Tip of The Week: Lighthouses - Control
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|11:16 UK time, Friday, 8 April 2011
Lighthouses are one of those bands where people insist they must have emerged from some insane cross-breeding experiment between two other bands.
"Fenech-Soler meets Bloc Party" "Daft Punk crossed with Soulwax" "Death from Above vs Delphic" "David Bowie meets Justice crossed with Bloc Party"! I mean, where exactly are these cross-breeding parties happening? I can just imagine David Bowie walking into the dressing room of Justice, being impressed by their huge glowing cross, grabbing a few Pina Coladas and jumping in the jacuzzi with Bloc Party, and 9 months later finding an unknown child called Lighthouses on the doorstep.
Whoever the Lighthouses' real father is, he probably had a knack for making catchy dance music, as his children have inherited this useful gene and put it to use in this track Control:
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They are a three piece who mix the art of dj-ing with playing live, and must do it pretty well to have supported the likes of AutoKratz, David E. Sugar, and Alex Metric. They also won a competition for the best remix of Slick by Chew Lips, and if you want to see if they were worthy winners, have a listen here.
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At 14:19 12th Apr 2011, 80sguy wrote:* https://soundcloud.com/listentolighthouses is the soundlcoud link :)
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