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December 14 2009

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GIG: Half The Size, Double the Flavour - Fri 18 Dec @ Rakinos

Written By 3 - December 14 2009

Half the Size, Double the Flavour
Feat Bobby Brazuka, Junior
Fri 18th December
Rakinos, 35 High St, Level 1 CBD
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December 14 2009

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NEW: Funko Figurines In At Conch!!

Written By 3 - December 14 2009

We have recently received a shipment of Funko figurines in store at Conch.   The Funko range includes several of our favourite popular culture characters, check below for pictures and links to the online store.

hong

Hong Kong Phooey

secret

Secret Squirrel

lee

Bruce Lee

captain

Captain Caveman

bob

Boba Fett

darth

Darth Vader

storm

Stormtrooper

yoda

Yoda

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December 14 2009

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King Midas Sound - Waiting For You CD (Hyperdub)

Written By 3 - December 14 2009

Available here from Conch

After two singles on Hyperdub, and a release on Soul Jazz, King Midas Sound's ‘Waiting For You’ is the debut album from Roger Robinson and Kevin Martin's new group.

In previous collaborations, Roger performed as a highly respected poet, but when he opened his mouth to sing in a fragile falsetto, everything changed and King Midas Sound was born. The signature inten­sity of their previous solo projects remains, but the mood and feeling is radically different. As opposed to Roger's spoken word pronouncements and The Bug's fierce battleground dancehall, King Midas Sound is more like an opiated aftermath.

‘Waiting For You’ is all about intimacy. Roger’s falsetto is fragile and vulnerable, a sound somewhere between Gregory Issacs and Vincent Gallo, nestled inside an intimate blanket of bass and vertiginous atmosphere. On three of the album cuts, the duo becomes a trio, as the bittersweet backing vocals of Hitomi (from Dokkebi Q) add a further disorientating swirl around the mix like memories gatecrashing the present.

Two years after Hyperdub released Burial's 'Untrue' it is still rare to find albums packed with such in­tense and honestly exposed feelings. King Midas Sound often deals with a similar strain of musical melancholia, but instead of hyperemotional haunted garage, ‘Waiting…’ is absolutely song based, and generates the spectral bliss of a jilted lovers rock, a sublime, heartbreak reggae. We learn quite quickly that the opening fresh breeze of sound system nursery rhyme 'Cool Out' was actually the back draft of an emotional apocalypse. As we move from the yearning title track, to the ital ecology of 'Earth a Kill Ya', to the elevation of the lunar 'Outer Space' and 'Miles and Miles,' the emotional geography opens out into full, dread soul glory, a wasteland populated by songs of psychic meltdown, the sweet toxicity of love, echoed lullabies to the departed and an acidic undertone of resentment -("I wish you luck with a capital F, boy").

Tracklisting : ‘Cool Out’, ‘Waiting For You’, ‘One Thing’, ‘Earth a Kill Ya’, ‘Dahlin’, ‘Meltdown’, ‘I Man’, ‘Blue’, ‘Goodbye Girl’, ‘Lost’, Sometimes’, ‘Outer Space’, ‘Miles & Miles’.

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Check the King Midas Sound Mix at Fact Mag

More Info: King Midas Sound MySpace King Midas Sound Blog

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December 11 2009

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Ba Ba Boom Release Party This Sunday @ PSC

Written By 3 - December 11 2009

Ba Ba Boom on the grill... The release party for Ba Ba Boom is happening this Sunday December 13 from 5pm as part of the Conch Sunday Grill,  at the Ponsonby Social Club. Dub Asylum VS Oogun DJ Battle, lotsa organic BBQ treats, and it's FREE! Copies of the single on sale too, check Mukuna for more details. Get the brand new 45 here from Conch.

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December 08 2009

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Club Sandwich - This Sat 12 Dec - Ginger Minx, Mt Eden

Written By 3 - December 08 2009

Hold tight for a festive flingdown as the 3 ex-pat wise men deliver the mightiestmusical mix-up!
CLUB SANDWICH - FEAT. GEEZER GUY, CIAN, STINKY JIM
SAT 12TH DECEMBER
GINGER MINX 117 VALLEY RD, MT EDEN
NO COVER!!

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