World Tour: “Believe”
March 6, 2012
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We’re happy to present (drumroll, please) the latest from World Tour, a Swedish trio we had the pleasure of posting about back when the world was young and they were just pushing out their first batch of material as a duo. Those early tracks seemed so well thought out that we questioned whether or not actually qualified as “demos,” but now that that their sound and production style have ripened, we’re only left to wonder at the crisp feel and clearly articulated instrumentation of their new Believe EP. The title track/opening track/first single, “Believe,” demonstrates that the pair have grown their affinity for catchy melodies, as the opening synth arpeggio gains steam over the opening minute, before being enveloped by side-chained compression as winking chimes, balearic piano stabs, and something marimba-ish swoop in to form a complex cushion for the catchy, wafting vocals. The diverse palette of sounds is powerfully melodic, but never brazen or forceful. Little touches like the tasteful acoustic guitar parts and jolts of tuned 808 cowbell make this a satisfying and shockingly quick 6 minutes and 2 seconds. On the other hand, that’s plenty of time to dance around your room before rushing back to your computer/stereo/i-pod hooked up to your stereo to play the track again.
World Tour – 03 Believe by CASCINE
Look for World Tour’s Believe EP from Cascine on April 10th
Written by Luke Carrell
Tags: all, Europe, Reviews, Sweden, Tracks, world tour
Mixtapes / Uncategorized
The title for this mix comes from Big Trouble in Little China. It’s a film thats influenced me in so many different ways. It was during a time when everyone rocked Chinese stars and ninja shoes. I feel like there’s an era like that re approaching. Hopefully more Delta Force movies and American Ninja flicks too. This mix features friends and imaginary friends, hopefully it fills up some time between all the gift buying and food eating. Enjoy.
Everybody Relax I’m Here – Song Selections by Helado Negro
1. Gallop by Epstein y El Conjunto
2. Cumbia Del Organo – Unknown Found on Compilation CD in Monterrey Mexico
3. Electronic Sidewalk 1 – Gerhard Trede & His Electronic Instruments
4. Basheeba – Angel Rada
5. Can You See the Fires (edit) – The Eternals
6. Tone Poem – Feathers
7. Regalo – Prefuse 73
8. Sweet Mountain – American Spring
9. Enchanted Mirror – Luiz Bonfa
10. El Escapismo – Algodon Egipcio
11. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence – Ryuchi Sakamoto
12. Champagne – Guy Fantastico
13. Mines – Roberto C. Lange
14. Say Heh – Prince Zimboo
15. Magnolia – Jorge Ben
Submitted by Helado Negro
Tags: all, helado negro, mixtape, Mixtapes
Mixtapes / Uncategorized
This mixtape is something of a stream of consciousness, a kind of echo and reflection through sounds that seemed to have resonated for me in 2011. Music from friends, collaborators, conspirators and inspirationalists (new word for the day). A testament to the year that was, could have been and forever will be….2011….
My Dreams Of Sunday Mornings Are Your Nightmares Of Saturday Night – Lawrence English Mixtape
1. Andy Stott – Signature
2. Otomo Yoshihide New Jazz Quintet – Eureka
3. Jim O’Rourke – Eureka
4. Pimmon – Chirippk
5. Neil Hamburger – (Write My) Name On The Toilet
6. Omar Souleyman – Dabke 2001
7. Keith Fullerton Whitman – Live At Fabrique
8. Douglas Quin – Weddell Seals
9. Tujiko Noriko – Endless End
10. Grouper – Hold
11. Ben Frost – We Love You Michael Gira
12. Christian Marclay
13. Xiu Xiu – No Friend Oh!
14. Joji Yuasa – Part 3/5
15. Tenniscoats – Sea Of Japan
Submitted by Lawrence English, whose 12″ LP, entitled The Peregrine, is now available from Experimedia
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Mixtapes / Uncategorized
Here’s a collection of some current Upset The Rhythm required listening. Some of the tracks like the GROUP INERANE and HALO HALO songs are anticipating our excitement about next month’s upcoming shows whilst we’ve also included a lot of demos and forthcoming tracks from upcoming UTR releases too including a frantic pulse grab courtesy of ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT, and a fist-pumping outtake from JOHN MAUS’ last album Pitiless Censors. Thoroughly rubbing shoulders with all this is a selection of tracks we’ve been recently loving from near (BOMBER JACKETS) and afar (ISSUE), we hope you enjoy them all!
