Delerium Still Plugging It

It seems that Delerium, the side project of FLA who released this clubbing anthem back in the early 00's are STILL plugging the old formula, remix 'Silence' as many times as you can. Its practically impossible to get a hold of the original anymore!!!!! Probably unless you request to remix it ;)



The new Silence 2008 ep was out in October. Still when you've made as much music as those guys do 3/4 more remixes really make a difference? It also helps that its still a fantastic song, and the new ep doesnt sound bad!!!

http://www.delerium.ca/sil08/Silence08.html

Big B

Covenant new demos!!

FTCZ has just recently noticed that Covenant, our favourite Swedish EBM band, has updated the demos on their Myspace. Since they were supposed to start recording in February by most accounts, this means they should be having an album out soon.

Watch this space for more news about your nouveau Depeche updates!!!

Big B

A Bird In The Hand (Zomg @ gangster rap reference)

Hey peeps,

So singer-songwriter Wallis Bird is about to start an Irish and subsequently other places tour in the near future. For those of you saying "wtf! wtf! wtf! i have no idea whats happening!!!!", Wallis Bird is an Irish musician who suffers from minor hawtness. Well...kinda. IMHO. By Irish mog singer-songwriter standards at the very least anyway...

Her choonage is unusually good too (check out Counting To Sleep). Anyway, her fun biography fact is that she sawed of 5 fingers with a lawnmower and had them re-attached (read the title again to fully appreciate the funnyZ).

Wallis Bird plays Cyprus Avenue on 22 and 23 October and The Button Factory on 30 October. I don't think anyone outside those places reads those blogs, so deal with it.

Elle S'appelle split up (Boo)

Hey peeps,

This actually happened like a month ago but FTCZ had no reason to go near their myspace really. They were just on a list of 'whens their album coming out' bands that I was shuffling through.

While Mr. A is beside himself (his glasses fogged from all the heavy breathing, nay, hyperventilating he was doing), we can still be thankful that they released one really killa choon (Little Flame doncha know) which could very well end up on our end of year list.

Viva Elle S'appelle ;)

Ice Cube, But Not Forgotten (<---wtf title)

Hey peeps,


I'm sure the rap fans among you were eager to eye up Ice Cube's 3rd Greatest Hits entitled 'the essentials', only to find that a mere 3 tracks off 'The Death Certificate' and 2 tracls off of 'AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted' made the cut. :O :O :O :O :O

"But Sonic C", the stranger readers who don't actually know me will say, " We already own both those albums. And Kill At Will and The Predator too. Yet you think we should potentially get a greatest hits anywayz. Are you illin?"

If you own said albums straanger readers, i think you're pretty well covered when it comes to the greatest rapper ever (zomg @ controversy, but its true). In fact, it'd be probably best to hold off for the new Kanye album 4 your rap fix. But what this track selection shows is that 'the suits' (*hissing noises*) are defo illin, and are gonna bollocks up any re-releases that may happen in the future.

For your ice cube fix (no, not an obvious fridge joke) i recommend that highly underrated/alternative pairing of 'Are We There Yet' and it's superior sequel 'Are We Done Yet?'

Ice Cube is teh funnyZ :)

Out with the Dragonforce, in with the Chairlift....

Hey internet peeps,

While we were going to cover more topics on Dragonforce (white power connection anyone?), a band has come out of seemingly nowhere in our sheltered Dragonforce world. And that band is................Chairlift!



We're hardly the first of you to hear them since they do have 500K + plays on myspace. Also they were covered in NME radar (the greatest section if any mag ever) last week and were equally praised by DiS who did a whole feature on them.


Their debut album is being set up to be a top tenner of the year too. Not only that, but they embrace the consumer within too. Their song 'Bruises' is the choonage for the 4th gen iPod adverts. Apple has entrusted them with selling iPods and have marked them as important enough to be in charge of ending the recession and making everyone shop again :)


BAnds that are entrusted to end global recessions are usually pretty important in my book. PLus 'Bruises' is defo of the quality of past iPod songs like 1-2-3-4 by Feist and Music Is My Hot, Hot Sex by CSS.


Be sure to give track 'Garbage' a listen too.


Chairlift also play Cyprus Avenue on November 23rd.

P2Pz!!!

Im sure most people reading this are aware of P2P resources on the internetz, and will probably at some stage have used them, hopefully for perfectly legit reasons such as sharing essays about how awesome Dragonforce are.

Recently P2P users have been coming under increasing pressure in some countries, what with the RIAA and other such organisations protecting the rights of artists and blah blah blah..... Recently though, these organisations have been made suck their own nines in many countries and have been dealt some heavy blows, mainly in America where the Dept of Justice told Congress that the RIAA wont be given any special treatment.

Aside from all the legal aspects (of which I know very little), im just happy that these people who are effectively trying to close off the internet are finally being stood up to.

Regardless of the legal aspects of pirated material, these laws that are being considered are so intrusive and restrictive that they are almost Chinese.

Its something that people should really be aware of if they care about their beloved internets, who knows what could happen to our beloved FTC blog? Wed have to set up a zine and write properly researched articles!

If you care check out https://www.isohunt.com/ for some interesting analysis and links to articles.

Big B