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Future Starts Slow

Domino — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:04:21

“Future Starts Slow is possibly their best tune to date” NME

“Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince are tighter, fiercer, and wired with more raw, visceral energy than ever before” NME

“Era-defining rock from a deadly duo” The Independent

The Kills - Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart - release their new single ‘Future Starts Slow’ on June 13th 2011. The single is the second to come from the band’s critically acclaimed fourth album ‘Blood Pressures’, which was released through Domino on April 4th. The single will be released on 7” / Digital Download and backed with new track ‘Raise Me’.
‘Future Starts Slow’ is a burst of fresh energy from the band, with a mix of unrelenting drums, Jamie Hince’s trade mark scuzzy, stabbing guitar sound and Alison Mosshart’s angular and aggressive vocals.

Cheap And Cheerful

Domino — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:02:12

Cheap & Cheerful, two and a half minutes of rock ‘n’ roll abandon, is released on March 3rd 2008. The production, featuring beats and studio smarts from Spank Rock’s producer Alex Epton aka Armani XXXchange, combined with Alison’s confidently teasing vocals, create a forward-thinking track - daring you to take it on right now. Taking inspiration from Pizza Pizza Daddio, a Sixties documentary about kids in inner-city schools in the USA, The Kills’ Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart started building rhythms influenced by the children’s dark playground songs, on an old school hand-punched MPC-60 hip hop drum sequencer. The end result is a track that takes you right to the heat of the moment - both timeless and utterly contemporary.

TWIN SISTER - 'Vampires With Dreaming Kids' - 'Color Your Life'

Domino — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:09:12

Stream: 'Vampires With Dreaming Kids' / 'Color Your Life'

Twin Sister is a band based in and around New York. Andrea Estella sings, Bryan Ujueta plays the drums, Eric Cardona plays guitar, Gabel D'Amico plays the bass, and Udbhav Gupta plays keyboard. Double Six release the first physical release for the band’s debut 'Vampires With Dreaming Kids' and the first UK release of their recent 'Color Your Life' EP in September 2010.

Love blogs (ahem - especially this one!) or hate blogs - them kids what does the blogs have been singing the praises about Twin Sister - [Shaking Through done a nice piece here] and the band have been terrifically generous to remixers and film makers by actively supporting Creative Commons for non-commercial projects MORE

CALL TO ARMS: Twin Sister play the Lexington on 25th November. We urge you to attend.

CLINIC EYE-TEST MENS T SHIRT

Domino — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:07:45

CLINIC NEW LOGO MENS T SHIRT

Domino — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:07:48

Villagers Faces Black T-Shirt

Domino — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:06:01

Villagers Faces Brown T-Shirt

Domino — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:06:58

WATCHING 'THE GOOD NEWS' BY PHILADELPHIA GRAND JURY (NATIVE TONGUE)

Domino — Tue, 04 May 2010 17:05:21

PHILADELPHIA GRAND JURY NOMINATED FOR A PRESTIGIOUS AUSTRALIAN ARIA AWARD!

Our Australian chums Native Tongue made the wise decision to sign Philadelphia Grand Jury who are the sort of guitar band to get you popping and bopping. They have the zing of the Datsuns and a whole manner of upbeatness that blows the cobwebs off a lot of other bands at the moment. So get your earholes round this, come to a gig - if you're in London they are playing A LOT - and chew our legs off for some tunes from their album 'Hope Is For Hopers' currently out in Australia.

The wonderfully upbeat, enigmatic and fabulously hirsute Phildelphia Grand Jury (Berkfinger and MC Bad Genius) are back in London on Friday 10th September at the Lexington, London.

Philadelphia Grand Jury has always been two friends: Berkfinger and MC Bad Genius. Accompanied most recently by Calvin on drums, who used to session drum for US disco and funk acts like Earth Wind and Fire and bebop legend Sonny Stitt. The album was produced Berkfinger who has also worked on records for Wolfmother, The Temper Trap and Art vs Science.

Tracks the Good News and Going to the Casino prove obvious plucky reference tracks for the band with their catchy keyboard rhythms but Wet Winter Holiday proves hugely relevant right now and might provide some alternative to usual winter fayre.

The single Going To The Casino (Tomorrow Night) was released 23^rd August Communion Records. Philadelphia Grand Jury are exclusively published by Domino Publishing in the UK.

Stream the entire album by clicking on the artwork above.

WATCHING 'LUCID' BY JOKER'S DAUGHTER

Domino — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:04:34

Joker's Daughter are Helena Costas (Domino Records and Publishing) and Danger Mouse (Chrysalis Publishing). Following the recent release of debut album The Last Laugh through Double Six Records in the UK (and Conor Oberst's Team Love in the US), Jokers Daughter released Lucid as the stunning second single. The video is directed by Hayley Morris, the winner of Best Animated Short at the Sundance Film Festival 2009.

Blue T-Shirt

Domino — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:03:53

'Swing Lo Magellan' Pre-Order Now Available

Domino — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:05:06

We've very excited to share the cover for Dirty Projector's Swing Lo Magellan and make the album available for pre-order.

So, let's get down to the details.

In addition to the long-playing compact disc we also have a limited edition Swing Lo Magellan bundle featuring a deluxe vinyl LP and the aptly named "Gun Has No Trigger Tablet Of Values". Each bundle contains:

Limited Edition Swing Lo Magellan LP Vinyl
- Limited to 3000 Numbered Copies
- 180 Gram Vinyl
- Deluxe Tip-On Embossed Gatefold Sleeve
- 11" x 22" Embossed Fold-out Lyric Tablet
- High Fidelity 24bit WAV files + MP3 Download

Gun Has No Trigger Tablet Of Values
- 8" x 8" Square Vinyl Single Pressed on Tablet Thick Audiophile-Grade Vinyl (equivalent to 200 GM @ 12")
- Super-Limited to 1000 Copies Worldwide (pre-order while supplies last)
- A Side Features Single "Gun Has No Trigger' Cut @ 45 RPM
- B Side Features Sumerian Akkadian Cuneiform Etching Of Complete Lyrics Of "Gun Has No Trigger" Translated By Dr. M. Wllis Monroe

PRE-ORDER HERE

In other Dirty Projectors news the band has just launched a new website at dirtyprojectors.net. It's an immersive and mind-boggling experience.

Real Estate Offer You Exactly Nothing

Domino — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:05:33

Get those raincoats off and those sunglasses on because Real Estate's easy-breezy awesomewave track "Exactly Nothing" is going to be released as their next single on the 2nd July 2012. It's not from last year's critically lauded album, Days, but it's very much in the same mood (by which I mean "good") and very much of the same quality (by which I mean "awesome").

You can listen to that big slice of summer right here:

The New Jersey band will be back to the UK to play their biggest show to date at Camden's Electric Ballroom on Wednesday June 27th and will be joined by New York's Frankie Rose and London's The Proper Ornaments. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased here.

The show comes following sold-out gigs at London's Scala and Koko alongside Kurt Vile.

And why not psyche yourself into the Real Estate gig mood by watching the band's full set from Coachella right here?

Get Wild as Animal Collective Announce Centipede Hz

Domino — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:05:49

Roar! Late last night Animal Collective announced their brand new album, Centipede Hz, via myanimalhome.net.

Centipede Hz (out on September 3rd) is Animal Collective's follow-up to 2009's awesome Merriweather Post Pavilion.

Watch this Animal Collective-esque introduction to Centipede Hz:

And in case you weren't paying attention, here's the tracklist you just saw flash up:

Moonjock
Today's Supernatural
Rosie Oh
Applesauce
Wide Eyed
Father Time
New Town Burnout
Monkey Riches
Mercury Man
Pulleys
Amanita

And seeing that neither track is on the album, what better reason to pre-order the Honeycomb/Gotham 7" announced last week? Get to it!

