The Underground of Happiness

The Underground of Happiness uplifting pop music of every creed www.theundergroundofhappiness.blogspot.com www.facebook.com/theundergroundofhappiness Playlist 224 Tues June 5 2012 11.00am-12.00pm (repeated on Tuesdays 8.30pm) UCC 98.3FM listen live on the web at www.ucc.ie/983fm *listen back to this show here https://rapidshare.com/files/3773966344/The_Underground_Of_Happiness_June_5_2012.m4a Playlist Low - Try to sleep ( playing Cyprus Avenue, Cork, July 11 ) Katie Kim - Dimmer ( playing Cork Opera House, July 21 ) AU - OJ John Maus - Mental breakdown Elisa Luu - Se fosse per me Markus Mehr - Flaming youth The Chap - Rhythm king Yeasayer - Henriette Naim Amor - Le revenant Jherek Bischoff feat. David Byrne - Eyes ( playing Village Underground, London, June 18 & 20, w/ Amanda Palmer ) Bruce Haack - Program me Last Days of 1984 - Woods ( playing The Pavilion, Cork, June 16, w/ REID ) *next week's show will feature more music from Last Days of 1984...

Very fine Irish albums don't come along all that often (although more often these days, perhaps because there simply are more of them released), so I tend to sit up and take notice when one as conceptually coherent, brilliantly produced and downright catchy as Wake up to the waves comes along. Here's a review I wrote of the album for Cork zine WeAreNoise , original link http://wearenoise.com/index.php/2012/05/last-days-of-1984-wake-up-to-the-waves-osaka/ . Last Days of 1984 are a duo from Dublin – Darren Moloney and Brian Rice – who make blissed-out dance music, using swirling, whooshing synths to create a giddy tropical house rush. You could make comparisons with the percussive offbeats of Tanlines , the euphoric tropicalia of El Guincho , or, at a push, Animal Collective (the latter particularly in the beautifully treated back-of-the-room harmonies). The beaches of Ibiza are never far from the mind on this album, but it’s nothing like a one-dimensional piece of work. ...