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EXCLUSIVE STREAM: 77Klash - Belly (77Klash Vs. Queens Of The Stone Age)
Unless your initials are G.G., mash-ups are a little 2006. Too many dudes tried their hand at combining “Don’t Stop Believin” with some gully ATL rap joint or “Hustlin” and failed (but, of course, Cam nailed it). It's rare, but sometimes a popular song does get sampled or spliced with a great verse from another and kind of makes you re-think your position on the track, and not in a corny, ironic way. Producer, MC, and all around great dude 77Klash pulled a six-year-old song we forgot actually boasted a rather gnar riff and some monster Dave Grohl drumming—that would be Queens Of The Stone Age’s “No One Knows”—and voiced relentlessly over top of it for four minutes to make “Belly”, what I'm sure is the world’s first desert-rock dancehall rager. Get hype.
Sounds like: Lee "Scratch" Perry, The Bug, Santogold
Exclusive Stream: 77Klash - Belly (77Klash Vs. Queens Of The Stone Age)
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Kotchy - She Made It Easy + Drums Of Death Remix
A few years ago, I accidentally saw a band open for Lady Sovereign (remember her?) at the Bowery Ballroom called The Epochs. They set up in a circle, had a grip of gear all over the stage, and played psychedelic hip-hop songs with messy squelches and slaps that kind of sounded like Battles if Battles weren’t serious dudes with collard shirts and mortgages who actually had some juvenile fun. No one really seemed to get it, but the band’s drummer was a machine, a spry looking dude absolutely slaying his tiny jazz kit to the side of the stage. That dude was Kotchy. Now on his own, he’s crafting weird bedroom house music that sounds like the Neptunes playing garage music (gehr-age, not the MC5 kind) with Flying Lotus: chilly Rhodes, falsettos, obscure noise shards, reedy beats, etc. Below is first single “She Made It Easy” (from his debut album 89, out November 24th on London’s Civil Music) as well as an exclusive remix from London producer Drums Of Death, who fufills his pseudonym with some gothic tom samples in an extended avant-house version.
Sounds like: N.E.R.D., Flying Lotus, Claude VonStroke
Exclusive Download: Kotchy - She Made It Easy
Exclusive Download: Kotchy - She Made It Easy (Drums Of Death Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD - Wallpaper - Evrytme We Do It
True, wallpaper is typically meant to blend in. But if you've been out on the town of recent to Lit or Hiro, you've probably been pummeled with the beats of Bay area musician/dj/music addict Eric Frederic and know he rarely blends in. Eric's also not a fan of vowels either, a facet to which us RCRD LBL folk tend to take a biased liking. So we're bringing out Wallpaper to central stage- with the exclusive track "Evrym We Do It" that's pure party electro-pop- nestled somewhere between scuzzy disco and trans-galactic electronica. It will rotate around in your head for hours just after one listen. Brilliant. Oh- and we also threw in the track "Txt Me Yr Love," which is digitalized R & B blues about a girl, a phone, ringtones and texts.
SOUNDS LIKE: Cut Copy, Digitalism, Sly Stone
Exclusive New Download: Wallpaper- Evrytm_We_Do_It
DOWNLOAD: High Places - From Stardust to Sentience
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"I don't listen to anything on the headphones. Never. I don't get on with headphones." When I read those lines in a recent interview with Jason Pierce of narco-gospel gods Spiritualized, I remember thinking, "Yeah, me neither, Spaceman. Let's start a club." But after listening to this track from High Places' self-titled album on Thrill Jockey, I'm going to hold off for now on drawing up the charter and finishing the secret handshake. I'm always hesitant to throw around loaded terms like "soundscape" and "ambient," but I think that these guys get pretty damn close. Listen as the claustrophobic typewriter-snares phase from left to right and fight for sonic space, and try to pick out each instrument before it drowns in the Great Sea of Reverb. Extra points for no headphones.
Sounds Like: Panda Bear, Atlas Sound, El Guincho
DOWNLOAD: Stereo Image - Pack Moves + Red Nights + Exclusive Stream
Stereo Image specialize in spare, two-step grooves with singing that vogues like sleek performers in after-hours joints; preening, coaxing, showing a lot with just a little. It's got prowess. The project started when original Junior Boys member Johnny Dark hooked up with vocalist San Serac (both were already releasing music under their own names), collaborating on a sound of restraint but still bumping hard enough for movement. “Pack Moves” and “Red Nights” exemplify this vision, like some seventies pop rock jam trapped like a pinball inside a vintage computer while “Strange Life” is lighthearted and warm, more major chords and shaker-laden groove. The group’s debut long-player S/T hits shelves on September 23rd through Frog Man Jake.
Sounds like: Junior Boys, Booka Shade, Robert Palmer (!)
