Now I really loved the new Crim3s Stay Ugly EP but they've just gone and put out a new track and it is by far my favourite song they have ever made... and I'm not even at the end of listening to it as I type. This is THE Crim3s track. Ripped with heartache and blistering beats, menacing time signatures and adhd synth trills, Sadies vocals switching between her throat tearing scream and a new grungy anthemic gospel sound, a classic rave anthem format updated for 2013. Oh and the song is called "Still Goin" which has loads of great angsty implications. Download for free or "pay what you want" from their Bandcamp.
The new Crim3s EP has dropped!! A blurred out, blistering slow grinding rumble through fogs of screams and overdriven distortion, crunching beats all full throttle and in the red, a tsunami of increasing noise and slow rage. No low slow chill here, this is raging black outs of crunching rave noise. The first two tracks "lost" and "pansy" are like noise versions of James Blake is the point was to deafen rather than softly seduce. Track three "Dose" is a tempo changing raving riff driven upbeat ranter and the EP's title track Stay Ugly is by far the best of the lot, the single if there was to be one, but still it's an "all in the red" distorted noisy blast of raw feeling. Killer. The final track "stress" is an insistent jittery, upbeat, air punching hard as ever killer to end the EP and it doesn't disappoint although it may give you palpatations. You can download the EP for £5 or buy the vinyl 7" for a mere £7.99, all from their Bandcamp. 10 out of 10.
Random but quality 20 minute mixtape from Tom Kross.. it's free to download from Soundcloud and features: WHITE RING - Feather (CRIM3S RMX) HIM - Shatter Me With Hope (oOoOO RMX) Rihanna - What's My Name (WHITE RING RMX) Crystal Castles - Plague (Mustapha Mond RMX) Grimes - Genesis (Ryan Hemsworth RMX) blonde redhead - Penny (SALEM RMX)
Brilliant new video from Crim3smo, just a brief VHS stuttering raw live thing from a bedroom somewhere. It's awesome. All promo's should be like this. Also its great to see something new from Crim3s, I was worrying they had stopped making/recording things!
Illegal squat rave North London. Filmed and edited by CRIM3S. DJ sets (in order of appearance) by: GASH GARY // CRIM3S // MISTABISHI (Live set) // UNCONSCIOUS // GRIMEZ. Rigs by: Apparition + Sectionsix Sounds
Crim3s live at the Speigas festival earlier this year, such good sound quality for a live video! Also such a good performance, all fogged out and atmospheric!
Spell Hound are new, they're a boy girl duo of Evin and Mckaylea from Kansas making post Witch House, bass heavy doom-laden chillwave, citing Crystal Castles, You Love Her Cos She's Dead, Purity Ring and blog favourite Crim3s all as influnces. You can really here all those bands in there but they do it so well and with such love for that kind of sound that it becomes original and fresh. They can also really put a pop song together. So good. There are a bunch of free downloads on their Soundcloud so go grab em now!
Everyone's favorite Witch House band - Crim3s - are part of MTV's Brand New for 2012, unsigned competition! MTV are offering one unsigned act the chance to be part of Brand New for 2012, following in the footsteps of Jessie J, Tinie Tempah, Lady Gaga, The Vaccines, Labrinth and Wretch 32 but they need your votes to to help get them there.
You now have until January 8th to vote for Crim3s. This would be awesome if they got picked, the winner gets loads of MTV coverage and even the top 10 runners up get featured as well, so go vote for them here.
Its here! Finally the Crim3s EP is out! The first release by one of my favourite bands of 2011/2012. Released on Black Bus Records the 5 track EP is also accompanied by a remix EP by a whole slew of artists; GR†LL GR†LL, Mascara, Silver Strain, GuMMyBeAR, D4D and Party Trash. Its a glossy limited edition CD release with some great artwork and is priced at the Satanically awesome £6.66. Go get the EP here and the remix EP here.
This is my 2012 HYPE LIST! Not a list of the best artists of 2011, or a best album list etc. This is ten artists who should, could and will be influential, successful and ahead of the game as we go into 2012, the apocalypse year, the end times. Now I'm not saying all these guys will be mega successful but they should be.
Unicorn Kid: With the release of his Tidal Rave EP Unicorn Kid set himself up as just the best thing ever this year, unsigning himself from his label, he released the EP for free as an unsigned artist and was being played on daytime BBC Radio1 within a month or so. Big things for this dude. You blogger haters better get it together and re-listen to this EP. Seapunk magic 2012 into the future!
Adeptus: This dude sprung to my attention producing the music for Kreayshawn's "Bumpin Bumpin" and the drag version of Justin Biebers "One Night Stand" these were slow epic prog trance tracks, just so good! Then he started the whole "trance war" competition that ended up being hosted by DIS Magazine. This guy has bigger balls than most and some of the best on trend close to the edge pop production skills ever. Post Trance for 2012.
