Showing posts with label Ladytron news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ladytron news. Show all posts

15 July 2015

Reuben Wu - Neuro (Part II)

Reuben published on his Soundcloud account a new track, "Neuro (Part II)". It seems that it's part of a soundtrack to a virtual reality project called Neuro.

22 May 2015

New Ladytron album, probably in 2016

Ladytron confirmed on their Twitter account that their new album will be released probably in 2016: "OK, breaking silence on a new album: Probably 2016".

09 April 2015

"Witching Hour" featured on NME's "50 Still-Awesome Albums That Made 2005 a Dynamite Year For Music" list

The fantastic Witching Hour featured on NME's 50 Still-Awesome Albums That Made 2005 a Dynamite Year For Music list:

"Somehow, against the odds, Liverpool's Ladytron managed to pick their way through the wreckage of Fischerspooner's dreams and escape the electroclash scene. Third album Witching Hour is no less-indebted to 80s synth-pop and new wave but found a new dream-pop shimmer too, taking them into shoegazing territory. They'd finally made it to the cusp of the 90s".

17 March 2015

Daniel Hunt remixed Bang Gang' song "Out of Horizon"

Daniel Hunt remixed Bang Gang' song "Out of Horizon". Bang Gang is the project of Icelandic musician Bardi Johannsson, who also co-produced Marnie's Crystal World. His forthcoming album The Wolves Are Whispering will be released on June 2015 and it features guest spots from Helen Marnie, Keren Ann (Lady & Bird), Jofridur Akadottir (Samaris, Pascal Pinon), and Bloodgroup.

Listen here the remix and the original version.

15 March 2015

Reuben Wu - How to Avoid a Pirate Attack

Reuben published on his Soundcloud account a new track, "How to Avoid a Pirate Attack". Because it ends too soon, I think he did also a longer version of this cool techno track.

18 February 2015

Ladytron featured on TEC's 30 Favourite Gigs 2010-2014 list

Ladytron at The Forum (2011)


Korg is a four letter word… but then so is love. Ladytron pulled off that rare feat of being an electronic based act that appealed to rockers, emos, indie kids and synthpopsters alike. Their only UK gig of 2011 was drawn from all of their albums.

Mira Aroyo's distinctive Bulgarian over the mechanical buzz of "True Mathematics", a fabulously frantic cover of Death in June's "Little Black Angel" and old favourite "Discotraxx" with its repeated claptrap fill were key show highlights.

And to finish, there was the magnificent "Destroy Everything You Touch". Totally glorious and sensational, the mind blowing synchronised laser display and strobes totally complimented what has always sounded like the backing to a "cold war" rave.

Source

14 February 2015

Reuben Wu collaborated on Tesla electric car ad



Credits:
Executive Producer: Dallas Carroll
Producer: Dallas Carroll (Digital Giant), Kendra Wester (Damon Productions/Square Planet Media)
Director: Alex Pickup & Dallas Carroll with Reuben Wu
Camera Car and Studio DOP: Tim Damon
Editor: Eron Otcasek
Grading: Reuben Wu, Alex Pickup, Dallas Carroll
Sound Design: Eron Otcasek, Reuben Wu, Digital Giant
Music Score: Reuben Wu with Dallas Carroll
Motion Graphics: Chistoffer Bjerre
Camera Services : Industrial Digital
1st AC: Jeff McCoy
2nd Unit: Reuben Wu, Anthony Dias
Digital Tech: John Rinek, Anthony Dias
Camera Rigger: Keith Sherins,
Remote Control HDRI Camera Operator: Keith Sherins

12 February 2015

Reuben Wu - The Northernmost

Music and video: Reuben Wu.

20 January 2015

Excerpt from a new track by Reuben Wu

Reuben Wu posted on SoundCloud an excerpt from a new track for SiteSeer.

05 January 2015

3 films that influenced Ladytron

The Andromeda Strain


The Andromeda Strain is a thriller from 1971 directed by Robert Wise about a group of scientists that investigates a deadly new alien virus before it can spread. This film was an inspiration for Ladytron's uniforms during 604 and Light & Magic eras, plus (sort of) the title of 604 album. There's an error 601 on one of the displays from the lab in this film.

Daniel: "I'm really into The Andromeda Strain [Michael Crichton's futuristic novel that was made into a 1971 movie – Ed.], so that's kind of an influence on the title of the album and the uniforms we've got and stuff. But the design – me and Reuben just love that film". (Source)

Also the design of the US version of the 604 cover (especially the big 604) was probably inspired by some inscriptions from this film.





Watership Down


Watership Down is an animation from 1978 directed by Martin Rosen about a group of rabbits that flee their doomed warren and face many dangers to find and protect their new home. This film was an inspiration for the Ladytron song and music video "Ghosts". The lyric "prince with a thousand enemies" is directly inspired by the character El-ahrairah from this movie.

Mira: "I'm obsessed by films so there are lots of favourites but I really like Watership Down, David Lynch films and lots of horror films". (Source)

Helen: "I love the animation. I love the music. I love rabbits. It's not as simple as being just a gory scare fest. #watershipDown". (Source)

Helen: "I like Watership Down as well". (Source)





Suspiria


Suspiria is a horror film from 1977 directed by Dario Argento about a newcomer to a fancy ballet academy that gradually comes to realize that the school is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of grisly murders.

Suspiria probably influenced Witching Hour in a way. For example the film features witches and the line "Bad luck isn't brought by broken mirrors, but by broken minds" probably was an inspiration for the "Soft Power" lyric "Broken glass, is luxury". Reuben and Helen mentioned this film during the interview for Fly Music below (around 2:11). They also mentioned the films Phenomena and Noir.




Also during a special Halloween show at El Rey, Los Angeles in 2006, Ladytron had Suspiria playing in the background on screens throughout their performance.

30 July 2014

New The Projects album

The Projects released their fourth and final album, Elektrichka's Favourite Party Record. Mira Aroyo duets on most of the songs.

You can listen the album on Soundcloud (below) or on Spotify. Also you can buy it from iTunes (digital) or from Tip Top Records (vinyl).



Press info:

The Projects, the brainchild of the late Graeme Wilson, released their final record on Tip Top Recordings on 19 May 2014. Elektrichka's Favourite Party Record, the fourth album by The Projects, has been completed three years after his sudden death at the age of thirty seven in December 2011.

Wilson who suffered from MS had begun recording the album, which he felt would be his most accomplished to date, with a vast array of talented and long term musician friends such as Mira Aroyo (Ladytron), Dino Gollnick (Lightspeed Champion, The Beatings), Koichi Yamanoha (Grimm Grimm, Screaming Tea Party), Ricky Maymi (Brian Jonestown Massacre), Mon Chan (Bo Ningen), Alex Lawton Mawdsley (Comet Sands), and Matt Simpson (The European).

"His death may have cut The Projects tragically short, but this album is the one that brings Wilson's cosmic, collaborative vision vividly to life". (eMusic)

"Haunting, otherworldly pop that sounds like a cosmic missive from Krauter space". (Wondering Sound)

"A catchy blend of krautrock and persistent synths". (Artrocker)

Sadly Graeme never saw the album completed, but everyone involved thought it would be a fitting tribute that it was finished and a few months after his funeral they went about the task of putting the recordings together. Mira Aroyo, who duets on most of the songs, explains the process:

"Koichi picked up Graeme's computer and Paul, Koichi, Mon Chan, Alex and I started to make sense of it all. It was really sad and weird but somehow made us feel like he was totally there and so it was kind of fun too. We found what we thought were the latest versions of songs. We were certain we wanted to meddle with things as little as possible. Some of the tracks had names written in Russian. We had to decide which bits needed fixing and redoing. It was very hard so we went for 'would Graeme like this'. We went in (to the studio) over four long days and finished the vocals, re-recorded some of the drums and mixed. We used the three songs he had already mixed as reference. Luckily he had already sent me all the lyrics that needed recording. He was actually very organized in his chaos. The studio overlooks Kensal Green Cemetery and the rain was pouring on a funeral procession when we arrived. It was even spookier at night, with LED candle lights flickering here and there in the dark sea of graves. The hardest part for me was mixing, as that gave me more time to think about what was actually happening. It was heart wrenching. I realised that this would be the last time I would hear Graeme's voice without music behind it".

The results are remarkable and Elektrichka's Favourite Party Record is a truly inspiring piece of work. Thirteen tracks, mastered by Paul Jones (Stolen Recordings), the album includes the download single "Set a Course For the Stars" and captures the perfectly formed type of skewed pop that Wilson and The Projects had been crafting over the years.

Too many highlights to mention, but tracks such as "I Have to Use Words", "Emma Nutt", "I'm Learning Chinese", "A&E/ITU", "Anne Is a Socialist" and "I'm In LLLLLove" are the sort of catchy, krautrock and electronic tunes that The Projects and their contemporaries such as Stereolab, Quickspace, Broadcast and more recently The Horrors excel.

A true musical maverick, Wilson, a former member of John Peel favourites Miss Mend and the Television Personalities, formed The Projects in 2001 with Alex Lawton Mawdsley and released the debut album Let's Get Static in 2004 which was followed three years later with Voice Is Glue and then Words of Love Broadcast in Code in 2009. He began working on Elektrichka's Favourite Party Record soon after.

