Midnight Juggernauts Live at The Levi’s FADER Fort NYC

There have been about a million remixes of Midnight Juggernauts‘ “This New Technology,” but we’re not going to weigh you down with yet another version today.  Here’s the real deal, performed live at last weekend’s all-day sauna at The Levi’s®/FADER Fort.  Heat didn’t even phase the Juggernauts—probably because they’re from Australia or outer space or some place that’s hot all of the time [Ed. Australia].

Midnight Juggernauts, “This New Technology” (Emperor Machine Remix) MP3

Can’t even count how many times we’ve already heard Midnight Juggernauts‘ “This New Technology” in various forms. But now there are three new remixes, Gorilla vs. Bear posted the Memory Tapes version, someone, somewhere (we haven’t looked yet) will probably be all over the Juan Maclean one, and we’re posting this Emperor Machine rework. The UK producer forgoes the original’s mini-prog bombast in favor of a lot more cosmic electronics and an ending that’s basically a mess of dark, muddled keys. Still a good soundtrack for all your dreams of fighting dragons, only now it would also make sense if they took place in space.



Download: Midnight Juggernauts, “This New Technology” (Emperor Machine Remix)

Premiere: Midnight Juggernauts “New” Video

Midnight Juggernauts go full prog in the video for “This New Technology,” featuring robed dudes who look like their faces are made out of Dippin’ Dots, hi-quality iTunes visualizer-style patterns and (potentially) Jesus. We’ve called this band a compact prog band before, and this fully (and awesomely) cements that. The band will be flying around the US on a giant dragon through the end of October, just in time to blow all of CMJ’s collective minds with massive, otherworldly organ and harmonies that sound like they got beamed from space. Tour dates after the jump, and mp3 is still available here and here.

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Midnight Juggernauts, “This New Technology” MP3

The fact that Acephale Records, helmed by Patrik North—the man who helped bring us The Tough Alliance, Salem, CFCF and a bunch of other bands we really like—is releasing a Midnight Juggernauts single is not as surprising as we initially thought, the common thread between those bands being an unshakable weirdness cloaking relatively straightforward pop music. “This New Technology,” the first song to surface from Midnight Juggernauts since their 2007 album Dystopia, is like a compact prog song: glittering synths, lyrics about death and mountaintops and multiple instrumental movements packed into four-and-a-half minutes. If we were in high school (or if we were Nick Andopolis), this would be the jam that would make us follow all of our musical dreams, but instead we’re just sitting at our desks wondering if these dudes will let us take them on another terrible field trip when they’re in New York in October.



Download: Midnight Juggernauts, “This New Technology” (buy the single here)

FADER TV: Staycation with Midnight Juggernauts

In the newest FADER TV series, our online editor invites artists, musicians and minor celebrities to enjoy the great outdoor activities, vanishing leisure spots and storied watering holes of New York City, a city he cannot navigate without the generous help of many of its fine citizens.

Staycation #2: Red Hook with Midnight Juggernauts

Midnight Juggernauts are from Australia and have great hair and beards. In the last year, they released a great album, Dystopia, shot a great video with Surface 2 Air for “Into the Galaxy”, and put out the best cover of a Midnight Juggernauts song we’ve ever heard in “Road to Recovery (Acoustopia)”. The trio was recently in New York City for a show, so we invited them to explore the netherworld of Red Hook, Brooklyn, where IKEA is god and there is no subway. Special thanks to The Good Fork for not kicking us out.

Freeload: Midnight Juggernauts, “Road To Recovery (Acoustopia)”

Australian pretty boys Midnight Juggernauts are currently stateside for a few days playing shows and, in honor of a solemn September, have dropped the ponce (and synthesizers and drums) for this mellow acoustic redoing of their “Road To Recovery” into a hippie daze. Look at that photo up there! Difficult to believe dudes with a neon light stage show can calm themselves so subtly. Multivalent Juggernauts is more like it. Catch them tonight in San Francisco and tomorrow in New York at Le Poisson Rouge. Then they go to Mexico. Catch them there if you lead a warmer life than us.



Download: Midnight Juggernauts, “Road To Recovery (Acoustopia)”

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Video: Midnight Juggernauts, “Into The Galaxy”

Now that zany incoherence finds its way into nearly every video, it’s nice to see it taken to a new artistic level in the hands of Rozan & Schmeltz who directed “Into The Galaxy” for design collective Surface 2 Air. We’re assuming that means Jérémie Rozan (one of S2A’s founders) concepted the CGI monoliths, giant scarves and the motocrosser who bursts into fireworks, and Martial Schmeltz said “Yeah we can do that.” Which all makes it pretty easy for the Midnight Juggs who just stand there and sound cool. Rozan & Schmeltz were also most notably responsible for Black Kids’ “Hurricane Jane” and Justice vs Simian’s “We Are Your Friends”, so this was clearly no accident.

Video/Freeload: Cut Copy, “Hearts On Fire” + Midnight Juggernauts Remix

Just because we’ve moved on to Issue 2 of F2 doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten about the coverboys from Issue 1. How could we? They are on every page of the internet it seems like sometimes. But since we are more loyal than the puppies in this video, we’re gonna put it up along with the remix of the same song by the old Midnight Juggs boys.



Download: Cut Copy, “Hearts On Fire (Midnight Juggernauts Remix)”

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