Magnetic Fields Release New "Rubbish" Video

Domino — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:05:16

You would no doubt be surprised to hear that The Magnetic Field s had released a rubbish video, but that is the case. Well, actually the video is wonderful, but it's about rubbish. Rubbish bins to be exact.

In typical iconoclastic fashion, Stephin Merritt et al have put out a lovely video for the latest single from Love at the Bottom of the Sea: "Quick!", which has at its heart a tentative love affair by two of the loveliest rubbish bins (or "trash cans" for our American audience) you have doubtless ever laid eyes on. The song itself is a strident while utterly heartbroken eulogy for a stricken relationship, constructed around a glacial synth-bass line and featuring the pitch-perfect Merritt couplet: "Torture me for your amusement/Oh but who will pay the rent?".

The video, though, is a much more life-affirming affair. Watch it here, now, for FREE!

Animal Collective Announce New 7": Honeycomb/Gotham

Domino — Mon, 07 May 2012 03:05:49

Animal Collective are back with a new 7inch single titled Honeycomb/Gotham featuring two brand new songs. The Honeycomb/Gotham digital bundle is available right now and the physical 7" is available to pre-order now on the Domino Store with instant MP3 gratification of both tracks included. So don't say we don't love you.

The 7" will be released via Dom Mart on the 26th of June and will also be available in stores later this summer. But what are you waiting for - have a listen to both tracks right now, right here:

Download the First Two Singles From Eugene McGuinness for Free on Facebook

Domino — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:05:29

For all you Eugene McGuinness fans out there, we're excited to share that if you head over to Eugene's facebook page now, you can download both the singles 'Lion' and 'Shotgun' for free. Both singles are taken from the forthcoming album 'The Invitation To The Voyage', out on 2nd July on Domino.

Head over to his facebook page here to download the tracks and get more news on Eugene.

For those of you not yet familiar with Eugene or these tracks, check out the videos to both the singles below, both directed by the Grammy-nominated, Sundance selected duo Thirtytwo.

LION

SHOTGUN

Lower Dens Release Freaky New Video, Album

Domino — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:05:17

Baltimore boppers Lower Dens have set a new, weird-but-great video loose into the wild to snap at your heels/delight your senses. The promo is for "Propagation", one of the many wonderful songs included on the ethereal masterpiece of an LP, Nootropics that came out just yesterday. Check out our friends at Ribbon Music for the full story.

A Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Extravaganza!

Domino — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:04:38

Hang on to your beards, because it's a bumper Bonny bag o' bits today; a whole bucketful of news. Are you sitting comfortably (preferably with a glass of your favourite moonshine-flavoured soft drink)? Then let's get to it.

2012 is shaping up to be a celebratory year for Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. First there was Will Oldham on Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – the recently published book of his reflections on a truly idiosyncratic approach and ethos that have seen him rub shoulders and share stages/recording space with the disparate likes of Johnny Cash, R Kelly, James Earl Jones and Bjork in a quarter-century stretch of fearless artistry. The wonderful Faber & Faber published conversation with long time collaborator and friend Alan Licht illuminates the scope and scale of Bonny's unique vision, allowing never-before-gleaned insight into the ideas of mystery, intimacy, spontaneity and community that run deep through his formidable canon of work.

Between 1993's There Is No-One What Will Take Care Of You Palace Brothers debut and last year's Bonnie 'Prince' Billy return Wolfroy Goes To Town, Bonny has released no less than seventeen studio albums, twenty-five EPs and five live albums. Be it in the guise of Palace Brothers, Palace Music, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy or simply under his birth name, the integrity of Bonny's output has remained a constant and his journey through (and indelible impression on) the storied landscapes of American country, folk, punk and indie-rock is incomparable.

It is in the spirit of celebration of an artistic life so remarkable that Domino is this year to re-issue six classic Bonnie 'Prince' Billy recordings dated between 1996 and 2004. On July 30th, new, re-named editions of Palace Brothers release Arise Therefore (1996) and Joya (1997), the definitive Bonnie 'Prince' Billy debut I See A Darkness (1999) and subsequent BPB albums Ease Down The Road (2001), Master And Everyone (2003) and Greatest Palace Music (2004) will be available under Oldham's now stable Bonnie 'Prince' Billy moniker.

Whether starkly primitive and intensely spare as Arise Therefore, rich with haunted grace like I See A Darkness or swinging with an almost straight-up country lushness on Greatest Palace Music, these albums represent a golden era for Bonny as a writer – his powerfully affecting, deeply human meditations on sex, death, isolation and longing achieving a rare universal understanding despite being rooted in a fiercely intimate system of belief.

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 recorded by Steve Albini, due for release in accompaniment with the Will Oldham on Bonnie 'Prince' Billy book on June 4th and separately through Domino on July 24th. Now Here's My Plan features members of the Wolfroy Goes To Town band with whom Bonnie 'Prince' Billy currently tours and records. You can pre-order Now Here's My Plan HERE.

The track listing of the Now Here's My Plan EP is as follows:

I Don't Belong To Anyone
Beast For Thee
No Gold Digger
After I Made Love To You
I See A Darkness
Three Questions

The Wolfroy players are Ben Boye, Van Campbell, Emmett Kelly, Danny Kiely and Angel Olsen.

The six Bonnie 'Prince' Billy albums which are being reissued on the 30th of July are:

Arise Therefore
Joya
I See A Darkness
Ease Down The Road
Master and Everyone
Greatest Palace Music

Future Pilot AKA & Paul Thomson Get Loud at Outskirts Festival

Domino — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:04:01

People get ready! Future Pilot AKA, Paul Thomson of Franz Ferdinand and Richard Youngs are playing a live music spectacular together at Outskirts festival in Easterhouse on Saturday afternoon. Details are scarce/shrouded in mystery, but suffice to say - if you're in the neighbourhood, get down because you'll be in for a blistering sonic treat.

May a good time be had by all.

Anna Calvi plays Somerset House show

Domino — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:04:17

Attention! Anna Calvi will be performing at surely the most appropriately seasonally-named festival of the year: The Summer Series at Somerset House. It will be Ms. Calvi's only concert in the capital this year, and following last year's headlining appearance at Shepherd's Bush Empire she's planning a very special new show for this beautiful Thames-side space.

Anna Calvi will join such acts as Jill Scott, Katy B, The Enemy, Temper Trap, Tindersticks, M83, etc, as a headliner at this year's Summer Series at Somerset House on Thursday the 12th of July 2012.

Set in the spectacular courtyard of one of London's most celebrated historic buildings, Summer Series at Somerset House is a wonderfully unique event in the summer's live music calendar. This year the programme runs from 7 to 17 July.

Tickets go on general sale at 9am on Friday, 27th April and a ticket for Anna will set you back £25 (plus booking fee). They can be found at Ticketmaster and Somerset House's site.

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.

Honeycomb / Gotham

Domino — Tue, 01 May 2012 11:05:43

Animal Collective are back with a new 7inch single titled 'Honeycomb / Gotham' featuring two brand new songs.

Quick!

Domino — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:04:39

I Learned From The Gaels

Domino — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:04:55

Salutations, ye of striking visage and exquisite musical taste!

Come hither and let us unravel this phonograph. Let us tool ourselves up with the following clues:
1) This EP comes courtesy of King Creosote – alias hirsute Fife pop stud Kenny Anderson – and it’s backed by a posse of superhot minstrels that spans a BBC songbird, a northern star and a bygone Iron Maiden moonlighter.
2) These songs were written in the East Neuk of Fife, in the year of our monarch 2010, and it was, says our subject, ‘probably spring.’ Except for track four, but we’ll come to that later.
3) This vinyl is the product of a Scottish East Coast education: it is borne from the gals, the gales, the Gaels and the guile that derives from a lifetime’s overindulgence thereof.
These are our means of charting KC’s latest revolution. Are you ready?
Let’s Go.

