Folie à Deux (with Sarah)

I hate waiting. Jump.

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:11:14 -0400

I hate waiting.

Jump.

Earl Sweatshirt - Chum Something sinister to itPendulum...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 17:56:41 -0400

Earl Sweatshirt - Chum

Something sinister to it
Pendulum swinging slow, a degenerate moving
Through the city with criminal stealth, welcome to enemy turf
Harder than immigrants work, golf is stitched into my shirt
Get up off the pavement brush the dirt up off my psyche
Psyche, psyche

It’s probably been twelve years since my father left, left me fatherless
And I just used to say I hate him in dishonest jest
When honestly I miss this nigga, like when I was six
And every time I got the chance to say it I would swallow it
Sixteen, I’m hollow, intolerant, skipped shots
I storm that whole bottle, I’ll show you a role model
I’m drunk pissy pissing on somebody front lawn
Trying to figure out how and when the fuck I missed moderate
Momma often was offering peace offerings
Think, wheeze cough, scoffing and he’s off again
Searching for a big brother, Tyler was that
Plus he liked how I rap, the blunted mice in the trap
Too Black for the White kids and too White for the Blacks
From honor roll to to cracking locks up off them bicycle racks
I’m indecisive, I’m scatterbrained and I’m frightened it’s evident
And them eyes where he hiding all them icicles at

Something sinister to it
Pendulum swinging slow, a degenerate moving
Through the city with criminal stealth, welcome to enemy turf
Harder than immigrants work, golf is stitched into my shirt
Get up off the pavement brush the dirt up off my psyche
Psyche, psyche

Time lapse, bars rhymin’ heart’s bottomless pit
Was mobbin deep as 96 Havoc and Prodigy did
We were the potty-mouth posse crash the party and dip
With all belongings then toss em out to the audience
Nothing was fucking awesome, trying to make it from the bottom
This is feeling as hard as Vince Carter’s knee cartilage is
Supreme garment and weed gardeners garnishing spliffs
With Keef particles and entering apartments with ‘zine article
Tolerance through boundaries, I know you happy now
Craven and these Complex fuck niggas done track me down
Just to be the guys that did it, like I like attention
Not the type where niggas trying to get a raise at my expense
Supposed to be grateful, right, like thanks so much you made my life
Harder and the ties between my mom and I are strained and tightened
Even more than they were before all of this shit
Been back a week and I already feel like calling it quits

Something sinister to it
Pendulum swinging slow, a degenerate moving
Through the city with criminal stealth, welcome to enemy turf
Harder than immigrants work, golf is stitched into my shirt
Get up off the pavement brush the dirt up off my psyche
Psyche, psyche

LuckyMe : Eclair Fifi x CID_rim x Rinse FM

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:15:21 -0500

Sick Rinse FM Bi-weekly show hosted by LuckyMe Eclair Fifi - this one co-hosted by CID_rim - he has a slick remix of Darwin Deez’s ‘800 Human’ at about 1:10:00 - check it.

SONGS FOR IMAGINATIVE PEOPLE - Darwin Deez.

1. (800) HUMAN

are you sick of not existing?
does your halo just not flatter your face?
feel brand new in just three easy payments
try it free
what it’s like to be

but wait there’s more!
the sky is not the limit
the body you have always wanted
let us put you in it
bad karma? no karma? you too can get a life
and it’s all for the low, low price of…

what it’s like to be human
what it’s like to be alive

no returns and no exchanges
and of course at first you won’t know what your fucking name is
void where prohibited or if your lover leaves
putrefaction guaranteed
just call the number on your screen, (800)…

(chorus)

on earth as it is in heaven
condemned to be free
and yes, even angels fall for legalese
so lead us not into late night TV
but deliver us, no CODs,

(chorus)

’cause all anybody knows
is how the jingle goes

2. you can’t be my girl

Damn, what drugs aren’t you on?
And can I come along?
You’re wasted and stoned when
I am sober as a marble
I think I love you are horrible x2

Y.c.b.m.g. x 3

Fishing for your lipstick
You found your cigarettes
You’re hacking up the wrapping
As we sit on rotten steps

You’re crazy and you show it off
Dear, you’re slurring Gorbachev
But you insist on discussing him
You’re so wrong but somehow you win
So wrong to kiss you when

Y.c.b.m.g. x 3

You’re sweet but you’re messed up
Your best friend is a red cup
You’re obviously not the one
But you remind me life can be fun

Yeah

Y.c.b.m.g. x 3

w a l k i n g in front of c a r s

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 12:34:13 -0500

w a l k i n g in front of c a r s

J U N G

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:50:00 -0500

J U N G

when you wake UP // ill be gone little cat <a...

