20 Aug 2010 — Henning Lahmann
To assert this collaboration "makes sense" would be a blunt understatement - if you've listened to
my most recent mix, you'll already know what I mean. Two of our absolute favourites, Sydney's Lavurn Lee aka
Guerre and South Carolina's Evan Adams aka
Top Girls have finally taken the long overdue step and joined forces to combine their impeccable sense for slow-burning, dark and reduced rhythm and blues, and the result is nothing less than a masterpiece.
Waiting is like the last missing piece in the bigger picture when it comes this year's new music landscape.
Guerre/Top Girls - Waiting
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20 Aug 2010 — Henning Lahmann
Fielded is Chicago's Lindsay Anne Powell, and her dark experimental pop is playing just a little with recent "witch house" projects such as Zola Jesus: despite all the hauling, scary synth patterns and occasional goth elements like subtle chimes, Powell remains safely on a friendlier side.
Fielded's new album
Terrageist will be put out by
Catholic Tapes on September 7.
Fielded - Another Time
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20 Aug 2010 — Henning Lahmann
This morning I've found a tape by
Sealings in my mailbox (the physical one!) that Adam from UK's wonderful tiny
Tye Die Tapes generously sent across the North Sea. The four track self-titled cassette features roughly ten minutes of harsh yet melodic fuzzed-out garage pop by Sealings members Michael and Liam who blissfully maltreat their stringed instruments while being accompanied by a slightly distorted drum machine. Brilliant.
Listen to the tape's fourth track below and don't forget to order the cassette
over here.
Sealings - Factory
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19 Aug 2010 — Henning Lahmann
"The artifact that has come to be known in laboratory vernacular as the Nitelab Lockbox is an audio compendium utilized not only as a standard reference by scholars everywhere, it was in its own time a vehicle for the public promotion of something we know simply as The Time-Traveler's Pocket Guidebook. The unveiling of these findings occurred only a short time after the release of this recording, which was as a relevant sidenote connected to another collaborating organization known, mysteriously, as Mirror Universe Tapes. The enclosed titles have been coordinated with their respective rates of oscillation, a factor we have concluded to be in some way symbolically significant or communicative." (1)
In other, more earth-bound words, Savannah, Georgia's Paul M Goerner aka
Magic Places is about to release his debut C30 tape
Nitelab Lockbox via
Mirror Universe, available for
pre-order now and shipping from August 24. Listen to two of Magic Places' beat-driven and sample-laden gems below -
The Bangkok Haircuts Society from the above mentioned cassette as well as the splendid and more ethereal tune
The Past and Future Are One, which is in fact the finished version of
Nitelab Lockbox's third track
Preteritus Et Posterus Unum (obviously), to be featured on a forthcoming LP named
The Time-Traveler's Pocket Guidebook.
Magic Places - The Bangkok Haircuts SocietyMagic Places - The Past and the Future Are One
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19 Aug 2010 — Henning Lahmann
Lie down. Close your eyes. Take a deep breath, and listen to the birds. And now, again. Take your time. Once you've finished, you'll be ready for the world again: click
here.
Teen Daze and Jaded Hipster Choir - Deep Rites
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16 Aug 2010 — Henning Lahmann
Hailing from the rather remote Burlington in Vermont is Alexandria Hall aka
toothe ache., but this state of comparatively splendid isolation only appears to help her imagine the most beautifully hushed bedroom lullabies, sweet intimate gems for late hours that are still anything but an easy listen.
Tomorrow, San Francisco's adorable young label
Father/Daughter Records will put out tooth ache.'s
Skin b/w Lazarus 7 inch on strictly limited clear vinyl.
Moreover, Burlington's very own
NNA Tapes has just released the
Burlington, Vermont 8cs boxed set to give a little overview of the town's music scene.
Below, listen to both the single's a-side and the spellbindingly gorgeous
Eurydice that Ms Hall has contributed to the set.
tooth ache. - Skintooth ache. - Eurydice
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16 Aug 2010 — Henning Lahmann
Without any doubt, Fort Collins, Colorado's great little cassette imprint
Patient Sounds has become my favourite label in recent months, and after a series of wonderful releases by amazingly talented artists and a
splendid summer comp (which is still available for free
here), label master Matthew Sage has just posted
a tentative list of forthcoming Patient Sounds releases, among them outputs by
Lush Cola,
Littoral Drift,
Ambassador Engine (all three have been introduced on
these pages before),
Kites Sail High, and Mr Sage himself with no less than two
M. Pyres double EPs.
Of course, earlier Patient Sounds cassettes are still available. Below, listen to two of the latest M. Pyres outputs -
Gravity Deluxe is taken from his recent tour CDr
E. ROAD, while
Seaaes is the closer of what would be my favourite album of 2k10 if it hadn't been released last year (yes, sometimes I'm late). In any case, I can't recommend
Apart the Echo enough and stress how much you need this tape.
M. Pyres and The Skygaze Family Band - SeaaesM. Pyres and The Season Creeps - Gravity Deluxe
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