Just to make sure I don't miss out on the bandwagon this week, and nor do you, two bands getting me excited this very second:
Boys Noize. New album. New song, Gax. Brilliant. I feel like I've just heard sweet sweet filter-house for the first time. And it's very exciting and beautiful.
In fact I haven't heard anything getting me this excited in a couple of months. It's just ace.
Clever, shiny, big pop music. This will go very far.
He is giving away several songs, including remixes of Animal by Crookers, Fake Blood and Punks Jump Up. Plus a wicked remix of Black and Blue by Tiga. Go here.
Teengirl Fantasy bring their dreamy electronica, for one of only a handful of London dates. Arch M, plays a bleepy shoe-gaze psychadelica, with a clever Motown flavour, and Trailer Trash Tracys are first on - a band I really like - bringing a classic shoe-gaze sound - distant vocals and thick, ethereal sounds, with a very London-now sound.
" Boys Noize will be playing a two hour set that will include many of the albums tracks played on CDJ’s using separate parts for live edits – a more kinetic experience preferred by Ridha than using a laptop. He has also picked fellow Germans Smith’n’Hack to play live alongside his mate and BNR artist Housemeister. Room 2 is helmed by Riton and Stopmakingme."
Also, a mention for the brilliant, funny and deeply charming No Cars.
Kyoko, wife of Ben, ex-St Francis, plays drums for them.
No Cars means 'farmers' in Japanese, and they have an obsession with songs about food.
Their cleverly faked bad English doesn't hide the gravity of their wit, as they play off of the Japenese stereotype. Oh, and they have synchronised dancing.
When they supported us a few months ago they wore kimonos, had a music stand with wacky illustrations for each song, and were pushing their merchandise, No Kazoos :
I have a No Kazoo. It was worth every penny of £2.
Their music is a delightful mix of bubblegum rock and roll and chaotic 3-chord punk. The music is simple. The lyrics are simple. The tunes are fantastic, catchy and bloody fun. Then they will throw in a tender post-punk number, and break your heart. "No Cars, we are No Cars..." I challenge anyone to dislike this.
Like all good entertainers, you feel in the presence of people wittier and more inventful than you are.
T-shirt label MILLIONHANDS was launched this July by Berlin based music producer Tom Mangan, fusing his two long held passions: music & T-shirts.
He has collaborated with the likes of Chicago acid house hero Adonis and the shirt 'We're Rocking Down the House' is a salute to Adonis's seminal 1986 track of the same name.
Quality looking Ts - and isn't it always the case that when you come to buy T Shirts you can never find any that are half-decent, or indeed have a Chicago acid-house reference on them?
Welcome to Lofi Hifi... a club night, which has for the last 7 years brought indie/post-punk/disco/electronica/power-pop/dance sounds to the people of Exeter, with a variety of different DJ line-ups over the years. Your good host got involved in 2006, in his final year of university, and spent 2 amazing years putting on bands, getting joyously drunk on a weeknight and learning the art of DJing, and of fending off requests for obscure German electroclash and/or pendulum. The club night remains, under the wise leadership of Paddy and Alex - who will hopefully be guest blogging in the future. The blog is now run from East London, the electronic counterpart to a party which has always placed diversity, progression and a top f-in knees up at its core.
Please do send me lots of music to georgewigzell[at]hotmail.com.
Lofi Hifi is a weekly party at the Cavern Club, Exeter. ( and the blog now run from East London)
We play indie-electro-disco-new wave-80s-post-punk-a smattering of techno-fidget-bailefunk-rock n roll. Plus live bands of the highest calibre!
It is now a MUSIC BLOG too. The 9 of us will share our news, thoughts, mixes and latest musical discoveries.
The blog is intended to help you discover new music, which you should then buy!
Any artists or labels who wish to have material removed/send us mixes/tracks please contact us at georgewigzell AT hotmail DOT com.