion Week. Mutual friend Mike Lindsay, the production and songwriting fulcrum of Tunng, created the rhythmic template of the track, which drew heavily on the collection’s African themes.

Seven Gulps of Air (with Tunng): the title track configures live handclapping and vocal incantations from Malinese singer Abdallah Ag Housseyni. The result sounds like someone stamping their way down to the centre of the earth, following the voices in their head and the nicest and nastiest of basslines.

Small Memory (Tunng remix): Tunng turn Small Memory into a reeling medicine show. Playing around the original’s piano line you can hear bottles being uncorked and the loping groove of footsteps swaying, before settling into the sound of the early hours drifting by.

The Low Places (Geese remix): a new performance by Geese who treat their violins and violas as hand percussion as much as chamber instruments. The result is the sound of every scrape of the bow and dust of the resin falling in counterpoint to original’s eerie melody. The tension of the strings taken to the tightest point of collapse before finding a strange kind of calm.

A Drifting Down: reworks Insides’ A Drifting Up by magnifying its details. Starting around King Creosote’s hums and Emma Smith’s violin phases then dispersing into an electro-acoustic depth of field, shifting around a narcotic moment’s pause for thought.

Light In The Veins (Tom Middleton Remodel): Tom Middleton’s euphoric take on Light In The Veins which manages to replace the blood stream with pure white light, pushing further into hands in the air, blissed out synaesthesia.

Mega

Domino — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:09:22

Tour Poster - UK / Europe Spring 2009

Domino — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:03:21

Click on the larger image to view in more detail.

Dream And Drive

Domino — Thu, 31 May 2012 14:05:44

"I have a lot of love for those great flea-pits and cock-eyed stages of America in Kenneth's pictures. We played on just about every one of them with their chewed-gum carpets that glued your feet down every time you tried to dance. Who'd have thought those cesspits could conjure up any magic? Of secret society proportions? We got over excited by everything back then. Everything. Even the crisps seemed exciting. Every night we'd let our heads fly way up into the clouds, dreaming we were super human and that our little band could go anywhere we wanted it to.. And then bang back down to ground level at the next soundcheck with a one-eyed speaker cabinet and a dressing room wall covered in scribbled cocks"

"They turned out to be palaces of the supernatural those clubs, where your life could be changed one night, with nothing more than a knackered Fender Twin and a pair of disintegrating jeans. I'd forgotten it was really like that until we started on this book..." - J. Hince

"These are photos of locomotion. Silent visions of things turned up past their load. The tremble of the nightclub, the dive of backstage temporaries, electricity flung like paint through space, the FACE, the posture, the vehicle that hounds the road, sweats. I know when we're looking straight on, we're looking straight through. And I suppose it's the drift and swing, that shows you who you are, and that music is a force and really is, all it's cracked up to be. These photos make me remember everything." - A. Mosshart

It's Lovely To Be Here - The Touring Diaries Of A Scottish Gent

Domino — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:10:08

To the outside looking in, touring may appear to be one big party; a chance to travel the world, experience amazing sights, and perform in front of adoring fans night after night. For most musicians though, the reality is far less glamorous, just ask one of Domino’s most esteemed artists, James Yorkston, who maps out the realities of life on the road as a series of evolving tour diaries in his first book ‘It’s Lovely To Be Here – The Touring Diaries Of A Scottish Gent’, which will be published on 3rd February 2011.

On his literary debut, James draws on his talents as a highly romantic, self-deprecating and conversational songwriter with a gift for storytelling, to make the transition from stage to page seem effortless. Amusing, charming, occasionally tinged with melancholy, and often soaked in whisky, ‘It’s Lovely To Be Here’ is a compelling antidote to the celebrity memoir, which never shies away from the realities of a life on the road; often incomprehensibly mundane, sometimes wonderfully bizarre, always surprising.

Loops: Issue 2

Domino — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:02:39

Loops

Domino — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:05:42

‘Here at last is a haven for adventurous long-form music writing of every sort: ruminations, rhapsodies, reported investigations and critical essays, pieces that range across time and the genrescape, and that focus intently on individual artists, songs, tiny moments of epiphany’

Simon Reynolds

July 2009 brings the launch of landmark collaboration between two of the great Independents - Domino and Faber. Combining a deep passion and knowledge of pop music, pop culture and literature, Loops is an astonishing new journal dedicated to engaging, intelligent and diverse writing about music.

