Tag: Demdike Stare

NOW PLAYING: Jane Weaver, ‘The Watchbird Alluminate’

The Artist/Album: Jane Weaver, The Watchbird Alluminate (Finders Keepers, 2011)

Our Review: If Finders Keepers’ Web site is to be believed, The Watchbird Alluminate is a “collaborative LP with a close-knit group of musicians, noisemakers and vocalists/narrators to create automatic-music and re-illuminate an eleven-page novella about telepathy, technology, lost-love, wiccan, war and watchbirds.” A simpler translation: this a folk record—Jane Weaver’s The Fallen By Watch Bird LP, to be exact—refracted through the sepia-colored glasses of such s/t standards as Demdike Stare, the Focus Group and Susan Christie.

Available At: Boomkat · Finders Keepers

UNSOUND SPOTLIGHT: 5 Questions With … Demdike Stare

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Check out all of our exclusive Unsound Festival content—including interviews, mixes, and quick profiles like the one with Demdike Stare’s Sean Canty below—here

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Stream the 2-CD Edition of Demdike Stare’s ‘Elemental’ Series

Now that Demdike Stare’s four-part Elemental series of colored vinyl EPs is nearly sold-out—we only managed to score three of the four—the mood-manipulating duo has already revealed its two-disc CD pressing. Featuring bonus tracks and alternate versions of several hexed songs, it’s available for pre-order now, with the full streaming version available below…

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2011 IN REVIEW: Download All Of Our Exclusive Mixes

Photo by Andrew Parks

If you’re sick of year-end lists and simply want to hear some decent music, we’ve got a simple solution: start flipping through 12 months of exclusive Needle Exchange mixes, including popular entries from Demdike Stare, Peaking Lights, Anika and Sepalcure. And if you need tracklistings or some words from our artists, just click the “Read More” button underneath each streaming/downloadable player…

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DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Demdike Stare’s ‘Irrational Advice’ Mix

Read about Demdike Stare‘s new Elemental series here.

Demdike Stare Launch Four-Part ‘Elemental’ Series

Via Boomkat:

It’s been almost a year since Demdike Stare finished their “Tryptych” of releases, and in the intervening months Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty have been busy touring and gradually piecing together sounds for this new series: Elemental. Made up of four parts: Chrysanthe, Violetta, Rose and Iris, parts One and Two are now available and come housed inside a lavish quad-gatefold book style cover that will hold all four parts when the series is complete early next year. The material itself features some of the most dense, eerie and evocative pieces ever recorded by Demdike, leavened by an almost industrial sense of rhythmic structure and atmosphere-building that creates a jet-black aesthetic only intermittently illuminated by shards of light. Although a double CD version of Elemental will become available in 2012, the tracklisting will be different, with most of the tracks appearing in altered versions on each format. That means that the majority of the tracks on this vinyl edition will not be available anywhere else in their present form. Mastered and cut at D&M (including some hidden locked grooves), the packaging features specially commissioned artwork by Andy Votel and looks f*cking amazing. Handle with care…

So who wants to buy us an early Christmas present? Check out an exclusive Demdike Stare mix here.

DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Pocketknife’s ‘Extra Alchemy’ Mix, Featuring Broadcast and The Focus Group, Demdike Stare, Liars, and More

Via Wilde Calm:

As the leaves fall in the woods and the bonfires are lit, a new mix for you focusing on the darker rituals of the season with pagan pop, mystical dance tunes and haunted sound collages…a clank here, a distant chant there. I also included some reworks from the first Canyon Dancing as well as the yet-to-be-released Canyon Dancing 2 and the in-the-works CD3.

Check out more from Pocketknife—one of our favorite New York DJs, hands down—here, or simply head right on down past the jump for a hefty dose of Extra Alchemy

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TEST PRESSING: Stream ‘Facets’, a Solo EP From Miles Whittaker of Demdike Stare, MLZ and Pendle Coven

Falling right in line with his work in Pendle Coven, MLZ and Demdike Stare comes Facets, Miles Whittaker’s first swamp-dredging solo release under his own name. Due out August 2 in the U.S. and available for pre-sale here, the four-track EP is more club-ready than Demdike Stare’s recent run of ritualistic records, but not without its fair share of subterranean dread. Have a listen to the entire thing below…

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NEEDLE EXCHANGE 055: An Exclusive Mix By … Svarte Greiner

Words & Mix by Erik Skodvin of Deaf Center/Svarte Greiner

Although initially asked to do a dark ambient mix, I feel there’s way too much interesting music
 I want to share to narrow it down that much. I guess “Entrance Shot” is still a fairly dark mix, but I tried adding some different things I’ve really liked lately, with a couple of older additions.

And since I’ve changed Miasmah‘s release schedule around quite a bit since last year, it’s a good chance to preview some of the really great upcoming stuff we have in the first half of the year. First, there’s the recently released Juv album—recorded between 1996-98 and left unfinished for 14 years ’cause of personal conflict. Are [Mokkelbost] started going through the duo’s DATs last year and found out there was so much good material in there for it to finally get a release. On top of that, I have albums by two very unique Belgian artists who happen to play in the same live show together (mainly the Kreng/Abattoir Férme show). I’m very excited about these, which are both very hard to describe (Kaboom Karavan, Kreng).

I also had the pleasure of seeing live peformances by Aun (Montreal) and Andy Moor & Yannis Kyriakides (Rome) last year while on tour, which led to my discovery of their amazing music. Finally, I want to mention hearing Luciano Cilio while in a record shop in Oslo about 3-4 years ago. Luciano died at age 33 (1984) after completing the album this track is from, which ended up beeing his only recorded release, later reissued on Die Schachtel in 2004. Big recommendation!

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DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Forest Swords’ BBC 6 Mix

We’re still waiting for a proper LP from Forest Swords—one of our favorite finds from last year—but in the meantime we’ll take yet another mix from the mysterious producer. Check out the tracklisting after the jump (via Abeano Music).

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