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:55:00 -0400

when you wake UP // ill be gone little cat

<a href=”http://heroinparty.bandcamp.com/track/when-you-wake-up-ill-be-gone-little-cat” data-mce-href=”http://heroinparty.bandcamp.com/track/when-you-wake-up-ill-be-gone-little-cat”>when you wake up ill be gone little cat by heroin party</a>

from ‘Summer made me blue // Summer gave me sky’ by Heroin Party.

Came across this on twitter last night while watching the Sandy coverage, with the tag

’ I‘ve always wanted to release an album during a hurricane,

here is the last year of my life laid bare.’

its up for free download HERE.

I only [ like ] you about HALF as much as I say I do // You...

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:07:02 -0400

I only [ like ] you about

HALF as much as I say I do //

You probably [ like ] me

TWICE as much as you say you do .

ShiGETO // Relentless Drag // Mike Slott (remix)

Write IT (on your skin) // like me (?) //...

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:25:00 -0400

Write IT (on your skin) // like me (?) // m….o….r….e // make it HAPPEN.

GENTLEMEN ———————>

Folie À Deux/J ‘LightMix’ Feat tunes by Clams Casino Official // ASAP Rocky //Baauer // Monto // NZCA_Lines ….

Write IT (on your skin) // like me (?) // m….o….r….e // make IT happen.

Folie À Deux//J Mix E - LECT - RON - IC (photo by Folie À...

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:00:00 -0400

Folie À Deux//J Mix

E - LECT - RON - IC

(photo by Folie À Deux - Grafton St, Dublin)

My interview with WildCHildStories Ciara, Fashion // Music //...

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:36:00 -0400

My interview with WildCHildStories Ciara,

Fashion // Music // Loves & Lusts…

Click Image for link to interview :)

notyourgirlfriends: NOT YOUR GIRLFRIEND FACTORY TAKEOVER #001...

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:19:36 -0400

notyourgirlfriends:

NOT YOUR GIRLFRIEND FACTORY TAKEOVER #001 Teaser

Creatures of the Night // Filming all the moments

Shot / Directed / Produced by NOT YOUR GIRLFRIEND

Mix by NOT YOUR GIRLFRIEND

Track Listings

Sweet Valley - Total Carnage

Death Grips - I’ve Seen Footage

Aphex Twin - Windowlicker

Foals - Tron

Folie À Deux/J Promo Mix electro // indie // hip hop

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:33:00 -0400

Folie À Deux/J Promo Mix

electro // indie // hip hop

C A S T L E P A L O O Z A F O L I E À D J S E T T H E C O...

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:15:00 -0400

C A S T L E P A L O O Z A

F O L I E À D J S E T

T H E C O U R T Y A R D S T A G E

F R I D A Y / 8 P M - 11 P M

Blending thick, grimy electro, synth driven indie and rough hip-hop tracks and remixes, Sarah O’Neill has been carving out a bit of the Dublin music scene to call her own with big, visceral beats. As well as playing Camden Crawl Dublin, Fashion Industry events and support slots to international acts such as Adam Fieck, she has also established a weekly residency in the Grand Social with her night “REPUTATION’. An indie / electro / hip hop night that equally weights Irish acts amongst their international contemporaries in the musical policy, it also incorporates live electronic acts into the night. Her set is going to be NOISEY and RAMBUNCTIOUS. Get down to it.

G E T F U C K I N G I N !

rememberthethingsnotworthknowingandforgeteverythingelse youvej...

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:33:00 -0400

rememberthethingsnotworthknowingandforgeteverythingelse

youvejustmettheboywhoissuposedto~~destroy~~peoplelikeyou

i remembermissingcertaindaysbeforetheyhadevenended

(image found on my dad’s phone - my dad is a fucking hero)

Folie à Deux (With Sarah) *42

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:05:36 -0400

Folie À Deux (with Sarah) *42

Tunes from Queens of the Stone Age, The Stone Roses and Foals as well as HudMo and Zach Hill.

New ones from Le Galaxie (who are launching their new E.P. ‘Fade 2 Forever’ on the 14th in The Button Factory and We Arrive Alive (that launched their new E.P. on the Folie à Deux (with Sarah) Tumblr this week). Also, more Irish tunes in the form of Logikparty, Ghosts, Reid and Kool Thing.

