Friendship Bracelet

AIR CLIP

2012-01-25T14:30:00.001-05:00

Termeric was a project of Chris Powers, a.k.a. C Powers (currently going by Cc). Termeric is now defunct. Released nearly 1.5 years ago on Triple You Tapes, Natural Gel is the only official Termeric collection. Consisting of eight down-tempo psychedelic slappers, sounds range from vintage rasta riddims to modern day beat music, chopped and blended together to create fantastic five-to-six-minute excursions into smoldering weedhaze territories. The entire tape can now be streamed at bandcamp and a few copies are still left for purchase.

Triple You has finally revealed another outtake from Natural Gel, the first since "Get Come Down" from the label's inaugural sampler. “Air Clip (dub)” is a sure trance-inducer, a circular slice of bouncing juke-isms that learned to bang in a muffled and aquatic kind of way. Stream below, then grab the MP3 along with other download samples from the tape.

Air Clip (dub) by Triple You Tapes

Termeric - Air Clip (dub)

Termeric - Grass St. Star

Termeric - Search

Termeric - Get Come Down

EUPHORIA / HOW CAN I RESIST U

2012-01-25T02:00:00.005-05:00

Here are two videos I've had playing in the background many many times in the past week. Both videos are rad, both songs are rad and as far as I know these videos are the only ways to listen to these tracks. Both videos comment on excess in varying contexts. Zomby's "Euphoria" depicts a man leafing through heaps of paper money, letting the cash fall to the floor as he revels in his wealth. Fatima Al Qadiri's "How Can I Resist U" pits a menacing beat against grainy images of expensive cars and gyrating Arab women. The video's description calls it a "love letter to London" referencing a deep, dark, presumably shameful London where "wealthy Arabs seek the forbidden fruits of sex, drugs and alcohol."

TONY COPS

2012-01-25T01:00:00.000-05:00

Here's another good look from No Conclusion, who gave the tip on White Car's "Genevieve" in the post below. Tony Cops is an electronic disco producer from Montreal. Inside his Eventide EP we find all sorts of sexy mechanical steamblasts and lurking synthesizer stabs, all wrapped in piping hot arpeggiated euphoria. While Tony's aesthetic may sound goofily dated and is obviously derived from fine Italo Disco numbers from decades past, Eventide is an apt homage to the genre and an overall fun listen. The entire EP is available for stream and second track "Umberto" is available for free download.

Tony Cops - Umberto

Eventide EP by TONY COPS

GENEVIEVE

2012-01-24T19:00:00.001-05:00

Hippos In Tanks will release White Car's Everyday Grace on February 28 (cover art above). White Car is Elon Katz. I posted about his Tomb of Transition EP last year. Check out two tracks from the record below plus "Genevieve," a recent digital single (via No Conclusion). FACT recently spoke to some of my favorite dualities in Katz's music, its ability to balance "metal and flesh, pleasure and pain." Psyched to hear the new record.

White Car - She The Bodiless

White Car - Now We Continue

GENEVIEVE by White Car

ICON GIVE THANK

2012-01-23T15:00:00.000-05:00

Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, & The Congos - Happy Song by RVNG Intl.

RACE ON VRBATIM

2012-01-20T14:30:00.002-05:00

(credit: iprnelson cellular telephone image)

Wednesday nite Hav Lyfe dropped "Race On Vrbatim," a nine-minute live set of cryptic drones that shift to delicate key tones and hisses around the three-minute mark before giving way to the final couple minutes of heavy junk-beat. For fans of Ssaliva, Dynooo, Hype Williams.

race on vrbatim by Hav Lyfe

NOTE: If you dig, I suggest you download this set quickly seeing as how most of the jams dude uploads he takes down after a few days.

MY FAVORITE GIRL

2012-01-20T14:00:00.000-05:00

Beautiful new track/video from Megafortress/Grant Nitsch, the second such piece to drop from the new self-titled Megafortress record, which drops January 31 on Software.

FERG + ROCKY

2012-01-20T12:00:00.001-05:00

The two newest ASAP Mob tracks I've heard are nothing short of awesome. Rocky's "Celebration" is absolutely euphoric, interpolating the Kanye-perfected hook "You know what this is//it's a celebration bitches//grab a drink grab a glass// after that I grab your ass" in the opening seconds. Honestly, the beat sounds like something Soulja Boy should be auto-tuning over -- sky-limit glory spills out my speakers with enough slap and pitched-down vocals to hint at hardness.

ASAP Rocky - Celebration

Ferg gets his proper lean on with "Death B4 A Million," a rather syrupy affair showcasing his smooth, druggy exhalations. The track features very little in the way of loud/soft dynamics, though dude's flow is so nice it doesn't really matter. I think this is just the fourth Ferg track I've heard and while it can't compare to his verse on "Kissin' Pink" from ASAP Rocky's LiveLoveASAP tape, it's even more reason to follow this member of the ASAP crew. Psyched for the release of the first ASAP Mob album/mixtape which I believe drops later this winter.

ASAP Ferg - Death B4 A Million

DIGI

2012-01-19T09:30:00.002-05:00

(credit: iprnelson cellular telephone image)

Just hours ago Howse uploaded a forgotten track called "Digi" to his Soundcloud. The piece begins with slashing knife/sword sounds fluttering about, quickly giving way to a barrage of machine gun stutters and steamy mechanical propulsion.

digi by howse

Howse released his Trakz EP on Astro Nautico last year after blowing people like me away with his track "vbs." Check that one plus "car(v)ed" from Trakz below.

car(v)ed by howse

vbs by howse

ABSOLUTELY DREAMS

2012-01-19T04:00:00.002-05:00

Jonathan Coward is a thin guy with nice long hair and a beard. He makes music as Shams. A while back I got into his jam "Pillow Talk," a serious slapper ripe for ravers and goth clubs and burned CDs you listen to in your car super loud at night. It's probably been three years since I first heard that one. I had completely lost track of the dude until I ended up working with him at shows and seeing him perform live sets in Brooklyn when I was living there.

Just now, the above clip for "Absolutely Dreams" floated into my field of vision thanks to the Dior Nights Facebook feed. The video is a serious slice of romance, all rose petals and wind-blown fabrics. Going through the Shams Soundcloud has revealed some other hot shit I'm bummed I didn't check out sooner. My favorites of the bunch can be sampled and downloaded below.

SHAMS-MORALES by SHAMS

I PLEASE U by SHAMS

ENGAGE IN THE BEHAVIOR by SHAMS

FEATURELESS GHOST/CC MINI-TOUR

2012-01-18T20:00:00.000-05:00

Homies Featureless Ghost and C Powers (who is now going by Cc) are about to embark on a miniature tour across the Southeast United States. If you live in or around Raleigh, Wilmington, Atlanta or Lexington I suggest you get up, get out and dance around while this killer live music happens in front of you. Not familiar with the jams? Check out some recent Soundcloud additions below, including FG's "Same-As-Before" remix of their own track "Web Walk" and a taste of that spicy new Cc.

T0LD-U-50 (rough mix) by featurelessghost

Web Walk (FGs Same-As-Before Remix) by featurelessghost

Gryphon Perc by Cc_

Cc Soundcloud Teaser by Cc_

VACATION #2

2012-01-17T18:00:00.001-05:00

In addition to the Branches cassette featured in the previous post, Triple You Tapes also dropped Green Mansions' Vacation #2 today. Green Mansions is the transatlantic recording project of Michael Pigott (Pittsfield, Massachusetts) and Peter Bonneman (Denmark). This is their second release, following 2009's self-released four-track 12". A 7" single with new material is due in a couple weeks.

Green Mansions creates soothing, tropical music out of Suicide organ sounds and authentic Latin percussion filled out with minimal guitar and bass. The songs range from decaying ambient drones to light-hearted pop repetition, very easy to flip the tape over and over again. Grab a free download of "Vacation #7" while watching the Miko Revereza directed video for "Vacation #5" below, then click here to order your copy.

Vacation #7 by Green Mansions

Green Mansions- Vacation #5 from miko revereza on Vimeo.

PRIMEIRA VEZ

2012-01-17T04:00:00.003-05:00

Excited to announce Triple You Tapes' release of new Branches tape Primeira Vez, now available as a free digital download to sample before purchasing the limited physical edition. Branches is Pedro Rios, a Portuguese musician who's been exploring earthy drones, bubbling pop and ambient rippling since last year's self-released Alto Astral. Primeira Vez leans towards the darker side of Branches' range, humming with scorched spans of meditative drone. Stream below, click here to download, click here to purchase your very own copy.

Primeira Vez by Branches

PARTICLE LANGUAGE

2012-01-16T19:00:00.000-05:00

Last time I mentioned Portland multi-instrumentalist Matt Carlson it was in the context of Golden Retriever, the duo of Carlson and Jonathan Sielaff. More specifically, I spoke on last year's Emergent Layer cassette on NNA Tapes, a killer piece of synthesizer stutter and cavernous clarinet. Carlson's 2012 starts off right with his debut vinyl release Particle Language, out now on Draft Records. M.K. Youngblood posted “The Perceptron” for stream on Visitation Rites so check that out then sample some highlights from all the free Matt Carlson material I've digested over the past few days below. Now I wait patiently to year that entire Golden Retriever record Thrill Jockey released last year that I didn't hear about til now (album preview also below).

Matt Carlson - Warped Geometry

Matt Carlson - American Standard

golden retriever - light cones (album preview) by experimedia

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PREVIOUSLY:

Golden Retriever - Tumuli

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ALSO:

Check this live Golden Retriever set shot for Portland's Experimental ½ Hour.

Experimental ½ Hour - Episode XXI: Golden Retriever & The Cysts from Experimental ½ Hour on Vimeo.

AFRI-COLA

2012-01-16T17:00:00.000-05:00

I've been enjoying one of Coyote Clean Up's alternate Soundclouds called My Coca Afri-Cola over the past week or so, getting lost in the extended spans of gauzy house and techno. As if on cue, I caught word last night that CCU will be releasing Frozen Solid sometime soon on 100% Silk. Check the video below for album track "At Home" in addition to some of my favorites from the Afri-Cola Soundcloud.

blonde aztec by my coca-africola

dream_girls by my coca-africola

lobster energy by my coca-africola

GREEN CHILD VIDEO

2012-01-16T09:00:00.001-05:00

The first video from that Megafortress + Grant Nitsch four-video collaboration I mentioned last week.

BARRING WILL + PARADISE A.D.

2012-01-13T18:00:00.001-05:00

Kevin Greenspon "Barring Will" + "Paradise A.D." from Kevin Greenspon on Vimeo.