Night And Day

Domino — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:03:18

"Night And Day" is the first single from Hot Chip’s forthcoming album, In Our Heads.

The single is a piece of classic Hot Chip weird-ass superfunk disco, driven by a menacing yet supremely danceable rubberized bassline. It's the sound Prince would be making had he grown up just south of the Thames.

It's Zapp not Zappa.

City Kiss

Domino — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:03:31

Shotgun

Domino — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:03:54

Stick Figures In Love

Domino — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:03:50

Dinner / Bad Girls 7"

Domino — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:03:45

R U Mine?

Domino — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:02:38

Transverse Temporal Gyrus

Domino — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:02:56

Animal Collective's March 2010 collaborative performance with Danny Perez at the Guggenheim Museum has now been captured on a limited edition 12" released for Record Store Day 2012 consisting of a collage of original tracks and live recordings. We have a very limited supply!

Visit the new interactive 'Transverse Temporal Gryus' website today: ttg.myanimalhome.net

Lucifer

Domino — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:03:32

Lucifer, the third full length release from West Coast duo Peaking Lights, which will be released by Weird World on Monday the 18th of June 2012. With it, the golden duo of Aaron Doyes and Indra Dunis continue to crystallize their mesmerizing sound and find new dimensions within.

Recorded in Brooklyn at Gary's Electric Studio over the course of a month and self-produced with the help of engineer Al Carson (Yeasayer, Onehotrix Point Never), Peaking Lights consider Lucifer a nocturnal version of their sound. “To us this record is about play and playfulness, unconditional love, rhythms and pulses, creation and vibration,” says Coyes.

Lucifer is also Peaking Lights’ most ambitious release to date in terms of its approach and scope – boasting much to please anyone previously seduced by the genre-defying, gritty grooves and enchanting, sensual melodies of the band’s earlier work but also proving an altogether more heavy, propulsive and focused effort.

Incredibly, there’s even space within Lucifer for Coyes and Dunis’ already insanely broad palette of influences to widen even further – touches of analogue electronic dance music, sound collage and straight up pop joining the dub, krautrock and minimal disco of 936 in a hypnotising concoction.

Swing Lo Magellan

Domino — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:03:26

On Dirty Projectors sixth album, Swing Lo Magellan, songwriter and leader David Longstreth shows he really doesn't know how to do the same thing twice.

Where prior Dirty Projectors albums investigated 20th-century orchestration, west African guitar music and complex contrapuntal techniques in human voices, Swing Lo Magellan is a leap forward again. It's an album of songs, an album of songwriting.

Swing Lo Magellan has both the handmade intimacy of a love letter and the widescreen grandeur of a blockbuster, and if that sounds like a paradox -- it's because it was until now.

ECXLUSIVE DOMINO MART DELUXE LP PRE-ORDER BUNDLE FEATURES:

Limited Edition Swing Lo Magellan LP Vinyl
- Limited to 3000 Numbered Copies
- 180 Gram Vinyl
- Deluxe Tip-On Embossed Gatefold Sleeve
- 11" x 22" Embossed Fold-out Lyric Tablet
- High Fidelity 24bit WAV files + MP3 Download

Gun Has No Trigger Tablet Of Values
- 8" x 8" Square Vinyl Single Pressed on Tablet Thick Audiophile-Grade Vinyl (equivalent to 200 GM @ 12")
- Super-Limited to 1000 Copies Worldwide (pre-order while supplies last)
- A Side Features Single "Gun Has No Trigger' Cut @ 45 RPM
- B Side Features Sumerian Akkadian Cuneiform Etching Of Complete Lyrics Of "Gun Has No Trigger" Translated By Dr. M. Wllis Monroe

A standard edition vinyl LP will be available in stores from July 9 (UK, Europe) and July 10 (US).

In Our Heads

Domino — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:03:46

Recorded in London and produced by the band with Mark Ralph, In Our Heads is the band’s follow up to 2010’s intoxicating One Life Stand and their first LP for Domino. In Our Heads will be available on CD, LP and digitally. There will also be a special edition vinyl of the album available on gatefold double LP with a bonus artworked 7” featuring an exclusive track. A free download of Flutes is available immediately when pre-ordering In Our Heads through Domino.

The collective talents of Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard, Alexis Taylor, Felix Martin, Al Doyle and Owen Clarke have provided a consistently stellar output which continues to evolve with a deceptive effortlessness. While their lexicon of influences includes a diverse mix of soul, R&B, gospel, Detroit House, disco and funk, Hot Chip have created a uniquely identifiable sound. Since 2004, they’ve released a string of ambitious and creatively bold albums of soulful, lyrical and melodic electronic pop. Their impressive debut Coming On Strong was followed in 2006 by the brilliantly buoyant The Warning, which earned the band a prestigious Mercury Music Prize nomination. 2008’s Made In The Dark spawned an international mega hit in “Ready For The Floor”, which picked up a Grammy nomination for ‘Best Dance Recording’. With In Our Heads, an unadulterated delight of an album bursting with dynamic floor fillers, euphoric earworms and verbose synth-fuelled love songs, Hot Chip cement their position as the world’s most talented electro-romantics.

Diamond Mine Jubilee Edition

Domino — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:02:55

Diamond Mine, the critically acclaimed debut collaborative album from King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, is getting the deluxe version treatment on 16^th April 2012. The original, Mercury-nominated album is augmented with extra material including all three tracks from the Honest Words EP, B-side Missionary and two brand new songs, Third Swan and Starboard Home.

Released a year ago to outstanding reviews, Diamond Mine has since become a much cherished album for an ever growing number of listeners. Featuring instrumental moments as affecting as the lyrical, the record consists of newly interpreted obscure delights picked out from 20 years of King Creosote’s treasure chest of a back catalogue. Intended to be heard as a single experience, Diamond Mine produces a near classical suite of emotion ranging from cracked despair to patched-up euphoria.

Third Swan: ‘The much revisited inspirational well of ructions, relationships and regrettable behaviour has very recently been replenished with a leaky bucket of political angst, due in no small part to James Robertson's fine novel "and the land lay still". "Third swan" is also a comment on how euphoria and despair sit side by side, with a few St. Andrews place names thrown in for good measure. To exist as the ugly duckling between two paragons of swan-like virtue is, no doubt, the metaphor that ties all of this together. In short, there was a lot swirling around my head in the dark weeks leading up to the end of 2011, and it had to end up on this, the penultimate page, of the Diamond Mine travelogue.’

Starboard Home: ‘As the good ship "Diamond Mine" ties up alongside our wave battered pier, the buffeting by wind and waves on our emotional voyage is replaced by the mournful cries of marsh birds and the welcoming voices of our loved ones, the ocean swell swapped for the comforting sight of the harbour lights.’

Sweet Heart Sweet Light

Domino — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:02:42

For an artist as consistent as Spiritualized’s J Spaceman, whose 7th studio album Sweet Heart Sweet Light will be released on April 16, it’s easy to assume that there’s a certain effortlessness to the creative process. In fact, the three years since the release of 2008’s acclaimed Songs In A&E were some of the roughest imaginable for him.

After a near death from double pneumonia in 2005 it was a slow road to recovery, a process he touched upon on with great grace on the last album Songs In A&E. His return to full health saw him release this album and then mount critically lauded performances of his 1997 game-changer Ladies And Gentlemen….We Are Floating In Space on both sides of the Atlantic and Australia.

