EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Skew - Can I Get More Of Everything In The Monitors (Shakeyface Remix) + 3 More
Posted 11/20/2008 4:52 PM by Samuel Duke
Tags: experimental, dance, indie, pop, instrumental, electronic
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NYC multi-instrumentalist Skew was featured in this space back in January, but it wasn't until earlier this month that dude released his self-titled debut album, a collection of crackly electronic instrumentals that bite from pop, rock, ambient, and dance music equally. We're offering up three tracks from that album today along with an exclusive remix of "Can I Get More Of Everything In The Monitors" from Brooklyn's Shakeyface, who raves things up a bit with wobbly bassline synths and frenetic programming. Side note: Skew is listed as "emotronic" on MySpace. It's astounding that NewsCorp gets down with the micro-genres.
Sounds like: Passion Pit, Minicomp, edIT
Skew - Can I Get More Of Everything In The Monitors (Shakeyface Remix)
Skew - Can I Get More Of Everything In The Monitors
Skew - Can I Get More Of Everything In The Monitors (Elliot Lipp Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Eliot Lipp - Beamrider
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Even without wordy MCs, you can feel hip-hop's undeniable swagger in the frothy instrumentals of Eliot Lipp. Free from rappers' blinged out egos, the New York-based producer puts whatever twist he wants on his banging beats, from squelching sci-fi beats ("Beamrider") to a spray of Bubble Bobble glitches ("Sentinel"). It also allows him to be incredibly prolific, and the forthcoming Peace Love Weed 3D on his own Old Tacoma Recordings label is album number six in less than five years. Lead single "Beamrider" is a triumphant opening that rides tough on descending bass lines and toasts the good life with blissful melodies. "Sentinel" jabs playfully at listeners' ears with blurry synth funk stabs. Be prepared to crank these up.
Sounds like: Michna, Daedelus, Prefuse 73
Download: Eliot Lipp - Beamrider
GHOSTLY WEEK EXCLUSIVE: Michna - Magic Monday (Full Album Stream)
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
Full Album Stream: Michna - Magic Monday
We are proud to announce the release of Magic Monday, the debut full-length from producer Adrian Michna, aka Michna. Having co-founded Miami's legendary Secret Frequency Crew, Michna's been mixing instrumental hip-hop and experimental electronic music for years; in the process, he's collaborated with an early-career Diplo, lent a production hand on Brazilian group Bonde do Role's debut on Domino/Mad Decent, and landed on URB's "Next 100" list. His talents as a multi-instrumentalist also feature prominently on the album- much of what sounds like samples are actually played by Michna himself. Magic Monday is a distillation of Michna's life and attitude- his youth, his talent, his sense of humor, his stories- and it's fun as hell.
And catch Michna in your area as he tours this fall:
10.10 Brooklyn, NY - Magic Monday release party (venue TBD)
10.16 Poughkeepsie, NY @ Vassar College
10.24 Baltimore, MD @ The Hexagon
10.25 New York City, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge (CMJ)
11.04 Gainesville, FL @ Common Grounds
11.05 Miami, FL @ PS1
11.13 Los Angeles CA@ The Purple Lounge (Standard Hotel)
11.15 Los Angeles CA @ Downtown Warehouse (after hours)
11.21 New York City, NY @ Natural History Museum
DOWNLOAD: Tussle - Night Of The Hunter
Four-on-the-floor kick drums in rock songs are, to me anyway, the holy grail of percussion. Who doesn’t love stammering along, looking like Joe Strummer caught in a discotheque, all poised upper body and constantly jacking legs. The heartbeat metaphor is too easy, but it’s also hard to avoid, the drum's constant pulse infecting the veins of those listening or watching like a rhythmic disease. Tussle’s “Night Of The Hunter” rocks one of the best four-on-the-floors I’m jamming too right now, buffering it with two-note bass drone, sampled piano and reversed bites of sound. Halfway through, the beat cuts and all that’s left is the echoing feedback of looped samples, which drift away until the drums come back, the bass goes lower, and the song turns into a shuffling disco freak out. It’s one hell of a journey—and an instrumental one at that—but it’s a healthy preview to the San Francisco troupe’s Cream Cuts, due August 26 on Smalltown Supersound. As the headline on their MySpace says, “Give the drummer some <3”.
