Tame Impala - Lucidity

[Don't forget Noiseban at Carnival - Sat 20th Nov - Free]

This has got to be one of the best music videos I've seen. I like the song, it's got a dreamy 60's kinda feel to it, but I love the video. Check it out:

Noiseban at Carnivale - 20th November - FREE

Basically imagine wrapping up in a lovely blanket of reggae before having your jaw dislocated by a blast of maximal electro house, having a warm shower of subtle deep house before slipping on the disco-soap into a bath of grime and DubStep.

Reggae, House, HipHop, CarAlarm, Disco, Deep House, Electro, Grime, Breaks DubStep,

Don't forget, as ever its FREE ENTRY all night long,

DJs to include:

Mons. Ferro
CeefaxB
FullStop,
Laizi,
The FannyGames Duo
John The Egg Bailey

Pow! check out the venue; Carnivale, 2 White Church Lane (near Brick Lane and Whitechapel Road) and sign up for the Facebook event.

Noise Ban crew supporting Fanny Games at Russian Bar - Free night, Tommorow!

Tomorrow night the Italian wonder that is the Electro act Fanny Games will be DJ/playing at Russian Bar and the Noise Ban crew will be there in support: DJing and shaking our collective booty. For more information check out the Facebook event. By the way it's FREE!

Tomorrow at 20:00 -3:00 Wednesday 3rd November
The Russian Bar
267 Kingsland road E2 8AS
City of London, United Kingdom

FREE ENTRY

ratatat

My phone has just been replaced, so I've been spending my lunch breaks cruising youtube. I came across these guys Ratatat, from New York:



also check out this "video remix" of their track Party with children.



If you want to see them, their currently on tour with Vampire Weekend, coming to London in December.

Another video I enjoyed was a remix of the video for the Peaches track Fuck the pain away, from way back in the year 2000.

Gordons Gin

I'm just working on the poster for our next night (20th of November @ Carnivale, nr Brick Lane), whilst drinking a G & T, before I go out. Have one on me:

Gordons Gin, by the Human League

last night....

Last night noiseban had a wicked time down at NOMAD on Old Street. Downstairs we had the room jumping for a hot mix of electro disco and hip-hop, whilst upstairs Okain and the Dumbfound guys lay down a smooth selection of techno and house.

The next noiseban will be on 20th of November at Carnivale near Brick Lane. It will be a Free night from 7 till 1, more details will be posted soon.

I just want to say a big thanks to Lapo and Nico who helped us out at the last minute by stepping in for Lazi and Patrick who couldn't DJ last night. Lapo and Nico are from the Italian electro group Fanny Games and they got skills! Check out a couple of their tracks:

Get yerself down to old street, tommorow for a bit of noiseban - you know you want too!

Check out the facebook event

The Past Is a Grotesque Animal

Monsieur Ferro and myself (CeefaxB) just went to see Of Montreal play at Koko, those guys are nuts! I can't really do justice to their performance with mere words, so I won't try. All I have to say is this recording isn't half as good as it was live.


The other news of the day is Noiseban will be DJing at Carnivale on Whitechapel Road on the Saturday the 20th of November, so put it in your calender. But don't forget you can see us before then with Dumbfound at NOMAD on Saturday the 16th of October.

Tickets now on sale!

Dumb Found: 12 presents Okain, Phiorio, Noiseban at Nomad London:

Saturday, 16 October 2010
22:00 - 05:00
Nomad London/ 58 Old Street, EC1V 9AJ
£5 RA ticket or with flyer, more on the door

Tickets can be bought from RA here.

I don't know about you but I can't wait, Dumb Found are flying in a couple of slick DJs especially for the night from Paris, Okain and Phiorio:
Okain - BlackRock by Okain

Pattrix & Phiorio_Brazil by Phiorio

Monsiur Ferro and Laizi - Mixes

It's not long until Noiseban and Dumbfound kick it at NOMAD, to get you in the mood here are a couple of mixes by the noiseban boys Monsiur Ferro and Laizi:

Monsiur Ferro - Noiseban mix
NoiseBan mix by Noiseban

Laizi - Woii mix

Woii Mix by Laizi on Mixcloud

Sign up for the Facebook event here.

Join the Facebook group here.
Follow @noiseban on twitter here.

NOMAD - 16th October

The guys at Dumbfound, East London's hottest tech-house night, have asked us at Noiseban to join them on the 16th of October. We will be

bringing you our unique blend of the world's best electronic music: Disco, Electro, Dubstep, Reggae, Hip-hop & Breaks.

