Taken from the album "Stars Are Our Home."
Out now on Slumberland Records (US) and Sonic Cathedral (UK)

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It was Alfred Bester, if I recall correctly, who called 'the stars my destination', in his brilliant novel of the same name from 1956. Long considered a libertarian science fiction classic, it's also notable for featuring one of the very first accounts of synaesthesia in English-language fiction. This might be drawing a particularly long bow, but the title of Black Hearted Brother's debut, "Stars Are Our Home", immediately brought Bester's book to mind – and there's definitely something of the synaesthesic experience about this album, overflowing with enraptured, glowing textures, flaring white light like magnesium, in consort with brilliant red-blue waves of psychedelia.

Of course, the first thing that might crane your head towards "Stars Are Our Home" is the group's membership: Neil Halstead, the éminence grise behind Slowdive and Mojave 3; Mark Van Hoen, an original member of Seefeel, subsequently working solo and as Locust; and Nick Holton, the main mover behind Holton's Opulent Oog, and member of Coley Park, who have released albums on Halstead's Shady Lane label. They had previously converged on Halstead's 2001 solo album, "Sleeping On Roads," though Van Hoen also co-produced Mojave 3's "Out Of Tune" (1998), "Excuses For Travelers" (2000) and "Spoon & Rafter" (2003), while Holton took up production duties for Halstead's "Palindrome Hunches" (2012). Van Hoen and Halstead go back much further still, to 1992, when they were in Seefeel and Slowdive respectively: 'Mark taught Neil much that was electronic and ambient music.'

You could hear that education bearing fruit with Slowdive's late-period masterpiece, 1995's "Pygmalion." In some ways, "Stars Are Our Home" echoes that album's experimental process, if not the outcome, as Black Hearted Brother are a very different, distinctive beast, often indulging in what Halstead, self-deprecatingly, describes as 'a lot of very long and indulgent space rawk.' And indeed, that space-rock drive is writ loud and clear on the album's opening title track, an instrumental bliss-out that navigates through ocean-tides of FX-drenched guitar. But there's a lot more to it: 'The idea was to just make a record that was in some ways "unedited",' Halstead continues. 'To not worry about a particular sound or style, but to just go with the flow. We all make quite focused records individually so, as Mark says, it's our "guilty pleasures" album.' That seems about right, except with "Stars Are Our Home," the outcome is no guilt, all pleasure.

'Neil and Nick had, I think, started a few months before they asked me to join the party,' Van Hoen recalls. 'I think they had a few songs on the go, and needed an extra hand to add a few funny noises and generally add to the chaos – or maybe bring some order to the chaos.' Van Hoen has picked up on the dialectical nature of "Stars Are Our Home" here, its "order" and its "chaos": it's a rich, compelling album full of unexpected twists and turns, at times overloading the sensorium with so much material you're drenched in noise, but it'll just as quickly flip back on itself and drift through a glazed-eye, agrarian moment of acoustic melancholy (see the start of "Time In The Machine", which, as if to prove my point, takes less than a minute to build into a clangorous, droning monster).

So, there's a whole lot going on in these grooves, and plenty of it's unexpected, or from unexpected sources. The trio plays fast and loose with what listeners might consider their pre-ordained 'roles'. 'Primarily the songs themselves were started either by Nick or Neil individually,' Van Hoen explains, 'but then edited, developed and generally messed around with and rendered almost unlistenable by either myself or the others. The roles were not always clear cut. Sometimes Nick would be playing keyboards and synths, and myself guitars.' Lyrics on the record feel like another texture, another layer: sometimes they're invocatory chants, sometimes Halstead's and Holton's voices are ghosted by electronic manipulation, as on "Oh Crust". Often there's more going on than at first glance, and an index of the album's lyrical concerns runs to 'romance, sci-fi, places to go on holiday, real UFO abduction, the duality in the meaning of words, lament for the loss of psychedelic freedoms by the masses…'

"Stars Are Our Home" is brave and beautiful, mysterious and resonant. Its experimental edges never forget the importance of the pop moment; the best way to bring people around to your way of hearing is to seduce their ears, and there's seduction plenty here, pure pop like "Take Heart", the Other Green World of "I'm Back", the closing driftwork that is "Look Out Here They Come". A real head-wrecker of an album. And what does the future hold? The trio speaks as one: 'Black Hearted Brother will grow and mature into something very sophisticated in the coming years. A kind of comedic-space-rock-dancehall outfit to define a zeitgeist for the 22nd century, if you like.' Ha, yeah – amen, brothers!

