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Mixed Bag 1 Sep 2015 // indie :: rock :: electronic :: folk :: pop :: blues :: dance

Nac Tracks September 2015

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boombiddy boombiddy boom // rock :: folk :: blues :: acoustic

Tijuana Sound Machine
Written and Produced by Ramón Amezcua 
from the Album
BOSTICH+FUSSIBLE-TIJUANA SOUND MACHINE

Nacional Records ©2011

Tijuana Sound Machine, Written and Produced by Ramón Amezcua (Bostich)

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Beneath The Air

Our new track “Knees On The Ground” might benefit from an explanation. This is the most unguarded I ever intend to be when writing about Clipping.

What had happened was this: our very brief UK/Europe trip got called-off the day before we were supposed to get on a plane to London. Since we didn’t have any other plans, we met up in the studio with an idea to crank out a new track. On our list of songs to finish was one particular piece aimed directly at the club (or, at least, our twisted idea of what clubs should play). But none of us were in the mood for it. Each of us had spent the previous several days following the news of protests in Ferguson, MO. It was the only thing on our minds. We couldn’t bring ourselves to think about anything else, so we decided to direct our fear, our revulsion, our heartbreak into a new track.

The problem was that we’d defined our band — in interviews and to each other — as decidedly-not-an-activist-project. Diggs’s lyrics have been criticized for seeming apolitical, at least in comparison to what many listeners (perhaps rightly) expect to hear from an ‘experimental’ rap group. I have many times said (perhaps naïvely) that our politics lie in our structures, in our formal engagement with the rap genre. We love its conventions, its clichés, and we’re not above them. We see our participation in rap as something resembling an old punk flyer — an out-of-context collage of charged images with an fractured, contradictory, multiple point-of-view. I hope that our more dedicated listeners hear this and understand that we’re not interested in spoon-feeding them a position. At the same time, I’ve always assumed that they pretty much agree with us on most issues anyway. (We have yet to meet the misogynist, homophobic, white supremacist Clipping fan with an MBA and an NRA membership).

So what do we do when all we can think about, all we can feel, is a profound injustice — yet another young unarmed person of color is murdered by a police officer? How does a band, which overtly rejects affect and the emotions, address something that is, for its authors, a deeply felt, deeply affecting topic? Well, we don’t entirely know. But the fact is: there’s more truth in Diggs’s lyrics than we generally let on. “Inside Out” describes a drive-by shooting in Oakland, “Chain” is about three stick-ups. They are presented with a lot of detail and specificity (perhaps the result of personal experience). But at the same time, they represent archetypal scenarios within rap music. One trope we had yet to explore as Clipping was the anti-police rap — the lineage of Public Enemy, NWA and Paris, straight through The Coup, and all the way into the ‘stop snitching’ panic of the early 2000s. “Knees On The Ground” is a paradigmatic white-cop-kills-an-unarmed-black-kid-and-gets-away-with-it tale — a story that happens all the fucking time in the US. What we have learned — from our first hand experience in Oakland in 2009, and from the media coverage of Ferguson in 2014 — is that the second part of this story involves a police response better suited to a war zone than to an American city. Cops think they’re playing Call Of Duty when they’re supposed to be part of a community. If Ferguson were in Iraq, Obama would have sent in an airstrike already.

This is the least obtuse Diggs’s lyrics will ever get. We’re embarrassed by the timeliness of this track. We do not intend to capitalize on what is, undoubtedly, a terrible tragedy. But journalists make think-pieces and we make songs. Writers write what they know, and this is what we know right fucking now.

— William Hutson, Clipping.

Knees On The Ground

off of Temporary Forever 2002
prod. by Paris Zax

on double vinyl, for today only: https://busdriver-thumbs.bandcamp.com/album/temporary-forever

Imaginary Places

Beach Fossils -  Fall Right In

From the album ‘Noctunes’ (2015) • Pay what you want http://tndr.lv/willisbeal

Principalities of man got you down in the mud
You’re a single grain of sand so you can’t stand out
Misery on every corner looking for handouts
You got peoples steady yelling you don’t know what about
Just turn your eyes to the sky and remove all doubt
If you wanna survive 
If you wanna survive
Cause they’ll eat you alive
They’ll eat you alive
In your heart you feel you’re right but they tell you you’re wrong
The melody you orchestrate don’t go with the song
You’re only waiting in vain don’t make a difference how long
They tell you get off the stage but you can’t hear the call
So stop beating your chest and acting like King Kong
If you wanna survive
If you wanna survive
Cause they’ll eat you alive
Cause they’ll eat you alive

If you want to survive
You got to let it go
If you want to survive
You got to let it go
If you want to survive
Let it go
If you wanna survive
If you want to survive


Willis Earl Beal has yet to be born. Critics and publicists defined him before he’d had a chance to define himself. Their expectations were inextricably linked with race and gender, two concepts Beal thoroughly rejects. Now, two extremely productive years removed from the spotlight, Beal doesn’t feel pressure to define himself against anything. His new music is shockingly original, utterly confident, and as ephemeral as Beal himself. He levitates above definition, concerned only with self-discovery and truth-seeking. “I know it sounds falsely altruistic,” he says. “But I think a simple voice like mine can serve as an example of some kind of freedom.”