Crim3s: These guys just rock. Not only do they look cooler than cool but they're awesomely lovely people IRL and together they make some of the most brilliant music ever. Within the last few months things have really taken off, with loads of little positive moves here and there that add up to a big things. These arent just another laptop and singer duo messing around in an obscurest musical backwater this is big time, this is a band with special moves, mortal combat style. V cool.
o F F: This is like a strange and subtle assault on the senses that moves in and before you know it is squatting in the upper floors of your brain. This is the what you get for all liking The XX so much; o F F is like some kind of ambient gothic R&B ghetto superstar in the making, lost in a fog of noise and wonder. why this is so great is its artistic take on a more commercial sound, something slick and sharp like Drake but through long tunnel of smoked glass and valium. Slow and drifting but total pop! Brilliant!
Teams: Since the release of the Dxys Xff album Teams has probably had a pretty great summer, if the two most recent tracks created since then are anything to go on. Embracing the Seapunk vibe as much as the 80s bass and glam, the funk and smooth woosh of LA. Throbbing heat and no sleep, sunlight through blinds, endless R&B speedboat chases echoing through street soundsystems, roller skates and a forever summertime vibe. If things are fair in music then this dude is rolling on some big times!
Crave: This dude is from Berlin and does heavy grunge electronica, neo folk bass, black metal dubstep, whatever you want to call it its intense and powerful as fuck and has all the sounds and influences that have made 2011 great. Salem sounds but just that bit meatier on all levels.
SHADES: I love hype, I love when people invent stuff; genres, movements, pop stars. So I was pretty psyched to discover that Witch House big hitters (if there's such a thing) Ritualz and Teehn Bwitches were the producers behind SHADES, a new and uninterested seeming Mexican pop star in the making. Whether or not she/they make it big is anther thing but I sincerely hope so because I love these kind of projects. So you never know this could be the big hope of 2012 and you'll all be surprised! THROWDOWN by SHADES ☺
Glass Popcorn:
This dude is like the most precocious teen ever, he truly believes he's the next big thing, cool thing, hottest thing. And that's all it takes to win big. It also helps he can sorta rap and produces some great tracks! Glass popcorn is total Tumblr generation, still in school and inspired from everywhere all the time and constantly evolving. Brilliant and all set for 2012.
Zombelle: Last but in no way least we have Zombelle. Zombelle invented a whole new genre this year, #seapunk (hashtag for added twitter props) less of a musical genre and more of a lifestyle, visual, conceptual genre to be fair. Seapunk has been a lovely addition to 2011 and has been adopted by more than one artist on this list, Teams, Unicorn Kid etc. Zombelle aka Shan Beaste has been more ahead of the Zeitgeist than nearly anyone this summer with her style being appropriated by people like Lady Gaga amongst others! This is all gloss and polish, luckily her music is also brilliant! A slow and low dub feeling witch house, squelchy pop. It reminds me of Grace Jones for some reason and thats a great thing. This is someone who'll only ever do her own thing but could easily take over the world if she felt it was important to do!
A brilliantly intimate "band made" video featuring Sadie from Crim3s and towards the end of the video a totally tagged to pieces squat arty somewhere. This is a really awesome really subtle fashion film of a video and it totally compliments this Crim3s rework of the Clams Casino track.
POST RELIGION 4 DESTROY CULTURE - DREAMS + NIGHTMARES MIXTAPE: 2012 future next level shit and you better believe it! Any mixtape heavily using Crim3s and Unicorn Kid is gonna be massively repped by me! Download for free here.
Just look at this tracklist! 1) Intro/Capital J - Evil Streets 2) LIL INTERNET - Britney Spears Illuminati Glitch 3) Unicorn Kid - True Love Fantasy 4) Fire For Effect - YR SO WET 1.0 5) Braids - Lemonade(POST RELIGION Live Re - Edit) 6) Balam Acab - Big Boi 7) Crypt - Aspire 8) Christian AIDS - Stay + 9) LIL INTERNET - I WANT 2 B FREE 10) Crystal Castles - Baptism (CRIM3S Remix)(POST RELIGION Smash your teeth into your brain Live Re - Edit) 11) Zombelle & Myrh Ka Ba - Beach Blanket 12) Young Cream - 0
*thanks to Gucci Goth for linking my brain up to this mixtape!
New track by Crim3s!! Epic rolling stuff, heavy low down and dirty, emotion and screams through a syrupy fog of howling drones and stumbling beats! Thick layers of deep swirling synth soup and grinding echo and delay. These guys can do no wrong!
Here's the new Crim3s track, or well their first since changing names form Story Of Isaac. This is a pounder of a track, buzzing intense and fully vocal covered, echoing rooms of heavy vibes and fog. The lyrics are pretty much killer as well.
The band previously know as Story Of Isaac have finally changed their name after it was given to them by Ethan from Crystal Castles. They are now to be known as Crim3s. Its always weird when bands change names but this really works and marks a split from their more Witch House past to bigger things for sure. It also seems a good name in the wake of all the recent London riots, looting and various crim activity. We should also hopefully be seeing a new video from them soon as well. In the mean time there is a new remix from them of the YouLoveHerCosShesDead track Sunday Best. Go "like" their new page on Facebook here.
