Dream Girl.

02 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

I still don't know anything about Hawaii's Youth Sports, but this is just another splendid tune, posted last night on the duo's bandcamp. And seriously, look at her.

Youth Sports - Dream Girl

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I still don't know anything about Hawaii's Youth Sports, but this is just another splendid tune, posted last night on the duo's bandcamp. And seriously, look at her.

Youth Sports - Dream Girl

Wild Runner.

02 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

Cradling is a duo based out of Seattle, Washington, and instead of plainly contributing to the sad aftermath of the thing we used to call the "northwest rock explosion", John and Davis chose the probably more difficult but in any case much more rewarding path of rather lo-fi, ambient and drone informed fuzzed-out experimental folk music that's in quite a few aspects reminiscent of some of the Denver/Fort Collins scene gathered around Matt Sage aka M. Pyres and his Patient Sounds label, and thus it's not that surprising that the two have released their debuting, amazing and stunningly mature record Wild Runner on Denver's tiny, very new but extremely promising Silent Farm Recordings. You can order the wonderful C50 tape here and download the album for free via the label's bandcamp.

Cradling - With Grace

Cradling - Cherish Them

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Cradling is a duo based out of Seattle, Washington, and instead of plainly contributing to the sad aftermath of the thing we used to call the "northwest rock explosion", John and Davis chose the probably more difficult but in any case much more rewarding path of rather lo-fi, ambient and drone informed fuzzed-out experimental folk music that's in quite a few aspects reminiscent of some of the Denver/Fort Collins scene gathered around Matt Sage aka M. Pyres and his Patient Sounds label, and thus it's not that surprising that the two have released their debuting, amazing and stunningly mature record Wild Runner on Denver's tiny, very new but extremely promising Silent Farm Recordings. You can order the wonderful C50 tape here and download the album for free via the label's bandcamp.

Cradling - With Grace

Cradling - Cherish Them

Pradada x Wonder Wheel.

02 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

Pradada is one of the many artist aliases of the immensely prolific Montréal, Québec resident and head of the wonderful Hobo Cult Records Francesco de Gallo (among them, presumably most prominent, his ambient/psychedelic noise project Hobo Cubes - there's a nice and clarifying interview from last February over at Weird Canada). In Francesco's own words, it's his "weird surf psych punk noise rock" venture, and indeed, that's just about it as his brilliant new song Future Lover proves. Apart from this gem, Pradada's debut full length Phantasy Visions which was recorded last year is still available on CD-R via Hobo Cult. There's also a single still available over at Beko DSL that you can grab for free.

However, his very recent remix of his friend Paul Rosales aka our beloved Wonder Wheel's Purple heads into an entirely different direction. The pretty raw original, one of the best tracks from Rosales' quasi best-of collection Wonder Wheel I, is turned into a slick and sleazy late night hypnosis, a slow-burning piece of eroticism that gets completed by an absolutely adequate video by Moduli TV (just another of Francesco's guises), hitting your desires for the darkest pleasures. Aurally and visually a startling and terrific experience.



Pradada - Future Lover

Wonder Wheel - Purple (Pradada Remix)

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Pradada is one of the many artist aliases of the immensely prolific Montréal, Québec resident and head of the wonderful Hobo Cult Records Francesco de Gallo (among them, presumably most prominent, his ambient/psychedelic noise project Hobo Cubes - there's a nice and clarifying interview from last February over at Weird Canada). In Francesco's own words, it's his "weird surf psych punk noise rock" venture, and indeed, that's just about it as his brilliant new song Future Lover proves. Apart from this gem, Pradada's debut full length Phantasy Visions which was recorded last year is still available on CD-R via Hobo Cult. There's also a single still available over at Beko DSL that you can grab for free.

However, his very recent remix of his friend Paul Rosales aka our beloved Wonder Wheel's Purple heads into an entirely different direction. The pretty raw original, one of the best tracks from Rosales' quasi best-of collection Wonder Wheel I, is turned into a slick and sleazy late night hypnosis, a slow-burning piece of eroticism that gets completed by an absolutely adequate video by Moduli TV (just another of Francesco's guises), hitting your desires for the darkest pleasures. Aurally and visually a startling and terrific experience.



Pradada - Future Lover

Wonder Wheel - Purple (Pradada Remix)

Good Morning June

01 Oct 2010 — Tonje Thilesen

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Tales of the Dusk Warrior.

01 Oct 2010 — Henning Lahmann

"If you're strong, you live, if you're weak, you die. That's the truth that Mr Shi-Shi taught me. But...is being weak really that bad?"

Nicholas Shapiro is the Dusk Warrior, and in between two secret missions he sent over this tune. God knows where he might be right now.

Dusk Warrior - A Wild Sky

Read more → "If you're strong, you live, if you're weak, you die. That's the truth that Mr Shi-Shi taught me. But...is being weak really that bad?"

Nicholas Shapiro is the Dusk Warrior, and in between two secret missions he sent over this tune. God knows where he might be right now.

Dusk Warrior - A Wild Sky