+ The Daily Swarm interviews Barry Hogan of All Tomorrow’s Parties

I think I’d rather give up, then have some bloated corporation tell us what we can and can’t do with the music. That’s the good thing with the curator, they’re making a mix tape and they’re not having some douchebag at some corporation saying “hey you must work with these bands only.” That kinda thing does happen and that’s what we want to avoid and we’ve resisted it for 10 years.

+ Luke Vibert – We hear you (The Silent Ballet)

+ L’usine – A Certain Distance (Limewire)

+ Gaipten Gelen Muhabbetler – John Zorn, Kronos Quartet, Fedayi Pacha (Dinleme Parki)

+ Beat Electric presents Classic 80’s House (Beat Electric)

+ Heard in Berlin (Beatportal)

Eat, drink, sleep, have sex with a stranger, smoke, dance, cross dress, fist somebody. You can even get pissed on, if that’s your thing, but take a photo and you’ll be in a whole lot of shit.

+ Interview with Dixon (Little white earbuds)

+ Dave Douglas feature (Downbeast)

+ Fabio Orsi and Seaworthy – Near and Faraway (The Silent Ballet)

An epic understatement expressed through blissful drones, Near and Faraway is a collaborative album between Italian sound-sculptor Fabio Orsi and Australian ambient artist Seaworthy (Cameron Webb). For this release, the artists each composed their own piece and then worked together for a third, yielding gorgeously earnest results that can invoke the smell of wet grass in outer space.

+ Shit & Shine : 229 2299 review (Strangeglue)

At eighty minutes in length, there is no story to this album, there is no artistic insight to be gathered, it is just that: a test of endurance to see if you can really withstand the continued subjection to such heinous sonic contortions.

+ Wavves Interview (pedestrian.tv)

+ New stuff coming out of Göthenburg, Sweden, Fontän, Taken by Trees, Air France. (The Line of Best Fit)

+ Sailing Conversations, Volume 1: Sublime Frequencies (Foxy Digitalis)

We are still comfortable with the term “exotic” just because it has been politically correct to not be used by so many people. We prefer to embrace it as a positive term, because it sort of gets the point across. If it is “exotic”, it is mysterious, it is foreign, it is from another dimension. They do not think that anyone should use the term “exotic” because maybe it leaves a perception of being disdainful towards a group of people or an area in the world, or looking at them as being less of something. For me it is just the opposite; it makes them more powerful, it makes them much more venerable.