Tag: Xela

DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: ‘Dunwich Dreams’, a Rare Xela 7”

Via Xela‘s Soundcloud:

These two tracks originally appeared on a 7″ on Fred Thomas’s Life Like label in 2011, but sadly due to a manufacturing problem the single ended up being limited to a mere ten copies. Since nobody ended up hearing here’s the tracks for your enjoyment. They were written a couple of years ago and have plenty of references to the movie soundtrack work of Fabio Frizzi.

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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2010 IN REVIEW: Xela’s Exclusive Hip-Hop Mix

Words and Mix by John Twells

2010 has been an interesting year for hip hop; the genre is still melting in and out of genres thanks to Kanye West’s legacy and the man himself released his most widely acclaimed record to date. Some big personalities popped up from (almost) nowhere, and some previously derided ex-stars put in some of their best work to date. Also, shit got a lot slower…

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PRIMER: From Lustmord to Wolves In the Throne Room, 10 Creepy LPs That’re Actually Worth Hearing Once Halloween’s Over

Ben Frost

[Photo by Bjarni Grims]

Let the haunting hooks begin…

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COFFEE TALK: The Latest Posts, Profiles & Think Pieces On Neon Indian, Panda Bear, Memory Tapes, Iron Maiden and More

Iron Maiden's best friend Eddie

We sift the ‘net for today’s top stories so you don’t have to…

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2009 IN REVIEW: Xela On … The Dream’s ‘Love vs. Money’

Instead of going on and on about our top picks of 2009 and the past 10 years—we’ll do that in the coming week—self-titled asked some of our favorite ‘09 artists to share their favorite records. The following post is brought to you by Type Records founder/dark ambient don Xela and the ultra-modern R&B of The Dream

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WOLVES IN THE BELFRY: Xela Digs Spiders, Blood and Freaking Us the F*ck Out

Let’s be real here: What’s more frightening than Christianity? John Twells (better known as Xela) poses this very question with his latest series of soundscapes, In Boccas Al Lupo (translation: “Into the Mouth of the Wolf”). Finding common ground between the giallo films of Dario Argento and the creeping drone tones of Sunn O))), the Type Records co-owner channels distant church bells, creaky floorboards and tribal beats in a four-part attempt to make us feel uncomfortable. Not to mention a little entranced.

self-titled asked Twells two questions in the “Are you afraid of the dark?” department.

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