Timelapse

Progress has been minimal lately. This is in part driven by the South Australian winemaking industry and the hollow spiral of my quarter-life crisis.

Our devastatingly unrealised Perth-based krautgaze band Thoth seem to sadly be otherwise engaged and The Swiss are still signed to an actual record label.

Things are starting to simmer elsewhere though so that's good news. Stay tuned to the new media connection for updates regarding that in the coming months.

REALLY REAL RECORDS NEW MEDIA CONNECTION
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In legitimate news:
-Toni Toni Lee is killing it with "Body Heat"
-The Das Moth "Moon/Wrong" release is great also
-and the new Cut Copy album +the NIMH mix
-RIP LCD Soundsystem
-RIP Nate Dogg
-RIP Institubes
-Good luck Marble

mixtape teaser

I did this mini-mix for Loot & Plunder's saturday night show on Nova FM. I'm about to add a whole lot more songs to it and make it a full hour or so. But in the meantime you can listen to this:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/66557877eafc686c/

A LACK OF CERTAINTY BUT THE PROMISE OF EXCITEMENT

really real records x charcoal/smoke domestic longhaired

REALLY REVEAL Vol. 1: THE SWISS

In attempt to avoid the spiral of irrelevance that Myspace are currently facing and copper coins have already succumbed to, we will be posting a series of interviews with Really Real Records artists and affiliates entitled REALLY REVEAL. First up is Sid from the Swiss...



01. How's Adelaide?
Adelaide is paradise when you let it be.

02. Are you called The Swiss because the band is a multicultural hotbed of diversity?
We're called The Swiss because Mr Fun-Pants aka Tony had a fleeting idea in the classroom in high school whilst we went through the list of band names we'd compiled at lunchtime. It bares no relevance.

03. Were any bandmembers ever in an acid jazz band?
We grew up on groove so acid jazz kind of did happen for us...we were teenagers. In between listening to Jamiroquai's first two records we all listened to Headhunters and heaps of Herbie along with other jazz, disco and stoner rock like Floyd and Doors.

04. What is your favourite BPM?
My favoutire BPM is 90-110, but I love half time ballads too.

05. Other than the upcoming 12", what have you guys been doing since "Movement"?
Tony has been touring with Pnau all over the Planet, Luke has been doing loads on Film and TV and I've been trying to put out some bedroom disco.... Jono has been playing arenas all the while.

06. Is it at all frustrating to be a legitimate disco band in a time when the D word is getting applied to an incredibly large portion of things that aren't really remotely disco and are just bad?
I remember Tony trying to invent words at school for people to latch on to. Instead of "cool" we said things were "disco" for a while. That lasted about 3 weeks.

07. SOLAR or Full Time?
Full Time.

08. To the dwindling minority who haven't yet heard your stuff, how would you describe The Swiss?
Party band. Classic disco in a club and sometimes jazz explosion in non-dance clubs. Best at house parties. Freeform disco. All real synths and live commitments.

09. Can you please explain the relationship between Donnie Sloan and you guys?
Donnie Sloan is our spiritual guide. Our brother. He has been with us and us with him for many years. He can help us tame the wild beast that is disco and help us harness the power of the groove. 4th member.

10. For the synth nerds out there, what gear do you guys use in your live setup?
Luke uses a variety of vintage synths from an extensive studio collection. Live its an Emax, Roland SH2 and an R3 vocoder... sometimes Rhodes and Clav make it out too. In the early days it was a synth-off, bringing everything to the shows. Tony has been known to play Simmons drums, the full kit and in some late night episodes an 808 by candlelight. I have been using a Roland GR Synth Bass.... Human League style lately... I like that.

11. What are your thoughts on the internet?
We all love the net, like a sister.

12. Has Louis given you a Really Real Records t-shirt yet?
I have an eggplant t-shirt

13. Thanks very much.
Pleasure.

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real talk

welcome to Real Talk, the blog hypotenuse of Really Real Records. we also have a twitter.


when you're at rockbottom you can go underground or you can flourish. here at really real we're gearing our logistics towards flourishing so expect to see the fruits of our efforts and the triumphs of our affiliates in the near future. we're not ones to use the term "release schedule" lightly but we're very excited to be releasing the Swiss' lifechanging second offering sometime soon.

we're pretty into the idea of putting out tracks by people that we like and really admire the work of. i would like to take this opportunity to point out that we didn't start this immediately after watching 24 Hour Party People.

we are loosely inspired by the following videos:

this scene from hustle & flow


the tremendous achievements of alex the african grey parrot (RIP)


robert palmer's stage presence in this tv spot for "johnny & mary"


every aspect of this video except for puffy's verse (turn the sound down from 2:24 to 3:01)