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PRIMER: Asthmatic Kitty On … Library Music
We’ve always been a fan of library music, the genre-jumping LPs that were used to score commercials, films and television shows throughout the ’60s and ’70s. On one level, their strictly-analog ‘songs’ develop like a fever dream, a prismatic collage of classical, pop, jazz, country, and early dance/electronic music. The visual and sonic sides of […]
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Boards of Canada, “Dayvan Cowboy (Odd Nosdam remix)”
The Song In a Couple Sentences: Anticon’s resident sound sculptor dives into the deep end of his subconscious with a sparse, multi-movement exploration of melodramatic drone tones and kaleidoscopic breaks. The result is like a lingering instrumental from the posthumous album cLOUDDEAD never quite made. See Also:
FROM THE STACKS: Sally Seltmann
We get a lot of crap CDs at the self-titled offices. But once in a while, a pleasant surprise slips into our promo stack. Here’s a recent delivery that knocked the s/t staff on its collective ass.
TEST PRESSING: Presenting Crossfader Friday, Featuring Mixes From The Black Dog, Popnoname, Pink Skull, and Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas
The last thing we want to do on a Friday is fuck with our iTunes. That’s why we’ve decided to start sharing our favorite mixes with you at the end of each week, everything from full-on dance sets to highly-conceptual mixtapes. This particular installment includes an epic BBC Essential Mix from Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas, […]
TEST PRESSING: Download Amp Live’s Speaker-Flexing Rendition of Why’s ‘Eskimo Snow’ Record
Amp Live has released a free EP of Why? remixes called One Dark Eskimo. Aside from a guest appearance by the producer’s Zion I mate Zumbi (“Against You”), most of the collection steeps Why?’s pitch-dark pop songs in a sea of skittish beats and stutter-step samples. While the project isn’t as high profile as Amp […]
FROM THE STACKS: Demdike Stare
We get a lot of crap CDs at the self-titled offices. But once in a while, a pleasant surprise slips into our promo stack. Here’s a recent delivery that knocked the s/t staff on its collective ass.
Superpitcher Tells Us Everything We Need To Know About His New ‘Kilimanjaro’ Album, Including a Video of Its First Single
[Photos courtesy of Kompakt] Interview by Ilirjana Alushaj “It’s finally done!” is the first thing Aksel Schaufler says as he sits down to discuss Superpitcher‘s long-awaited second album, Kilimanjaro (out May 17 on Kompakt). Which is bit of an understatement, really, given that it’s taken four years of sporadic studio work to finish. “A long […]
And the Main Reason We Care About Coachella This Year Isn’t Tiësto or Thom Yorke ????, It’s…
…Mike Patton‘s unparalleled ability to fuck with people. Check out this year’s complete Coachella flyer after the jump, along with some of our favorite 2010 fakes. Which ‘lineup’ do you dig the most? We’re partial to the one headlined by “Michael Jackson’s Ghost.”