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This year, RCRD LBL attended the Oya Festival and was shell-shocked by the amount of indie talent there. Bundled in the mix was a new-comer, Lama, (i.e. Nils Martin Larsen) who performed live with a 6-piece band. While the live show is meant to shock the senses, the track below portrays a softer side of Lama. It's woozy and dream-like, evoking the computer wizardry of Radiohead and atmospheric tendrils of Sigur Ros.
SOUNDS LIKE: Radiohead, Sigur Ros
Download: Lama - Innocent Bystander
Lama @ Myspace
Hottest site on the net!? Oh Malice, you're making us blush. But you heard it from one of our heroes, the Pattycake Man himself. Stay tuned for more exclusives, more hot tracks, and of course our daily editorial attack formations! You know what it is—R-C-R-D-G-A-N-G! Much love and respect to Clipse and Oya Festival!
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Last week, we let you drool over Lykke Li’s newest video. To begin this week off fresh, despite a grizzly day, we've been warming up to this remix of "Little Bit," gifted with the midas touch of Tim Goldsworthy (i.e. Loving Hand, DFA founder, former UNKLE drummer, and the producer you can kowtow to after you listen to Cut Copy or The Rapture). What he's done? Taken Lykke Li's saccharine vocals off the throne, supersized the track, added additional percussion effects to give it a celestial sans-gravity atmosphere, and injected a jazzy sax mid-way through the end. The result? Jets you off to Jupiter while the rest of the office is sitting around wondering whether to order Kung-fu chicken or Moo-shu salad for lunch. Enjoy the escape.
Sounds Like: Cut Copy, Berlin (i.e. The Metro), Apes & Androids (when they sound like Bowie)
Download: Lykke Li - Little Bit (Loving Hand Remix)
Download: Lykke Li - Dance. Dance. Dance.
Ingeborg Seines is a cute pixie with a clear, ethereal voice - that hovers somewhere in between Bjork and Stevie Nicks. Performing at this year's Oya Festival, she's been nursed by the indie scene in Oslo, Norway and cites an eclectic list of inspiration from Jens Lekman, Billie Holiday and Burt Bacharach. But this song "Airport" is her own tender, soulful breed of pop. She may not be as innocent as she looks.... a line mentions killing her lover's father's cat? Sadistic much?
For more new acts from the Oya Festival, check out: www.oyafestivalen.com
SOUNDS LIKE: Fleetwood Mac, Bjork, Sondre Justad
Portugal’s Buraka Som Sistema play kuduro, a syncopated, skittish version of house music that originated in Angola and then disseminated into Lisbon and its suburbs. Over the past year or so—due in no small part to the efforts of Buraka—the sound has exploded around the globe, lodging itself into DJ sets of heads like Switch and Diplo and winning over fans like M.I.A. (with whom the group toured this year). The three dudes in Buraka have been relentless in their hustle, traveling and touring extensively and bringing the kuduro sound to unsuspecting ears everywhere. Tomorrow they’ll play at the Oya Festival, where their single “Yah!”—an unstoppably pounding and addictive anthem—is sure to inspire mass body moving. Today we’ve got a special exclusive download of London producers-of-the-moment The Count & Sinden’s remix of “Yah!” so make sure to grab this for all your smarmy bassline needs this weekend. Also scope the group’s video for “Sound Of Kuduro” below, which they shot on a trip to Angola to work with elusive kuduro godfather DJ Znobia and features crazy dancing from the streets of Luanda and a guest spot from the aforementioned Ms. Maya.
If disco is, at its core, escapist music, then the tracks that Hans-Peter Lindstrøm creates provide one colorful and expansive place to do so. With shrill, decaying synths and layers upon layers of echo, Lindstrøm’s music is a journey into the vast, snow-capped fields of northern Norway, where the sun only sets for a few hours in the summer and the winter is spent mostly in darkness. His tunes weave trails and paths between these sunny pastures and endless dark caves, the sounds building and building patiently until the crescendo pops and you’re left listening in utter reverie.
Lindstrøm’s sprawling, three-track debut full-length, Where You Go I Go Too, comes out August 19 on Smalltown Supersound, and in support he’ll be playing “laptop live” gigs around festivals and clubs in Europe this summer, including a stop earlier this week in his adopted hometown of Oslo for the Oya Festival. Today we’ve got Prins Thomas’s edit of WYGIGT’s “The Long Way Home” for download, where the fellow Norwegian cosmic kingpin condenses an original sixteen minute epic into a steady, five-minute disco-house thumper. Watch for the breakdown’s serene eighties keyboards and laser squelches about two minutes in, you’ll be drifting off into space soon thereafter.
Sounds like: Todd Terje, Idjut Boys, early hours at Studio 54
Download: Lindstrøm - The Long Way Home (Prins Thomas Edit)
Lindstrøm's RCRD LBL Page
Nisennenmondai—Japanese for the “Year 2000 Problem”, as in Y2K—are three women from Tokyo, Japan who play harder, better, faster, and stronger than any all-male band I’ve heard in a really long time. The trio blast marathon no-wave-inspired songs that rattle, hum, wander, screech, bash, groove, contain almost entirely no vocals, and are just as rhythmically compelling as dance music. Today we’ve got an exclusive download of their monster track “Ikkkyokume” from their double EP release Neji/Tori on Norway’s Smalltown Supersound. The song, clocking in at over seven minutes, shows just how much sonic artillery they have, morphing from endless psych drone to dance funk to MC5 miming and then all climbing onto each other for a finale of white noise and tube amp screech. Oya Festival goers will be able to catch a performance from the group today, where they can probably spot the good dudes in No Age (admitted fans) being blown away.
Sounds like: Liquid Liquid, Sonic Youth, Fugazi
Exclusive Download: Nisennenmondai - Ikkkyokume
Nisennenmondai's RCRD LBL Page
For Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson of the drone metal gargantuan Sunn0))), it's not enough to be merely heavy. Named for their favorite brand of audience-flattening amplifiers, Sunn0))) conjure leviathan slates of skull-crushing dark aural matter like malevolent wizards armed with guitars. Chord changes are relatively few and often far between, which gives their earth rumbling drones longer to resonate in listeners' bones and entice them into a near static state of hypnosis. Black Sabbath could only dream of being this heavy in the moments just before nodding off into weed induced mini-comas.
As attendees of Oslo, Norway's Oya Festival will soon find out, the band's Great Wall of Amplifiers, black robes and infernal drones make for a multi-sensory assault they won't soon forget. As an appetizer, check out "It Took the Night to Believe" from their ninth album, Black One. Paired with the tortured howls of Wrest (the dark soul behind Lurker of Chalice), the track slows black metal to a beggar's crawl — an unusually good thing. I highly suggest heeding the band's suggestion that "maximum volume yields maximum results."
Sound Like: Earth, Black Sabbath, your older brother's metal collection at half speed
Download: Sunn0))) - It Took the Night to Believe
Sunn0))) @ Myspace
Sunn0))) @ RCRD LBL
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