Download: Stereo Image - Red Nights
Download: Stereo Image - Pack Moves
FEATURED: Telepathe Are FInally Putting Out A Proper Release
Everything you want to know about Telepathe you can read in this feature on them Matthew Schnipper wrote for The FADER. Something unmentioned in that feature, though, is that my friend TJ lives with Melissa in that loft on McKibbin St. and that his bedroom door is actually featured rather prominently in the magazine. It’s also his twenty-first birthday this week so go him, drink beers. Since that feature, though, we’ve all been awaiting a proper release from the Brooklyn duo, and just this week IAMSOUND Recordings (home to Little Boots, The Black Ghosts and more) announced they’ll be putting out the Chromes On It EP, a two-song twelve-inch and download bolstered by hot remix goodness from the likes of Mad Decent and Free Blood. Pre-Order that here. We’ve still got “Chromes On It” up and available for download, so grab that below and get stoked for some art-club freaky shit from Telepathe when they come through your town this fall on tour with Diplo and Abe Vigoda (what a lineup, eh?), dates after the jump.
Sounds like: Diplo, Le Tigre, Bikini Kill covering Three Six Mafia
DOWNLOAD: Computer Perfection - Able Archer + How I Won the War / O Your Blue Blood
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Autumn is in the air this week in Chicago. Everything's still green and in bloom, but you can tell by the way the air smells so crisp and clean and girls bring cardigans out with them at night. It's in this weather that Computer Perfection's music gets room to breathe. "Able Archer" features a descending scale throughout that sound like swirling stars. "How I Won The War / O Your Blue Blood" - according to Computer Perfectionist Gene Corduroy, "we've officially deemed it to be a two-part song," - features a connecting drum machine sound half way through, but that's the first time Computer Perfection sounds more digital than pastoral. Featuring 4 members of Pas/Cal, Computer Perfection is able to take lines like "we'll hang our sorrow from the rafters" and make it sound like music to skip to. If Pas/Cal sounds like it's music from another time, Computer Perfection is music that is needed now - soaked in the wonder of the world all the while knowing eventually you're going to end up in front of your laptop again. Download this perfect season change music and get out side while you can.
Sounds Like: Pas/Cal, Shout Out Louds, the Comas, Au, Panda Bear, The Morning After Girls
Download: Computer Perfection - Able Archer
Download: Computer Perfection - How I Won The War / O Your Blue Blood
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Alias - Fame Game
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Though Alias, i.e. Brendon Whitney, grew up in the woods of Southern Maine, his music fits just as easy within the lonesome hollows of large city blocks as well as with the cavernous echos of the woods. In "Well Water Black feat. Why" of his new record Resurgam, he builds plateaus of synth-heavy electronic undulations, while Why? has contributed verse- the kind that reminds you how rap is poetry.
To add flame to the fire, we've got an exclusive new track by Alias that's not on the new album: "Fame Game." It's a deep, almost symphonic arrangement crafted by Whitney and his choir of 30 plus Korg, Casio and Yamaha & Numark keyboards, drum machines and turntables.
Sounds Like: Aphex Twin, Ladytron, Portishead, Why
Download: Alias - Well Water Black (feat. Why)
FEATURED: New Nightmares On Wax Jam For Download At The Warp RCRD LBL Blog
Leeds-born, Ibiza-based (that sounds like the life) beatmaster Nightmares On Wax is gearing up to release his mind-melting groove collection thought so… on September 2nd through our good bros at Warp. To get a taste, head over to Warp’s RCRD LBL blog, where they’ve posted “Hear In Colour”—a floating, windows-down slice of summer rhythm—for download. Put it on your car's hi-fi or grab the headphones and drift away on your own.
Nightmares On Wax at the Warp RCRD LBL blog
DOWNLOAD: Spitzer - Avida Dollars
When Justice began their maximalist takeover in 2007, their distortion-thick tunes smashed open the door for a slew of like-minded producers (and the entire Ed Banger crew) to follow close behind. Spitzer, a French duo of brothers, might be lumped into the same movement at first blush, as tracks like "Rainbow Warrior" feature spliced vocals and distorted, stadium-ready melodies. But things get more complicated to classify on the jaunty "Avida Dollars," which leaps from its blocky staircase progressions into a leaning shuffle of syncopated bass and synth jabs. But the real crown jewel and likely lead single for Spitzer's forthcoming "Rollercoaster EP" is the glossy and relaxed "Rainy Winter Syndney," which smears melancholy tones over popping percussion, with more than enough energy for heads to nod but chilled enough to keep feet planted (and variety-wise, that's a good thing). Spitzer may have broken through on Justice's overdriven wave, but tunes like these suggest they could soon make their own.
Sounds Like: Justice, Gui Boratto, SebastiAn
Download: Spitzer - Avida Dollars
Download: Spitzer - Rainbow Warrior
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