It had been quite a while since I thought about Kevin Greenspon, but a new video for his music by Matthieu Séry was just brought to my attention and it's rather hypnotizing. The video features the painted underside of what seems to be bottlecaps fading into and out of each other, surrounded by black void. The pieces featured in the video were originally part of Greenspon's split with Sky Stadium on Existential Cloth. Along with music from four other limited releases, the tunes have been compiled on Paradise A.D., out now on Bridgetown Records. Download "Barring Will" below then check out an insane amount of Greenspon material on his bandcamp.

Kevin Greenspon - Barring Will

TOIL

2012-01-13T15:00:00.001-05:00

In case you guys were wondering, a 'cute girl' recently made a Youtube video of herself exhaling bong smoke into the screen and dedicated it to ME.

I know what you're thinking: "This has absolutely nothing to do with the music that FBUS usually posts about or even about music at all."

HOLD ON. After a bit of poking around, I found that she also crafts dizzy pieces of ambience as Dead Dads Club. The sounds range from icy computer moods to echoing blips of isolation, all resting underneath her umbrella description of "Sad Girl Future Visions." While I don't completely wish her vocals away, my favorite couple tracks disregard the element of human voice in favor of hints of inorganic warmth. "Toil" pulses along with crisp space station sounds while "Dimensional Picses" boasts a more aggressive approach, synthesizers lurching and humming like a mechanical body. Check those two below then grab the whole EP at bandcamp.

TOIL by DEADDADSCLUB

DIMENSIONAL PISCES by DEADDADSCLUB

TARO

2012-01-11T17:30:00.001-05:00

Killer new Ssaliva jam uploaded to Soundcloud. While this one does not appear on his new record RZA (out Monday January 16 on Vlek Records), it is certainly not lacking. "Taro" is built on a screwed carnival slap, a would-be banger if not for the drugged swirling. Note the once-machinegunned-but-now-sluggish hi-hat rolls.

TARO by ssaliva

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Speaking of RZA, the whole record is now available for stream. Check a couple of my favorites below, including a remix by Sagat, then grab outtake "Drugged Out Quest" at XLR8R.

A3 - Trimensional by vlek

A4 - B Adventures by vlek

Ssaliva - Night Landing (SAGAT Remix) by vlek

JUICE JUICE

2012-01-11T02:30:00.002-05:00

Belgian homie Dynooo just uploaded six tracks to his Soundcloud. The collection is called Songs 4 Tekitha and is available for download.

03 Nimph Of Sphere by DYNOOO

04 Ficus Desk by DYNOOO

06 Earpuss by DYNOOO

Dynooo will also be releasing a tape on Triple You Tapes a little later on this year. "Juice Juice" is from the forthcoming release and Dynooo made the video for it and it is waiting for you below. He also created the piece "shankks" (pictured above), which does not move.

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Previously on FBUS

I WILL NOT RELEASE YOU

2012-01-10T21:00:00.001-05:00

(photo courtesy iprnelson)

Judging from the overall aesthetic visually and ear-wise, I'm going ahead and assuming Dem Hunger/Wanda Group has a new daughter project named Samantha Fiat. She has a Soundcloud with four tracks on it to stream. Below are the two I like the most, both sounding very little like either Dem Hunger or Wanda Group (or The Hers or Ahora Controller, etc), save the broken-down hiss and shrill feedback. The first track is a drippy house-pulser, the second a space-age driftpiece.

I WILL NOT RELEASE YOU by SAMANTHA FIAT

WE C by SAMANTHA FIAT

RUBIO

2012-01-09T06:51:00.008-05:00

What better way to celebrate the first ten or so games of Minnesota Timberwolves rookie point guard Ricky Rubio's NBA career than with ambient synthesizer fog summoned from the fingers of Oneohtrix Point Never? The sounds are pure and the pace is meandering, perhaps an homage to how Rubio's killer point guard genes help him slow down the game of basketball, allowing the Spaniard to perform mind-blowing ball passing techniques.

Does this mark the first in a series of OPN hoops meditations?
Will the next OPN track be called "Biyombo Demo"?
Has Dan Lopatin become a Boston sports traitor by supporting the T-Wolves?

Ponder these questions while sampling the track and scrolling through select Rubio Google Image Search gold below.

Rubio demo by Oneohtrix Point Never

(all images plucked from GIS)

GREEN CHILD

2012-01-09T04:30:00.000-05:00

I posted about Bill Gillim a.k.a. Megafortress and his synthesizer/voice work one time a-year-minus-ten-days ago. The past 12 months saw no new tunes from Gillim. If you assumed he was hard at work on new material, you were correct -- Software is set to release his new self-titled record at the end of this month. The label has offered up a stream of album track "Green Child" in addition to the promise of four video collaborations with video artist Grant Nitsch, one for each track on the EP. Last year Nitsch put together video for Megafortress piece "Freedom From Fear." Excited to experience more of their audiovisual mixers.

Megafortress - Green Child by softwarelabel

Megafortress – Freedom from Fear from Grant Nitsch on Vimeo.

SEWER GOO

2012-01-09T03:30:00.001-05:00

salted slugs - tie dye mutant dog boy from SURF KILL on Vimeo.

Somehow missed this Cupp Cave + Dynooo + Salted Slugs (Cupp Cave/Dynooo collab) Sewer Goo EP from last year. There's videos for each song. My favorites are above and below. The other two are here. Apparently there's still vinyl copies left for purchase. Thanks Surf Kill.

dynooo - onion funck from SURF KILL on Vimeo.

CULTURE SALE

2012-01-06T15:00:00.000-05:00

On the first of the year, Twins (1/2 Featureless Ghost) released a split cassette with Joy and Revolution on Magic Rub Cassettes. The two Twins tracks are rad, very much unlike the ecstatic new Featureless Ghost track but still very psychedelic and futuristic. The entire tape is available to stream for free on bandcamp, which is also where you can buy it both physical and digital.

Back Down by TWINS

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Twins also released a free digital EP on Double Phantom Digital last September that I never mentioned called The Insider Sings "Emotionals." This EP carries a slightly warmer tone than the split featured above, including the lonely hyper-ballad "Learning To Let Go" and galactic oasis jammer "Strange Things."

Learning To Let Go by twins

Strange Things by twins

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Note: Twins will be rumbling with Triple You Tapes later on this year...

WRAPLYF

2012-01-04T19:30:00.000-05:00

(credit: iprnelson digital camera image)

I posted about Hav Lyfe and his/her mutant syrup-stepper music a couple times already. Today dude uploaded two new songs for stream, "Wraplyf 2" and "bb." The first sounds like a toasted Hype Williams lounger. The second sounds like a prehistoric dinosaur bone xylophone ensemble for sea-spray meditation. Both tracks are precisely warped, deliciously hazy and ripe for nite.

Wraplyf 2 by Hav Lyfe

bb by Hav Lyfe

GRYPHON PERC

2012-01-03T19:00:00.002-05:00

(credit: iprnelson cellular telephone image)

C Powers just sent over a batch of new jams released under the name Cc. Included were some of the most crisp and ecstatic Powers-produced tracks to date. Check out one of my favorites below and urge Cc to keep his New Years resolution to "make as much music as possible this year."

Gryphon Perc by Cc_

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C Powers also recently remixed Time Wharp's "Cuspcake" for his later. rmx collection. Speaking of Time Wharp, dude has a new EP out on Astro Nautico on January 23. Check out the first single here.

Time Wharp-Cuspcake (Cc's Game-Winning Plays Special Edition BluRay) by Cc_

DESKTOP PAIN

2012-01-03T18:00:00.005-05:00

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Real psyched we're getting closer to releasing Nem270's free odds & ends instrumentals EP Desktop Pain on Triple You Tapes. It will be available for download Tuesday January 17 on bandcamp. Nem270 was recently featured in Zachg's 15 Producers To Know In 2012 on Mishka's blog alongside cool dudes like Beautiful Lou, SpaceGhostPurpp, Silky Johnson and DJ Burn One. Here are the first two tracks from the EP available for download.

Nem270 - BGO

Nem270 - Bay Area Milka

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Nem also produced 20 tracks for San Francisco rapper Yarrow Slaps last year. The two compiled them into a huge mixtape. Check out a few of my favorites and then grab the whole mixtape (or on Dat Piff).

Yarrow Slaps - When Push Come 2 Shove (prod. Nem270)

Yarrow Slaps - 93 Rifle, Year 8000

Yarrow Slaps - Booty In Those Pants

TRIAD GOD

2012-01-03T17:30:00.000-05:00

Just wanted to remind everybody that Vinh Ngan exists and he has a full length LP pretty much ready to go and it sounds fantastic. News coming soon on a single. For now enjoy some of the most recent additions to his Soundcloud.

Lo Por by Vinh Ngan Triad God

Waay si chun Bow Hay Sun Hing J by Vinh Ngan Triad God

Remand by Vinh Ngan Triad God

TRAP ANTHEM

2012-01-02T01:00:00.001-05:00

The Renaissance has something to do with Napolian. This is the "Trap Anthem."

Trap Anthem by Renaissance Music Group

JSSST

2011-12-30T17:00:00.001-05:00

(credit: iprnelson cellular telephone image)

The Dude Rezzie hinted at something amazing in the "New Encounters" section of his last post on Weird Magic. Jssst is a minimal techno freaker from Amsterdam. His Soundcloud is full of (mostly) downloadable material. Jssst dives into the dark and brooding side of trance-inducing dance music, drugging the listener/dancer with deep mechanical bludgeonings on repeat. Hard to place exactly what my favorite jams are here, sort of like it's hard to choose a favorite Raga from Charanjit Singh's Ten Ragas To a Disco Beat -- Jssst's cuts are all so euphoric and uplifting it's hard to care about one stopping when there's another right behind it.

Jssst - Psycho (Original Mix) by Jssst

Jssst - La Notte (Original Mix) by Jssst

Jssst - Body And Soul (Original Mix) by Jssst

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Also, Rez will be blasting tunes at 285 Kent NYE

TRUZ_PORSCHA

2011-12-30T04:15:00.004-05:00

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Ups to Vlek Records for the tip on some new Sagat works, one of which has been killing it all nite around FBUS HQ. Stream "Truz_Porscha" below then check his remixes I've posted in the past for Cupp Cave and Dynooo.

Truz_Porscha by V_Sagat

Cupp Cave - Mind Bones (Sagat Remix)

Dynooo - Gamecube (Sagat Remix)

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Also here's a nearly 60-minute Sagat mix I found in my computer somewhere simply tagged as "Set FM Brussels." I know nothing else about this mix.

Sagat - Set FM Brussels

EDIT: This mix was for 54 Cares Deeply radio show in Brussels.

323

2011-12-30T04:00:00.001-05:00

(credit: iprnelson cellular telephone image)

Beautiful Laurel Halo edit of something I know nothing about, "323" by Daniel Wohl. Apparently they performed together a bit ago, then she dropped this.

