Glass Candy - Feeling Without Touching

There's a lot of labels in the music world. i get shit all the time because i listen to witch house music (most overused joke - intentionally miscalling it witch craft music), but recently, i found multiple bands described as "Italo Disco." Glass Candy is one of these bands.

sidebar: the other band is the Chromatics, who i listened to like fucking crazy back in my junior year of college.

Glass Candy is pretty strange. be it the erratic and often times uncomfortable dancing of Ida No, or the impossible to describe production work from Johnny Jewel. it works though, at least for me. and if it doesn't work for you, then i hope you figure out how awful Coldplay is by the time you're 25.

check out this video for their track "Feeling Without Touching": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Myo0QjwE0

MOTHS - Heart

This is a really romantic song with an equally romantic video.  wish i had my own airplane so that i can impress beautiful girls driving classic cars in the desert.  beat's pretty simple and clean and there's something heartbreaking about it.  it makes me want to call all of my ex-girlfriends, one by one, and figure out why shit didn't work out.  hope you like it, and if not, then you're probably going to die alone.

video (Heart) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4mQw0x1_lI

Geneva Jacuzzi - Do I Sad?

So when i went to go see John Maus at the echo last night, i didn't really have any expectations of anything else.  granted, i was wasted by the time i got to the echo (at one point laying down alone on one of the tables in the patio) and all i was focusing on was claiming my territory in front of the stage and not moving until John Maus was on the stage sweating on me.

when Holy Shit was finished, i sat on the edge of the stage, just left of center, and waited.  a problem arose when my glass of Jim Beam became empty and i had to make a plan to get a refill.  i figured i could get one really quick toward the beginning of the next act and get my spot back in time for Maus.

but then Geneva Jacuzzi came on stage with a mic stand and a small synthesizer, dressed like a mushroom induced hallucination of Jafar (from Aladdin).  needless to say when she hit a button on her synth and started dancing and singing to a dream/nightmare like beat, i became totally fixated.  amazing performance, right up with Maus.

i hear a lot of comparisons to Ariel Pink, some even saying that she is basically the female Ariel Pink.  this however, sells her short.  granted Pink is a genius, but he can't fucking dance (evidence).  Geneva Jacuzzi dances really well (evidence).  Jacuzzi is a bit more pop-like to boot, really danceable and catchy.  so yes they both share the 1970's/80's cassette tape reject aesthetic, but they offer two different sounds, man.  check out this awesome fucking track, "Do I Sad?"

Track (Do I Sad?): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKUD3cLkajA

§ - A Blue Rose (Twin Peaks) / Mater Suspiria Vision - (These are the last 7 days in the life of) Laura Palmer

I find the strange connection between witch house music and Twin Peaks to be amazing.  Phantasma Disques, a CD-R/art collection created by one of the members of the mysterious European witch house trance/drone act Mater Suspiria Vision (kind of like, a label within a label), developed an entire album (A Witch House and OKKVLT Guide to Twin Peaks) of witch house artists' tributes to Twin Peaks.  Mater Suspiria Vision and § (Silver Strain), created these gems.  the trance/drone sound is typical of acts associated with the European witch house scene and the videos pay homage to one of the greatest and most bizarre TV shows of all time.  loads of great footage and editing from both seasons, as well as the film.  it does an amazing job profiling the key characters of the show and stays true to the Twin Peaks post modern ethos: the owls are not what they seem.  and if you don't think so, then i hope that Leo beats you mercilessly with a sock filled with bars of househould soap.  

Video (§): http://www.vimeo.com/21785003?ab

Video (Mater Suspiria Vision): http://www.vimeo.com/20757981?ab