Alex the Kid celebrate the release of their new and very futuristic EP "Welcome to the Future"
with a very visual and spectacularly sci-fi...
"SPACE PARTY"@ MIGHTY MIGHTY
(Cuba St, Wellington)
STAR DATE 19TH SEPTEMBER, 22:00HOURS
featuring....
Alex the Kid, Heat Like Me & live space visuals from Burnt Pixel
Spectators dressed in there best space suit will receive a free copy of
Alex the kids new EP at the door!
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ALEX THE KID: myspace.com/alexthekidnz
The newest band to hit Wellington claim to have quantum leaped here from the future - to rectify this worlds relationship with technology. Alex the Kid, a four-piece "future pop" band have been described as a confused boy band, or the Pet Shop Boys on steroids, and have a mission with their music; to promote human and robot unity on earth.
They do this through a lively combination of electronica, indie and techno, animated in-between song banter, vocoders, synthesizers, guitars, bass, drums, laptops, Star Trek suits, and a highly visual, hyperlink rich MySpace page. Their endearing devotion to technology - evident through their dedication of whole songs to the stuff - would put Kip Dynamite to shame.
- Stacey Knott, Salient Magazine
"Simply brilliant. From the midst of a musical globescape littered with the decaying
carcasses of amateurish electro/punk bands surfaces Alex The Kid...”
- Martyn Pepperell: GROOVE GUIDE more
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HEAT LIKE ME: www.myspace.com/heatlikeme
New Zealand electronica act Heat Like Me blend the latest in 70s synth technology with a fistful of homebrew electronics. The result is a danceable mix of electro, funk, and rock sensibilities.
Heat Like Me are largely inspired by their musical heroes, which include a combination of electro, funk and early nineties Chicago house, including notable acts such as Add (N) to X, Depeche Mode, Chromeo, Devo, Justice, Kraftwerk, MSTRKRFT, The Rapture, Soulwax, Digitalism, Duran Duran, The Knife, Blondie, The Faint, New Order to name a few.
"A fun and infectiously danceable mix you will be gripped by immediately and the whole world should know about."
- The Fast Life.org
