Introducing: Electric Company Recording Company + free downloads

So we’ve been stagnant again for a long time. Big surprise!

Anyway, the Electric Company Recording Company. Like I said earlier, they’re an off-shoot of PKi! A subsidiary. Why? Because PKi! is evil and ECRC are the clean cut folksters and hipsters and hippies of our little island-slash-scene. Just peep this from the label’s myspace account:

The label was started by the two dorks behind Don’t Bogart The Can… Man! as a means of releasing their own music as well as their individual solo projects. A subsidiary of the PKi! Commune, Electric Company Recording Company’s aim is to be a home to several like-minded individuals with the same love for pop hooks, and catchy melodies, but also a love of experimentation… and stuff… yes, I said “and stuff”.

From the catchy and melodic, to the challenging and primal. This is music by people who were too young to be part of the 60s and only got the drug references.

Pop hooks and catchy melodies. You don’t really see PKi! when those words pop up, right? Probably experimentation and drugs (hold the reference) but not pop hooks and melodies. So yes, subsidiary born! What do you expect? A posh label release party? As long as you’re buying me booze, I’m down.

OK, so yes, the players in the field:

Don’t Bogart The Can… Man!

These dudes play quirky bed room pop, or so they will tell you. They love growing up in the 90s, and the 90s in general. That and toking up massive amounts of grass. If you’re slow I’ll probably need to remind you that their name is taken from the movie Reality Bites, the seminal slacker film from Ben Stiller. Made in the 90s. Of course.
Download their covers EP We Grew Up In The 90s… Did You? and be flooded with nostalgia. They’re also recording a “proper” EP and would release that soon. Click the image below and sample ’em shits!

DBTC…M! on myspazz

Otis Green

Otis Green hails from Cebu. Yes I know we made fun of people from Cebu before, since they spawned that atrocious band with that Bobby Lee look alike with a scar on his face frontman, but really, there are some cool folks from those parts. Otis Green are one of those cool folks. They play indie pop sort of in the vein of Elephant 6 Collective bands, or maybe Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. Great tunes for a sunny day brah. I would also like to point out that Eric is obsessed with Rosie from Rosie and Me. Its hella creepy.
They’re working on an EP.
Otis Green on myspazz

Wives

Basically, these are 3 dudes from that band Caitlyn Bailey playing some indie pop stuff with funny song titles. I really don’t know their plans on anything. They have one song on their myspace and that’s about it. They’re all too busy being 1337 skr4mz0rz to record properly for this apparently.
Listen to that one song on their pretty barren myspace page.

My Moonage Daydream

He was formerly known as They Call Him Sven Goldenstein. He’s one half of Don’t Bogart The Can… Man! And ECRC is his brainchild. Dude sounds like Neil Young at karaoke night, half drunk and half stoned (but knowing Neil, half is way past other’s junkie consumptions). He also worships Tom Waits. He claims he hasn’t been abducted by aliens (even if he clearly had been) and that pimps don’t commit suicide.
Hopefully he’ll finish that covers EP sooner rather than later. Oh, and yes, that name came from a David Bowie song.
My Moonage Daydream on myspazz

El Explorador

This dude is almost always drunk (or stoned) and he makes silly demented pop songs about killing girls, celebrities, masturbation… normal teenage stuff. Besides that he does covers of quirky songs in his own leisure which are awesome. And dude, get this, he does it using a Nintendo DS with a Jams Session cartridge while recording it on his Sansa mp3 player. A digital folkster if ever there was one. Oh, and he’s the other half of DBTC…M! Just look at that perv’s face. Trust him girls, because, well, dude is for the girls.
Currently he’s working on two EPs. A cover EP cleverly titled These Covers Aren’t Keeping Me Warm and the “proper” one, aptly called, You Could Play These Songs With A Nintendo DS. Let’s just hope we don’t have another Daniel Johnston in our hands (although Daniel is a fucking genius).
El Explorador on myspazz

The Treblinka Love Scene

You’ve probably heard of these cats from way back. They’re PKi! originals, dude. But just in case you haven’t, they’re 3 kids from 3 different bands from 3 different islands playing sad bastard indie pop music for the lonely fools of the Treblinka concentration camp. The wonders of the interwebs, I tell you!
When will that goddamn EP be out, bro-dawgs? Its been fucking ages already!!
TLS on myspazz

Mushroom, The Truth

Here’s a cute bio My Moonage Daydream did, since it wouldn’t really be cool if I would talk heaps of shit about myself:
So probably by now you have caught on with the whole “freak folk” thing. And to quote that one line said by George Carlin (R.I.P.) on the Aristocrats DVD, “Have I got the act for you.” Mushroom, The Truth (amazing name by the way) is the brainchild of Tomi Uysingco, part-time musical shroom, part-time beat poet, short fiction writer, and record label guy. If you’re reading this blog, chances are you know him. If you don’t, you’re stupid. On with the music.
First time I heard that one song he sent me, I said right away “Parang The Music Tapes.” (sounds a bit like the music tapes). But that is just based on that one song. His whole material is a weird mish mash of folk, beat-style lyrics, experimental freakiness, and of course psychedelia. (dude takes loads of drugs).
So yes go dl that shit because he’s bored, and he’ll be sad and he’ll drink more if you don’t listen to his music. Welcome to the weird, wonderful magical world of Mushroom, The Truth.
Better do what the dude said. Download those songs by clicking that link below. Its hosted in the CLLCT website (y’know, 001?) and I’m guessing you could work that out yourself. And while you’re there, download as much as you can. The CLLCT Family are cool cats and would appreciate new listeners.
Mushroom, The Truth on CLLCT
Mushroom, The Truth on myspazz

Dining With The Bolsheviks

The solo outing of Emily from Save The Sea Monkeys. Fresh outta high school and she’s already churning out amazing mellow pop tunes like she was born to do it all her life. She probably is. They are endearing songs about growing up, like those songs you would write when leaving the life you once knew to start a new one that you will come to know soon enough. Deep shit right there, dude. But really, this girl has a pretty bright future ahead of her. And her songs don’t sound like Juno soundtrack rejects at all! Why she’s hanging out with the likes of the druggies of ECRC or the evil bastards of PKi! is way beyond me. Here’s to hopefully a release soon. I’m actually excited to hear an actual album from this kid. Irony aside.
But while we wait, listen to her songs in Dining With The Bolsheviks myspazz

and lastly (for now anyway)…

Dr. StrangeLuv

These dudes slay me with their lo-fi experiments of Kerouac ideals and Seller’s characters in the amazing film Dr. Strange Love. Comprised of enigmatic characters, Grandi0s0 and The Scumbag, they would instantly hit your ears and blast you to the moon. A friend in Bicol said it best: a folk version of The Olivia Tremor Control. Destined for greatness, man. They are just refreshing to listen to. Especially when you’re high. One half of this duo is part of the PKi! band Stigmatics by the way, so you have a pretty clear vision where the weirdness comes from. Ke0n, dude, let’s release that shit soon!
In the meantime, download their 3 songs. Dr. StrangeLuv in myspazz