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DJ New Musak

PRODUCED BY PARTYNEXTDOOR, WRITTEN BY PARTYNEXYTDOOR.

PARTYNEXTDOOR TWO

Muse

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From: Manifestations EP
Label: Brainfeeder
Release Date: 04/05/11

Manifestations is a funky and diverse sonic collection from Mono/poly, a talented member of the Brainfeeder roster. A well-paced work, the EP’s momentum grows and then contorts into other dimensions, balancing powerful rhythms and a beautiful depth for a holistically moving experience.



Mono/Poly - Forest Dark

Summer's Over Tour
http://smarturl.it/PNDSO

PARTYNEXTDOOR ~ Persian Rugs

PARTYNEXTDOOR ~ West District

Another track off the 'High Life' beat tape - gone for a soulful vibe here. Download the beat tape for free from vanillabeats.bandcamp.com

Way We Were (From new beat tape 'High Life' available now!)

SAMIYAM
“SAM BAKER’S ALBUM”
(Brainfeeder)

Download the track here from XLR8R: http://t.co/y3UlBdP

Release Date: June 28, 2011

Blazing back onto the radar with one of the most anticipated and long-awaited albums yet on Brainfeeder is SAMIYAM. Sam Baker's Album is 40 minutes of deviant listening pleasure, a series of woozy, off-center hip hop instrumentals drawing heavily on Baker's love of electronic funk but never obligated to it.

Intensely detailed and carrying considerable emotional weight, this is not Rap Beats Vol. 2, but rather an album of fully realized tracks that stand on their own, knee-deep in the groove and bent to the side. Sludgy, chunky beats mesh with organic sounds and fractured stops and starts, all coming together like the pieces of a demented dream.

SAMIYAM moved to Los Angeles from Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2006; in his short time on the West Coast he has become one of the city's most progressive and recognized producers, a man who has helped spearhead the revival of interest in instrumental hip-hop music. His album Rap Beats Vol. 1 was the first release on the Brainfeeder label, and SAMIYAM’s raw hip hop sound with a psychedelic edge and off-kilter beats could be called quintessential Brainfeeder style.

SAMIYAM - Cushion

SAMIYAM
“SAM BAKER’S ALBUM”
(Brainfeeder)

Download the track here from Altered Zones: http://dld.bz/abzkd
Release Date: June 28, 2011

Blazing back onto the radar with one of the most anticipated and long-awaited albums yet on Brainfeeder is SAMIYAM. Sam Baker's Album is 40 minutes of deviant listening pleasure, a series of woozy, off-center hip hop instrumentals drawing heavily on Baker's love of electronic funk but never obligated to it.

Intensely detailed and carrying considerable emotional weight, this is not Rap Beats Vol. 2, but rather an album of fully realized tracks that stand on their own, knee-deep in the groove and bent to the side. Sludgy, chunky beats mesh with organic sounds and fractured stops and starts, all coming together like the pieces of a demented dream.

SAMIYAM moved to Los Angeles from Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2006; in his short time on the West Coast he has become one of the city's most progressive and recognized producers, a man who has helped spearhead the revival of interest in instrumental hip-hop music. His album Rap Beats Vol. 1 was the first release on the Brainfeeder label, and SAMIYAM’s raw hip hop sound with a psychedelic edge and off-kilter beats could be called the quintessential Brainfeeder style.

SAMIYAM - Where Am I

I promise I haven't been listening to Arve Henriksen!

Vilna - The Dybbuk Quartet

Download the track from Pitchfork: <a href="http://p4k.in/yqUjI0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://p4k.in/yqUjI0</a>

Stuart Howard aka Lapalux has come up with something special for his first release with Cali's finest, Brainfeeder. Having made his name with his cassette-only "Many Faces Out Of Focus" and acclaimed bootlegs and remixes he returns with a seven track EP of such poise and beauty, one listen is enough to know you're onto something special.

