I recently remixed Kidstreet‘s new single, “X” for the Nettwerk music group. Today it was posted on MTV Canada‘s music front page. However, ironically I’m not allowed to listen to my own music due to “copyright restrictions.”
The good people of Life.is came by while we were doing a photo shoot the other week with Stian Roenning and Aban Sonia. They conducted video interview while we were in between shoots. Check it out on their site linked below!
Alright so I’ve totally been in a blackhole of not blogging. My bad, dawg. I have, however, been all up on Twitter like what. So you’ve got a consolation prize.
My lovely manager, the infallible Paddy Scace is now posting here as well. Please enjoy his copy.
I’m really digging the Jeremy Glenn Remix of “Perfection and Grace”. Richard knows me well as he thought this would be the track I would dig the most and he was absolutely right! An excellent dancefloor ready electro-pop tune that will fit perfectly into my DJ sets.
He was kind enough to send a copy our way and as everything this man touches it is golden! All three tracks are solid! He just keeps pumping out them catchy electronic dance jams like he has an unlimited reservoir. My two favorites are ‘Discipline’ and the slow jam ‘Perfection and Grace’.
Discipline finds Haig finally relishing the electronic music genre and taking pride in the music he’s making — which he should considering he seems to have a natural talent for it. The title track alone is perhaps his best work to date. A house-y electro number that reaches its climax early and then turns into a glitchy electropop track, reminiscent of Calvin Harris.
In “Can’t Sleep” and “Perfection and Grace” you’ll find the live instrumentation and electro sounds that have sort of become Haig’s signature. This leaves us wondering if his next full-length might be the thing that tips him over the edge and earns him more national recognition. Let’s hope so.
The funny thing about press is that as soon as one publication talks about you, suddenly everyone else wants to talk about you. I believe there’s a peculiarly insular group think that seems to occur with music blogs. Hundreds of individuals dedicating their time to talking about what they like, yet often times they end up talking about the same stuff. Sometimes this can have disastrous implications, a race to the bottom of quality as trends take over *cough* dreamwave, dubstep *cough*. To quote my good friend Brian Robertson of ANR, “blogs are the Fox News of music.” Not always the case but it seems like us musicians are often desperate to get fifteen-year-olds in their bedrooms to write about us. Oh my, how the industry has turned.
Anyway, the Discipline EP has been getting a little bit of blog heat recently since Big Stereo spoke about it the other day. Here’s a brief summary of some of the coverage:
Electronic Rumors
The ‘Discipline EP’’s title track is a genre crushing Nu-Disco/SynthPop/Acid Techno stormer. A hard and dark bassline propels the track forward and counterpoints the catchy vocals, and that’s before it goes crazy with Acid builds!
I call it indie-electro, but the harder kind. Maybe electro-indie (the first name is always the major driver, right?). Well, whatever he is, I like it. Panic Bomber is definitely a guy to watch for this year.
They don’t have much to say outside of announcing that the Discipline EP is available now on YYZ Records and embedding “Discipline” for all to hear, but it’s awfully nice of them to say “hello!”
…most house music strikes me as interchangeable in the moment, and totally disposable in the light of day. Miami’s Richard Haig, aka Panic Bomber, is changing all that. While his electro style is undoubtedly rooted in house, his background in indie rock bands and his degree in composition from Miami U give him the edge and theoretical skills to step outside the after-hours box to explore a wider range of possibilities. IDM beats, pop synths and experimental left turns like the jazzy horns in Can’t Sleep pepper this genre-expanding EP.
Off the Radar on Discipline EP Remixes
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