Publishing twice-yearly, Loops offers a landscape for today’s exceptional writers, musicians and artists to engage with subjects, individuals and issues that colour all corners of the pop music world. Free from the shackles of release schedules, Loops will provide a space for artists to publish tour diaries, non sequiturs and think-pieces, an opportunity for writers to stretch out and go off-map to share their thoughts and ideas, and a canvas for artists and photographers to exhibit beautiful, unusual and diverse works.

Issue 1 of this unique, collectible journal contains contributions as diverse as a previously unpublished feature by Nick Kent on Nick Drake from 1978, a piece by James Yorkston about his influences called Perfect Button Drumming, an essay on Spacemen 3 by Richard Milward and an extract from Nick Cave’s new novel The Death Of Bunny Munro (full contents overleaf).

Such material is backed by high spec production and design values, and showcased within lush, desirable packaging with each issue of the journal bearing a unique, specially commissioned cover, and the bespoke ‘Braid’ typeface of the Loops logo.

Loops events are planned throughout 2009, from The Great Escape to Camp Bestival to Rough Trade– hosting a series of unique panels and performances from Loops contributors, Domino artists and Faber authors. Loops will also have a home on the web, bolstered by the strong online presence of both Domino and Faber, with a designated website packed with extra material. www.loopsjournal.com

Loops is edited by Lee Brackstone and Richard King. Lee Brackstone is Publishing Director at Faber and Faber for pop culture titles and fiction. The Faber pop culture list has published such influential works as Jon Savage’s England’s Dreaming, Simon Reynolds’s Rip It Up and Start Again and Greil Marcus’s Lipstick Traces. Richard King has worked at Domino, the UK's leading independent music label for 15 years. In that time he has seen the label release records by Arctic Monkeys, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Franz Ferdinand, Pavement, Sebadoh and Robert Wyatt and build an incredible history and reputation.

Watching Into Giants by Patrick Watson

Domino — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:04:30

Patrick Watson’s 'Adventures in Your Own Backyard' is out April 30th on Domino. The video 'Into Giants' was directed by longtime collaborator Brigitte Henry, who also took the photos for the album artwork and press and created the band’s live visuals. Shot by cinematographer Andre Turpin at the Ukranian Federation, a venue which Patrick has previously performed in.

Patrick andhisband, Mishka Stein (bass), Simon Angell (guitar), Melanie Belair (violin), and Robbie Kuster (drums), are presently touring Europe.

Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action

Domino — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:05:02

Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action | The New Album

Domino — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:05:02

Passport Edition - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action

Domino — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:05:58

Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action

Domino — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:05:10

Lightships 'Electric Cables'

Domino — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:06:39

James Yorkston - I Was A Cat From A Book

Domino — Tue, 22 May 2012 20:05:20

Anna Calvi Mailing List

Domino — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:04:40

Domino Records' Golden TIcket

Domino — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:02:54

Palace Reissues

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936.FM

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Domino BAGGU

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Now Here's My Plan

Domino — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:04:04

For less compulsively prolific and relentlessly creative artists it may be tempting to sit back and enjoy such a handsome retrospective at this moment in time but that is plainly not the Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy way. Enter another new release, the Now Here’s My Plan EP – a collection consisting of new versions of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy classics due for release in accompaniment with the Will Oldham on Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy book. Now Here’s My Plan features members of the Wolfroy Goes To Town band and was recorded by Steve Albini.

A Taking Leave Soundtrack

Domino — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:08:18

With A Leave Taking Soundtrack Bill Ryder-Jones has made a great leap into the field of orchestral music and landed firmly with an exquisite work that’s impossible to listen to without feeling that something, whether it’s hopeful sadness, joy or its own sheer beauty.

The EP lays out grand orchestral movements side by side with stark, emotionally delicate pieces that weave a bleak but beautifully visceral aural narrative that will appeal to fans of Max Richter and Hauschka.

Mount Wittenberg Orca

Domino — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:08:10

Mount Wittenberg Orca is named so because it is about whales, it was inspired by events on Mt. Wittenberg in California, and because it elaborates on David Longstreth's obsession with vocal harmony introduced on Dirty Projectors' 2009 album Bitte Orca. This seven-song, twenty-one minute collection is the first original music the band has recorded since Bitte Orca, and it feels more like a small album than an EP. It is also their most staggering collaboration yet — with the Icelandic artist Björk.