Lapalux bathes your brain in lush textures, surprising and explosive atmospheres set in unencountered, unearthly spaces, all somehow perfectly set against catchy rolling choruses informed by pop and commercial R&amp;B. On the "When You're Gone" EP he channels and refines his sound and shapes it into hazy, woozy emotion. Whether working with a singer like Py (on "Moments"), or deconstructing found samples and his own voice, Howard stretches, bends and warps sound to make soul - not plastic posturing but real emotion made of synthetic sound.

From the forthcoming release:

Lapalux
When You're Gone
BF027

1. 102 Hours of Introductions
2. Moments (Feat. PY)
3. Gone
4. Yellow 90's
5. Construction Deconstruction
6. Gutter Glitter
7. Face Down, Eyes Shut

Release Date: 02/07/12

Listen to an EP Sampler mixed by Lapalux here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/lapalux/lapalux-when-youre-gone-ep" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lapalux - "When You're Gone" EP Sampler (Brainfeeder) - Available on the 7th Feb 2012 by Lapalux</a>


Lapalux - Gutter Glitter

Bonobo - 'Eyesdown (Machine Drum Remix)'

Out now in Digital / Vinyl formats worldwide:

Lapalux
When You’re Gone
BF027

1. 102 Hours of Introductions
2. Moments (Feat. PY)
3. Gone
4. Yellow 90′s
5. Construction Deconstruction
6. Gutter Glitter
7. Face Down, Eyes Shut

Stuart Howard aka Lapalux has come up with something special for his first release with Cali’s finest, Brainfeeder. Having made his name with his cassette-only “Many Faces Out Of Focus” and acclaimed bootlegs and remixes he returns with a seven track EP of such poise and beauty, one listen is enough to know you’re onto something special.

Lapalux bathes your brain in lush textures, surprising and explosive atmospheres set in unencountered, unearthly spaces, all somehow perfectly set against catchy rolling choruses informed by pop and commercial R&B. On the “When You’re Gone” EP he channels and refines his sound and shapes it into hazy, woozy emotion. Whether working with a singer like Py (on “Moments”), or deconstructing found samples and his own voice, Howard stretches, bends and warps sound to make soul – not plastic posturing but real emotion made of synthetic sound.

Lapalux on Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/lapalux

Py on Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/pymusic

Lapalux - Moments (featuring Py)

Written and Produced by Jai Paul. Vocals, Guitars, Drums, Synthesisers, Programming and FX by Jai Paul. Bass Guitar by Anup Paul. Sound Design by Anup Paul. Engineered and Mixed by Jai Paul. Mastered by Anup Paul. Recorded at home in London, England.

Sticker Design by Jai Paul. 'Alpha Kufi' Type by Agung Yuwanda.
 
iTunes http://smarturl.it/jasmineitunes
Amazon http://smarturl.it/jasmineamazon


Jasmine (Demo)

Someone else wanna host?  Watch ya bass bins.

"Give In 2"  Machinedrum and FaltyDL

Track 17 from the new beat tape 'Soft Focus', available now from vanillabeats.bandcamp.com

Tomorrow

Purchase Itunes: http://bit.ly/JEFFVOL4
Purchase on Beatport: http://s.beatport.com/JEFFVOL4BP

Lockah, a standout among the bourgeoning bass music community of Scotland, proudly releases his debut EP on Diplo's Jeffree's imprint today. When U Stop Feeling Like A Weirdo & Become A Threat succinctly demonstrates his penchant for melody in the context of sub-octave bass music that defies any singular genre tag. A resident and general proponent of the fringe-city of Aberdeen (think the Milwaukee of Scotland), Lockah has helped build an organic, exceptionally self-sustaining scene with his Tuff Wax imprint that has become a glaring blip on the global radar with releases from ¥oin, Bones & Money, Grobie and others.

When U Stop Feeling Like A Weirdo & Become A Threat features skittering drums that reference New Orleans bounce and southern trap music circa '98, warbling synths that feel at home among boogie 12-inches of the late '80s, and the low end that is undeniably en vogue currently. An emotive and frankly un-danceable collection of 3 tracks capped off by a breathtaking remix by Pictureplane, Lockah has created a thoughtful piece that sits among some of the most interesting and compelling releases from the post-dubstep-era UK.


