Pleasantly surprised to wake up to the mellow, cloud-gazing vibes of LA's one-woman beat venture Astronautica aka Edrina Martinez. While certainly being informed and inspired by the greater Los Angeles beat scene, think FlyLo et al., Martinez has developed a style of her own, clearly dreamier and more relaxed, however without turning her back on the intricate, sophisticated side of beat construction. Lush, sumptuous stuff here, very promising indeed. Listen to her brand new track "Weekends" below.
Astronautica also recently released a self-titled digital EP via LA-based PH2 Records. Get it for free here.
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Pleasantly surprised to wake up to the mellow, cloud-gazing vibes of LA's one-woman beat venture Astronautica aka Edrina Martinez. While certainly being informed and inspired by the greater Los Angeles beat scene, think FlyLo et al., Martinez has developed a style of her own, clearly dreamier and more relaxed, however without turning her back on the intricate, sophisticated side of beat construction. Lush, sumptuous stuff here, very promising indeed. Listen to her brand new track "Weekends" below.
Astronautica also recently released a self-titled digital EP via LA-based PH2 Records. Get it for free here.
Astronautica - Weekends
Now this is gonna be special/interesting/crass: Tomorrow night, our friends of Noisekölln are gonna host a performance by Australian noise artist Lucas Abela aka Justice Yeldham, a musician who "likes to make sound by employing things that cause bloody cuts", to quote a recent documentary on French/German TV broadcaster Arte. For a little more background, check out the 2010 interview/live performance on Nat Roe's show at WFMU. The magic takes place at West Germany and starts at 9pm. For more info go here.
On top of that, the night will see the launch of the anticipated launch of Noisekölln Tapes with the initial release of nkt-001, a split between Ill Winds and Moon Wheel in an edition of 50. So if you happen to be in Berlin, this is definitely something you wouldn't wanna miss out on.
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Now this is gonna be special/interesting/crass: Tomorrow night, our friends of Noisekölln are gonna host a performance by Australian noise artist Lucas Abela aka Justice Yeldham, a musician who "likes to make sound by employing things that cause bloody cuts", to quote a recent documentary on French/German TV broadcaster Arte. For a little more background, check out the 2010 interview/live performance on Nat Roe's show at WFMU. The magic takes place at West Germany and starts at 9pm. For more info go here.
On top of that, the night will see the launch of the anticipated launch of Noisekölln Tapes with the initial release of nkt-001, a split between Ill Winds and Moon Wheel in an edition of 50. So if you happen to be in Berlin, this is definitely something you wouldn't wanna miss out on.
By now, you've most likely heard the dope new jam by Sam Mehran aka Outer Limits Recordings aka, in this instance, Outer Limitz. However, chances are you haven't seen the equally dope and absolutely apt teaser video for the maestro's new single. Watch it below.
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By now, you've most likely heard the dope new jam by Sam Mehran aka Outer Limits Recordings aka, in this instance, Outer Limitz. However, chances are you haven't seen the equally dope and absolutely apt teaser video for the maestro's new single. Watch it below.
Following the video premiere of Feel Good Lost's latest visual quite exactly a week ago, we got another fine piece for you this Tuesday afternoon, featuring our mysterious animal masked friend Slow Magic. You've might already heard some hype around his upcoming 8-track album, ehm, "▲" as of lately, following up from the free mini EP that dropped on bandcamp all the way back in August last year. The full LP of "▲" is out on April 30th via LebensStrasse Records.
Update: We've just been notified that there also a few copies left of "▲" on cassette via Words+Dreams, and as this is totally tape material, we recommend you cop one here.
Watch the video directed by Brendan Canty and Conal Thomson below.
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Following the video premiere of Feel Good Lost's latest visual quite exactly a week ago, we got another fine piece for you this Tuesday afternoon, featuring our mysterious animal masked friend Slow Magic. You've might already heard some hype around his upcoming 8-track album, ehm, "▲" as of lately, following up from the free mini EP that dropped on bandcamp all the way back in August last year. The full LP of "▲" is out on April 30th via LebensStrasse Records.
Update: We've just been notified that there also a few copies left of "▲" on cassette via Words+Dreams, and as this is totally tape material, we recommend you cop one here.
