I’m happy to announce the end of my winter hibernation from blogging with this post.
Over the past 3 months, me and 15 other blogs have been working together to create Portals, a collaborative venture into sight, sound, hand holding and skipping.
Okay, maybe not hand holding and skipping… YET. But soon. REAL soon.
Beyond just the usual “co-premieres” and “tebowing” that other blogs offer, Portals will also be concentrating on live shows, and more inter-blog collaboration than you could shake a stick at.
Click the link above for a glimpse of Portals being born, then click the picture below for a link to our first mixtape, featuring exclusive tracks from Flashing Red Lights, Rai Callum, Lands & People, Jessica Jalbert, and many more.
Tracklist
Short Circles – Dreams & Situation MedicineHat – Immigration Ra Cailum – I Long For You Alligator Indian – Afternoon Abattoir Lands & Peoples – HUMS Teen Suicide – Don’t Like Me You Won’t – Fryer Jessica Jalbert – No Car Flashing Red Lights – Brutal Little Things Yalls – Sayfixed LUST – Room Sixteen Caves – 310 PARENTZ – Fly Kwala – Forest bellows Shlohmo – Ghosts Pt. 2 (Thrupence Remix) Beat Culture – Complete Me
List of Blogs:
AWD Castles / East to West / Magic Teepee / Speaker Snacks / Cactus Mouth / Flashlight Tag / Pasta Primavera / Unholy Rhythms / Cool Things I Find / Decoder / Verb/Re/Verb / Dead As Digital / Life Aquatic / Smoke Dont Smoke / Zen Tapes / Friends With Both Arms
Daily Doses: Gracie x Steffaloo “Quilts” (2011) Label: Self-Released
Los Angeles’ Steffaloo is on a mission to play with every electronic producer from this coast, to that coast and everything in between. And you’ll hear no complaints from me about it, because every track is just so good!
Here, recalling some of last summers musical bedroom antics, New York’s Gracie combines with Steffaloo for a single that spreads out like a sonic oil spill, soaking everything in it’s path with a layer of reverb and glistening distant vocals.
With collaborations like these, who needs a solo project?
Daily Doses: Elvis Depressedly “Crazier With You” From Disgraceland (2011) Label: Self Released
Well, this is just a delightful treat.
Mat Cothran (of Coma Cinema) has released a third and (apparently) final EP as Elvis Depressedly.
“Crazier With You”, the second song on the EP is exactly the kind of twisted that makes me love all of Cothran’s stuff. A delicate malaise colored with the feeling of freezing to death.