However, shortly after recording Sweet Heart Sweet Light – in far flung locales such as Los Angeles, Reykjavik and Wales – J Spaceman was subjected to a procedure that left him virtually housebound while he mixed the album. In a classic case of triumph over tribulation, the resulting album is Spiritualized at their most vibrant; full voiced and utterly sublime.

Spiritualized have already previewed the record live, playing it in its entirety during an uplifting show at the Royal Albert Hall on October 11, 2011. Originally planned for a March release this singular perfectionist felt compelled to make further edits to what was thought to be the finished album.

Moving Up Country - 10th Anniversary Edition

Domino — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:02:53

James Yorkston was the first member of the Fence Collective to emerge from the creative oddity that is the East Neuk of Fife. His first solo show was supporting Bert Jansch, his first tour was supporting John Martyn. After those heady heights he went on to sign to Domino and record his debut album in a damp soaked cottage in the Scottish Borders. Domino subsequently released this record, Moving Up Country, which went on to become Rough Trade’s Album of The Year 2002.

James was invited to play a John Peel Radio 1 session in 2003 and was labelled "the finest songwriter of his generation". He has gone on to forge a career as one of Scotland’s most respected songwriters, releasing 5 further critically acclaimed albums.

This 10th Anniversary Edition of Moving Up Country, consists of two parts. The first features the original album, including the debut Domino single 'The Lang Toun'; Part two is a collection of Moving Up Country demos, including never heard before demos and the aforementioned Peel session originally broadcast on Jan 2nd 2003.

Adventures In Your Own Backyard

Domino — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:01:33

Adventures... was made at home after a gruelling five-year run that saw Patrick and his band (bassist Mishka Stein bass, guitarist Simon Angell and drummer Robbie Kuster) tour the world in support of two critically-acclaimed and successful albums, including the Polaris award-winning Close To Paradise. During this time, Patrick also contributed to Ma Fleur, the 2007 album from The Cinematic Orchestra, co-writing and singing on a sizeable portion of the record. In Patrick’s own words, Adventures... is an effort on the band’s part to “make the kind of music we would want to listen to at home.” The album’s title is a nod to this sentiment and to the fact that it was recorded almost entirely in Watson’s apartment in Montreal, unlike his previous efforts which were sprawling recordings in both geography and arrangements.
In spite of the relatively spartan settings in which to record, Adventures... is equally as ambitious as Watson’s previous efforts and a thing of dynamic beauty. The result is an album that is still ripe with the touchstones one has come to expect from Patrick Watson and his collaborators, but permeated with a greater sense of patience and confidence. Adventures In Your Own Backyard is an attempt by Watson and the band to simplify their sights—to make music a bit more close to home in every sense of the phrase.

WITS END/Humor Special Edition Double Pack

Domino — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:01:41

Domino is also to release a nicely priced tour edition double pack of Cass’ 2011 albums, WIT’S END and Humor Risk in March (DOMDBL08CD), purchase it here!!

Electric Cables

Domino — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:01:34

It's no secret that within Domino there is a lot of love for Teenage Fanclub, and that some members of staff have a special fondness for the songs of singer, songwriter and bassist, Gerard Love. In recent times, Gerard has been very much part of The Pastels, who operate occasional Domino imprint, Geographic. The idea of an album of Gerard Love songs burned for a long time until eventually label enthusiasm prevailed, and Gerard agreed that it was an idea that he too was excited about.

From the outset, Gerard was clear that he wanted to establish a group name for the record, a name that was evocative and ambiguous, that could somehow place the music within a slightly blurry and imagined context. He didn't want to give the impression that the record was just about him. Having settled on the name, Lightships, he sought out a cast of Glasgow-based friends to play on the record that was starting to take shape in his head; Dave McGowan (guitar, Teenage Fanclub), Brendan O'Hare (drums, from the first incarnation of Teenage Fanclub), Tom Crossley (flute, International Airport and The Pastels) and Bob Kildea (bass, Belle & Sebastian).

Liberated by a feeling that he had complete carte blanche to do whatever he wanted, Gerard came to a realisation that the key to the sound of the record would be tremolo, delay and flute. At times the record has the dynamics of a soundtrack, as one of Tom Crossley’s flute lines weaves into the ether and Gerard’s vocals bounce off each other. Or, as on "Sweetness In Her Spark", the group lock into a relaxed and breezy groove that demands the windows be flung open.

Lightships is a name that perfectly captures the atmosphere of the music - sparkling and radiant and illuminated throughout by Love’s melodic gifts and taste for adventurous arrangements. The overall sound, while as warm and immediate as the songs Gerard writes for Teenage Fanclub, is more free flowing and loose. "Muddy Rivers" is carried along on a wave of interlocked instrumentation while "Photosynthesis" is a hazy wash of flutes and echo. On "Silver And Gold", Gerard sings with a falsetto before a chorus of harmonies bursts into life. With this music it’s as if he was looking to express something more personal, eccentric and introspective.

Electric Cables is an album of tender, observational songs, played with an invigorating and easy sense of purpose; the sound of friends enjoying one another’s company and allowing ideas and experiments to flourish. It's a complex and rewarding record that you'll want to keep coming back to. Slow illumination.

Cold House

Domino — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:01:03

Domino is also releasing, Recollected a collection of the finest works of Hood. Recollected features their four Domino released studio albums Rustic Houses, Forlorn Valleys, The Cycle Of Days And Seasons, Cold House and Outside Closer, plus a compilation of the band’s Domino EPs as well as The Hood Tapes, a 24 song bonus collection of rare, previously unreleased recordings.

Hood formed in Leeds in December 1990 around the nucleus of brothers Richard and Christopher Adams. The band released 9 albums and 17 singles and are now on long term hiatus, whilst band members work on their own musical projects.

Across a quartet of albums for Domino the Yorkshire-based experimentalists traced an arc from sprawling post-rock to processed piano pieces to icy electronica referencing the likes of Talk Talk and Disco Inferno along the way, producing some of the most beguiling and special music of the late nineties and early noughties.

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?

Face T -Shirt

Domino — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:12:37

John Cale (white) T-shirt

Domino — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:08:47

John Cale (Black) T- Shirt

Domino — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:08:20

The Weirdos Black Shirt + Black Hole Comp

Domino — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:05:27

Classic Weirdos shirt bundled with the Jon Savage curated Black Hole compilation.

Black Hole is a compilation celebrating the first wave of California Punk that briefly flourished between 1976 and 1980.

This compilation contains ideas, anti-establishment rants, sharp comments about the world, attempts at transcendence and plenty of savage wit. Featuring The Dead Kennedys, The Germs and The Zeros, the collection of tracks on this album sound as fresh as the day they were recorded.

Tracklist:
01. The Germs - Forming
02. The Dils - I Hate The Rich
03. The Screamers - Peer Pressure
04. Crime - Murder By Guitar
05. The Zeros - WIMP
06. The Avengers - We Are The One
07. The Consumers - Anti Anti Anti
08. The Randoms - A-B-C-D
09. Black Randy and the Metro Squad - Trouble at the Cup
10. The Alleycats - Nothing Means Nothing Anymore
11. The Weirdos - Solitary Confinement
12. The Zeros - Beat Your Heart Out
13. X - We’re Desperate
14. The Offs - 624803
15. The Sleepers - Seventh World
16. The Middle Class - Situations
17. The Bags - Survive
18. The Germs - Media Blitz
19. The Middle Class - Love Is Just a Tool
20. The Flesheaters - Pony Dress
21. Urinals - Black Hole
22. The Aurora Pushups - Victims of Terrorism
23. The Avengers - The American In Me
24. The Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles
25. The Dils - The Sound of the Rain
26. The Sleepers - Los Gatos

Screamers Shirt + Black Hole Comp

Domino — Mon, 09 May 2011 13:05:55

Classic Screamers shirt bundled with the Jon Savage curated Black Hole compilation.