Watch the video directed by Brendan Canty and Conal Thomson below.
After our recent, smashing Norwegian Wave Night, this Saturday we'll continue our delightful collaboration with the girls of Nordic By Nature, this time hosting a showcase featuring music from Norway's eastern neighbor. The Swedish Wave Night will see live performances by some of Stockholm's finest young talents, one-man project Christian Niva and "Swedish/Norwegian pop sensation" Postiljonen, supported by wavey DJ sets by Nordic By Nature and Miffofitta.
The whole thing will be staged at Flamingo and start at 10. Listen to some stuff below and go here for more info.
We give away two +1 guest list spots for the night. Just send us a mail before Friday 12pm, when we'll pick the lucky winners.
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After our recent, smashing Norwegian Wave Night, this Saturday we'll continue our delightful collaboration with the girls of Nordic By Nature, this time hosting a showcase featuring music from Norway's eastern neighbor. The Swedish Wave Night will see live performances by some of Stockholm's finest young talents, one-man project Christian Niva and "Swedish/Norwegian pop sensation" Postiljonen, supported by wavey DJ sets by Nordic By Nature and Miffofitta.
The whole thing will be staged at Flamingo and start at 10. Listen to some stuff below and go here for more info.
We give away two +1 guest list spots for the night. Just send us a mail before Friday 12pm, when we'll pick the lucky winners.
Motion Sickness of Time Travel's forthcoming self-titled full-length will be out May 15 on the Editions Mego subdivision Spectrum Spools, and it's not only a marvelous piece but also another big leap forward for one of this publication's favorite artists, containing four tracks spread across two LPs, each between twenty and nearly twenty-five minutes in length. Below, listen to a five-minute excerpt from the mesmerizing and utterly beautiful closing track "One Perfect Moment". You may take a peek at two other tracks here and pre-order the record now over here.
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Motion Sickness of Time Travel's forthcoming self-titled full-length will be out May 15 on the Editions Mego subdivision Spectrum Spools, and it's not only a marvelous piece but also another big leap forward for one of this publication's favorite artists, containing four tracks spread across two LPs, each between twenty and nearly twenty-five minutes in length. Below, listen to a five-minute excerpt from the mesmerizing and utterly beautiful closing track "One Perfect Moment". You may take a peek at two other tracks here and pre-order the record now over here.
Got this mail by Queens, New York's Deep Ellum Records a few days ago, and though admittedly I had never heard of the "home of all things Lo Fidelity Allstars, Lord Warddd, Lord & Master and other shite", damn this is highly addicted stuff here. Both "Dem Bones" and "Done Shit", the first two tracks by BLKKATHY, which apparently is the solo project of some Brooklyn resident named Kate Faust, are utterly intriguing, in particular the latter with its impelling house beat and that totally dope vocal line. "Dem Bones" is somewhat slower and probably not so much a call to the dance floor, but instead it's got a supremely stylish and pretty sophisticated video to go along. So whatever this project and the label are precisely and who's behind all this, we just hope there's more of this gorgeous material to follow soon. Go here for some other digital releases from Deep Ellum, all available for free download.
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Got this mail by Queens, New York's Deep Ellum Records a few days ago, and though admittedly I had never heard of the "home of all things Lo Fidelity Allstars, Lord Warddd, Lord & Master and other shite", damn this is highly addicted stuff here. Both "Dem Bones" and "Done Shit", the first two tracks by BLKKATHY, which apparently is the solo project of some Brooklyn resident named Kate Faust, are utterly intriguing, in particular the latter with its impelling house beat and that totally dope vocal line. "Dem Bones" is somewhat slower and probably not so much a call to the dance floor, but instead it's got a supremely stylish and pretty sophisticated video to go along. So whatever this project and the label are precisely and who's behind all this, we just hope there's more of this gorgeous material to follow soon. Go here for some other digital releases from Deep Ellum, all available for free download.