Sign up for the Facebook event here.

Join the Facebook group here.
Follow @noiseban on twitter here.

By the way I've got a tasty Monsieur Ferro minimix on my laptop, which I'll upload as soon as I get a chance.

[Edit date on flyers corrected]

At War With The Mystics

[Something good is happening on the 16th of October - details to come soon]

I just got back from Bestival and I've gotta say, I had a hoot! I wont bore you with all the details, there was way to much cool junk for me to mention it all, but here are some of my choice cuts:

Chilly Gonzales
I was banging on about him not long ago and do you know what? I was right. You know when you go to a house party and some fuck gets out their guitar, and you think "What a bell end, I was listening to the Mr T rap!" Well imagine that the guitar is a piano, and that fuck is actually pretty awesome. Well, that's a little bit like Chilly, sort of. What I mean to say is his show was a chaotic disco piano masterpiece. At one point he stood on the piano and played it with his feet and it still sounded good. He finished with this track: (You may recognise it from the iPad adverts, which Chilly pointed out is an anagram of Paid)


Fever Ray
This was the most mysterious gig I've I ever been to. The stage was completely covered in smoke for the entire show, with Fever Ray lurking at the back for most of the time. A few lasers and Nan's livingroom lapshades provided the only light in the tent. When Fever Ray finally came forwards into the light she was covered by a bizarre mask. The magical rolling base and ethereal scandinavian vocals couldn't have been more calming after losing my mind in the madness of The Prodigy crowd.


The Flaming Lips
These guys have been around for a while now and I think they have spent most of that time perfecting their live show. I haven't heard anything new from them for a while, but who cares when they have such a good back catalogue. Their 1997 album Zaireeka was sold on four CDs, which needed to be played on four seperate hi-fis at the same time, luckily nothing that complicated was required to enjoy their show at Bestival. As ever they were fantastic and psycadelic.

Midnight Express

There is some exciting news on the way for NoiseBan, I can't tell you any more than that at the moment, but this is the place to find out - so come back regularly!

I don't know very much about this guy from Chicago called the Midnight Conspiracy. I could make something up, but instead I think I'll just listen to some of his tracks:

Crystal Castles - Vietnam (Midnight Conspiracy Remix) by Midnight Conspiracy

Tiga - What You Need (Midnight Conspiracy Summer of '87 Remix) by Midnight Conspiracy

Esser - Headlock (Midnight Conspiracy Dubstep Remix) by Midnight Conspiracy

chilli con zales

I was at Field Day (Festival) and after SMD finished some guy got up on the stage wearing a dressing gown, sat at a piano and announced " Hi, I'm Chilly Gonzales: muscial genius." I thought to myself, I like this guy's style. I listened to the first couple of songs and enjoyed them but had to leave the tent for some lame reason. Today I was checking out the line up for Bestival (if you haven't guessed, another festival) when I saw his name on the list. Thats' how I found possibly my favourite thing in the world right now:

Chilly Gonzales - I Am Europe

Chilly is a Canadian who's been hanging around in Europe for a few years now. Apparently he's toured with Peaches and does shows attended by the cool kids in Berlin. Erol Alkan and Boys Noize asked him to rework their track Waves and it sounds like this:

Еrol Alkan and Boys Noize-Waves (Chilly Gonzales Piano Remake)

I checked out the video for I am Europe and its got Tiga in it, this guy is connected. What I want to know is why no-one told me about him earlier. You can apologise for not letting me know about Chilly Gonzales in the comment box below.

Chilly Gonzales - Never Stop

Jump Around

Here at Noise Ban we listen all flavours of music. Unfortunately I've only got room in my head for so much stuff and I'm pretty lazy, so I'm always one step behind the curve. If you want to hear the very latest tracks then you'll need to go somehwere else (Try my mate's night FYB), but if you want to hear a wide range of banging tunes from around the world and across the genres then step inside my friend.

Disclaimer out of the way I can confess that I (Ceefax B) don't know that much about Dubstep; I thought it was confined to a few bass loving parts of Europe. It turns out the Americans are getting in on the act too. Trawling the web for tasty sounds, I came across this fella; Jantsen from Boulder, Colorado.

