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The Deli NYC premieres diNMachine’s new single, “Chop Shop”

“Chop Shop” from NYC’s diNMachine is a bouncy, trap-y blur of genres that coalesces into an inventive and accessible burst of noise-pop. Tones shifts, rhythms start and stop, new sounds come out of left field — and somehow it all coheres. The sounds are disparate but always feel intentional.
It’s a testament to diNMachine composer Michael J. Schumacher’s skill at creating a challenging sonic palette that remains effortlessly melodic. At times funky, at times weird, “Chop Shop” is the type of track that welcomes repeat listens for the sheer pleasure of exploring and discovering the skill innately weaved throughout the composition.
diNMachine’s Facebook page describes the band as a “pop music” project. That’s true. But it’s pop music prismed through the lens of influences that range from the Beatles to Autechre. –juan leon

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Baby Robot Media is a music publicity and media service agency with employees in Los Angeles, Memphis, Atlanta & New York and represent musicians from all over the world. We specialize in promotional ( PR ) campaigns for albums, singles and videos, tour press, radio, music video production, music marketing, social media campaigns, Spotify campaigns and creating promotional content. Our mission is to help great unknown bands reach a wider audience and to help already successful artists manage their brand identity and continue to thrive. Our music publicists have over 50 years of combined experience in the music industry. We are known as one of the best in the business.

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New Noise Magazine premieres Cheap Tissue’s cover of Hubble Bubble’s “New Promotion”

Cheap Tissue’s cover of “New Promotion” by Belgian punk rock group Hubble Bubble is a jeering and sardonic sing-along, taking jabs at Nazism. Give it a listen below.

The following is the band’s interpretation of lyrics that are essentially indecipherable and undocumented: “Silver Badge, Iron Breast / Looking Sharp, Dressed in Black / Straightened Tie, Brush your boots / All Correct, You’re looking good.”

Why Hubble Bubble?

We had a practice where it was only three of us and we just kinda started messin’ around with it because we all like the song and it was easy to do as a 3 piece. During that time we also realized that you could loop in “Oh Oh I love her so” by The Ramones because they have the same intro (essentially), so we were just having fun with going back and fourth with blending the two songs at first and it just kind of stuck around in our rotation. We also kept it and wanted to put it on our album because not very many people even know who Hubble Bubble is or that Plastic Bertrand was an original member of the band before leaving to pursue a solo career.

Political angle?

The song is totally anti-facist. Granted, it’s obviously of a completely different era. We usually stray away from strong political aspects/views in our song writing, while instead focusing on social issues.. But, that was another reason we did the song. America’s current regime is starting to look very reminiscent of things most of us had hoped the world (especially a world power) would have learned from.

What did you try and do differently in your version?

It was really difficult to decipher the lyrics. There’s nothing online. I looked. Hard. I found a couple things, but they didn’t seem to be correct. So I did what I could to get them as close as I could and made up the rest. We did a falsetto instead of whistling.. changed the rhythm up a tiny bit.. Added fuzzy single guitar notes… yada yada yada. We just tried to keep it true while still doing it in our own style.

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Baby Robot Media is a music publicity and media service agency with employees in Los Angeles, Memphis, Atlanta & New York and represent musicians from all over the world. We specialize in promotional ( PR ) campaigns for albums, singles and videos, tour press, radio, music video production, music marketing, social media campaigns, Spotify campaigns and creating promotional content. Our mission is to help great unknown bands reach a wider audience and to help already successful artists manage their brand identity and continue to thrive. Our music publicists have over 50 years of combined experience in the music industry. We are known as one of the best in the business.