The Dils Black Shirt + Black Hole Comp

Domino — Mon, 09 May 2011 13:05:33

Classic Dils black shirt bundled with the Jon Savage curated Black Hole compilation.

The Dils White Shirt + Black Hole Comp

Domino — Mon, 09 May 2011 12:05:04

Classic Dils white shirt bundled with the Jon Savage curated Black Hole compilation.

Randoms Shirt + Black Hole Comp

Domino — Mon, 09 May 2011 12:05:55

Classic Randoms shirt bundled with the Jon Savage curated Black Hole compilation.

Black Hole White Shirt + Black Hole Comp

Domino — Mon, 09 May 2011 12:05:29

White Black Hole logo shirt bundled with the Jon Savage curated Black Hole compilation.

Black Hole Black Shirt + Black Hole Comp

Domino — Mon, 09 May 2011 12:05:41

Black Black Hole logo shirt bundled with the Jon Savage curated Black Hole compilation.

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, whose 2009 album “Merriweather Post Pavilion” was named album of the year by SPIN, Entertainment Weekly, and Pitchfork, and topped critic’s end of year lists worldwide.
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. ODDSAC is the result of over four years of intense collaboration between Perez and the band.

“A mind-frazzling piece full of vampire monks, demonic fakirs, and lengthy episodes of trance-inducing pattern loops. A confrontational and immersive experience.” – The Guardian

“Whatever visual sustenance your everyday life may provide, this intense rush of unadulterated imagination will leave you feeling alive and invigorated. ODDSAC’s baffling nature is also its greatest charm – sit back, disengage your critical faculties and allow the vivid colours and sounds to assault your senses. It’s the nearest you can get to an out-of-body experience without touching the hallucinogens.” – GQ

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.

Set of 4 Badges

Domino — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:06:49

Will Oldham on Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Limited Edition Box-Set

Domino — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:02:15

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.

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Domino Records' Golden TIcket

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Palace Reissues

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Clinic Bubblegum Remixes

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Trailer Trash Tracys Sampler

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Real Estate Competition

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Dirty Projectors + Bjork | Mount Wittenberg Orca

Domino — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:08:04

Available for the first time on physical formats!

Out Oct 24/25th on limited edition deluxe LP & CD

Pre-Order LP (£25.00)

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The first 500 to pre-order the deluxe LP will receive a 10" x 10" photo print signed by Dirty Projectors.

Wild Beasts - Smother

Domino — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:08:13

Listen to three songs from the Wild Beasts new album 'Smother'. Out now on Domino.

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"A masterpiece" 9/10 - NME
"A thing of extraordinary beauty" - The Guardian

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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.

Lower Dens Artist Playlist

Domino — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:04:29

Lower Dens ambitious and stunning new album, Nootropics, is out this week (April 30th) and in this playlist Jana Hunter shares the tracks she listed to most during the creation and recording.

“The record as a whole begs for an assessment of all the flaws inherent in our existence, and to imagine a better, more suitable, logical way for humanity to live," says Hunter. It’s an ambitious work, and it delivers — heavily metaphorical, the symmetries and concordances of the lyrics run deep; the luminous lines of the music converge at a point in a future just out of view.

Kraftwerk - "Radioactivity": the track i listened to most from the album i listened to most while working on Nootropics. Perfect synthetic sounds, such simple and elegant composition, and emotional distance that relays the gravity of the subject matter, that which is unstoppable.

David Bowie - "Sound & Vision": i am, perhaps unsurprisingly, a bit of a bowie obsessive, and this is just the latest track of his that occupies a place in my mind almost daily. the drums sound amazing, everything sounds amazing, there is a protracted intro that lets all the characteristics announce themselves slowly and fully, and it is buoyant and light and ecstatic and easy. all octaves bowie. a perfect song from a perfect record imo.

Beach House - "Silver Soul": undoubtedly i am biased, but this song has floored me since the first time i heard it. i consider it amongst their greatest strengths that Beach House can turn reverie into something reverential, and this song is my favorite example of that.

Cass McCombs - "Harmonia": every day, every single day of on our our tours in europe, i started my day listening to this song, and every day it took on a new meaning. one of those songs that can make you appreciate the things in life that you love, while also allowing separation from those things to be just fine, just the way things are sometimes.

Chrome - "New Age": a band who's textures i endlessly admire and in some small ways also emulate, brave weirdos who pull off many effective vocal manipulations here over a great and steady beat.

Fuck Buttons - "Surf Solar": i was real late to this train, having loved their older work but just generally not keeping up so well with the avalanche of current releases. once this electronic universe, science-fiction banger made its way into my headphones though, it stayed for a long time.

Popol Vuh - "Brüder des Schattens": Herzog's old films are amongst my favorite, and I think Popol Vuh's soundtracks are no small part of that. There is a truly mystical heaviness, particularly here, and the choir builds a basso ohm, gongs resound from the distance, and the woodwinds soar into emotionally uncomfortable territory.

Roxy Music - "Ladytron": this is absolutely my favorite era in pop music, and it has something to do with the eccentric bravura of bands like Roxy Music. this song has become my favorite over time in part because i really love to watch the Old Grey Whistle Test video, marvel at these beautiful and strange birds of paradise and wonder what it was like to take quaaludes.

Sade - "In Another Time": sometimes when this comes on, i think i'm gonna hear doris duke and some other fantastic r&b matriarch. and then i do. and its sade. i also am a little struck by the mothering nature of this song - its a weird and interesting role.

Horace Andy - "Every Tongue Shall Tell": his high-pitched voice somehow perfectly conveys the mortally heavy message of what is also a honey-laden track.

Bob Wills - "Lilly Dale": the king of western swing and a hero still in Texas; i love this band, its captivating ring-leader and his non-stop narrative companionship to the music made by a truly incredible ensemble. always makes me want to be a better musician, particularly this song with its somewhat bizarre harmonies.

Ornette Coleman - "Focus on Sanity": a favorite intro to start, and then can't listen to it without imagining a wet city street, shifty eyes, high-heels clicking on crete. sounds just wonderfully desperate and determined simultaneously. i am already in chills by the time a barely audible "wooh" at 2:09 sucks me completely in.

Mitochondrion - "Trials": very good extreme metal band, love these vocals, this track has something really wicked and interdimensional happening.

Glass Candy - "Empty V": have always been a big fan of this band, from the earliest raw bootlegs to the current disco darling version. this is a favorite track from around the time of that transition.

Matteah Baim - "River": Matteah has put out several amazing albums, under her own name and as the main songwriter in Metallic Falcons, and this is the song that most blew my mind when i first heard it. Can't place it in time, nor geographically; its just from the grey and gully coastline full of whisky and comfortable garments inside Baim's head.

Record Store Day 2012

Domino — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:04:01

Once again, Domino participated in the annual Record Store Day on Saturday the 21st of April 2012, releasing a number of special records, exclusively through independent shops around the world. Listen to a selection of exclusive music taken from these records here...

Steve Reid Memorial Playlist

Domino — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:04:15

April 13th marks the second anniversary of Steve Reid's passing and we wanted to celebrate his legacy with a playlist of musical highlights from his life.

Steve Reid was a giant of a drummer, who began playing professionally at the age of 16. His first recorded work was with Martha And The Vandellas, working in the Apollo Theatre House band, under the direction of Quincy Jones. Over the years Steve recorded and played with artists such as Miles Davies, Fela Kuti, James Brown and Sun Ra, amongst other musical legends.

Domino had the pleasure of releasing The Steve Reid Ensemble’s Daxaar album in 2007 and Steve’s groundbreaking works with Kieran Hebden, the albums The Exchange Session Vol. 1, The Exchange Session Vol. 2, Tongues and their final collaboration NYC.