Black Hearted Brother - (I Don't Mean To) Wonder

Amason - Älgen

Different & Special Set for BOCAGRANDE Restaurant (Barcelona)
www.viktorolle.com

1 - CHEMISE - She Can't Love you

2 - M/A/R/R/S - Pump up the Volume

3 - QUEEN vs DAFT PUNK - Another One Bites Da Funk

4 - MOULLINEX - Take my Pain Away

5 - INDEEP - Last Night a Deejay Saved my Life ( Simøne Remix)

6 - CAPITAL CITIES - Safe & Sound

7 - NEW ORDER - True Faith

8 - !!! - Slyd

9 - BONY M - Happy Song

10 - A. SKILLS - Happiness

11 - PRINCE - Raspberry Beret

12 - METRONOMY - The Bay (Erol Alkan's remix)

13 - FLORENCE & THE MACHINE - Spectrum (Say my name)

14 - ADAMSKI vs SEAL - Killer

15 - GEORGE MICHAEL - Everything She Wants

16 - EBTG vs SOUL VISION - Tracy in my Room

17 - GOSSIP - Heavy Cross 

18 - YAZZ - The Only Way is Up

19 - HAJI & EMANUEL - Weekend

20 - DEPECHE MODE - Behind the Wheel vs Route 66

21 - TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB - You're not Stubborn

22 - BECK - Sexx Laws

23 - MADONNA - Material Girl

24 - BLONDIE - Atomic

25 - THE BEATLES - Eleanor Rigby

Yellow Set BOCAGRANDE 80's - Disco - Funk - Dance By Viktor Olle

Single adelanto del próximo disco de Las Ruinas a editarse el 23 de diciembre de 2013, y titulado "Acidez House".

Las Ruinas - Generación perdida

Taken from Guided by Voices' forthcoming album 'Motivational Jumpsuit', due out on Fire Records (Europe) on 17 February.

Guided By Voices - Littlest League Possible

Track taken from Dean Wareham's self-titled debut solo album, produced by Jim James. Released in the UK and Europe via Sonic Cathedral on March 10, 2014.

Dean Wareham 'Holding Pattern'

PRrrrrrIMAVERA SOUND 14 ( My Ps14) By YôSET 2

Terrorvision, Primal Scream, R.E.M., Beck, Bedhead, Pavement, Green Day, Shampoo, Frank Black, Dinosaur Jr., Supergrass, Manic Street Preachers, Salad, Magnapop, Veruca Salt, Compulsion, Sugar, Lush, Sebadoh, Senser, The Offspring, Throwing Muses, Sonic Youth, Australian Blonde, Ride, Dodgy, Urge Overkill, Nirvana, Family, Suede, Elastica, Inspiral Carpets, Blur, Pulp, Beastie Boys, Urban Dance Squad, The Charlatans, Public Enemy, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Therapy, Los Planetas, Weezer, Soundgarden.

This is 1994

I did this mix with my favourite records that I most played in the past times. Always I prefer recording a long dj set for explain a story, but I don't have much money to pay the soundcloud pro account, is better spent my money in many records, this is the reason of these 55 minutes. Come into a holographic adventure, like a perfect of one virtual trip soundtrack.

Mastering with Landr.

Holographic Adventure (55 min Mix)

Hijo de la escena indie de Hospitalet, dj Monami empieza su andadura a finales de los 90 colaborando con prensa escrita y radio. No tardará en dar el salto a las salas de su ciudad 
hasta conseguir la residencia del mítico Depósito Legal.
Esa será su casa, lugar donde desarollará su estilo, una personal mezcla de guitarras y electrónica, de clásicos y novedades. 
Su progresión le llevará a las mejores salas de Cataluña  (Razzmatazz, Salamandra, Fantástico, Mond Club…etc ), España ( Fever, Low, La Mode, Le Club ) y festivales varios ( BAM, Let’s Festival, Tendencias, FIB 2012 ). 
Actualmente compagina su residencia en el Depo con su trabajo como encargado de compras en la emblemática tienda de discos Revolver.
http://www.depositolegal.com/

This is 1994

dj jordi monami

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