A group of seasoned concert goers have listened to the bands coming to SXSW 2014 and combed out the terrible ones.  What's left are these songs that are what we think will be the best of what will rain down on Austin in March. hippohonk.com

SXSW 2014

New Stuff

Ava Luna - ice level

Education

DUNE 2K41

fantastico

never loose it

make me happy

fantastico II

How Do You Live Your Life

Taken from Wolf Alice's 'Blush' EP - out now.

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Blush

Taken from our album Voices. Download here: http://smarturl.it/PhantogramVoicesiT

Voices

Black Out Days

You're The One For Me

Rock Konducta Pt. 1 LP
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VINYL ONLY

Madlib - Black Widow - Rock Konducta

[Donell Jones downstairs RMX] 
Free load here http://maguett.bandcamp.com/album/wup

w'up

Full track list and commentary by Ed Motta at <a href="http://www.waxpoetics.com/music/dj-mix/the-aor-mix">Wax Poetics</a>.

Ed Motta AOR Mix

"Spanning just over eight minutes, the production is essentially broken up in two separate parts—the first focusing on a deep percussion pattern and sequences of light melodies, while the tune's latter half expands into more heavenly territory, where glistening pads and high-pitched vocals are anchored by massive bass and a heavy-handed four-on-the-floor. An ambitious composition, "You" is an impressively enticing first taste of what Gidge may be capable of on the debut LP the pair is expected to drop later this year."  - Glenn Jackson, XLR8R

Order our debut album 'Autumn Bells' here:
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Download 'You' for free over at XLR8R:
http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/03/you

Autumn Bells

Gidge - You

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/03/viewpoint

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Chevel - Viewpoint

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/03/yaguaret-ab

Barrio Lindo - Yaguareté Abá

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/03/milk-shake

Maguett - Milk Shake

A short piece I forgot about. I stuck a bunch clothespins in between the lowest strings of my MIDI piano and automated a percussion track, then just wanked over the top. Then added a some drums and acoustic bass in hopes that it winds up on "Local On The 8's". 

Benn Jordan - Untitled Disklavier Improvisation

Drawl (Demo)- 18+

After The Legions

Overjoyed

Overjoyed (Yeasayer Remix)

The Courage Of Others

Midlake - Acts Of Man

Spacious slowhouse variation oozing sunken keys and misshapen synths, all underpinned by that signature, colossal low-end padding and squashed percussion.

Drippin

Album out now on Erased Tapes. You can order it here: http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP048

'Captivating as ever' – The Wire
'Modern classical raptures' ★★★★ – Uncut
'Superb' ★★★★ – Mojo
'Hypnotic' ★★★★ – Rolling Stone (DE)
'One of the most remarkable albums of his career' ★★★★ – DeMorgen (BE)
'Epic, meditative stillness' Album of the Week – WQXR Q2 Music (US)

ABOUT THE ALBUM:

April 2013 will see Ukrainian pianist Lubomyr Melnyk, the pioneer of Continuous Music, return with his first release on UK’s contemporary music label Erased Tapes. Entitled 'Corollaries', the album was recorded and produced with the help of Peter Broderick, Nils Frahm, Martyn Heyne and label founder Robert Raths, who decided it’s time to share the great musical legacy of their new found friend. Or as Melnyk put it: ‘Where were you guys when I was thirty?’

IN HIS OWN WORDS:

‘My first encounter with Peter was at the Ambientfestival in Cologne, when I came into the cathedral where he was playing along with Nils. I was amazed and enthralled by the beauty and power of their music. The colours and majesty of the cathedral coupled with their music made it a great experience I will never forget. The music seemed to come out of the great stone pillars of the cathedral and from the very walls. It was an ecstatic moment. And I was so pleased that after his show, Peter came and spoke with me about my music and things, which was so nice since he is a gentle soul. Some time later, Peter contacted me with an invitation to come visit him in Berlin and try creating some music together. 