Kieran and Steve's musical partnership produced a stunning series of albums. Here's what Kieran had to say at the time of Steve's death: "Steve was one of my great friends and the most wonderful musician I have ever encountered. The music and adventures we shared have been some of the most happy and meaningful experiences I’ve ever had. A true inspiration. He lived a great life and gave us incredible music. I’ll miss him forever."

Two years on he is sorely missed.

Welcome to Domino

Domino — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:03:42

Domino is Britain’s finest independent record label. For nearly twenty years we have made it up as we go along, our only objective is to bring you records by artists who can’t do anything else but make extraordinary music; we represent creativity by any means necessary and forget about the consequences.

This app is your guide to the world of Domino, a world full of buried treasure, secret music and era-defining artists and bands.

Our catalogue is rich with two decades of independent releases; you'll find exclusive recordings, one-off collaborations, carefully chosen playlists and features and commentary from our friends, neighbours and accomplices. Most of all you’ll find incredible, life-changing music.

This App is made up of the following key features to improve your daily listening experience. We don’t care about genres, stats or phone-in votes, we do however guarantee total music satisfaction.

Featured: a curated mix of new Domino releases, artist playlists, the best of Domino Radio and the hidden gems and old jams from our catalogue.

Artists: leads the listener into the world of Domino artists, from current bands like Arctic Monkeys, Animal Collective, Franz Ferdinand, Dirty Projectors, Austra and Real Estate to classic artists like Pavement, Hood, Adem, The Feelies, Steve Reid and The Triffids.

Music: introduces our listeners to the label's catalogue via full album streams, the best new releases and exclusives. Our catalogue consists of hundreds of releases and thousands of songs. You need to listen to them all.

Playlists: bring to light our label and artist-created playlists and tangential musical odysseys. Drawing on the success of our Best Of Indie playlist and Domino Radio, we'll continue to create precision-picked playlists that incorporate our songs and the wider world of great music that Spotify has to offer.

This Week In...: takes the listener on a weekly journey through Domino's history. Each week we'll highlight a different week in the label's history, with custom playlists and editorial context. This Week In… will give the listener musical insight into the influences, beloved tracks and secret pleasures of the artists we've been fortunate enough to work with.

The Domino app is your aural haven in a world of musical mediocrity.

Best Of Indie

Domino — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:02:15

Our "Best of Indie" playlist is over 200 of the best indie tracks at the moment. In this day and age "indie" is a bit of a nebulous terms, but we take a stab at what's the best of the best.

And, quite frankly, we nail it. Enjoy.

Franz Ferdinand Dance Hits!

Domino — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:02:11

With a solid decade's worth of dancefloor hits under their belt, Franz Ferdinand know a thing or twenty about what makes the club tick. March 19th saw the release of their covers remixes projects, which had the likes of LCD Soundsystem, Debbie Harry and ESG cover their favorite Franz tunes.

Here we've included a selection of those covers, our favorite remixes and a few dancefloor jams chosen by the band. Commentary by Mr. Paul Thomson.

Babe Ruth "The Mexican": Heavy percussive rock with the melody from "A Fistful of Dollars" in it. A B-Boy classic. So I'm told.

Salsoul Orchestra "Magic Bird Of Fire (Walter Gibbons Edit)": Stravinsky on poppers.

Auntie Flo "Oh My Days": Percussion heavy Afro House Musik from Glasgow's own Brian d'Souza.

Factory Floor "Two Different Ways": From a Factory Floor direct to your (dance)floor.

Pollyester "German Love Letter": Metronomic disco jam from the criminally underrated Munich duo.

Sir Victor Uwaifo "Ohue (Frankie Francis & Simbad Edit)": From the Sofrito comp on Strut, which is all great. This is more dance floor than his usual style of trancey high-life. Oh and he's not a real sir, although maybe more so than Fred Goodwin.

Mike Dunn Presents MD III "Personal Problem": Classic Chicago House track from one of the genre's (and indeed the city's) true innovators.

Los Dug Dugs "Let's Make It Now": Latino Rock from 1971 with WILD double kick drum solo.

Zoo "Hard Times, Good Times": French fuzzed up horn rock 45 from '71.

Stephin Merritt - 2-Minute Classics

Domino — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:02:10

The Magnetic Fields’ new album Love at the Bottom of the Sea is out on March 5th. The songs, none over three minutes long, are a return to Stephen Merritt's signature mix of synth and acoustic sounds.

Here Stephen pays tribute to his favorite 2-Minute Classics. Like a good egg, some of the best things are perfectly formed in less than 120 seconds.

Domino Sampler '11

Domino — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:02:09

Remember the hazy innocent days of 2011? Here we take a nostalgic look back at those long lost times.

An Arab Spring, a London riot, a royal wedding and the chaos and grandeur of 6 billion people working it out.

Francois and the Atlas Mountains - Artist Playlist

Domino — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:02:08

Francois and his merry crew are winning hearts and minds with their enchanting and otherworldly new album E Volo Love. In this playlist the draw back the curtain on some favorite tracks.

Cocteau Twins "Cherry-coloured Funk": I discovered the Cocteau Twin via Tracyanne from Camera Obscura. She herself found out about them because the French assistant who taught her at school wore a Cocteau Twin badge. Looping the loop.

Sleeping States "Rivers": Markland Starkie, along with Atlas Mountainer Gerard Black, is the best pop singer around. One thing I'd like to do while I'm alive is to record an album with Sleeping States. Hopefully it's just a matter of time and availability.

Electralane "To the East": A strong inspiration both musically and ethically. If I've got 4 daughters one day I'll call them Verity, Ros, Mia and Emma.

Rozi Plain "Human": There's a great guitar part in that song, the rest is not bad either.

Petit Fantome "Young Lion": Pierre came to see me during the recording of E Volo Love. He helped me putting the end of "City Kiss" together and I helped him with a vocal flow on "Young Lion". Everybody knows Petit Fantome is the future of French music.

The Pastels "Vivid Youth": How wonderful that the spirit of the Pastels hasn't declined an inch since the beginning! Their music is like a kind friend.

This Is The Kit "Birchwood Beaker": Kate's voice makes you feel better. That song, like many of my favourite songs, is a winter song.

Crescent "Fountains": That is the song that started my life in Bristol. If you walk across Bristol by yourself early in the morning play that song in your headphone.

Nick Drake "Hazey Jane II": I stole the album Bryter Layter from my parents, then i gave it to my music teacher, who stole it from me. Then I bought it again.

Devendra Banhart "Rejoicing in the hands": When I listen to this song, I remember all the people I love.

Prefab Sprout "Cars And Girls": I danced a lot on this song when I was child.

Crane Angels "Give Me Time": This is my other music band with petit fantôme.

Bill Wells "Also In White": Bill Wells makes perfect nostalgia-pop. Even if it's your first listen, you'll find yourself creating a very specific image of a certain time and place. "You and I in Glasgow". "Snoopy and Charlie Brown".

Double Six Sampler '11

Domino — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:02:07

2011 saw the resurgence of our sister label Double Six in a major way.

We had the first release of new John Cale music with his "Extra Playful" EP, solo debuts from Bill Ryder-Jones and Trailer Trash Tracys, as well as a glorious collaboration between King Creosote and Jon Hopkins.

Here all of that and more with this sampling of Double Six releases from 2011.

Austra

Domino — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:05:20

May 14th 2011 saw the Toronto six-piece release their critically acclaimed debut album Feel It Break.

Later on in the year the band decided to give it the deluxe version treatment, this involved an entire disc's worth of extra material including the unreleased b-sides "Trip", "Pianix", "Believe Me" and a jaw dropping cover of the Roy Orbison classic "Crying".The B-sides from previous single releases were also incorporated including live favorite "Young and Gay" and the haunting Joni Mitchel cover "Woodstock".

