Exclusive interviews with Soup J5 from Jurassic 5 and April Love from LUCKYandLOVE. New single premieres from UK’s Partisan and Third Frame from Fort Wayne, Indiana. New album premieres from San Eco and Shoegaze legends The Veldt. New video premieres from Manchester UK’s The G-O-D and Buffalo Sunn plus Jammerzine’s weekly Mixtape of new music.
Episode breakdown:
- Jammerzine Exclusive
- Exclusive interview with Jurassic 5’s Soup J5.
- Exclusive interview with April Love from LUCKYandLOVE.
- First Listen
- Partisan premiere their new single “Too Late”.
- Third Frame premiere their new single “Keep It Movin” featuring Bubba Sparxxx.
- The Test Drive
- San Eco premiere their new eponymous album.
- The Veldt premiere their new album titled “The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur”.
- First Look
- The G-O-D premiere their new video for the song titled “Mad Bad And Dangerous To Know”.
- Vault 51 premiere their new video for “Magnolia”.
- Buffalo Sun premiere their new video for “The Long Road”.
- Jammerzine’s Mix Tape
- The Theme – “You Don’t Talk To Me”
- The Moods – “Joy”
- Neil. – “Spleen”
- Labyrinth Lounge – “Trouble Won’t Last”
- Jamiroquai – “Superfresh”
ARTIST LINKS:
https://soupj5.com
http://luckyandlove.com
https://www.wearepartisan.rocks
https://www.facebook.com/thirdframe3
https://www.facebook.com/sanecosounds
http://www.facebook.com/The-Veldt-154526351270221
https://theg-o-dmcr.bandcamp.com
https://www.vault51.net
http://buffalosunn.com
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Jammerzine has an exclusive interview with Julie Infanti and Pete Denton from the pop duo known as J67. J67 is one of those groups that, through subtle genre hopping, are able to get their sound down to what they want while keeping it appealing to multiple fanbases and fans of different kinds of music.
Hailing from the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, J67 make music for the world with a sharp sense of musical styles and songwriting that is as diverse as it is appealing. Check out their double singles below for a proper introduction.
And, in this interview, we talk with Julie and Pete about their music, the indie scene in Cyprus, adjusting their schedule to a post COVID world, and how J67 got it’s beginnings. Enjoy!’
About J67
Both originating from the UK, Julie Infanti and Pete Denton are a female/male vocal/guitar duo, based in Cyprus.
Before coming together, Julie was performing in Cyprus and the UK and Pete in bands in the UK. Pete also had a stint at band management, working with David Arden (son of Don Arden and brother of Sharon Osbourne) David was an integral part of the Don Arden management team and Jet Records in the 60’s and 70’s and Pete learned a lot from David. Pete met David through his sister Sharon when she expressed an interest in Pete’s son’s (Pete Denton jnr) 1st band “Cube”.
Pete later became a member of The Kooks. Jules & Pete, began performing together in 2019 in bars (including “Hard Rock Cafe”) and hotels all over the east of Cyprus. Back in the summer of 2020, whilst performing, they were approached by the musical instrument manufacturer “Roland/Boss” and offered an Artist Sponsorship Agreement, which in turn led to the addition of some incredible new sound equipment for the duo courtesy of Roland/Boss.
Towards the end of 2020 and into 2021 Jules & Pete began writing their own original material and decided on the name J67 to promote this new project.
Their debut double A side single ‘Heaven’ and ‘Good Times’ written by Julie & Pete is to be released through Blind Dog Records on June 25th and will be available for download across all major platforms. In a typical year Jules & Pete and J67 will perform to over 18,000 people.
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Nature of Wires Drop First Light (Mesh Remix) + ‘First Light’ Video Premiere (The Week in #Indie Segment)
This is one of those rare moments in which we get to show you two versions of the same song, one included in a video premiere. This is Nature of Light’s Mesh Remix version of their track ‘First Light’, as well as their new video for the original version of the track.
While the original track may seem at the start to be a more danceable track, that is not so. The Mesh Remix starts off a little more ethereal in the beginning but the fact that it kicks in with a different danceable ambiance than the original makes it more of a reinterpretation than a remix, in my opinion. Both tracks have their individual strengths, with the original maintaining a more consistent beat while the Mesh Remix gives a more emotional take on this brilliant track.
‘Modus’, the new album from Nature of Wires, is set to drop on August 16th via Analogue Trash and can be pre-ordered via the band’s official Bandcamp.
About Nature of Wires
British synthpop stalwarts Nature of Wires have announced their new double album ‘Modus’, to be released on August 16 via Manchester’s Analogue Trash label. Comprising 18 tracks, this is 80s-influenced synthpop with a dark edge. The album had its genesis in the late 80s and early 90s when the band was in the middle of a creative hot streak.Ahead of the album’s release, Nature of Wires are whetting our appetites with the 2-track single ‘Madame Serena’, featuring a remix by electronic body music and electro-industrial artist Leaether Strip, and two additional tracks: ‘Every Single Sun’ and the remix of ‘First Light’ by European electronic giants Mesh.
Nature of Wires was formed in 1986 in Herefordshire. The original line-up was Gary Watts (synths & programming) and Andrew Stirling-Brown (vocals). The band went on hiatus in 1994 until reforming in 2015. In 2016, they released ‘Cyber Rendezvous’ with California’s CountessM on lead vocals, their first album since 1993’s ‘Modus Operandi’. The band’s live shows were enhanced by the addition of Tim Powell-Tuck on electronic drums, with a UK tour and BBC appearances.
“Modus has been 33 years in the making and includes songs written between 1986 and 1993, recreated using 21st-century technology. We want to look back on this album in 20 years’ time and be satisfied that it is as good as possible,” says Gary Watts.
“So we’ve involved some top producers – namely Steve Whitfield (The Cure, The Mission, Shed Seven, Terrorvision, Jah Wobble) and Mike Marsh (Calvin Harris, OMD, Human League, Chemical Brothers, Moby, Shamen, Massive Attack, Erasure, 808 State, The Prodigy, Depeche Mode). The artwork is by the super-talented Vlad McNeally. This is our final farewell to our younger years, representatives of the sound we created back then”.
CD1 features 8 original tracks, forged during a time of personal and musical change, and with striking clarity in this music and lyrics. But now, with access to top of the line music technology, Nature of Wires have refined and reinterpreted the inner soul and meaning of each song to create something that reflects an exciting time in the history of electronica and dance music, while also holding its own in the modern synthpop scene.
On CD2, Nature of Wires curated re-imaginings of tracks on CD1, offered by alternative electronic heavyweights Leaether Strip and Mesh, UK post-punk buzz band Klammer, and label-mates Room 1985, The Cowls and AtomZero. Applying their own vision whilst being faithful to the spirit of the originals, they’ve each re-interpreted the tracks in their own impeccable styles, adding to the sense of history that underpins ‘Modus’.
There’s a sense of finality to ‘Modus’, as well as a statement of intent for the rebirth of Nature of Wires, coming to terms with the past in a glorious and positive fashion, and preparing for an exciting future.
“CD1 presents the retro-electro, ‘lighter’ side of our writing, influenced by the synth-pop of the 80’s & 90s scenes. A ‘definitive’ version of the material we had back then, but with a modern edge. It brings together the core of our older fan-favorites and the very first song we wrote and one left unfinished in 1993, finally completed over 20 years later! We envisioned CD2 not just as a collection of remixes, but a deliberate companion or twin to ‘Modus’. This is not a double album; it’s a dual album,” says Andrew Stirling-Brown.
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SOURCE: Official Bio
LINKS:
http://www.natureofwires.com
https://www.facebook.com/natureofwires
https://natureofwires.bandcamp.com
https://twitter.com/natureofwires
https://www.youtube.com/user/natureofwires
https://www.instagram.com/natureofwires
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3UbV4twUaN8yLN3MYKgmMi
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Jammerzine’s The Week in #Indie for 4/5/2021
In this episode, we feature an exclusive interview with Jack McLeod from the Scottish Indie band The Rah’s. Also featured are premieres and previews from Julian Shah-Tayler, JPDL & Yogi Beats featuring Rider Shafique, Kirlian Camera, Kurtis Hoppie, Vix20, Pat Fulgoni, Pinhdar, and Sunlust.
About The Rah’s
Fronted by the charismatic vocalist Jack Mcleod and featuring Jordan McIntrye (lead guitarist), Neale Gray (drummer), Lee Brown (bassist), and Jack Miller (keyboard/ guitarist), The Rah’s are an alternative rock band from East Lothian, Scotland.
Over the course of their career, the bands striking live performance style and electric sound have led to them touring across Britain and Ireland, capturing the curiosity of fans with their early releases.
Having supported the likes of The View, Chris Helm, and The Fratellis and with Radio X presenter Gordon Smart highlighting the band as one to watch on the Scottish Music Podcast ‘Telt’, the band is going from strength to strength, and The Rah’s are beginning to make their mark on the UK music industry.
After spending over a year in the studio, the year ahead is set to be the best yet, with The Rah’s due to tour up and down the country ahead of the release of their debut album. Not to be missed.
LINKS:
https://therahs.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/therahsmusic
https://twitter.com/therahsmusic
https://soundcloud.com/therahsmusic
https://www.instagram.com/therahsmusic
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRahsMusicAbout Julian Shah-Tayler
Julian Shah-Tayler has today premiered his new song titled ‘Melt’. This track, to start off, is a darker and mellower turn in Julian’s personal ‘evolution of revolution’. Featuring a more sensual vocal styling and an ethereal accompaniment, the hook is a bit more subtle yet just as powerful and signature in that singularity sort of way. Almost in the realm of Pink Floyd at times, but not enough to be noticeable to the casual listener. ‘Melt’ is a song that will endear you without trying. Captivate without realizing. Evolve without involving. This is music.
