Throwback Thursday: Tubeway Army - Are 'friends' electric?

One of my favorite new shows is "Halt and Catch Fire" on AMC.  It's a fictionalized depiction of the personalized computer revolution and takes place in the early 80s.  The soundtrack to the show is some really great synth heavy 80s shit.  Tubeway Army dropped this track in 79 acctually but it's about as 80s synth banger as you can get.  The London based group was really masterminded by Gary Numan, the lead singer, song writer and producer. But they were definitely pioneering a new wave sound out of a punk era.

Djrum - Ode

Luh dis shit. Djrum aka Felix Manuel outta London. This also dropped last week:

Yea, he's major.

patten - Winter strobing (directed by Jane Eastlight)

patten's Warp-LP, 'ESTOILE NAIANT', was released last week (after an early leak and stream on his website).  In the video for 'Winter strobing', a camera lingers behind a woman making her way through Canary Wharf (one of London's glittering financial districts replete with futurist monoliths and second only to New York in international financial services exportation).  The video finds concurrence with patten's recent Xlr8r interview in which he draws particular attention to how music functions in diverse contexts and spatial dimensions:

"In the project, there's a fascination with objects that are being made and how they might create the circumstances by which one could be creative in their interfacing with those images, those sounds, those kind of real-time experiences with a live performance. What could a piece of music do when someone is walking along the street with it directly in their ears? What could it do when it's pounding on their chest in a dark space? How can one form move between these different spaces? What characteristics could it accrue as it moves from headphones into a club space, into a seated theatre, into a research paper, into text, into conversation, into a garment, into a color or a combination of two colors, into a texture, into a single word or combination of words, into a spatial dynamic... It's open, and I think that's really important."

Brolin - Flags

Dazed Digital premier the new Brolin mixtape, Flags.  In this new release, the occult Londoner continues his eccentric trajectory, following in the path of innovators like Ben Khan and Jai Paul, by pulling together disparate elements ranging from Electronica to Funk.  Where Brolin distinguishes himself, though, is in his fine-tune lyrics that often lift complexity out of simple turns of phrase as in his 2013 release, 'Portland'. 

Chairman Kato - Science & Romance EP

Chairman Kato - 'Science & Romance' EP (Clips) by Awkward Movements

Kato has been on my "overlooked" list since my days in Germany... Now that Lapalux has been taken from Pictures Music... many would look to Kato to take over as front runner on their squad.  However, Kato is releasing this EP with Awkward Movements... another London label.  What's happening at Pictures Music?