Capping off the deluxe version is a positively sociopathic remix of album standout "Beat and the Pulse" by M. Shawn Crahan, better known as Clown from Slipknot (yes, that Slipknot).

Arctic Monkeys US Tour Set List

Domino — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:05:30

The Arctic Monkeys have been criss-crossing the States through early 2012 in the company of The Black Keys on an arena tour playing some of the largest venues in North America.

This week sees the band play ( or played dependent upon when you see this! ) Portland OR@Rose Garden Arena - 7th May, Seattle WA@Key Arena - 8th May, Vancouver Canada@Rogers Arena - 9th May, Calgary Canada@Scotiabank Saddledome - 11th May, Edmonton Canada@Rexall Place - 12th May, Winnipeg Canada@MTS Center - 14th May. Minneapolis MN@Target Centre - 15th May, Milwaukee WI@The Bradley Center -16th May.

We've pulled together this set list ( in this case, of studio versions of their songs from the concert they played at Coachella 2012 ) below., Enjoy!

Steve Mason

Domino — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:04:08

This week marks the two year anniversary of Steve Mason's solo album Boys Outside. Steve, who prior to Boys Outside was best know for his time with the hugely influential Beta Band, has since established himself as a solo artist and collaborator of top-ranking.

In This Week In... we focus on some of Steve's favorite recent tracks, as well as a sampling of his own catalogue from Boys Outside, his dub collaboration with Dennis Bovell, his King Biscuit Affair project and highlights from The Beta Band's catalogue.

Here are some recent jams and commentary from the man himself:
Friends - "I'm His Girl": Great nonchalant vocal and bass sound on this. Pretty retro in a post punk kind of way but all the better for it.

Esham (feat. Danny Brown) - "DMT Sessions": Reminds me a something but i can't think what. Nice sounds and shouty vocal. Plenty of energy. Great club track.

Wavves - "To The Dreggs": If Nirvana had been from the Medway they may have sounded like this! Very bashy, very nice.

Graham Central Station - "The Jam": Big Funk track sampled by Liam Howlett for the Prodigy remix of Method Man's "Release Yo Delf".

The Internet - "Cocaine": Love this. Think the vocal is by Syd the Kid. Looking forward to her album. Should have been a number 1. Was in my house.

Tyler, The Creator - "Yonkers": From his Goblin album. Have not heard any inspirational Hip Hop for a long time and this really inspired me. Good album. Weird, as it should be.

A Tribe Called Quest - "Buggin' Out": "Microphone check 1, 2 what is this??" A classic amongst classics.

Mtume - "Juicy Fruit": Any Biggie fan will know this. Great 80's electro Soul track. Super clean production. A very influential song.

Art Of Noise - "Beat Box": There is a huge chunk of this i want to sample for one of my own tracks. These were at the forefront of early sampling music.

Wayne Jarrett - "Bubble Up": No sure who produced this but its great. Flute and strange synth, possibly a Moog. Top reggae vocal by Wayne.

Mikey Dread - "Childhood Days": I have always loved Mikey Dread. Amazing track this, and very sad.

Ini Kamoze - "Trouble You a Trouble Me": Machine gun hand claps! Love the vocal melody on this track. Strong reggae.

Flats - "Never Again": A couple of years old now but i still love the sound of this. Nice and aggressive!

The Vaselines - "Son Of A Gun": Some might say twee, but not me. Top Pop melodies. And the 2 vocals really work well together. Classic Scottish Pop.

Tyree - "Hardcore Hip House": I love a bit of Hip House. reminds me a clubs around 1990. Massive.

The Last Shadow Puppets

Domino — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:04:18

This week in 2008 saw the release of the first (and only to date) collaboration between Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys fame and Miles Kane. That collaboration, known as The Last Shadow Puppets, produced a stunning album called The Age Of Understatement.

Firm friends ever since Alex and Miles toured together they were so inspired by listening to Scott Walker, early Bowie and David Axelrod that they hatched a plan.

The result was an album of 12 full-blooded songs, bold and brassy, full of drama, wit and melody, that source the past but avoid falling into pastiche. At the time both Alex Turner and Miles Kane are 22, and it is a youthful record, full of life and the sheer pleasure of music making: "it’s not a chore, it’s enjoyment," Kane says, "it’s great finding that with someone else, a dead good friend".

The Age of The Understatement began after Kane played some guitar on Arctic Monkeys’ second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare. In early 2007, the pair began to trade songs: "a couple were already written," says Kane; "like 'Standing Next To Me' and 'In My Room'. The first one we did together was called 'The Chamber', and we took it in turns to do the vocals. It’s good to sing with someone else. It was just dead easy".

"We used a few half-hatched things," says Alex Turner. "It was three-thirds: one third of the songs we started and completed together; one third of the songs Miles started and we finished; one third of the songs I started and we finished. The fact that we were writing together seems to make it stronger. You’re not as exposed as you are if it’s just you on your own. I do like the partnership thing".

The project quickly snowballed: "we wanted to do an album," Turner says, "so we knew we had to get other people involved. It was obvious that it would be James Ford; he’d worked with me on the second Arctic Monkeys record. It be-came obvious that we could do it with just us three. James is a drummer, we knew he’d be good. We really didn’t want to get a band together".

Snatching days and weekends, the trio wrote twelve songs and went to Black Box studio in France to record them. "The time we had there was fabulous," says Turner; "I remember arriving and thinking it was perfect. Little studio with fields all around it, cut off from everything". With James Ford playing drums, Kane and Turner swapped bass and guitar duties – whatever the songs needed.

It was decided from the start that the songs would have strings: "It’s a dangerous game," admits Turner; "we could have almost ruined it if it all got too lush. Laurence Bell found this guy, Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy), who came to meet us when Arctic Monkeys played in Toronto. He was a bit nervous – he’s young and hadn’t done something like this before – but that added to the record. I think the strings are terrific, they’ve really brought the songs to life."

"I walked into the studio when they were doing 'Meeting Place', adds Miles Kane; ‘this little song you’ve written in your bedroom is being played by an orchestra! I went cold".

The sweeping strings underscore these songs of characters and relationships, from "the girl with many different strategies" in 'Only The Truth' to "this relentless marauder" in 'Age of the Understatement'. Basically, it’s about the female of the species, as Turner admits: "I didn’t realise it while it was going down but listening after we finished it I realised that it says 'she' so many times. It’s all centred around this one girl who is the heartbreaker".

French General Election

Domino — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:04:18

A quelques Jours d'une élection présidentielle incontournable et décisive pour les années à venir en France, la campagne s'empare de nos platines!

Nombreux furent les candidats, mais seuls les meilleurs titres ont été élu pour figurer sur cette playlist aussi goûtue qu'un fromage français. A vous de la déguster comme vous le souhaitez, de manière politique ou non, car il est ici avant tout question de bonne musique.

Mais surtout n'oubliez pas notre slogan de campagne: Soyons Les Plus Beaux!

(A few days from an inevitable and decisive presidential election in France, the campaign takes over our stereo!

There are a lot of candidates standing, but only the best tracks got elected to be part of our playlist - as tasty as a french cheese. Savour it as you wish, with or without a political edge, because, as always, good music is top priority here.

But above all, don't forget our campaign slogan: Soyons Les Plus Beaux!)

Eye O' The Dug

Domino — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:04:20

Eye O' the Dug is a new live music event, brought to you by musicians Johnny Lynch (The Pictish Trail) and Kenny Anderson (King Creosote) of Fife's Fence Records.

