'WHAT DIDDY TOLD YOU IN '95' - TAPEDECK

This is the first thing I ever did under the name tapedeck and I just found it on my hard-drive. I think it's kind of endearing, in a hardcore band's first record kind of way.

Download: 'What Diddy Told You in '95' - tapedeck

'I WAS A MAN' - JAPE (TAPEDECK REMIX)

We did a remix of Jape's single 'I Was a Man which you can have a listen to on our My Space here.

It's influenced by this:

...and this:

STYLE NOIR

If you like reading about fashion, then you could do a whole lot worse than hanging out over at Style Noir has been started up by Meal Deal artist Lillica Libertine and his friend James. daily updates, features, photos of pretty people and all the things you want from a really good fashion website.

We played their launch party a while back along with our buddies Lillica Libertine, Food Soundsystem and Tomb Crew and I felt really under-dressed wearing denim shorts and a Meat Puppets t-shirt.

DEATH OF YOU - COMANECHI (TAPEDECK REMIX)

Here's a remix we did a while ago for our friend Akiko's band Comanechi. She's also in another really fucking good band called Pre whom I sure you've seen play live at some point in your life. Yesterday, whilst wasting my life, I stumbled across her blog where she basically shows off about hanging out with every cool band who has ever been mentioned on Pitchfork or played at The Smell - so obviously it's one of the most entertaining reads on the internet.

Download: 'Death of You' - Comanechi (tapedeck remix)

LILLICA LIBERTINE AT GLASTONBURY

Meal Deal artist Lillica Libertine has just been added to the bill for this year's Glastonbury Festival. He'll be playing on the Radio One Stage over the weekend.

Stay tuned for more details.

This makes him one of about two black artists on the bill (the other being Jay-Z).

Amazing.

You can download his remix of tapedeck's single 'Destiny' from here.

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)

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?

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.

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.