2015 Year In Review

Ambient and assorted chill

decent indie

chill electronica

TWIN MIRROR VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvleJd_A3VA



TWIN MIRROR

Exitmusic - "The Cold" from 'Passage' out now on Secretly Canadian. 

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/exitmusic

Exitmusic
Artist Page: http://www.secretlycanadian.com/artist.php?name=exitmusic
Website: http://weareexitmusic.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weareEXITMUSIC
Twitter: https://twitter.com/weareEXITMUSIC
Instagram: http://instagram.com/weareexitmusic

Exitmusic - "The Cold" from 'Passage' out now on Secretly Canadian

Passage

The Cold

Download on iTunes

Exitmusic - The Cold

Downtown (beta Version 02)

Persistence of Vision (Planetary Waves)

New single by MIMICO.
From the forthcoming LP "Incantations".
Also available as a split 7" with Fresh Snow.
Reel Cod Records, 2014.

Fate Screen // MIMICO

From TOPS' LP "Picture You Staring" 
Pre Order here: http://tinyurl.com/pqoh8t9
Released September 2nd

TOPS on Twitter: twitter.com/tttopsss
TOPS on Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/TOPS/335481216473541

Picture You Staring

Way to be Loved

TOPS "Way to be Loved"

Etiquette's forthcoming debut album, Reminisce, will be released on March 24th via Toronto's Hand Drawn Dracula. Watch the band's video for 'Outside In' here: http://youtu.be/QcHrmk2z7UI

Etiquette - Outside In

"Hi I'm propaganda
do you like the sound of
a modern day enchanter or a military commander?
Fire over water, fire over water
yin and yang learned to join in and it made them stronger
Knee deep in the mud
Pressure boil, simmer blood
Trust in a just love, trust in a just love
Livid on a new front-
line up for this parade
Line up with a fresh grenade
Take a swing at the pinball game of bouncing back from whence you came
Stand up, or get left behind
Give way to the new daily grind
Give way to the people taking the floor, to the people taking the floor
Ride on a lover's wave
For all sisters and brothers brave
for all rallying 'gainst the state
hyped heart rate, now concentrate ah

When I die, bury me in the ground
become the earth, and everything around
My body won't make no sound
Until then, meet me at the forefront
Fired up, full of a furious sentiment
My heart will not let things go
undone."

PROPAGANDA (demo version)

"Daydream" is from Calvin Love's forthcoming album 'Super Future'

http://calvinlove.com
https://www.facebook.com/IamCalvinLove
https://twitter.com/calvinlovemusic

Calvin Love - Daydream

Was planning to include this big boy in a full length that I was making. But since I've decided to scratch the existing songs and write completely new ones it never happened.

Defeatism

The Runcible is the seventh release for the Toronto
based Dirty Inputs, and first for the paper+sound label.
Released on cassette and download.

The five tracks on the album flow together into one
continuous epic electronic soundscape. Complex layers
of sound reveal highly melodic riffs that interwind
with the occasional rhythm. 

www.paperplusound.com

DIRTY INPUTS: Less Talk More Magic

◯ Salvia Palth ◯ I Was All Over Her

I think we were all knocked out by the Frankie Rose and the Outs album from 2010, the effortlessness of its gorgeous girl-pop mantras, the intimate immensity of its Spector-esque walls of reverb, the beauty of a song sung sweetly over the most graceful two-chord vamps. But are you ready for the new Frankie Rose? – her transformation into a wholly other kind of pop, the reverie and revelation of "Interstellar," an album that floats free of its maker’s history – time spent with Vivian Girls, Dum Dum Girls, Crystal Stilts, and creator of one of the most breathlessly compelling girl-pop albums of the past few years – and offers the listener something strangely other, as alien as it is familiar, as compelling as it is enchanting.

On "Interstellar" Frankie takes the lessons learned with her debut album – like reverb as the holy route to pop-grandeur, scaling a wall of teenage tears – fully digests, and transfers those skills into the brave new world mapped out by ten new songs. Aided by production ace Le Chev, remixer supreme for Lemonade, Narcisse, Passion Pit, and Frankie’s own “Candy,”  Frankie has replaced that reverbed-out classicism with the confident swagger of a singer and auteur fully aware of how to build the simplest of pop moves into aching, full-blown melodramas, how to grab hold of an emotion and ride its darker waves.

"Know Me" is the first single from "Interstellar." It's a gorgeous piece of widescreen pop, dreamy and driving at the same time. The clean, big hooks bring to mind the best of mid-80s pop -- Smiths, New Order -- without sacrificing any of Frankie's unique melodic style. It's a single in the best sense; a three minute gem that perfectly captures the essence of the new album. Le Chev's remix on the flip side is pure 2012 - a slow-motion house burner with a tropical vibe and atmosphere to spare. Turn it up and drift away.

Frankie Rose - Know Me

Sunn O))) & Boris - The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep)

Space Echo

Let Us

From Silence

The Sea

Exitmusic - "The Sea"

The whole soundtrack album is NOW AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE - buy from iTunes or any other good digital store - or direct from the record label here:
http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/albums/25-11-10/monsters-original-soundtrack/
And read the BBC review here: http://bbc.in/cA8ZHs


Jon Hopkins - Monsters Theme

Purchase

Final Flight

Dirty Inputs is Aaron Dawson, a musician and VJ based in Toronto, Canada. Dawson was part of the ambient drone collective Off The International Radar and has shared the stage with the likes of Holy Fuck, A Place To Bury Strangers, Junior Boys, Hauschka, Quintron, Expo 70, Nadja and many others.

Having grown up in a small town in the Rocky Mountain foothills of western Canada, moving to the continent’s fourth largest metropolis has produced conflicting desires for nature and technology. Dirty Inputs’ euphoric synth-driven soundscapes search for the beach between these desires, between the beautiful and the terrifying. This focus has created a body of work that is often dark and brooding, and other times joyful and emotional. It is an attempt to strip away the hype and rhetoric in society to reveal the plain truths and humble existence of humankind staring into the void.