Health and Young Legionnaire (my little ode to Canada Day and the 4th of July) ;).

Have a listen!!

Track Listing

Queens of the Stone Age - Turning on the Screw

We Arrive Alive - A Lethal Black Ooze

Foals - Tron

Ghosts - The Night Out

The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored

Hudson Mohawke - Come Get It

Zach Hill - The Primitives Talk

Young Legionnaire - Nova Scotia

Health - USA Boys

Kool Thing - The Sign

Logikparty - Quantum Leap (Pitiless Censor Mix)

Reid - Miami

Le Galaxie (feat Elaine Mai) - Love System

I W I L L F I N D T H E W O R D S K O Y A A N I S Q U...

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 18:57:00 -0400

I W I L L F I N D T H E W O R D S

K O Y A A N I S Q U A T I

A way of life that is so crazy it calls for a new way of living.

W A B I

A flawed detail that creates an elegant whole.

T O S K A

It may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom. Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning.

K I L I G

Usually associated with romance and the phenomenon of butterflies in one’s stomach. However it’s generally more positive (vs. the butterflies being present in moments of anxiety/nervousness as well), and is more of a jolt-like and/or tingly/tickly feeling

J U N G

A special feeling that is stronger than mere love and can only often be proved by having survived a huge argument with someone.

L I T O S T

The closest definition is a state of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery. Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, remarked that “As for the meaning of this word, I have looked in vain in other languages for an equivalent, though I find it difficult to imagine how anyone can understand the human soul without it.”

Y A ’ A B U R N E E

“You bury me,” a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person, because of how difficult it would be to live without them.

Fuck the controversy… FRANK OCEAN Y O U H A V E A...

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:20:00 -0400

Fuck the controversy…

FRANK OCEAN

H A V E

W A Y

T H O S E

B E A U T I F U L

F U C K I N G

W O R D S …

Twitter

E A T E N B Y B E A R S // S I M P L E A S H E L L A...

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 15:51:26 -0400

E A T E N B Y B E A R S // S I M P L E A S H E L L

A new surf drenched, summer tune and video from Belfast based band Eatenbybears comes in the form of ‘Simple As Hell’. Bongo-drummed rhythm butted up against violin plucked melody and insistent, chanted vocals make this one of the catchiest songs you’re likely to hear this summer. A move sideways from their math rock lineage, this single debuts a more vocal lead vision than their last release ‘Teeth’ (which you can find on their Bandcamp here) - but feels every inch the perfect accompaniment to summer.

‘Simple As Hell’ is up on bandcamp here for just a quid, bargain.

Video credits to the House 11 Productions team – a Belfast based multimedia production company that directed and produced the video.

Artwork by John Quinn.

(Also, we caught Eatenbybears live at the Twisted Pepper a few months ago when they were in Dublin as part of the 11/11 A.V. Tour alongside labelmates Alarmist / Le Tissier / Slipdraft – which you can read about here.)

WE ARRIVE ALIVE - E.P. EXCLUSIVE - TRACK 4

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:55:41 -0400

W E A R R I V E A L I V E // D A C H A U

Track 4 from M Y F R I E N D , T H E B O M B M A K E R

I N T E R V I E W C O N T … (Part 4)

What has been the process of writing your songs / EP ?

Adam : I think almost everything we’ve written has been as a group. Somebody will think of something or be trying something new that they want to work out or stumble upon something that sounds good and it’ll catch. Either another guitar line, or drum beat, something that allows the idea to expand into a song.

Ben : Well usually, one of us, mostly Andy, comes to a jam with some sort of idea, be it a guitar line or whatever and we just jam it out and new ideas spawn. The guts of the sopng is usually written in one or two jams.

Michael : It’s a pretty simple method actually. We all show up at practice and one or more of us may have some cool idea which we’re itching to show the lads. So we all hear it out and invariably one of us, while listening, will have another idea to complement the first. Before we know it, we’re all jamming out the ideas together, trying out different sounds for a while as something takes shape. From there, we do some pruning and shaping, and let the idea(s) mature for a few weeks while we think them over. Sometimes we’ll have the guts of an entire tune taken care of in a single jam. That’s always awesome.

Andrew : There’s a particular impulsive feeling when we write songs. We try to jam twice a week normally and a lot of the time our songs will just come out of something that someone is randomly playing. I’d love to be able to say that we all go and ponce around and get divine inspiration from mother nature or something else just as corny but sadly that just isn’t the case. Frankly, we just go with whatever comes in the moment and pour whatever experiences we’ve had from the last week into it.

