They create a beautiful tumult, all scrawling synth, insistent rhythms, corrosive guitar and narcotised vocal: Channel One are tuned into the strangest frequencies.
Sound Foundation Recordings continue their quest for global domination with the February 24 release of Violation, a three-track, 10” EP featuring Channel One ‘Not For The Last Time’, Humanzi ‘Fix The Cracks’ and The Things ‘Demon Stomp’.
While this whole merging-electro-beats-with-rock thing may not be new, these days it’s big and, considering this is their debut EP, Channel One are looking pretty clever to me right now. ‘Rhythm And Purpose’ may be Permissions’ out-right winner, but all five tracks are of a very high calibre, including the more mellow ‘Beneath A Field Of Steel’ (not unlike Bloc Party’s ‘Luno’). This lot could go far, so just remember – I heard them before you.
After making a formidable dent in Dublin’s live music scene, Channel One release a one-off single with Polydor offshoot Sound Foundation. With ‘Accelerate, Brake’ they opt for a gothic take on electronic/rock, a la mid-career Depeche Mode.
And with the indiebleep genre all the rage these days thanks to The Modern, The Faint et al, there ne’er was a better time for the five-piece to be bumped to that level higher.
They can’t decide whether they want to be dance band, a rock group or a hip-hop outfit. One thing’s for sure: you’ve never head anything quite like Super Extra Bonus Party before
The Irish contingent has been confirmed for South By Southwest, the annual showcase festival in Austin, Texas, which is arguably the most important shop window for new acts in the U.S. – and a few old ones to boot.
One of Hot Press' very favourite festivals, Castle Palooza returns this August Bank Holiday with acts including David Kitt, R.S.A.G and Dark Room Notes.
Never mind the naysayers, Dublin 2006 is spilling over with white hot talent. Steve Cummins and Shilpa Ganatra run the rule over the capital's new breed.
The next generation of emerging Irish musical acts will be in the international spotlight when they perform at the Popkomm conference in Berlin later this year.
The first acts of this year's Dublin Electronic Arts Festival have been revealed, with M83, Nurse With Wound, Model 500, Laurent Garnier and Trans Am among the initial highlights.
Applications are now open for next year's near-legendary South By South festival, which sees the great and the good of the music industry check out thousands of bands under the Texan sun.
Over three days, the cream of up-and-coming Irish and Scandinavian talent gave it their all. Killian Murphy picks out those that shone brightest. Click here. for live gallery.
As exclusively revealed last month in Hot Press magazine, Ian Brown, The Prodigy and The Streets will headline the inaugural Hi-Fi Ireland boutique festival on August 5 and 6.
Former jazzy drum’n’bass bod James Hardway embarks on a world music voyage and immediately the alarm bells start ringing. Cynics that we are, such adventurous projects are usually a sign of a creative dearth or a serious coke habit.
There will be less tired feet in Dublin in September, as the Hard Working Class Heroes showcase festival will be taking place within the confines of the Pod complex, it was revealed at yesterday’s launch.
hotpress.com can exclusively reveal the hundred or so acts that are getting offered a slot at the prestigious Hard Working Class Heroes Festival 2005. Selected by over 25 judges including the likes of Thrills & Humanzi manager Allan Cullivan
All Write Now, we said. And boy did you follow instructions! The entries poured in from all over Ireland, and further afield, in their thousands. We were snowed under – but, as the song says: That’s the way, uh huh, uh huh, we like it…