The music — originally written to be performed unamplified in a small Manhattan bookstore — was guided by a conversation between Longstreth and Björk about the small theaters in Italy where opera was born in the 1500s. The recording was informed by the simple, direct feel of early rock & roll recordings from the '50s. The band and Björk rehearsed for three days at the Rare Book Room in Brooklyn, and then recorded the songs as quickly and as live as possible, overdubbing only lead vocals and solos. The result feels like part children's story, part choral music from some strange future.

It's unlike anything else in the Projectors' body of work: Nat Baldwin's bass is massive and lumbering, like the silhouette of some undersea creature. Drums and guitars, so crucial to the songs on Bitte Orca, are all but absent. Instead, it's all about voices — and the voices are astonishing. Longstreth, sharing lead vocal duties with Björk, exudes a limber confidence. The Projectors women Amber Coffman, Angel Deradoorian and Haley Dekle sound beautiful and virtuosic. And Björk, seismic and elemental as always, sounds fresh in this new context, singing lead on half the songs.

This record is a triumph for Björk and for Dirty Projectors. It merges the energy and rawness of the band's live shows with the intricate arrangement and delicate beauty of Bitte Orca, and seems to do it effortlessly. Björk abides as a kind of artistic patron saint, sharing the spotlight rather than dominating it. Her mix of sophistication and emotion, of composition and instantaneity, has become the blueprint for a generation of creative musicians — and with Mount Wittenberg Orca, Dirty Projectors prove themselves at the forefront of that generation.

Honest Words

Domino — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:08:27

Following the news of their Mercury nomination for first collaborative album Diamond Mine, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins can now reveal details of their next EP. Honest Words will be available on 19th September on 12” vinyl (DS048T) and via digital download (DS048D).

The EP features a reworking of album track "Bats In The Attic" as well as two brand new songs.

Sparkle

Domino — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:07:13

All purchases will receive MP3s of the six 12" remix tracks in additional to these bonus remixes: Lose It (120 Days Remix), Lose It (Young Galaxy Remix), Lose It (Mark Pistel Vocal Remix) and Lose It (Mark Pistel Funk Bass Remix).

A Rekords Rekords Record

Domino — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:04:08

A storming selection of songs from the nascent Rekords Rekords record label, set up by Josh Homme from Queens Of The Stone Age. A showcase of the forthcoming releases on a super limited 10” picture disc.

Franz Ferdinand Covers E.P.

Domino — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:04:51

The Franz Ferdinand Covers EP features 5 covers of classic Franz songs from Debbie Harry, Stephin Merritt, LCD Soundsystem, ESG and Peaches. As the band says, "This is an EP of covers of our songs by people whose music we love."

Submarine - Original Songs From The Film By Alex Turner

Domino — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:02:05

A six track EP of original songs by Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys from the film Submarine.

Submarine,the debut film from Richard Ayoade, was released in the spring of 2011 and is based on the novel by Joe Dunthorne.

Bill Ryder-Jones - Artist Playlist

Domino — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:04:09

Bill Ryder-Jones has compiled his very own artist playlist made up of some his favourite tracks.

Dead-Aid - Probably my favourite song of Euros Childs. It always moves me, especially the line 'the dead just keep coming' and the strange organ/woodwind notes about 2 minutes in.

Bubble - There’s so much i love about this song. As a song, the lyrics and melody are perfect and so moving but the way they've set it out with Jons strange beat and choice of instruments makes it so special.

Would You Have Me Born With Wooden Eyes - If only for the line 'if every other line was true' at about a minute in. The song almost falls into the instruments that enter.

Two Sunset - This is such a sweet song, it's very subtle in its changes and i love the way it's produced. It sounds like childhood to me.

Song for Jo - This one is similar to bubble, it's a very unique production. Also it's just very cool, i love her voice and it really reminded me of Windy and Carl.

Atmosphere - It's just the ultimate Joy Division song.

Hanging High - I love Lykke, i think she's a real modern great. This songs quite ugly to sit through because of what it’s about but i really love it.

