Idle Faction are releasing their second EP, Survival Skills, tonight at Happy.
With support from The Dukes of Leisure and The Dissentors.
From 10pm. $5 or $10 with CD.
Idlle Faction are releasing our second EP, Survival Skills, on Saturday at Happy.
With support from The Dukes of Leisure and The Dissentors
$5 or $10 with CD...
that party was indeed awesome. we should play more parties. anyone want a kickass loud high energy band to play in their house? :)
Idle Faction will be releasing their long awaited second EP, Survival Skills, on Saturday the 17th of March at Happy.
With support from The Dukes of Leisure, The Dissentors and (probably) The Sunshine Suite.
This night will rule. That is all.
Bass player wanted to jam with a guitarist/drummer combo in Wellington. We have a practice space and many years experience in different bands. So far it is looking mostly instrumental and yet to fall into any easily described category. We are both pretty chilled out, and are interested in finding a competent, creative, enthusiastic and reliable human being to round out the sound, write some songs and have some fun with.
contact email: wisdomofthedancingmoose (at) gmail (dot) com
Speaking of which, I bootlegged the Black Boned Angel show, for those of you who didn't click to the thread
http://www.nzmusic.com/topic.cfm?i=16805&show=latest
Also have a Stumps bootleg to put up someday...
#7: Remix of Nurse With Wound's 'A Short Dip in the Glory Hole' - one of the darkest, most disturbing pieces of music you will likely ever hear.
#8: Black Boned Angel, live at Valve. Epic droning sludge doom, of the Sunn 0))) and Boris ilk. Awesome. Play on a bass heavy stereo system :)
http://www.undulatingungulate.com/blog
If they aren't among the most recent posts when you get there, click any link that says "podcasts".
I'll restrict my comments to Jakob sounding like the landscape, since I don't agree with any of the others you mention.
The music evokes an emotional state/response similar to that which the landscape does. So they get associated.
Why? Dunno. Why do minor chords sound "sadder"?
Are they trying to? Who knows.
Are they influenced on some level by their environment? Sure.
The effect is likely to be in the interaction of the listener and the music. ie if you play it to Japanese people they pronably won't nod and go "yeah, it sounds like new zealand landscape", because they are unlikely to have an emotional association for NZ landscape to be set off by the music.
Two recent entries in Undulating Ungulate's podcast series are up: bootlegs of The Dukes of Leisure and Cue the Sun.
Yeah, sorry, I don't check in to NZM very regularly. If anyone wants to get in touch re: recording, contact me via the Contact link on undulatingungulate.com/blog.
It looks like a new podcast will be up soon, too. Our first local outing.
Right. The Podcasts page is a separate listing of the files from the original blog post in which they appear. The original blog post has a streaming option as well as download (at least when it works).
I will keep an eye on this, maybe link to the original posts from the podcasts page, rather than the files.
Although the Sigur Ros one is at 64kbps .wma which is the same technical sound quality but I wanted a smaller file size cos the concert was almost two hours long...
Yeah. I'm not planning to do anything other than dump the raw sounds up, but anyone with a decent stereo should be able to compensate for any shortcomings with the recording. Bootleg is as bootleg does. :)
Length of show depends on the band.
Sound quality is at maximum 128kbps mp3. (Just good enough without being spectacular.)
Tends to work out about one meg a minute.
Storage is on my website, which has traffic to burn at present. If it gets out of hand we'll see.
the podcasts page is at
http://www.undulatingungulate.com/blog/?page_id=41
at the moment there are bootlegs of Sigur Ros and No Funeral up, which would probably give some idea.
Since I have the ability to do so: I am considering bootlegging live shows and podcasting them to the net.
I'm sort of bootlegging them for my own amusement at the moment, but it occurs to me to make them available as much as I can be arsed.
Wherever possible I would get the permission of the bands before sticking them online.
Basic quality control: if the recording comes out a bit shit, I won't put it online. Sound quality tends to come out okay so far; solid if not spectacular. The bigger the PA, the better :) And my taste is an obvious filter, too, I guess.
But my questions (and please don't answer if you're not Wellington based and gigging, since they are the sample of people who matter at present) are: would people like something like this? Are there any obvious issues I have missed?
The plus side seems to be you get a live show online for free.
The only problem I can see is if people feel this cuts into their proprietary rights or whatever, so I figure this will be more of an underground thing than a band on record labels thing.
So...?
* We're playing this Thursday (the 11th) at Valve with Cop Car, Baxter
(and/or) no Love Lost. So, a sort of punk flavour to the audio. The
posters have themed the evening as a political one, which I think is cute,
(even though they misquoted the lyrics :)
* This will be our first gig with one guitarist. Ooooh!
* We have new (rocking) songs. Aaaah!
* We will be having fun. Join us. Raaar!
* We sold out of EPs (yay! thanks!), and will hopefully make some more soon.
This Friday the 13th at Valve
A night of savage sonic madness to end an era.
Idle Faction will release their debut 6- track EP.
With support from No San Pedro, Clot, and Viscera.
$5 on the door, or $10 with the EP.
This will also be our final gig with "NiceGuyEddie" on guitar.
After three years of honourable service.
Come.
If the heat and humidity are making you crazy, come out and let loose.
Idle Faction are playing their first gig of the year tonight at Bodega with Stratocruiser.
Over summer we chilled out and recorded an EP which sounds wicked :)
Idle Faction are playing tonight at Bodega with Stratocruiser !
This will be our first gig of '05.
In other news, the EP is still being mixed and sounds FUCKING AWESOME. :)
Over the weekend Idle Faction recorded a six track EP of mostly new material. It sounds awesome, even pre mixing etc.
FUCK YEAH! :)
We were awesome.