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Haldern Pop 2014

funk baby

intense

Girl Power

diamond

Give me your kitschy, psych, blottered masses yearning to toke free. This is a mix for letting your mind flow downstream. *For best results, serve shuffled.

RATED EXOTICA: Psychedelic Surf, Orchestral Pop, Baroque Rock, Trip-Hop & Other Delights

Ckjf

"Goes Black" from the forthcoming Big Ups record, Eighteen Hours of Static on Dead Labour Records.

Big Ups, "Goes Black"

Light Bulbs

Who Robbed The Rogue?

My Shallow Lover

"In a Bar" from Tango with Lions' debut album "Verba Time", released by InnerEar Records on June 21st 2010

In a Bar

Ed Harcourt - This One's For You

Make You Feel You Feel My Love

Yesterday was one of those nights I couldn't sleep. Turned from left to right. So I plugged in my piano and started to play and lost myself. Lost myself in the music - with the wonderful voice of Alice Jemima covering Kavinsky's "Nightcall"
This track might not be perfect, but I wanted to share it with you :) 

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Alice Jemima x SAINT WKND - Nightcall

Track from our debut LP - 'Balloon Age'. Out NOW on Beyond Beyond is Beyond Records.

Available NOW on aqua-blue 12" vinyl, CD and DD from:

UK/EU - http://newelectricride.bandcamp.com
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A Submarine Song

I've heard Izzy Bizu singing White Tiger and I couldn't resist to get my hands on the song. This was made for all the people who love to get lost in to the music, feeling the moment, moving and dancing and just be free ♥
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Izzy Bizu x SAINT WKND - White Tiger

Giorgio - Mah-Na Mah-Na (1968)

Mahna Mahna: originally titled Mah-Na Mah-Na or Mah-Nà Mah-Nà

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Giorgio Moroder - Mahna Mahna (1968)

Official music video: http://youtu.be/CePpTXIuQzY
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My Brightest Diamond, "Pressure"
from the LP "This Is My Hand" 
Available on CD /Vinyl / Digital 
September 16, 2014
from Asthmatic Kitty Records.

Lyrics:
mountain on top a fire below 
the pressure grows pressure
I feel the weight of a billion years 
come down on me come down
I tried to do it all right I went down down down
workin' hard little delight I forgot the sound of
diamonds

so bright I cannot hide 'em
so heavy I cannot mine 'em
all of this pressure's makin' diamonds
so wild I cannot tame 'em
so shiny I cannot name 'em
all of this pressure's makin' diamonds
disperse the white light

dancing on top the glitter glow
the pressure slows pressure
I feel the blade the cutting edge move out out out
I tried to do it all right I went down down down
workin' hard little delight I forgot the sound of
diamonds

pink purple green red yellow blue
I am in that mood indigo
pink purple green red yellow blue
I am in that mood for diamonds

Tour Dates: 
9/19/14 Detroit, Michigan
9/20/14 Toronto, Ontario
9/22/14 Cambridge, Massachusetts
9/23/14 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
9/25/14 New York , New York
9/27/14 Washington DC
9/28/14 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
9/30/14 Charlotte, North Carolina
10/1/14 Atlanta, Georgia
10/4/14 Austin, Texas
10/10/14 Austin, Texas
10/12/14 Dallas, Texas
10/17/14 Stockholm, Sweden
10/18/14 Gothenburg, Sweden
10/19/14 Copenhagen, Denmark
10/21/14 Hamburg, Germany
10/22/14 Berlin, Germany
10/24/14 Brussels, Belgium
10/25/14 Amsterdam, Netherlands
10/26/14 Paris, Ile-de-France
10/28/14 London, UK
10/29/14 Leeds, UK
10/30/14 Glasgow, UK
10/31/14 Dublin, Ireland
11/8/14 St Paul, Minnesota
11/12/14 Grand Rapids, Michigan
11/13/14 Chicago, Illinois
11/14/14 Madison, Wisconsin
11/15/14 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
11/16/14 Iowa City, Iowa
11/17/14 Minneapolis, Minnesota
11/19/14 St. Louis, Missouri
11/20/14 Indianapolis, Indiana
12/2/14 Denver, Colorado
12/3/14 Salt Lake City, Utah
12/5/14 Portland, Oregon
12/6/14 Seattle, Washington
12/7/14 Vancouver, British Columbia
12/10/14 San Francisco, California
12/12/14 Los Angeles, California
12/13/14 San Diego, California

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My Brightest Diamond, "Pressure"

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From the LP "This Is My Hand." 
Available September 16, 2014.

