In denial about the need to head back to work tomorrow? Well, if you’re in New York, we can’t think of a better way to make poor decisions than to attend Pat Mahoney’s weekly WHOCARESWINS party at Nur Khan’s Electric Room in the basement of the Dream Hotel on 16th St. and 9th Ave. On this particular evening, the former LCD Soundsystem drummer will be joined by his longtime Special Disco Version partner, James Murphy. For more info on WHOCARESWINS, head here, or check out the pair’s two-part Beats In Space mix below…
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As promised late last week, Azealia Banks unveiled her latest single via Twitter this morning, writing, “It’s R&B but hella progressive. It’s about being a guy’s other girl. It’s about knowing that ur number #2, but still sticking around in hopes of becoming #1.”
While that may sound a little vague, Banks talked in depth about a doomed relationship that drove her to a serious bout with depression in our current issue:
Now here’s something that slipped through the cracks over the holidays: Joy Orbison and noted graphic designer/Trilogy Tapes founder Will Bankhead have joined forces for a new label called Hinge Finger. Details are sketchy at the moment aside from the imprint’s distributor: Damon Albarn’s Honest Jon’s Records, which has commissioned Bankhead sleeves for Actress, Shackleton, Moondog and more. The pair did release a new mix from Orbison, however, which is available to download below…
Hard to believe that a year’s passed since Trish Keenan left us after a long battle with pneumonia. And since that means no more new material from Broadcast, one of our favorite peddlers of hauntological pop music, we’d like to share the next best thing: a mixtape Keenan compiled for a friend of writer Joe Muggs. Entitled Mind Bending Motorway, it includes 17 untitled psych rarities and experimental electronic music. As the tape’s original recipient puts it, “Sorry I don’t have a tracklist and to be honest I like it that way. I think it’s less about who you’re listening to on… that compilation and more about the fact you are listening to something that Trish took time to select and compile for me and in turn yourselves. Sorry but please just enjoy the music.”
Stream/download individual tracks below, or grab the entire thing in a zipped file here…
Via Motto:
The first offering from the Motto Disco project comes in the form of a playlist selected by the eminent Kuedo.
Under varying projects, the UK born / Berlin based artist has been an instrumental figure in the evolution of electronic music in the UK and beyond for just under a decade. He most recently released his critically acclaimed debut album ‘Severant’ on the prevalent British label, Planet Mu.Kuedo has curated this playlist entitled ‘Sinking in the Datatank’ specifically with the act of reading in mind, delving into a hypnotic modern history of avant-garde electronics and rousing soundscapes.
Grab it and get reading below…
While the name Orcas may sound alien to most of you, chances are you’ve heard at least one solo record from its respective members, Benoît Pioulard and Rafael Anton Irisarri (see also: the subterranean techno of the Sight Below). Ambient in execution and widescreen in scope, they’ve both hinted at a long player like Orcas for a while now. Meaning: singer-songwriter fare that’s frosted at the edges and devastatingly beautiful.
Check out an early example of what we mean below, and Orcas’ full self-titled debut on April 24th through Morr Music…
Photo by Shawn Brackbill
[Pitchfork] Nicolas Jaar has leaked yet another new song. Entitled “With Just One Glance You,” the slow-burner features Scout LaRue—a.k.a. the love child of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore—on vocals. Grab it below, alongside Jaar’s other recent EP. You can also still stream, and read about, Jaar’s universally acclaimed debut album here…
While Kiki Hitomi got our sign of approval a while ago, the King Midas Sound vocalist just earned a couple extra points by posting a killer cover of the Crystal Waters classic “Gypsy Woman.” Not just any old rendition, either; we’re talking about freshly filtered vocals set atop the steady pulse of Ricardo Villalobos’ “Lugom-ix” single. Grab it below, alongside the DUMMY mix it’s taken from…
Black Dice have revealed the details behind their sixth album, Mr. Impossible. Due out April 10th, it’s their first release through Ribbon Music, the new label responsible for John Maus and Laura Marling’s last records.
Here’s what you can expect, according to the band’s press release:
The album is the soundtrack to a substance-fueled teen basement show on Mars. It explores the uncommon ground between The Seeds punk primitivism, extra-terrestrial throbbing of Funkadelic, and discordant rebelliousness of Royal Trux. The record is informed by countless live performances the group has done worldwide, over its long lifetime. Band highlights from past eras were re-germinated, and grew into a new mutation called Mr. Impossible. Consistent to every era and all of Black Dice’s material is an irreverent, aggressive, hand-made aesthetic that simultaneously revels in and reconfigures the whole of popular culture.
A hand-numbered, screen-printed LP pressing is now available for pre-order here, and you can check out an MP3 and video for its first single, “Pigs,” below alongside our lengthy Black Dice feature from the first issue of self-titled…
The last time 120 Days released an LP (2006’s self-titled debut), self-titled’s staff was in the final hour of our tenure atop DIW magazine and hosting a SXSW show featuring the Norwegian Krautrockers and such random co-stars as Daedelus, Busdriver, Ra Ra Riot and Twilight Sad. So yeah—it was a long time ago. And while the group’s long-awaited second album (120 Days II) technically came out last year through Oslo’s Voices of Wonder imprint, it’ll finally see a stateside release on March 6th through Splendour.
Check out the record’s first two singles below, including a downloadable version of “Dahle Disco,” a track co-produced by 120 Day’s fellow countryman Lindstrøm. And just to show you that we care, we also included a bonus remix from diskJokke…
