Oblivion - I like this for so many reasons, it was a real challenge for me when i first heard it. It sounded like a mess and i couldn't understand why i liked it but i did and i do, i think she's a genius.

The Rip - This is one of my favourite songs and pieces of music. I remember being totally blown away by the melody first time i heard it, then the synths and drums came in and it just knocked me out.

Beautiful Mind - When the Verve were untouchable, making music like no one else and playing on what they were good at.

Ocean Rain = Think this is my favourite Bunnymen tune, the words are so brilliant. The whole track is so brave and out there. It really sounds like the artwork looks

Circling The Sun - Norman Blake and Euros Childs….that's enough

I Don't Want Control of You - My favourite Teenage Fanclub song. When he says 'it doesn't matter to me' don’t know why but it just sounds so great. It's such a great thing to say to someone that you love too.

Out of Time - I just really like The Ramones but most of their tunes are a bit shit. This is a brilliant cover

Jeans Not Happening - The guitar at the start of this one is so brilliant and the Palies seem quite over looked in the rest of the country, so i stuck them in.

Duchess - I love the stranglers, this isn't their best but it's the one i like most. I like the line 'the Rodney’s are cueing up and they all want to win the cup'

Neighbours - I always thought this was Mick Head almost apologising to his daughter for living in such a terrible area or something. I’m probably miles off like

Happy Land - Warren Ellis' violin on this!! It's tricky to work out what he's doing and even harder to imagine how you could write that

Breathless - Maybe Nick Caves most perfect song. The words could be William Blake or Keats. It's so beautiful

Last Year’s Man - I could have picked any Leonard Cohen song, they all mean so much to me. So i just went with this one because i was enjoying listening to it. It's so delicate

Wild Mountain Thyme - This is up there with Dead-aid for my favourite song ever. It hits a part of me, i think it reminds me of holidays in Scotland as a child. It sounds like it couldn't have been written, i can't explain it.

Authentic Celestial Music - This is just original music, its moving and thoughtful and daring like everything Dirty Three do.

Five Variants of 'Dives and Lazurus' - My favourite composer, and this is so beyond me. Around 1:40 something happens that sounds like magic to me. Every turning point in the piece is perfect. It just sounds like Britain to me.

Cello Concerto in Eminor - This has a similar feeling to the Vaughn Williams piece. It's impossible to hear and not have images take you mind away. I can't really say much about it. The main hook that you recognise is to me the ultimate chorus and the crescendo at the end is just chilling.

John Cale, L'Oasis, Le Mans, France 2013

Domino — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:02:24

We have collated ten John Cale tracks from the quite brilliant L'Oasis show on Friday, February 15th. Included are tracks from his most recent album 'Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood' as well as classic material from the albums 'Helen Of Troy' and 'Fear'.

Villagers, Stereo Show, Glasgow, February 2013

Domino — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:02:11

Villagers brought their spellbinding set to the Stereo venue in Glasgow on Sunday, February 10th. It was the third night of their UK Tour and proved to be a huge hit with the local crowd. Another successful live venture for a band who's star continues to rise.

Full set list below:

My Lighthouse
Passing A Message
Judgement Call
Nothing Arrived
Home
The Bell
The Pact
The Meaning of The Ritual
In A Newfound Land You Are Free
Becoming a Jackal
The Waves
Grateful Song
Set The Tigers Free
Rhythm Composer
Memoir
That Day (acoustic)
Ship of Promises

Night Moves - Artist Playlist

Domino — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:02:57

Minessota three piece Night Moves released their debut album in the USA last fall, and the record hits the shops in the UK on March the 18^th.

They have kindly compiled a playlist, which incorpares key influences from the likes of The Grateful Dead, Todd Rundgren, John Cale and Townes Van Zandt.

Micky Alfano from the band talks about his choices below.

“I sat in my bed while I came up with this mix. Both my cd shelf and my record shelves are somewhat visible from it. Certain records and CDs gave me ideas of other similar artists to use and some of the artists I wanted to use weren't on Spotify yet. I hope you enjoy.”

John Cale - Macbeth

This felt like a good opening track. It's one of my favorite songs by him and I feel like it's pretty different from a lot of his other music. It almost gives me a ELO vibe..