Available on CD /Vinyl /Digital including limited edition translucent red 12" from Asthmatic Kitty Records.

Available in Canada from Paper Bag Records in frosted vinyl

Lyrics:
billet spied
bolt sped
across the field
crows fled
aloft and wounded
left one dead

lover killer
at the wall in the mirror

on the one side I can dream my future
on the other I can feel my nature

inside myself I have a moment to choose
to hold or to refuse
to shoot or to let loose
the cawing crow the pulsing throat

lover killer
at the wall in the mirror

on the one side I can dream my future
on the other I can feel my nature

I am a lover and a killer

My Brightest Diamond, "Lover/Killer"

Lemonade

Animals - Baths

Funeral Beds

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lost in the cracks of the landslide
you saw me slipping on my blind side
i'm feeling lost, feeling tongue-tied
and now i'm frozen in your headlights

deep in the haze of your love high
i used to soar on the live wire
i'm coming down from your supply
and i don't know if you can make right

I can't take it
from the day i saw my heart start breaking
no one saved me
I can't take it
can't believe I went and lost you baby
earth keeps shaking
all around,
oh, you let me down and
I can't take it
from the day i saw my heart start breaking
no one saved me

shot through the cracks of the earthquake
my body's moving into retrograde
i'm feeling loose, feeling untamed...
and you're the dynamite in my chains

deep in the trench of the crossfire 
you shot me down from the live wire
tossed to the loss in your love game
you beat me cheating, and now I can't play

I can't take it
from the day i saw my heart start breaking
no one saved me
I can't take it
can't believe I went and lost you baby
earth keeps shaking
all around,
oh, you let me down and
I can't take it
from the day i saw my heart start breaking
no one saved me

hit the ground running up from you
baby you know I don't want to, no I want you
but there's nothing left to say
lost in the riddle you gave me
caught in the middle, you played me; see so plainly
but there's nothing left to say... I should've known. I should've known

I can't take it
from the day i saw my heart start breaking
no one saved me
I can't take it
can't believe I went and lost you baby
earth keeps shaking
all around,
oh, you let me down and
I can't take it
from the day i saw my heart start breaking
no one saved me

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OctaHate

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Promises

<a title="Request license for this Track." href="http://www.tracksandfields.com/track/request_license?id=133986&from_sc=1"><br />Request license for this Track.<br /></a>Easy, Friendly, Fun, Funky, Happy, Jolly, Laid Back, Mellow, Mischievous, Perculiar, Playful, Quirky, Retro, Slow, Spatial

A. Dobson 'Don't Trip'

Handle Me

Handle Me (Radio Edit)

The impending demise of the Adélie penguins. The death of composer Henryk Górecki. The bombing of South Korea. The house arrest of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo. Alarming increases in human trafficking and sexual slavery. Tsunami in Chile. Oil spills. The flood in Pakistan.

“Be Brave,” the first video from My Brightest Diamond’s third and forthcoming album All Things Will Unwind, is frontwoman Shara Worden’s response to a world unwinding. It is her rain dance, her attempt to influence and change things seemingly outside her control. But it’s also an inner dialogue, Shara to Shara, a blistering plea/lecture/pep talk to get her gameface on and do something tangible and real about injustice - including singing and dancing.

“In November,” says Worden, “the great composer Gorecki died and I remember that weekend clearly, listening to the work and reading the lyrics in his beautiful Symphony No. 3, the lament of a mother who has lost her son in war. This was the context in which I started writing [‘Be Brave’].”

