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A finely curated collection of sounds that captured my ear, heart and mind in 2015. I'm still leaning heavy on SoundCloud as my go-to for discovering new music. I also continue to find new stuff on Noisetrade, the ISO50 blog and Twitter. I'm pretty sure I only purchased one CD this past year, so I'm finally letting go of that format for my music purchases. Definitely purchased more vinyl this year, as I'm buying all of my "forever" music in this format now (with the added convenience of the immediate digital download). The rest of my music was purchased digitally from iTunes -- due to the ability to access the music across all of my devices.

Blogged here: http://defythegray.blogspot.com/2016/01/2015-in-sound.html

2015 IN SOUND

March 2015

Stripped back, downtempo ambience is the sonic realm in which you'll usually find Charles Murdoch. Hailing from Brisbane, Australia, Charles has been making steady waves across the waters delivering smooth sounds to soothe the soul. 

Filling an hour with soft house, Future Classic's Charles Murdoch provides this week's i-DJ. Look up and lock in.

"Hello, I’m Charles Murdoch. I tried to do something a little different for you guys. House music has been a big part of my life so i wanted it to be personal and try to incorporate those tracks that really got me nodding. I’ve put in some of my favourite songs of all time, there’s also some unreleased goods and a few of my own. "
https://soundcloud.com/charlesmurdoch

1. AHMAD JAMAL - SOULGIRL
2. WIL MADDAMS - GET HIGH (I LIKE IT)
3. KYLE HALL - GHOSTEN
4. MIC MILLS - DEVIL'S PIE
5. KENLOU - GIMME GROOVE
6. CASSIUS SELECT - JAMO
7. CHESUS - NEWARK
8. ZOO LOOK ft AMY LYON - OVER ME (DETROIT SWINDLE REWORK)
9. PAOLO ROCCO - MOVE BODY, MOVE FORWARD
10. CHARLES MURDOCH - BE THE MAN
11. AUDIOJACK, KEVIN KNAPP - THESE DAYS
12. TIMMY P - WHAT YOU SAYIN
13. CHARLES MURDOCH - DEKIRE ft OSCAR KEY SUNG (BODHI REMIX)
14. JIMMY EDGAR - HOT INSIDE

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i-DJ: Charles Murdoch

New French sensation PORTLAND are set to release their first EP "Deezy Daisy" on Kitsuné on September 15th! It should please as many pop-songs amateurs with the catchy original track as a more groovy and electro addicted audience with great remixes! 

PORTLAND - "Deezy Daisy" (Minimix)

From Denison Witmer, Denison Witmer (April 30th, 2013)
http://asthmatickitty.com/merch/denison-witmer/

Denison Witmer
http://denisonwitmer.com

Is my mind at ease or am I jaded?
Has the brightest color in me faded?
Have the simplest things been complicated
In a song?
 
I was just nineteen when all this started
I was sun burned skin and open hearted
I was hometown proud, tucked in, and parted
In a song
 
In my dreams I’m wide awake
And I always have exactly what it takes
 
Oh, my constant muse
I have pinned my life on you
Chasing words and every mood
Into song
 
In my dreams I’m wide awake
And I always have exactly what it takes
In my dreams I’m wide awake
And I always know exactly what to say
 
Oh, my constant muse
I have pinned my life on you
Chasing words and every mood
Into song
 
Is my mind at ease or am I jaded?


Denison Witmer, "Constant Muse"

Californian rapper and producer, signed to Stones Throw Records and 
winner of Gilles Peterson's 'Album of the Year 2014'. Jonwayne, laid down an exclusive beats mix in the Brownswood Basement. Not just a wordsmith, Jonwayne delivers the goods each and every time. 

For more goodness check out his performance of 'Black Magic' for a Brownswood Basement session from his latest album 'Rap Album One' here: http://bitly.com/1lv7c1f




Jonwayne Mix on Gilles Peterson Worldwide (GPWW 880)

MERCH >> bit.ly/3a1Jnwv << T-shirts, hats, hoodies & more!