Visit TheJeffrees.com for every past Jeffree's Release!

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Lockah-The Sour Drink From The Ocean

Download "Howl" from FACT Magazine: http://bit.ly/Ixmkq0

Brainfeeder presents the album TOTEM by new signée RYAT, a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer of avant-garde electronic music. A serious oeuvre, TOTEM blends classical elements and cinematic sounds with experimental time changes. Twisting through the gritty, disheveled beats like an elegant ribbon, RYAT’s gracefully processed vocals merge with electronic surprises to create a work of intense abstract art.

Trading the urban jungle of Philadelphia for the concrete badlands of Los Angeles, RYAT’s transformation was juxtapositioned with a new awareness of her natural surroundings and unexpected visits from animals, whose dream partners give the album its name. Every track of TOTEM represents a different spirit animal, each with a message translated through RYAT’s experimentation with unusual sound signatures.

The track “Howl” moves from a thatched start right into a swollen groove, with beats collected into random tide pools, full of unforeseen sounds. “Footless” builds tension into a celestial knock with an off-kilter gallop that flies skyward, while the loose drums of jazz-influenced “Object Mob” generate an unexpected emotion of freedom.

Giving us just a glimpse of her journey through fire-filled vocals and captivating sonic twists, poetess RYAT lays an emotional path into a dream where animals speak in music and the beats have come alive.


RYAT - HOWL

128 Harps

Released on GET PHYSICAL - 18-06-12 

BUY 'SUNSET' ON ITUNES: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sunset-feat.-marques-toliver/id541878389
BEATPORT : http://www.beatport.com/release/compuphonic-feat-marques-toliver-sunset-remixes/1028865
FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/compuphonicmax

iTunes

Compuphonic feat. Marques Toliver - Sunset (Radio Edit)

Acid Blues Club - Dr. Higgs, I presume ?

Teebs 'Why Like This', from the forthcoming debut album 'Ardour'. Get a FREE download of this track at <a href="http://www.factmag.com/2010/09/10/download-a-snow-capped-cut-from-brainfeeder-multitasker-teebs-forthcoming-album/">FACT magazine</a>.

"Teebs has such a unique and tender magic, as an artist, as a producer and as a human being...He's a gifted and rare kind...” 
- Mary Anne Hobbs 

“Everything he does is gold, he does HIS thing, always has and I suspect, always will.” 
- Dimlite 

As music from the Los Angeles area thrives and swells across the globe, one of it’s most beloved and deeply rooted members steps out with an LP full of infectious melodies, subtle hip-hop and a kaleidoscope of sound. Music for the imagination. 

Ardour is the debut album by long time running My Hollow Drum, Dublab, and recent Brainfeeder artist, Teebs. Born in New York to Malawi and Barbados origins, Mtendere (pronounced “ten- 
de-ra”) (Chichewa for “Peace”) Mandowa, is a 23 year-old producer who bounced around the East Coast before finally planting his feet in the Southern California suburb of Chino Hills. 

A city known for it’s rolling hills and FBI ranking of one of the safest in the United States, Teebs developed his artistry right outside Los Angeles’ county line and just south of the Orange County beach community. Music may have come by accident, literally. A skateboard injury sidelined Teebs, which led to a concentration on art. 

Through great focus and vision, Teebs made a name for himself as a skilled painter. His artwork found on canvases of all form, from walls to record covers, become imbued with vibrant color, energy, and shape. 

From paint and brush, Teebs slowly found himself in the world of music making. 

Early in his musical pursuits, Teebs joined a group of like-minded friends and producers who went by the name ‘My Hollow Drum’. Within this crew, he was able to build new ideas, share works and perfect his production craft. Intrigued with what was going on in Los Angeles’ evolving electronic scene, he never expected to fall directly into it. 

He began interning for the acclaimed online radio stream, Dublab. This sparked his self-expression, spirit and growth as an artist. Being around music, art and a creative atmosphere while brushing shoulders with the artists he admired from the area. 

