A GRAVE WITH NO NAME

A Grave With No Name is a solo project that I've been working on for a few years now and is the product of me recording music in my bedroom with a variety of shitty drum machines and dusty guitars. At first I only uploaded the tracks to the A Grave With No Name My Space so that I'd stop adding parts to them as I'd been working on some of them intermittently for the best part of a year.

I'm in the process of recording some more music now, so it'll surface in some form or another soon.

peace

alax

Download:

'Open Water' - A Grave With No Name

NO MATTER HOW MUCH I READ XXL MAGAZINE, I STILL CAN'T GET A TAN

This is a track which I made in about an hour around Christmas time. I had a real studio buzz on because I'd been recording Marvellous Macc Mello's mixtape at my studio all weekend. I just sampled any rap CD which was lying within arm's reach at the time I made it. I can certianly remember that I sampled a track off an old Lox album, I think there's some Ice Cube in there too.. It used to be called 'If You Think My Concentration Span is Short You Should See the Size of My Father', but I thought 'No Matter How Much I Read XXL, I Still Can't Get a Tan' suited it better.

Anyway, if you like distortion, gabba and rap, then click on the link below to download it for free.

Download:

No Matter How Much I Read XXL, I Still Can't Get a Tan

HOLY FUCK (TAPEDECK REMIX)

Here's a remix I did of Holy Fuck's 'The Lovely Allen'. I'd been listening to alot of the Boredoms' Super Roots E.P.s when I made it, so it's more of a headphones jam than a dancefloor one.

Anyway, I think they went with the No Age remix for the format in the end (which is really cool btw), so I thought I'd post this up for download on here.

Download: 'The Lovely Allen' - Holy Fuck (tapedeck's Mind's Eye Remix)

A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS RECORDS SELL OUT!

The yellow limited edition A Place to Bury Strangers 12" has now SOLD OUT via mail order.

You might be able to pick up a copy by going into one of the Rough Trade shops or somewhere similar.

The 10" of 'To Fix the Gash in Your Head' by A Place to Bury Strangers is now in! Orders will be posted out this week and they will be in the shops from Monday.

We've taken shitloads of pre-orders of these, so get one from here before they sell out as well.

A1 BASSLINE MIX

After a few months of trying to keep his identity under-wraps A1 Bassline has stepped-out of the shadows and fessed-up to being Christian Shank aka one half of screamo/toystep/electro duo Partyshank.

Anyway, everyone knew that for ages. The cool news is that we're pretty fucking stoked to be releasing A1 Bassline's 'Girl Thing' E.P. next month on Meal Deal, but in the meantime, here's a mix he did featuring some exclusives of his own interspersed between the likes of DJ Q, D'Explicit, Detboi and Chris Brown, before rather cooly ending with The Jesus and Mary Chain's 'Just Like Honey'.

You can download it from: here.





01 - A1 BASSLINE VS CHRISTIAN SHANK - JOURNEY
02 - CHRISTIAN SHANK - PLAY AROUND (A1 BASSLINE EDIT)
03 - ZINC - 138 TREK
04 - A1 BASSLINE - FASTERS BETTER, HARDERS BETTER DUB
05 - T2 - WHY
06 - WIDEBOYS - SEXUAL SEDUCTION (BASSLINE MIX)
07 - A1 BASSLINE - GIRL THING
08 - NASTI BOI - BANGORZ
09 - THE COUNT AND SINDEN - BEEPER (FAKE BLOD REMIX)
10 - FAIRY FAGGOTS - SAMO TI (A1 BASSLINE SWITCH REMIX)
11 - WIDEBOYS - WHAT YOUR THINKING (FT SARAH SAVILLE-UP NORTH DUTTY MIX
12 - CANDANCE WEAPON - HOUSE MUSIC (A1 BASSLINE REMIX)
13 - DEXSPLICIT - OVER YOU
14 - DUKE DUMONT - WHEN I HEAR MUSIC
15 - DAMAGED GOODS - YO RIGHTEOUS (A1 BASSLINE BIG MIX)
16 - DJ Q - SHOTTAZ
17 - A1 BASSLINE - BIG DIPPA DUB FLEX
18 - CHEMICAL BROTHERS - BOOT IT AGAIN (MOWGLI MIX)
19 - DETBOI - GUNSHOT
20 - A1 BASSLINE - ITS ALOT
21 - CHRIS BROWN FT. T PAIN - KISS KISS (DEXPLICIT REMIX)
22 - A1 BASSLINE - SOMEBODY
23 - JESUS AND MARY CHAIN - JUST LIKE HONEY

A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS ON VICE TV

OK. Here's an interview that A Place to Bury Strangers did with Vice TV. They managed to get Jono the bassist's name wrong, but it's a pretty interesting interview anyway; covering the band's influences, Death by Audio and making effects pedals. You know, all the stuff that should be covered in interviews.

TAPEDECK VICE INTERVIEW

You can read an interview I did for Vice Belgium right here. It's actually about Belgium too, and you can see me pictured with a Belgian beer and a Belgian-to-English dictionary. Any questions you want answering about Belgium, you just come to me OK?

