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So, the week has come and gone, but boy was it a ride. With the close of Ghostly International Week, we've put together a special RND UP of all the tracks they were kind enough to hook us up with. So hit play, kick back, and enjoy the sounds of these worldwide apparitions.
Posted 9/26/2008 12:28 PM by Samuel Duke
Tags: ghostly week, electronic, drone, psych, ambient, experimental, Samuel Duke
All this week we’ll be releasing exclusive goodness from our partners at Ghostly International, who have a bevy of hot records coming out this fall. Check back every day for more tunes, and if you like what you hear, make sure to go cop some records over at their store.
Our week of Ghostly exclusives concludes in epic fashion today, as we look at some tracks from Seattle recluse and ambient drone fiend The Sight Below. The guy whose MySpace headline is “lonely is the new dance party” (really dude?) makes tunes that basically amount to humid marshes of tone, occasionally bolstered by a deadened low-end pulse but more often than not allowed to swell and grow as they please. These are artificial sounds interacting organically, playing off each other’s delay times and frequency, making really thick, goose-down noise in the process. Ghostly will be releasing The Sight Below’s debut album Glider this fall, and in anticipation we’ve got a stream of album track “Life’s Fading Light” as well as a download of the three-track preview EP, No Place For Us. If you’re clamoring for some ease-the-mind stuff tomorrow morning, this is your jam.
Sounds like: Atlas Sound, Valet, White Rainbow
The Sight Below At The Ghostly RCRD LBL Blog
Exclusive Download: The Sight Below - No Place For Us
Exclusive Download: The Sight Below - With Her Kiss (I'd Pass The Sky)
Exclusive Download: The Sight Below - Twice Failed
Posted 9/25/2008 9:47 AM by Samuel Duke
Tags: Samuel Duke, dance, house, techno, electronic, ghostly week
All this week we’ll be releasing exclusive goodness from our partners at Ghostly International, who have a bevy of hot records coming out this fall. Check back every day for more tunes, and if you like what you hear, make sure to go cop some records over at their store.
While some diehards will continue to flog the dead horse that is minimal (what up M_nus crew), most techno and house auteurs have (thankfully) either shifted their music in a more deep and classic direction or added a little melody to the bare boom-clack monotony. 2AM/FM’s “Electric Justice”—culled from the twelve-inch of the same name—falls with the former, a viciously subtle and traditional deep acid cut with Meatwad mumbling (yes, this one) over some diminutive 909 burps and clean hi-hats. And while the Ann Arbor duo seem to deftly straddle the urban Midwest axis that birthed their sound, San Francisco’s Broker/Dealer prescribe to the nu-melodic-minimal variety, soaking their canned beats in swaths of creamy Moogs that are playing—get this!—some pseudo-poppy noise. Both tracks are available for stream below but only the 2AM/FM twelve is available for purchase (grab it here on wax or over at Beatport). Broker/Dealer's Soft Sell EP will drop on October 21st.
2AM/FM + Broker Dealer At The Ghostly RCRD LBL Blog
Sounds like: Mr. Fingers, Prosumer, Matthew Dear
Exclusive Stream: 2AM/FM - Electric Justice
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All this week we’ll be releasing exclusive goodness from our partners at Ghostly International, who have a bevy of hot records coming out this fall. Check back every day for more tunes, and if you like what you hear, make sure to go cop some records over at their store.
When Matthew Dear dropped fire in 2003 with “Dog Days”, it was the most popular track on his debut album Leave Luck To Heaven. Now a half-decade later he’s finally allowed some other producers to tackle the track, partnering up with Ghostly and Paris’ Robsoul Recordings to create the more house-oriented remix compilation Dog Days: The Robsoul Remixes. As part of Ghostly week, we’re offering up DJ Sneak’s classic Chicago take for stream alongside a thumping, urban Juan Maclean remix of another Dear tune, "Pom Pom" (from the album Asa Breed). Stream both below, head to the Ghostly blog for Matthew Dear tour dates, and buy both releases here.
Sounds like: The Juan Maclean, Xaver Naudascher, DJ Sneak
Matthew Dear Remixes At The Ghostly RCRD LBL Blog
Posted 9/23/2008 9:46 AM by Samuel Duke
Tags: ghostly week, Samuel Duke, experimental, instrumental, hip-hop, electronic
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All this week we’ll be releasing exclusive goodness from our partners at Ghostly International, who have a bevy of hot records coming out this fall. Check back every day for more tunes, and if you like what you hear, make sure to go cop some records over at their store.
New York-based producer/DJ/instrumentalist Adrian Michna aka Michna aka DJ Egg Foo Young has lurked around the underground since he first emerged as a founding member of Miami’s heralded Secret Frequency Crew, notably working with a budding Diplo, Bonde Do Role, and dropping heaters in clubs all over New York and the rest of the country as a DJ. After some wax and a couple mix CDs, dude has assembled his own heady full-length for Ghostly titled Magic Monday, stewing together a love of classic Miami bass, instrumental hip-hop, slow-tempo funk, and ambient electronic music into a swamp of milky textures and Cutco percussion fills. Think of a well-worn sponge being drained over some classic breaks LPs and you've kind of got yourself a starting point. Today is the official release of MM, and to mark the occasion Ghostly have hooked us up with a stream of the ENTIRE ALBUM. Hit the link below to check tour dates, and if you like what you hear (you should), head over to the Ghostly store and nab yourself a copy.
Sounds like: Flying Lotus, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin
Michna's Magic Monday At The Ghostly RCRD LBL Blog
Posted 9/22/2008 11:07 AM by Samuel Duke
Tags: Samuel Duke, pop, rock, electronica, psych, indie, ghostly week
All this week we’ll be releasing exclusive goodness from our partners at Ghostly International, who have a bevy of hot records coming out this fall. Check back every day for more tunes, and if you like what you hear, make sure to go cop some records over at their store.
School Of Seven Bells make righteous space music for lovers. The suggestive but coy croon of sisters Claudia and Alejandra Dehaza can slide in and out of your ear canal like sonic fluid, but it’s the band’s fleshy shoegaze/stargaze dynamic that really elevates their tunes onto expansive plateaus. First single “Half Asleep” begins with crackly organic drum samples and builds radiantly outward, full at the chorus with unending guitarscapes from former Secret Machine Ben Curtis and the incessantly comforting coos of the Dehaza sisters. The track’s b-side is a short bi-lingual hymn messing in synth patches and harpsichord called “Caldo”, and you can grab the seven-inch wax with both right here. We're also offering “Connjur”, a heady pop track from the group’s Alpinisms album (10/28), for download, so check all three below, head over to the label’s RCRD LBL blog for more info and tour dates, and be on the lookout for more Ghostly material every day this week.
Sounds like: The Secret Machines, Daylight's For The Birds, M83
School Of Seven Bells At The Ghostly RCRD LBL Blog
Exclusive Stream: School Of Seven Bells - Half Asleep
Exclusive Stream: School Of Seven Bells - Caldo
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