"Komiche Traveling with Vampires," featured on the Report compilation and Raw Thrills Dead Set, hits like a rocket shot into your nasal cavity, only to burn up and fizzle out as it reaches the outer layer of Earth's atmosphere. It exists in a parallel universe where the China Club is inhabitated by junk'd out terrordome fashionistas, ala Escape from New York (or LA), and rocket cars are the most popular mode of transportation. But they ain't nice rocket cars. They suck, actually. In the post-WW7 world, the most advanced technology is rusted over and coroded, fucked up beyond recognition, but still somehow viable. Get all the Raw Thrills hotness, including another recently released CD-R at IMSOSORRYDAD. Weekend...blast off.
Showing posts with label raw thrills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label raw thrills. Show all posts
Friday, March 26, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
show: Twin Sister, Big Troubles, Pigeons, Alice Cohen....
"Nothing But Violent"
We're hosting another great event this week, this time with the inimitable Olde English Spelling Bee. Running the line between blissed out fantasy and fantastical reality, this show might be one of the best curations of talent in NYC right now. Not only does it feature both Twin Sister and Big Troubles, who have been slaying Brooklyn audiences for months, but also the fragile psych of Alice Cohen and Pigeons AND the warped scapes of Run DMT. Not trying to melt completely into utter Fantasia, all good, as DJ Raw Thrills, aka Zak Mering, will be pointing you in the uber-zone, where idiosyncratic twist & shouting is not only demanded, but required. Not really sure what that means, though I can guarantee Thursday night will be a good time.
The Studio at Webster Hall (aka Downstairs)
125 East 11th Street, New York, NY 10003
Thursday, Feb. 4th
8 pm doors
9 pm show
$5 advance / $7 at door
Twin Sister- I Want a House
Big Troubles- Sick Days
Pigeons- Tendress
Raw Thrills- Why Can't I Say Let Go
Alice Cohen- Memories of Glaciers
We're hosting another great event this week, this time with the inimitable Olde English Spelling Bee. Running the line between blissed out fantasy and fantastical reality, this show might be one of the best curations of talent in NYC right now. Not only does it feature both Twin Sister and Big Troubles, who have been slaying Brooklyn audiences for months, but also the fragile psych of Alice Cohen and Pigeons AND the warped scapes of Run DMT. Not trying to melt completely into utter Fantasia, all good, as DJ Raw Thrills, aka Zak Mering, will be pointing you in the uber-zone, where idiosyncratic twist & shouting is not only demanded, but required. Not really sure what that means, though I can guarantee Thursday night will be a good time.The Studio at Webster Hall (aka Downstairs)
125 East 11th Street, New York, NY 10003
Thursday, Feb. 4th
8 pm doors
9 pm show
$5 advance / $7 at door
Big Troubles- Sick Days
Pigeons- Tendress
Raw Thrills- Why Can't I Say Let Go
Alice Cohen- Memories of Glaciers
Friday, January 22, 2010
new: Greatest Hits
"Take Your Time"
Apparently Zak Mering doesn't sleep. Between dropping tons of new Raw Thrills shit (he put another CD-R up on his site the other day), dude somehow finds time to craft more explosive schizo-synth jams as part of Greatest Hits with Tyler Thacker. Ariel Pink comparison's are definitely warranted, but Greatest Hits dwell in darker club zones, salivating over ketamine beats while fetishizing over black light posters. The club they hang in is probably one of their bedrooms, but that shouldn't take away from the fog machine, strobe light ethos, as its those first times at your friends b-day sleepover with a boombox and an older brother's strobe that really set the tone for Greatest Hits Vol.1. Be sure to peep track 3, "Make You Mine", one of the finer pieces of straight up dance pop I've heard in a minute. "Danse Pop" too.
Download Greatest Hits Volume 1.
