Notes from Left of the Dial: May 23

The Dead Age is the 4th album by Unicycle Loves You.
Produced by Unicycle Loves You.
Mastered by Bob Weston.
Release date: 06/10/2014
Buy the record on color vinyl: http://unicyclelovesyou.bandcamp.com/
Order on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-dead-age/id869366724

JAWS

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Ben Khan - Youth

TOMBOY- "Hang Out"
Official video here: http://youtu.be/2imU20FZC2M

Now you see, see what I'm saying
Now you know, know what I'm thinking

Take me back to the corner, back back to the corner
where we first hung out, where we first hung out
Back to the corner, back back to the corner
where we first hung out, where we first hung out

The afternoon knows things the morning cannot know
I take it in and let it go

I don't see what you want in me but I can't stop, I love it too much 

Now you say, you say to relax
A feeling I've hardly met

Now pull me under, you're great at that
Back to the corner, take me back

I don't see what you want in me but I can't stop, I love it too much 

Take me back

I don't see what you want in me but I can't stop, I love it too much  

Hang Out

Announcing the onset of night, Driftmachine —a Berlin-based duo comprised of Andreas Gerth (Tied & Tickled Trio) and Florian Zimmer (Saroos)— have created Nocturnes, a psychoactive, dream-inducing stimulant of sorts: Evoking and maintaining a trancelike state, the duo’s six-part journey into the dark was originally inspired by reading The Rest Is Noise and listening to the music discussed in Alex Ross’ seminal book. The resulting soundscapes, written and recorded since 2012, redefine the lines between insomnia and slumber, between wraithlike dub grooves gone awry, the dancing flicker of a slack-joint bedside lamp, and eerie electronics.

Nocturnes is essentially comprised of six studies in precision: perfectly symmetrical structures that slowly spread their bass-heavy wings, sprawl like digital fungi, shift shape and – paradoxically – seem to drift and to obey the two captains at the helm. It’s an album of hypnotic and mesmerizing electronic landscapes based on various interlocked layers of rhythm. “Getting deeper into the world of modular systems introduced us to new ways of creating music,” they say, and it also allowed Gerth and Zimmer to redefine and rearrange styles and genres they generally feel drawn to – dub, riddims, anything with bass really –, so the heavy bass and percussive elements of Nocturnes don’t come in the colors you’d expect them to: Driftmachine’s palette stays true to the colors of night, a massive scale of gray.

With its meticulously displaced details and intricate harmony layers, Nocturnes also evokes the electronic avant-garde of the mid-70s, think Cluster during the band’s Zuckerzeit era. Nocturnes keeps the balance between intense, dramatic metrics and rather complex, modulated melodies. Also nodding to Krzysztof Komeda’s compositions (especially his score for Rosemary’s Baby) and the haunting, uncanny vibes of Raime, Nocturnes won’t let you sleep: “To us, the album sounds like staying awake the whole night; it unites all the different moods one might go through.”

All songs produced by Andreas Gerth and Florian Zimmer. Mastered by John Tejada.

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Driftmachine - Call Mr Moriba

Contact: Alyssa at TeamClermont dot com
Out June 17, 2014 on Mission Trips
Press materials: http://teamclermont.com/roster/18026/magicicada

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Magicicada is the long-running noise-drone-collage project of Chris White, an unhinged auteur based south of the Mason-Dixon, where experimental music belies any contextual cues, be it cultural, contextual, temporal, or geographic.
Magicicada’s aural approach is a unique & indiviualized display of absurdist technique and frazzled mania. Listen and give the intial hit a chance to permeate your system and see the bigger picture: everything is here for a reason.

The 1.5-decade-young project has seen White deploy experimental distribution methods (hiding editions in Tower Records CD bins, newspaper stands, and public restrooms or taped to the sides of buildings with a phone number that went directly to an answering machine, whose messages later appeared as source material for other recordings) and listener participation extremes (hiding clues and interactive maps around Atlanta for listeners to experience sound with their own devices.) These artful guerrilla techniques culminated in 2006 with the release of Magicicada’s psych-electro-ambient masterpiece, Everyone is Everyone, issued via Public Guilt.

Wrack is arguably White’s master work, primed by years of ceaseless curiosity and mischievous glee executed both in home studios (be it a bedroom, back porch or cramped laundry room) and in front of bewildered audiences (from Atlanta’s sprawling noise scene to eccentric spaces abroad). Through this dual persona Magicicada wove the compositions on Wrack. Live, White is an unbridled force of clear and present improvisation, writhing around an array of electronic ephemera and acoustic accoutrements. The chaos is cathartic; a disarming disarray of sound. At home and behind the curtain, White carefully plots the production, picking out each arranged piece with a surgical precision.

The resulting fifteen tracks of Wrack with Ruin are wholly White, with much of the non-obvious instrumentation having been derived from White’s private library of personally-recorded foley sounds and field recordings developed specifically for the LP. Haphazard rhythms and dense sonic fogs balance the exploratory harmonies and entrancing aural realms on the spectrum of music presented by Magicicada on this set. Wrack is a testament to White’s virtuosity, mania, and his relentless devotion to the possibilities of sound.

Magicicada - "Once I was a Little Light"

http://www.collapseundertheempire.com
"A Broken Silence"  is the second single release of the album "Sacrifice & Isolation".

A Broken Silence

OUT NOW. 

iTunes: http://po.st/DOMLiT 
Spotify: http://po.st/DOMLsp

Produced by Stefan Ponce and Vic Mensa

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MistaJam Presents Big Beats

Down On My Luck (Radio Edit)

Debut album "Haunts" out on June 10th. Pre-order it on iTunes and get an instant download of "Drinking With Your Ghost" http://smarturl.it/tvhaunts or order a copy on vinyl/cd http://bit.ly/1eoGtnv

Follow Tiny Victories:
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Pre-Order Haunts

Tiny Victories - Scott & Zelda

from Melted Toys' upcoming self-titled debut

out July 15th, 2014

PRE ORDER HERE: http://underwaterpeoples.com/2014/04/29/melted-toys-“st”-lpuplp025pre-order

Melted Toys - Observations

Snake Song by Jess Williamson, from the split 7inch with RF Shannon

Recorded February, 2014

Out June 17, 2014 on Punctum Records

Pre-order here:
http://www.punctumrecords.com/shop/jesswilliamson-rfshannon-7-vinyl

Snake Song

Raiders of the Lost Art - "Belarus"

Parquet Courts "Sunbathing Animal" out June 3 on What's Your Rupture?/Mom+Pop (US), June 2 on Rough Trade (UK/EU).

Pre-order on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/sunbathing
Pre-order on CD/LP: http://sunbathinganimal.com

Parquet Courts - Instant Disassembly

"Armida" appears on International, Out now. 

LP/CD: http://bit.ly/1Wo5kMX
iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/international

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LustForYouth.Official/
Twitter:https://twitter.com/Lust4Youth

Tour Dates: http://bit.ly/1KPwMbc

Notes from Left of the Dial: May 23

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