After eight years of success with their Home Game festival in Anstruther, and their Away Game event on the island of Eigg, Kenny & Johnny are bringing a brand new two-day music event to the historic university town of St Andrews, in Fife, Scotland. Entitled ‘Eye O’ the Dug’, it will take place across Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th April, 2012 so we thought we’d create a playlist to celebrate this fact.

King Creosote and Jon Hopkins play Diamond Mine and are joined by other Domino artistes Francois & The Atlas Mountains, James Yorkston and Hot Chip DJ’s amongst others.

If you’re in Sweden then we suggest the daily SAS flight to Edinburgh (and then a hire car) but please check Eye O The Dug ticket availability first before boarding your flight.

Archie Bronson Outfit

Domino — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:04:49

Released this week in 2006, Archie Bronson's Derdang Derdang is a record that Pitchfork called "perfect" and NME proclaimed, rather ominously, "life changing". Big words those and six years later we still agree.

Here's what the Domino-recruited bards had to say at the time:
The best groups, one imagines - from The Beatles in Help to The Magic Band making Trout Mask Replica - live and create together in romantic squalor. If that's so, chez Bronson, one imagines, would be either a bottle-and-paperback-strewn penthouse occupied by spreadeagled souls for whom every morning follows a particularly intense yesternight - somewhere you'd always awaken with your tongue tasting like a watch strap or else a rudimentary shack in a gnarly shanty town with a murder of crows in the yard, a zinc hip-bath and a woodpile. That's what I've been picturing with the Outfit on the hi-fi, anyway. In fact, as it turns out, that wasn't too far off the mark.

"We came back from a European tour and we had nothing to do, so started writing this album and we did it all in Dorian's bedroom and we went a bit nuts," says singer Sam Windett, from just north of a fulsome beard. "We went music crazy for a while. We'd get up, have a coffee and stumble straight into the room and start playing. We played for days and days and that turned into weeks and weeks. Pausing briefly for some sunlight, they decamped to the basement of an old farmhouse." After yet more jamming, writing and refining they had 50 mini-discs of music for consideration for their second album.

Honing the songs down was an arduous process, but when it was done they flew to Nashville, Tennessee to record them with producer Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Kings Of Leon). And the result is a compact marvel of high-strung energy and kick-bollock ramshackling they've called Derdang Derdang. There's an intensity and urgency to Sam's singing that might recall Pere Ubu for some, an angularity to the boys' riffing which has echoes of The Monks in its unhinged thrust and bluesy roots.

They'd steeped themselves in soul music and Scandinavian psych, Faust, Son House and The Gun Club, but the long gestation and careful editing means that, chiefly, The ABO on Derdang Derdang sound like themselves and that's a) hard to do and b) a splendid thing now they've learnt how to lay back, get good and greasy and cut a groove like a demented termite.

Celebrating The Triffid's David Richard McComb

Domino — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:03:04

David Richard McComb (17 February 1962 - 2 February 1999) was an Australian rock musician. He was the singer-songwriter of the Australian band, The Triffids.

This is Nick Cave on Dave McComb:

At Easter in 1990, I attended a massive Aussie Diaspora picnic in Peaslake, Surrey. I don't know why. I was probably drunk. Dave McComb was there. He was definitely drunk.

As Peaslake, Surrey is in England, it rained. As it was an Australian picnic, which by definition means a lot of alcohol and no food, we got drunker. By the time we were helped into the back of the van to go back to London we were Singing-drunk. Singing-drunk is mid-way between hugging-drunk and fighting-drunk. It is the station that the Irish and the Aussies stop at for a while and the English go screaming past. Dave and I sang to each other.

These were the songs:
Maxwell's Silver Hammer, I Threw It All Away, Walk On By, This Guy's In Love, Leaving On A Jet Plane, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Lemon Tree, On Top Of The World, Georgie Girl, Thunder Road, Blue Moon, California Dreaming, Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft, Say A Little Prayer, The Boxer, Suspicious Minds, Kentucky Rain, Bird On A Wire, Morningtown, Ride, Cecilia, Yesterday, Anything Goes, What'll I Do, Last Night (I Didn't Get To Sleep At All), Close To You, Belle Isle, Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

We know this because the next morning Dave, weirdly, made a list. Dave was a list-maker: girls I have loved, books I have read, Indian meals I have regretted.

I remember marveling, in the back of that van, at Dave's capacity, not only to remember lyrics, but to sing in tune. This was brought painfully home to me when I started up "California Dreaming" and Dave asked (not unkindly) what key he should sing the backing vocals in. Then an argument ensued over the lyric, "I got down on my knees and pretend to pray". I was wrong. Dave was right. And then we got fighting-drunk until Dave launched into the magnificent "Calling Occupants" and made everything all right.

As I got to know him better, I realised that his abilities extended far beyond the norm. He actually did have the capacity to telepath messages through the vast unknown, if songs can be telepathy. Like many of the songs we sang that first day, his own songs call from the strangest places and at the oddest hours. Whether calling from the baking salt pans of the West
Australian desert or the darks of a broken heart, whether praying or pretending to pray, their gist is hopeful and brave: "We are your friends", say the songs.

Interplanetary, ultra-emissary and quite extraordinary friends.

- Nick Cave, 9 June 2006

Some Stuff Wot I Done

Domino — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:03:51

On "This Week In..." we celebrate the release of Adem's Homesongs from 2004.

Homesongs is set in and around the domestic environment from whence it sprang. Demoed first in Adem's tiny bedroom in Whitechapel, London and later recorded in his slightly more spacious apartment in Stoke Newington, it was made with just two borrowed catch-all mics and a computer in the corner so old that it had to be wrapped in Adem's duvet to baffle the motor hum.

Homesongs is all about the ringing of strings between notes, intakes of breath and old and odd "real" instruments. "There's a lot of strange stuff on the record that the casual listener wouldn't necessarily notice, but is there in the atmosphere of the tracks," said Adem at the time.

In addition to recordings released under his own name, Adem, is a prolific performer, producer and remixer for other artists.

Here we take a look back as his work with the likes of Hot Chip, Vashti Bunyan, Fridge, Manic Street Preachers and more. In short, "some stuff wot i done" according to Adem.

Correcto

Domino — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:03:40

Released this week in 2008, Correcto was a collection of melodic and infectious post-punk pop songs from the Scottish indie supergroup led by Danny Saunders on vocals and formed of Patrick Doyle from The Royal We on bass, artist Richard Wright on guitar and Franz Ferdinand’s Paul Thomson on drums.

It's a great set of songs encapsulating a specific time and place in the way only an album can. A coming together, for however brief period of time, of a group of individuals with a specific goal. In other words, a band.

Here's how Danny Saunders described Correcto at the time:
Correcto is often described as a project, in many ways it is. The other folk in the group have their other main preoccupations/occupations: Richard is an accomplished artist who makes terrifyingly detailed paintings, often onto the gallery wall using 'the most direct and simple means possible' - brushes and paint; no matter the scale (sometimes huge).

Newcomer Patrick moved down to Glasgow from up north a couple of years ago, making an impact with the marvellous The Royal We.

Paul is in Franz Ferdinand, you may have heard of them. He offered his services in January 07. I hadn't seen much of him since Franz mania took hold so it was great to loaf about with him again when we recorded the initial bones of the LP in London. It was nice that he seemed completely unaffected by it all but with the bonus of recording knowledge, especially fortuitous as I hadn't been in a proper studio, well, for a while. He seemed just as I remembered him in the Yummy Fur days (his old band featuring Alex Kapranos and Jackie McKeown of 1990's) except this time he could get a round in.

All these varied askews can only be healthy for making a good pop racket, but, I would love to see more of 'em. With any luck will you too, coming soon, to a forsaken shithole near your hometown playing songs fast and loose, tight and slow from the imaginatively titled debut album Correcto.