Jantsen & Bassnectar - Blast Off
jantsenmusic

House of Pain (Jantsen Remix) - Jump Around
jantsenmusic

Distant Relatives

Yo, so first up: Sorry about last week, what can I say? I guess the new owners of Cocomo weren't up for some rad tunes. We will have a new venue sorted quick sharp, so worry not my friend.

On Friday I was planning on playing at least one track from the excellent collaborative album by Nas & Damian Marley; Distant Relatives. This is one of my favourite albums at the moment. In my opinon it's the perfect mix of hip-hop and reggae, contemporary but with a classic vibe. You might have already heard the single, As we enter:

I was planning on reviewing this album when it first came out, but instead I just hung around my flat like a stale fart. Well I'm doing it now.
The whole album has an African vibe, with lots of references to the hopes, troubles and common bonds beetween Black People across the world. If you didn't get the title Nas and DM have helpfuly put an image of Africa between their faces on the cover. The second track of the album projects quite a negative image of Africa; Tribes at War, featuring the Somalian rapper K'Naan:

The tone and tempo of the album rise and fall through out as does the level of hip-hop and reggae of each track, but they all sound good. The lyrical content of the album doesn't only dwell on Africa's problems, with Count your blessings and My Generation being particularly inspiring. Another good one is the final track Africa must wake up:


I was going to review another couple of albums Battle of the Sexes by Ludacris and Rebirth by Lil Wayne, but they're both so wack I can't really be bothered. Battle of the Sexes is just mediocre commercial hip-hop, but Rebirth is proper bad. There is one good track on Rebirth, angry colaboration with Eminem: Drop The world, which is the reason I thought the album might be good.

The rest of the album is laughably bad, it's a real arse-hat. Seriously what was he thinking? Lil Wayne has tried moving towards rock/metal and has made a real dog's dinner of it. He's mixed some shitty Kid Rock-Nickleback rock with rubbish 50 Cent rapping and a bit of awful auto-tune singing for good measure. It makes me want to take the CD out and hit it with a hammer (shame I downloaded it).

Damn les enfantes....

Due to a change of owner at Cocomo we wont be playing there on Friday.

We will hopefully be able to find an emergency venue (or house). If you have a house we have the sounds. Message me. Otherwise stay tuned for further details.

Sorry for any inconvenience...

rob schneider is a stapler

Look, I done a poster:Here a couple of tracks to listen to whilst you look at the different colours:


Mp3 : The Crystal Method featuring Matisyahu – Drown in the Now from Divided By Night (2009) (cheers for the link katarokkar.cribble.net)

and

Lcd Soundsystem - Home (Dezlin Remix) [320kbps] by DEZLIN

She says I'm not romantic / I say she's too dramatic

Noise Ban: Chapter 3 won't be long now, get ready for some shocking electro tracks.


Night by Night, by Chromeo, enjoy:

Next Noise Ban Live will be Friday 30th July

miike snow

I Saw Miike Snow at the 02 in Oxford, good band but lots of build up with not much dropage.

Luckily there are more miike snow remixes than you can shake a Swedish Ice Hockey player at.

this be my favourite (Crookers ft Miike Snow - Remedy -Tevar Remix)



Ceefax Bizzel mentioned ye olde drum and bass a few weeks ago, Netsky anyone?...

Miike Snow - Black & Blue (Netsky Remix)



Finally just to show its not all one way- this is the best remix miike snow have done (I think) although I have a MASSIVE bias towards Passion Pit to start with...



Actually now I want to hear passion pit, so should you...



That ones for my old lady.

Over n out Ferrolicious

Bass in yer face London!

[Don't forget the next Noise Ban will be Friday 28th May]


Only a few days till the next Noise Ban and it's set to be a bang-face party to get the summer started.

Here are some tunes to listen to while you practice your disco lunges:

Face Melter by the Northern Irish rude boys The Japanese Popstars, may not melt your face but it will hoof you right in the ears.

Fans of wobbley bass will enjoy Excision & DatsiK's rumbling track Swagga.

If you fancy something a bit smoother to get down to try Lorenz Rhode's Remix of Breakin' by Strip Steve.

See you on Friday!

Check yourself. And relax

[Don't forget the next Noise Ban will be Friday 28th May]

I know some people are getting all worked up about politics at the moment, with lots of folks unimpressed with the election results. Don't worry about bugdget cuts, taxes and deficits, because the summer is on it's way and it's less than two weeks till the next Noise Ban. Here are some chilled tracks to listen to under the blue May sky...

