Friday 18 February 2011

The never ending search begins.

Welcome to Lets go to the stars!

The search for truth, knowledge, happiness and the best music in the world. That is all!

Getting straight to it lets start with a bit of lovely music shall we?





Witch House


Yes, they have now named a Genre Witch House! But it turns out it sounds exactly like music Witches would make (if they had access to 808's 909's and a handful of distortion pedals).

With an obligatory Lo-Fi sound Witch House may not take over the world anytime soon but seems to have been gaining a good bit of press of late. Here are three bands that have so far drifted onto my radar..

White Ring appear to be as close to music made by Witches as humanly possible. I think they may have gone back in time to Salem and sampled the actual sounds of witches being burned and drowned alive. On that beautiful note you can check out their track Roses below.

White Ring - Roses






Salem are currently the daddies of this genre and definitely my pick of the bunch (not hard when so few to pick from). I would highly recommend their debut album King Knight. Check out their track Frost below.

Salem - Frost






oOoOO:
Yes this is their name and I suspect it could be the sound of a ghost? They seem to have a bit more influences from the world of Pop than Salem and White Ring. Thankfully though I cannot see them becoming the latest bought and paid for whores of the pop world! Check out their track Egyptynlvr below

oOoOO - Egyptynlvr





And now we end on a quote from the man Bill hicks :)

The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think that it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly coloured, and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question - is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us. They say 'Hey! Don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride.' And we...kill those people. Ha ha ha. 'Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride. SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and family. This just has to be real.' It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter because: it's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings, and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourselves off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what you can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defence each year, and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, for ever, in peace.
Bill Hicks





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