Fripperies on Friday – The Boombox
My first boombox was called a Tensai Rhytm Machine. It looked like a standard boombox but it also allowed you to split the stereo into two recordable mono tracks and included five or six pre-set rhythms, which if you held two of the buttons down together allowed to ‘mix’ the rhythms. Prior to the invention...
This summer’s smash hit?
French group Phoenix have made some great pop records for most of this decade, with it seems only the American rock critics taking much notice (Pitchfork love ‘em to death). Well hopefully ‘Lizstomania’ from their fantastic new album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix will change all that, it has summer smash written all over it. This fantastic...
Music I recommend: Emma Raven at W+K
Emma has worked at wieden +kennedy for almost 5 years and is very excited about her upcoming sabbatical- 6 weeks off paid whoo! Going from aussie backpacker to temp receptionist to TV producer has been an exciting ride. She is happy TV advertisement have been featuring better music of late than they have in the...
Music I recommend: Tim Bateman at Albion London
Last week citizensound met Albion. We did (well, Paul did with our support..,) a presentation on music and how does that influence our daily life. It was a very pleasant gathering at Albion, we were invited for lunch. Upon our arrival there were already 15 people gathered round the table sipping their tea and having...
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Something for the weekend…
We love sharing music, and as a special early Christmas gift we thought we’d give everyone access to our latest “It All Ad’s Up” podcast, which we put together on a regular basis for our friends who are responsible for music syncs in advertising agencies across the world. The aim of the podcast is to...
Music I Recommend: nuno barão
We are very proud of our business cards. We not only print them with the highest ethical and environmental standards but we also always chose an image that reflects our passion for music. This one is from nuno barão, a portuguese artist now living in London. We thought this photo could one day become a...
Last.fm+Youtube = the coolest music channel in the world
I love mashups when they do something really simple and really smart. Tim Bowman’s clear little mashup takes the technology behind Last.fm to recommend a whole load of videos for you to watch from You Tube. You simply type in an artist or a last.fm username and you get an instant video channel, rather than...
DIY music: It was easy, it was cheap: part 2
After digging out my Desperate Bicycles records I decided to hunt out my copy of the first single by Scritti Politti. If that name seem familiar it may be from the hits they had in the mid 80s with singles such as Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin) or The Word Girl, or you may...
It was easy, it was cheap, go and do it!
I came across a great blog called Little Hits last night. Each week or so they post up a favourite track from often long forgotten records, the majority being from the punk and post punk era. As the site’s owners are based in the US it’s quite amazing how many obscure British punk and indie...
Music I Recommend: Steve King from Zenith Optimedia
citizensound bumped into Steve King recently, and he kindly gave us his five recommendations. Some classic choices in this list, along with a surprise or two from the Global CEO of Zenith Optimedia! Thanks Steve. 1 Favourite album at the moment? The Clash – London Calling. Of current albums probably Mark Ronson latest mix. 2....
Music I Recommend: Wayne Arnold of Profero
Met up with Wayne Arnold recently, who provided me with these recommendations 1. Favourite album at the moment? The Hours – Narcissus Road. “With lines like " I can understand how someone can go over to the dark side cause the devil he's got all the tunes" you can’t go wrong!” says Wayne 2. A...
Music I Recommend: Findlay Brown
Citizensound met up with Findlay Brown last week at his residency at the Gladstone pub in South London. It was brilliant evening, with lot's of new songs on show. I'm not sure if it's working with a band, but his music seems to have broadened out a lot. At times, Fin's vocals reminded me of...