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Friday 30 December 2011

Stay lit

Day 5 of the Hand Drawn Dracula takeover welcomes a pair of true innovators.  Together as members of Holy Fuck, Brian Borcherdt and Graham Walsh are making some of the most celebrated electronic music in the country; individually, they prove themselves to be dynamic artists ion their own right.  Borcherdt records as a solo artist, contrasting Holy Fuck’s experimental work with his subdued, atmospheric acoustic material, and Walsh has quickly become to go-to guy for producing and collaborating with every one from Lights to Julie Fader, with whom Walsh recently produced a child with.

Brian Borcherdt’s favourites of 2011 (In no particular order) Huckleberry Friends – Visions 7″ Dog Day – Deformer Woods – Sun and Shade Chad VanGaalen – Diaper Island The Luyas – Too Beautiful to Work Bad Vibrations – Black Train John Maus – We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves Total Control – Henge Beat Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for My Halo Sonic Youth – Simon Werner a Disparu + Everything I haven’t heard yet that I will most likely like a lot more than anything on this list - Brian Borcherdt

Graham Walsh’s favourites of 2011 1. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for my Halo 2. Lower Dens – Twin-Hand Movement 3. John Maus – We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves 4. Total Control - Henge Beat 5. Chad VanGaalen – Diaper Island 6. Factory Floor – Two Different Ways single - Graham Walsh

Hand Drawn Dracula‘s Vicious Circles Vol. 1 EP brings together Holy Fuck, Shugo Tokumaru, and Black Moth Super Rainbow to interpret each others songs, aand is available as a free download at facebook.com/HandDrawnDracula.  Brian Borcherdt’s solo project Dusted (full length album) is due on HDD in March, with European and Canadian tour dates to be announced soon.

MP3: Brian Borcherdt “The Drugs”

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