From Russia with Death

God doesn't exist.
Godfathers do.

If your a Sydney kid no doubt you've done your share of creeping around the cross.
The bright lights and disco jok(e)eys keep attention focused on the task at hand. But underlying the facade of nightlife flows a living river of toxic crime.
Yes, of course i'm serious.

I returned to a club the other Sunday morning to pick up my crate of records that were stashed in the office. As I walked down into the dark hazy room and across the sticky tiled floor, I could have sworn Juanita Neilsen's soul was stretched out under my feet - silently screaming from beneath the polished vinyl like a tortured T-1000. A broken strobe lay on the ground in the corner flickering randomly like a silent visual metaphor of the night prior. As I leant down to grab my shit, the dead scary silence of the place was interrupted sharply by loud voices and weighted footsteps coming down behind me. The dude in the office sternly looked up and signaled to me to go out the back door. I turned around to walk out and saw a group of four of the dodgiest guys walk in. No joke, all tall, with black trenchcoats, Romper Stomper haircuts and small mirrored sunnies talking in some gnarly Eastern european dialect. No need to say, i got the fuck out of there as soon as they looked at me. Opening the backdoors, the sunlight cut into my face and i walked out into 'reality'.


Logging numerous hours on grimey dancefloors, feeling at home wrapped in a marlboro-scented velvet curtain, watching Mad Max from dank faux fur couches and consequently knowing varied nightpatrons is about as far as most groveling scenesters get. But if you care to flake off the veneer you may find there are more ubliets than you'd care to stumble across in this concrete labyrinth.



New Order - Kiss of Death (Z)

Let It All Hang Out!

The Human League are just so ill. Philip's hair in the above video is so clean and conditioned.

Suss the above song plus the simple, epic track "Second's" off their critically acclaimed 1981 album, Dare. Produced 100% electronically, it's actually one of the best albums i've ever heard. Not many, if any, pop albums can match Dare's longevity.

The Human League - Seconds
(Z)




The Human League - Rock 'n' Roll/Nightclubbing (Gary Glitter and Iggy Pop/David Bowie) (Z)

That's a pointy

Pointer Sisters - Pinball Number Count (Z)



Pointer Sisters - Baby Come and Get It (Z)











Shit quality song

The breakdown in the following song represents Gamble and Huff's weirdest hour - this is one seriously fucked up vinyl rip, apologies. I've got a feeling that they used Hancock's gear for this track (as they did on other tracks from the Album).. you can hear the moog/echoplex combo unmistakably (or maybe not in this ultra shit qual version).



Pointer Sisters - Love in Them There Hills (Z)


Sample time (more than one degree of separation):


Jurassic Five - I am Somebody (Z)

the height of contrasts

Gregg and I were driving when this song came on. I almost crashed.
If this doesn't make you laugh then you're fucked up.




High Contrast - In da Gadda da Vida (Z)





Here's the original for added fake music knowledge humour.. like for instance when you are mentioning this blog to someone over a crisp Sauv Blanc you can say:
" ah ha ah hha ha, yes, oh god, yes did you listen to that High Contrast cover [key word to denote music wankery] of In da Gadda da Vida [try say it like you're talking about an old acquaintance] on Staiii? Absolutely hilarious."
Fellow conversationalist response:
" Oh, oh yes of course [they panic, and try to communicate calm body language {they might signal the waiter for top up of their champagne} because they have no idea what you are talking about and feel inadequate in their musical knowledge]."




Iron Butterfly - In da Gadda da Vida (Z)






P>S> bonusss

So its cool to flail your vag these days.

Get with the times.


Depeche Mode - Big Muff (Z)






P>S> Gore wrote this not Clarke.

BATTLES

Some heaps uncool guys in collared shirts abusing really expensive gear making pretty crude loops. So vogue.


Battles - Leyendecker

P.s. I think the single release is called 'Atlas', there is a video for it but the album edit is 7 minutes long so um see you later to me uploading that right now.

