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Keep Shelly In Athens - Artist Mix for Portals - http://www.portalsmusic.com/2013/08/features/artist-mix-keep-shelly-in-athens/

Tracklist - 

01.Yann Tiersen - Monuments
02.Postiljonen - Atlantis
03.Sun Glitters - Everything Could Be Fine
04.Trentemoller - Miss You
05.Forest Swords - The Weight Of Gold
06.Black Atlass - Paris
07.Sin Cos Tan - History
08.Boat Club - Memories
09.Bondax - Giving It All
10.Everything But The Girl - Missing

Portals Artist Mix: Keep Shelly In Athens

On their spellbinding sophomore album, "Whispers in the Speech Machine," the young Ohio siblings from The Laughing Chimes fully embrace their Southern Gothic influences, cannily balancing the light of their infectious pop with the shadow of their rust belt environs. While attending an afterschool music program at their local opera house, Evan and his brother Quinn began recording The Laughing Chimes' debut album "In This Town," released in 2020. A string of well-received digital singles and a cassette EP for Slumberland followed, dazzling savvy pop fans with their Paisley Underground-inflected jangle that owes as much to the Flying Nun sound as it does to 80s Athens, GA.

The eight assured songs of "Whispers in the Speech Machine" prove The Laughing Chimes deserve the attention and accolades, while their approaches to songwriting and sonic aesthetics continue to evolve. "Southeast Ohio is the foothills of Appalachia, so it has this indescribable mood and atmosphere to it," guitarist/vocalist Evan Seurkamp told The Big Takeover. "Sometimes there's a haunting weight of decay you want to escape, but at the same time there is some sort of strange romanticism surrounding ghost towns. We've tried to channel those moods to add more regional flavor into our sound."

Whispers In The Speech Machine

The Laughing Chimes - High Beams

Steady Arms

Lights Off

Open Lungs written, produced, performed and mixed by Jerome Alexander in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Trombone by Dave Huntriss
Strings by David Grubb
Artwork by Daniel Gregory
Mastered by Guy Davies

Open Lungs

South Street 83'

Take It to the Limit

The MySpace Top 8 was never meant to change the music industry. Chillwave was never meant to be a genre—it started as a blogosphere joke. And Bora York was never meant to be a band—it began as a school project. Yet all three took on a life of their own, shaping an era of indie electronic music built on hazy nostalgia, warm synths, and melodic escapism. Now, after six years away, Bora York returns with "Melting on the Moon," a shimmering sonic love letter to the chillwave movement that first inspired them.

"I think I needed to distance myself from it for a while," says songwriter Chris Bartels, who also writes music as Elskavon, Dellwood, and Hi-Fi Cali. "I was trying so hard with this, in my head, being my ‘main’ project, hoping for so much with it. I was putting so much emotional stock into it that it was probably even sucking some of that original creative magic out of it. Bora York was essentially an accident—it started as a school project and turned into something exciting and unique. Then for a while, I tried to keep recreating that. Stepping back for a few years and only writing as I felt led creatively allowed me to let go—to just let it be."

While writing, Chris started curating a playlist he facetiously called "Chillwave Revival," letting himself become fully immersed in and inspired by the sun-faded synths and woozy nostalgia of Toro y Moi, Washed Out, MGMT, and Neon Indian. Before long, that feeling took over. "Melting on the Moon" is the result—a track that embraces the fuzzy textures and dreamlike melodies of early chillwave, yet with an undeniable modern pulse. It’s laced with Chris and Rebekah’s signature vocal chemistry and an irresistible post-chorus synth hook that lingers long after the first listen.

With past syncs in Netflix’s To All the Boys, Mr. Robot, The Middle, Criminal Minds, Target, Honda, and more, Bora York’s music has resonated far and wide. Press accolades from Clash Magazine, Neon Gold, Indie Shuffle, and Earmilk hailed their sound as “sublime,” “summertime radness,” and “impossible not to get swept up in.”

Now, Bora York embraces a new chapter—one that taps into the playfulness, freedom, and MySpace-era nostalgia of their earliest influences while letting the music just be.

Melting on the Moon

Written, produced and mixed by Jerome Alexander in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Violin: Sabrina Tabby
Trombone: Dave Huntriss
Pedal Steel Guitar: Hamilton Belk

Stream

Disquiet

Under the Water

Andvari

Andvari (Live in Reykjavík, 2024)

Indie Current's Year End Mix by Slow Magic featuring the tracks:

Free Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?d3wl0jjaw2cire1

- Sun Glitters – “Too Much To Lose (Slow Magic Remix)”
- Blackbird Blackbird - "Tear"
- Giraffage - "Moments"
- Teen Daze - "Surface"
- Young Magic - "Sparkly"
- Work Drugs - "Dirty Dreams"
- Washed Out - "Amor Fati"
- Jonathan Johansson - "Blommorna (Niva Remix)"
- Blood Diamonds - "Move The Stars"
- Korallreven - "As Young As Yesterday"
- Supermarket Love - "2Look4"
- Slow Magic - "Feel Flow (Giraffage Remix)"
- How To Dress Well - "Ready for the World (Star Slinger Refix)"

Indie Current's Year End Mix by Slow Magic

tracks used:

frank sinatra - stardust
william bell - i forgot to be your lover
elvis presley - put your hand in the hand
crystal castles - violent dreams
dirty beaches - sweet 17
matthew dear - earthworms
drexclya - lost vessel
daft punk - phoenix
tiga - far from home (DFA remix)
carl cox - chemistry (nicole moudaber remix)
talking heads - this must be the place (naive melody)
nightlands - so far so long
the 24 carat black - foodstamps
gaz - singsing
bill withers - use me up
rustie - all nite/surph
roy orbison - it's over
henry mancini - dream a little dream of me

Made Iridescent by a Passing Swan (Sun Airway Mixtape #4)

Tracklist: 
Emeralds-Diotoma
Sei A- You Can Bring
Lake People- Point in Time
Hobo- Blackwell(original Mix)
Matthew Herbert- It's Only (DJ Koze Remix)
Lusine- Another Tomorrow (Jon Convex Remix)
Thomalia- Alftavatn(Original Mix)
Kuniyuki Takahashi- Bamboo City (Original Mix)
Dominik Eulberg- Taeuschnungs- Blume (Ryan Davis 'Narciss' Render)
Mathew Jonson- Dayz
M.A.N.D.Y, Adultnapper- Kindling (John Tejada Remix)
Ultraista- Small Talk (Four Tet Remix)
Manuel Tur- Maybe Next Lifetime Feat. Blakkat (King Britt Dub)
Yakine- Disaster Drop (original Mix)
Lusine- Lucky
Todd Terje- Ragysh (Original)
ManmadeScience- Phase (Original Mix)
Pezzner- Chapter Two (Original Mix)

Lusine Mix [For MTV Hive]

INTERVIEW: http://www.thefader.com/2013/04/16/fader-mix-beacon

FADER Mix: Beacon

In 2009, I consulted for, and appeared in, Activision's DJ Hero video game.   As part of my involvement, I performed at quite a few industry events and eventually did a couple of club dates.  Some of these sets were more rehearsed than others, and the quality varied.  This one, recorded live on Halloween night at a KCRW benefit, was far and away my favorite of the bunch...both in terms of technical display and song selection.  I'll post some of the other recorded sets later, there's some nice moments along the way.- DJ Shadow

DJ Shadow Live in Los Angeles, CA - Halloween, 2009

Alternative pop label based in Los Angeles.

info@cascine.us

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