Lesbians On Ecstasy- "Prince of Darkness." Burned out on Björk? I'm not, but my host sure has taken a beating these past few weeks. I've left both Medúlla leaks up, and "The Pleasure Is All Mine" has gotten a stunning 2,418 downloads, while "Oceania," which has been up only half as long. has gotten 1,265. Well, now it's your turn to discover the whole album. It's out at the end of the month, and having listened to it all, I must say, it's everything I'd hoped for.

But to freshen your palette, let me present some females who have quite a different take on music. Fresh from Homo-a-Gogo, I'm proud to begin this week's look at queer musicians, with Lesbians On Ecstasy. From their own website:

The Lesbians on Ecstasy are making electronic music of the lesbian variety. It's kd lang, but it's different somehow…
Lesbo folk songs, rebel songs and beats for the modern lesbian. Straights and dudes love it too.

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The Lezzies on X are from Montréal.

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With… Bernie Bankrupt on the Ensonique
Veronique Mystique on the Monster Bass
Jackie "The JackHammer" on the Octapad
and our very own Fruity Frankie (aka Lynne T) rockin' the Vox

Recognize the tune? Snicker all you want. I just can't believe that Copy, Right? hasn't pulled one of these tunes for its own use. This cut comes from the darling CD insert for the latest edition of the LTTR zine.

Of course, these girls should NOT be confused with Dykes On Crack.

Björk - "Oceania." Today was a momentous day for Björk and for anyone who admires her. In front of an estimated 4.5 billion viewers, she performed the first single from her upcoming album Medúlla. "Oceania" [oh-shuh-NEE-uh] was the result of her commission to open the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and while the final product is a gorgeous celebration of voices and primordial equality, the initial attempts at this tune weren't so good:

From Independent.co.uk

"Basically, the Olympics people asked me to do a kind of 'Ebony and Ivory' or 'We Are the World' type song," she says. "Those are smashing tunes and all that, but I thought, 'Maybe there's another angle to this.' When I tried to write an Olympic lyric, though, it was full of sports socks and ribbons. I ended up pissing myself laughing." Plan B was clearly required. Björk decided to call on Sjón Sigurdsson, the Icelandic poet who had collaborated with her on songs such as "Bachelorette" from Homogenic. When she impressed upon him that they'd need something suitably epic for Athens, Sigurdsson took the matter seriously, even going so far as to take a short course in Greek mythology at Reykjavik University. The end result was "Oceania", a kind of aquatic sojourn and the last song recorded for Medúlla. "The Olympic version will be a little different," Björk says. "But it will fit the occasion, I think, because the song is all about how the ocean doesn't see boundaries between countries and thinks everyone is the same. Sjón came up with this beautiful last line that touches on how we were all little jellyfish or whatever before we made it on to land."

At the Olympics Björk was swaddled, like the rest of the Opening Ceremonies participants, in a costume by Sophia Kokosalaki—an "ocean" dress that commentators said was the largest dress in the world, covering 9270 meters square.

Björk - "The Pleasure Is All Mine." And I think the pleasure will be yours, too, when you download this, the first real cut from Medúlla [and the album's opener]. Björk appeared on Radio 1 yesterday and gave a sneak peek at her upcoming album. I won't overload this with descriptions and analyses.

Fuck. I've already heard it ten or eleven times, and my heart's still pounding.

the pleasure is all mine.
to get to be
the generous one
is the strongest stance.

the pleasure is all mine
to finally let go
and evenly flow.

who gives most?