J LO and Ja Rule - I'm Real

I loved this song in middle school. Maybe it was the flute keyboard tone? Maybe it was Jennifer Lopez's absurd lyrics(I doubt she even wrote them) but something about this made me wish I was Ja Rule and I had a lady by my side like J Lo. I originally had the dirty version on this mix but it didn't quite take me back to my grade school day's like the way the censored one does.

Os Mutantes - Ave Lucifer

My parents had their greatest hits floating around my childhood home for a couple years before it grabbed my attention. I've never been as into the "Bat Macumba" vibe they had. The weird song structures grabbed me, the crazy sounding instruments grabbed me. Anyway, this song is wild. It feels like music like this can't be made anymore, or you would have to go into outer space to make it happen.

Todd Rundgren - Never Never Land

My first Rundgren love was "A Wizard A True Star". The insanity of the opening track International Feel and how it evaporates into this is amazing. I love short(er) in between songs that connect albums and boy did he do a marvelous job on this one. I think this is a cover from a disney movie?

Allen Toussaint and the Stokes - Poor Boy Got To Move

I picked up a double cd of songs that Allen Toussaint produced and recorded and all of it is amazing. This track and the b side(coming up after Geeshie) were on a 45 released on Alon records in 1965. Apparently this is the first time Allen sang on one of his songs?

Geeshie Wiley - Last Kinda Words

This summer when I was up north spending some time in Ely, Minnesota I came across a essay by John Jeremiah where he writes about researching this song for a separate essay. He was having trouble deciphering some of the lyrics, so he made some phone calls and ended up getting in contact with John Fahey. I'm a big Fahey nut so hearing him describe what an amazing song this is made me really wanna look into it. I'm glad I did, Geeshie, while not as prolific as Skip James, Charley Patton or some of the other greats should not be overlooked.

Allen Toussaint and The Stokes - Go Back home

Beautiful. I've talked enough about this in the prior Toussaint song notes. I need to find one of these 45's on ebay.

The Zombies - Hung Up On A Dream

Being a big british pop music fan in high school made finding The Zombies Odessey and Oracle feel like the holy grail of 60's pop music. The whole record is so great but if I had to choose a favorite track it would be this,

Todd Rundgren - You don't have to camp around

Another in between track from A wizard.. Simple, pretty, what more do you need.

Michael Hurley - Hog Of the Forsaken

First off let me say that I hate that you see a deadwood soundtrack cd cover when you play this but spotify doesn't have the original album in their database so this is as good as it's going to get. Second off, man these vocals(ha), I love em. Hurley is amazing and he makes it happen even if this song is lil out of his range. But that's what makes it so good! I've listened to this a lot and never really paid that close of attention to the lyrics so I have no idea what this song is actually about. Sometimes it's nice feeling that way about a song.

Grateful Dead - China Cat Sunflower

When Night Moves went out on the road with Lord Huron last october I decided to put both the live 69 dead and 72 live in Europe albums on my iPod. On long driving stretches (especially at night) it was great listening to 3 solid hours of the Grateful Dead. This song really stood out to me the way the guitar line keeps going around in circles. It feels like this could've gone on for a lot longer then it does.

Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind.

That voice, that guitar tone. man. Etta is amazing and everything about this song is too. It's wild when someone's voice actually makes you believe everything they're saying. This song feels that way to me. Gorgeous.

Townes Van Zandt - Big Country Blues

There's about 100 Townes songs that I would've loved to put on this mix but I've had this song on my mind a lot lately with touring and such. Townes is one of my favorite songwriters of all time and It's amazing hearing these original sessions from 1966 before he was signed showing how developed he already was, this sounds like music he would continue to make for the next 30 years.

Nico - Somewhere There's A feather

Nico was another musician my parents played around the house a lot when I was young. I hated her at first along with Neil Young and Nick Drake(these are the 3 that stick out in my mind that I've come to really like). It's great that your music tastes expand and develop as you get older. That feeling of suddenly understanding and wanting to hear something that you never cared about in the past, or having an old favorite become obsolete, "Man, why do I own every NOFX cd that's ever come out...?" I'm ramblin' but I think Nico's voice and the orchestral arrangement are beautiful and this felt like a fitting way to end the mix.

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - Artist Playlist

Domino — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:01:23

'We The Common' is the brand new album released next week by Thao & The Get Down Stay Down on Ribbon Music.

As an insight into the creative process as well as a taster of what the album may entail, this is a playlist curated by the band of some of their favourite tracks.

