White.

10 Dec 2010 — Tonje Thilesen

With a myspace layout which will probably make you have an epileptic seizure, I honestly did not expect the music of the portuguese three-piece Evols to be so pure and soulful, as well as taking inspiration from so many genres that it becomes hard to put them into just one category. To me they may sound like a more stripped and slowed down Faust, leading the krautrock-inspired sound in a more ambient direction. Buy one of their 500 limited edition vinyls, or stream the album here. Evols - White Evols - Sea Of Stars Read more → With a myspace layout which will probably make you have an epileptic seizure, I honestly did not expect the music of the portuguese three-piece Evols to be so pure and soulful, as well as taking inspiration from so many genres that it becomes hard to put them into just one category. To me they may sound like a more stripped and slowed down Faust, leading the krautrock-inspired sound in a more ambient direction. Buy one of their 500 limited edition vinyls, or stream the album here. Evols - White Evols - Sea Of Stars

Walkabout.

09 Dec 2010 — Henning Lahmann

Our most adored little cassette label Wonder Beard Tapes has just announced its next release, Walkabout by Chicago resident Anthony Engelhardt's project Ra Cailum. The tape is a splendid collection of slow-burning, dream infusing synth jams, totally relaxed and contemplating, in a way that kind of music some folks used to call "chillwave" back in the days but after all at its core this is just a simply beautiful séance in its own right. Pre-order the tape over here, or get the whole thing for free digitally at bandcamp. Ra Cailum - Expectations Read more → Our most adored little cassette label Wonder Beard Tapes has just announced its next release, Walkabout by Chicago resident Anthony Engelhardt's project Ra Cailum. The tape is a splendid collection of slow-burning, dream infusing synth jams, totally relaxed and contemplating, in a way that kind of music some folks used to call "chillwave" back in the days but after all at its core this is just a simply beautiful séance in its own right. Pre-order the tape over here, or get the whole thing for free digitally at bandcamp. Ra Cailum - Expectations

Angel-Headed.

09 Dec 2010 — Henning Lahmann

Before it's time to end this day, some wonderful pop music by Brooklyn's Mainland Fever, a quartet gathered in Dumbo around Jordan Topf who obviously brought some sunshine from his Californian home to the warehouses between the bridges, as Angel-Headed is a light-hearted and uplifting piece of soul, all beautifully reverb-laden guitars and harmony-driven vocals, just in time to forget for once all that untypically early December snow that will probably stay in Berlin's streets till March. (Photo by Randyll Wendl) Mainland Fever - Angel-Headed Read more → Before it's time to end this day, some wonderful pop music by Brooklyn's Mainland Fever, a quartet gathered in Dumbo around Jordan Topf who obviously brought some sunshine from his Californian home to the warehouses between the bridges, as Angel-Headed is a light-hearted and uplifting piece of soul, all beautifully reverb-laden guitars and harmony-driven vocals, just in time to forget for once all that untypically early December snow that will probably stay in Berlin's streets till March. (Photo by Randyll Wendl) Mainland Fever - Angel-Headed

Perhaps it’s for the better.

08 Dec 2010 — Henning Lahmann

Without much ado, a little pop perfection for your esteemed aural organs, another serious 50s throwback by one man miracle Spectrals, known to his friends as Louis Jones, with all of Yorkshire's melancholy compressed into a purest gem of gently sliding guitars and Jones' sweet and mourning voice. Seriously, this tune is killing me right now. Taken from A Spectrals Extended Play, now out via Moshi Moshi on CD and Underwater Peoples on 12 inch vinyl. (via) Spectrals - I Ran With Love But Couldn't Keep Up Read more → Without much ado, a little pop perfection for your esteemed aural organs, another serious 50s throwback by one man miracle Spectrals, known to his friends as Louis Jones, with all of Yorkshire's melancholy compressed into a purest gem of gently sliding guitars and Jones' sweet and mourning voice. Seriously, this tune is killing me right now. Taken from A Spectrals Extended Play, now out via Moshi Moshi on CD and Underwater Peoples on 12 inch vinyl. (via) Spectrals - I Ran With Love But Couldn't Keep Up

Some Kind of Monster.

08 Dec 2010 — Henning Lahmann

Two fresh cuts by Pittsburgh beat enigma Specialist Morgen J, as usual subtly deranged and off-kilter, not exactly useful for anything and slightly outdated, yet still all in all strangely captivating and somehow awesome and timeless - oh yes indeed, I think I'm talking about a musical lava lamp. Specialist Morgen J - Some Kind of Monster Specialist Morgen J - Uterus Read more → Two fresh cuts by Pittsburgh beat enigma Specialist Morgen J, as usual subtly deranged and off-kilter, not exactly useful for anything and slightly outdated, yet still all in all strangely captivating and somehow awesome and timeless - oh yes indeed, I think I'm talking about a musical lava lamp. Specialist Morgen J - Some Kind of Monster Specialist Morgen J - Uterus

Les Références.

08 Dec 2010 — Henning Lahmann

It recently turned out that Turin native and Brussels resident Calogero Marotta not only likes to write about music as a staff member of the wonderful French website Hartzine, but apparently also is an amazingly talented chansonnier who makes or at least just started to make dreamy little pop songs under the moniker Souvenirs. As far as I know, Les Références is the first one he's put out so far, but its sheer beauty sure leaves us impatiently waiting for more to come. Souvenirs - Les Références Read more → It recently turned out that Turin native and Brussels resident Calogero Marotta not only likes to write about music as a staff member of the wonderful French website Hartzine, but apparently also is an amazingly talented chansonnier who makes or at least just started to make dreamy little pop songs under the moniker Souvenirs. As far as I know, Les Références is the first one he's put out so far, but its sheer beauty sure leaves us impatiently waiting for more to come. Souvenirs - Les Références

memory.

08 Dec 2010 — Tonje Thilesen

The Portuguese filmmaker and video artist Pedro Maia recently sent us a link to this splendid hand-made music video/short film memory, which is a collaboration between himself and Noah Lennox better known as Panda Bear; exploring "the relation between a musician and filmmaker and their personal reflection on memories". Head over to his vimeo site to get more of these super 8 vibes. Read more → The Portuguese filmmaker and video artist Pedro Maia recently sent us a link to this splendid hand-made music video/short film memory, which is a collaboration between himself and Noah Lennox better known as Panda Bear; exploring "the relation between a musician and filmmaker and their personal reflection on memories". Head over to his vimeo site to get more of these super 8 vibes.