A selection of tracks from the forthcoming EP 'blink blink' - due 14.01.22

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SHE DRIED VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQv2bjkPWAE

Taken from the EP, 'Blue Break' out on House Anxiety / Marathon Artists March 24th
Order here:  http://smarturl.it/BlueBreakEP?IQid=qr


She Dried

First track recorded acoustic for a coming up album. Open Arms.

Open Arms

My humble contribution to Tessellate Recordings' ambitious Earthtones compilation series.

"The Earthtones series spans the internet-based contemporary ambient music scene, with a concept that helps us concentrate more on the geography that lies between each artist. In making worldwide communication easier, the internet has made it easy to forget the sheer size of our planet. "

All funds will be put into future label releases.

Mastering: Tobias Hellkvist (www.tobiashellkvist.com) 

http://tessellaterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/earthtones-volume-2

Strings

Fade Away

Mixed and mastered by Mark Sommerville of The Wave Shop Audio
http://waveshopaudio.com/

Also available on Extreme Music XMT618 as 'The Icarus Project'

Apollo

This playlist contains example from our upcoming 8Dio's upcoming Agitato String Series, which covers variety of specific playing styles for orchestral strings. Everything you are hearing is played straight on the keys with any additional processing.

8Dio Agitato Grandiose Ensemble Violins Legato: "Painful Memories" by Antongiulio Frulio

Essential New Tune for Pete Tong at BBC Radio 1.
Claptone steps out of the shadows once again with ‘The Music Got Me’, an exciting new offering from the mysterious enigma with the golden mask. 'Music Got Me' by Claptone is an authorised cover version of 'Music Got Me' by Visual which has been approved and licensed by Unidisc the rights holder.
As you would expect of new Claptone, 'The Music Got Me’ is destined for late nights and packed clubs all over, such are the enchanting powers of this otherworldly beast. However this new offering goes further still. The achingly cool 80s NYC disco/postpunk flavour combines with a distinct Chicago bassline to offer an exciting glimpse of the eclectic, indie vibe of his debut artist album.

Claptone’s last two releases ‘No Eyes’ and ‘Ghost’ both topped the Beatport charts, the latter of which featured Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! (a collaboration we can only assume was arranged by some sort of séance). They went on to become enormous smashes on Berlin house label Exploited, earning the plaudits of the biggest DJs and setting Claptone off on a non-stop DJ tour across the globe.

It’s remarkable that the masked man has still found time in his tour schedule to deliver big remixes for the likes of Metronomy, The Pet Shop Boys, Rüfüs, Klaxons and Gregory Porter (which is currently No.1 in Beatport's Deep House charts).

2015 will also see Claptone embark on a run of ‘Immortal Live’ dates, a unique A/V experience which brings together a full set of Claptone creations (MIAMI ULTRA FESTIVAL – 29/3, BRUSSELS PIAS NITES – 4/4, GERMANY MELT! FESTIVAL 17/7, LONDON SW4 FESTIVAL – 29/8).

Label: Exploited
Artist: Claptone
Release: The Music Got Me
LC: 15799

Releasedate Beatport: 06.04.15
Releasedate I-Tunes, ect: 20.04.15

The Music Got Me

Claptone - The Music Got Me | Exploited

produced by L'Orange
vocals by Jeremiah Jae
guest vocals by Gift of Gab

The Night Took Us In Like Family
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/night-took-us-in-like-family/id962648340

About the album:
Enter those bloody alleys blocked off with yellow tape and chalk outlines. Secret backrooms riddled with sly crooks and blunt smoke. Slink into the underworld, the seedy shadowland owned by Jeremiah Jae and L’Orange on their noir-hop opus, "The Night Took Us In Like Family." 

Consider it the alchemy of Madvillain and "The Maltese Falcon": a five-part fable of tangled crimes, narrow escapes, and raining lead. The door busts open with “A Conspicuous Man.” L’Orange’s carefully severed cinematic clips hold the frame steady. The Windy City-raised Jae muscles the narrative forward—the hitman creeping. 

