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...Caballero, Polvo, and Drive Like Jehu started to incorporate new meters, novel forms and increased technical virtuosity into their music, resulting in an appropriately neo-Baroque sound. Hearing the Advantage, who play a role in this scene, perform Nintendo songs, but one could easily mistake their music for early Shellac instrumentals, revealing the fundamental affinities between the styles.Of course, the links of influence between Nintendo tunes and rock music wasn't purely one-sided. The popular sounds of the 1980s, responding to a challenge of ornamentation from punk rock and acoustic folk, made their mark on the Nintendo music sensibility...
Following “Hello Explosion”’s stop-start tribute to the various legacies of their Chicago post-rock predecessors (from mathy Shellac flourishes to Tortoise ambience), “Pulling My Face In And Out of Distortion, I Blink Too Much” lets the credits roll on “Beautiful Seizure” in a fittingly demented sing-song fashion. Guitars roll downstream with a twang of finality, as trumpets sound the band’s exit with gusto...
...have a press pass, but I get there early. Jack, my truant brother, doesn’t show, so I sit on the pavement outside the Ballroom (a tiny, tired converted roller rink) in North London with a kid from Peterborough. His red hair is shellac-ed, and he talks about Welsh rap. He’s wearing white shoes shaped like elongated diamonds. He smokes rollies...
...Windmühlgasse, just behind the busy Mariahilferstrasse, lies an Aladdin's cave of audio treats. Teuchtler is crammed with more than 180,000 records - split between classical, jazz and pop - as well as some 40,000 78s. The store once sold for $3,000 a rare shellac of Austrian violinist Marie Roeger-Soldat (born in 1863) playing Mozart, but most of the vinyl costs between $7 and $120. Tel: (43-1) 586 2133. TOKYO The city is in the grip of a vinyl revival, so you'll easily satisfy your wax cravings here. Head to Udagawa-cho, a five...
...Windmühlgasse, just behind the city's busy Mariahilferstrasse shopping street, lies an Aladdin's cave of audio treats. Teuchtler is crammed with more than 180,000 records-split between classical, jazz and pop-as well as some 40,000 old 78s. The store once sold a rare shellac of Austrian violinist Marie Roeger-Soldat (born 1863) playing Mozart for $3,000, but most of the vinyl is priced between...