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This was released as the second single off the debut album from the Los Angeles post punk band.
For the music video, a note was sent out via Myspace asking for extras. Only a small number of them were actually highschoolers; the call was for people who were either 15–20 or looked like they were 15–20. No one was paid, and filming was done around 3:00 AM the following day. Watch the video here: www.youtube.com
"The eccentric producer and Detroit native Jimmy Edgar once described his label Ultramajic as a platform for “futuristic music, digital shamanism, and virtual altars.” Even its newest release, a collection of lost electro tracks from the mid-to-late-’90s, fits so well with the label’s forward-looking ethos, but the story behind Unsolved Mysteries sounds like classic Edgarian lore. In 2014, Edgar took possession of an East Detroit storage unit that contained over 1,000 vinyl records, some rare, broken recording equipment, and boxes of over 100 DAT and reel-to-reel tapes, one dusty box of which contained tapes from 1995 to 1998 inscribed in black Sharpie with the name “ASHTAR LAVANDA.”" pitchfork.com
"Luz Futuro’s music is not quite of this earth. “I often use images that I remember from dreams and past experiences a lot. There are moments that I have not lived in real life and I mix them with those that have happened. Maybe that for me is beautiful and I capture it in my music,” says Daniel Benavides del Pino, under the artist name Luz Futuro (which translates to “future light”)." More about this Spanish artist: post-punk.com
Canadian post-modern punk band out of Vancouver, this is ACTORS!
actors.bandcamp.com
"London producer Jesse Hackett (Ennanga Vision / Owiny Sigoma band) and Chicago based artist Mariano Chavez team up with Nyege Nyege Tapes for NNT18 music and art collaboration METAL PREYERS. Hackett and Chavez have been working together for two years on their audio visual project Teeth Agency. Together a plan was conceived to invite London underground music veteran Lord Tusk to Nyege Nyege’s headquarters in Uganda to work on the project Metal Preyers." www.artist.nyegenyege.com
"Aurat, meaning “Women” in Urdu, hails from Los Angeles, CA. Aurat, comprised of the core duo Azeka and Gil, embraces the Urdu language with lyrics of its native language and nontraditional sounds, injected into a predominantly European musical subculture. The group features lead vocalist, Azeka, a Pakistani-American, Gil on (production/bass), Victor (drums), Dolo (guitar), and Jose (guitar). Taking cues from the sounds of darkwave, postpunk, new wave, Aurat are truly unique to the LA scene. Although the band is inspired by classic electronic music, post-punk, industrial, and just about any ‘wave’ related genre you can cite, the sounds are living personalities." post-punk.com
Debby Friday is a Vancouver-based producer/vocalist. She has said in several interviews that the aggression she expresses in her experimental industrial-rap comes from the oppression and trauma she endures as a queer black woman and Nigerian-Canadian immigrant. bit.ly
Santa Cruz' Vandal Moon is "inspired by the darker acts of the post-punk & darkwave scene of the early 80's." vandalmoon.bandcamp.com
In the mid-1980s, then-teenager Neneh Cherry recorded "Dead Come Alive", a one-off track with On-U Sound founder Adrian Sherwood's group The Circuit. It was never released, but eventually showed up on this album, a 2015 On-U Sound compilation curated by DJ & Audio Visual artist Trevor Jackson.
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The iconic OutKast. In 2020, three Southern rap experts revisited this 2000 classic: www.npr.org
