FULL ALBUM STREAM: Mux Mool - Skulltaste
We've been singing the praises of Ghostly's Mux Mool for months now, handing out singles, album tracks, and even an entire EP's worth of b-sides. Yesterday, finally, his new LP Skulltaste arrived, and since we can't really give the whole thing away, we're doing the next best thing–streaming it in full. So, delve into that dewey, technicolor beat cruise via the playlist below (and feel free to spread the word via the "grab this" function), and, should the spirit strike you, buy it on iTunes, where it's threatening Owl City's wretched grasp on the electronic charts.
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Birds And Batteries - Out In The Woods (Woodsorama Remix)
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Cough syrup be gone with this new muzak-friendly mix of Birds and Batteries' honky-tonk electronoodler, "Out In The Woods." This one's got a cave-funk triangle vibe going and when the blips bleed into the plucky bass, we go a little soft in the head. It'll make sense when you listen. Check 'em out when they keep San Fran weird with our old fave Memory Tapes at the Noise Pop Festival this Saturday--the first in a string of shows leading up to the band's SXSW action on March 18.
Birds And Batteries - Out In The Woods (Woodsorama Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Mux Mool - Viking Funeral EP
Hardly shocking that recent Ghostly addition Mux Mool has a raft of material just, you know, lying around, since he seems like a constantly-ensconced-in-the-lab kind of guy. So, in yet another act of benevolence, Ghostly's giving away his new Viking Funeral EP–five tracks of mixtape cuts, rare edits, instrumentals, and b-sides–before the Skulltaste LP drops on March 23. Grab it in full below; it might make the Def Jux news a little easier to swallow.
Mux Mool - Viking Funeral EP (Full Album Download)
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Mux Mool - Ballad Of Gloria Featherbottom
DOWNLOAD: Mux Mool - Lady Linda
When first we heard Brooklyn's Mux Mool, he was contributing hyper-chromatic beat submersions to Moodgadget's Nocturnal Suite comp for Ghostly. The Ghostfaces have since added him to their roster and are arranging the release of his new album, SKULLTASTE, on March 23. "Lady Linda" actually came out earlier this week as a single, a formal introduction to the album's celestial, hand-fastened instrumental hip-hop. Buy it at the Ghostly Store.
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Mux Mool - Ballad Of Gloria Featherbottom
RCRD OF THE DAY: Junip - Azaleadalen (feat. Jose Gonzalez)
You're already well-acquainted with Junip's folksy, flickering sound, you just don't realize it yet. Junip's most famous member, José González, has carved out a flourishing solo career by crafting shadowy melodies beloved by the indie-set. With the band, he takes a lusher turn, layering in organs, analog synths and moody drums. Here, José and crew go full-force into a swelling, instrumental wave with a score that deconstructs strum-ridden moods and Scandanavian soundscapes alike.
Stay tuned for Junip's upcoming LP, slated to drop later this year.
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DOWNLOAD: The Souljazz Orchestra - Mamaya
If you're tired of hearing people sample Afro- and Latin- jazz, then listen to The Souljazz Orchestra. The Ottawa ensemble have a new record coming out on Strut called Rising Sun that is a behemoth of virtuosic playing and micro-genre hybridizing. "Mamaya" has Afro-jazz's time signature (12/8, for the few non-nerds that are still reading) but entangles it in bubbling Guinean rhythms, vibraphone, and seemingly omnipresent hand drums. Proof that it's not really where you're from, but how you play.
The Souljazz Orchestra - Mamaya
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Glimpse - Always On My Own
Do you ride the subway/drive a car/blankly stare out smudged windows as much as we do? If so, Glimpse’s soul-tipped, old-London electronica is your jam. It’s all gentle brain massaging—the techno version of Teletubbie repetition in a padded room of white. Glimpse is currently rolling with the blurry portrait above, reworking a major compilation for Four:Twenty (staggering tracklist from the label’s vault here) and tweaking his soon-to-be-released debut. But for now, we'd be cool if he'd just pass us the Vapor Rub already.
Sounds like: early Royksopp, Underworld
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Hurricane Bells - Tenterhooks
Our buddies at Vagrant turned us on to Hurricane Bells (that’d be the new project from Steve Schiltz from Longwave), who, despite being featured on the New Moon soundtrack, has some real warmth in his jam-bandish record Tonight is the Ghost. Still, dude can go pretty dark. Below, the space-gaze “Tenterhooks” almost makes us forgive this whole vampire fad. Almost.
Sounds like: Maserati
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