Are you aiming for an emotion / feeling when you are writing each piece?

Neil : I guess we just jam and see what happens. I don’t think there’s any hidden deeper meaning for me anyway… well maybe there is… I suppose “A Lethal Black Ooze” is about how much I love my dog

Adam : Happiness. But not in the way you think. It’s more of a happiness with the song for ourselves, if we enjoy playing it and are happy with how it sounds we consider that a success. Sometimes a suggestion of a slow song or a high energy song comes out but rarely an emotion. I think we all of smile when we’re playing the songs. I do anyway.

Ben : Most of our tunes have a range of emotions

Michael : Not at all. It’s more the other way around for me, the emotion when writing is what gives the piece gravity in the first place. Then the emotion snowballs with the piece until both fuel eachother. It’s like, transcendic man.

Andrew : Um… I like to think that our songs do have stories inside the music, we spend a lot of time on dynamics and stuff to try and pave a way through the story. Emotions and stuff I figure will come with whatever the person makes of the song themselves but we generally name the songs to give the people listening an idea of what we were visualising in our heads when we wrote them…

Is the aim to be quite filmic / epic?

Neil :I don’t think so but I guess “Dachau” would make a pretty sweet soundtrack for a flick.

Adam : No, though there is always a visual applied to each song. It might come after we’ve written it but the the name of every song ties into what the song makes us see. Andy is pretty good at coming up them. He’s preparing some live visuals for us at the moment.

Ben : We just try to write tunes we think are good. Chuffed if people think they’re epic

Michael : We would be hugely chuffed if we managed to get something onto a soundtrack. Whether it’s for some epic film or something more chilled we wouldn’t mind. But we don’t have that in mind while writing. We just think ballsy and go from there.

Andrew : I’m very into video games and have been from a young age. When I turned 19 I began to think about how cool it would be to do soundtracks for video games and films and such. It’s become a bit of an obsession, so the music I make will portray a certain feeling or event that i’ve experienced or observed. And when I hear the songs again I can envisage the exact event its supposed to be a soundtrack for.

Favorite song of your own?

Neil : Slow Fall

Adam : For a time it’s always the newest one we’ve written which at the moment would be 3 years. Out of all of them though……I think You, Me and the Wall. It’s not recorded but I love playing it.

Ben : On the EP - Dachau, although I’m really into a tune we’ve been writing called ‘3 Years’

Michael : Dachau.

Andrew : I really enjoy playing some of our newer songs like 3 Years and Slow Fall. I doubt anyone knows them by name sadly as they’re not recorded. At the moment our set is mixed with songs on this current EP and ones that we’re writing at the moment and it’s always loads of fun playing new songs.

W E A R R I V E A L I V E // M Y F R I E N D , T H E B O M B M A K E R E.P.

Find We Arrive Alive on FACEBOOK, on TWITTER and on BANDCAMP.

Download M Y F R I E N D , T H E B O M B M A K E R E.P. Free HERE

For all Press / Booking enquiries : wearrivealive@gmail.com

We Arrive Alive are : Neil Dexter, Adam Faulkner, Ben Healy, Michael Naude & Andrew McGurk.

Cover Photo Credit : Niamh Forbes

WE ARRIVE ALIVE - E.P. EXCLUSIVE - TRACK 3

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:54:33 -0400

W E A R R I V E A L I V E // Z O M B I E S

Track 3 // M Y F R I E N D , T H E B O M B M A K E R E . P .

I N T E R V I E W ( P A R T 3 )

Why did you decide being an instrumental group? Will it stay like that?

Neil : Well, I joined the band about a year after its conception, so I wasn’t there when the decision was initially made to be an “instrumental band”. During that time I was playing loads of chilled post-rock sort of stuff with my older brother Paddy and my mate Jeff in a band called Five Weeks in a Balloon. Then WAA released “Walls” and I absolutely loved it (not that I’d expect any less from these fine lads). Over a few jars and wanderings through the Dublin mountains they asked me (or maybe I asked) to play guitar for a gig the next week. That particular gig never actually happened but sure they’re stuck with me now.