01. GENTLE FRIENDLY – Speakers
02. ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT – Car
03. PEEPHOLES – Tunnels
04. WAY THROUGH – Halfway House (demo)
05. GROUP INERANE – Deran Deran
06. HALO HALO – Manananggal
07. JOHN MAUS – Castles In The Grave (demo)
08. QUIET HOOVES – Can’t Catch A Break
09. KIT – Lazarus Taxa
10. HIGH CASTLE – Crustaceans Demise
11. BOMBER JACKETS – Pauline’s Quirks
12. FUTURE ISLANDS with WAY THROUGH – We’ve Been Here Before (demo)
13. FORMER GHOSTS with ANNIE LEWANDOWSKI – 90245 (demo)
14. THE URXED – Staying At Home
15. TEST HOUSE – I’ll Never Leave
16. ISSUE – 4
Submitted by Upset the Rhythm
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Mixtapes / Uncategorized
Lately, I find myself gravitating toward the rawness of minimal synth, the experimentation inherent in the home recording process & the sheer zaniness found on obscure, private-press releases. This hour-long mix features sixteen selections from Europe, the United States and Australia, 1980-1987.
1. Pension Stammheim – Madox-Mutanten (Germany, 1981)
2. John Bender – Glacial / Thought (Cincinnati, 1983)
3. Executive Slacks – Sexual Witchcraft (Philadelphia, 1984)
4. Ann Summer – Baby Doll-Play Suit (Sweden, 1985)
5. Mindless Delta Children – Gogo Dancer P.V.C. Apron (Australia, 1980)
6. Steaming Coils – From His Thrown (Los Angeles, 1987)
7. Somnambulist – Tribe (Belgium, 1983)
8. Der Plan – Schnee-Cristel Unterm Baum (Germany, 1980)
9. Bene Gesserit – Clear Blue Sky (Belgium, 1984)
10. Mock Turtle – Thank You For Sending Me An Eno (Washington DC, 1981)
11. A. Xax – Banging Your Head (Indiana, 1981)
12. Grauzone – Film 2 (Germany, 1981)
13. Xex – You Think (New Jersey, 1980)
14. Conrad & Gregor Schnitzler – A3 (Germany, 1981)
15. 08-15 – 1000 Gelbe Tennisbälle (Germany, 1981)
16. Dzeltenie Pastnieki – Apsuudziibas Dziesma (Latvia, 1984)
Submitted by Stephanie Bonham
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Reviews
Teams is the moniker of Miami-via-Knoxville sample artist Sean Bowie. In the past year, he released his debut EP We Have A Room With Everything on AMDISCS, a collaboration with Star Slinger on Mexican Summer, and a wealth of tracks that are available for free on his Bandcamp. His recent Catch Pool EP falls into the latter category. Its five, sample-based assemblages of animal sounds and throbbing drums, melodic tones and unidentifiable voices, range from the calmly beautiful to the irresistibly danceable. The second track, below, enters with a bang and a catchy beat, then alternates between moments of deep serenity and an increasingly intricate melody line.