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Stereogum premieres Beechwood’s cover of The Kinks’ “I’m Not Like Everybody Else”

Brooklyn’s Beechwood are one of those bands that might be sorely mistaken for a trend-hopping buzz group if they landed in some other era — assuming you can figure out what era it is from song to song, since they run a pretty wide gamut of scuzz from garage to glam to punk to indie that’s not that easy to date. As things go right now, that sort of noise is probably too niche for Apple commercials and thinkfluencer party soundtracks, so they can probably be taken at their sharp-dressed-dirtbag surface value, what with said surface being vaguely oily and possibly flammable. When Gordon Lawrence’s voice shifts from an almost shoegazy whirr to a sawblade growl on the chorus, “I’m not like everybody else” means “my clothes are stolen and the cops beat us up.” Which, as far as rock bands go, is more than what just about everybody else could say. READ MORE…

 

Baby Robot Media is a music publicity and media service agency with employees in Los Angeles, Memphis, Atlanta & New York and represent musicians from all over the world. We specialize in promotional ( PR ) campaigns for albums, singles and videos, tour press, radio, music video production, music marketing, social media campaigns, Spotify campaigns and creating promotional content. Our mission is to help great unknown bands reach a wider audience and to help already successful artists manage their brand identity and continue to thrive. Our music publicists have over 50 years of combined experience in the music industry. We are known as one of the best in the business.

 

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Impose Magazine premieres diNMachine’s new single, “Sound Pets”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amidst the cacophony of experimental/noise-pop acts relying on sinister sonics that lure a listener into a beguilement, diNMachine is an outlier. The brainchild of longtime composer Michael J. Schumacher, the project has been the source for a brand of experimental music that’s refreshingly danceable, especially with the work being released from his upcoming The Pleasure of Principles album. diNMachine’s past productions have explored the artistic nexus of funk, soul and rock, presenting confounding soundscapes that highlight the power of the right groove.
For his upcoming The Pleasure of Principles project, diNMachine is exploring a “stripped down” approach, showcased by the minimalist groove of “SOUND PETS,” his latest single. The track is a frantic composition that matches a distorted synth with thick, rapid-fire drums. The track has its moments of raw churning but also morphs into a range of rhythms ripe for some moves on the dancefloor.
It’s true to his intention to “make pop music,” as he said via e-mail. He adds that “these songs are informed by a long take on pop and rock history, listening to and absorbing music from the ’60s to the present. It’s not a retro project, I’m not intentionally referencing anyone, but it’s the music that formed me and it’s bound to filter through.” And shine.
You can listen to “SOUND PETS” below, and look out for The Pleasure Of Principles on February 9th.
EDIT: Here’s more on the track from diNMachine:
“‘Sound Pets’ is another song from the album that has two contrasting parts. The beginning is is pretty driving and there’s a shift midway through to a quiet, melodic section. The inspiration came from the percussive-sounding synthesizer track, almost like an electronic drum, that starts the song. I added drums and layered the droning melody on top of this, also adding a bass to reinforce the low end.
What I started to realize was that the sounds were suggesting some simple progressions: I-IV-V-I and, later, I-flat VII (mixolydian); there was something in the droning “melody” part that communicated this. This could easily be guitar, bass and drums, in fact, when we perform this, I double all the harmonies on piano.
For the second part I found another synth riff that also focussed on simple harmonic relations, in this case I-V-IV-V. The very active synths that overlay this is one of my favorite sounds.
In a way, writing music comes down to fulfilling and denying the listener’s expectations. So why not use mistakes to accomplish that? The last part of the song has three main instrumental parts: a simple 4/4 beat in the snare drum over a repeating synth riff and a melodic bassline. Every now and then the bassline skips a 16th note – makes a “mistake” – shifting a small amount from the 4/4 beat of the snare. This shifting relationship is what this part is mostly about.
The song reminded me of the Beach Boys. I don’t know why. So, I called it ‘Sound Pets.’” READ MORE…

 

Baby Robot Media is a music publicity and media service agency with employees in Los Angeles, Memphis, Atlanta & New York and represent musicians from all over the world. We specialize in promotional ( PR ) campaigns for albums, singles and videos, tour press, radio, music video production, music marketing, social media campaigns, Spotify campaigns and creating promotional content. Our mission is to help great unknown bands reach a wider audience and to help already successful artists manage their brand identity and continue to thrive. Our music publicists have over 50 years of combined experience in the music industry. We are known as one of the best in the business.

