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Daily Doses: Steezy Ray Vibes “Empty City” (Demo) (2012)
Let’s
Get
Lost.
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New Music: Purity Ring “Obedear” From Shrines (2012)
I love everything about the way Purity Ring has approached their first release.
The slow and staggered tracks releases stumbling about the internet.
The build up of their live show into a two person explosion.
And
of course
the actual songs… Brilliant sparse works of electro-pop sparked up against lyrics so dense they consume you.
Can’t wait for this release.
Download Purity Ring’s Obedear
(Via P4k)
New Video: Cadence Weapon “Conditioning” From Hope In Dirt City (2012)
Directed by: Tim Kelly
Love it.
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Doses: Seabright “For Icy” - Digital Single (2012)
Self Released
Everything is
rushing by w
a
y
y
y
too quickly these days.
But this little slice of slowed down drawl, feels like it’s going just fast enough.
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Daily Doses: Day Joy “Go To Sleep, Mess” From New Ordinary Digital 7” (2012)
Label: Self-Released
Locale: Orlando, FL
In this first release from Orlando’s Day Joy, little slashes of indie folk run rampant dart and push against world-weary vocals.
Like a forlorn look from through your office window, to the park across the street.
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
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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?
Also, be sure to check out Steffaloo’s On Fire 7” on Jaxart.
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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.
I think that might be love.
Download Elvis Depressedly’s “Crazier With You”
Download Disgraceland for a “Name Your Price” fee From Bandcamp
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Daily Doses: Estasy “Wild Wants” From Locus Solus (2012)
Label: Acephale
When it rains it pours.
Having been searching to the far corners of the internet for anything that could hold my attention long enough to post about for the past few weeks, I exhaustedly rose from bed this morning ready for another long search of soundcloud’s nether regions, only to find a veritable cornucopia of fantastic treats laid out across my e-mails digital doorstep.
I guess Halloween is the turning point into the fight for year end supremacy.
The first thing I noticed was this fantastic screamer from Italy’s “Estasy” I got in from Acephale, which has long been one of my favorite labels (right up there with True Panther and Tri-Angle).
Apparently recorded “With minimal effects, and for the most part live.” Locus Solus’ first track, “Wild Wants” is a haunting and driven reminder that we’re moving away from Summer.
And if these are the types of tracks that are going to start rolling in now that we’ve done away with the heat… I say let Winter take over the world.