Daniel Wohl - 323 (Laurel Halo Edit) by LAUREL HALO

(via Dummy Mag)

SAVAAN

2011-12-29T14:00:00.001-05:00

New Ssaliva record RZA drops January 16 on Vlek Records. The label is revealing the record track by track on Soundcloud. Vlek is also giving away a copy of the EP for "Liking" them on Facebook. The packaging looks beautiful, all hand-screenprinted and embossed by DimRun, Vlek's graphic designer.

Ssaliva - Savaan / VLEK06 - "RZA" from Vlek Records on Vimeo.

VLEK06 - Ssaliva - Unveiled Tracks by vlek

LUCJH II

2011-12-28T01:00:00.000-05:00

Mentioned Concepto Radio the other day when I posted about Kentje. They also posted a blurb on Afrikan Sciences, an Oakland dude whom CR likened to a mix of Ras G, Theo Parrish and Carlos Niño.

Lucjh II by Afrikan Sciences

XMAS TUNE

2011-12-27T12:30:00.003-05:00

(credit: iprnelson cellular telephone image)

I heard a few good jams for the first time on Christmas Day. Here they are:

Thick slice of footworker bounce from Featureless Ghost. Their Biologically-Sound Cyber-Bodies EP is now available from Crash Symbols. Dudes also recently remastered their album New Moods (Double Phantom Digital) which you can stream from bandcamp.

T0LD-U-50 by featurelessghost

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yuk. upped a mixtape of remixes he did over the past year as well as some of his own work remixed by others. This gives us an excuse to once again shout out his remix of Mane Mane's "Skin Fox" (video below). Other highlights include remixes of Teebs and Ras G as well as Anenon's version of "Oh Shaman." Download the whole mixtape here.
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Teebs - Burner (yuk. remix)

Ras G - dustierthandigital (SATURN SPORES for G yuk. flip)

yuk. - Oh Shaman (Anenon Remix)

Mane Mane - Skin Fox - yuk. Remix from Leaving Records on Vimeo.

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Green Ova dropped a new tape on Christmas. Best song features Danny Brown and there's some Nem270-produced tracks in there.

Down (Feat. Danny Brown & Shady Blaze) (Prod. By YS) by Squadda B (of Main Attrakionz)

The Greenova Way (Prod. By Squadda B) by Squadda B (of Main Attrakionz)

UMBRO G

2011-12-20T20:30:00.002-05:00

Someone out there may remember a recent post around these parts regarding Hav Lyfe and how he or they is or are odd and rad in all the right ways. Today Hav Lyfe released a free split digital single with Wanda Group, the O/T EP. The two tracks are made available by some sort of digital label entity called Umbro G. Hav Lyfe's contribution, "Thowback," is a dusty new age pulser. Wanda Group gets weirder with "Outerr," clicking through ambient hum-fog and eventually unintelligible slowed vocal mouth-fog and then back into general click-fog.

HAV LYFE - THOWBACK by UMBRO G

WANDA GROUP - OUTERR by UMBRO G

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Hav Lyfe also has some nice new tunes on his Soundcloud including a download of what I presume is a "remix" of Drake's "The Motto" but I could be very wrong.

Drake Moto (Hav Lyfe Remix) by Hav Lyfe

Lil Set Tribeca by Hav Lyfe

QUICKSAILS

2011-12-18T12:00:00.001-05:00

(credit: iprnelson cellular telephone image)

Some of the most exciting ambient flutterings I've heard lately come from Chicago's Ben Billington a.k.a. Quicksails. I caught word of Ben through friends who were trying to land him a show in Western Massachusetts. They succeeded. His set at Flying Object was incredible and loud, blowing the lid off what I thought a Quicksails set might sound like. After learning that a Quicksails live set is much different from a Quicksails recording, Ben mentioned he had a cassette out on NNA Tapes that I didn't know about called A Fantasy in Seasons. You should buy one. No idea what Soundcloud tracks are from the tape (if any), but the homie Mary Katherine Youngblood posted "Walking Through Rain" for stream over at Visitation Rites.

Million Knots by Quicksails

Slow Lucks by Quicksails

Must Never Catch It by Quicksails

KENTJE

2011-12-18T11:00:00.001-05:00

Ups to Concepto Radio for the tip on Kentje, a Reggaeton Dutch with a stream-only Soundcloud who apparently killed it all year with instrumentals. His cuts are spacious and induce grinding even within the confines of one's seat, slapping machine gun rata-tat over futuristic Latin rhythms. Sounds like militant hard labor music, the soundtrack to repairing a rebel spaceship or waging war through a hologram keyboard.

Kentje'sz Beatsz - 3.Instrumentals Reggeaton 28-02-11(Follow@Kentjjee) by Kentjjee

Kentje'sz Beatsz - Holá Eléctrico (Bubbling 2011) Twitter @Kentjjee by Kentjjee

Kentje'sz Beatsz - 1.Instrumentals Reggeaton 30-08-10 by Kentjjee

Kentje'sz Beatsz - 2.Instrumentals Reggeaton 30-01-11(Follow@kentjjee) by Kentjjee

CHUSHI

2011-12-16T02:00:00.002-05:00

Chushi was thrown into my field of vision thanks to a tweet from someone in my Twitter void. I have since forgotten who introduced me to this Russian, which is how the internet usually goes. Coincidentally, this is exactly how Chushi's tunes work -- in one ear and out the other. Sounds mish and mash, start and stop, play out for your ears and finish before you even knew you started. This is an exciting music to me.

Chushi strings together song bits in a quilted fashion, forever a disjointed affair reminding me that listening to sounds doesn't have anything to do with conclusions, but with how it feels at the time and nothing more. Other than that, I know nothing about Chushi and I'd rather keep it that way. Stream/download everything here. I recommend chushi and flakes428.

wpoo pt. by chushi

deaf by chushi

BLUEEN

2011-12-16T01:30:00.002-05:00

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The homies at Perdizes Dream recently sent over Knights, a new EP from Babe, Terror. It's full of murky, head-bobbing times so check it out cos it's free to stream.

Knights (2012) by babeterror

AQUIFER

2011-12-13T01:30:00.000-05:00

In daily romps through the internet I have been bombarded with year-end praise for Laurel Halo's six-track Hippos In Tanks release Hour Logic. It is fantastic.

Laurel Halo - Aquifer

Laurel Halo: Hour Logic by alteredzones

TIT

2011-12-02T14:00:00.001-05:00

Miko Revereza has been on a tear this year, still going strong as we enter December. For BUN/Fumitake Tamura's "Tit," Miko goes all geometric as he plays with rainbowed grids of quadrilaterals, lines and static on a used-to-be-black-but-is-now-more-grey backdrop. The whole thing reminds me of a fantastic and faded t-shirt from the thrift store, in a way still brilliant color-wise but with some well-worn miles on it. Matthewdavid calls the video Miko's "best work to date."

Oh, and about the music -- released on Ryuichi Sakamoto's commmons label which seems to be a very respectable outlet for musicians and artists. Their site is nearly all Japanese, but there are some English bits referring to commmons as a "New Music Community for Real Artists and Music Lovers" while prompting us to "think global, act local."

There's also this little video teaser that I didn't catch a week and a half ago when Miko upped it to his vimeo:

2BUELLAR BALLS

2011-12-01T13:30:00.003-05:00

Pynk Voyd is the free-form synthesizer project of Gabriel Chicoine (a.k.a. Gnarfield a.k.a. the non-me half of the Boys Upstairs) and Alex Hornbeck, two current Western Massachusetts residents and good friends of mine letting themselves loose on some weirdo electronic scrapes and gurglings. The two also play in the prog-worshipping trio Dust Witch, who enjoyed covering horror film soundtracks last Halloween at one of our very first Boys Upstairs Presents shows with Matthewdavid. "2BUELLER BALLS" sounds to me like something I'd hear hiss out of an NNA Tape, celestial and raw and teeming with life. And shit, it's just their first demo. They will be playing their first show tonite at Flying Object in Hadley with Eola and Jerry Paper.

PYNK VOYD - 2BUELLER BALLS (demo) by MANGE|BLYGHT

NAPOLIAN

2011-12-01T12:30:00.001-05:00

Recently came across Napolian, a spaced-out beat project from L.A.'s Ian Evans, due to his smoothed-out-then-hyped-up remix of "Up" from Oneohtrix Point Never's new record Replica.

Up (Napolian Remix) by Napolian

Not necessarily sure why I hadn't heard of this dude before. He seems to be Software-related in general, has hundreds of Soundcloud plays and is followed by a bunch of like-minded people.

Olympia by Napolian

This one has Rick Ross woofs:

Y2K by Napolian

CIVIVIC

2011-11-30T02:30:00.001-05:00

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Swirled up nite sounds from Hav Lyfe done showed up in my Twitter feed thanks to two reliable sources. No clue as to where it comes from but it sounds like Hype Williams and the first three Soundcloud followers were three fellows who have been sonically intertwined the past year or so: Arafat Group a.k.a. Dem Hunger, Ssaliva a.k.a. Cupp Cave and Dynooo. Wouldn't be surprised if this was a collaboration between at least two of those gents.

My Man Kelly Moon From The Gavin by Hav Lyfe

Civivic by Hav Lyfe

CLOUD HALL

2011-11-29T15:30:00.001-05:00

Last week a couple new Chief Trud tracks appeared in my inbox. Last I heard of Trud (a.k.a. Austin Caesar from San Fransisco) he had dropped the Cruise Forever EP in the Spring which I blabbed about. Spectral house wisps and pulses continue to dominate his sound, but the compact-by-his-standards "Cloud Hall" is his best work to date. Not that I don't enjoy a good stretched out house anthem, it's just nice to see dude try out something a bit more condensed.

Cloud Hall by Chief Trud

1 Year by Chief Trud

PREVIOUSLY:

Chief Trud - Shut In

Chief Trud - The Beast

SHOT TO LA PARC

2011-11-29T13:30:00.000-05:00

Fantastic collaboration between slasher brothers Tonstartssbandht and analog video artist Miko Revereza. This might actually be the most serious visual representation of the band I've ever seen in music video form, a psychedelic freak-out with flying human forms and colors apparently inspired by the idea of early 70s Japanese noise rock and the long-haired youth movement associated with it. "Shot To La Parc" appeared on Tonstartssbandht's Arbutus Records full-length Now I Am Become. Buy your copy today.

DROWNGENTINA

2011-11-29T13:00:00.001-05:00

New Argentinian label Pakapi Records sent over a little information on their first release, a split CDR from Ø+yn (Cordoba, Argentina) and GMC (La Plata, Argentina). The bits and pieces available for sample are dark and damp, mysterious transmissions from a country I know little-to-nothing about. If the sun isn't shining and you want it to stay that way, dive into "Cumbia Masonica" below, from the forthcoming CDR Popolus Ajeno.