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PopMatters premieres diNMachine’s new single, “Failing All Charms”

 

 

diNMachine is a project led by experimental composer, Michael J. Schumacher. Recalling both the playfulness and primitive nature of early synth music, diNMachine‘s latest tune, “Failing All Charms”, slated for the band’s upcoming full-length, due in 2018, exemplifies the maestro’s organically adventurous style.
Schumacher, more generous with his creative insights than most, says that the tune began, as most of his compositions do, as a loop with synth and drums. He built the drum part via a Vermona DRM1 which was subsequently set through a bit crusher called the Biscuit. Moving on to the synth part, he turned to a modular system containing Verbos, Make Noise, Expert Sleepers and Intelligel modules. READ MORE…

 

Baby Robot Media is a music publicity and media service agency with employees in Los Angeles, Memphis, Atlanta & New York and represent musicians from all over the world. We specialize in promotional ( PR ) campaigns for albums, singles and videos, tour press, radio, music video production, music marketing, social media campaigns, Spotify campaigns and creating promotional content. Our mission is to help great unknown bands reach a wider audience and to help already successful artists manage their brand identity and continue to thrive. Our music publicists have over 50 years of combined experience in the music industry. We are known as one of the best in the business.

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Ghettoblaster premieres MERCH’s new video for “Two Hearts”

MERCH’s (aka Joe Medina) new LP, Amour Bohemian, is an immense project that features contributions from 65 different artists, including the 30-piece Prague FILMharmonic—one of Europe’s most sought-after recording orchestras that has previously worked with Werner Herzog, Ridley Scott, Arcade Fire and Joanna Newsom.

A densely layered, wildly ambitious record rooted in Medina’s love of vintage film soundtracks, Scott Walker and Lee Hazlewood, Amour Bohemian’s cinematic sound is a brilliant fusion of classic pop, psych and garage that’s peppered with reverent nods to the old-school crooners, Mexican ranchero, French chanson and ’30s big-band jazz. Medina shrieks and howls like a descendant of The Mothers of Invention and croons like Leonard Cohen, evoking a serendipitous combination of love and estrangement.

Members of The Growlers and The Blank Tapes are also featured on the album, which John Dwyer of Oh Sees is already calling, a “masterpiece.”

MERCH’s new single “Two Hearts” channels the orchestration and cinematic scope of Ennio Morricone, paired with dramatic melodies that call to mind Leonard Cohen’s Death of a Ladies’ Man. The accompanying visuals were filmed by Jason Shamai, with additional footage shot by Charlotte Linden Ercoli Coe, who has directed videos for Ariel Pink, Weyes Blood, and co-wrote some of the tracks on Ariel’s latest album, Dedicated To Bobby Jameson. The video plays with nearly tactile memories of Medina’s, creating a uniquely personal and poignant visual to accompany the track.

This is what Shamai had to say about the video:

“Joe is a real fan of Charlotte’s work in all the fields she has her hands in. They got together and shot some stuff. My interpretation of the footage she took of Joe was that she wanted to capture an unromantic, chintzy version of the rock star persona. But then Joe asked me to help incorporate what she shot into an even larger framework.

“The video we ended up with was largely a response to the available footage and available location — the trailers where Joe was staying at the time in Hollywood. Most of my footage was captured on the fly, of people we’d met at the location. I scattered the shiny objects and toys around, hoping the kids would play with them, and they did. I even wanted the little boy to put on those heels but I didn’t know if I should ask his parents—but then the kid ran right for them and did all that strutting on his own. At some point, the video became more clearly about childhood visions of the future—how those visions fall short, but also how those visions can look in retrospect. Sometimes flimsy or tawdry, but sometimes just a pure as you remember. Charlotte’s footage kind of served to represent that middle ground you end up finding, a compromised image of yourself that still retains a little innocence and optimism.” READ MORE…

 

Baby Robot Media is a music publicity and media service agency with employees in Los Angeles, Memphis, Atlanta & New York and represent musicians from all over the world. We specialize in promotional ( PR ) campaigns for albums, singles and videos, tour press, radio, music video production, music marketing, social media campaigns, Spotify campaigns and creating promotional content. Our mission is to help great unknown bands reach a wider audience and to help already successful artists manage their brand identity and continue to thrive. Our music publicists have over 50 years of combined experience in the music industry. We are known as one of the best in the business.