Teebs was accepted into the Red Bull Music Academy for their 2008 edition in Barcelona, Spain. Upon arrival back home, Teebs became even more focused on his music and art. A chance meeting with Flying Lotus led to his involvement and joining of the newly founded Brainfeeder collective. Having previously heard from local producers and DJs about this new up and comer, Lotus didn’t hesitate to take Teebs under his wing after hearing some of his earliest beats. Ardour began to bloom. 

Ardour was made during two major periods of his life. Having just lost his job and with little to no money, Teebs moved into the same apartment complex as Flying Lotus and shared living quarters with another Brainfeeder affiliate, Samiyam. It was here that the beginning stages and one-half of Ardour were created. Before Teebs was aware his album was showing itself, his father who had been terminally ill, passed away. He moved back home and stopped making music. 

Back home, Teebs finished were he left off. 

Ardour, two years in the making, is the result of Teebs’ journey thus far. More than the music, it’s the feeling he wants to convey. The idea of hearing something you really love, the moment you know something is really special. Flying Lotus said, “Teebs music sounds like an island vacation...The way Avatar looks.” What’s often said about Teebs’ sound is the warmth it has on the listener. It’s only fitting that a title like Ardour, which is defined as “great intensity and warmth” is used to represent this essential chapter to the ever-growing puzzle of Los Angeles. 


Teebs - 'Why Like This'

The Gaslamp Killer - Gaslampkillers (Mix)

SKYNET

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Shlohmo/215424843565?ref=br_tf
https://www.twitter.com/shlohmo

https://soundcloud.com/wedidit-collective

LOL Boys - Changes (Shlohmo Remix)

Les Sins arrives late august on JIAOLONG records.

Les Sins - Fetch

One of the "album only" tracks from the digital release of "Leap Of Faith"

PS & Pena - Ode Ao Sol ( Perfect Stranger & Eitan Reiter Eclipse Mix ) [ SoundCloud Clip ]

Download the @NGUZUNGUZU remix at http://emailunlock.com/~alc

New @darkstarofficial single on Warp.  More info & download via http://darkstar.ws

Released on 12" vinyl with 10 locked-groove loops 'News #1-10' on 12th November 2012 on Warp Records.

"Timeaway' feels like a good starting point to releasing music again, it's very much us looking forward." - Darkstar

The band's 2013 album 'News From Nowhere' is out now and available from,
iTunes - http://glnk.it/1o1
Bleep - http://glnk.it/1uu
Amazon - http://glnk.it/1ut
Google Play - http://glnk.it/2ax

Check some older Darkstar material:
Gold (Hyperdub) - http://youtu.be/cL_lgdoiL7I
Aidy's Girl Is A Computer - http://youtu.be/dsPeZhyTV5c

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Darkstar/112928685414606
https://twitter.com/darkstar
http://www.youtube.com/user/darkstarmusics

News From Nowhere

Buy on iTunes

Darkstar - Timeaway

“I think it’s safe to say Jeremiah Jae is one of my favorite artists of his generation. For years now I’ve been a witness to the incredible progression of his craft. This album has a complex dedication and honesty that I search for in myself with my own art. Underrated and understated, Jae is ready to show these muhfuckers what’s really good. Believe in Jeremiah Jae” – Flying Lotus

It’s truly apt that Raw Money Raps opens with Jeremiah Jae hazily reminiscing about awakening from an especially chimerical journey. After a kaleidoscopic grip of beat tapes, EPs and mixtapes that have sent wi-fi connections rumbling, as well as a move from windswept Chi-city to the home of his Brainfeeder crew in LA, Jae unveils his sprawling debut full-length release. More than just an album, this is an all-encompassing Pynchonian, Tumblr-feeding, social networked art-rap fever dream. A seismic collision of the analog and digital worlds makes for deceptively hooky beats that double as sonic rabbit-holes, all of which cradles Jae’s flow – which is a versatile instrument all it’s own, skipping from rapid, focused deliveries to surprising melodic sing-a-longs then chopped-and-screwed slump and stream of consciousness brainfloods.

