Ceremony Recordings' excellent Malmö resident Bam Spacey returns with some mesmerizing visuals for the even better space-pop jam "Dessa Bränder", taken from his debut EP Land, released back in June.
Just in case you're not planning on hitting up Kyle Hall at Horst Krzbrg or Hudson Mohawke & Young Montana at Gretchen or the third Not ≠ Equal showcase at Berghain tonight in Berlin, well, you definitely want to pay the amazing Drop Dead Festival a visit (as we previously recommended), where our favourite Irish dance pop/cold wave duo Low Sea happen to make a presence. In anticipation of what to expect for tonight's show, we've got a hold of their brand new video for "Remote Viewing", a strangely enslaving dance jam which will surely get your post-Halloween mood back on.
Via Electronic Beats: Today we are excited to announce that Electronic Beats is joining up with No Fear Of Pop to premiere a new track by Coyote Clean Up. This is the first post in our drive to sync content from our favorite blogs. Watch this space for more!
Detroit's club head Coyote Clean Up has ever since his first appearance on NFOP, enchanted us with psychedelic techno filtered through tape recorded, Peaking Lights-esque decayed atmospherics. Following his splendid tape release Frozen Solid on 100% Silk, Magma Mondays will be released via Time No Place, and might in fact be his most thoroughly crafted release as of yet. Here, Coyote Clean Up takes a steadier direction, playing with hypnotic contrasts of chillout and Detroit house, contantly transforming the colour scheme of his intellectual, slow-building productions.
Below is a brand new, slightly darker cut from the album, out digitally on November 19th.
Formerly Minneapolis, now Oakland-based imprint Moon Glyph, responsible for so many favourites on the shelves of the NFOP office, has unveiled a new compilation to showcase the label's stunning 2012 roster. The two-part selection, which is available for free download on the MG website, is entitled Opal Vol.I & II and features 26 fresh tracks by many artists that our readers will be familiar with, including The New Lines, Velvet Davenport, The Garment District, Deep Earth, Food Pyramid, Deep Magic, M. Sage, Meadowlands, and Future Shuttle. A lot of incredible stuff to discover, so head over here and get your copy.
Below, watch the video accompanying "Everybody Dies", the compilation appearance by our favourite Scandinavian psych poppers Halasan Bazar.
As previously reported, Lee Gamble's Diversions 1994-1996 probably is this year's most astounding example of rave nostalgia (and don't say it could be the only one), a work that really gives the term 'collage' a whole new meaning. Gamble manages to not just channel the lost tales of mid-nineties jungle through the EP's ghostly transmissions in order for the listener to revisit or reappraise the original music. The gloomy, bleak atmosphere that dominates throughout, created solely with samples of his old jungle mixtapes, lets us actually and painfully feel the loss of the artist's youth. It's an unsettling process that halfway into the EP turns the listener into a position of feeling lost in memories as well, a result that is achieved without ever resorting to the cheap effects that 'hypnagogic pop' so often tends to rely on. As reported by FACT, the accompanying video, created by Gamble himself together with Dave Gaskarth, follows an analogous path, patching together blurred, almost unrecognisable footage of raves that seamlessly conflate into music's the spectral sounds.
Diversions 1994-1996 is out now on the ever-exciting PAN. Highly recommended.
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In related news, Lee Gamble is among the first names to have been announced as part of the forthcoming, 14th edition of CTM Festival, which will happen in Berlin from January 28 till February 3. The festival, which will be staged under the theme "The Golden Age", is going to feature a whole lot of other exciting artists as well, namely Emptyset, Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, Agnieszka Dzubiak, Werner Dafeldecker, Ensemble L’Art pour L’Art, Florian Hecker, Heatsick, Iceage, Jar Moff, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Mark Fell, Matmos, Myrninerest feat. David Tibet, James Blackshaw, Andrew Liles, Reinier van Houdt, Aloma Ruiz Boada, David Pepe, and Oneirogen. We'll let you know when more names have been unveiled.
I once got lost in a cave in Laos. Unconciously, your mind wanders through three different phases during those few seconds you realize that you're lost, and most obvious of them all: fear. But after the first wave of fear has settled, your ears slowly adjust to the silence, desperately searching for immense sounds that might appear in the unknown space. Drips from the cave ceilings appear like bass drums in the distance, bouncing around the unstructured room, making it impossible to locate its original source. Somehow the down-pitched, musical emotion of Espher made me think of this very experience, as his beautifully atmospheric production and dry beats resembles the feeling of being lost in a labyrinth of caves. There is that, but also a shattering softness to "You Are Loved" which gives the track a soulful balance; a tense feeling of being trapped and free at the same time. You adjust your ears to analyze the location of the sound, but all that returns is endless waves of echo. We found the cave opening in the end, though.
Just as neon as the picture would suggest but not quite as glaring, dazzling Bay Area outfit Shock sound a bit like Chromatics if they were a bit more upbeat, in every sense of the term. Featuring the well-established musicians Dan Judd and Terri Loewenthal, Shock's picture-perfect debut single "Heaven" is a sultry and seductive pop gem that does inherit its share of sweaty 2am Italo vibes but fortunately doesn't stop there, culminating in a simply irresistible instrumental bridge that brings in a compelling layer of perfectly shimmering guitars. The video itself does exactly what it should do in such a persuasive case, adding just the right amount of kitsch (we're still trying to figure out whether those beach scenes are ironic or not) to close the deal.
Shock's Heaven 12" is out via Voltaire Records. Stream the whole EP, which features remixes from Steve Moore (Zombi), Hatchback, and The Beat Broker, after the jump.
Talented Frenchman Pacôme Genty of Rrose Tacet recently dropped a new solo work under his Mascara Snake moniker, and the title track just received a visual treatment by gifted collagist The Tearist, who used images from the movies Perfect Day by Ange Leccia from 2007 and Ghost by Takashi Ito from 1984 to appropriately accompany Genty's gently melancholic broken pop dreams.
