Titled V, Van She’s recently released full length debut is a confident modern rock album, recorded in London with acclaimed English producer Jim Abbiss, who has worked with Arctic Monkeys and Placebo, among others. In this Playlist, bassist and vocalist Matt Van Schie, trawls his crates to give us a rundown on his current musical obsessions.
Kazino / Binary
One note riff my heart out! The bass, the guitars, and that synth line … oooooh. They’re all doing their jobs so well in this New Wave Italo Disco blast. And what a great start it has. It’s pure underground sex! I feel like I’m hanging out in an early 80s Paris nightclub with my drink resting on the stomach of painted naked lady, doing mesculine with less violent clockwork orangers.
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You know you’ve made it in Australia when you have a song featured in a BMW commercial. Yup, The Presets have done that, and more. In this issue of My Secret Playlist, Julian Hamilton and Kim Moyes each write about four songs (Julian’s four are first) that have helped shape — in some small way — The Presets sound, finessed so superbly on their latest album, Apocalypso.
John Cage / Mysterious Adventure for Prepared Piano
At the beginning of the score, Cage wrote a table of specific ‘preparations’ that had to be employed on the piano before performing the piece. These included jamming nuts and bolts, and pieces of rubber and wood of different sizes, between the strings of the piano. Then, when you play the piece, the piano doesn’t sound like a piano at all, more like an Indonesian Gamelan or metal junk orchestra, or something. It’s really wild. I performed this piece as part of my final recital at university. I really enjoyed studying it, and I still love listening to it.
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