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https://www.instagram.com/the_singularity_music
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https://www.youtube.com/user/thesingularityband
https://twitter.com/TheSingularityMAbout JPDL & Yogi Beats featuring Rider Shafique
JPDL & Yogi Beats release their new video for the track titled ‘Madness’ featuring Rider Shafique. The track is a smooth blend of syncopated dissonance combined with beat-laden jazz style fusion-funk and a suave and varied percussion.
The meaning behind the music is the madness in the mental. A perfect fit for this era of isolation. What is mental illness but that final desperation in coping with the seemingly un-copable. What we often forget is that the end is never the end but the segway to a new beginning. This is the brilliance within the beats of ‘Madness’.
LINKS:
Yogi Beats
https://www.instagram.com/yogi_beats/
https://www.facebook.com/yogibearbeats
https://twitter.com/YogiBearBeatsJPDL
https://www.instagram.com/jpdlukhh
https://www.facebook.com/jpdl2Played Out Records
https://www.instagram.com/playedoutrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/PlayedOutRecs
https://twitter.com/PlayedOutRecsRider Shafique
https://www.facebook.com/ShujaaRiderShafique
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Kirlian Camera has released their new video for the track titled ‘The 8th President’. While maintaining their dark presence that has become a signature for Kirlian Camera over many years, they have also brought forth an original, almost dystopian visual and audio aesthetic within the video that demands attention. Think of the movie ‘Blade Runner’ when I say this. It’s almost world-building.
The tack is all that one would expect from Kirlian Camera and, in some ways, more. There is a brooding, slow-burning underbelly to ‘The 8th President’ that, in some ways, reflects the current state of isolation and loneliness brought on by the current state of the world. Reflective of the things that are, Kirlian Camera gives a soundtrack to this that leaves more questions than answers and, while most current creativeness shows us what we could be, this shows us what we are. Brilliant.
LINKS:
https://www.kirliancamera.com
https://www.facebook.com/kirliancamera.official
https://kirliancamera.bandcamp.com
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPIm8M8kN3uqU3sOXm82ZpA
https://soundcloud.com/kirliancameraAbout Kurtis Hoppie
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The video is a story with heart and a visual with art and fits perfectly to the beat of the track. A video track for the sound.
LINKS:
https://www.instagram.com/thekurtishoppie
https://www.facebook.com/TheKurtisHoppie
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIR10g1HVLaYF2vHuBa6u7A
https://soundcloud.com/kurtishoppieAbout Vix20
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The video gives that lucid memory to the graphic artists of old that worked on such classics as ‘Heavy Metal’ and ‘Animalympics’. Given the music-heavy tinges of those two classic films, it’s easy to see where Vix20 gets some of its influence. And that influence is worn on the sleeve on the jacket of originality.
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https://www.instagram.com/vixtwenty
https://www.facebook.com/vixtwentymusic
https://twitter.com/Vixtwenty
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuPABFfRP8fWPKkp6mA9Kkw
https://open.spotify.com/artist/01fEKKUsAN1pp9jguVrTQG?si=0cMw1OI6R6mM2iO_42M6swAbout Pat Fulgoni
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https://www.facebook.com/patfulgonibluesexperience
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1C27324867B56BD7
https://patfulgoni.bandcamp.com/album/dark-side-of-the-blues-pat-fulgoni-live-in-pragueAbout Pinhdar
Pinhdar has released their new album titled ‘Parallel’. Angelic and operatic vocals soaring over lush and vivid soundscapes would be the immediate way to describe Pinhdar. Cecilia Miradoli and Max Tarenzi, the minds behind the music of Pinhdar, make music that is much deeper than that, though. There is a soul to ‘Parallel’. And a personality. Almost on the level of a concept as much as an album, ‘Parallel’ is, at times, a concept opera with the songs relating to chapters of a bigger, coherent piece. A ‘theater of the soul’, if you will.
The album gives you enough diversity to take what you want and bond with what you will. This is brilliance as an art form.
Check out our other features with Pinhdar HERE.
LINKS:
https://www.facebook.com/Pinhdar
https://www.instagram.com/pinhdar
https://twitter.com/pinhdar
https://pinhdar.bandcamp.com
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2dyLnwsbDsTfxa6qPi7LjFAbout Sunlust
Sunlust is set to drop their new album titled ‘Geek Confessions’ on April 12th. The album is a solid set of hooks harking back to when alternative was still alternative, and not he mainstream. Quirky at times and gritty throughout, Sunlust leave the garage door open and lets the neighborhood soak up the goodness ringing out of the garage.
The album is set for release on April 12th alongside a special edition pressing of 180g Vinyl. The band is looking forward to getting back out to play live, moshing with friends, and tearing up the stage!
LINKS:
https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/sunlust/1530877003
https://music.amazon.ca/artists/B08HNFJRLS/sunlust
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4WMqN2pDXq83U4OUc0IlQO
https://sunlustband.wixsite.com/website
https://www.facebook.com/sunlust.band
https://www.instagram.com/sunlust.bandClick HERE to watch Season 7 of Jammerzine’s ‘The Week in #Indie’.
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