Beats bend sinister with imagery aiming for the temples. Jae invokes dark clouds, crowns of thorns and LSD eyes. Bars written in dirt. Samples are disembodied and ethereal. It’s like a grand jury indictment doubling as a Greek chorus. A song title like “Ice Obsidian” says it all. This is frozen lava, black and white celluloid, the spoils won by sinners. Watch your back rap. 

Or maybe it’s the hip-hop version of the gangster flicks made before the Hays Code—raw and uncensored, deeply artful without pretension. Pitchfork once described Jae as: “a lot of people talk loud and say nothing; Jeremiah Jae finds strength in the inverse." On "The Night Took Us In Like Family," he inhabits both eulogizer and executioner. He triumphantly looms over the corpses and explains how this all came to be. L’Orange supplies concrete requiems of dusted soul: beats to crack safes, soundtracks to stealth assassinations. 

If gangsta rap remains one of the genre’s most well worn tropes, Jae and L’Orange take inspiration from the rarely tapped roots of the tradition. This isn’t riffing on Oliver Stone’s "Scarface" like popular cliché, but rather the original Al Capone exploitation flick from the early 30s. Jae conjures a villain who vaporizes. Run-the-Jewels-raw but still sophisticated. Cuban cigars stuffed with California chronic. 

The picture unfolds wide frame. Guest stars include New York poison dart-thrower, Homeboy Sandman and Blackalicious’ Gift of Gab. The chapters flesh out the story: The Conspicuous Man skulks into “God Complex,” “The Damning,” “Revenge and Escape.” Jae and L’ Orange build their world as a catacomb and find a way to escape just as the walls feel like they’re closing in. It fades out as “A Macabre Instrumental” plays. The funeral is closed casket. The memories aren’t easily disposed.

L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae - All I Need (feat. Gift Of Gab)

Pre-order the 'Swept EP' on 12"/DL: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP078
or via iTunes: snip.ftpromo.net/sweptep

Following on from their Record Store Day ‘Looped EP’ release, which featured remixes by Dauwd and Lubomyr Melnyk, Kiasmos – made up of Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen – return with three new tracks and a remix by Tale Of Us.

Recorded in various locations including Reykjavík and Berlin, the EP opens with ‘Drawn’, a four-minute percussion fuelled track with gentle piano motifs. ‘Gaunt’ features the addition of ambient synths and a drum loop, underpinned by slow-moving chords. Title track ‘Swept’ which the duo offered to fans as a surprise gift in form of a free download card at previous show dates, showcases a more club-oriented beat structure alongside Kiasmos’ signature emotive instrumentation. 
 
Closing the EP is a remix from Berlin-based duo Tale of Us who met Kiasmos in London and twist the original downbeat title track
into their distinctively dark aesthetic. Pulsating hats and a driving bass loop add pace as the track builds toward an epic breakdown.

The ‘Swept EP’ will be released on 12”/DL via Erased Tapes on November 20th, 2015.

Kiasmos - Swept (Tale Of Us Remix)

Innerbloom comes from our 2nd album titled, Bloom. 
Worldwide release of Bloom on Jan 22. 
Pre-order the album to download Innerbloom today: https://sweatitout.lnk.to/bloom
Artwork by James Hunt and Jack Vanzet.

Innerbloom

a blur of lights, glass on glass 
a distant flicker through a prism of panes 
a single beam in a blinding sea of colour 
pale and broken, slower now we've started moving 

overload 

the sound of glass, piece by piece 
a distant shatter breaks through layers of lines 
a single shard like a splinter in the silence 
cold and empty, slower now we've started moving 

overload 

don't blink or you'll miss it. 
don't blink or you'll miss it. 
take a breath. 
don't blink or you'll miss it. 
here it comes again. 

overload 

the moment's gone, frame by frame 
a distant second in the passing of time 
a single strike and the hands of time are falling 
lost and fleeting, slower now we've started moving 

overload

BEN SEE - Moment.Sound.Blur.

Balloon tree
Meet me under the balloon tree
If you ever believe in me.

BEN SEE - Balloon Tree

Taken from the forthcoming EP 'I Will Be Cold Soon'.

Released 24th June on House Anxiety Records.

BEN SEE - Scribble Book

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