Geneva Jacuzzi at Cheetahs Club Hollywood!

Erleen Nada - Situation

Brilliant release, video and single by Erleen Nada, this is like a Seapunk styled dub version of Geneva Jacuzzi, so much fun!


Filmed, directed and edited by Erleen Nada. Original song "Situation" by Erleen Nada featuring Diana Death. Filmed in San Diego, California, October 2011. For a free download of this song go here.

Liturgy // Returner

LITURGY // RETURNER from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

Directed by Zev Deans who did the Geneva Jacuzzi - Bad Moods video. This is a big step up even though the the Geneva Jacuzzi vid is intentionally lo-fi. This video is just like WOW!

My top 10 albums of 2010!

So here are my top ten albums of 2010. Each link on the album title goes somewhere where you can download or buy the offending item.

10. Indian Jewelry – Totaled

(This album is a great dream pop, Witch House chillwave thing that sounds so immersive that you instantly get swept away to a star filled land of woozy magic and night time beats. What makes this just superb though is that it works as a proper albums album, a cohesive little world contained within its 13 tracks! Its the more grown up sibling to MGMT and Yeasayers attempts at 2nd albums!)

9. Tinie Tempa – Disc-Overy

(Best British rap this year, dance centred and different and with the ambition of a giant, the production makes you cum in your pants, its kinetic and immensely dynamic, dancefloor gold> no more like platinum. Really great styling that is more dance and fashion than grime and bling. Really great lyrical skills. Everything about it awesome, its like getting a new top of the line mobile phone at Xmas, its just so damn cool! Plus Jay Z loves him and wants to help him break the US!)

8. Electric Wizard – Black Masses

(None more heavy, the heaviest most drugged up satan worshippers this side of the Galactic rim made a new album this year, its still the Hammer Horror Doom of past albums but its just deeper and fuller, more layers and more lyrics, more Black Sabbath and more virgin sacrifices, blood drips from the cd when you buy it in store!)

7. Das Racist - Sit Down, Man

(Partly a mixtape, partly an album all parts amazing these three dudes are more inventive and hip than anything, and its a mixtape that has loads of cool producers doing each track! Go get this its free some places or 50 cents from their Bandcamp. I blogged about them and this album a few days ago!)

6. Geneva Jacuzzi - Lamaze

(Geneva Jacuzzi is very weird, and this album is no deviation from that, finally released this year its a collection of artsy, posing, 80s retro, synth based, Italio pop songs from a reincarnated Cleopatra. It's lo-fi and pretentious but so hard to fault or dislike and has kinda been overlooked but is all kinds of awesome! Plus she is one of the hottest singers of this decade!)

5. Burzum - Belus

(He comes out of prison and single handedly manages to create an amazing black metal album that doesn't disappoint at all. Yes he probably is an awful person but that's the thing with black metal you kinda have to look past the crazy to see the beautiful. This is a great "almost" easy to listen to album that takes you in to the pine forest and cuts your legs off at the knees!)

4. Teengirl Fantasy - 7AM

(Future dance music that manages to combine and sparkle across a whole load of genres from R&B to chillwave, mellow House vibes and every bit of the 90s you can mine for audio gold, to well anything that gets in its way and yet it all sounds like Teengirl Fantasy, I can recognise Teengirl Fantasy remixes straight off from miles away and this album has to be hear for a thousand different reasons, often combined within one song. If you're not listening to this then you should be about to!)

3. †‡† - CDR

(Too perfect a sound to ignore †‡† is Witch House for superclubs. Its all slowed down trance synths heralding a slo-mo apocalypse, you cant dance to this really but your brain never really realises that. It all sounds like the best breakdown in the best dj set ever and any moment the earth will shift its magnetic alignment, line up with the planets and bring the roof down. Its a trance build up then never breaks. Imagine Kanye Wests "Power" video with †‡† as the music and you suddenly get it, this is an album in search of a million dollar vanity film project , its size is immense, its sound is more 2012 than 2010, listen to it and be afraid! That is if you can get hold of it as it might not be available on Disaro any more!)

2. Crystal Castles – II

(A follow up, hard to do 2nd album that covers all it failed to first time round, promises the world and delivers the moon on a long space elevator instead of a stick -ie teeth grindingly brilliant! Songs that stick in your head like post brain surgery complications and beats and sounds that live in their own little world where only this album is played on repeat in a club all night forever. I need to hear this album djed out on huge sound systems more than it has been this year!)

