When guitar bands release their debut album, they usually get forgiven if their sound is a little rough around the edges. In fact, they are often criticised if they are too pristine too soon. For electronica artists however, their debut is expected to be highly evolved, eclipsing everything that has gone before it, in line with technological progress. For Barcelona-based producer John Talbot (real name Oriol Riverola), the way around this weight of expectation was to reboot his career. Previously releasing music under the name d.a.r.y.l., he ditched this moniker just as his skills were reaching ...

by Andrew Sacher Barcelona producer John Talabot released ƒIN, his first album released under that name, this week via Permanent Vacation. It's easy to want to compare the album to fellow Barcelonians Delorean, whose singer Ekhi Lopetegi provides lead vocals...

T he Limousines  have developed a nice following over the years with their catchy as shit, synthy jams that contains all sorts of tongue in cheek lyrics. Brand new single, “The Future” continues this successful trend, and is a hit in the making. The duo got hold of a massive budget for this video, but did they really have to completely destroy (my favorite automobile of all time) the Delorean? I think it’s fair to say these boys are not too optimistic about the oncoming world. As I just finished the spectacular end of the world film Melancholia, pessimism ...

1978-1987: Snakefinger by Brian Polsgrove on 02-08-2012 A number of months ago, one of my fellow Delorean writers wrote an excellent piece on The Residents. While I am definitely not “offended” by The Residents, I will say that despite my multiple attempts to delve into the group’s art I can only respect what they did from a distance. They seem focused on creating a concept and visual work, but musically they miss the mark for me. Despite my misgivings of The Residents, their record label, Ralph Records, was a consistent source of great music in its early 80s heyday ...

1998: Boredoms - "Super Going" by Marcos Hassan on 02-09-2012 Listening to any of their albums, it’s easy to think that the entity known as Boredoms might have invented a genre or two, perhaps even some tones unheard by human ears up to that point. This, of course, is mere speculation on a subject that gets resolved on a person to person basis; yet there’s one song that seems universally monumental to this day. That’s “Super Going.” For eight of it’s 12 minutes and 24 seconds, the song lurches in a motorik rhythm, propelled by various percussion ...

sweet soulful, tune with a strong nu-disco feel to it, i can listen to it for hours (while watching the Delorean accelerate :) perfect for these early hours or the really, really late ones. get it via Juno Flip Da Beat – Ed Wizard & Disco Double Dee

1993-97: Yo La Tengo Kick Out the Jams, Motherfucker! by Winston O'Boogie">Dr. Winston O'Boogie on 02-07-2012 Life must be busy for Yo La Tengo. Between being one of the quintessential bands of the 90s, a walking encyclopedia of cover tunes, and the group your friends have been billing as the only “mature” indie rock band that matters for the last two decades, its hard to believe they’ve had time to act out Seinfeld episodes on stage (seriously, look it up). So maybe that’s why they sound their best when things are slowed down and dragged ...

Barcelona’s a lush hotbed for a psychedelic dance-pop scene that’s not only birthed acts like El Guincho and Delorean  but it’s also stretching the boundaries of house music with dreamy elastic works by Pional and John Talabot. Talabot has just released his proper debut record (cheekily titled) “fin” and it’s a stunner. Talabot smartly doesn’t rework his formula and keeps the aspects that made his early singles “Sunshine” and “Matilda’s Dream” such bangers.  Rooting his tracks in chant-y vocal loops, thick tribal percussion, and organic sounds, you half get the feeling ...

ƒin, John Talabot Permanent Vacation, Spain Rating: 88 by Andrew Casillas Jungle sounds clash with plucked strings clash with electronic claps until wait for it : a beat. John Talabot sees your ambivalence and accusations of rhythmical homogeny and raises your Super Vato funk. But, lest you think he’s only got the versatility of a relief pitcher, Talabot proves over the course of an hour that he’s working with an array of techniques—suck one, Tom Emanski. ƒin is the culmination of the Barcelona-based producer’s measured rise through the techno ranks over the past half-decade. He’s made ...

2005: Merzbow - Dust of Dreams by Miles Bowe on 02-06-2012 Merzbow’s Masami Akita and his fans had a great year in 2005. Well in the midst of his “digital era,” Akita’s best work that year amounted to a trifecta of stylistically contrasting records: the jazzy Sphere , the brutal Bariken , and the tribal and psychedelic Dust of Dreams , a personal favorite. The only record Merzbow released for the Portuguese label Thisco, Dust of Dreams consists of three tracks in just under an hour and features some of Akita’s most evocative music of the period. The bookending “1339” and ...

1998: Oneida - "Best Friends" single by Devin Friesen on 02-03-2012 Listening to Oneida’s earliest material is a bit astounding. Frankly, the long-running Brooklyn psych band’s beginnings on Turnbuckle Records sound like the work of a different band; in some ways it even is , at least in that 1997’s A Place Called El Shaddai’s is the only Oneida record to sport the band members actual names (that, and the album was essentially just Pat Sullivan and Millions">Kid Millions plus whomever was guesting on each track). I’m struck by the growth from El Shaddai’s to ...

1983: Hüsker Dü - Metal Circus by Winston O'Boogie">Dr. Winston O'Boogie on 02-02-2012 Anarchy in punk rock is bullshit. It doesn’t take much to rail against governments, institutions, or even that asshole who roughed you up for looking like a freak when, at then end of the day, you can go home and count the money you got from that fat major label check. Yell, scream, cut yourself onstage; none of it means anything when you don’t follow through on the outrageous shit everyone is so willing to spout for a moment in the spotlight. That ...

John Talabot, einer der Shooting-Stars der House- und Elektronik-Szene, hat vergangenen Freitag sein erstes Album mit dem Titel "Fin" via Permanent Vacation/Groove Attack veröffentlicht. Darauf präsentiert der zurückhaltende Spanier die ganze Bandbreite seines musikalischen Schaffens. Von verträumten Downbeat-Klängen, über housige Tanzflächenfüller bis hin zu retro-esque aufspielenden Elektropop-Beats liefert der Produzent feinste und abweschslungsreiche Kost. Außerdem lässt der Mann, der schon Acts wie Shit Robot , The XX oder Delorean remixte, den interessierten Fan in einige Tracks auf seiner Soundcloud-Seite hineinhören. Verschafft euch an dieser Stelle einen auditiven Eindruck vom Song "Destiny" und werft einen Blick auf das Artwork der Platte ...

1967: Ivor Cutler - "I'm Happy" by Miles Bowe on 02-01-2012 When I don’t feel like hearing anything in particular I’ll often resort to the shuffle button on my iPod. Now this can be a bit like playing Russian roulette if you have an eclectic music taste (I’m sure many of our readers can relate); Nas comes on ─ no problem; Fugazi ─ that’s fine; oh wow Walker Brothers">The Walker Brothers ─ it’s been a while. Then suddenly Kevin Drumm or Sightings comes to the party and there’s a terrible reaction. Questions are asked. “What the ...

2008: Entire Cities - Deep River by Mike Wojciechowski on 01-31-2012 I spend a lot of time focusing on the stories behind songs, and that’s usually what I try to shine light on for these Delorean reviews. I have plenty of stories about albums and songs left to tell. But today I revisited an album from a few years ago, an album that means so damn much to me, and I felt compelled to share it with those of you who might’ve missed it the first time around in 2008. In our internet age of ADD-obsessed transient fame, there ...