Prefuse 73 provides a remix of "Be Brave" that expands the song's foundation into a an echoed chamber, like a parade through labyrinthian caves.



My Brightest Diamond, "Be Brave (Prefuse 73 Remix)"

The Matrimony Remixes takes Julianna Barwick’s acclaimed early 2011 release, The Magic Place, and puts two of its tracks into the hands of good friends. Previously having crossed paths with Julianna while both working on remixes of Radiohead’s “Reckoner,” Philadelphia-based Diplo teams up with producer Lunice to provide some deep sea beats to “Vow.” Brooklyn neighbor to Barwick, “dear friend,” and label-mate Roberto Lange takes “Vow” into the inner space of clouds. Long-time Barwick friend Bryan Doring of Alias Pail drumbreaks “Prizewinning.” Brooklyn/Boston-based sisters of the cosmos Prince Rama closes out the EP by escorting the same song into an aural Eden.

Julianna Barwick, "Prizewinning (Prince Rama Remix)"

My Brightest Diamond, "We Added It Up"

"The Storm" is the new single from the Finnish-Swedish pop duo Pepe Deluxé. Featuring a choir, a harp, a modular synthesizer, a Fisher Price –style drum kit played by Finland's most respected jazz drummer and a full orchestra, "The Storm" sounds like the theme from “Thunderbirds” meets a Samurai playing surf music.


Pepe Deluxé, "The Storm"

My Brightest Diamond, "High Low Middle"

Fol Chen has joined forces with Monome and Machine Project to bring you the Tetrafol.

The Tetrafol is a hand-held tangible electronic sound toy. Circuits enclosed by a wooden tetrahedron detect orientation and motion-gestures to modify the playback of a collection of Fol Chen's micro-compositions, allowing the user to explore sound through physical manipulation.

The battery-powered device has its own internal speaker but can additionally be hooked up to a headphone or amplifier.

The circuit and firmware are based on open-source hardware and is itself published as open-source, allowing anyone interested to learn about its deepest inner-workings.

Buy one here: 
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Fol Chen, "So Good"

Opossom - 'Girl'

Fire Records are excited to announce the worldwide signing of hotly tipped New Zealand band Opossom. The brainchild of Kody Nielson, formerly of acclaimed "trouble gum art punks" The Mint Chicks , Opossom have produced the exceptional and captivating album 'Electric Hawaii', which is due for release in August.

Opossom - Girl

My Brightest Diamond, "Something of an End"

Cunninlynguists - Lynguistics

I have never loved someone the way I love you
I have never seen a smile like yours
And if you grow up to be king, or clown, or pauper
I will say you are my favorite one in town
I have never held a hand so soft and sacred
When I see you laugh, I know heaven's key
And when I grow to be a poppy in the graveyard
I will send you all my love upon the breeze
And if the breeze won't blow your way, I will be the sun
And if the sun won't shine your way, I will be the rain
And if the rain won't wash away all your aches and pains
I will find some other way to tell you you're okay

You're okay (x7}

My Brightest Diamond - I Have Never Loved Someone

Taken from Mariam The Believers debut album Blood Donation
out now on Moshi Moshi


stay brave


Blood Donation

The String of Everything

A Is For Alpine is now available for purchase on iTunes. Get it here: hyperurl.co/sarqt1

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Gasoline - Alpine

Flow

Feed Me - Cloudburn feat.Tasha Baxter

Asthmatic Kitty Records is an independent record label that was co-founded by Lowell Brams and his stepson, singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens, in 1999. Since its founding, AKR has released albums by a variety of artists, including Lily & Madeleine, My Brightest Diamond and Helado Negro, and is currently home to Sufjan Stevens, Angelo De Augustine, Denison Witmer and The Welcome Wagon. 

Asthmatic Kitty was named after Sara, an orange and white tabby who wandered out of the woods pregnant and starving near Holland, Michigan in 1994. For fourteen years she brought joy as a beloved friend to Lowell, enjoying a happy life despite her initial hardships. Her asthma improved after moving west to New Mexico and Wyoming, where she lived out her days as an asthmatic kitty in name only.