I arrived in Berlin with some apprehension over what our collaborations would be like. I had not played improvisation with other ambient musicians before, having worked solo for all these past years. So it was such a relief to start playing at his studio and hear his wonderful input. He was adding a beautiful and delicate dust cover of sounds and pearly effects that cast a lovely sparkle over the piano music --- I loved it.  

My piano music was happy with this new dimension of sounds. Peter just felt, in his natural way, the right things to do. It was a thrill to hear Continuous Music in some new clothes! And with the addition of Nils and Martyn, we all felt the beautiful spell of the communal flow as the music carried us into wonderful spaces.’  – LUBOMYR MELNYK

The album artwork was created by American contemporary artist Gregory Euclide, best known for his sculptural relief work and cover art for Bon Iver. Euclide was listening to early mixes of the recordings on repeat whilst creating the two paintings contained in the record, describing his visual counterpart to Melnyk's work as 'a continuous cycle of growth and decay'.

lubomyr.com
erasedtapes.com
peterbroderick.net
gregoryeuclide.com

Corollaries

The Six Day Moment

Lubomyr Melnyk - The Six Day Moment

god is an astronaut - fragile

Nouvelle Vague - Ever Fallen In Love

Download this track for free on www.cityslang.com!

Wye Oak - Civilian

A new version of 'Hold Back Time', from Songs Cycled, released 6th May on Bella Union. This song first appeared on the 1995 Van Dyke Parks-Brian Wilson collaboration Orange Crate Art. 

Sculpture art by Charles Ray.

Van Dyke Parks - Hold Back Time

Alessi's Ark - Tin Smithing, from the album The Still Life, out April 15th on Bella Union.

Alessi's Ark - Tin Smithing

Carlos Hernandez is the son of a ’70s New York soul DJ. After a detour playing in punk and noise projects, he returned to his soul roots and formed Ava Luna, a band of two girls and four guys, to explore a sound that combines all those ideas.

“Brooklyn’s Ava Luna is the rare band that needs to be heard to be believed. In the band’s hazy, floaty, post-TVOTR-maybe conceit, post-punk grooves, soaring soul harmonies, and classic indie detachment join forces for something beautiful, infectious, and damn-near indescribable. The twisted brainchild of Carlos Hernandez, the son of a soul DJ and occasional producer of bands like Fucked Up, Ava Luna is the sum of a lot of somehow congruous parts. The minimal drums/bass/synth lineup kicks out the most skeletal of Ze Records-era post-punk/nu-funk; a chorus made up of three backing singers add a razor-sharp doo-wop lilt; the sweat-soaked Hernandez is up front stirring-soul like Jamie Liddell or a James Chance for the Misshapes age.”
- Christopher Weingarten, Village Voice


Ice Level

No F

Stages

Wrenning Day

Down Right

In celebration of 2013’s Record Store Day, moby and @MarkLanegan have collaborated on an exclusive track to be released as a limited edition 7” on 20th April. The Lonely Night 7” comes backed with a remix from electronic music legend https://soundcloud.com/photek and is being released on moby’s own label Little Idiot. 

moby on collaborating with Mark Lanegan: 

"i've been a fan of mark's from his early sst records days, and i've always wanted to work with him. he has one of the best and most distinctive voices of the last 25 years. now that we live near each other it ended up being really easy working on a song together."

moby on producing of The Lonely Night: 

“…And in producing the song, spike stent and i incorporated some very unusual production techniques... we ran all of the instruments through a distortion pedal into a guitar amp. so really there are only 3 tracks: left channel through a distortion pedal and guitar amp, right channel through a distortion pedal and guitar amp, and mark's vocals.  The end result is intentionally very broken and atmospheric."

Colin Rich a LA based director who specializes in time-lapse photography has been commissioned to shoot the video to accompany The Lonely Night.  The video features both moby and Mark Lanegan and flits between the desolate and far removed terrain of the Californian desert and the endless electric city expanse of Los Angeles.  

Moby & Mark Lanegan - The Lonely Night

Joe Purdy - Why Do I

she only loves me in the evenings

This is our tribute to all the ducks we've thrown stones at.

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Animal

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