Kicking things off is Gil Scott-Heron, this guy started of as a poet in the 70's and inspired a lot of the hip-hop which followed. He is most famous for the poem/song The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. This track is from the album I'm New Here, released earlier this year:


Gil Scott-Heron: Me and the Devil (mp3)

Emmy The Great is a little more folky than I normally listen to, but there is something interesting about their sound, they really remind me of Belle and Sebastian:


Emmy the Great: First Love (mp3)

To really get you in the summer mood, we'll finish with Shuggie Otis. This 70's track, Strawberry Letter 23 is named after the perfumed notes Shuggie's girlfriend would send him: (I don't know who the guy in the frame below is, I don't think it's Shuggie)


Shuggie Otis: Strawberry Letter 23 (mp3)

I have to confess, I don't have an Encyclopedic knowledge of all good music ever made, I heard Emmy The Great and Shuggie Otis on the excellent radio show Adam Buxton's Big Mixtape, check it out if you get the chance.

Noise Ban!

The next Noise Ban will be at Cocomo,on Friday the 28th May (Bank Holidaaay!) We will be on the decks from 7 till late, bringing you music from around the world. It will be FREE ENTRY all night so there is no excuse for not coming down to shake your booty. Check out the facebook group here. More details to follow...

variety bucket

Hej hej.

We are sorting out our next night at the moment, with some possible treats in store, I'll tell you more about that soon. For the time being you'll have to be satisfied with some tunes.

Last week I saw LCD soundsystem at Brixton Academy and they rocked. The sound quality wasn't great and it was difficult to hear the vocals but you couldn't fault LCD soundsystem for energy and atmosphere. Their new album isn't out till next month but you can hear the whole thing for free on the official LCD soundsystem website. The first time I listened to it I wasn't sure, but it is a definte grower. Check out the video for the single Drunk Girls, bizzar:



Slagsmålsklubben are an interesting Swedish band who appeared on last years Kitsuné Maison Compilation 8. I think these two videos are a few years old, but I couldn't resist sharing them.





In a totaly different musical direction Cypress Hill have also got a new album out, you can listen to it on their website for free. I can imagine it's not everyones cup of tea, but I quite like it, especially the track Armada Latina, which has quite a summer vibe and really steps away from the rest of the tracks, check out the video here. I can't mention Cypress Hill without a link to Rock Superstar.

Only on a Friday

It looks like the next noise_ban will be even bigger than the last one. We will give you some more details, as soon as we confirm the date. We have been talking to some really interesting musicians, but I can't tell you their names just yet. Here are some pictures of the last noise_ban to wet your appetite.
Photos:
Ceefax B, Monsieur Ferro, Full Stop
Flyers
Egg the teens
Monsieur Ferro
Ceefax B, Full Stop, Monsieur Ferro
Egg the teens

All Photos taken by noise_ban

Friday = Good

On Good Friday we had the first Noise Ban at Cocomo. Photos will be uploaded soon, as will a few mixes by Ceefax B, Monsieur Ferro and Full Stop so you can get an idea what it sounded like last week (unfortunately we weren't able to record anything this time). Thanks to everyone who came along, if you missed it don't worry we'll be doing it all again soon.

noise_ban in your face

Just reminding you that noise_ban will be going down, in the good way, at Cocomo, [323 Old Street, Shoreditch] this Good Friday, from 6pm till midnight,

Egg the Teens will be performing a live set and the DJs include Ceefax B, Full Stop and Monsieur Ferro. Be prepared for a musical journey, taking in electro, house, dub-step, disco and techno with a quick detour via car-alarm and French missionary.

It's not fancy dress, but if you're the first person to turn up dressed as a bunny rabbit we'll give you an egg or something. Incidentally if you turn up dressed as Monsieur Ferro you get to DJ, or at least max out his tab at the bar.

Here's a picture of Egg The Teens rockin' out at Bestival, don't they look happy with their A-Ha flag.

Hang over music...

[Don't forget Noise Ban - FREE - 2nd April @ Cocomo]

Drinking Russian Standard Vodka from an old sports cap Highland Spring water bottle last night resulted in a day of chilled out music listening to help me cope with feeling like "a bag of dicks" as a dear friend would put it.

Following is the top 3 highlights of the days listening:

This video is of the best (in my opinion) pop-jazz group, Esbjörn Svensson Trio, playing - Behind The Yashmak at the Jazz à Juan Les Pins festival. Sadly I didnt ever see EST live, and following the death of the pianist Esbjörn Svensson in 2008 I'll only be able to imagine how awesome it would have been.



