If you haven’t experienced the maximalist, John Carpenter freestyle magik of Chicago’s Gatekeeper yet then you really need to acquaint yourselves now. Designed to make you want to trance-dance naked inside opulent giallo cathedrals as the sky darkens outside and demonic shadows conjure in the clouds, Gatekeeper’s music plays like a fever-dream of half-remembered horror movies from the 1980s. It’s all smudged lipstick, faceless men in trench coats that conceal horrific secrets, and sacrificial voodoo halls painted in blood hidden away in a vast and ominous metropolis overseen by men with black eyes and sharp suits.
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Gatekeeper - Optimus Maximus
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Posted on February 9th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Tagged: Foals, gatekeeper, jack bevan, remixes, Telepathe
What better way to kick off the 09 than with a good dose of psychedelic mayhem? Transcend kids, transcend.
Imagine a level of Dead Space where you get splattered with liquid ecstasy whenever you carry out a strategic dismemberment. You have a revamped arsenal of tools at hand, including the Steve Reich orgone accumulator and the esoteric black dice, which, when thrown at the slimy feet of one of the abominations that lurk in the corridors of the USG Ishimura, deploys a lattice of abstracted blue devastating party power. Only if you score snake eyes though. Otherwise you are fucked. Gyratory System would make the soundtrack, and we would sit in front of the screen drooling like The Lanmower Man had never happened.
Gyratory System - Party Unlimited
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Posted on January 9th, 2009 | 16 Comments
Tagged: 20jazzfunkgreats, Blogs, Gyratory System, Telepathe, Thee Four Horsemen
