PREMIERE: Tandy Love, ‘Cache Cache’ Mixtape For Finders Keepers
NEEDLE EXCHANGE 100: An Exclusive Mix By … Orbital
BREAKING: An Interview With … Kindness
INTERVIEW: Spiritualized’s J. Spaceman Shares His Life Story
Stream ‘The Diver’ & Read About Led Er Est’s Literary Influences
Recording Under the Influence is a recurring self-titled feature where we ask artists to ignore their musical inspirations for a minute and share what really went into the making of a particular record. In the case of Pop. 1280, that means influences that are as illicit and nightmarish as their surgical tool sound—a strangely alluring blend of the Birthday Party and Lower East Side era Swans—from the pulpy sci-fi novels of Philip K. Dick to speed-addled sleepless nights…
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Photo by Emir Eralp
If Dylan Baldi had to pick his favorite LPs from last year, “90 percent of it would be the Men,” he insists, alluding to self-titled‘s current cover stars. So instead, we asked the singer/multi-instrumentalist behind Cleveland’s Cloud Nothings—who just released an early candidate for record of the year, Attack On Memory—to highlight his life in listening for the past 12 months…
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Photo by Caroline Mort
In celebration of hitting 50,000 followers, Daedelus has uploaded a set of unreleased edits to Soundcloud, including chopped & screwed renditions of New Order, Aphex Twin and that old Daft Punk-related classic “Music Sounds Better With You.” Collect ‘em all after the jump…
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The Artist/Album: Pete Swanson, Man With Potential (Type, 2011)
The Reason(s) Why We Can’t Stop Listening: Like Prurient without the post-hardcore howling and blood-stained poetry, Pete Swanson’s first wide release since Yellow Swans’ 2008 split is aimed at post-apocalyptic dance floors. Look past the producer’s avalanche of crumbled samples and arrhythmic wreckage, however, and you’ll find that Man With Potential isn’t just techno that terrifies. It’s actually quite melodic, like a malfunctioning arcade machine that can’t help but split out bit-crushed symphonies.
While it’s nearly impossible to make sense of all the music that floods our mailbox, inbox, and various Web browsers every day—not to mention the shelves at self-titled’s favorite record stores—we’re constantly looking for artists who make us stop what we’re doing and actually listen. Here’s one of them…
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Battles have announced plans for a limited four-part remix series called Dross Glop. Set to launch on February 7th with contributions from the Field and Gui Boratto, it’s now available for pre-order at Warp’s Bleep store. Or you can simply sample both songs below…
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RVNG will roll out Blondes’ double-disc collection of vinyl-only singles, remixes and two new tracks on February 7th. Watch out for an exclusive mix from the Brooklyn duo in our next magazine issue, available in March.
Via Kompakt:
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
MOHN is extremely decelerated, slow motion techno with and without bass drum, containing lots of plasticiser
MOHN is slow, sublime, sombre music, fusing different ambient styles to one new one
MOHN LIVE primarily is a non-stop concert-lecture for a seated audience (theatre), but it also works standing up(shoegaze, ambientbounce, ambientgrunge,…)
MOHN comes at a scale of 16:9
MOHN is opium for the people
Lets MOHN together
Check out the first of three trailer’s for MOHN’s live show below…
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Well this is a first—we loved Benoît Pioulard (real name: Thomas Meluch) and Rafael Anton Irisarri‘s respective s/t mixes so much we asked the cut to do a joint tape in celebration of their new Orcas project. Sure enough, it’s downright essential listening, featuring everything from a rare Eraserhead selection and Fennesz’s fuzz-flecked Rolling Stones cover to a Cocteau Twins cut that includes Irisarri’s firsthand story about eating Mexican food with Robin Guthrie…
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[Gorilla vs. Bear] Grab Yeti‘s new issue at their official site, and check out more Grouper content here.
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