To be a young producer and MC in 2012 is no easy task, however with style and substance in short order and internet democratization run-rampant, there’s arguably never been a better time for one to make their mark. Rather than jump headlong into the cresting 1990’s throwback revival, Jae develops tracks and lyrics that link technology and metaphysics in a defiantly contemporary way, flipping swag rap tropes on their head and reveals a penchant for affecting introspection. This singular approach to music is almost certainly a by-product of Jae’s split personality as a visual artist. Working in the context of fine art with paintings and collages as well as spreading into fashion design, Jae’s output aligns him with multi-media luminaries like the late, great Rammellzee.

Raw Money Raps’ first single, Money, is a where-did-my-cash-go-mid-afternoon summer jam for hot cloudy days ahead, accompanied by a suitably tweaked video directed by fellow renaissance man Flying Lotus. “Money” comes paired with another album standout in “Money and Food”, which takes trap rap’s unhinged synths and 808 kicks and filters them through Jae’s prism. Across it’s span, the album touches on fractured, cautionary headbangers (“Rover”), string-laden classicism (“Cat Fight”) and deeply psychedelic futurism (“Hercules Versus the Commune”) and in the process, ignites the brightest rising star of 2012. Prepare yourself for Jeremiah Jae’s journey.

Jeremiah Jae - Money

Stereo Typing is the sum of the parts of a journey. Giovanni Civitenga, aka My Dry Wet Mess, composed his forthcoming album for Brainfeeder over a 15 month period (November ‘10 through January ‘12), between Barcelona and Berlin, in four different houses. And out of the many changes and different chapters, comes a densely layered body of work that - despite being a product of transition - stands as his most grounded and resolved work yet.

The title derived, My Dry Wet Mess explains, “from the concept of typing for the stereo field, as in writing narration through sounds. Writing a story as a writer would do, but using sounds instead of words.” The 14 album tracks use live instrumentation, tweaked samples, slap-bass riffs, slanted beats and winding melodies to form playful narratives and plot shifts, leading the listener to places completely unexpected, and unknown. Twists and turns abound, each track is a journey in itself, at times traversing through intertwining synth lines in a buoyant underwater bassbin, other points diverting into R&B-sampled scifi wonderlands, filled with otherworldly sounds conversing. The album ends on sensory bliss, with the sublime "Prismas" and the daydream-inducing "Youth Reboot".

Though his living situation changed throughout the album’s formation, there’s a inherent sense of family and home in the LP. His father plays guitar, Gianluca Pellegrino (an old friend and regular collaborator) plays various electric guitar parts, and his good friend in New York, Maryam Modarressi, sings on two songs, and her sampled voice makes an appearance throughout the album. The artwork was also created by his close conspirator, Berlin based illustrator Elliot Beaumont, a homage to one of MDWM’s favorite painters, De Chirico. “It's got this hard to define quality to it, a sense of "future nostalgia" that I love and that I find extremely appropriate for my music and the ideas behind it.”

Release Date: 11/12/12


My Dry Wet Mess - Austere Coincidences

The Gaslamp Killer - Resident Advisor Mix RA 329 (September 2012)

Original Mix / Feature here: http://bit.ly/UccLEA

Raw sounds from an LA b-boy.

You don't get a word like "motherfucker" attached to your name for no good reason. William Bensussen, AKA The Gaslamp Killer, has been in peoples' faces right from the start. Coming up in the rock town of San Diego, Bensussen would continually clear dance floors in the city's Gaslamp district—hence the name—by playing Mobb Deep and Dilla.

Things didn't stay this way forever. In LA he became a resident DJ at Daddy Kev's Low End Theory, the mythologised weekly party and producer hangout that has seen the likes of Daedelus, Nosaj Thing and Flying Lotus rise from its ranks. It was on the latter's Brainfeeder that GLK met a global audience as a producer. 2009's My Troubled Mind and the following year's Death Gate threw up his love of grizzly beats and obscure samples. Seeing GLK behind a pair of turntables is, however, when the MF tag makes most sense. His shows are the epitome of unhinged energy. Rock, jazz, bass music and funk are just as likely to be aired as hip-hop, as he wigs out with his now trademark dance moves.