Adam : We got bored writing the pop music we started out with. I think the biggest part was Andy telling us he wasn’t happy with the sound of his voice and the lyrics he was writing. We had already written one instrumental song and running off that we started a new band with the same members and went in a completely different direction. We had also started discovering post-rock and other instrumental band like Explosions in the Sky, Enemies, Adebisi Shank, 65 days of static, Mogwai and the likes and all of them really made us want to start writing music like that. We also wanted to consider writing soundtracks for films, games, anything really, another challenge musically. Will it stay like that? Couldn’t tell you, Neil has started singing in some of our songs but not as a singer. He uses his voice as another instrument and adds a new sound to what we’re doing. I don’t think any of us are opposed to the idea of bringing singing back but none of us are chasing the idea either.

Ben : Cuz none of us can sing very well.

Michael : I wouldn’t quite say it was a decision. More like none of us were really happy singing and writing lyrics. Though to be honest, I don’t think we give ourselves enough credit as singers/lyricists - except for me, I’m shocking at lyrics. We wrote a few tunes which happened not to have lyrics and we liked them that way, so one day one of us suggested we just do away with them entirely. I wouldn’t say they’re gone for good though. Neil has an exceptional voice, and he dabbles in poetry in his spare time, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he pulled something out of the bag.

Andrew : Myself, Michael, Ben and Adam used to play in a pop band back at school with vocals and everything but as we left school and grew up we wanted to write better music. There’s only so long you can sing about the girl next door or some other shite like that before your mind explodes and you realise that you hate the girl next door let like her enough to write songs about her. When we started We Arrive Alive we did intend on having vocals but I think we got a bit discouraged about our voices from the days of being in our little pop band… Which hopefully will remain unnamed! Since Neil has joined the band though we’ve been trying to bring in some human elements to the songs, he has a lovely falsetto voice so we’ve had him doing ambient moans and wails and stuff of that sort live. I don’t think we want to limit ourselves to being a strict instrumental band but it’s where we’re comfortable for the time being so I reckon we’ll be here a little longer before anything drastically changes.

Is it difficult to work together ?

Neil : Yes. They’re all a shower of bastards

Adam : Rarely, there’s frustration every once in while and there have been explosions of anger the odd time. We’re all guilty off annoying each other, particularly if there’s a plan for practicing and someone is either late or isn’t bothered but every bad practice is always out weighed by the number of good ones.

Ben : Nope, i luv me boyiz

Michael : A hyperactive eccentric, a chilled out music buff, the obligatory classic rock heart-throb, a crazy foreigner, and a half-man-half-bird. Difficult: sometimes. Craic: always.

Andrew : Like every band, we have our outbursts and stubborn moments. We grew up together so we’re like brothers, and brothers bitch at times but it’s never forgotten that we all love each other. Just give the guy a hug and move on!. We’re a pretty sappy bunch so we do talk about our feelings a lot - non of this tough guy shite in this band. Except Neil, He’s a tough guy.

If you had to put an ‘family order’ on the band who would you say ACTS like ‘oldest child’ ‘middle children’ and ‘youngest’ ?

Neil : Well there’s Dadam, Mummy McGurk, Sexy teenage Ben, distant uncle Michael and Baby Neil

Adam : This changes every time we’re together but, Andy always the most amount of energy and is the easiest to distract which I think puts him as the youngest. Michael is far to smart for most of us to hold an educated conversation with so I think that makes him the oldest from that respect. I think myself, Neil and Ben are the most similar so i guess that puts us in the middle. A good question.

Ben : Adam - Oldest - organises the boring shit and hounds us for rehearsal space rent. Andrew - Youngest - gets away with murder. Neil, Michael and myself - somewhere in the middle

Michael : Adam takes the oldest child since he’s taken up the resposibility of the rent for the practice space, as well as organising most other official-like things most of us find too scary or too boring. Kind of ironic since he’s actually the youngest. Neil’s one down from Adam. He’s really mellow and lets things happen. He’s seen it all, really. Ben fits into the third slot because he’s also a bit wild when we get him going, but he does a better job at keeping it cool. I’d be just a little older than Andrew. I love a bit of mischief and it’s easy so set one of the other guys off with a bit of madness. Andrew gets to be the youngest - solely because he eats the most sweets and travels exclusively by jumping, sprinting, or imaginary car.

Andrew : Adam is the strict father. Michael is definitely the flamboyant mother. Ben is the good looking older brother and Neil is the charismatic middle brother. I can’t cook or anything so the lads are always making me nice foods. I guess that brings me down a peg or two. I’m the family pet.

F I N A L S O N G CO M I N G T O M O R R O W !! ’ D A C H A U ‘