Ø+yn + GMC - Cumbia masonica by PakapiRecords

RINGS

2011-11-28T13:00:00.001-05:00

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Dude with a must-change-now name sent over a few tracks, one of which I've been super intrigued by. Joseph Stallion's "Rings" is screwed like spiked-up molasses. I do believe I would enjoy drowning in that.

Joseph Stallion - Rings

CLOUD EOLA

2011-11-25T19:30:00.000-05:00

Edwin White a.k.a. Eola will be rolling up to Western Massachusetts on December 1 to play a show at Flying Object with Jerry Paper (formerly Zonotope) and others to be announced. You ready?

TRAGEDY

2011-11-19T15:54:00.004-05:00

Feel like such a dorkus for passing over these three recent Jesselisa Moretti clips for Leaving Records associates Julia Holter, Sumsun and Speculator. The three are all very different, Holter's teetering between chaos and zen, Sumsun's being a wild collaboration with Miko Revereza and Speculator's playing out like a goofy Saturday morning cartoon bump complete with what I believe to be cereal. For those keeping track, Speculator's Nice LP is out now on Underwater Peoples and Sumsun's Samo Milagro tape has been out on Leaving for a while. Holter's Tragedy is available on vinyl record from Leaving with sleeve designed by Moretti. The second pressing of 500 ships next week.

THE GARMENT DISTRICT

2011-11-16T12:00:00.001-05:00

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New Night People batch features some familiar sounds like those from Taterbug and Sore Eros but has also introduced me to some serious high quality jams from acts I'd heard much less from like Hot & Cold, German Army and The Garment District.

So far my favorite of the bunch is Melody Elder by The Garment District, a project of Pittsburgh-based Jennifer Baron who some might recognize as a founding member of The Ladybug Transistor. The whole tape takes its time, seems to draw its speed from the pace of an every day life viscous with obligations, exercise and rest. The highlight is the third track "Bird Or Bat," in which Baron tones things down even more while letting loose a stream of pierced harmonies. Sounds of a sorrow sort but, like I said, an everyday feeling persists throughout which at once quells any chance of bummer trauma while simultaneously bumming one out from all the bubble life sonic themes.

The Garment District - Bird Or Bat

The Garment District - Only Air

LSD PLANTAE

2011-11-03T20:30:00.004-04:00

(Full Screen Recommended, In Dark Room)

Ten-minute Sun Araw "At Delphi" official video immediately succeeds fifteen-minute "Impluvium" official video both directed by one Daniel Brantley, both making me scratch head and wonder how Sun Araw's music can hypnotize one into voluntarily staring dead into a computer screen for upwards of twenty-five total minutes.

Why is the above video so unbelievably psychedelic? It's just plants.

...Which brings me to my next argument: Why is THIS video so mundanely unpsychedelic? It's just body. And it goes on for so long, the viewer just waiting for something or some things to happen. And it does. And they do. Did you see that drugsniffer dog? It was there, I saw it. And those hikers? They were women. I saw them. So worth it. Ain't gona give away the big reveal though. I'm not some fucking fool over here. Sun Araw it for yourself.

P.S. How many dance moves do you think were birthed and named during this video shoot? Two dozen? Three dozen? I need an intern for this sort of research.

P.P.S. Sun Araw/Hype Williams collaborative cassette forthcoming.

RAIN SOURCE

2011-11-03T19:11:00.001-04:00

I've been hopelessly obsessing over the new-ish Future Shuttle record Water's Edge, out now on Intercoastal Artists/Holy Mountain. The album is a serious space trip, with multiple sources likening it to Tangerine Dream. However, my favorite passages seem to cite Slowdive's more ambient groovers (the sound of a spaceship floating and rotating meaninglessly) while capturing an essence I refer to as "Peaking Lights sans air-of-hippie" which may as well be a whole genre itself dubbed "Space Hippie" where one can make music as a hippie but they're way out in space (also referred to as "Far Out") so no one can smell that burnt-ass reefer cos there's no fucking oxygen up there, homie.

Stream the whole thing below and watch the video and download the demos and then just buy the 12", yeah?

Future Shuttle: Water's Edge by alteredzones

FUTURE SHUTTLE - Fields Of Dreams from Future Shuttle on Vimeo.

ORAL B

2011-11-02T11:43:00.005-04:00

Couple weeks ago Shea Rose Quartz introduced me to BNRY, some Joe Bush Londoner out of his mind off some space tube hums and ticks. RQ offered up "Oral B," which certainly opened my ears, but slightly newer jam "Gold Leaf" is currently blowing the ears right off my skull. Shea likened BNRY to something branded with the 100% Silk label but I find him way more futuristic, yesterday's club rumblings chopped and rendered into a more compact frame fit for traveling through wires. Check "Gold Leaf" and "Oral B" below then treat yourself to the Kelly Rowland remix cos for some reason she's heating up again.

BNRY - Gold Leaf

BNRY - Oral B

Kelly Rowland - Dilemma (BNRY Remix)

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FLASH & YEARN

2011-11-01T22:35:00.014-04:00

Excited about new self-released tooth ache. bandcamp album Flash & Yearn, ten down-tempo almost dancey tracks along the same lines as some of her previous material but a but a lot more crisp. All ten tracks were produced by Burlington, VT weirdo staple Joey Pizza Slice, each one molding Alexandria Hall's now-you-see-me-now-you-don't vocals to fit its surroundings. Words never really escape the echo, but emotional flits rise to the top and more often than not we're tempted to skim them off and ignore occasional beat sloth. Check a download of the first track "Horizon" and a couple more of my favorites streaming below, then buy the whole thing digitally or as a CD when you catch an upcoming tooth ache. show.

tooth ache. - Horizon

Guilt by tooth ache.

Sediment by tooth ache.

REPLICA

2011-10-31T13:21:00.009-04:00

(credit: Joyce Nelson via iPad)

As I sit here sipping Bud Lite Lime eating a small amount of fun sized candy contemplating the past weekend's unfortunate snow-and-car-related events, I can't imagine a more perfect soundtrack than the three songs that have been made available for public listening from Oneohtrix Point Never's new album Replica, out soon on Software. I dug the first drop, "Sleep Dealer," and am teetering on the edge of obsession with "Nassau," the newest Replica bite. A jerky affair, "Nassau" skates around the skipping sound of "Sleep Dealer" but sounds more like machines and weather and NFL football. Check out all the stuff below including the Hype Williams directed mini-video.

Oneohtrix Point Never - 'Nassau' by BOILER ROOM

Oneohtrix Point Never - Sleep Dealer by Mexican Summer

Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica by Mexican Summer

EDIT:

You can now stream the whole album.

Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica by Mexican Summer

THE BOYS UPSTAIRS PRESENT...

2011-10-27T11:00:00.000-04:00

Matthewdavid:

Matthewdavid: Outmind by alteredzones

Reunited from Leaving Records on Vimeo.

Matthewdavid - International (feat. Dogbite) from BRAINFEEDER on Vimeo.

Holy Other - Touch (Matthewdavid Remix)

Matthewdavid - Trusss

Trance Farmers:

Trance Farmers - Nibiru

Trance Farmers - Drona Lisa

COSMONAUTES FUNK FOR 2 JOYSTICKS

2011-10-25T12:31:00.008-04:00

The fantastic Vlek Records has just announced the release of AMAI 3, the third in a series of four 7" split/compilation records following groupings of Dem Hunger + Cupp Cave and Squeaky Lobster + Lapti. This time around the 7" features three artists as opposed to the usual two: DZA (Russia), Herrmutt Lobby (Belgium) and Richard Colvaen (Belgium). I know next to nothing about any of these guys, but all three tracks are streaming from Soundcloud and each one is Autumn-crisp, futuristic and mighty severe.

VLEK05/A - AMAI3/4 ft. DZA, Herrmutt Lobby & Richard Colvaen by vlek

Pre-orders ship October 31, official release two weeks later November 14. Oh, and the 7" sleeves are printed in either gold or glow-in-the-dark ink. Dope.

Also there's this video for the Richard Colvaen track that I don't care too much for.

Also I quickly checked out DZA's Soundcloud and this demo was sittin pretty right on top:

dza - Feel sexual (demo) by DZA

ANGELS IN AMERICA

2011-10-03T15:00:00.000-04:00

I've been sort of obsessed with the creepy new Angels In America album Narrow Road To The Interior, out now on Ehse Records. Inside we find AIA's female half Moppy Pont mumbling out spoken word terror over tense horror flick atmospheres, complete with dank, foggy drips and scratches from somewhere off in the distance. The entire record sounds pained, as if the spoken musings were squeezed up through Moppy's throat against her own will, like a near-empty tube of toothpaste gripped hard by a possessing force.

However, my favorite track is the least dark of the bunch. "Follow Me Out" actually sounds hopeful next to all the grey coffin sounds spread over the rest of the record, like dawn breaking on a mass grave where the falsely-presumed-dead are squirming their way out between the accurately-presumed-dead. Narrow Road To The Interior is available for free download and for purchase on vinyl LP and CD. A bunch more AIA material is available for free download from the Free Music Archive including a live WFMU set from last month.

Angels In America - Follow Me Out

ORANGE MILK

2011-09-29T15:30:00.000-04:00

Orange Milk Records messaged me yesterday about three new tapes that they just dropped, a Quilt/Developer split, Sundrips' One Hundred Hints and Omnicron Girls by Piper Spray. The sample from Quilt's side of the split, "Yes Collapse," is a serious celestial overload while "Omnicron Girls," the title track from the Piper Spray cassette, propels itself along completely submerged. Orange Milk also has releases on the way from Caboladies, Mark Dwinnel (Forma) and La Big Vic. Label heads Seth (Quilt) and Keith (Giant Claw) also have a new project called Cream Juice. They just finished their first record.

Quilt - Yes Collapsed by orangemilk

Opie Piper Spray - Omnicron Girls - Omnicron Girls by orangemilk

WILD WEST

2011-09-27T14:30:00.002-04:00

Five months ago I got an email about Wild West, a post-punk band active in the M Squared Studios scene in Sydney, Australia between 1980 and 1981. This past Spring they released the Selected Recordings compilation Scratch Another Day, which includes their Beat the Drought EP and live material from their first and last shows. I don't know a terrible amount about the changing post-punk landscape in Sydney in the early 1980s, but I do know that Wild West's brand could fuse funk with harsh synthesizer tones ("Red Sea," "We Can Do") then turn around and strum out a melodic downer ("Locking," "That's Set"). Throughout their entire range, the songs sound desperate and with purpose, the recording straight and raw. Scratch Another Day is available on CD from CD Baby and digitally on bandcamp. Check out a few of my favorites below then stream the whole thing.