Sounds like: Nisennenmondai, Battles, Crystal Antlers
STREAM: Fuck Buttons - Bright Tomorrow
Oh techno, how can I do you justice? I hate you so much. But once in a while there's a band, and I'm talking about Fuck Buttons here, a band that breaks down those walls of prejudice and opens your heart. So to all the M83s, the Orbitals, the Ratatats and now, the Fuck Buttons, I salute you. They're from Bristol. The UK. And they make such overwhelmingly huge sounds, such lung-paralyzingly mesmerizing music, that you can't help but take a knee.
DOWNLOAD: Ecstatic Sunshine - Little Big Dipper
If Beethoven had a.d.h.d. and tourette's and an advance copy of Please Kill Me, maybe "Fur Elise" woulda been "Little Big Dipper" instead of a McDonald's commercial. Reinforcing the "Baltimore got something in the water" theory, Ecstatic Sunshine virtuosically shred and shit on everything that came before them with playfully violent instrumental send-ups and throw-downs of classic punk ragers, playing with form like Lennie played with mice. It looks like this. It sounds like this:
FEATURED: Johnny Greenwood x There Will Be Blood
Over the weekend we went down to our local multiplex to check out the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie, There Will Be Blood . The film was on top of our must-see list for two reasons: 1) We love Paul Thomas Anderson and 2) Johnny Greenwood of Radiohead (whose credibility has been restored with their great new album In Rainbows) scored the entire thing. Not every day do you see a movie in which the score (and not just chosen songs) plays such a huge part in the story and overall aesthetic. Greenwood used swells of electric guitars and strings to create the brooding undertone of the film, which made it all the more enjoyable. The Swill Merchant felt the same and wrote a piece on Greenwood and There Will Be Blood today.
To The End Of The World With Sigur Rós
When you listen to a Sigur Rós track it's like you're visiting the end of the world. In fact their music could be the end of the world. The band has been written and talked about by everyone under the sun and for the past several years their fanatical following has grown and grown. Now they've collaborated on a film. And it's wonderful.
Last week the band played an up-close and personal show at the Vista movie theater in LA. It was the LA premiere of the documentary Heima and needless to say the performance was spectacular. There are the obvious references to Bjork and all things Icelandic but there's something equally as special in Sigur Rós. It could very well be something in the water. And if it is? Then we want some. In fact water features in such an important and prominent way in the gentle yet brutal landscape of this film, that it makes you want to visit Iceland.
The film features a series of magical free concerts that the band threw as a thank you to the people of Iceland. In a way, the band used the shows to help them reacquaint themselves with their "heima" or home, the settings are equally as incredible as the band’s music and together they border on a religious experience. If you've ever seen the band perform live in a big venue imagine capturing that energy in a disused Icelandic herring factory in front of 30 people.
If you blink you might miss it but underneath all that beauty and power is a David Fincher (Zodiac, Se7en, Fight Club)-like noise. It's as if he got hold of the film and infiltrated a sub text to it that is Sigur Rós. There's something lurking underneath as these gentle, incredible souls warm you to their home of Iceland.
Directed by Dean DeBlois, who very strangely also made Lilo and Stitch, this is a layered and beautiful noisy film.
Heima is in cinemas on November 2 and on two disk DVD on November 5. Disk one is the film and includes two exclusive new songs "Guitardjamm" and the traditional "A Ferd Til Breidarfjardar 1922". The second disk contains extras and all the songs from the film. There's exclusive new performances, and the brand new track "Heima".
Check out the trailer
Also worth checking out is Screaming Masterpiece, a compelling doc on the unique Icelandic music scene.
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