Louis van Kleeff. Band Interviews, gig and release reviews, photos, articles for Ls radio, Quite good, Shrill blog and myself. Working out of Liverpool/ London.
Please No Pictures by BBU and Das Racist
BBU are a conscious Rap group from Chicago and all of their stuff manages to be both pretty cognitive and still good fun/ an excellent dance (even if they do make you realise and feel shit for your privilege sometimes)
This track is a collaboration from favourites of mine Das Racist, who do a similar thing but maybe with even more fun
Look them both up, BBU’s bell hooks EP is available for free download, go find it
Joe Newman, Alt J frontman, takes time away from recording his LSRadio SoundCity Session to chat with Louis Van Kleeff about the origins of ‘∆’ and what he is looking forward to most at SoundCity 2012.
Poly Styrene t shirt!
Loving the sprocket rocket adaptor
Listen to Louis van Kleeff dropping a bomb on Scottish lads Bwani Junction, who came in to see us for a session today!
Really nice and talented guys this lot, Hopefully you should hear some more from them some time soon
My Interview with Clock Opera from when they came to play for LSradio during sound city this weekend! When I find it I’ll post the video of it, one of them almost fell off our hastily prepared chairs
For some serious spam from LSradio’s Liverpool Sound City coverage.
I managed to do Loads of interviews including, Alt J, Clock Opera, Death in Vegas and Bwani Junction, plus we recorded live sessions with pretty much everyone on that list, so look out for them when I find them, because they are all pretty great.
Bombed Out Church- Liverpool
The bombed out remains of St Lukes in Liverpool. It was hit by incendiary bombs during the second world war and now stands as one of the main landmarks in the Ropewalks. It hosts film screenings at night. No one even calls it its original name anymore.
Polica- Lay Your Cards Out
Put on to this by a friend of mine, really nice, the vocals are just excellent, exciting .
I’m realising that a lot of the stuff I’ve put on this blog has been this kind of slow dripped, stretched out warped in chillwave stuff, I hope it isn’t getting irritating.
However it is what I’m enjoying at the moment and I think Mmoths are doing it beautifully, if you can you should catch them playing some of the vice issue launch shows, they’re sure to kill it
More fish pun fun
Some friends of mine and I got pretty carried away with the Fish pun game a while back…
Blighty Wound- Berlin Loves Us
A mixtape I made, a little bit for the lovely Eva, about when I was staying in Berlin last summer, It was a beautiful time and the songs are maybe Autobiographical, but mostly just stuff that I really was listening to at the time.
Contains-
Tulips (Minotaur Shock mix)- Bloc Party
Yes You Talk Too Fast- Johnny Foreigner
Veronica Sawyer- Summercamp
The Look- Metronomy
The Passenger- Iggy Pop
Skinny Love (rerub)- Das Kapital
Schwarz Zu Blau- Peter Fox
Champion Sound- Crystal Fighters
It’s Never That Easy Though, Is It?- Los campesinos
The Love Cats- The Cure
Nantes- Beirut
More Tongue, Less Heart (Response Cycle mix)- Johnny Foreigner
An Lsradio on camera interview I did with Oxygen Thieves, a new young band from Liverpool who are pretty cool, you should all come up to Sound city this week!
SOPHIE- Selected demo’s
I know these are only the 2 minute demo versions of all of these tracks, but they all suggest a truly amazing party if they are ever released into the world fully formed. Whilst falling very much into the dance music realm they are all pretty interesting, might even get some club play. Have a look and keep your eyes open for later details