Soul, Classic R&B, Blues, Dancehall and Indie Folk are all represented in this well crafted and uplifting collection. Choices and descriptions by the band below.

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – Artist Playlist

1. Elvis Perkins in Dearland-- Shampoo-- I love this entire record but this album opener is so striking. Great songwriter, great musicianship.

2. The Louvin Brothers-- In the Pines-- Adam, our bassist introduced metothis duo a while back- incredible harmonies, incredible players- from The Tragic Sons Of Life. Remember when Nirvana covered this song for MTV Unplugged?

3. Ray Charles- If You Were Mine-- My favorite Ray Charles song.

4. Sizzla - Break Free-- This song will lift the mood of anytour van, I guarantee it.

5. Little Wings-- Faith Children-- I think this song is so epic and sad and optimistic at the same time. Really vivid emotion in it.

6. Donovan- There Is A Mountain.-- guys. first there is a mountain.

7. De La Soul - Betta Listen-- I love the groove of this song and I especially love good hip hop that lyrically slays and is respectful of women.

8. Mavis Staples- You Are Not Alone-- Of course Mavis Staple is a national treasure-- I really enjoy this collaboration with Jeff Tweedy- their strengths are showcased very well in this song.

9. Junior Kimbrough- Meet Me in the City-- the most beautiful simple guitar and vocal melodies--

10. The Wallace Brothers- I Stayed Away Too Long- good old fashioned soul music-- what I like about this song is how vivid the descriptions are; you can almost see him goingtoher house. Dare I say this lyrical style is a refined predecessor of the R Kelly type narrative.

11. Lee Dorsey- Holy Cow-- I was just inNew Orleansand heard this covered live, and then heard it in the cab on the waytothe airport-- divinity.

12. The Magnetic Fields-- The One You Really Love-- Beautiful sad catchy song.

13. M. Ward- Helicopter-- from Transfiguration of Vincent-- beautiful and sweet, romantic imagery- also M. Ward is such a good guitar player. in general.

14. Bernice Johnson Reagon-- Joann Little- based on truth- a woman who could be any woman charged with murder for defending herself against sexual assault-- such a powerful song and performance-- I saw Bernice and Toshi Reagon perform this live and they really wallop you, was such a gifttosee and hear.

Domino New Releases 2013

Domino — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:01:51

A playlist showcasing the very best in Domino's new releases throughout the year 2013.

The Child Of Lov - Artist Playlist

Domino — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:01:17

Here lies a playlist from The Child of Lov, an artist who has featured in many tastemakers’ tips for 2013. Much of his identity still remains ambiguous however, whilst he, in his own words, ‘lets the music stand on its own’.

His productions capture the muggy grooves of America's rural south - casting a nostalgic nod to the ideas and inventions of southern trailblazers like Little Richard, Otis Redding and James Brown.
He's also not shy of exploring the wave of intergalactic funk explored later by funk acts like Parliament. So here then is a playlist compiling some of those inspirations...

Domino Best of 2011

Domino — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:01:03

Our best of 2011 including tracks from Arctic Monkeys, Wild Beasts and Queens Of The Stone Age. There's also debut tracks from new signings Austra, Washed Out and the truly wonderful Real Estate.

Matthew E. White - Artist Playlist

Domino — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:01:27

Our very own Matthew E. White has provided us with a playlist full of genuine treats. This promises to fill the void till Matthew releases his debut album 'Big Inner' on Domino on January 21st.

Here's a description of his choices, in Matthew's very own words.

Small Axe - Bob Marley & The Wailers. There’s no one like him, especially when The Upsetter is at the controls. Reggae music holds such a special place in my heart - experimental, courageous, regional, socially aware, populist, and always groovin.

Swanee River Rock - Ray Charles. If I had to choose one artist to listen to for the rest of my life I would choose Ray. He stands at a turning point in history, taking all the energy from the past and directing toward the future. He is a musician non-parallel and if you havent seen him sing Ring of Fire on Johnny Cash’s late night show, it is the greatest thing on Youtube. period.

Sail Away - Randy Newman. One of my favorite songs from one of my favorite composers and songwriters. A master in pointing out social injustice using distinct point of view and for using arrangements to make his stories three-dimensional, this one, told from the perspective of a slave ship owner, is one of his finest.

