SL Records Singles Club

volume five

I Am Scientist - Cancer Stick

Cruiser - it's all good baby (The Magnificents remix)

Cruiser have seen many lineup changes through the years and their musical style has moved from kitchen-sink “21st Century Caledonian Pop” to something more minimal and electronic. The now four-piece have over the years, gone from being faves of Steve Lamacq to the more current Colin Murray, if we’re collecting Radio One DJ kudos.

All this plus the chance to check out one of the most interesting venues in Scotland, one which despite its fairly off-the-beaten-track location consistently gets in interesting and high profile lineups. Hopefully we’ll see you there, if you see us buy us a drink…

www.persilmusic.com
www.myspace.com/cruiserland

IS THIS MUSIC? (August 21st)

Resplendent in tartan, Cruiser are in line with the weekend’s Scottish theme. Their blend of neatly produced electronica, with floaty, dreamy unison vocals is a perfect antidote to the hangovers we’ve all been fighting. The crowd are more than receptive, and the two female fronts look relaxed and happy as they run through their set with ease. A nice highlight is the use of vocoder, and as they wrap up I feel refreshed, and ready to tackle more Bella!

The List (August Issue)

HAPPYROBOTS: programmed to love you
Despite a touring schedule which might fairly be described as minimal, Fife’s long-serving Cruiser are still criminally under-rated. So anything that gets the gospel out there – particularly a well-realised remix version of their last album Happy Robots:smilingpeople – is a good thing.

HR:ptly is a good to gorgeous record in its own right, although many of its contributors (Laugh & Peace, Tiger Tiger, pndc) might be unfamiliar names. Perhaps the most recognisable are Kid Carpet, who provides a suitably DIY electro version of ‘Input’, and Luke Solomon, with one of three versions of ‘A Gentle Press’. Edinburgh’s The Magnificents also make a welcome return with a suitably Krautrockin’ take on ‘It’s All Good Baby’.

(4 out of 5)

our new album "HAPPYROBOTS:programmed to love you" is out now!
available to download from all good sites.
It features some stunning remixes from KID CARPET, LUKE SOLOMON, LAUGH&PEACE, THE MAGNIFICENTS, PORT ROYAL, DEDO, LORD NUMB, UCHIKAWA SHINJI, LORD NUMB, PNDC, RIBSIDE, CHRONIK, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF, DERGAR and HIPPO.
thanks to all who remixed us, we are very proud to have had you working on our tracks.

CRUISER ONLINE STORE

Those nice chappies and champions of the Scottish Music Scene at IS THIS MUSIC? have 4 free tracks to download, one of them features an extended version of our track "skyflowers".
go on, you'll like it, and if you dont, its free anyway.

www.isthismusic.com

please enjoy our new video, filmed in glorious high definition by the visual Wizards Emma and Adrian from INDUSTRIOUS DARK.
Special thanks to Mr MArk Wake for a show stopping performance (^_^)

after a lot of rehearsing, writing and fretting, cruiser finally went live in May.
you can see what cruiser live looks like on our pics page.
Yes we are human beings and not little cute robots.
photos taken by Richie Smith and Sinnead Grainger, thanks (^_^)

Hey there peoples we are proud to announce that our remix of kid carpets hitting the wall will be included on sunday best records album increase the peace vol 2, were mega thrilled about that and a big thanks goes out to the kid for letting us get our greasy paws all over his thingy and of course all involved at sunday best.


Sunday Best Recordings proudly presents the 2nd in our series of Increase The Peace digital compilation albums - designed to showcase our latest and greatest cuts, plus a few gems from our back catalogue, and all at a bargain price to help people can get a flavour of what we’re all about. It will be available on iTunes from March 2nd 2009 and all other DMS from March 30th.

This edition kicks off with Soft Little Sound a classic track from Lazyboy’s 2004 album Penguin Rock.  Lazyboy is Sunday Best head honcho Rob da Bank’s alter-ego alongside multi-instrumentalist and producer extraordinaire Dan Carey (who has just finished producing the new Franz Ferdinand album and has worked with Hot Chip, Kylie, CSS, Sly & Robbie and Lily Allen in the past). A new Lazyboy album is due later this year so this acts as a wonderful reminder of what we’ve been waiting so patiently for!