Calling The House by Wild West

Red Sea by Wild West

Locking by Wild West

We Can Do by Wild West

p.s. apparently the pots & pans drum part at the end of "We Can Do" was inspired by "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" and that's rad

BEEN LISTENING TO 2

2011-09-22T14:30:00.000-04:00

Didn't get a chance to check out the newer Hype Williams EP Kelly Price W8 Gain Vol. II until this week, prodded by a newer track surfacing under aliases Dean Blunt + Inga Copeland called "But Life Goes On Nahmean." I don't want to shit on the EP, but this new track simply blows its four tracks out of the water. W8 Gain is nice and all but it's bordering on par-for-the-course for Hype Williams. There's slightly-off drum sound rhythms ("Farthing Wood Dub"), spooky trash synthesizer noodling ("Boss Man"), the blunted ambient jam ("Rise Up") and the obligatory out-there spoken word musings over HW soundtrack ("Badmind").

"But Life Goes On Nahmean" breaks most Hype Williams molds, instead reaching some seriously fun pop-rock rollick. Inga Copeland croons in a language that is unintelligible and may or may not exist. Sounds like the melodies were lifted from some psychedelic Indonesian girl group band that some label that does things like that dug up and retro-branded. Also the song sort of proves that if they wanted to and/or had the means, Hype Williams could go for a seriously clean synthetic pop sound and succeed. With a bass sound so meaty it's hard to imagine them failing.

Dean Blunt + Inga Copeland - But Life Goes On Nahmean

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I was hit with a new Vinh Ngan track a couple weeks back. "Lo Por" is a "LoveRap" in Vinh's own words, a song about how one should love their significant other. Serious business. In other Vinh Ngan news, he provided something of a translation of the song "Sun Hing J" last month that I never got around to posting. The subject is gangs, in particular the New Cross Boyz (NXB for short) that Vinh apparently used to run with. I really don't want to delve too deeply into the politics of this gang or the politics of gangs in general, but the translation hints at violence and the satisfaction associated with carrying out violent acts for one's gang, whether they're for-real violence or simply violent intimidations. Check the new piece then the translation of "Sun Hing J."

Lo Por by Vinh Ngan Triad God

Vinh Ngan - Sun Hing J (translation):

New Cross Boyz worry fall
u people fall we still worry, be fall

Swear

Triad God will look after us, will take care
of us

We dont have to be scared
we go chop if any think
ah 1 leg in prision
1 leg in hell

Waj J
im the biggests
play it all New X boy
top level club prostitute
shop i look after it all is it
the top level big for the past
go chop people so
knife shine verion let me?
group show my talent
my heart will grow

If I die I dont care
put my blood in a ocean
so it flow in the sea

PREVIOUSLY:

Sun Hing J by Vinh Ngan Triad God

Remand by Vinh Ngan Triad God

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New Oneohtrix Point Never material hit "The Web" a couple weeks ago in the form of "Sleep Dealer," the first track to emerge from OPN's new album Replica, out this November on Software. Really into the new piece, certainly unlike the many serene ambient passages and searing cuts of white noise found on Returnal. "Sleep Dealer" is pounding and jerky, occasionally pausing to reveal signature OPN synthesizer warmth.

Oneohtrix Point Never - Sleep Dealer by Mexican Summer

BEEN LISTENING TO

2011-09-15T11:45:00.002-04:00

Trance Farmers has a Leaving Records related tape out soon. "Nibiru" is from that tape. Trance Farmers also has another tape available for free download. A while back I posted some demos from a previous project of his called day\\s. Dude also runs a label called Glue Moon Records. He came and played a show I threw together in Pittsfield last year.

Trance Farmers - Nibiru

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I was sort of blindsided by Tomb of Transition, a new White Car CDR that was apparently self released and uploaded to Soundcloud for stream late last month. The CDR is a fine, somewhat less pained accompaniment to White Car's previous EP No Better, finding a creepy balance between industrial pounding, synthesizer squelches and techno swagger. White Car also has some sort of release or something coming out this month called Everyday Grace, which is supposedly out this month. Embedding is disallowed, so click here to stream the CDR in its entirety.

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Got an email from "female laptop musician" June Kim a.k.a. K I N. One of her songs, "Diplopia," hit me in a particularly pleasant way, burbling electronics underneath with some sparkly electronics on top. Check that track and maybe some day soon there till be more.

K I N - Diplopia

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I'm gona try and do more of these posts where I just put a few tracks I've been listening to together whether or not they're related or new or what not. I've been trying to figure out how I'm going to keep this blogspot going for quite some time and this might be the only way I can be productive about it. Anyway, enjoy and if you have any suggestions or whatever hit me in the comments or at iprnelson@gmail.com.

THE BOYS UPSTAIRS PRESENT...

