Panda Riot
Panda Riot play NYC this Thursday at Lit Lounge.
Daniel Klag
Opening up in support of his new release, Tetraedr, on Self Storage Recordings is Daniel Klag. Tetraedr is three part piece recalling the more ambient side of Krautrock and of Pygamlion era Slowdive. It's limited to 100 hand made and numbered CDs. You can listen (and, if you're so inclined, buy it) here.
Aarktica - I Am (The Ice)
Soundpool - Mirrors In Your Eyes
Insect Guide - Dark Days and Nights
Picnic - Who Do You Love?
Luga (featuring Winterlight) - Waved Goodbye
These guys are fantastic. You need to check them out....
from their myspace...
Hailing from Odense in Denmark, Dorias Baracca are almost too young to be making the intense, yet beautiful shoegazing music that they do.
Following their debut London shows back in October, the Hands At Melting Point EP is their debut release, produced by Jonas Munk (Manual).
On stage they are a blisteringly loud maelstrom of swirling feedback and melodic chaos that rivals other self-confessed noisemasters like A Place To Bury Strangers.
“Silence” has had plays so far on Gideon Coe (BBC6 Music) and John Kennedy (XFM) as well as an evening playlist on NME Radio.
And a Video for the track "The Only Touch", made by Progress Film Company, has been released.
Dorias Baracca - The Only Touch from The Progress Film Company on Vimeo.
Shave Your Head - Viola Peacock
You Win Hearts - Elika
Dark Days And Nights - Insect Guide
But It's So - Soundpool
Where Is The Truth - Mark Van Hoen
Try Me, Mental-A - Jatun
Shareware - Picnic
Blue Lily - The Depreciation Guile
As Link - Seefeel
Issa - Manual
Download it here...
Daniel Klag is an ambient musician residing in NYC. This mix was previously broadcast live somewhere on the internet. He has kindly given it to us to repost here. Daniel's next release, Tetraedr (of which you can hear two parts here), will be released on Self Storage Recordings very soon...details to follow....
tracklist:
00:00
Daniel Klag
"Tetraedr (Part III)"
03:15
Ashra
"Deep Distance"
08:40
Iannis Xenakis
"Concret PH"
10:15
Fred Frith
"Not Forgotten"
11:43
David Bowie
"Moss Garden"
16:23
Harmonia
"Ahoi!"
21:04
The Durutti Column
"Sketch for Winter"
23:17
Raymond Scott
"Cyclic Bit"
24:05
Tangerine Dream
"Sequent C'"
26:00
Brian Eno & David Byrne
"Solo Guitar with Tin Foil"
28:44
Loren Connors
"Earth"
31:55
Brian Eno
"Lizard Point"
34:54
Gas
"Pop 2"
41:40
Roy Montgomery
"Clear Night, Port Hills"
44:40
Fennesz
"Vacuum"
47:25
Daniel Klag
"Tetraedr (Part I)
download it here
a Mix by Remarkably Spry a.k.a Christo Buffam. Christo also plays guitar with The Vandelles and Dead Leaf Echo. Remarkably Spry recently remixed a song by Screen Vinyl Image which is due to be released on their upcoming 12".
Bark Psychosis - From What Is Said To When It's Read
Ringo Deathstarr - Your Town
Swans - Blood Promise
Sparklehorse & Fennesz - If My Heart
Lusine - Drip (Apparat Remix)
M83 - Run into Flowers (Jackson remix)
Washed Out - Track 7
Kiln - Isthmus Krest
Health - Die Slow (Pink Stallone Remix)
93 Million Miles from the Sun - Step in the High
Dykehouse - When You Come
the December Sound - Truth Hurts
Medicine - Something Goes Wrong
LSD and the Search for God - Starshine
Mountains - Sheets Two
The Morning After Girls - Theres a Taking
download it here
Mark Van Hoen - Where Is The Truth
1. Put My Trust In You
2. Where is the Truth
3. Yourself
4. She's Selda
5. 1979
6. Your Voice
7. I Need Silence
8. Render the Voice
9. Beautiful
10. Photophone Call
11. Soyuz A
Out 4/27/2010
Originally due out in February its been pushed back until late April. No matter, it's worth the wait as this album is absolutely superb. But you don't have take my word for it...
"you can hear elements of his more industrial work in there, but also stuff that links back to "morning light" as well as "playing with time" - great stuff!" - Ulrich Schnauss
The heavily anticipated sophomore ablum by Jatun, Blanket Of Ash, is available today via Other Electrcities
you can preview some tracks here and here
There will also be an invite only release party on March 12th...
"Screen Washed"
A NYC Neo-Shoegaze Video Debut Night
Video Debuts by Serena Maneesh, Panda Riot, Screen Vinyl Image, The Sky Drops, Highspire, Sounpool, If When and Elika and more to be announced!
With Special Electronic/Laptop Performances from Dead Leaf Echo and Resplendor
Spectacular Cocktails to "Blur" your senses served free with $6 admission
Early Show!
Free Drinks!
All ages, 21 and over to drink
Saturday, March 13th, 7-10pm
Vaudville Park
26 Bushwick ave at Devoe, L train to Graham ave
(www.vaudvillepark.com)
An MP3 Mix by Jon DeRosa of Aarktica
Half String - Hue.mp3
Alisons Halo - Chalkboard James.mp3
Secret Shine - Loveblind.mp3
Boyracer - Buffalo.mp3
Hood - Field Is Cut.mp3
Azusa Plane - Eric Gaffeny.mp3
Blueshift Signal - Halo.mp3
Idaho - Skyscrape.mp3
Remora - Rivin.mp3
Attrition - Into The Waves.mp3
Lycia - Nine Hours Later.mp3
Where I Wake Warm - Neither Sleeping Neither Waking.mp3
Ultracherry Violet - Falling In Love.mp3
Love Spirals Downward - Mediterranea.mp3
Loveliescrushing - I Want You.mp3
The Chills - Submarine Bells.mp3
or you can grab the whole thing here
The latest Aarktica releases, In Sea and In Sea Remixes, are out now on Silber Records
Pretty excited for this judging by the 2 tracks I've heard so far.... will have some steaming clips for you soon....
Dead Mellotron released their second album, simply titled, Dead Mellotron on February 22nd. If you at all familiar with this blog then you know i love this band. The new record is just as good as the first and you'll be doing yourself a favor if you go to his myspace and download the whole thing for free. don't wait, go there now
Thrushes release there 2nd full length, Night Falls, March 9th. They're playing at the Metro Gallery in Baltimore on March 5th to celebrate with Screen Vinyl Image, Jack Chick, and The Sugarplums.
you can listen thier cover of the Mazzy Star classic, Fade Into You, here...
I had planned to write about a bunch of new records I'd heard over the past couple days. All that has taken a back seat now that I've learned of the untimely death of Larry Cassidy. Although no official cause has been given I'm assuming it was of natural causes, though he wasn't that old, I'm guessing mid-50's.
Section 25 had regrouped in 2001 but the death of Larry's wife in 2004 delayed new material until 2007. According to Section 25.com they were about 75% finished their 3rd record since reforming.
My introduction to S25 came in 1992 as a fledgling Factory Records obsessive. We were at an indie record store (can remember the name but I'm sure it's long gone) in Lancaster, PA. They had a copy of Always Now and Key Of Dreams. I had read somewhere perhaps in the sleeve notes(both copies were open and loaded, like all LTM releases, with information. I ended up getting The Key Of Dreams pretty much thanks to this quote from Larry...
"It's just possible that these songs will give comfort to someone who's having a bad time. Whether or not it's got to do with drugs we don't know. We just see that in them."
I was 17, starting to smoke weed, and "depressed", that line spoke volumes to me.
It's a fucking weird record but absolutely brilliant and certainly not of it's time. It truly does make more sense today than it did when it was released but it's still fucked up. I remember it being winter, or at least cold and it fit the mood. I loved it, and read the liner notes over and over and over. My friend Ryan hated it, well hate might be too strong of a word but it wouldn't be his first choice if someone said let's listen to S25. He really wanted From The Hip, which we found some months later, but that's another story...
LTM has reissued the entire catalog (twice) along with the excellent Live in America from 1982 and an outtakes and live called Deus Ex Machina which collected some studio demos and live stuff from 83 to 85 including the never officially released Loving No One which was intended to be on the follow up to From The Hip until the band started to fall apart. Their potential around this time was incredible, after listening to the live version of Sweet Forgiveness(from said album) which, in my opinion is pretty bland on the Love And Hate album. The label has also released their new albums and several DVDs of new and old material.
It's a bummer of a day... but if there is something after, Larry is a somewhere with Ian, Tony, Rob, and Martin and I bet they're having a blast...
Section 25 bio
Buy their records
John Robb's Obituary
a short mix for all the lovely lovers and lovelesses. Happy Valentines Day!
Oh My Heart - James
No One In The World - Locust
I Believe In You - Talk Talk
Late Night In A Snowy Field - Andy Durutti
Hazey Jane I - Nick Drake
Waiting - The Durutti Column
get it here
Received a pleasant surprise in the mail today and I must say this works really well with the so called blizzard we're having. I highly recommend picking up a copy of this as soon as possible. I Win Hearts is classic Elika and will soon be your new favorite song, but then again Death & Avalanches is sick and so is...shit, the whole thing is great, who am i kidding...
details below. limited to 111 copies so get one soon...
