Various Artists – Dance Magic Dance 01
Dance Magic Dance have put on some fine bands in London over the past 18 months or so. They have now released their first (I think) compilation cassette. And what a great noisy thing it is. This is a lo-fi fuzz fest of guitar goodness that ranges from the sub New York sound of La LA Vasquez to the punk rock racket of the, er The Racket. Elsewhere are my recent garage rock discoveries Sex Beet and always wonderful French Kissing pop up. And that’s just side one. Flip the cassette over and we get the London surf mob One Fathom Down and doomy punkrock sounds of Bo Ningen, to name just two. Like I said, it’s all awesome stuff, really. And this little cassette is just £3. Bargain.
They are having a launch show at The Old Blue Last in London on Saturday 3rd July, too. I think I might well be there, for that.
This is a cassette only release. I bought it, because I wanted to hear the songs. But I was never a fan of cassettes. It seems the 10 years I’ve been cassette free haven’t altered the fact. After getting the dusty, but decent, ‘ghettoblaster’ down from the loft – the tape plays fine enough. I dunno. So no rose tinted specs here for a format I never really loved.