Next up, we go back to the hip hop instrumentalist Aim's first album, 'Cold Water Music', with the track 'The Force' featuring Q.N.C. as the MC. (The skating is from the video Lordz "They don't give a fuck about us")



Finally, 90's hiphop pioneer Del tha Funkee Homo Sapien. I was pleased to discover he is STILL going strong. All his future gigs seem to be in the US/Canada.

Bubble Bath

[Don't forget Noise Ban - FREE - 2nd April @ Cocomo]

Here's a bit of foamy disco for you:


The Swiss are a class act hailing from Austraila, check out their myspace, they spout some crap about being the only legit disco band around, ignore that nonsense and enjoy the selection of smooth sounds they produce.

our flyer:

Noise Ban @ Cocomo

We have some great news! Noise Ban has a venue for our first night. On Friday the 2nd of April (Good Friday), the Noise Ban crew will be bringing an awesome collection of electronic beats to Cocomo on Old Street. Get there early to enjoy a (reasonably priced) cocktail in the comfy lounge area, before the music gets dirty and it's time to get your boogie on.

Wobbly Bass!

A couple of interesting tracks I have heard recently are the High Contrast Remix of Kaleidoscope (by Tiësto feat. Jónsi - Kaleidoscope) and The Dubstep mix of Get Mad By Wickaman and Sylo. Possibly to stop people calling him a sell out for remixing Tiësto, High Contrast has made his remix available for free. Unfortunately I cant find an official download link, try this unofficial one instead.

Day and Krunk - Monsieur Ferro

I command you to-


-Listen to the new Power-Mix-Edit-Mash-up by Monsieur Ferro,


-Enjoy the new Power-Mix-Edit-Mash-up by Monsieur Ferro,


-Come to NoiseBan and listen to further Power-Mix-Edit-Mash-up's by Monsieur Ferro,





Original Artists:
Kid Cudi
Kanye ('gunna let you finish) West
Santogold
Lykke Li

Sampled Remixes by:
Crookers
Rusko
Steve Aoki



While We're on the Subject of RUSKO check out his lovely remix of hide and seek...

Edit: Monsieur Ferro's Power-Mix-Edit-Mash-Up is now in mp3 format, with reduced file size. Original Wav format available here.

Cosmic Mix

In Europe’s dark discotheques in the late 70s and early 80s “Italo” disco was the music of choice. To be honest a lot of it was cheesy crap, but some of it sounds as fresh today as it was back then. Ceefax B has collected a few old skool synth classics for your listening pleasure. I’m not sure of the exact definition of Italo, not all of the songs below are strictly qualify but that’s fine by me. A couple of the tracks sound a bit dated, but I think that doesn’t stop them being great, like the Donna Summer hit State of Independence, which has an all star chorus featuring Michael Jackson, Brenda Russell, James Ingram, Dionne Warwick, Kenny Loggins, Lionel Richie and Stevie Wonder.

Ceefax B – Cosmic Mix

Tracklisting:

Blade Runner, End Title - Vangelis (1982)

Penguins Invasion - Scotch (1983)

The Chase (Midnight Express Soundtrack) - Giorgio Moroder (1978)

Dr. Beat - Miami Sound Machine (Gloria Estefan) (1984)

Magic Fly - Space (1977)

Archeopterix - I Signori Della Galassia (1979)

State of Independence - Donna Summer (1982)

Another track which didn’t fit into the mix but is still worth a listen is Prison by the French trio Space:

Xploding PlastiX

Combining real instruments and analogue sounds with electronic triggering techniques, framing tracks with jazz heavy drums, the bombardment is similar to the walls of sound that actually convey simple melody from the 1960s to 1980s minimalist movement.
it's like a mature revision of Lemon Jelly

Have a listen to "kissed by a kisser" from their 2008 album "Treated Timber Resists Rot" on youtube...



Also, watch this video, tis good;






Whilst we mention 80s minimalism, check out this minimalist seaseme street by Philip Glass, genius, probably less damaging than the telly tubbies too...



xplodingplastix.com

Egg those mother fucking teens!

We are proud to announce Egg The Teens will be playing live at Noise Ban. The synthomatic trio will be handing out a selection of beeps and bangs for you to shove directly down your ear hole. With an unusual sound influenced by a range of electronic styles from Giorgio Moroder to Melt Banana ETT are sure give Noise Ban a right kick up the crotch.