Billy Jack - Curtis Mayfield. This is about as groovy as it gets. Curtis, like Randy, is a pointed critic of his time and lets both his lyrics and his music tell his side of the story. This one is just super-groovin, full of space, and has one of the greatest, probably the best, unison horn riff I’ve ever heard.

Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight & The Pips. I loved this when I was little. Female singer with backing male singers is such a rare sound these days - and the song is KILLER!! If you listen to the last 25 seconds you’ll hear who Michael Jackson was listening to around this time.

Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan. Dylan is a genius. Think about how many songs he writes without choruses - amazing. This is one of them. Look out kids.

I Get Around - The Beach Boys. For the first 20 seconds of this song the say the same thing, and it never repeats musically. I love the more musically “ambitious”, late-era Beach Boys but this early stuff is extra special to me. Incredibly musical, Brian Wilson somehow got these guys to sing some CRAZY things. And the couplets are to die for

“my buddies and me are getting real well known, the bad guys know us and leave us alone”

Can’t beat it!

Jesus Children Of America - Stevie Wonder. I can’t stop listening to this song lately. Another guy who managed to meld supergrooviness with an adept socially aware songwriting sense, this one is for the ages. “Tell me junkie, if you’re able, are you happy when you stick a needle in your veins”.

Let Your Light Shine On Me - Blind Willie Johnson. Blind Willie Johnson is my favorite blues player. I absolutely fell in love with his recordings when I first stumbled across them a few years back. The way he changes his voice on this track is particularly stunning and when it switches the song’s groove feels incredible.

Tipitina - Dr John. New Orleans is the epicenter of it all. THE greatest American musical city, it has birthed everything I love. This is Dr. John, a legend in his own right, singing perhaps the most famous New Orlean’s standard, Tipitina, in the inimitable style of Professor Longhair - the father of all New Orleans piano players.

Pray On My Child - The Staple Singers. The Staple Singers changed my life. I picked up a collection of their gospel recordings on Vee-Jay at a record store maybe 7 years ago and I wore that thing OUT! Pops Staples was born and learned the guitar born on the same plantation as Charley Patton!! AND, had a musical career into the 80’s! Their music, especially from this period, is some of the finest music that humans have ever had the imagination and courage to make. In my opinion, there is nothing better.

Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel. Like “My Girl”, “Lean on Me” and “Stand By Me”, this is one of those songs that seems to me, a generation removed from its conception, like it fell from the sky. No one actually wrote this did they? Its too perfect. The words, melodies, production, rhythmic sensibility are from heaven.

What Do You Want The Girl To Do? - Allen Toussaint. Allen Toussaint is a huge inspiration to me. He did it all well - wrote, sang, arranged, and engineered - all within the confines of New Orleans where he used some of the most soulful musicians that have ever lived. Most importantly, you can always tell when he was involved - his stamp is undeniable, and I think this one is a particular classic. Remember, there is NO shame in the solo saxophone.

Dont Do It - The Band. This one was shown to me by Steven Bernstein, my musical mentor, and the greatest and deepest listener I’ve ever met. A classic from Marvin Gaye that The Band made into a killer. This is the first track off “Rock of Ages”, that secret portal of a record that leads to so many of the answers, and what an opener! Horns arranged by Allen Toussaint doesn’t hurt one bit and neither does have Snooky Young as your lead trumpet player!

Out On The Weekend - Neil Young. What a songwriter! This is the best drivin song I know.

Just Like a Baby - Sly & The Family Stone. From one of my favorites albums Ive all time, i think this is my favorite 6/8 song ever. Nothin has been made that feels quite like this, wonderful singing, guitar playing, rhythm section playing and strange but beautiful songwriting. And the record cover is to die for.

Domino Best of 2012

Domino — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:12:34

Our best of 2012 including some stellar debut tracks from Petite Noir, Melody's Echo Chamber and The Child of Lov. Key tracks are also featured from the critically acclaimed albums by Dirty Projectors, Dan Deacon, Julia Holter and How To Dress Well. There's also the colossal Todd Terje remix of Hot Chip's 'How Do You Do?'.

The Ivors - A Domino Playlist

Domino — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:05:14

The Ivor Novello Awards were introduced in 1955 to acknowledge outstanding contributions to song writing and composing. It has mostly recognised British talent, but in recent years has opened its doors to numerous inspirational figures from beyond these shores.

