Where you been darlin’?

Couldn’t think of a title to kick back into the blogging with so I just lifted a lyric from Yacht whose funky sounds are currently keeping the autumnal blues at bay, for now. So what’s been going on in the Analogue world over the last while I hear you ask?

Well to begin with the Analogue Hour is still going strong each week on RTE 2XM, I’m about to broadcast my 42nd show (It goes out tomorrow night – Wed the 30th of Sept) which is mad. To think almost a year ago I sent a cheeky email to the head of New Media in RTE asking for a show and here I am now a veteran DAB broadcaster with what I can only imagine to be several thousand loyal listeners hanging on my every word and recommendation…

Analogue reincarnate as an online music tv show is also plodding along very nicely. It’s a fairly challenging project for myself and the two directors involved as we attempt to develop a format that works but that also stays fresh and interesting. Coming from a print background to video has been a learning curve to say the least. Luckily the directors Graham and Tim are new to the concept too, as their past work was generally short films. All going well Episode 1 (that’s the first after the pilot) will be going online in the next two weeks or so.

All that leaves in terms of Analogue shenanigans is the website. Yep it’s been a little inactive over the last while, what with the radio / video taking up most of my time and most of the Analogue writers of yesteryear moving on to bigger and better things. Hopefully though over the next few weeks I’ll gradually get blogging a bit more and do a few interviews.

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Anyways here’s some things I’m digging right now:

Another Likely Story (Neon Indian Remix) – Au Revoir Simone

I love Neon Indian, great pop tunes brimming with synths and psychedelic leanings (‘Should have taken acid with you’ is the title of one song, go figure). Above, Au Revoir Simone’s track ‘Another Likely Story’ gets a ethereal reworking with beats and synth rolls that remind me of the soundtracks commom to many 80′s action movies.

Animal – Miike Snow

Miike Snow are amazing. Paul Lester in the Guardian has Miike Snow in a nutshell when he refers to them as “coolly emotional Scandinavian pop with unobtrusive experimental flourishes”. On their myspace, it’s says they’re playing in Carlow in November which I suspect may be as part of the Heineken Green Energy gig with Digitalism and Marina & the Diamonds.

photo by Dagny Piasecki