"It's all finished except for vocals on a couple of songs. O wow, it's such a shame that I can't play it to you! I'm sure you'd love it!”. (Graeme Wilson, 2011)

Source

24 July 2014

Tamoios - "Alto la" videoclip

Tamoios is the new side project of Daniel Hunt.

01 July 2014

Mira and Helen featured on TEC's The Beauty of the Synthesizer list

Both Mira Aroyo and Helen Marnie featured on The Electricity Club's "The Beauty of the Synthesizer" list (the most beautiful women in synthpop).

That list includes names like Au Revoir Simone, Sarah Blackwood (Dubstar, Client), Anastasia Dimou (Feathers), Alison Goldfrapp (Goldfrapp), Claire Boucher (Grimes), Patricia Hall (Soft Metals), Imogen Heap, Victoria Hesketh (Little Boots), Marianthi Melitsi and Sophie Sophie Sarigiannidou (Marsheaux), Lauren Mayberry (Chvrches), Anais Neon (Vile Electrodes), Sarah Nixey (Black Box Recorder), Polly Scattergood, Emilie Simon, and others.

Also Marianthi and Sophie from Marsheaux were compared with Mira and Helen: "Marianthi Melitsi is the Helen Marnie of the pair with her sweet vocals and porcelain looks. Meanwhile, Sophie Sarigiannidou is more akin to Mira Aroyo with a more smouldering demeanour which is deadpan in comparison".


Mira Aroyo


While Ladytron are very much a quartet musically, imagewise it has been the band's female pair who have been the focal point.

When Mira Aroyo first appeared on the scene, her icy East European demeanour suited the band's dark terrorist chic meets the catwalk. With look akin to the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang, she was Mira armed with a Korg MS-20 as her weapon of choice.

As well as DJing, she has branched out into other projects, the most notable being when she made her stark deadpan presence felt on the appropriately dystopian "Watching a Building on Fire" with John Foxx & The Maths in 2011.


Helen Marnie


If Mira Aroyo is the Anni-Frid Lyngstad of Ladytron, then Helen Marnie is Agnetha Fältskog.

The sweeter, more pop inclined of the pair, Helen certainly appeared at home with a more glamorous image when Ladytron relaxed their uniformed stance after their third album Witching Hour.

It was probably Helen who persuaded Mira Aroyo to sport swimwear on their 2003 DJ mix compilation Softcore Jukebox.

She is obviously comfortable with that look as she has continued with the swimwear and gone for some glossy imagery in support of her pristine first solo album Crystal World.


Other superb pictures with Mira & Helen:


30 June 2014

"Destroy Everything You Touch" videoclip snapshots

On the design site Behance, Adam Bartley (credited with Art Direction and Directing) uploaded a nice collection of snapshots from the gorgeous "Destroy Everything You Touch" videoclip. Click on pictures for a higher resolution:




Bonus: two storyboards of "Destroy Everything You Touch" videoclip:

23 June 2014

"She Stepped Out of the Car" cover

A Ladytron fan, Adren, covered one of the band's exclusive tracks for The Sims 3 soundtrack. It sounds very nice.

04 June 2014

Tamoios, a new side project of Daniel Hunt

Tamoios is a new band from São Paulo, Brasil that consists of Daniel Hunt, singer Luisa Maita, and Fernando Rischbieter. The first single is titled "Alto lá".

25 January 2014

Transparent Days (SONOIO Remix)

A track from Gravity the Seducer Remixed. Mindblowing!



SONOIO is Alessandro Cortini, the keyboardist of Nine Inch Nails and also co-producer of two Ladytron albums (Velocifero & Gravity the Seducer). He also co-produced the song "We Are the Sea" from Marnie's album Crystal World.

24 January 2014

"Gravity the Seducer Remixed", available on Amazon and iTunes

Since 21 January 2014, Gravity the Seducer Remixed is available to buy on Amazon and iTunes.

21 January 2014

Reuben Wu - "Mechanoids" free download

Reuben Wu made the experimental song "Mechanoids" available as free download (WAV format) on Soundcloud:



I converted this WAV file to MP3 320 kbps CBR and FLAC.

Download MP3 | Download FLAC

01 January 2014

Happy New Year!

Daniel Hunt left a message on his Facebook page:

"Feliz ano novo / Happy new year! I have some new music to come next year; we are working on material for the 6th LT record, and in addition soon I'll be able to play you something from a brand new project I have down in Brazil that we are very excited about. Love. 2014 é nóis! X".

Helen Marnie also posted 2 nice pictures on her Instagram account (click on pictures):