MANTAPOOK

Anupa Madawela aka Mantapook is self-professed "second coolest Asian man in rock". He's probably right in saying: "Kim Thayil from Soundgarden is cooler and a better guitarist than me (he's 100th best guitarist in rock according to Rolling Stone magazine), but I'm cooler and a better guitarist than the singer from My Vitriol and that guy from Cornershop".

After covering Pearl Jam's 'Alive' in the vein of 'Locust Abortion Technician'-era Butthole Surfers (if they only had a Bontempi-organ and a Random Tone Generator at their disposal), Mantapook uploaded a few tracks to his My Space which are pretty much some of this best shit I've heard all year. I'm kind of biased though, because I like music which sounds like a really, really heartbroken Dave Pajo backed by the world's oldest drum machine.

Download: Atmosfear - Mantapook

A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS REMIXES 12"

Just in! 100 yellow hand-numbered A Place to Bury Strangers remixes 12"s.


We've sold over half of these in half an hour, so if you want one, order from the Meal Deal My Space now!!!!!

If you don't have Paypal and want one then email us at:

info@mealdealrecords.com

TRACKLISTING:

A1. Ocean (The Clapp remix)
A2. To Fix the Gash in Your Head (Lillica Libertine remix)

We're also throwing a CD copy of all the original tracks included on the 10" vinyl version.

A1. To Fix the Gash in Your Head (original)
A2. Ocean (original)

B1. Ocean (The Clapp remix)
B2. To Fix the Gash in Your Head (Lillica Libertine remix)

"Let them play one more song. This band is sick!" - NYC policeman before shutting down their gig.


P.S. The 10" is released Monday, we're shipping orders this week.

HOX TO DOT

Hi, tapedeck just got added to the bill for this at the last minute. We're playing in the Old Blue Last at about 11pm along with The Death Set.

Last time I saw Pete from The Death Set he was standing outside my bathroom waiting to be sick and was unable to read his watch when I asked him the time. Sorry about that Pete.

FERRY GOUW

Not only is Ferry Gouw in our favourite band Semifinalists, but he's also a wicked video director (check out this one he did for his good buddy Dev Hynes aka Lightspeed Champion) and the hottest illustrator around right now. Jealousy would usually lead me to hate him if he didn't happen to be one of the nicest people I've ever met.

Ferry has also designed all the Meal Deal front covers and t-shirts for us, but asides from this, he's also done work for people like Mystery Jets and flyers for his friends' club-nights like White Heat.

Check out more of his work over at his website which unsurpsingly is awesome.

P.S. If you don't buy the new Semifinalists album due out on 16th June, you are a doofus and no friend of anyone's.

DIRTY PROJECTORS @ DEATH BY AUDIO

When he isn't busy being in the loudest band in the World (they used to just be the loudest band in New York, but they got louder) there's nothing more our good buddy Ollie Ackermann from A Place to Bury Strangers likes to do than custom build really fucking cool guitar pedals with names likes 'Total Sonic Annhilation' for bands like Lightning Bolt, Nine Inch Nails and TV on the Radio.

He does this all from his HQ Death By Audio where after hours he invites round a few friends for a couple cans, some hash and a jam session. It's probably pretty cool when those friends are Dirty Projectors. The closest I've ever got to this was when I saw Pink! drinking a latté in the canteen at my day-job.

ZIMME ROUND TOWN - MACC MELLO (STDJs Remix)

Our favourite DJ duo STDJs remixing our favourite rapper Marvellous Macc Mello = extra fries.


Marvellous Macc Mello - Zimme Round Town (STDJs Remix)

MEAL DEAL PARTY @ THE GREAT ESCAPE

Hi! We're hosting an official Great Escape After Party tomorrow night (Saturday 17th May) in Brighton at Pressure Point as a joint party with the best night in London BOSH!

We have Times New Viking, Semifinalists and Macc Mello live and djs including tapedeck, Lillica Libertine, STDJs and loads, loads more.

Go to here for all the details and full line-up.

TAPEDECK/A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS AT ATP PHOTOS.

We went down to ATP last weekend with A Place to Bury Strangers and our friends Simon and Anupa. Although I managed to see Deerhunter, Dirty Projectors, Black Lips, and a bit of Pissed Jeans, alot of the weekend was spent just hanging outside in the absolutely banging weather. Here's some photos that our buddy Anupa took.

These ones of Ollie from A Place to Bury Strangers are stolen from Pitchfork.

LILLICA LIBERTINE ARTROCKER SINGLE OF THE MONTH!

MAVIS

Oliie from A Place to Bury Strangers slept with our cat Mavis.

A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS IN NME

AUTOMATIC LOVER

The best video ever made. The best song ever written. Love to Ricky Haley for bringing this into our lives.

A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS NME SINGLE REVIEW

A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS TO SUPPORT NIN!

A Place to Bury Strangers have just been announced as support on Nine Inch Nails' arena tour!

http://www.nin.com/tour