XENO & OAKLANDER / LED ER EST (NYC, WIERD RECORDS) - Sun 18th April, Whelans (1 Viewer)

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Two of New York Citys finest Cold Wave / Minimal Synth inspired bands come to play Dublin....

Skinny Wolves Presents,

XENO & OAKLANDER (Usa, Wierd Records)
LED ER EST (Usa, Wierd Records)

w/ Guests TBA


Sunday 18th April 2010
Whelan, (upstairs), Wexford St, Dublin

Doors : 8.00pm | Tickets info : TBA

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XENO & OAKLANDER

http://www.myspace.com/xenoandoaklander
http://xenoandoaklander.com/

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Miss Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride, aka Xeno and Oaklander, began performing at bars, clubs and private parties in 2004, functioning single-handedly along with Sean's solo project Martial Canterel as the instigators of what has now become a new, rapidly growing movement of minimal electronic bands in the United States. Inspired by the likes of the largely unknown first wave of continental European minimal electronic bands of the early 80's (Absolute Body Control, Twilight Ritual, Martin Dupont, Snowy Red), the seminal early industrial bands, as well as the emphemeral, psychedelic atmospheres of the British shoegaze bands of the 1990s, Xeno and Oaklander perform using entirely analogue synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines to produce a highly-crafted, complex of form of moody, electronic pop music that is simultaneously romantically melancholic and affirmatively aggresive. Uptempo, cold, distant, echo-laden electronic landscapes provide a spacious, melancholic backdrop for Miss Liz's complex ephemeral lyrical presence. Their entirely live approach to both performance and recording, unmediated by the computer or any prerecorded playback interference, presents a new optimistic radical paradigm shift for electronic music in which the analogue synthesizer functions entirely anew as a folk instrument of humanist resistance to a 'soft synth' world being 'clicked and dragged' into oblivion.

X&O documentary feature produced by Vice Magazine for VBS.tv.
http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/1/20/electric-independence-xeno-and-oaklander--2

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LED ER EST

http://www.myspace.com/lederest
http://lederest.com/

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Led er est was formed in early 2007 by Samuel kKlovenhoof and Shawn NoEQ. Drawing from the dire textures of first-wave industrial music, the craftsmanship and ambience of postpunk and coldwave, and the primal kineticism of old school house and techno, the project was initially more of an outlet for song fragments and delirious baubles. As their sound took a more structured turn towards the end of 2007, Owen Stokes was recruited. Led er est strives towards that which is otherworldy and alien(ating), but also immediate and infectious. Their live performance is raw and unhinged, at times leaning towards the improvisatory, but ultimately rooted in traditional songcraft.

"Brooklyn's Wierd Records is proud to present the debut LP from Led Er Est entitled Dust on Common. Formed in 2007, the band has both been fostered by and has served as a vitally integral part of the Brooklyn minimal electronics scene that surrounds the Wierd Records label and weekly party that has been active in New York since 2003. Like their close friends and label allies Martial Canterel and Xeno & Oaklander, this first full-length release shows the three piece clearly breaking out of the Wierd minimal synth underground to create an undeniably contemporary set of highly crafted, sophisticatedly restrained, and icily psyche-delic pop songs. Following on the heels of both last year's self-released and 'gone in five minutes' debut 7" 'Fingers Curling Up', as well as the recently released single on Brooklyn's Captured Tracks label 'Poll Gorm b/w 'Man and Tree', this long-awaited Long-Player shows the band confidently coming into their own and is a welcome frozen blast of pleasure to their many fans, as their wildly raw and often improvisatory and unhinged live performances have garnered devoted cult followings in the cold wave, house, disco, and experimental electronics/noise scenes in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan."

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The music of the Brooklyn-based group Xeno & Oaklander seems to come from an earlier time, when the beeps and whirs of the analog synthesizer began to creep up from the underground into the mainstream of pop music (or drag it down to the depths, if you prefer). The late 70s and early 80s synth music from which their work draws was a reaction to the sense of the alienation brought about by living in world that was becoming more and more digital. Sean McBride and Liz Wendlbo, the duo behind the project, still find these sounds relevant today, in both theme and means. Xeno & Oaklander excavate a forgotten music, re-imagining its forms for the present with a defiant and romantic nostalgia. Their debut album Sentinelle, out now on Wierd records, is a testament to their skill at shaping electricity and is overflowing with icy drones, oscillating tones, and excellent (and danceable) songwriting.

After an epic performance of Preuss (a title taken from the particularly noisy auto body shop adjacent to their studio), McBride and Wendelbo sat down with BOMBsessions in their Williamsburg synth museum, to discuss the poetics of their songwriting, the relation of their vocal lines to Derridas Glas, and moving contemporary music forward by digging into the past. Catch Xeno & Oaklander on March 5th at the Cameo in Brooklyn before they leave for a European tour.

Video by Clinton Krute
with Luke Degnan

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Boys of Summer now added to the line-up!!

BOYS OF SUMMER

http://www.myspace.com/bbooyyssooffssuummmmeerr

"The sound of John Carpenter being buried alive" Le Cool Magazine

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Boys of Summer is a Dublin based synthesizer trio made up of Paul G. Smyth (The Jimmy Cake), Ivan Pawle (Sea Dog) and Andrew Fogarty (Toymonger, Weil Rats) on the Munitions Family label.

The group primarily uses analogue synthesizers and tape delays to create a modern electronic sound, which draws from early German Electronic Experimentalists such as Tangerine Dream and Cluster; Minimalist artists like Terry Riley and Brian Eno; 70s American Synth artists (Michael Garrison and Mort Garson, etc).

Originally formed in Limerick in 2004 by Pawle and Fogarty, the duo performed sporadically for a number of years, focusing mostly on their participation other projects - Sea Dog, Toymonger, United Bible Studies and various other projects. In 2008 the relaunched Boys of Summer were joined by Paul G Smyth (Jimmy Cake) and have continued to perform with international artists such as Cluster, Grouper, John Weise, Pocahaunted, Sun Araw, Lucky Dragons and Gnod; as well as local acts Sunken Foal, Cian Nugent, Children Under Hoof and Slomatics and many others, in galleries, bars, sheds and kitchens around Ireland.

To date the group has released three albums on the Dublin-based Munitions Family label; 'V' (2008), 'Pharaoh' (2009) and 'Future Ancients' (2010).
 
XENO & OAKLANDER Exclusive Mixtape for Skinny Wolves!!!

Check it here: www.soundcloud.com/skinnywolves/xeno-oaklander-mix-april-2010

Tracklisting//
1. not afraid to die - Twilight Ritual
2. Saracen - Xeno & Oaklander 'Sentinelle'
3. Sensation Boys - The French Connection
4. Silent Face - Artificcial Control 'Orgelvärk' (MC Neuköln Records)
5. The Force - Circuit 7
6. Sin Of Flesh - Corps Diplomatique 'V/A - La Muse Vénale'
7. Europe - Force De Frappe 'Minimal Wave World'
8. Port Isabel - led er est 'dust on common'
9. echofields - Dicky Design
10. Trisi, trisi siksparnit - Dzeltenie Pastnieki Alise
11. Sharing Sensation - Trisomie 21 'Raw Material'
12. Welcome to the Night - Stranger Station 'Synthetic Romance'
 

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