Stoke For Stroke Video

SDF take a walk in Epping Forest & around Docklands in Dan Chaytor's new video for Stroke for Stroke; looking for meaning amidst the foliage, beneath the lights. Do you want to go Stroke for Stroke?

ALANA available on Psykick Dancehall here.

"a strangely good weirdo pop record" Tristan Bath, Spools Out Radio / The Quietus

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"A club on the moon. Glass dance floor constructed over a massive crater. Below, millions of infinity glow sticks blare. Space-age fashion back in style. Pink drinks that fizz blue. Covered by a plasma dome that reflects lights that flicker along the walls. SDF taking the stage in pure disco-king mode. Keeping that consistent kick for movement. Synths that soar along the cosmos of clouds and stars. Enough noir to get a little moody, but still keeping that dance going. Vocals that build from 90s ballad-rock, consumer cold-wave, and house-MC. A little booth in the corner that reads Psykick Dancehall Recordings almost selling out of their cassette, Alana. And yes, cassettes play on the moon."
By C Monster · October 25, 2017
 Tiny Mix Tapes



"This collective of UK musicians (including Adam Parkinson, aka Dane Law) make eerily brilliant electronic pop music, nabbing tropes from across the second half of the 20th century. It’s a crucible of disco, synth pop, madchester, house, industrial music and new wave, fronted with the Mark Hollis-like vocal presence of Oliver Marchant. The songwriting and arrangement is brilliantly simple, deploying big fat wads of melody-groovy drum machine rhythms into bleak construction sites of reverb. They stretch out too, like on the nine-minute repeat-heavy ‘My Friend David Don't Need Rubber’, a coda of late-night hip shakes and keyboard pulses. ‘Dancefloor Baby 17’ tells a story of a dancefloor encounter, the lead singer in a “rancid trance” as he hobbles about the place. It’s a mix of chilled out Detroit claps and hi-hat loops with the frontman’s almost Jarvis Cocker-esque storytelling over the verses. The entirety of Alana feels like the group are collectively exhausting some pent-up pressure, realising dreams of leading busy dancefloors and arenas of adoring synth-pop heads, but it’s all a joy. They seem pretty self-aware (‘Stroke for Stroke’ could either be about wanking or pissing in public… either way it sounds like a bit of a giggle), but it doesn’t detract from the quality of their tunes or those addictive beats. This is party music you can either cry or have a laugh to, depending on your mood"
Tristan Bath - November 27th
The Quietus

SDF – Alana (Psykick Dancehall) Cassette and digital album

My goodness! Pure avant-pop from this collective of ruddy beet-makers.

My headphones don’t often get the chance to delve into such bass-heavy electronic frequencies.  And this is all ‘boom-tish’ and square-waved bass poke. Cor!

Recorded in a bamboo-themed nightclub in a Liverpool basement (circa 1987) these are real songs with real backing vocals and weighty lyrics.  ‘Stroke for Stroke’ seems to be about coke or wanking or perhaps coke and wanking.

The digital coughs that introduce ‘My Friend David Don’t Need Rubber’ and dry narration suggest a Storm Bugs vibe but this is as sleazy as casually shrugged off linen trousers.

The erratic tom-tom programming dominates ‘The Fight’, so the swaddled synth wash becomes a sulphurous base note.  It’s heavy without being metallic.  Yet compare this with the gum-popping airiness of ‘4 Men’ as sparkly as Kraftwerk’s ‘Neon Lights’.  Two very different visions of the teenage disaster!

It’s not all senseless ecstatic joy though.  Closer ‘All Night Disco’ seems to ram Paul Young’s fretless bass sound into a pre-rave serotonin dump.  The heavily reverb-ed snare sounds echo round the abandoned dancehall.  The last few revellers slumped into human pyramids realise that cold daylight is breaking outside and the dream of temporary release is well and truly over.

The trick SDF pull of is to deal in a rare surface deepness – a delicate trick of the light when the glitterball’s beam hits the chipped Formica.

Joe Murray

Radio Free Midwich

Get ALANA here.

SDF release ALANA on Psykick Dancehall

New SDF album ALANA out now as a limited edition cassette or digitally on Psykick Dancehall Recordings.


SDF is a pulsating orb vibrating in oceanic hyperspace.

Tracklisting
side a
1. Children Of The Scaffold
2. Stroke For Stroke
3. My Friend David Don't Need Rubber
4. The Fight
side b
5. 4 Men
6. Dancefloor Baby '17
7. Benzo Fury
8. All Night Disco     

8 authentic slices of The Dream in the true spirit & style of SDF.

Artwork by Cecilia Serafini. 
Mixing on tracks 2 & 8 by Tom Rowland.  
Mastering by Joe at Subsequent. 
Music & Words by SDF

Oliver Marchant (vocals, electronics)
Adam Parkinson (electronics, drum machine) 
Lucy Whalley (vocals, keyboards)
Adam White (vocals, synth)

also feat. Jeremy Bradfield (guitar) (tracks 2 & 8)
& Nick John Williams (synth, drum machine) (tracks 2 & 8). 

Made in Limehouse.

New SDF album ALANA coming soon..

New SDF album ALANA due 16/10/17

on Psykick Dancehall Recordings.

INTO THE MIX

A collection of Epilogue Mixes to the OPEN WINDOWS series of nights in Poplar now available for consumption on mixcloud from OM/AF.

Details of forthcoming OPEN WINDOWS events & activity can be found here.

OPEN WINDOWS

New Free Monthly Sound Happening in London

OPEN WINDOWS #1
Friday May 19th
The Greenwich Pensioner, Poplar, E14 0ES
7 - 12




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