Lmaonnaise

P.s. Zlad's older ego played the weatherman who froths over Mike on Frontline. He possibly also wrote the castle. We rep that golden soil here on STAIII just wait for Psuedo Echo.

Daft Punk Update

Cut Copy and Van She now on the bill.

ooooo-ee




Edit:


Van She suck, Cut Copy don't. Just in case you wondered where we stood on that.

Yeah So

All you haters (benji) who didn't belive my Daft Punk post like back when this blog just began.

Read the Modular News yet?

Eat your heart out havefunclub, we may post twenty minute acid epics but we are still down by law with the scene snitchezzzzzzzz

Remember that green shit the Joker fell into in Batman?
Remember that toxic slime that pours over that guy in Robocop one?
Remember that stuff inside energon cubes in Transformers?

Ok, now imagine that chemical factory in Batman hosted a massive spontaneous rave:... suddenly the blacklights come and on the jokers green face lights up. Footsteps of running mutants can be be heard in the dark corridors heading to the main room. Giant cast iron idle machines suddenly unmesh into dancing deceptacons and chemical fumes fill the air like the soma of hollywood's underbelly.. the toxic avenger has a dark corner to himself flailing his oozing calloused arms in a tribal frenzy, while robocop and megatron compare robot dances and battle for the spotlight on the overhead steel walkways. Grids of lasers cut through the air and no one knows whether they are meant to be there or whether the Predator just arrived. The dancefloor is more machine than man with a sea of metallic and mutated limbs bionically conducting the beat. Dr. Octagon is breakdancing but he has nothing on R2-D2's headspins. All the while Daft Punk are trapped outside, not sure whether its their scene, but with one burning question on their minds.. 'who is Dj-ing'?

No one will ever know.

If this party went down in Chicago in the mid 80's then i have no doubts it would have been a 100% acid rave.

HISTORY LESSON
Genre; Acid: It's birth resulting essentially from the inherent lack of finance involved with budding 'musicians'; meaning, Acid (or, Acid House, as it was later badly re-named in the UK) was created on a small cheap plastic synthesiser developed by Roland in 1982 as an accompaniment instrument for bass players when playing alone in their bedrooms. The TB-303. Yes i speak truth. This genre is now one which only an idiot would never have heard of. (ever seen a yellow smiley face? well yeah, that is the universal logo for the genre).

There have been a zillion zillion good, bad, and just gay acid producers since the genre's humble origin.. hence i'm not going to upload Acid's greatest hits. Rather i am uploading one track. This track was (argue if you dare)the birth of the genre. It has gone under several names but i am upping the original album version so as to avoid controversy (because this blog is continually screened by music historians and stuff.) If you've never listened to Acid.. you'll probably hate it. And if you're a massive Acid kid, you'll probably hate it as well. That's STAIII for you.

Phuture - Acid Trax


P.S> Stay tuned for more danceable acid adventures

Get Gregg'd (Again)

Naul Edit - Ben Carrier's Brain (Gregg's Hydroponic Re-chop)

Ying Yang Twins - Badd (Gregg's Stolen Dime B-More Remix)

Eurovision 1980

Telex.
Basically Kraftwerk with heaps less skill and heaps less idealism.
Their Performance at Eurovision in 1980 with an hilarious song named after the event itself perhaps best reflects their complete lack of care for what anyone thought of them. I don't even know what else to write, they are just heaps funny and use heaps of funny arpeggiator and panning so like.... get into it.



Telex - Twist À Saint-Tropez

Telex - Brainwash

Telex - Moskow Diskow (Edit: Some of you don't seem to understand that this song is the best one i posted. Why are you all downloading the first songs we post and none others...)

Uni

4 hour break, already been to Salvo's, eaten lunch, listened to my ipod's worth of B52's, plus had an awkward conversation with at least one wannabe.

Now making good use of a bandwith that doesn't worry me to upload some songs that aren't at home.

Throbbing Gristle - Hot On The Heels Of Love


Sandii & the Sunsetz - Living On The Front Line(With David Sylvian)