SEVEN NOISES

Not long ago I posted about Memory Cassette, a collective that changes the name and some members when they mutate into other parallel projects like Memory Tapes or Weird Tapes. Today is the turn of Memory Tapes as we are celebrating the release of their first proper single, the 12 inch Bicycle. This project doesn't differ a lot from Memory Cassette although it is a bit more dance oriented. This track is an advance of next week's release, exclusively to Rough Trade, of their first proper album called Seek Magic, a double CD that will be soon published as a single LP by Acephale.
The song is a summery indie-dance anthem that reminds of those indie-dance tracks from the beginning of the 90s combined with guitar tunes close to The Cure and New Order. The B side is an instrumental remix by The Horrors that doesn't contribute to anything new but isn't bad as a complementary B side.
Another summer song to dance by the beach, and this year we have a lot of those!

It was the beginning of 2008 when I first got on contact with Memory Cassette, a mysterious band with a blog that was uploading there their EPs to download for free. There's a total lack of information about this project, not even the names of its members. The only info we have is that some of all its members are also part of Weird Tapes and Memory Tapes. Yes, everything about tapes, but even with their obsession about this cool again format, it has not been until this month that they finally published something in a physical format and, guess what, it's not been a tape. The first release of Memory Cassette is a 500 limited 7 inch with four songs previously given away for free at their website and still available there, so not in it for the money, for sure. The four songs here include my particular favourite one, Asleep at a Party, a beautiful and sad shoegaze song that takes you back to the Slowdive days. But the single is completed with three more upbeat songs, closer to the glory days of Darla, being Surfin' the most likely to be played at a party. Even they say this EP is sold out you can still find copies at Rough Trade London.
And to celebrate this release, more free songs online: A remix EP called Call & Responses with four mixes of two of the songs of this single by the likes of CFCF or their own side project Weird Tapes. You can find all these and more at: