Panda Riot, Daniel Klag (CD release), this Thursday, May 13th

10.5.10

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.

LMG exclusive - Daniel Klag MP3 Mix

24.3.10

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

By Night With Spear write up at Jezebel Music

6.5.09

from Jezebel Music

May 4, 2009

By Night With Spear

LOCAL SPOTLIGHT NYC
As spring bestows its seasonal virtues upon the city and connecting boroughs, a resounding feeling of hope envelops the land and the people. The visual body count goes up on the streets and any vestige of public land available for recreational use is quickly taken over. As people fill the streets and parks, they also begin to fill the bars and clubs at night – and it is here that the visage of the NYC music scene starts to show its vibrant colors. Outdoor festivals are aligned, barbeques are enlivened with live music, and flocks of people feel motivated to venture out to explore the options of the city. People make conscious decisions to exhibit local music, but how is it that they come to these choices?

People know what is delivered to them – and what is delivered through the local scene seems, for the most part, to be larger indie acts that already have the driving PR wheels behind them. When it comes to the fresh, up-and-comers new bands, those that are selected to be in the spotlight always tend to amaze and befuddle the smaller community of musicians and promoters that often see their work turned a blind eye to.

One particular worthy new band, that delivers those resounding surges of springtime hope is By Night With Spear. Unfortunately, they will probably only come into the x-ray view of the few fortunate enough to stumble across them and appreciate their offerings.

Their name was inspired by the American artist, sculptor and avant-garde filmmaker, Joseph Cornell. His last film, the silent 9-minute, By Night with Torch and Spear, was produced in 1979 and explores the world of a steel foundry. It’s exactly this type of artistic inclination and exploration that inspires their current body of work. Heavily influenced by 80s post-punk and British new wave, this four-piece, fronted by the lovely Anaben, proves that their worth their weight in spirit. After initial ideas of the group were discussed around 2004, the band finally began performing out in legendary and now deceased LES venue The Continental. With a recent show at Santos Party House with Longview and Dead Leaf Echo, and a current signing with Self-Storage Recordings (who plans to release their first two EPs), By Night With Spear will undoubtedly make an indelible impact upon those listeners that prefer their drops of beauty mixed equally with majestic power.

By Night With Spear will be performing at the outdoor music festival Make Music Make New York at Deluxa on Sunday June 21st.

by Gordon Sharp

Interview with Sergey Soukas of Slow

16.4.09

translated from here

Slow - ambient-project of Sergey Suokasa

Author: Bulat Sharipov 

Before the speech at a Moscow club young musician of Karelia Sergey Suokas 44100Hz tells about how his music a career, than the difference between copyright and Projects Slow Suokas, role of Scandinavia in his work in Sweden and why so many suicides ... 

44100Hz: Recently, the name of one of your projects, Suokas, often can be seen on posters big techno-festivals and apples plates known labels, such as, for example, Multivitamins. Have you had hoped for such a development a couple-three years ago? 

Sergey: I do not think that everything turns. Just wanted to write music. And then happily coincided circumstances. 

44100Hz: What? 

Sergey: It is not only creative but also life in general. For example, I went to work with the firm intention to deal only with music, although this has not been a single statement. And suddenly I began to invite me to clubs. In parallel, a lot of events happened in his personal life that have consistently not allowed to relax. 

44100Hz: So now you are not doing anything except music? 

Sergey: Yes, the music and just a pleasant thing. 

44100Hz: How do you allocate time among their projects - Suokas and Slow? 

Sergey: It happens spontaneously. Sometimes, like vyplesnut energy into the music, then this is techno, Suokas. When you want to relax, look at life more broadly, beyond time, it Slow. 

44100Hz: Slow - this is meditation? 

Sergey: Both meditation, in a sense. But Slow, of course, more profound.And sincere. 

44100Hz: sincere in the sense that you want to do it this music? 

Sergey: I try to put the sincerity of both projects. In Suokas more power, shaman dance. This music is suitable for танцпола when people are staying together. Mass meditation, in other words. A Slow - solitary. Therefore, it must get more deeply. 

44100Hz: If Suokas - this is music for the big events, what a place is suitable for Slow? 

Sergey: We played ambient in a cinema with the guys from Norway, it was great. It was the soundtrack to the film nemomu 1926-year "Mother" Vsevolod Pudovkin. In the winter we are Mental Overdrive and his wife Aggie during the week working in a studio in Tromso in the north. Future autumn, we plan to make several more times in Norway and in the next year - in Russia. 

44100Hz: Do you have a special relationship with Scandinavia. For example, a lot of the tracks named after the Scandinavian cities.Why? 

Sergey: Honestly, I do not know ... This is a secret relationship. Maybe Scandinavians perceive Karelia as part Ckandinavii and are looking for people who are close to them in spirit. 

44100Hz: Clushaya Finns like Vladislava Dileya, or Swedes, like Fever Ray, you might think that the cold and the dark polar night correspondingly affect the mental state of people living there. On the other hand, there is a nude disco and balearik in which the Swedes succeed. Perhaps the reason that - nostalgia for the spa heat? 

Sergey: I think everything is very individual. Swedes - the master copy, can make beautiful, fashionable, but their music little individuality. 

44100Hz: Nevertheless, Sweden can now claim to be a major country music, judging by the number of projects, which at the time of becoming successful. 

Sergey: Yes, they were always ahead. 

44100Hz: Thanks plagiarism? 

Sergey: Rather, the State, which cares for its people. In Swedish with children a lot of opportunities to grow in different directions. 

44100Hz: Why, then, is the highest number of suicides? 

Sergey: Because there is no fire, bored. And the Finns are just frozen people. 

44100Hz: How do you think of the suicide and the desire to create a roots music? In addition to boredom? 

Sergey: I know that in a state of despair is very good and great music, go out and hidden deep within the emotions. You zlishsya, for example, or offended, or very sad. In all of this creativity can be released. Especially in the technology. In the percussion takes aggression. In psychedelia and events happening in the background meditation. And in principle, constant repetition is something divine. 

44100Hz: For people who listen to, this principle works in the same direction, or vice versa? They are charged or discharged? 

Sergey: On the dance floor is - the exchange of energy, and in the process of creating the track - an emotional discharge. Music is seen as a language.People are meditating in a dance with me, and the exchange occurs between the aggression, which are released in the dance. 

44100Hz: Project Slow - What are the emotions he goes? 

Sergey: Emotions are different: love, sadness, fear. But they did not play a major role as a filter. The more I manage to convey infinity, wisdom, so I am more than happy track. Most importantly - it is the inner harmony and purity, openness, honesty, intuition. Often most of the problems, especially in the works, due to the fact that too much thinking. And intuition is helping to set up and do the right steps. You intuitively feel the music, and from this it becomes even more music. Because the language of feelings in the music dominates. 

44100Hz: Tell me about the next steps the project Slow. What we hear in "Shanti" on your statement? 

Sergei: There is something to load and may be a bit flashy. The fact that in April will be released as an album of "Sealand". This is my first official album.I would be happy to be free to put his music on the site. But someone is doing better than me. With their help, more people will hear it. 

myspace.com / slowartist  

Shanti, 22 April 

Myasnitskaya proezd, 2 / 1 

Start: 20:00 

Live: Slow 

DJ: Anrilov, Khz 

Admission: free

his album Sealand with be available in May from Self Storage Recordings 

Slow - preview of Sealand (live set)

20.3.09

Slow - Sealand(live album preview) by andydurutti

(ignore the fact that above it says "by andy durutti", that's not the case.)

recorded live by Sergey Suokas aka Slow as a preview to his debut for Self Storage Recordings entitled Sealand. due out April 2009. Sergey lives somewhere deep in the Russian Federation and his music reflects that. think Ulrich Schnauss but a little bit darker. also recommended if you like some of Manual's more ambient stuff. all three artists Slow, Ulrich, and Manual) have contributed mixes to this blog which you can find under the "LMG Exclusive Mixes" link on the right side of this page

Longview (w/ Ulrich Schnauss) Dead Leaf Echo, and By Night With Spear 3/24 at Santo's Party House

10.3.09

Longview will be making a stop in New York after they hit SXSW. Ulrich Schnauss will be joining them on keys. Also on the bill are Dead Leaf Echo who have a new album out soon. You can hear a track off that here. Kicking the night off is By Night with Spear who signed to Self Storage Recordings in December. Their first EP, Fortune, will be availble at the end of March. Ulrich Schnauss and Dead Leaf Echo also have tracks on the excellent Self Storage Comp which you can get when you visit the myspace page. It has not and will not be release digitally. Ulrich will also be doing a DJ set after the show. Advance tickets are $9. $11 the day of the show.

Thrushes are busy playing good shows....

5.2.09

Baltimore's Thrushes have a bunch of good shows coming up if you're in the area. their original drummer is returning too.

Feb 8th - WMUC Third Rail Radio- Live on the air! w/ Ceremony in College Park, MD
March 14th - The Talking Head Club w/ The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Baby Aspirin
March 27th - The Ottobar w/ Asobi Seksu

Thrushes also have a track on the recently released Self Storage Recordings compilation...

LMG Exclusive - Slow MP3 mix

13.1.09

A mix by Sergey of Slow

Ernst Bloch.mp3 Port-Royal

Run Into Flowers.mp3 M83

Where Damage Isnt Already Done.mp3 Radio Dept.

Too Young.mp3 Phoenix("Lost In Translation" OST)

Love is an Eternal Lie.mp3 The Sleeping Tree

Sound In A Dark Room.mp3 Telefon Tel Aviv

When I See Scissors, I Cannot Help But Think Of You.mp3 The Dead Texan

Rutti.mp3 Slowdive

Kiss Me Sadly.mp3 Airiel

Stay With Me.mp3 Clint Mansell (Performed by Kronos Quartet and Mogwai, "The Fountain" OST)

Slow also recently joined Luxa and By Night with Spear and signed to Self Storage Recordings and his debut album for the label, Sealand, will appear in March.

Clearscope-Autorotation (remixed by Le Ren)

1.1.09

Clearscope (Le Ren) by autorotation

Check out this great remix of Autorotaion's Clearscope by Le Ren. Nardo also plays guitar on the original version. The Le Ren track, Sunday Night, also appears on the Self Storage Recordings Compilation. There is another remix of Clearscope here. and stay close, because in a few weks we'll have an exclusive mp3 mix by Robyn and Igor of Autorotation. next week it's Auburn Lull...

Winterlight - Suddenly Something Good video

9.12.08

speaking of Winterlight...
check out the beautiful video directed Jack Lane
:::::Winterlight | Sudenly Something Good:::::


from the Winterlight Myspace blog...

suddenly something good release and video

To coincide with its release on the very first compilation from self storage records, Jack Lane has kindly made a beautiful video for 'suddenly something good'. You can look at it at http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=47675980 please leave a nice comment about his wonderful imagery.

Self storage recordings is the label set up by the impossibly cool new york promotion/musician/etc collective loveless music group and features ulrich schnauss, soundpool, auburn lull, elika and a host of other great acts. You were to be able to buy it from me but customs has slapped a huge duty on my copies thinking I love the cd so much i bought 30 copies; so in the meantime you could google northern star records and go and get a copy there. It really is a ghreat album, details can be found at http://www.myspace.com/selfstoragerecordings

Tim

cheers to Tim for a beautiful song and video!

Kontakte

seriously awesome new album from the London 3 piece
check out their myspace and then buy the record here
also check out their track on our latest podcast remixed by our good friend Winterlight (who also has a track on the Self Storage Comp)

Self Storage Recordings Compilation Volume 1 availible 11/3

31.10.08

the long delayed first release from Self Storage Recordings is finally here. you can preview tracks at myspace.com/selfstoragerecordings

tracklist...
Sunday Night- Le Ren
Air Phase- Monocle
Like Flowers At Night- Panda Riot
Ghost Train-Thrushes
Do What You Love-Soundpool
Reborn-Project Skyward
Where'd You Go-The Invisible Kid
Here's When-The Soundscapes
Pale Fire(Ulrich Schnauss Mix) Dead Leaf Echo
Flika-Autorotation
Drawn To The Sea-Luxa
Look To The Sky-Ulrich Schnauss
The Blue Caps(Winter Edit)- Auburn Lull
Suddenly Something Good-Winterlight
Nowhere-Elika
Nothing Left To Avoid-Ifwhen

the album is available to purchase via the myspace page through Paypal for $14(includes shipping costs) and $16 worldwide. also it will be sold exclusively through Northern Star Records in the U.K. in a few weeks. these are the folks that put out the excellent Psychedelica Compilations. and you'll also be able to purchase it directly from the artists involved very soon. there will not be a digital release of this album.

Self Storage Recordings - Compilation Volume 1

11.2.08

Loveless Music Group finally has a record label. In April we'll release our first compilation. Ulrich Schnauss, Auburn Lull, Project Skyward and former Autumn Thieves', Andy Durutti and his new band, are contributing exclusive tracks to the album.

here's the list of bands appearing...

Ulrich Schnauss
Auburn Lull
Monocle
Le Ren
Autorotation
Andy Durutti
The Invisible Kid
Dead Leaf Echo
Winterlight
Thrushes
Elika
The Soundscapes
Project Skyward
Soundpool
Panda Riot
Ifwhen

The Record Release party is April 23rd at Club Midway.

visit Self Storage here and add it as a friend