We are honored here at Musicis4Lovers.com to be able to host the new remix from Nu and Acid Pauli of Daniel Bortz's beautiful composition, "The Misery feat. Nils Corssen". 

Daniel Bortz isn't a big fan of reckless experiments. A fact that makes this new release even more remarkable: he's breaking his own rule of not having his own tracks remixed.

Needless to say, he didn't just pick anyone to get this job done. His choice fell on some highly esteemed friends and colleagues, resulting in a quite remarkable package.

Acid Pauli and Nu give us their interpretation of “The Misery”, using Nils Corssen´s voice as a hook lead element, never losing the melancholy vibe of the original and still putting it into a rather dancefloor-compatible context.

AVAILABLE April 25, 2014

artist: DANIEL BORTZ
title: PATCHWORK MEMORIES REMIXES
label: SUOL
mixes: Nu & Acid Pauli / Tuff City Kids / Bostro Pesopeo
cat #: Suol053
release date: 25/04/14

PURCHASE

Daniel Bortz - The Misery Feat. Nils Corssen (Nu And Acid Vs Pauli Remix) [SUOL] [MI4L.com]

From The Hotelier's "Home, Like Noplace Is There" LP out now on Tiny Engines

Order Now: tnyn.gs/hotelyear

The Hotelier - Among The Wildflowers

www.HishamKharma.com
Facebook.com/HishamKharma
Youtube.com/HishamKharma

*Rmx of the original "Ahl El Karam" by Sheikh Ahmad Al Tuni.

Hisham Kharma FT. Ahmed Al Tuni  هشام خرما مع أحمد التونى ^ اهل الكرم

Taken from the album "Ripe 4 Luv." Out March 10th on Slumberland Records.
Pre-order iTunes: http://smarturl.it/ripe4luv
Pre-order LP/CD: http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/catalog/show/282

From: Harry Winklebottom
To: Social Media/Marketing/Sales
Re: who is Young Guv and why is he ripe for love?

Who's @youngguv? He's still underground, but everyone will know him soon. Right now, he only has 1500 followers, so we need to get this kid a checkmark as soon as possible. Here's the rundown:

He's a white boy in a backwards snapback with fake Emoji neck tattoos. He's ripped bald kid fronting one of the most important and successful hardcore bands in Toronto history. He's a ghostwriter eating pasta as he pens al dente tunes for the likes of Sum 41, Kelly Clarkson, Taylor Swift, a few Canadian Idols, Snow, a slew of hardcore bands, Maroon 5 and one or two OVO affiliates. He's a tortured artist turning down Katy Perry's edits to his tunes because she didn't like his babies as they were. He's a child actor playing Ryan Gosling's sexy little brother. Do I need to go on?

@youngguv is Ben Cook, and he's putting out an album, "Ripe 4 Luv," on one of the greatest labels ever, Slumberland Records. Having been around for a minute, Guv has decided to put together a set of pop tunes that shows off his range as a performer, singer, songwriter, style icon and retweet-worthy pop star. I've heard the album, and its ready to head to marketing. We don't need a billboard for this one, all we need to do is release a single and get it trending worldwide. We're going to break Nielsen SoundScan. We're going straight to #1 on iTunes!

Guv got it right the first time with his band No Warning, one of the only Canadian hardcore acts to achieve recognition from major labels in the U.S. He parlayed this experience into a successful career as the creeper peaking through the curtain as better-looking people sing his songs to an appreciative audience. In addition to writing for pop royalty and no-name punk acts, Young Guv has spent the last 7 years playing guitar in fellow Toronto legends Fucked Up, selling 10's of 1000's of singles recorded in various bedrooms, and helping put the East End back on the GTA's music map with his Bad Actors imprint. Guv has been around for a while, and now he's helping new, young talent get around and release classic records. How could you not like this guy? He's got the bone structure to go viral at any moment.

"Ripe 4 Luv" is a beautiful album for beautiful people. Plus, it really shows off his range. There's only one way to describe this record: Guv sings like Prince into expensive audio-nerd mics over power pop backing tracks that evoke Big Star after they got some nookie but before they became depressed about their failure to appeal to the right audience. If that's not good enough for you, then it sounds like Cheap Trick produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Or how about Drake's producer 40 manning the boards for a Hall & Oates session? Any of those will help sell this record to the blogs, just pick one and run with it. 

