POWER NAP

Half of one of our fav Auckland acts Golden Axe, Chris Cudby has snuck this two track solo excursion out on the Crystal Magic imprint. The tracks are quite stylistically different from one another, with "Just Do It" occupying slightly cosmic, liquid-funk territory, and "Kiwi Blue" -- the soundtrack to Ashlin Raymond and Zhoe Granger's recent PB PR Boundless Energy show at Auckland's Ferari Gallery -- is a surprising breakbeat-driven warped-house number, with hints of Ferraro-esque post-internetisms.

I also wrote something about the Boundless Energy show for the Enjoy Gallery blog.

RQ GUEST MIX 005: GOLDEN AXE

MP3: RQ Mix 005: Golden Axe - 2:40 MAKE A SANDWICH AND DRINK JUICE AND EAT CHIPS EVERY DAY mix

The mysterious and enigmatic Auckland duo of Chris Cudby and Dave King have been RQ faves since forever, so it's been super exciting to see them hit the "big-time" in the last 6 months with their Liquid Bacon album released through Czech-tastemakers AM Discs. We're always stoked on a Golden Axe DJ appearance here in Auckland and now this unique experience is available to the rest of the world via this two hour and twenty minute mix of weird pop, italo, funk and other fuzzy, golden classics.

Tracklist:

01 Donna's Dilemma - Anthony King 
02 Fletch Theme - Harold Faltermeyer 
03 Third Stone From The Sun - Jimmy Hendrix 
04 Cinderella - James Ferraro 
05 Losing You - Jan Terri 
06 Airport Lights - Rangers 
07 Charisma - Disasteradio 
08 Match Winner - Andy Clark 
09 Pleng Show Title Theme 
10 Can't Afford - 52nd Street 
11 Techno Music - Juan 
12 ABC5 station ID 
13 You're The One Who's Out Of This World - ALF 
14 Animal House 
15 Streetwise - B-Art 
16 I Need You (wrong speed edit) - Danuta 
17 Birdland Weather Report Rubbish Remix - Cartoon 
18 Bosom Buddies opening theme 
19 I Was Sick - Secrets 
20 Modern Pentathlon, Suite 5 Baroque (Fencing) - A. Rodionov 
21 Multiple Image - Multiple Image 
22 Lets Go - Nocera 
23 White Love - One Dove 
24 Rock To The Beat - One O One 
25 Plastic Child - Outer Limits Recordings 
26 Party Machine (Prince Language Afterparty Edit) - Bruce Haack 
27 Dangerous - Pennye Ford 
28 Sax Nine Millimeter - Disasteradio 
29 Say You Say Me - Lionel Richie 
30 Sexy Girl - Lillo 
31 Synthesizing - Charanjit Singh 
32 Touch Me Now - Municipal Waste 
33 Turn It On Again - Genesis 
34 Living On A Farm - Harry Thumann 
35 Drac's Back - Red Lipstick 
36 Ring Dang Doo - Sam The Sham 
37 Egyptian Shumba - The Tammys 
38 I Got The Message - ZZ Top 
39 Hot Rockin - Judas Priest 
40 Bouree - Jethro Tull 
41 CNN Beak - Geo Quiz 
42 Lemme Take You To The Beach - Frank Zappa 
43 Shoot Your Shot - Divine 
44 Lost In Spin - Quarks 
45 Move (Fun House Mix) - Ruben Gomez 
46 Dancin' In My Sleep - Secret Ties 
47 Hawaiian Chance - Yello 
48 Sweet Drums - Cerone 
49 Vivaldi Tribute - Jean Michel Jarre & Patrick Rondat

blog / facebook

PEACEFUL PLANET

First sounds from Golden Axe's new AM Discs release Liquid Bacon on this Simon Ward-directed video. Catch them live this week across New Zealand.

blog

GIVE ME REAL FOOD

Golden Axe - Telephone

Auckland's kings of scuzz get kind of "epic" on this cut from their new album Fantasy Footwork; letting those hijacked exercise VHS tape rhythms and joyous SNES riffs build up for a couple minutes before Chris Cudby's warped shouts come blasting through the receiver. There's this weird innate desire to dance and/or exercise to Golden Axe's music, but when I played this at a party the other night it was funny how nobody could figure out how to properly dance to it (but really wanted to) so they just kind of lost their shit. Been blasting Fantasy Footwork pretty heavily and I love how it sits perfectly alongside our favourite Peace Age dudes with their similarly skewed pop visions informed by video games, Garfieldisms, Angelfire websites and junk food. In my iTunes tags this album's genre is "Fun" - for sure.

[Golden Axe Myspace]

[Buy Fantasy Footwork from Golden Axe Bandcamp]

DOGNAPPED

Golden Axe are a keyboard/waveform duo comprised of Chris Cudby and Daif Kent and they're pretty much my favourite New Zealand band around I think. These dudes have been kicking it for a while but have always felt a little bit elusive or intermittent, but anytime I manage to catch them live or hear a track somewhere I love to make that bold proclamation again and again. They're at their best on this new track FREE TIME; totally grin-inducing Gameboy melodic perfection w/ scuzzed-out keys and echoed vocal barks - perfectly accompanied by this Tim & Eric-style video (want that Garfield phone!) - this actually sounds and looks like lights through a smoke machine, flowers on a fake Greek plinth and day-glo "Leisure Zones".

[Golden Axe Myspace]

[Buy Free Time digital single from Golden Axe Bandcamp (only $1.50!)]