A name like Tronik Youth means responsibility. London-based DJ Neil Parnell tries to live up to it. The thing is that he’s kinda too hip to make it. He made remixes for The Gossip, Chromeo, The Rakes and Goose among others. He’s been remixed by Punks Jump Up (see post below), Franz and Shape, etc. This is way too hip. Nevertheless his discofied sonical landscapes are quite interesting. Monotonous and experimental but danceable and it feels like noise in electro. The great impossibility of sound in space is dissolved here. Imagine a giant dancefloor with stars for disco balls which is - in spite - a temple for the ultimate goddess ‘Claustrophobia’. This is the place where the music of Tronik Youth belongs to and this is the mood which makes it worthy for the name.

Tronik Youth - We Are (Original mix)

The latest track in the catchy-as-hell discopunk beat slew of bands comes to us via Kitsune records and, not surprisingly, contains ‘punks’ in the name and ‘disco’ in the song title. Awww yeah! A straightforward clarion call to you, yes you — with drink in one hand, minor shuffling of one foot — to knock it back and get involved, because before you know it, those getting involved years are in the rear view mirror.

Punks Jump Up - Dance To Our Disco

“You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can’t disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision.”

“The idea is to turn it back on itself, it is in this fashion that reality is demolished. In the opinonatedness of Ubu, our will, importance, faith, all the things that are carried to paroxysm where we perceive quite naturally that they are made up of breaths from our flatulence, from meat which we make the candles and ashes, from bone with which we make false ivory and false universes. It is not ridicule. It’s an inflation, the brusque passage into an empty space, which is the thought of no one, cause there is not pataphysical thought, there is only pataphysical acid which sours and embaums like milk, swollen like a drowning victim et deflragrer like a greenish-blue truffle of the brains of Palotin. Pataphysics: philosophy of the gaseous state. It can only be defined in a new undiscovered language because too obvious: tautology. Better: it can only define itself by its own term, thus: it doesn’t exist. It turns around and around and rehashes the same half-assed incongruence, smiling stupidly, from girolles and decayed dreams.”

HEALTH - Triceratops (CFCF remix)

Just so y’allz aware. Somehow if you already haven’t been beaten over the head with bulletins or flyer comments, KUNK 0.5 is tonight. So come ’round. And, just confirmed, KUNK 1.0 will be taking place one month from now, October 22 at our new venue — Vespa Club on Andrassy ut 47, near Oktogon. Stay tuned for details young kunkers.

And since we’re a music blog and all that, have a song! These days, when anyone mentions France, it immediately gets followed up with pontifications on Justice, Daft Punk, et al… which for me gives Stuck in the Sound all the more appeal. What’s that? No synths? Color me refreshed! A more urgent and catchy Gallic version of Arcade Fire, which is a compliment in my book. Toy Boy is their first single from the album Nevermind the Living Dead and it’s harsh and sparse all at once. Incidentally it was also remixed by Tepr which goes to show that you’re never more than one degree of separation away from the juggernaut which is the FrenchElectronicNation!

Stuck in the Sound - ToyBoy

Grindcore is love. Indeed. Imagine synths sounding like nintendo games, some screaming and chaotic songs usually lasting for a minute or so. This is Cutting Pink With Knives from London and not cocksucker electremo Enter Shikari. CPWK have just released their second album. It’s like 16 songs in 24 minutes. WTF? Not really MTV Rockchart material. Nevermind, the three guys are dragging you through the whole 16 songs with moments where you still can find traces of pop and danceable stuff. Sometimes they’re not even screaming. Sometimes it’s not even a completly chaotic mess of noise. The point is that it has so much KRAFT that they will blow up planets with laserguns from the ’80s. Or fuck, they deserve a Deathstar. Okay, I’m not saying it doesn’t take an open mind to listen to songs like these but if you have only a small amount of sensitivity for strange pop songs which hit like hammer then you’ll notice that something’s going on here. You can entertain yourself with thoughts of nebulas blowing up leaving thousand sparks big as planets to haunt galaxies like ghosts for millions of years and at the end when different suns just die to turn into glittering ash and meteorites then at last everything will be at peace. It’s just 24 minutes.

Cutting Pink With Knives - Laser Hannon

Download this and try to dance like and idiot.
“You lie awake and drink absynthe.” Exactly.

Give me that soft delicate love. We have to work together at this, you know? Give me flowers and subtle harmony. Look! — a pony rides a zephyr in the distance. Gently swaying meadow grasses. We can do this, i know we can. All we need is love. Put your hand in mine. I’d like to teach the world to sing. Caressing hippie hair… streaming brooks… corduroy pants… keeping it real…

FUCK that! Oh shit. Massive fucking thunderstorm. Hurricane surges. Let go of the floating branch this tsunami is on fire and you are burning and drowning at the same time. You can hear the utopia in the distance but it’s fading faster with every passing second. Let go. You are broken, but at least you’re alive.

Fields - If you fail, we all do (badlands remix)

Californian band, She Wants Revenge fits smoothly into the big picture of music Kunk paints for you, cause one source of inspiration for Kunk is the…umm…’physical manifestation’ or whatever of heavenly Love.

With one of the sexiest covers ever their debut album was released in 2005. Next album entitled ‘This Is Forever’ is coming out in October. You can watch a new video here. Their music, mainly influenced by Joy Division and Depeche Mode, can be compared to contemporaries Interpol and Editors. It sounds sexy and dark, attractive and depressive at the same time. One of the big advantage of SWR over the others that the lyrics make the whole mood of the songs like touchable. You can feel it on your skin.

The new single ‘True Romance’ has a powerful chorus:

“I know that you never loved me
I know that you never cared at all
Maybe just one more dance
Cause that’s as close as we’re getting to a true romance”

So when you hear this song on saturday you should probably fill the dancefloor, think about lost love that has never been yours: “i could never get closer to this girl”, “he only wanted to fuck me?” and stuff but but but accept this cruel fate and hit on a girl or boy even if you feel desperate and miserable.

And for God’s sake, try to be sexy! it will be a Kunk party afterall.

She Wants Revenge - True Romance (radio edit)

Ooh, autumn, could you be any more depressing? Right. Weather starts to suck, vacations end, school starts. In the immortal words of Late of the Pier ’suicide is in my blood…it always was’… WAIT! Don’t do it. At least, not until September 23. On that day you’re free to off yourself with your weapon of choice. But alas, keep that body of yours alive thru September 22, as it’s:

…it would definitely be a new Matt & Kim remix.

Since Kunk is waking up from it’s little sleepy period we should now start to fill your brains and ears with new kunky dance anthems.

Matt & Kim are an indie-powerpop duo from Brooklyn, New York. They’ve always been a subject of all-time underground (blogging) buzz. They are wicked live. Imagine a lesbian-like girl with tattoos who drums like if she was drumming for her life, continously smiling like she’s on a heavy dose of e. That is Kim. Matt is kinda gay and he plays the synth and sings. And he has theese indie-geek glasses. They are super-sweet.

This new remix is out on iheartcomix records and you can barely know anything about The Risk who seems to be a new dj from LA. The remix is a perfect, light electronic dancefloor-filler. Okay, maybe it’s heavy but it’s so smooth you just want to shake shake shake your ass.

Matt and Kim - No More Long Years (The Risk remix)