2011-09-02T02:23:00.002-04:00

a bunch of woodsman to check out

and a song from their new record

Woodsman - In Circles

STAR KINSHIP

2011-09-01T02:00:00.001-04:00

~~~ THEAWAYTEAM - LOST CONTINENT ~~~ from AAVV on Vimeo.

The Away Team comes from Italy with a kraut/ambient/library music hybrid of purring synthesizers, shuffling drum machines and and enough mechanical squelches to keep it truly alien. The Away Team also goes by Polysick and one of their members is part of audiovisual label entity AAVV. The Away Team's next record Star Kinship drops in a couple weeks on rad Japanese label Moamoo, featuring video track "Lost Continent" among nine other gems, many of which drift deep into euphoric near-house territories.

FLEER ULTRA

2011-08-25T13:30:00.000-04:00

So Stephen Bruner a.k.a. Thundercat is this berserk bass player who is something like Flying Lotus's protege and he also plays in Suicidal Tendencies (I know, right) and he has played on the last couple Erykah Badu records and he's all set to release his Flying Lotus-produced debut solo record The Golden Age Of Apocalypse through Brainfeeder (where else?) on August 30. The length of the album is a gorgeous blend of bubbling jazz fusion and soulful space age electronics, an essential listen for anyone who needs to just chill out and get a grip. The record's most serious soul bleeds through in his George Duke cover "For Love I Come," melting pants off during the song's sensual opening with mischievous bass fingerings then really picking up in the second half where the drummer kicks in. I wish I could share my favorite tracks with you ("Fleer Ultra" and "It Really Doesn't Matter To You" are a couple), but all the label is offering is the Duke cover so enjoy that and then buy the record next week.

Thundercat - For Love I Come

SPECIALIST MORGEN J

2011-08-22T13:00:00.002-04:00

It's been quite a while since I've posted about Specialist Morgen J, but his self-titled cassette is about to drop on Triple You Tapes. SMJ is Pittsburgh resident Kenny Rakatine. He likes wrestling and Lil Wayne and King of the Hill. No really, two of his new songs are "DDT" and "Souphanousinphone." Specialist Morgen J is full of downtempo synthesizer jams, a deep string of Cloud Rap instrumentals and drugged up club tracks stitched together with extended swaths of spectral ambience. Simply put, SMJ creates dark sounds - subterranean night music for land-dwellers and day-jobbers, a soundtrack to feeling out of bounds and uneasy without steady ground to clamp onto. Paypal links will be up tomorrow.

Specialist Morgen J - No One Puts Babies In The Corner

Specialist Morgen J - Anjelica Huston

Specialist Morgen J - Drunk Chickenheads

INNERCITY / DIAMOND CATALOG

2011-08-19T16:00:00.000-04:00

NNA Tapes officially got into releasing vinyl records this past spring with the Magnified Palette 12" from Diamond Catalog, a.k.a. Hubbard, Oregon's Lala Conchita R. and Pat Maherr (a.k.a. DJ Yo Yo Dieting, a.k.a. Indignant Senility, etc). The duo craft a dark version of dance music blurred to obscurity behind chugging electronics and haunted whizzes of noise, crossing way more into danceable territories on this years record than on their last tape We Are 138BPM. NNA has offered up "Valveneration" for free download. Also check out the promotional video featuring an alternate version of album cut "Aries Vieweight."

Diamond Catalog - Valveneration

Now NNA is set to release their second slice of vinyl, Innercity's "Dada Les Apocalypses" / "The Pyramids Of Northeast Belgium" 7" on August 29. Innercity is Hans Dens from Belgium. He has releases on labels like Not Not Fun and Upstairs CDR, though I have heard none of his previous work. "The Pyramids Of Northeast Belgium" melds tinkling electronics, new age swells and distant house propulsion into a soothing yet alien take on mutant psychedelia.

Innercity - The Pyramids of Northeast Belgium

PEAR PRESSURE

2011-08-18T13:30:00.003-04:00

Cupp Cave has basically been killing it all year. Not that he's released a terribly large amount of tunes under the name, but everything I hear from the Belgian is gold. His Dice Pool EP, released by Vlek, boasted four Lone-leaning raver cuts. He masterfully remixed Holy Other's "Touch." He remixed fellow Belgian Dynooo's track "Espirit Sweat" for his recent Surf Kill full-length Vvideo Hair. He's got a pretty steady stream of Soundcloud uploads going, including dawnbreak jammer "Sun Tag," which he dropped "about 1 month ago."

Now Dynooo has returned the remix favor, taking on Cupp's "Pear Pressure," an outtake from Dice Pool that XLR8R posted back in May. The original is a solid weirdo rave tune, wouldn't be out of place on the EP. Dynooo's remix takes it to another level, upping the psychedelics and burying the track in partially confusing percussion jukes. Another Belgian Sagat also remixed one of Cupp's tracks, "Mind Bones," for Vlek Records as they celebrated Belgian National Day last month. Sagat has a 7" and an EP out on Vlek this fall.

CuppCave - Pear Pressure (Dynooo's Tropic Owl Version) by DYNOOO

Cupp Cave - Pear Pressure

Esprit Sweat (Cupp Cave Rmx) by Dynooo

Sun Tag by cuppcave

Cupp Cave's Mind Bones (Sagat remix) by vlek

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PREVIOUSLY:

Holy Other - Touch (Cupp Cave Remix)

Cupp Cave DICE POOL EP - A1 Thoughtograph by vlek

Cupp Cave - DICE POOL EP - B1 Hypersport by vlek

MY NAFFEW RANDY

2011-08-17T12:30:00.000-04:00

Only just heard of this Omar S. stuff from Altered Zones. Real solid house bits called High School Graffiti released as a free download by 'hip' car company Scion, possibly built for people like me who have an appreciation for cars and house music but don't know a terrible amount about cars or house music or their foundations/forefathers but also maybe it was just built as house music to listen to in cars and deep car heads and house music fans alike are fans of it as well. The world may never know.

Just kidding. Omar S. is a well-known Detroit house producer whose last full-length, 2005's Just Ask The Lonely, is a serious notch in the belt of psychedelic repetition music. He's also got a TON of other material on deck to check out, seemingly endless singles and EPs and vinyl and CDs from FXHE Records. Grab the Scion EP MP3s from DummyMag's handy Soundcloud embed down there and get psyched for his NEW full-length It Can Be Done, But Only I Can Do It, which appears to be available for purchase now. There's also a 12+ minute sampler featuring clips from all the album's cuts available from that last link and re-posted below.

Omar S. - It Can Be Done, But Only I Can Do It Sampler

Omar S - High School Graffiti by DummyMag

DAYS OF ARREST

2011-08-15T02:00:00.000-04:00

Last week Silk Flowers released their new EP Days of Arrest on Captured Tracks. Check out cold synth instrumental "This Stays" then buy the record.

Silk Flowers - This Stays

PERFECT SKIES

2011-08-12T15:30:00.001-04:00

Main Attrakionz - Perfect Skies (Produced by Friendzone) from friendzone on Vimeo.

New video for Main Attrakionz' "Perfect Skies" in which they hang out in luxurious foyers and libraries rapping straight into the camera or straight into something else while the camera focuses on them. Never realized how much gold was in their mouths. Not to be confused with "Perfect Sounds" from their fantastic debut studio album 808s & Dark Grapes II, out soon through Мишка. "Perfect Skies" does not appear on the second 808s, but it is available as a free two-track .zip file download from producers Friendzone. B-side "Chuch" is equally laid back, really nice stuff. Oh, and they're making their first ever NYC appearance August 26 at the New Museum so clear your early evening that day (7PM show, music has to be done by 9PM).

Main Attrakionz - Perfect Skies + Chuch

PESO

2011-08-11T02:30:00.000-04:00

New video for ASAP Rocky track "Peso."

Blunts, Dice, Olde English.

Download below.

ASAP Rocky - Peso

REMAND

2011-08-10T11:00:00.000-04:00

I posted about London's Vinh Ngan recently. His whole EP is now available for stream on Soundcloud. Aym G 4 Life is dark, paranoid and intensely minimal. Even without a translation of Ngan's dead-flat Cantonese (translations allegedly coming soon), the tracks sound threatening and bleak. My favorite track is the more house-minded "Remand," the final and most involved track on the EP. It's also the only track you can download.

Vinh Ngan - Aym G 4 Life EP by Vinh Ngan

DIES IN 55

2011-08-10T08:00:00.001-04:00

It's kind of really great when a band makes like two songs which are both really hot and then everyone likes them and then the band doesn't immediately vomit out a bunch of similar songs for some quickly thrashed together debut album on some subpar label that can't help them enough to actually be an awesome band but instead they let shit sift out, simmer for a couple years and find out exactly what they want to be doing. Sort of like Trailer Trash Tracys, who dropped some serious jams back in 2009 with "Strangling Good Guys" and "Candy Girl" and are now planning on releasing their debut album early next year on Double 6 / Domino. The first song to surface from the album is "Dies in 55," a fairly huge departure from those first couple Jesus and Mary Chain fuzz-gazers. This new one sounds like singer Suzanne Aztoria is being backed by spliff-high Beach Boy angels, which I guess ends up sounding a bit like Beach House but way better... which is weird cos none of the song reminds me of beaches at all. Anyway, check it out and sit tight for a bunch of months for the LP.

Trailer Trash Tracys - Dies in 55

MOON GLYPH 2011 SAMPLER

2011-08-08T03:00:00.000-04:00

So I'm listening to this Moon Glyph 2011 Sampler free download that the Minneapolis label sent over 1.5 weeks ago and I'm really enjoying the galactic synthesizer cuts, some serious space music perfect for 2:39 AM. What was most attractive to me about this comp was the thought of new FORMA material I hadn't heard ("FORMA 145A"), but the huge ten-minute Food Pyramid track "ATM" is rubbing me all nice in my weirdo ambient prog workout zone. Other highlights for me include an excerpt from a Lee Noble set on KXLU radio called "Tattooed Eyes In Jail" and a couple especially bizarre selections from Ghostband and Tender Meat. Download the whole thing HERE after you taste a few samples.

FORMA - FORMA 145A

Food Pyramid - ATM

Lee Noble - Tattooed Eyes In Jail (KXLU Excerpt)

Ghostband - Melusine

Tender Meat - Brenda's Closet

100% PURA ADRENALINA

2011-08-05T14:35:00.006-04:00

Branches has a new video for a new song, "Maior é o Tombo," available as a free download from his bandcamp and as a part of 20 Anos de Ruptura Explosiva, an all-Portuguese tribute compilation to 1991 Keanu Reeves + Patrick Swayze flick Point Break. The video was edited by Branches using material from Homer Groening's 1964 short film A Study in Wet. Branches' Triple You Tapes release Primeira Vez is on the horizon and we'll have more information on that soon. Download the whole comp and click the its sick Keanu/Swayze album art below to make it big.

BLACK SMOKE RISE

2011-08-05T00:00:00.002-04:00

Wooden Shjips - Black Smoke Rise from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

Radical new video for Wooden Shjips' "Black Smoke Rise" by Miko Revereza. Song is from their new record West, available now for preorder from Thrill Jockey. Also check out these two Revereza silent films, the second of which he seems to have uploaded just now.

New Ways to Watch T.V. from miko revereza on Vimeo.

Nam June Paik from miko revereza on Vimeo.

1:34 AM

2011-08-04T12:00:00.001-04:00

1:34 am from LAM Music on Vimeo.

Got a random email from Yuri Katowskey, who I guess is one half of Moscow production duo Vladik, who is responsible for the above song and video. It's unclear whether this is one piece or a sampler of their forthcoming release, but the song and video for "1:34 AM" float around a sound that's gotten my iPod all hot this year, some mutant combination of wobbled-up Hype Williams bass ambience and decades old found-video fashion. According to the label, a full version of this song/release will be available in late August so catch a taste of Vladik and sit tight for more.

Vladik — 1:34 AM by polskamorda

PO + SUN HING J

2011-07-28T13:30:00.003-04:00

So the homie howse turned me on to Vinh Ngan, a dude he knows through Ben Keating a.k.a. Palmistry who he knew from school who now lives in London (yeah, I was confused too). howse remixed Ngan's "Po" as Rain Mayne, which is available for free download on Soundcloud. The track pits Ngan's deadpan vocal against the Mayne's ominous metallic gun-clicking and bass rumble. Aside from that tune there's just one more, "Sun Hing J," a quieter and more restrained piece that's just as creepy, complete with autotuned words spoken in a language I do not understand. Hoping for more to come...

Po (Rain Mayne Mix) by Vinh Ngan

Sun Hing J by Vinh Ngan