That's it, that's what you get when you stream "Ripe 4 Luv" on Spotify. I'm telling you, this album is just perfect for Billboard's Trending 140 chart. We're going to be rich!

Young Guv - Wrong Crowd feat. Jef Barbara

From new album Range Anxiety, released 23 Jan 2015 on Chapter Music.

Best new track on Pitchfork:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/17265-the-twerps-i-dont-mind/

Pre-order Range Anxiety:

https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/range-anxiety/id929051312
www.chaptermusic.com/store/twerps/range-anxiety/
www.chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/album/range-anxiety

Listeners outside Aus/NZ get your copy via Merge Records.
www.mergerecords.com/range-anxiety 

Buy from Chapter

Twerps - I Don't Mind

from the sophomore album 'another eternity' out March 3rd, 2015

available now: https://lastgang.myshopify.com/products/purity-ring-another-eternity 

Purity Ring - begin again

new single from new Dick Diver album Melbourne Florida. Album will be released on vinyl, CD and digital by Chapter Music on March 6, 2015 for Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

Pre-order Melbourne, Florida and get Waste The Alphabet via

itunes.apple.com/au/album/melbour…rida/id947586646
http://chaptermusic.com/store/dick-diver/melbourne-florida/
chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/album/melbourne-florida

Listeners outside Aus, NZ & Japan head to troubleinmindrecs.com/ for your copy.

www.facebook.com/dickdiverband
www.twitter.com/dick_diver

Dick Diver - Tearing The Posters Down

Buy Mwng at:
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/Mwng
Domino - http://smarturl.it/MwngDM

Or pre-order Mwng (Deluxe) at iTunes - http://smarturl.it/MwngDeluxe

Originally released in 2000 on the band’s own Placid Casual label (between deals with Creation and Sony), the Super Furries career-defining fourth album Mwng was the band’s only Welsh language long player. It reached Number 11 in the UK album charts and was their highest selling record globally up to that point. It remains the biggest selling Welsh language album of all time. On its original release, the record was praised in an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons for its significant part in promoting the language and culture of Wales.

The reissue comes in several formats. Deluxe editions (vinyl, CD and download) contain five tracks previously released on the US version of Mwng under the name Mwng Bach as well as a previously unreleased Peel session and a full live show recorded at ATP.

Mwng

Ymaelodi Â'r Ymylon

Super Furry Animals - Ymaelodi Â'r Ymylon

Taken from the new album PAUSE:
https://indianwells.lnk.to/Pause

Follow:
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vinyl edition

Indian Wells - New York Nights

The first taste of Van Dale's forthcoming s/t release. 

Pre-Order Here: 
http://fleetingyouth.storenvy.com/
https://fleetingyouthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/van-dale

www.facebook.com/pages/Van-Dale/157729094385657
www.facebook.com/fleetingyouthrecords
www.fleetingyouthrecords.com

Van Dale- Bed Of Bricks

The first single from Tellison's forthcoming new album on Alcopop Records. 

DOWNLOAD FOR FREE FROM: https://tellison.bandcamp.com/album/tact-is-dead
Free download includes artwork, lyric sheet and poster. 

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkD0MaQUOko

www.tellison.co.uk 

Alcopop#119
credits
released 04 March 2015 

Produced by Andy Jenkin @ Rex Studio, London. (www.andyjenkin.co.uk) 

Song and lyrics by SH Davidson. 
Music written and composed by Tellison. 

