Peaking Lights fans who are accustomed to the duo’s usual dubbed-out atmospheres will be floored by the following remix, a roughhouse techno run-through of the Vaghe Stelle track “Spiral Gloom.” Available as part of the producer’s Out of Body EP, it’s a fitting introduction to the Danse Noire collective that’s bound to make its defiantly underground presence known by the end of the summer…
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Time-lapse photography and tender moments aren’t the first things that come to mind when we think of Coliseum; punk ‘n’ roll sucker punches and Ryan Patterson’s iron-throated bellow are. And yet here we are, premiering a love-conquers-all tale of star-crossed Minor Threat fans from the band’s new Sister Faith (available now through Temporary Residence Ltd.) album.
Don’t worry, though. Patterson—one of Louisville’s reigning underground figures—hasn’t gone soft. He’s merely expanded his poison-tipped palette yet again, sounding like Killing Joke on the explosive choruses of “Love Under Will” and spiking the trio’s tension-ratcheting tracks with subtle guest spots (including members of Boris, Sebadoh and Jawbox) elsewhere.
Check out our video premiere below, right alongside three other clips that hammer the record’s well-rounded sound home. Also be on the lookout for a sequel to Patterson’s popular Needle Exchange mix in the next couple weeks…
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Unlike the cassette-tracked solo transmissions of his earlier efforts as Zomes, Time Was expands Asa Osborne’s meditative takes on drone and electronic music with the full-blooded, equally experimental vocals of Swedish singer Hanna Olivegren. It’s as if someone slapped a staticky TV set and finally got the damn thing to turn on right.
Check out the duo’s new “Loveful Heights” video below, along with a handful of tour dates that’re bound to bring their zero gravity sound into full relief…
Eight years have passed since the last Safety Scissors LP. And while that may seem like a lifetime in the electronic music scene Matthew Patterson Curry is loosely affiliated with (see: remixes for Grizzly Bear, Matmos and Yellow Magic Orchestra, and his Moron side project with Sutekh), the producer/singer has simply spent all this time sharpening his pop instincts and saving them for a rainy day record like In a Manner of Sleeping. Due out June 11th through BPitch Control, it’ll be followed by a series of remixes from Dntel, Loscil, Dave Aju, Tender Buttons and more.
Check out the moonlit house melodies of “Progress and Perseverance” below…
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Mushy fans who also happen to follow her label (Mannequin) closely may have noticed “a mysterious Kosmische act from Southern Europe” popping up recently that happens to be named after a Mushy song. Well we can know confirm that the synth-heavy Phantom Love 12” was in fact produced by the Italian performer, funneling her love of everything from John Carpenter to Klaus Schulze through “a spectral yet dreamy haze of spacey psychedelia.”
Check out our premiere of Phantom Love’s first video below, along with a complete stream of her debut EP; you can also still check out her last album alongside a commentary here…
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A sequel of sorts to Finders Keepers’ sprawling Solla Solla compilation, Ilectro transports us to the totally ’80s phase of Tamil pop’s Crown Prince, Ilaiyaraaja. Baffling in the best way possible, it imagines a world where emerging strains of synth-pop and electro merge with the mad-for-it soundtrack music of Kollywood.
Or as Finders Keepers founder Andy Votel once told the Red Bull Music Academy, “This one-man wide-winged pop-culture vulture has been indiscriminately ravaging and regurgitating global pop for over 40 years, and made some of the most joyous, existential and euphoric electronic South Asian pop music to ever grace the dancefloors, picture houses, wedding parties, concert halls and discotheques of Tamil and Malay-speaking countries and beyond. With a portfolio of 4,500 recorded songs under his belt, it might seem humanly impossible by the standards of today’s Western pop perfectionists and procrastinators to achieve what this mutable multi-instruMENTALIST has already done. Perhaps it actually IS ‘humanly impossible.’ He’s a deeply religious man, without vices or venom, and has a strong preservationist tendency towards traditional Indian music. But Ilaiyaraaja is no enemy of technology. He is friends with the robots.”
Take that, Daft Punk…
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As if he’s not already busy enough with ongoing work alongside Om, Grails and Lilacs & Champagne—a Madlib-indebted duo who’ll drop their own new disc in a couple weeks—Emil Amos also has a revealing archival release on the way through Important Records on April 23rd. Entitled My Only Warm Coals, it’s a bonus track-packed exploration of Amos’ early four-track days as Holy Sons.
And since the producer/multi-instrumentalist/singer doesn’t like taking the easy route with anything, he offered us quite an exclusive this week: the premiere of his VHS-splicing “Aged Wine” video alongside a personal essay about the impetus of the project way back in the early ’90s…
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As Disappears get ready to release their next Kranky record this fall, the Ponys/90 Day Men-related project has revealed two other new releases: an arty collaboration with Belgian photographer Stine Sampers (available now via Sleeperhold Publications) and a self-released 12” that drops later this month. Described as “pretty abstract and experimental,” Kone features two versions of the title track (including an edit that ends in a locked groove) and another new song called “Kontakt.” Both of which feature the band’s new drummer, Noah Leger, who recently replaced Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth.
Pre-order your copy here, and check out our exclusive premiere of the “Kone” video below, along with some upcoming tour dates and a special graphic design feature we ran with frontman Brian Case last year…
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After years of worrying about other people’s records on his own Planet Mu imprint, Mike Paradinas seems determined to make up for lost time with lots of new music in the coming months. Up first, now that the label’s 300th release—a limited double LP of long-lost µ-Ziq tracks—is out of the way: Love & Devotion, the debut album from Heterotic, Paradinas’ airy/atmospheric project with his partner Lara Rix-Martin. Split evenly between neon-bathed instrumentals and compelling vocal collaborations alongside Nick Talbot of Gravenhurst, it’s best summed up by the knee-weakening synths and moody piano-house melodies of “Blue Lights.”
Here’s what director Rand Rosenberg had to say about its video, which features foggy Super 8 footage from the past four years:
My visuals in “Blue Lights” journey between a drive-by experience of the modern American urban/pastoral landscapes, and the memories of an unseen driver. Part landscape meditation, part hallucinogenic film experimentation, the images probe the nightlight beauty of McDonald’s, Prada and Lottery logos, then explore the idyllic Midwest, interpreting the conflict between the corporate landscape and the nostalgic ideals we move through everyday. The dark images in the final shots reflect a personal experience, a rare moment when chance, violence and drama unexpectedly explode into the mundane of daily life.
Check out our exclusive premiere below, along with a Paradinas interview that address his other 2013 albums…
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You might want to put the brown acid down before pressing play on this morning’s video premiere, a Halasan Bazar clip that chops up a surreal children’s program from the ’70s alongside a Slinky commercial and a track that’s torn straight out of San Francisco’s psych-pop playbook. Which is made all the more impressive by the fact that the group’s from Copenhagen.
Watch/download “Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad” below, and check out the rest of Space Junk through Crash Symbols on April 2nd…
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