Rebel Alliance 5 Trailer!

Illustrations and animations from The Rebel Army have started rolling in. Things are looking pretty amazing. If you want some proof, here's the trailer for Saturday:

With all the artists getting involved in this, the guestlis for the night is huge. I'm not sure how many open seats there are gonna be in The Bioscope. You may want to book some tickets here.

Till then Rebel Scum!

2011 in lists: SMACM releases!

Are you excited? You should be! Prepare your eyes and ears for a post that tries to catch up on my so over-due list making of things from last year, multiplied by the power of a Free Music Friday!

I'm still in the process of making a list of my favourite local recordings from this past year. While doing this I realised a large chunk of those recordings are actually things that we landed up releasing through SMACM, the label I launched last February. It seemed a little biased putting all those EPs in my SA Music list, so instead I'm giving them their own list. May I introduce to you

THE 2011 SMACM DISCOGRAPHY!
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SMAC001

EYES LIKE MIRRORS

CRUSADES

Art by Franci Lawlor

Design by Ben Rausch

Download Crusades here!

SMAC002

VAMPIRE 9000

COLOURS

Art by Maaike Bakker

Download Colours here!

SMAC003

JAYSYNTH

ST

Art by Jason Sutherland

Download Jaysynth here!

SMAC004

MARTIANMARTIAN

ST

Art by Jean de Wet

Download Martianmartian here!

That's it for now; I hope that by this time next year I'll have been able to share even more lovely sounds coming out of our little country!

You are invited! Crusades launch!

In one of my proudest moments to say "you are invited"; I'm ecstatic to be able to tell you about this one. On the first Saturday of next month Eyes Like Mirrors will be launching our debut EP "Crusades". To mark this special occasion we're ecstatic to be throwing a little launch party in the city's most well-loved independent cinema, The Bioscope. Playing in a sit-down venue on a big screen is a total dream come true for us. To do justice to this opportunity we're rework our entire set visually. The night will also feature hang out times before and after the show in The Bioscope's recently unveiled "Chalkboard Cafe". Mirror friends Plaat Japie and Nathan Scott Phillip will kindly be suplying some mixes of instrumental music to Soundtrack this and Mirror resident artist Franci Lawlor will be drawing on the walls of The Chalkboard itself! There are less than 60 tickets left for this special night, so I'd suggest you click here, scroll down the "What's showing next" section till you get to the 5th of March and book now!

Hooray for Humans! Crusades artwork is done!

So here's the artwork for our forthcoming EP, "Crusades". Made out of artwork drawn by Franci Lawlor, chopped up and scribbled over by me, we're insanely excited to be printing these bad boys on a really special new kind of CD packaging. If you're wondering what it is, I'm not telling yet."Ooooh! Mystery!"