Listen to Catch Pool EP and other Teams releases in full via Bandcamp, get the Teams Vs. Star Slinger 12″ from Mexican Summer
Written by Laura Brown
Tags: all, North America, Teams, Tracks, United States
Africa / Reviews
The Bhundu Boys formed in April 1980 in the city of Harare (translation: “death everywhere”), and took their name from the guerrillas who backed Robert Mugabe in his war to win Zimbabwe’s independence from Britain. The most commercially and creatively successful act ever to emerge from Zimbabwe, they the boys embodied the world music zeitgeist of the mid-’80s. As creators of a frenetic, guitar-dominated style, they dubbed “jit,” which fused airy melodies, shimmering harmonies, and pulsating rhythms drawn from across the African continent. Check out the video here.
Written by Jan Midelfort
Tags: Africa, all, The Bhundu Boys, Zimbabwe
Reviews
It Sound’s “The General Cue” comes to us from the recently released Hard Pop for Blue Trees, an LP lovingly recorded on a 4-track in the recently discovered borough known as “Brooklyn” ((via Seattle) via Varna, Bulgaria). The well-established combination of fuzzy drum machine and fuzzy guitar based instrumentation lends itself to the format, but that mile deep, near Mancunian bass is just not something you’d expect from the lo-fi aesthetic. It’s a quick, direct, and intensely harmonic piece that leads to your foot tapping, head bobbing, and even some light humming.
Hard Pop for Blue Trees is streaming and avail for purchase from End Up Records, keep your ears peeled for the Prince reference and very well done guitar interlude on the album!
Written by Luke Carrell
Reviews
The self-titled album on Dekorder from Iibiis Rooge, a collaboration between French jungle-droner High Wolf and British musical magician Neil Campbell aka Astral Social Club, balances the two musicians’ respective talents, creating a sound that is far from the lowest common denominator of their individual pursuits. The result is a gently fluctuating equilibrium; a combination of High Wolf’s tribal percussion and psychedelic melodies and Campbell’s pulsating, trance-inducing electronic landscapes, meshed in a way that exemplifies each musician’s influences yet is unique from either one’s solo work. The LP’s third track, “Coro-Coro”, is a harmonious unification of rhythmic repetition and morphing soundscape that flutters and floats through aural space, where elements of both Campbell’s and High Wolf’s musical interests manifest and blend to create something entirely new.
Grab Iibiis Rouge from Dekorder
Written by Laura Brown
Tags: all, England, Europe, France, Iibiis Rooge, Tracks
Mixtapes
My mother told me that the dreams she remembers are always the ones that play out situations in her life she has forgotten. She likes to call them ‘reminders’. I found this fascinating because for the past couple of months I’ve been trying to master the art of lucid dreaming. However, my efforts are proving it difficult and I find myself waking up without a trace of remembering what I even dreamt about in the first place. The dreams I do remember are always ones that evoked particular emotions. Here is a collection of songs that were inspired by feelings I’ve experienced in dreams, feelings that I’ve forgotten, and feelings that hopefully one day help pilot where my mind wanders off to during sleep.
01 Pantha Du Prince – Asha
02 Do Make Say Think - Anything For Now
03 Chamapagne Diamond - Scattern & Yearn
04 NEON CANYON - Pekoe
05 Boards of Canada – Tears From The Compound Eye
06 Colleen – Summer Water
07 Noveller - 6 Fades
08 Belong – I Never Lose, Never Really
09 Knots – Peacedreams
10 Gang Gang Dance – God’s Money IX
11. Murcof - Cosmos II
12 Jacaszek - Rytm to Niesmiertelnosc
13 Morgan Greenwood - Die Neue Serie
14 Blue Hawaii – Sparkle Refund
15 Arovane - Lilies
16 Oneohtrix Point Never - Ouroboros
17 Eluvium – Show Us Our Homes
18 Jon Brion - Peer Pressure
19 Brian Eno & Harold Budd – Among Fields Of Crystal
20 Claude Debussy - Clouds
21 Kyle Gann – As The Day Is Long
Native Speaker is available now via Kanine Records
Submitted by Katie Lee of Braids
Tags: all, BRAIDS, Canada, Mixtapes, North America
