Manchester indie-dance duo Bulbs of Held combine the talents of sound designer / mixologist Paul Bardsley, and guitarist / vocalist Chris Plack. Bardsley and Plack have worked with sound for all their adult lives, but from strikingly different perspectives. Bardsley spent much of the last decade disc jockeying in London, Berlin, Manchester, Teeside and Ibiza, as well as working in audio post-production studios and on independent films as a sound designer following a sound and media degree. Bardsley now works as an Audiology Technician. Plack rocked out in Brighton indie guitar bands Elysium and Readers Wives during the 90s and 00s, before settling down to a successful academic career in hearing science. Indeed, Plack is one of the world’s leading psychoacousticians, and is currently Professor of Audiology at the University of Manchester. It was in Manchester that a chance meeting between the two led to an exchange of tracks and a cunning plan. Their name comes from a type of chemical connection between nerve cells in the auditory brain, and appropriately their debut EP is a cerebral fusion of disco, electronica, house, trip-hop, indie, and folk. Their love of psychoacoustics and the infinite possibilities of auditory perception inspire their music, which is designed to reach the hair cells that other bands cannot reach.
Soulenalle is the dreamy sound of disco through the ears of someone collapsed in the corner, struggling to maintain focus. Last Day is an electro-folk apocalypse, heavy on mandolins and crashing beats. The ghostly guitar harmonics and bit-crushed effects of Your Teas Your Dinner ooze hidden menace, as the narrator contemplates a life of isolation and false security. Transporter is an undanceable dance track based on a meld of classical guitar riffs in 7:4 time. Finally, Descending is a trip-hop ode to love in the silicon age, with a lilting fingerstyle guitar.
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HNN have an album out named L'île nue, available and digital.
You can order it at Wool-E Shop (BE).
The sound: let's say gorgeous minimal synthpop. The rest you can add when listening to the clip beneath!
No words....judge yourself. Orgy in a poppy Placebo-mood?
“Star Trek 3″ is set to debut in 2016 and will be directed by Roberto Orci. He is the man who co-wrote the first two movies, “The Amazing Spider-Man 2″ and the first two “Transformers” movies. According to an interview, he promises that he will stay true to its roots.
He told: “In this movie, they are closer than they are to the original series characters that you have ever seen. They have set off on their five-year mission. So their adventure is going to be in deep space. In the first two films – especially the 2009 ['Star Trek'] – was an origin story. It was about them coming together. So they weren’t the characters they were in the original series. They were growing into them and that continues on in the second movie.”
A-Film has given us 10 duotickets and 2 soundtracks by Mica Levi from the newest movie by Jonathan Glazer who is now already called the next Stanley Kubrick! The newest film from the man who previously made some excellent videoclips features Scarlet Johannsson as a femme fatale who murders her victims.
A lot of you knew the proper answer to our contest, but only the following persons were randomly selected as our winners :
FOLLOWING WINNERS (12x):
- Maxim-Igor P., 9000 Gent (soundtrack)
- Mike V., 9032 Wondelgem (soundtrack)
- Frank B., 2000 antwerpen (duo ticket)
- Nancy D., 2610 wilrijk (duo ticket)
- Tim W., 2180 Ekeren (duo ticket)
- Vliegen M., 3660 opglabbeek (duo ticket)
- Michael B., 2060 Antwerpen (duo ticket)
- Greta F., 2288 Bouwel (duo ticket)
- Nico V., 2150 Borsbeek (duo ticket)
- Rosa V., 2270 Herenthout (duo ticket)
- Fons V., 2288 Bouwel (duo ticket)
- Dien D., 1930 Zaventem (duo ticket)
