Extended Play

By virtue of the gang upstairs who organise these things, an extension has been granted till Monday 4 June for entries to our sleeveface competition. So now you've got all weekend to get your face on and submit to our Facebook page.  (For rules and stuff check preceeding posts).

Sleeve Face Update

A fine selection of entries from the NZ Sleeve Face competition happening over on our Facebook page.  Wanna enter?  You've got till 5 pm Friday 1 June...

NZ Music Month Face-Sleeving Competition

To celebrate the last week of NZ Music Month and the release of Fabulous Arabia's Unlimited Buffet on LP, we're having a good old-fashioned 'face-sleeving'* competition.

The rules are simple.  Take a photo with you and a New Zealand album or albums - following the face-sleeving guidelines below - and post it on Rhythmethod's Facebook:  www.facebook.com/rhythmethod

The winner will be judged on creativity, subject matter and seamlessness of the finished result.

The winner will be drawn of Friday 1st June and will be notified via Facebook.

The prize will contain a stack of NZ musical goodies including records, CDs and t shirts...you gotta be in it to win it!

*Face-sleeving - one or more persons obscuring or augmenting any part of their body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusion - check out this website for inspiration:  http://www.sleeveface.com/

Fabulous Arabia:  Unlimited Buffet LP

Release date:  1 June 2012

Fabulous Fabulous Arabia Unlimited Buffet Vinyl

Coming soon on our favourite format, yes, that's vinyl, is the Fabulous Arabia album 'Unlimited Buffet'.  Best hop to it when the time comes though, cos this record is far from unlimited, it's been pressed in a (numbered) edition of only 200 copies. 

Release date forthcoming, so check back ok. 

Here, as further explanation to the content, it is appropriate to reprint the letter from the President of Economy Records found in the sleeve notes:

"UNLIMITED BUFFET is a twin-hulled power-yacht of a record.  It is a craft built with only one concern in mind:  unbridled speed.

On UNLIMITED BUFFET, the words of LAWRENCE ARABIA are yoked to the musical arangements of MIKE FABULOUS in a fashion that is - dare I say it - quite provocative indeed.

In the past, ARABIA has wrestled the wraiths of weary nostalgia - not to mention the juxtapositions and moods of contemporary banality.  UNLIMITED BUFFET rests amid that all pervading energy-field that the thinkers term "le life-style".

FABULOUS has once again trimmed his musical moustache and turned out as charming a series of anecdotes as my speakers have had the very good fortune to chuckle over in quite some time!"

Some Rather Good Recent Releases

After too darn long Jim O'Rourke's 1999 EP (and office favourite) 'Halfway to a Threeway' is available again on vinyl.

And we've happily taken delivery of these other Drag City items and sent them out into the world:

Doug Jerebine - Is Jesse Harper LP (CDs too, via local label Imperial)
Dirty Three - Toward the Low Sun LP (CDs too, via Hope & Anchor)
Masaki Batoh - Brain Pulse Music LP and CD
Sophia Knapp - Into the Waves LP & CD
Bonnie Prince Billy - The B-Sides From Time to Be Clear 7"
Black Bananas - Rad Times Xpress IV LP & CD
Bonnie Prince Billy - Wolfroy Goes to Town LP

Available now from all good etc etc 

 

On Fridays We Play Records

Well, we play records every day of the week, but Fridays are special cos we take turns to bring our own playlist, have a go on the boss's stereo, eat crisps, drink beer and say kind things about each other's selections.