finally, some new material by The Kung Fu Divas – just one track, but we find it rocks! Of course we do …
the track is a quite simple, but ehrm effective dancefloorbasher and the short vocal snippets should actually be some kind of homage to some all time heroes like LFO and The KLF. The video came into existence quite spontaneously when fellow surf-cracks Hubert Mühlbacher and Philipp Schwarz showed the divas some footage they’ve been recording with a tiny camera mounted to their boards while doing some wipeouts in spain, portugal and croatia. Cutting-Master Boris Steiner provided the final visual mix to the music and bang, it was done. Myself always being an admirer of spontaneously produced art is quite fond of the final mix – especially as both the track and the clip had been done within just a few hours of work. Anyone who produces music knows that it’s mostly those quick tracks that are the dearest – if you twiddle and brood for weeks and months it’s seldom that someting appealing comes out of it.
find the soundcloud (and itunes) link here.
a whole bag of remixes for “Who is the KFD” is in the making, and we’re pretty much looking forward to that.
So, what else is new on Goldton Records?
A new 3-track-ep by yours truly, Mikka Blank, will be out end of the year. “Back To Mali” will be the successor of the first single “Dogon Dip Tank” (hence the name …) and will feature 2 new tracks as well as a live version of DDT, recorded at the WRCKD-club hosted at vienna’s Badeschiff in summer 2007. More tracks are in the making but nothing that’s really ready to leave the bedroom …
Also, The Kung Fu Divas have been quite busy doing remixes for some highly acclaimed austrian artists. And we assure, those tracks reeeeaally got something to it – diverse, subtle and elegant so to say and a clear step away from the rough cut’n'paste-aesthetics used in the past.
And finally, Goldton welcomes a brand new artist – Petronella van der Alser! Her first contribution will be a remix for “Who is the KFD” – a quite dubby but groovy thingy, soaked in aural weirdness, clicks and glitches. Some definitely compelling tracks are in the making and we hope to convince her soon to at least create a facebook-page or something … public presentation of herself isn’t really her thing – as you can guess from the first draft for her presspic that she sent us – see on the left.
More soon!
yours sincerely,
mikka
