It is. I went to Japan lately for work and hung out with those guys at a festival I covered. They're not selling out, they're very underground in ethos. They didn't do the ad without thinking and were worried about appearing in it but deemed it a worthwhile outlet since it's hard for them to get exposure elsewhere. They do have a live band type set up now and one of the guys doesn't tour. They have a singer. I think with the changes over the albums they just don't want to get in a stylistic box. They were bewildered with the electroclash tag for Dirty Dancing, saying they'd always done electro. I do remember them playing here years ago and it was very different to what they're doing now. The only small thing I have is if you want to do vocal music you need a good song - a hook - of some kind or the music is in limbo and they need to develop that. Jeff Mills once explained to me and a promoter here that even a techno producer has to have a hook, all music does, and that stuck with me. Hopefully I will post the Swayzak interview soon.
> Weird - I just saw an advert on tv last night for a phone - there is a guy > on a bullet type train and he's walking from car to car. He flips open his > phone and it says 'SWAYZAK' on the screen. > > He then turns around and there is a full glam/garage rock band behind him. > Drummer, guitarist, lead singer, etc. Very fuzzed out overdriven guitar > rock style. The band was looking quite glam in purple suits and sh*t. Like > a very bright version of the Hives. > > the music was nothing like I've heard from previous Swayzak releases. It > sounded nothing like the great deep dub house/techno from > "Snowbaording...", "Himawari", or even the last electrocash one. It was all > heard-it-before garage glam rock crap. > > Can this be the same Swayzak?! > > MEK >
