http://www.anewbandaday.com/2010/01/anbad-probes-midi-midis.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=anbad-probes-midi-midis Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:18:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.anewbandaday.com/2010/01/anbad-probes-midi-midis.html/comment-page-1#comment-2359 Some Of It Was True! » Blog Archive » MidiMidis Sun, 09 May 2010 10:25:23 +0000 http://www.anewbandaday.com/?p=1379#comment-2359 [...] Sorry for my relative quietness lately – my girlfriend’s been staying, and she’s very attractive.  I’m fully focused now though, so let’s consider MidiMidis, aka London duo Ant Struselis and Marcus Fairley.  Are they London’s answer to MGMT (two strange-os making fiercely intelligent, bedroom-based electro pop)?  No.  MidiMidis are a bit less grandiose than their famous fellow twosome.  But their songs are just as appealing: as sugary as candy-floss and as innocent-brackets-fucked-up as Alice in Wonderland.  Throw in Super Mario electronica sounds and a unexpected gravelly, punkish male voice and you’ve got a winning cocktail of confusion.  Much more in this interview with the excellent A New Band A Day site. [...] [...] Sorry for my relative quietness lately – my girlfriend’s been staying, and she’s very attractive.  I’m fully focused now though, so let’s consider MidiMidis, aka London duo Ant Struselis and Marcus Fairley.  Are they London’s answer to MGMT (two strange-os making fiercely intelligent, bedroom-based electro pop)?  No.  MidiMidis are a bit less grandiose than their famous fellow twosome.  But their songs are just as appealing: as sugary as candy-floss and as innocent-brackets-fucked-up as Alice in Wonderland.  Throw in Super Mario electronica sounds and a unexpected gravelly, punkish male voice and you’ve got a winning cocktail of confusion.  Much more in this interview with the excellent A New Band A Day site. [...]

]]> http://www.anewbandaday.com/2010/01/anbad-probes-midi-midis.html/comment-page-1#comment-400 Bob Rifo vs Beethoven « Pretentious and useless rants about solidarity and respect and decency and tasteful restraint and other shit Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:44:08 +0000 http://www.anewbandaday.com/?p=1379#comment-400 [...] a endlessly vast universe of differing genres, sub genres, etc. And people are still experimenting. Taking sound chips out of old video game consoles and manipulating them to make music, we have rock bands like Muse taking the world by storm, Animal [...] [...] a endlessly vast universe of differing genres, sub genres, etc. And people are still experimenting. Taking sound chips out of old video game consoles and manipulating them to make music, we have rock bands like Muse taking the world by storm, Animal [...]

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