BLKKATHY - Dem BonesBLKKATHY - Done Shit
Last year we were briefly introduced to Dpony, the psychedelic outtake of Hooray For Earth's Noel Heroux and Zambri's Seth Kasper, together with Johnny Woods and Josh Ascalon, whom released the tracks of their video album Movie for free download back in November. Today, the breathtaking visuals are finally available in full stream, after only having been available on VHS limited to 100 editions, directed by Dpony's own Johnny Woods. He says:
"My original plan was to shoot a whole bunch of original material, and make a crazy narrative out of it all, and then rip it to shreds with the video synthesizer and other processing techniques. (…) And I really don't like using "found footage". It's not any kind of ethical thing, I would just be horrified if I spent a month on something, and then someone else used the same "found footage" for another video.
Right around that time, my video partner and studio-mate Bec Stupak unearthed a box of VHS tapes she had shot in high school and college. She asked if I could digitize them, and to be honest, I was pretty curious and excited to watch them. Bec was the person who inspired me to start making videos in the first place, so to me, it was sort of a treasure chest. She just gave me one warning: "you will probably see me naked". There were probably 60 tapes total. So, I started digitizing the tapes, and immediately was jaw-dropped. The tape that eventually became "Desert of Calculations" was the first one I popped in, and it was just unreal: in 1992, this sixteen year-old girl is making Richard Kern/Jack Smith/Warhol style underground films in her bedroom in Princeton, NJ. It was just too good. I really like my videos to have a sense of timelessness, or at least weird-time-confusion, to them, and this was perfect. It felt like a lot of underground films from the 60s-80s, was shot in the 90s, and would now be re-processed and edited in 2011 using 70s era technology. I think I was listening to the Dpony rough mixes as I was digitizing, fretting about how to pull off the album-length video, and well, the obvious answer occurred to me."
Don't forget to download the album here, or alternatively (for US residents only) snatch a physical copy of the video via their website.
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Last year we were briefly introduced to Dpony, the psychedelic outtake of Hooray For Earth's Noel Heroux and Zambri's Seth Kasper, together with Johnny Woods and Josh Ascalon, whom released the tracks of their video album Movie for free download back in November. Today, the breathtaking visuals are finally available in full stream, after only having been available on VHS limited to 100 editions, directed by Dpony's own Johnny Woods. He says:
"My original plan was to shoot a whole bunch of original material, and make a crazy narrative out of it all, and then rip it to shreds with the video synthesizer and other processing techniques. (…) And I really don't like using "found footage". It's not any kind of ethical thing, I would just be horrified if I spent a month on something, and then someone else used the same "found footage" for another video.
Right around that time, my video partner and studio-mate Bec Stupak unearthed a box of VHS tapes she had shot in high school and college. She asked if I could digitize them, and to be honest, I was pretty curious and excited to watch them. Bec was the person who inspired me to start making videos in the first place, so to me, it was sort of a treasure chest. She just gave me one warning: "you will probably see me naked". There were probably 60 tapes total. So, I started digitizing the tapes, and immediately was jaw-dropped. The tape that eventually became "Desert of Calculations" was the first one I popped in, and it was just unreal: in 1992, this sixteen year-old girl is making Richard Kern/Jack Smith/Warhol style underground films in her bedroom in Princeton, NJ. It was just too good. I really like my videos to have a sense of timelessness, or at least weird-time-confusion, to them, and this was perfect. It felt like a lot of underground films from the 60s-80s, was shot in the 90s, and would now be re-processed and edited in 2011 using 70s era technology. I think I was listening to the Dpony rough mixes as I was digitizing, fretting about how to pull off the album-length video, and well, the obvious answer occurred to me."
Don't forget to download the album here, or alternatively (for US residents only) snatch a physical copy of the video via their website.
Now this is gonna be special/interesting/crass: Tomorrow night, our friends of Noisekölln are gonna host a performance by Australian noise artist Lucas Abela aka Justice Yeldham, a musician who "likes to make sound by employing things that cause bloody cuts", to quote a recent documentary on French/German TV broadcaster Arte. For a little more background, check out the 2010 interview/live performance on Nat Roe's show at WFMU. The magic takes place at West Germany and starts at 9pm. For more info go here.
On top of that, the night will see the launch of the anticipated launch of Noisekölln Tapes with the initial release of nkt-001, a split between Ill Winds and Moon Wheel in an edition of 50. So if you happen to be in Berlin, this is definitely something you wouldn't wanna miss out on.
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Following the video premiere of 
Last year we were briefly