Apparently Zak Mering doesn't sleep. Between dropping tons of new Raw Thrills shit (he put another CD-R up on his site the other day), dude somehow finds time to craft more explosive schizo-synth jams as part of Greatest Hits with Tyler Thacker. Ariel Pink comparison's are definitely warranted, but Greatest Hits dwell in darker club zones, salivating over ketamine beats while fetishizing over black light posters. The club they hang in is probably one of their bedrooms, but that shouldn't take away from the fog machine, strobe light ethos, as its those first times at your friends b-day sleepover with a boombox and an older brother's strobe that really set the tone for Greatest Hits Vol.1. Be sure to peep track 3, "Make You Mine", one of the finer pieces of straight up dance pop I've heard in a minute. "Danse Pop" too.Download Greatest Hits Volume 1.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
video: Raw Thrills "Rat Race"
"Rodents Crawling All Around"
Introduced Raw Thrills the other day and it seems like the freakazoid bedroom karaoke vibe really captured the spirit of spryly young minds all over. If you've headed over to I'm So Sorry Dad, you already know that Zak Mering ain't just offering aural vision quests, but visual treats to, including this video for "Rat Race" by collaborator Kevin DiTrapano, who tailors unknown synthetic psychedelic backayard snippets with pixelated, cross-colour subway footage for what is essentially an ode to 2oth century consumer culture, and rats shitting in the kitchen of a combination KFC-Taco Bell.
Monday, January 11, 2010
new: Raw Thrills
"It Never Ends"
With all the recycled Ariel Pink vibes flying high in the sky, and every dude with five pseudonyms ripping off Skaters/James Ferraro-ish like its their job, its refreshing to hear some damaged AM gold worth its weight in reprocessed dreams and conjugal visits. Raw Thrills is that shit, and, if you've got a heart, and its beating, two things that may or may not exist in the current realm of indie-blog fuckery, it should be pretty god damn apparent. Apologies for all the expletives and potty talk, but the in-yr-face synth squabbles created by Zak Mering are the sort of undeniably twisted pop gems that make ears perk up with WTF intrigue. Easily digestible, like cherry jubilee english muffins at 5am, Raw Thrills jams is the sort of Casio beat synthesis John Maus/Haunted Graffiti & non-depressed, never goth Depeche Mode fetishists have been searching for. Dude has been creating jams for years, as part of Philippians, Insted, and a host of other acts, but seems like the air is opaque enough these days for Raw Thrills to break through the bedrooms of lost MySpace voyagers and into the hearts of cassette tape wizards and blog douches everywhere. If I had the time, I'd listen to everything this guy has ever created on repeat, all while mainlining Chloraseptic.
Don't have any mp3s, but it doesn't really matter because Raw Thrills seems to be made for multi-media, hence why his YouTube channel is now my playlist for the week of January 11th.
With all the recycled Ariel Pink vibes flying high in the sky, and every dude with five pseudonyms ripping off Skaters/James Ferraro-ish like its their job, its refreshing to hear some damaged AM gold worth its weight in reprocessed dreams and conjugal visits. Raw Thrills is that shit, and, if you've got a heart, and its beating, two things that may or may not exist in the current realm of indie-blog fuckery, it should be pretty god damn apparent. Apologies for all the expletives and potty talk, but the in-yr-face synth squabbles created by Zak Mering are the sort of undeniably twisted pop gems that make ears perk up with WTF intrigue. Easily digestible, like cherry jubilee english muffins at 5am, Raw Thrills jams is the sort of Casio beat synthesis John Maus/Haunted Graffiti & non-depressed, never goth Depeche Mode fetishists have been searching for. Dude has been creating jams for years, as part of Philippians, Insted, and a host of other acts, but seems like the air is opaque enough these days for Raw Thrills to break through the bedrooms of lost MySpace voyagers and into the hearts of cassette tape wizards and blog douches everywhere. If I had the time, I'd listen to everything this guy has ever created on repeat, all while mainlining Chloraseptic.
Don't have any mp3s, but it doesn't really matter because Raw Thrills seems to be made for multi-media, hence why his YouTube channel is now my playlist for the week of January 11th.
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