"There Was No Summer" EP available through Chat Blanc Records.
$9 US/Canada; $11 worldwide
Contact: chatblancrecords@yahoo.com to order!
Tracklisting:
01-Already Know
02-Analog Alpha
03-Death & Avalanches
04-You Win Hearts
05-Catalan
Autorotation has set up a blog to benefit the people of Haiti. All proceeds(except a small portion for shipping) go to assist the people of Haiti.
Contiributing aritists are
Colour Kane
Autorotation
Self Storage Recordings
Soundpool
Autumn Thieves (whose EP has not been available for several years and is for sale exclusively for the cause)
Le Ren
please help out if you can and pass it along...
CD 2 Haiti
Join the Facebook group too
The Abyssal Suite is Ryan Freeman. He's also a member of Luxa.
1. Windmill Wedding - Air France
2. As Far As You Can - Alpha
3. The Boxer (DFA Version) - The Chemical Brothers
4. Life Support - Fluke
5. Boca Raton - Fila Brazillia
6. Lochness - LFO
7. '84 Pontiac Dream - Boards of Canada
8. Best Mamgu Ever - Underworld
9. Dodecatheon - Kiln
10. Woman of the Sea - Blue Six
11. Cloud People - Sweetback
get it here
One of my faves, The Offering, are apparently getting back together. A new Facebook page and a note that reads "A band that once was and will soon be again."
very glad to hear it....
The Offering are signed to Safranin Sound, which is run by Screen Vinyl Image.
Nadja is a 1994 film by Micheal Almereyda. It was shot mostly in the NYC's East Village. While it's a bit pretentious it's got some really great perfomances from two Hal Hartley regulars, Martin Donovan and Elina Lowensohn, and a wacky Peter Fonda as Van Helsing.
The soundtrack is dope too, boasting tunes from My Bloody Valentine, The Verve and Portishead. The score was performed by Simon Fisher Turner and is up there as one of my favorite records. I believe the album is still in print and is well worth seeking out. You can hear one of the tracks on the latest Loveless/Seamless mix. Pretty sure this is where Fleeting Joys got there name too...
I've must have seen this movie a million times. It was one of those movies, along with Woody Allen films and Julian Schnabel's Basquiat that i used to watch before i moved to NYC. As if New York is really like any of them...but hey, I was young and idealist...regardless, it can still be a quite a romantic town when you need it to be.... just don't ride the subway... ;-)
Usually i don't put these out so close together but i've been feeling rather inspired lately...despite the fact that i'm hung over like a mother today....but sometimes things just need to be said....
The Devil You Know - Jesus Jones
Kangaroo Court - Adorable
The Trees - Pulp
About 3Am(Overseer Ping Pong Remix) Dark Star
Red Shoes - The Durutti Column
Holidays To Wales - July Skies
Full Speed Nowhere - The Invisible Kid
High Expectations - Stereolab
Into Sun and Dark - Fleeting Joys
Love, Death, Avoid it - Simon Fisher Turner
get it here and don't roll your eyes at Jesus Jones. that track is badass....
Cloudless(Live) - Cranes
Far From Grace - Doves
Chromakey Dreamcoat - Boards Of Canada
Real Love - Mark Van Hoen
Sowiesoso - Cluster
Murmur - The Sight Below
Quick Canal - Atlas Sound
Seasun - Delorean
Mercury - The Ocean Blue
I'm Believing (In Love Again) - The Sunshine Factory
get it here
So i've been listening to quite a bit of ambient music these last few months. My 2 rabbits find it most agreeable. Dub Techno has really got me excited lately.
here's a list of stuff that I've been thoroughly enjoying....
Relapxych
Atheus
The Sight Below
cv313 (and everything else Rod Modell; Deepchord, Echospace, etc. does)
Pulshar (Pablo Bolivar solo is amazing too)
Quantec
Arc Of Doves
Christy Romanick
Intrustion
Simon Scott
bvdub
i could go on but these are just a few to get you started...get you mellow...
also i'm looking for acts (ambient/electronic) to play shows and/or release some records.
get in touch at lovelessmg(at)gmail or send demos/bribes to...
Self Storage Recordings
57 Thames St
Suite 4A
Brooklyn, NY
11237
Atheus / Relapxych.0 - Shapes and Phases 12"
The Depreciation Guild - Dream About Me 7"
Dead Mellotron - Ghost Light Constellation
