Watch Out!*! Here Comes A Curve Ball!*!

Every now and again I like to pitch in a curve ball on this here humble blog!*! I've been concious right from the start of this blog that I didn't want to see a day when it become staid and concentrating on one particular musical form, and while I've been completely focused on electronic music of one flavour or another, hopefully I've chopped things up so as to achieve my intial aim of showing how, in an ideal world, genres would become utterly redundant!*! To this end I've been looking for something to post with an edge, but right off the well trodden path, something to shake things up, so I was really pleased to receive some mail from the team behind Merok!*! If your not familiar with the label (& you bloody well should be!*!), they are quite possibly the nicest people in the all too often bitter and twsited music biz, they have a genuine desire to put out the very best music they can find and have already notched up the initial Klaxons and Teenagers releases, as well as the fab Crystal Castles!*! This Monday sees the guys release a new split 7" from Comanechi and Pre, and it's a belter, the common link being that the 2 bands are fronted by Akiko, literally a pint-sized maelstrom!*!

From the tracks I was sent, I've chosen to post Pre's 'Dude Fuk', largely because outside of electronic music, this is the kind of stuff I listen to, something that makes you immediately sit up and take notice!*! Today's track would be the perfect soundtrack to a recent relationship break-up or something of that nature, when you have that fire in your belly, and would be an ideal accompanient to some throwing of crockery or something (remember not violence towards others, but innanomate objects are fair game!*!), at least that's what I imagined upon initial playing!*! This release is out on Monday, and can be grabbed from the link below. Please do the right thing and buy it, if you enjoyed it. If ever there was a record label that needs to survive in this evermore cut-throat business, then it's Merok, because labels with this kind of passion don't come along everyday, plus it's limited to 500 copies and it comes on 'jizz' coloured vinyl, what other reason do you possible need!*!

Pre - 'Dude Fuk' (Merok) (Buy)

The release is also backed-up with a truckload of refixes from Scotch Egg, Tapedeck, Gentlemen Drivers and this turbo-charged effort from recent Kitsune signings; Passions

Comanechi - 'Death Of You (Passions Splatterhouse Remix)' (Merok)

While I'm on the subject of Merok, they've also teamed up with Rough Trade on a limited edition 7" release to celebrate the opening of Rough Trade's new store in East London. With tracks from The Teenagers and Crystal Castles, it's another worthy edition to your collection. Grab a copy here if you fancy it!*!