This playlist incorporates a mix of gong winners and nominees throughout the ceremony’s history.

Farewell Fergie - A Domino Playlist

Domino — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:05:45

After nearly a quarter of a century in charge of one the world’s biggest football clubs, Sir Alex Ferguson has decided to finally call it a day. He leaves a legacy which includes thirteen league titles, two champions league trophies and various other awards and accolades.

As a fitting tribute, a playlist has been compiled which includes some of his favorite artists as well unashamed nods in the direction of all the things associated with his 26 year tenure.

Wes Anderson Soundtracks - A Domino Playlist

Domino — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:04:05

There are many things to admire about Wes Anderson’s films, but in musical terms, his soundtracks are second to none. So with a rich harvest to pick from, we’ve collated some of the best tracks to feature in a career that has spanned nearly ten films to date.

Many Happy Returns Wesley Wales Anderson!

Boy Band Break-Ups - A Playlist

Domino — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:04:08

On April 24^th, British boy band JLS announced that they will be splitting up after 5 years (just after a Greatest Hits album and lucrative farewell your). It was of such significance, that the news found its way to the front page of a leading tabloid newspaper with the headline “JLS R.I.P.”.

As a tribute, we’ve compiled a list of boy band combos who’ve announced well publicised splits over the years. News which undoubtedly sent shockwaves through many a teenage bedroom. So if you can hold back the tears, we’d dearly like you to join us on a boy band odyssey.

Record Store Day - A Domino Playlist

Domino — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:04:57

Record Store Day is an internationally celebrated day observed on the third Saturday of April each year. Its purpose is to celebrate the art of music. The day brings together fans, artists, and thousands of independent record stores across the world.

This playlist has brought together some of the most revered releases since it started back in 2008.

The Masters - A Playlist

Domino — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:04:01

In sporting terms, early April means only one thing ‘The Masters’. It’s the most coveted, prestigious and picturesque golfing major of them all. To mark the occasion, we have compiled a playlist of the best golfing musicians and artists ever to grace the tees and greens.

The playlist sequence is organised in handicap order.

Alice Cooper - 5
Lloyd Cole – 5
Justin Timberlake – 6
Huey Lewis – 6
Glen Campbell – 6
Roger Waters – 11
Charley Pride – 15
Smokey Robinson - 15
Stephen Stills – 16
Willie Nelson – 16
Bob Dylan – 17
Snoop Dogg – 18
Mike Fleetwood - 18
Steve Miler - 18
Eddie Van Halen – 18
Neil Young – 19
Mike Mills – 19
Graham Nash – 20
Eddie Money – 25
Steven Tyler - 36

The Soul Mass Transit System - A Domino Playlist

Domino — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:04:45

This week marked the tragic death of Soul’s greatest son, Marvin Gaye, who was shot dead by his own father in 1984. This is a collection of twenty tracks that span from Gaye’s era, right up to a newer generation inspired by his undoubted genius.

Domino At Twenty

Domino — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:03:24

This week, Domino Records was founded back in 1993. Here is a playlist comprising 100 tracks that cover that period from its embryonic form, right up to the present day.

We hope you enjoy this selection.

Hellraisers - A Domino Playlist

Domino — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:03:52

The mythology that surrounds the rock 'n' roll lifestyle is well documented. It reached its peak in the 1970s with bands like Mott The Hoople, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and of course The Rolling Stones who all did their utmost to be blacklisted from hotels, restaurants, bars and anywhere else that requires a certain standard in behaviour and etiquette.

In cinema, it was the now legendary quartet of Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris, Richard Burton and Oliver Reed who set the mark for abhorrent behaviour and excessive drinking. The likes of which have been imitated but never really matched!

One of the great Irish writer-poets, Brendan Behan, sadly died this week in 1964 at the age of only 41. This is a playlist which raises a glass to the spirit of the original hellraisers!

In Honour Of Dr Seuss

Domino — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:03:18

Dr Seuss was first published this week back in 1937. It was one of the first of it's kind to 'make learning fun' and as a result made 'The Cat In The Hat' an iconic figure.

To mark this literary feat, we have pieced together a 20 track strong playlist of some of the finest songs ever composed with little people in mind.