GLK's "Resident Killer mix" is 45-minute slice of what we're talking about—plus you get the added bonus of a coda comprised solely of music from Breakthrough, his madcap debut album which was released today through Brainfeeder.

What have you been up to recently?

Touring (as usual), working on new music with Jungle By Night from Amsterdam, not to mention enjoying this amazing summer of love!

How and where was the mix recorded?

In my room at my house in Los Angeles on ProTools with my Dr. Sample 303.

Can you tell us about the idea behind the mix?

It's one of my best mixes yet. The first part is all about the heavy newer beat music with a bunch of unreleased stuff from my worldwide crew of beat making friends. The second part is a little more hip-hop turntablist influenced and the third part is all brand new GLK Breakthrough material!

Tell us about the writing of Breakthrough.

I worked on it tirelessly between touring and touring—trying to work with some of my favourite LA musicians to make it all come to life a little more than my previous records. Also, had to reach out to Dimlite (CH) all the way out in Zurich cause he is one of my favourite producers of all time and I am working on a whole record with him soon!

Outside of your LA base, where do you see as being other key strongholds for your sound?

London, Manchester, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Athens, Tokyo, Johannesburg and New York fuckin City are some of my most favourite places to play. They always get what I'm bringing to the table and always have amazing openers playing with me that make me want to run for the hills! Some of these cities even have Low End Theory-related events that stemmed from our little Wednesday night club in LA. Pretty fuckin cool.

What are you up to next?

Release parties all over the world plus a new Low End Theory podcast with a VERY special guest! Even planning a trip to India with Gonjasufi to try and record some new material there. But it's all in the works so I can't promise anything just yet! 

The Gaslamp Killer - Resident Advisor Mix ★ September 2012

TRACKS:

Shake - Branchez
Work (Feat. A$AP Ferg) - A$AP Mob
Pour It Up - Rihanna
Treat You Right - Branchez
[Unreleased] - Branchez
Blueberry (Pills & Cocaine) (Feat. Danny Brown) - Darq E Freaker
Feel Me - Branchez x Word Sport
Whole Lotta - S-Type
You a Lie (CRNKN x Branchez Remix) - Rockie Fresh
Sky Dive - C.Z.
ITH (ft. Tuneboy & DJ Issac) - Flosstradamus
Respond - Branchez
F Off - Branchez
[Unreleased] - Branchez
[Unreleased] - Branchez
Yes - Branchez

Trust Branchez Spotify Playlist: smarturl.it/TrustBranchez

FOLLOW BRANCHEZ

Facebook: smarturl.it/BranchezFB 
Instagram: smarturl.it/BranchezIG 
Twitter: smarturl.it/BranchezTW 
YouTube: smarturl.it/BranchezYT

TOUR DATES:­ smarturl.it/BranchezTour

XM Shade45 Sway In The Morning Branchez Guest Mix

Nostalchic

Info: http://brainfeeder.net/lapalux

http://www.twitter.com/lapalux
http://www.facebook.com/lapaluxmusic



Guuurl - [from the Album "Nostalchic"]

The new album 'CARACAL' is out now
iTunes: http://po.st/P3wCTx
Amazon: http://po.st/pPvCDJ
Official Store: http://po.st/qO7d9s
www.disclosureofficial.com

Disclosure Live: http://disclosureofficial.com/live/
Official Merch: http://po.st/4iqh1L

The debut album from Disclosure 'Settle' 
iTunes: http://po.st/Eabal4
Official Store: http://po.st/iaE7o9
Special Edition: http://po.st/viEW5R

http://disclosureofficial.com
http://facebook.com/disclosureuk
http://twitter.com/disclosure
http://instagram.com/disclosure
http://instagram.com/disclosure_pics
http://youtube.com/disclosureVEVO
http://youtube.com/officialdisclosure
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6nS5roXSAGhTGr34W6n7Et

Running Beats

White Noise (Radio Edit) [feat. AlunaGeorge]

Something a little more upbeat here. Download at http://www.mediafire.com/?431rha1phllqfjz

Lapalux - Gutter Glitter

BRAINFEEDER