THE CRIPPLED DOG BAND

2011-07-28T10:00:00.003-04:00

Psyched on Yoga Records' re-release of long-lost Bobb Trimble output under the name The Crippled Dog Band whose 500 original copies were allegedly trashed in an office park dumpster. I can't say I'm terribly well versed in fellow Bay Stater Trimble (yes, the official demonyn for Massachusetts is "Bay Stater"), but a couple albums' worth of his haunting takes on psychedelic rock and folk were re-released by Secretly Canadian a few years ago after like two decades of him gaining a "cult" following. This new record of Crippled Dog Band material is just as psychedelic but more pop oriented, more heavy and more succinct according to a couple live videos of the band performing in Massachusetts in 1983. Yoga has now released "Live Wire," a killer track from the album that is so fun it shows through that the band members were 15 years old on average. Talkin' bout a searing slice of rock and roll with a shout-along chorus and samples of trains. Grab the MP3 and check those videos below, then buy the album from Yoga in a slew of formats -- vinyl record, cassette tape, compact disc AND digital download.

Bobb Trimble & The Crippled Dog Band - Live Wire

COST YOU SO MUCH

2011-07-26T16:00:00.002-04:00

Coyote Clean Up cools off the sweltering Summer sex-slap of LA Vampires Goes Ital's "Streetwise" with his Poor Lil' Rich Dub, freezing time by stretching it out in a melted mind repetition way. Check the remix (which you can't embed for some reason) then download the original below then watch the video again then stream the whole thing then buy the record from Not Not Fun.

LA Vampires Goes Ital - Streetwise

LA Vampires Goes Ital - Streetwise from Not Not Fun on Vimeo.

LA Vampires Goes Ital: Streetwise by alteredzones

MANGE BLIGHT 07.06.11 PART 3

2011-07-26T15:00:00.001-04:00

I've been playing 40 minutes or so of music every Wednesday nite from 10PM-Midnite on WMUA with my buds Mange Blight a.k.a. DJ Double Dads a.k.a. Alex "Zimbabwe" Hornbeck and Gnarfield. Download/stream my set from a few weeks ago then make sure to tune in tomorrow nite at 10PM for the show, streaming from wmua.org/listen -- I'm on around 11:20.

Mange Blight 07.06.11 Part 3

TRACKLIST

Lamburg Tony - Vaertshussport
Death Grips - Guillotine
Eric Copeland - Krankendudel
Diamond Catalog - Valveneration
Forma - 237
Cupp Cave - Thoughtograph
Holy Other - Touch (Matthewdavid Remix)
Hype Williams - Warlord II (Odyssey)
Aguirre - Layphi
Edibles - Mind Fry

FBC5 EXTENSION

2011-07-25T13:30:00.002-04:00

I know, I KNOW. I said Friendship Bracelet Club Volume 5 would be available for preorder for TWO WEEKS ONLY before I took down the links. HOWEVER in that time some crazy things have happened and a couple things have changed.

As many of you know, there was a recent burglarizing and ransacking and general invasion plus destruction of amazing Ridgewood, Queens do-it-yourself live music venue The Silent Barn. In my time living in Brooklyn this was probably my favorite place to see music, hang out with cats, check the comics library, see bands play in front of a kitchen sink, conversate in the dark basement, chug down huge outside beers and be with friends. I've probably been there about a dozen times but after my first trip it was evident how special the space was and how much history and future it had. For these reasons, I really felt compelled to make a contribution to Silent Barn's Kickstarter campaign to get the space and all its residents back on their feet.

Unfortunately I have very little money so I can't give from my pocket, but what I can and will do is keep the FBC5 preorder open for JUST ONE MORE WEEK with 50% of all gross revenue from this week going to The Silent Barn (a.k.a. if you buy a tape for $5, I will donate $2.50 to the Silent Barn Kickstarter). If you were thinking about it before and let your chance pass you by, please do reconsider and help out a fantastic live music space while treating yourself to a tape of killer new tunes. Stream the comp from bandcamp (embedded below) then download the comp FOR FREE then check the different giving levels and make a contribution not only to the production of the FBC5 physical product but to The Silent Barn as well. Thanks!

Friendship Bracelet Club Volume 5 by Friendship Bracelet Club

FREE DOWNLOAD

1. Tape Only -- $5.00
(pre-order for the pro-dubbed cassette, will ship within one month) *Unlimited*
2. Tape + Poster -- $6.66 *Limited 20*
(cassette + large glossy professional print of above cover art -- image by Gnarfield)
3. Tape + Personalized Mix CD -- $7.00 *Limited 20*
(cassette + one of a kind mix CD for you made by me with handsome handmade packaging)
4. Tape + Photos -- $8.08 *Very Limited*
(cassette + set of 5 unpublished disposable camera film photos from the past Fall + Winter)
5. Tape + T-Shirt -- $14.92 *Limited 8*
(Gnarfield-designed "I Bleed Weed" t-shirt printed by Radical Fortress, see image below)
6. EVERYTHING AMERICA PACKAGE DEAL -- $17.76
(One of Everything -- Tape + Mix CD + Poster + Photos + T-Shirt)
7. For bulk orders or to choose your own combo, email iprnelson at gmail.com.

GIRL ABS

2011-07-21T03:00:00.000-04:00

I first got down to business listening to Dynooo after one Dem Hunger let me know he had remixed Dynooo's track "Boothbay" from the ridiculously named free bandcamp download album I Feel Like Playing Sim City Straight From The Floppy And Run A Tornado All Over My Perfectly Functioning Town After I Put The Fire Department Way Too Far So They Wont Be Able To Help My Sim City People‏. Fastforward a few weeks and the Belgian producer's new Surf Kill record Vvideo Hair is available for bandcamp stream and €7 download with vinyl due in mid August. The new record is a huge step forward for Dynooo, turning the strewn about 25-to-75-second bits and pieces of grooved out electronics on Sim City into full-fledged jams. The new record is way more dance-oriented, showing off his affinity for bangers on pounding opener "Tropical Thighs." Dude gets a bit darker on "Northwest Noir" before diving into raver territory with "Huge Apple," which he offers for free download. Fellow Belgian Cupp Cave makes an appearance this time around, jacking up the perspiration factor with his remix of "Espirit Sweat." Might I also mention this dude's knack for song titles. From "Bj Hair" to "Girl Abs" dude straight kills it.

Dynooo - Huge Apple

Tropical Thighs by Dynooo

Northwest Noir by Dynooo

Esprit Sweat (Cupp Cave Rmx) by Dynooo

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Boothbay (WANDA GROUP SINK INTO MY LOVE (ETERNAL HORSESHIT) VERSION) by Dynooo

Gamecube (SAGAT REMIX) by Dynooo

TRUST YOUR BLOOD

2011-07-20T12:00:00.000-04:00

Last nite I glimpsed a link to No Pain In Pop's Soundcloud where a C Powers remix of Forest Swords' "Trust Your Blood" was staring at me from the top of the page. This is good news for FBUS cos aside from being straight up obsessed with Mr. Powers' tunes for quite some time now, C Powers remixes always hit the spot. The original comes from Forest Swords' Fjree Feather EP, which was recently re-released by NPIP on still-available 12" white vinyl with all money raised going towards tsunami relief in Japan (which would have been a lot more attractive before WWC2011 just saying). Here's a brief history of all of the C Powers remixes I've ever heard in original artist's name alphabetical order:

Ariel Pink - Round And Round (C Powers Remix)

Bathcrones - Damselfly (C Powers Remix)

D/R/U/G/S - Love/Lust (C Powers Remix)

Forest Swords - Trust Your Blood (C Powers Remix)

How To Dress Well - Take It (C Powers Remix)

Twins - What's Wrong With Me (C Powers Remix):

WIGFLEX

2011-07-19T13:30:00.001-04:00

Fact Magazine posted a preview of the new one-sided Lone single on Wigflex. It is called "All Those Weird Things" and the 76 second clip offered up by the label sounds sick, some warped-up psychedelic techno to get you rolling without any pills at all.

Lone "All those weird things" (clip) by Wigflex

This was the first time I heard of Nottingham label Wigflex. The Lone single will be their fifth release, following last year's HZA EP by Hizatron a.k.a. Joshua Harvey, also from Nottingham. The entire EP is streaming from Soundcloud and I'm really digging it in the same way as I dig the newer Lone material -- psychedelic and relentless pulsed out techno that hits me in a weird way cos I'm not too well-versed in techno in general but I know I like this. Anyway, here's my favorite track from that EP followed by one newer beat from his Soundcloud.

Hizatron "Klondyke" by Wigflex

Oblong by Hizatron

REUNITED

2011-07-18T09:00:00.001-04:00

Reunited from Leaving Records on Vimeo.

On July 26 Leaving Records will release SWEDISH FISH, a split cassette of ambient music from Odd Nosdam (co-founder Anticon Records) and LR guru Matthewdavid. Most of the A-side is "Swedish Tapes," a live recording of Odd Nosdam opening for Fennesz at San Francisco's Swedish-American Hall. The B-side is Matthewdavid's, featuring four extended droners including "Reunited," a wispy piece of mulched tape which has received Miko Revereza's psychedelic analog visual treatment. This time Revereza pairs the sounds with a rotating wheel of rainbow colors that'll make you start seeing things if you stare long enough. As with most all of Revereza's work we see him manipulating raw film, but this time he chose to forge the edit in real time along with the music, bringing the audio and the visual closer in a couple ways. For one, according to Revereza, Matthewdavid edits some of his dronier material in real time, analogous to how the visuals were created. Miko goes a step further, likening the open-ended nature of his abstract video feedback to ambient music in general. "Just like ambient music [the video] is not the kind of thing to make one feel happy or sad or to give an opinion," which allows viewers "to experience the film as an individual." Grab a tape next week from Leaving Records. In the meantime check a download of "Reunited" below.

Matthewdavid - Reunited

DIAMOND OF GOD

2011-07-15T11:00:00.001-04:00

The Main Attrakionz crew will continue their 2011 collections of songs per month release streak in August with 808s & Dark Grapes II, presented by Мишка (you know, that clothes-smith with the eyeball). A couple weeks back we were treated to a stream of the album's first single, "Vegetables," premiered by The Fader. The Noa Boa produced cut makes use of some goofy samples of a woman saying "vegetables," "broccoli" and "lettuce" on the hook while Squadda B and Mondre go in about avocados, cabbages and sandwich bags, which are presumably stuffed with dark green weed buds. Мишка has now allowed us to premier "Diamond of God," the second single from the new mixtape, this time produced by Squadda himself. Here we find the duo nestled into their signature patience flow, taking their time while preaching peace and positive living.

Main Attrakionz - "Diamond of God" From 808s & Dark Grapes II by Мишка Bloglin

Main Attrakionz - "Vegetables" From 808s & Dark Grapes II by Мишка Bloglin

Oh, what's that? I missed their July mixtape on their monthly streak? No I didn't -- Mondre's MondreHott dropped recently and has been killing it including production spots from Beautiful Lou and Squadda B. For the most part, this one is way more upbeat than stuff like "Diamond of God," more party vibes, more bangers. I have two distinct favorites from MondreHott as of now, "Poor Ppl Smiles" (which is actually a LoLo C-4 track featuring Mondre) and "Everything." The former is a superb Summer jammer: that little acoustic guitar lick, a chipmunk-tuned hook and those tropical shakes and rattles really lay this one back, perfect for car stereo blasters and porched-out evening chillers. "Everything," produced by Silky Johnson, is more psychedelic, really playing into Main Attrakionz' drugged up side. A thick slab of stuttered samples and fat-slapping drums somehow give way to Mondre's flow, a groaned string of comfort-minded life raps. Stream the whole thing from bandcamp then get all 20 tracks for just $5.

LoLo C-4 ft M.A.N - poor ppl smiles by Green Ova Undergrounds

MondreHott - Everything prod. Silky Johnson by Green Ova Undergrounds

DRESSED IN FASHION

2011-07-14T10:00:00.001-04:00

MAGIC TOUCH - CLUBHOUSE teaser from 100% Silk on Vimeo.

Not Not Fun imprint 100% Silk is about to do it again with I Can Feel The Heat, a new 12" record from Magic Touch a.k.a. Damon Palermo from Mi Ami and Jonas Reinhardt, whose NNF record from this year Music For The Tactile Dome kills it on the spaced-out, Tangerine synthesizer tip. On this project Palermo take his turn embodying the diva spirit, pumping some serious piano-stabbed house nods on "Clubhouse" which features Miracles Club's Honey Owens. The teaser video reveals the project's already obvious influences -- aerobic power ballet, shirtless black men and neon silhouettes. Fading this right in between Cupp Cave's Dice Pool EP and the new Lone? You've convinced me to attend your party.