Artwork by Tom Laskowski (www.tomlaskowski.com) & Lloyd Cook (www.lloyd-cook.co.uk) 

LYRICS 
On the day I graduated 
I passed out on the floor 
You mean there's more? 
I've done everything you said 
I don't want to intern 
It turned out meritocracy 
Was a lie 
As a philosophy it don't work 
They just told us that 
To keep us in school 

You bet your drilled back teeth 
I was looking at you 
Picking fights on the tube 
Cos you're feeling so blue 
It's not just the scars you can see 
It's the scars on the inside 
Inside of me 

My generation 
Doesn't mean that much to me 
And this Golden Age thinking 
Means I'm often unhappy 

I've got a little dark room 
At the back of the house 
I've been saving my pay 
But it's wearing me down 
And I can't afford anything 
Increasingly I opt out of everything 

I've had a million jobs 
I'll have a million more 
Wish I was successful 
But I sleep on the floor 
Work all my life 
For family 
So that my kids 
Can be like me 
The indignity, the humanity 
Oh the horror, the horror, ah Bartleby 
Throw me into a tube train 
Pay me the minimum wage 
So I will never earn more than my parents 
I'd prefer it not to be this way but 

My generation 
Doesn't mean that much to me 
And this Golden Age thinking 
Means I'm often unhappy 

Hidem Brook 
You've got the look 
Of a man I'd like to be 
Hidem Brook 
You've got the look 
Of a man… of a real man 

My generation 
Doesn't mean that much to me 
And this Golden Age thinking 
Means I'm often unhappy.

Tact Is Dead

From the new album CARRIE & LOWELL by Sufjan Stevens
Get it: http://akrec.co/1y05i0M
Available on Asthmatic Kitty Records

More info: http://carrieandlowell.com

LYRICS:

I should have known better
To see what I could see
My black shroud
Holding down my feelings
A pillar for my enemies

I should have wrote a letter
And grieve what I happen to grieve
My black shroud
I never trust my feelings
I waited for the remedy

When I was three, three maybe four
She left us at that video store
Be my rest, be my fantasy

I’m light as a feather
I’m bright as the Oregon breeze
My black shroud 
Frightened by my feelings
I only want to be a relief

No, I’m not a go-getter
The demon had a spell on me
My black shroud
Captain of my feelings
The only thing I want to believe

When I was three, and free to explore
I saw her face on the back of the door
Be my vest, be my fantasy

I should have known better
Nothing can be changed
The past is still the past
The bridge to nowhere
I should’ve wrote a letter 
Explaining what I feel, that empty feeling

Don’t back down, concentrate on seeing
The breakers in the bar, the neighbor’s greeting
My brother had a daughter
The beauty that she brings, illumination

Don’t back down, there is nothing left
The breakers in the bar, no reason to live
I’m a fool in the fetter
Rose of Aaron’s beard, where you can reach me

Don’t back down: nothing can be changed
Cantilever bridge, the drunken sailor
My brother had a daughter
The beauty that she brings, illumination 

--------------------------------------------------------

Sufjan Stevens, "Should Have Known Better"

LEVV is Audrey Assad and Seth Jones.

The Arrow EP is the first release from the band. More music coming this summer.

Available for free download: http://noisetrade.com/levv/arrow-ep

Arrow

From the album, Seven Swans. 
Produced by Amit Chadda. 
Performed by Glen Rowlan. 
Aug 2011

Abraham (Sufjan Stevens)

PREORDER VITALS:

    - Direct: http://mutemath.merchdirect.com
    - iTunes: http://smarturl.it/MMVitals
    - Google Play: http://smarturl.it/MMVitals_GPlay
    - Amazon:  http://smarturl.it/MMVitals_Amz

Vitals

Joy Rides

Out now as part of our debut album Brainsugar.

Out Now: anjunadeep.lnk.to/Brainsugar

Follow Cubicolor:
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www.twitter.com/cubicolormusic
www.instagram.com/cubicolor/


Brainsugar

Falling

Turkish Sufi Music - Dervişane - Bir Sultan Göründü (A Sultan appeared with green flag)

Dervişane - Bir Sultan Göründü (A Sultan appeared with green flag)

Sufjan Stevens, "Justice Delivers Its Death"

Sufi Music Turkish - Qanounaki  -  Nay By Night - Mohannos

the shaman's wife

Sufi music .. Omar Farouk ♥ Sufism I Love you

BUY @ Beatport http://www.beatport.com/release/snatch040/1108627

Blue Mondays - Sometimes (Riva Starr Rmx) [Snatch! Records]

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.