For those of you who have been waiting for this, if you exist, we're more than happy to announce the arrival of the first NFOP tote bag, designed by and dropped in collaboration with the rad folks over at London's Forty Ounce Clothing. We think it's beautiful, and if you agree you may order yours right here (make sure to check out the rest of their stuff, too).
To mark the occasion, the Forty Ounce crew has asked us to assemble a little mix to extend their splendid collection. And here it is, a little summer late night club trip including our latest favorites and some older, loosely Berlin-related electro stuff. Hope you enjoy.
01 Ellen Allien - Einsteigen
02 Laurel Halo - Hour Logic (First Part)
03 Grimes - Urban Twilight
04 Boy Friend - The False Cross
05 Laurel Halo - Hour Logic (Last Part)
06 Melon - Nitzi (In My Mind, So Fine)
07 Ada - Lovestoned (feat. Raz Ohara)
08 Arne Zank - Exzellenz
09 Psychic Reality - Expla
10 Sascha Funke - Summer Rain
11 Clams Casino - Drowning
12 Holy Other - Feel Something
13 Trentemøller - Moan (Mikael Simpson Version)
Listen to the mixtape below or download the whole thing over here.
Photo for the mixtape and tote bag as usually taken by Florian Reischauer of Pieces of Berlin. Check out his just relaunched and re-designed website here and if you happen to be in town, don't miss his Public Viewing polaroid project that's part of Sehen und Gesehen Werden, a group exhibition that's starting this Saturday, August 8, at Galerie Bauchhund in Neukölln.
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News from our favorite Brooklyn-based extraterrestrial Zonotope™, some spot-on analog synth incursions with heavily spaced-out effects and featuring a Holodeck-generated karaoke bar singing that showcases a retrofuturist romanticism that curiously reminds me of Daedelus circa Invention.
I Fell in Love With a Cyborg is already available digitally and will soon be magnetized onto a split cassette together with Panabrite, to be released by MABA Tapes.
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Wonderfully psyched-out vibes coming straight outta Dover, New Hampshire by a bunch of slackers who've gathered under the name Mmoss. Blatantly sailing the noble late 60s galleon towards the outer realms of haziness, Another Day could have been written anytime between then and now, but who cares if it is something so deliciously glorious, right?
You may find more stuff of the friendly bunch over here. Mmoss' debut LP i from last year is also still available on vinyl via the mighty Burger Records.
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Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire. What greatness had not floated on the ebb of that river into the mystery of an unknown earth!
(Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness)
Expect more excursions into the sublime by Born Gold sometime soon.
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No clue who might be behind the rather cryptic moniker 4UCKY, but this sounds and looks all surprisingly slick and professional, hardly like something any bedroom amateur could have come up with. Be that as it may, of course there's no direct evidence that this extremely intriguing late night jam was not composed by some freshman. Anyway, in the mail that came along with the link, the artist described this stuff as a "pop-electronic exploration of the darkest side of 1980's pop culture" - and no doubt here's a lot of 80s attitude to be found, but it's that decade's style and technique looked at from a distinctive 2011 angle. That aside, 1984 (I Want More marks nothing less than an astonishing debut (if it is a debut), and it unfolds its enchanting effect further and further with each listen. Mind my words, we've got someone to keep a close eye on here.
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Very well then, let's forget for a minute that at least here in Berlin, this July has been about four degrees Celsius colder than the same month last year, and that the last three days alone brought more rain than an average July. I know it's hard, but if anything, this delightful h-pop super anthem by our very much adored Dreams West might actually help. Perfectly dense and washed-out layers of 80s synth flourishes in combination with an appropriately über-kitschy nostalgia-dripping video collage that looks like a long lost commercial by the French ministry of tourism co-sponsored by the German car industry and the State of Arizona to convince us to head straight down to the Côte d'Azur in a fancy car to meet classy girls of the French bourgeoisie, and in fact, like seriously, there appears to be no reason whatsoever not to.
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After our lovely Swede at No Modest Bear posted about the Hard Mixx / Torkelsen split via the Norwegian indie label Sellout! yesterday, we're excited to find such a surprising team-up with glitch-hop tunemaker Hard Mix and the (rather) newly emerged Norwegian producer Torkelsen, whom is also the second half of electro duo Munn til Munn-metoden. Torkelsen has put up a nice bunch of remixes on his soundcloud page the past eight months, more recently for Casiokids and NIVA. The limited edition 7" split can be pre-ordered and streamed right here, while you can still snatch Torkelsens Vol. 1 for a pay-what-you-want deal over at bandcamp.
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Quilts is the project of Stockholm native Frida-Li Lövgren, and since I've stumbled across her Soundcloud this morning I can't stop dipping into the immense soundscapes of Guilt. Based on a steady and strangely unsettling beat and enriched with daunting vocal samples, the tune is a supreme instance of oblique ambient drone.
Lövgren has already released a self-titled cassette on the Swedish tape label Hockey Rawk and will be playing along Not Not Fun rookie and fellow Swede Sand Circles at Neukölln's O Tannenbaum next Friday, August 5.
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News from our favorite Brooklyn-based extraterrestrial Zonotope™, some spot-on analog synth incursions with heavily spaced-out effects and featuring a Holodeck-generated karaoke bar singing that showcases a retrofuturist romanticism that curiously reminds me of Daedelus circa Invention.
I Fell in Love With a Cyborg is already available digitally and will soon be magnetized onto a split cassette together with Panabrite, to be released by MABA Tapes.
Zonotope™ - I Fell in Love With a Cyborg
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After our lovely Swede at 