FRIENDSHIP BRACELET CLUB VOLUME 5

2011-07-12T11:00:00.004-04:00

So we meet again, Friendship Bracelet Club. Volume 5 comes about 14 months after the last edition, taking a break over the past year or so to give me some time to try to work on Triple You Tapes. However, The Club is a lot of fun so hopefully it'll become a regular feature again.

This time in addition to the free digital download we've got a few different giving levels for physical objects associated with the compilation, taking on a Kickstarter-like form. All this stuff is available now as a pre-order. This time we are gauging how many copies to make STRICTLY ACCORDING TO what we do for pre-orders, so we offer a paypal pre-order button available for TWO WEEKS ONLY, then it will be down and you won't ever be able to order the compilation in physical format. Ever again. All prices appear in United States Dollars and include shipping.

Details on Preferred Packaging Options:

1. Tape Only -- $5.00
(pre-order for the pro-dubbed cassette, will ship within one month) *Unlimited*
2. Tape + Poster -- $6.66 *Limited 20*
(cassette + large glossy professional print of above cover art -- image by Gnarfield)
3. Tape + Personalized Mix CD -- $7.00 *Limited 20*
(cassette + one of a kind mix CD for you made by me with handsome handmade packaging)
4. Tape + Photos -- $8.08 *Very Limited*
(cassette + set of 5 unpublished disposable camera film photos from the past Fall + Winter)
5. Tape + T-Shirt -- $14.92 *Limited 8*
(Gnarfield-designed "I Bleed Weed" t-shirt printed by Radical Fortress, see image below)
6. EVERYTHING AMERICA PACKAGE DEAL -- $17.76
(One of Everything -- Tape + Mix CD + Poster + Photos + T-Shirt)
7. For bulk orders or to choose your own combo, email iprnelson at gmail.com.

Friendship Bracelet Club Volume 5 by Friendship Bracelet Club

Friendship Bracelet Club Volume 5

FREE DOWNLOAD

1. Free Spirit - O'Dela. Super chilled out sunrise guitar jammer from McGregor (Chocolate Bobka + The Curatorial Club) + Jonah (Real Estate, Family Portrait). Their first material on any sort of release, which I am beyond psyched to present.

2. Galapagos - Purrre. Young dude Jacob McNaughton from Arizona. Got this lil skittered electronica going on, first heard him on his Sounds Vol. 1 EP. Moving to Austin for school soon, hopefully studies don't conflict with busting out more tunes.

3. Main Attrakionz - * * * * *

4. Horse Bladder - Chased. Current Northampton, MA resident/poet/musician Elaine Kahn's Horse Bladder project teeters between pristine ambience and jarring low fidelity noise. She throws a monthly poetry reading/live music show at Flying Object in Hadley, MA. Her upcoming LP on Ecstatic Peace (No I'll Not) follows last year's Night People cassette (Nicole).

5. The Cyclist - Feel Beauty. Andrew Morisson is from Derry, Ireland. He crafts "tape throb" as The Cyclist, released his tape Bending Brass on Crash Symbols a few months ago and will drop new tunes on Leaving Records in the near future.

6. Howse - Speak Good. Howse gets down on jukey, blipped-up riddims, ominous samples and generally mind-boggling sonic environments. His first physical release is forthcoming on Astro Nautico.

7. Featureless Ghost - Take It Out (Happy New Year Remix). Eleanor Logan makes tunes as Happy New Year. She's from Australia. She lives in Brooklyn now. Featureless Ghost is Matt Weiner and Elise Tippins from Atlanta. Eleanor took the danced-blasted "Take It Out" original, flipped it, reversed it, and ended up with a real eerie jam. HNY has a 7" out soon and its release party is August 3 at Glasslands in Brooklyn.

8. Rangers - Bus To Chalco. This is Rangers' second time on a Friendship Bracelet Club comp. I'm very down with this outtake from his forthcoming double LP on Not Not Fun, a serious slow-burned open road jam that'll take you so far beyond the horizon you won't know how to get back.

9. Feast of Violet - Hinterland. Feast of Violet is Allen Taylor from Atlanta. He used to play in the band Roman Photos before they disbanded earlier this year. "Hinterland" is a tasty ambient treat for all you nature boys out there.

10. Shur - Silver Lightning. Shur is Matt Weiner (Twins, Featureless Ghost) + Chris Powers (C Powers, Mane Mane) + Charley Lanning (CH-Rom, Wo). Shur was Shrur but now they're Shur and they have a new album out sometime hopefully this year under the new name. Triple You Tapes released the Shrur album 4Shrur earlier this year on cassette, which was generally a lot weirder than this house-y cut.

11. La Big Vic - Musica Pt. 2. A companion piece to La Big Vic's beloved live staple "Musica" but this time we're revved into uptempo Kraut zones and it's sick. Their LP Actually is out now on Underwater Peoples.

12. Tonstartssbandht - Hymn-Eola (Acapella). This is the acapella version of Edwin White's "Hymn-Eola" from their recent Russian tour tape Hymn. Not an extreme distancing from the original but real cool to see what Edwin can do with the vocal effect alone.

*Main Attrakionz track will appear on the physical version only*

SHUT IN

2011-07-08T14:00:00.000-04:00

Chief Trud sent me over his Cruise Forever EP, five slow-burning house cuts fresh off the hydro-steam conveyor belt and into your ear. Chief Trud is the recording project of Austin Cesear from San Francisco. Dude's tracks are long, between 7.5 and 9.5 minutes in length, giving the tunes a draining, raved-out quality. It takes "Shut In," the longest track, nearly 2.5 minutes to kick into gear then works that gear out for a grueling seven minutes til the close. My favorite track is probably "The Beast," the most frantic and pounding cut. Check em out then check the whole EP and hope there's more where that came from.

Chief Trud - Shut In

Chief Trud - The Beast

SOUR PATCH POWDER IN MY HOURGLASS

2011-07-07T08:00:00.002-04:00

Somewhere around the same week I first peeped ASAP Rocky, Noz posted some shit by Frankenstein on Tumblin Erb, some clever flows from Los Angeles by one Shakir Givens bundled up into this Rappin' Ass Nigga mixtape. The whole length is mixed up between Frankenstein raps and his shitty alter-ego mitchgonenorth, who is jokingly referred to as the superior rapper which is generally funny but his raps are so disjointed (and rarely over a beat) that I skip em. Frank himself goes in with his enthused mid-to-up-tempo flow, dropping deep NBA references (Rod Strickland "number one with a Bullet"), deep Cartoon Network references (Ed, Edd & Eddy) and generally fucking with content you'd expect a teenager to be stoked on. Oh right, and he's 17 years old. And no, the Odd Future talking point for young rappers nowadays ain't rare so Frankenstein gets that out of the way early at the end of his track "20/20," rambling on some "don't nobody want another Tyler the Creator."

Unfortunately I admit inability to name the instrumentals or know if Frankenstein himself produced any of em, but Frank is mostly seen on half-laid-back, lower fidelity beats stringing together abstract lines more easily materialized and digested over a blunt or two. This is most effective on "Cul de Sac," whose slaps at the same time remind me of "Ice Cream Paint Job" and a more grizzly Pill beat. Dude goes hard on the opener, calling out stalled-out artists like "this is where it ends, welcome to the cul de sac // you say you got drive but nothin to show for that" right before dropping one of my favorite of his one-liners -- "fuck a masseuse, I don't hold back." Check that one and a couple more choice cuts from Rappin Ass Nigga then DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE THING.

Frankenstein - Cul de Sac

Frankenstein - June 21st

Frankenstein - Impala '61

BLOOD CREEPIN

2011-07-06T09:58:00.008-04:00

I know I'm about 2.5 months late on Death Grips but fuck it cos their free Exmilitary mixtape is sick. Here's basics: People know about Death Grips because Zach Hill is a member, birthing the group in his Sacramento neighborhood with friends and neighbors. They released a bunch of brutal hip hop noise tracks and grainy videos leading up to the mixtape, which has been blowing my mind the past few days. The first bit I saw/heard was the video for "Guillotine," an eerie, snowed-up clip featuring one bearded member going off in the passenger seat. Other videos exists and, while I can't watch them cos my computer's been crapping out lately, you should check em out below along with a few downloads of my favorite tracks of theirs. Oh, and like I said the mixtape is FREE so download that shit.

Death Grips - Guillotine

Death Grips (ft. Mexican Girl) - Lord of the Game

Death Grips - Takyon (Death Yon)

WACO TACO COMBO

2011-06-30T14:00:00.000-04:00

Been jamming Eric Copeland's new record Waco Taco Combo pretty hard over the past week or so after catching word over at Altered Zones that it just dropped on Denmark's Escho Records. As many of you know, Eric Copeland records and performs solo under his own name in addition to recording and performing with supreme noise staple Black Dice. I've never gotten too deep into Copeland's records but I was lucky enough to experience one of his live sets at Market Hotel a couple CMJs ago and it completely blew everything else I saw that week out of the water.

In his AZ "Zoned In" piece, Michael C. Powell refers to Black Dice as "the noise band for people who like pop music" while flipping the descriptor on Copeland, tagging his sound as "pop music for the noise kids." I generally agree with this statement, though I'd go further and say I get a serious sense of junked funk and obliterated dance cuts from the Escho release. The label has been kind enough to let us share a free download of mid-album bangpiece "Krankendudel," one of the more dancey tracks of the bunch. I'm talking a blown out and molassessed (my new word -- don't fuck wit me) club jam that completely folds in on itself a bit past the halfway mark only to ooze back into a natty (notty) groove just seconds later. Want to weed out the true vibers at your next dancefloor function? Drop the needle on this guy.

Eric Copeland - Krankendudel

CHANDELIER

2011-06-24T13:00:00.002-04:00

So down with this new Main Attrakionz video by AHYVE. "Swaggin' Hard" is probably my favorite track from Chandelier, which had a bandcamp download that was free AS USUAL but isn't anymore. Chandelier is only nine tracks short and all produced by L.W.H. & Julian Wass. I've had a hard time keeping up with these guys as of late. So much shit to sample ie: Rappers Ain't Shit Without a Producer. I'm not kidding... I believe that's averaging over one mixtape per month this year. Check the video above and stream another one of my favorites from the mixtape below.

Can't Take This From Us (produced by L.W.H. & Julian Wass) by Green Ova Undergrounds

(video via FADER)

ETHIOPIAN DREAMS

2011-06-23T14:00:00.002-04:00

This past March I posted about Cankun, the looped-up psychedelic outfit of Archers By The Sea's Vincent Caylet. I mentioned his Not Not Fun tape Jaguar Dance and likened it to some of the earlier Ducktails material and older Rangers tapes like Low Cut Fades. Cankun's new disc on Hands in the Dark Records, Ethiopian Dreams, comes off as yet another take on those couple-few-years-old Not Not Fun releases, this time momentarily channeling Beach Head-y Sun Araw on "Your Fingers the Snakes" and a decidedly less Amazonian High Wolf on songs like "Laser Dance" and most of "Let's Say Quiet." The video for "Plans For the Sun" puts it pretty simply: this is music for leisure, miniature soundtracks made to take you far away on a massive jet plane to some sparkling coast with white sand and coconut cocktails and all that. Totally cheesy but pretty relaxing, nice for the past two whole days of fucking rain. Check a download of "Your Fingers the Snakes" below as well as the clip by Moduli TV then grab yourself a copy.

Cankun - Your Fingers the Snakes

CANKUN - Plans For The Sun from Moduli TV on Vimeo.

DEEP PURPLE

2011-06-22T11:30:00.001-04:00

Last month I downloaded a Mediafire of all of ASAP Rocky's material to that point called Deep Purple from Tumblin Erb. Dude raps over "Bittersweet Symphony" and that's okay. He's from Harlem and he talks about fucking different girls all around the world on "Been Around The World." He also goes in on some syrupy dumb shit on the screwed version. Another track, "Uptown," features a sample of Lil Wayne talking about how uptown he is from the Drake song "Uptown" with Bun B + Wayne from the So Far Gone mixtape, gettin way bounced-up unlike the slow-rollin original. Since then I've heard one more song without trying very hard, "Wassup" produced by Clams Casino. Peep on his best shit below then download Deep Purple.

ASAP Rocky - Been Around The World

ASAP Rocky ft. TY Nast, Two Twelve Mel - Uptown

ASAP Rocky - Wassup (produced by Clams Casino)

ALSO:

Can we talk about how nobody smokes weed even once in the video for "Get High" ?