Super review of MAW from the folks behind decoder mag and crash symbols label.
via http://comeintoland.com/2012/01/24/basketball-maw-ep/
“Basketball is a Vancouver based electronic four piece with an deeply international complexion, reflected more so in their music and facility with languages than in the sport they’ve named themselves for. Their debut EP Maw comes at the end of some lengthy travels; the band spent some years playing in Canada, then in Barcelona and various locales in North Africa, before releasing it midway last year (so we’re a bit late to the table on this one). Even with the delay between inception and debut, Maw is a meaty release – its four tracks clock in at almost 25 minutes total – and the dance party never seems to end. Regardless of any internal variation, the energy remains, across diverse shifts from dub to house and even the more exotic sounding Middle Eastern arrangements and quirky instrumentation. This is a good one.
Download the entire EP here and look for the band to be touring this winter.”
Basketball Interview via Grounded TV
talkin’ bout vancouver, translations, transitions, sonic language, and how my dad turned me on to Eastern sounds via farmyard debauchery (weddings) in Bosnia.
http://getgrounded.tv/2011/06/01/basketball-presented-by-grounded-tv-network-and-beatroute-mag/
Basketball Interview via Grounded TV
talkin’ bout vancouver, translations, transitions, sonic language, and how my dad turned me on to Eastern sounds via farmyard debauchery (weddings) in Bosnia.
http://getgrounded.tv/2011/06/01/basketball-presented-by-grounded-tv-network-and-beatroute-mag/
Into the Horns of the Sacred | basketballaz
Heavy dance sorcery off the album MAW
To Victoria with Dreamboat
Friends, Dec 3 the steal caravan is off to Victoria for a show with Dreamboat @ Lucky Bar. Room for everyone, let’s go!
Suspiros de Chile (AoOlm remix) | basketballaz
the brilliant AoOlms raw power reshaping of Basketballs “Suspiros de Chile”.
thanks to everyone to came out to the joint release party with Warp Records and Broadway to Boundary! it was great fun. Thanks to Babe Rainbow, Self Evident from Sub Osc and Cloudface.
with our dear friends handsome furs… shake shake shake
with our dear friends handsome furs… shake shake shake
NEW SONG!!!!
From their forthcoming EP, basketball continues their climb up the mountain of ancestral resonance through the jungles of South American cadence. ‘Suspiros de Chile,’ inspired by the catastrophic earthquake in Chile in February 2010, celebrates the strength and prowess of a peoples devastated by natural forces.
NEW SONG!!!!
From their forthcoming EP, basketball continues their climb up the mountain of ancestral resonance through the jungles of South American cadence. ‘Suspiros de Chile,’ inspired by the catastrophic earthquake in Chile in February 2010, celebrates the strength and prowess of a peoples devastated by natural forces.
HYAENAS RENEGADES PARTY at Prospect Point…. Basketball, No Gold, Max Ulis, Dj Sweet Anomoly and Hyaenas. Stretching out summer nights by the bridge, hyaenas dancing with raccoons ….
During our trip out to Calgary for Sled Island, we challenged Fucked Up to a game of soccer. Fucked up fell by the score of 5 to 2 in the hands of basketball. Destroyed.
HYAENAS: under the bridge renegade party!!
This was an unforgettable event that took place under a bridge that we organized. Unfortunately, the cops showed up RIGHT before we were about to play. Nonetheless, the night was one to remember.
In dark industrial corners and between the cold steal rails we congregated for an evening of fucking celebration.
under the black as skoal sky and the concrete cathedral of a bridge, we heralded to the gods with dancing, laughter, cigarettes, bottles, couches and speakers, spiriting along the tracks.
””..in what should have been a specatular long-lasting celebration in the making under the bridge. One of the best after parties in recent times only to be short lived…but as Tome (of Basketball) declared at the end “This is the first of many to come…keep the spirit alive”… “
-steve louie
“Last night I decided to meet up with my bro, and he tells me he’s at some huge party under a bridge in east Van put on by Hyaenas. Holy frackles it was hands down the dopest thing I’ve been to in Vancouver since I moved here. There was great music for the short while (not sure who was on) I was there, which was dub/ragga based. The lineup consisted of Basketball, Max Ulis, No Gold, Phowa, The Brown Acid and Hyaenas crew. What blew my mind the most was the fact that there were like 500-800 people there between the grungy metal bridge girders and rubble and discarded furniture. It was so ghetto, and SO beautiful. I could only imagine a detroit techno party going off there. It was rad as shit.” -intrinsic rhythm
links:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=212973&id=29041426662
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevelouie/4570469089/
http://www.philippesawicki.com/?p=425 http://www.intrinsicrhythm.com/
video of us from our October 10th show in Vancouver.
video of us from our October 10th show in Vancouver.
ALO FRIENDS!
New song! Zima Dodje (Winter’s Come) can be found on The Mental Beast Holiday Compilation, info on the concert here.
Some more exciting updates;
we’re in the process of recording for a number of tings /
a few 7”s with a few special labels and special friends, to be released in the coming months, and our first full length to follow.
Super CiTR radio (101.9 in Vancouver) has released a compilation titled POP ALLIANCE to keep itself alive through the support of donations. The album features S.I.E.M.P.R.E, for more info and to donate click here to keep CiTR’s public access radio alive.
Backwarding, One Cool Word’s summer issue #14 comes with a CD featuring our JOY and some great artists.
more more more… .
Tomorrow evening we dance together. With Japandroids at Biltmore, Vancouver.
XO
this guy was at one of our shows in Brussels and he looks like he could be right out of an old christmas story/Oliver Twist scene…
this guy was at one of our shows in Brussels and he looks like he could be right out of an old christmas story/Oliver Twist scene…
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