Next up is Say You’ll Be Mine by Kitty Daisy & Lewis – the B side to their Going Up The Country single and a track many would argue should have been on their debut self-titled album, particularly as it was written by Lewis.  This is followed by The PolarBear P.S. version of dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip’s phenomenal Letter From God To Man.  A digital-only B side to the single release, this version of the track sees Dan drop the Radiohead sample in favour of a stripped down stuttering beat and sees spoken word maestro PolarBear add his own P.S. ending to the track, lamenting how God’s ‘funny side’ often gets overlooked. Genius.

Hugh Frost AKA Sportsday Megaphone steps up next with his recent single and album highlight Meet Me In Middle - a dazzling, bedroom-disco evocation of young love and compromise. With a bit of luck there’ll be a beautifully animated video for this tune coming your way soon (that right Hugh?!).  Kid Carpet graced 2008 with his wonderful 2nd album Casio Royale and here we have the album’s epic opening track Hitting The Wall remixed by Scotland's finest electro heads, Cruiser, who turn the track all gospel and goose-pimply!

Christopher D Ashley picked up props in 2008 for debut album Cruel Romantics from the likes of the NME ("Sluttish warehouse electro from London's coolest new producer") and Music Week ("Something quite special") and here we bring you album track We Ain’t Though for your listening pleasure.  Grand National released their much anticipated 2nd album A Drink & A Quick Decision in early 2008 and Cut By The Brakes was the 3rd single from it that never happened. Which is a shame as it’s sensational!

More dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip goodness comes in the form of the Sunday Best Cosmic Dub of their Thou Shalt Always Kill anthem.  It’s the first in a series of Sunday Best remixes produced by one of our in-house musical whizz-kids.  Next up is a special dub version of You’ll Never Find featuring Rodney P from the Dub Pistols brilliant 2007 album Speakers & Tweeters. The Dubs return in the coming months with a new single Back To Daylight featuring Ashley Slater (of Freakpower fame) and a brilliant new album entitled Rum & Coke. Be prepared to be blown away … again.

And finally, we come to Kid Carpet’s charming Cowboy. One of the many highlights from his live shows and also the closing track on his Casio Royale album. And perhaps a lesson for some in these ‘credit crunch’ (yawn) times…

www.sundaybest.net

1.  Lazyboy – Soft Little Sound
2.  Kitty Daisy & Lewis – Say You’ll Be Mine
3.  dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip – Letter From God To Man (The PolarBear P.S.)
4.  Sportsday Megaphone – Meet Me In The Middle
5.  Kid Carpet – Hitting The Wall (Cruiser remix)
6.  Christopher D Ashley –We Ain’t Through
7.  Grand National – Cut By The Brakes
8.  dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip – Thou Shalt Always Kill (Sunday Best Cosmic Dub)
9.  Dub Pistols feat Rodney P – You’ll Never Find (Dub)
10. Kid Carpet – Cowboy

we are uberly proud to have been given not one, but two remixes from Japanese legends LAUGH&PEACE.
You can find the TSURU mix on our page.
To those that dont know (hang your heads in shame!) LAUGH&PEACE are the electro popsters behind the seminal soundtrack for VIB RIBBON, the cult PSONE music based game!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNOG5NBT9fE
woooo!
here's our new and first ever video. Laboured and sweated over by the creative talents of Steven and Drew Magnificent, and our very own Tony Hawks, label boss Scott Macdonald. Cheers guys!! It's packed with all the latest information and new technology that 80's bearded man has to offer.

Michty!
our new single "a gentle press" is Colin Murray's RECORD OF THE WEEK on BBC Radio One this week!
which you can find here:
www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/colinmurray/
and the nice chaps at BBC radio Bristol played us on Sunday also,
which you can find here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/noscript.shtml?/radio/aod/bristol_aod.shtml?bristol/bristol_uncovered_sun

"a gentle press" has new track "paintingbynumbers" as a b-side and will be available to download from all good sites as soon as possible.

Hey we would like to thank neri, lovestruck marco and all involved at ultimo volume - radio in Brazil for having a show dedicated to KFM records.

catch the podcast at http://neri.podOmatic.com/entry/2008-11-30T16_53_05-08_00

(^.^) cheers all

Jack Lane has provided cruiser with there very first video. This is a very proud moment for all involved and i would like to thank jack for his beautiful masterpiece to accompany the most excellent dedo remix of reboot.

Please if you have the time check it out, we have just posted it up on our page, then jump across to Mr Lanes page and sample the other delightful gems he has waiting for you all.
www.myspace.com/banksfox

Another thanks is in order to chronik who has provided another eerily stunning remix of the cruiser/mayuko track hikaro to iro. cheers chronik

love and respect to you all