1. Salem - King Night
(well I had too didn't I what else this year had the build up, the excitement and the future kick of this! Dark and epic and close to and lo-fi all in one foul swoop. Crack filled and haunted and overdriven and out of tune and beautiful. Over all creating a sound that is already and will continue to be mined for inspiration. Its Hip Hop and Gothic and Noize band and trippy and shoe gaze and unique. Also it has the best final track out of any of the albums on my entire list, Killer is a straight out shoe gaze, overblown fuzzed out and glitchy track and the most beautiful thing ever and just on a song writing level it kicks ass!)

LA Vampires - Make Me Over

This is the video LA Vampires have out for Make Me Over featuring Matrix Metals which is a swooning swishy underwater funk affair of posing psychedelia!

Its almost like a more trippy hippie-fied version of Geneva Jacuzzi, but I like it for the what it does with the simplicity of idea -no money then dont try and be big just be clear. Almost like a video booth take on things.

LA Vampires - Make Me Over from Not Not Fun on Vimeo.

Geneva Jacuzzi - Bad Moods

Never really sure if anyone else actually likes Geneva Jacuzzi! But I just cant get enough of her lo-fi video epics! I love how she always seems to try and make huge videos on shoestring budgets that although they are intentionally trying to look retro and lo-fi, I imagine that its also a look created out of necessity. What would she do with a more normal video budget of say.. ten thousand dollars! Would be awesome to see!

Geneva Jacuzzi "Space Heater"

GENEVA JACUZZI "SPACE HEATER" from Multinauts on Vimeo.

Geneva Jacuzzi's videos just get better and better, and like I loved the last one so much!

Geneva Jacuzzi, Clothes On The Bed video.

Clothes on the Bed by Geneva Jacuzzi from Eric Fensler on Vimeo.

GENEVA JACUZZI is awesome. I have some serious love for this girl right now. In my top 5 of the best female musical artists around at the moment!!

Geneva Jacuzzi live footage!

Geneva Jacuzzi performing "Do I Sad?" and "Love Stories" from her new album Lamaze at The Echo in LA last sunday. Some could see this as being totally pretentious but I just think this is amazing!

Lamaze limited edition vinyl will finally be available for pre-order at vinylinternational.com on June 1st.

//Tense// release full length album, Memory.

//Tense// are just a superb Texan industrial electro-goth/darkwave band that should be far more well known than they are (see Bosco Delray for equally unknown genius!)

Anyway that might all change with the release of their first proper full length album of ten all new tracks called Memory.

Out on Desire Records soon it will be on CD, digital and limited edition vinyl, so formats galore! Still doesn't top Geneva Jacuzzis upcoming 8 track version of her album Lamaze. Though if that actually happens or not is another thing entirely!

Here's a great //Tense// track I didn't post before that also has an equally nice video!

This is the track listing for their album:

1 - WORK HARD SHORT LIFE
2 - SIN REALITE
3 - PERPETUAL SWIM
4 - MINE TOO
5 - LOST RACE
6 - EMPTY HANDED
7 - THE VISITOR
8 - LEAD HEAD
9 - LIVING DREAM
10 - RAPID PULSE

oOoOOs new video!

oOoOO are from San Fransisco, beloved of 20jazzfunkgreats and Tri Angle, this band bring the 80s grooving dark vibe back, like a tripping out Geneva Jacuzzi. Intense doom synths and foreboding, slow grinding echo beats and far way vocals but also a light San Fran melodic vibe. Surfing on valium, sand between the toes but wearing a large fur coat.

Below is their new video for Seaww which says a lot about this mysterious unpronounceable band. They also who have a 6 song very limited EP with hand made sleeves available from their myspace.

Geneva Jacuzzi album Lamaze released!!

The first official album release from Geneva Jacuzzi is here! Lamaze is a collection of 15 of their lo-fi gems recorded between 2004-2009 (one of which is Love Caboose, see video above!) that were compiled by Geneva Jacuzzi and mastered by Ariel Pink and Jay Rajeck this year. Vinyl LPs & 8 tracks (yes, 8 tracks) of Lamaze are out 9th March

The album can be downloaded now from iTunes

Check out their Myspace to see/buy their brilliant t.shirts!