February 2012
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WatchTall Firs play ATP curated by Jeff Mangum this March. In the weeks leading up to the event the band will release a free downloadable cover version of a track by another artist on the festival line-up, with the fifth track coming out the day before the event.
This first track is a cover of Thurston Moore’s Fri/End.
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WatchConcessionaires - Gazelocked (Under the Spire) Atmospheric soundscapes from Concessionaires (Pete Fosco and Brad Rose of Foxy Digitalis) on UK’s Under the Spire label.
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Holter’s meditative second LP, Ekstasis (out March 8 via RVNG Intl.), is markedly more approachable than Tragedy, as evidenced by new song “In the Same Room” as well as first single “Marienbad”.” Pitchfork Interview
via tomwolf
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WatchJoash - Bleed (Sportloto Soviet Mix) (Compost Disco, 12”, 2011)
Russian producer Sportloto’s nudisco hit from last year. Heard it the first time today, it’s quite a dancefloor killer.
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WatchOOIOO Live & Interview @ Villette Sonique, Paris (by theDRONEwebsite)
Live footage and interview with the Japanese riot grrrl trio OOIOO by the excellent Drone Magazine.
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WatchRoxane Fréché - Not for sale (by Latona Mike)
Distorted breakbeats mixed with Roxane’s amazing vocals. Motion design by Los Hermanos.
January 2012
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WatchDrosofile - Mal (by MULAN SERRICO)
Out on SDZ Records.
“Debut single from this French/American duo. In the same vein as Brainbombs, Drosofile are hellbent on creating a perfect soundtrack for the serial killer in all of us. Simple and relentless percussion, manic vocals, and noisy guitar repetitions help create a general uneasy feeling that’ll make you wanna kill a...
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WatchJulian Lynch - Terra (by BlearyEyedBrooklyn.com) Live at Glasslands Gallery, Brooklyn
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WatchThe New Honey Shade - Ozark Dream (by Mark Kuykendall)
Somewhere between The Caretaker and the Ghost Box aesthetic lies, Mark Kuykendall’s The New Honey Shade. Haunted melodies to videos of bygone times. Surely one of my biggest finds in the last couple of weeks. Ozark Dream is out on Scisscor Tail, Download on bandcamp. MP3: The New Honey Shade - Sun is Elixer
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WatchIlyas Ahmed & Liz Harris (Grouper) - Live at Aquarius Records (by Ronnie Barrows)
Don’t sleep on the new limited collaboration 12” of Ilyas Ahmed & Liz Harris (Grouper) on Social Music’s Record & Tape Club. Here’s a teaser, I didn’t know this was captured on video! Amazing session.
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WatchHiguma - Live at Cafe OTO 11.11.11 (by Gianmarco Del Re)
Another video from the same night, Barn Owl’s Evan Caminiti and Vestals’ Lisa McGee performing as the duo Higuma.
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WatchJozef van Wissem - The Great Joy (by Gianmarco Del Re)
Lutenist Jozef van Wissem live on 11.11.11 at Cafe OTO, performing his own composition The Great Joy.
If you want more of him check out this hour long podcast of him and Jim Jarmusch on WNYC’s New Sounds.
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WatchJulianna Barwick - The Magic Place (by Mimi Gall)
The Magic Place from the same named album from last year on Asthmatic Kitty.
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WatchThe New Honey Shade - Viscose (by Unknown Tone Records) Official video for the song “Viscose” off the album “Industrial Microscopy” by The New Honey Shade. This album is based on and dedicated to the work of E.D Anderson and his hand-bound book “Industrial Microscopy.” The book contains over 200 photographs, E. D. had photographed from fibers & fabrics,...
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WatchThe Caretaker - A relationship with the sublime (by Video Marsh) Directed by Video Marsh Cinematography by Jennifer Truong From the album An Empty Bliss Beyond This World, also featured on our best of 2011 list.
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