This is a band we just love, since their very first release. Now with their Hozac 7”, The band in heaven has got some treats for ya besides the magnificent ‘Sleazy dreams’, from ‘If you only knew’ and ‘Sludgy Dreams’ to ‘Summer Bummer’. Listen to those just right guitars, Watch the new video by Alice Cohen coming from this Shoegaze Florida duo, and buy their record HERE
We have just stumbled upon this wonderful cassette tape by Chris Gross from PA. This tape was made in 1990 but was never released at that time. It is a presentation originally intended as a C90. This is a memorial tape for Casio lovers, old hardware Arps, and 4 trk bedroom taped music in it’s best. Men in Black / The Fung.
This is one of the best albums I have heard in awhile. It takes a second for you to realize how serious Zach Saginaw is about his art. After listening to this masterpiece 3-4 times I have read his Ghostly bio and understood where this extremely rich output comes from. ..”Zach records under the name Shigeto. It’s his middle name; it’s also his grandfather’s name, a tribute to the Japanese branch of Zach’s family tree. Shigeto also means “to grow bigger”—appropriate, given Zach’s premature birth-weight of less than a pound. Today, Shigeto stands for Zach’s vividly beautiful electronic music. Beat-driven but given to richly textured sound design. Zach’s father spoon-fed him old Motown and jazz records by the crateload. Zach picked up the drums at an early age, spending much of his childhood playing in the Detroit/Ann Arbor music scene. After nearly flunking out of high school—save for his music studies—Zach spent three years studying jazz at the New School in NYC and three more in London, where he began woodshedding, obsessed with learning electronic production. Soon enough, beats materialized, Zach moved to Brooklyn and took up the name Shigeto. His upcoming 2012 release, Lineage—a mini-LP of sorts that has a complex constellation of sounds and ideas that we have come to expect from the producer/drummer. Shigeto was one of the first of a wave of young artists who grew up influenced by the label’s early output. And again, names come into play. “Putting out these records on Ghostly isn’t just ‘getting signed,’ for me,” says Zach, “it’s becoming part of a family, an influence that I’ve respected forever”…. Purchase the album HERE
Its Dylan Ettinger’s Wintermute official video by Melissa Cha. This song sounds like a Robert Smith electronic voyage, the track as wild as the video.
I just love the concept, sound, and look of what these Mass./ Brooklyn guys release. This time around for UUU tapes its Nem270, Bosnian producer Nemanja Gostimirovic. He is residing now in Ottawa. Desktop Pain is an odds and ends EP drawn from a massive library of unused/weird Nem270 instrumentals selected by Triple You Tapes. Nem270 has produced tracks for Lil B, Main Attrakionz, Squadda B, Mondre, Shady Blaze, Yarrow Slaps, Western Tink to name but a few…listen to his For the girl, our favorite off his ‘Desktop pain’.
Free download HERE
MOHN is Burger/Voigt’s new project (Jörg Burger and Wolfgang Voigt). MOHN first album will be published on KOMPAKT in the spring of 2012. This is “Ebertplatz 2020,” the first taste of the new MOHN project.
Taken from They!Live LP by Benjamin Damage & Doc Daneeka (which was just released today via 50Weapons), this is the sensual ‘Halo‘ (feat. Abigail Wyles)
Check out our beloved Young Magic with his fabulous debut album, ‘Melt’ (out on Feb. 14 on Carpark). The band just premiered its second official music video for “Night In The Ocean” and a remix of “Sparkly” by Matthewdavid. You can also check out a recent In The Open session the band taped in the woods near San Francisco here
This is an incredible debut single by The Cast of Cheers, titled “Family” released on 20th February 2012 on School Boy Error/Cooperative Music. Definitely SINGLE of the MONTH here
Got a mail from our long time acquaintance Kevin Greenspon (founder of Bridgetown records); ..”I have a new collaboration with French artist Matthieu Séry that I feel is the finest visual representation of my work to date. It is a music video for my songs “Barring Will” and “Paradise A.D.” that I’ve been playing on tour lately and are from my latest CD”. Purchase HERE