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Noctunes

Survive

Willis Earl Beal - Survive

From the album ‘Noctunes’ (2015) • Pay what you want http://tndr.lv/willisbeal

Look around in the dark hallways
And I’m flying so low
I look around in the dark hallways
And I know
I’m flying so low
I’m flying so low
I’m flying so low

Follow the earth men
They try and get in my door
I can see their faces
Holler out
Their teeth show
But I know I can’t stop it
And it’s all up for grabs

I’m flying so low
I’m flying so low
I’m flying so low
I’m flying so low

The mountains rise and I fall 
Into the ocean
The monsters know
That I don’t got my potion
I try to run but I know it’s almost time so
I fall and crumble
I don’t have no place to go
I’m flying so low
I just wanna come back now
I’m flying so low
Why don’t you let me come back now
I’m crying on the stage
Please don’t forget me


Willis Earl Beal has yet to be born. Critics and publicists defined him before he’d had a chance to define himself. Their expectations were inextricably linked with race and gender, two concepts Beal thoroughly rejects. Now, two extremely productive years removed from the spotlight, Beal doesn’t feel pressure to define himself against anything. His new music is shockingly original, utterly confident, and as ephemeral as Beal himself. He levitates above definition, concerned only with self-discovery and truth-seeking. “I know it sounds falsely altruistic,” he says. “But I think a simple voice like mine can serve as an example of some kind of freedom.”


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Willis Earl Beal - Flying So Low

Mountain is the first single from 'Give Up Your Dreams' released on 7th Aug 2015. 

The album can be pre-ordered via www.thephoenixfoundation.co.nz with an instant download of Mountain.

Tracklisting:
Mountain
Bob Lennon John Dylan
Playing Dead
Prawn
Jason
Celestial Bodies
Silent Orb
Sunbed
Give Up Your Dreams
Myth


Give Up Your Dreams

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Mountain

Featuring guest vocals from Sam Rosenberg (Two Inch Astronaut/Mattress Financial). Stove "Is Stupider" is the debut album from Steve Hartlett. The album was recorded and mixed at The Barn in Panton, VT with producers Nick Dooley and Dan Francia (Flagland). Mastered by Brent Ulrich.

"Is Stupider" will be released November 20th via Exploding In Sound Records. Pre-orders are available at www.explodinginsoundrecords.bandcamp.com/merch

Stove - Jock Dreams

Taken from the forth coming album 'Key Markets'. 

Grab this as a free track when you pre-order the album on iTunes: http://geni.us/SleafordModsKeyiTunes  

Face To Faces

From Julian Dawson's forthcoming 'I'm Living Good' album to be released in September 2015.

Julian Dawson ~ Duke

Young Thug "Pacifier"
300 Entertainment/Atlantic Records
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Pacifier

Young Thug - Pacifier

Ocean Song

Palm - Ankles (Inflated Records/EIS)

Kanta's Theme

From the album, 'South Atlantic Blues' (Cat no. CEC003), due for release on CD and vinyl by Saint Cecilia Knows/lil'fish records, November 20, 2015. Originally released by Atco Records, 1968. Licensed exclusively from Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.

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Scott Fagan – In My Head

Just The Way You Are

Written and produced by Oh Wonder

Debut album OUT NOW!

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LYRICS
They're building towers that are high enough to see the clouds 
But it don't bother me 
The elevators working overtime up and down 
Yet it don't bother me 

Cos I need something more than everything 
A higher self deep within 
Cos I need something more than everything 
A higher self, a higher self

And I know we need a little heart hope 
I know we've gotta outgrow and feel a little heart hope

They're building aeroplanes faster than the speed of light 
Yet it don't bother me 
The endless cities multiplying oceansize 
Yet it don't bother me 

Cos I need something more than everything 
A higher self deep within 
Cos I need something more than everything 
A higher self, a higher self

And I know we need a little heart hope 
I know we've gotta outgrow and feel a little heart hope 
Cos there is something more than everything 
So feel the love and let it in
Cos I know we need a little heart hope 

Heart Hope

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This is 'No Place Like Home' featuring JONES, taken from HONNE's new 'Over Lover' EP - out now on Tatemae Recordings.

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Over Lover EP

No Place Like Home (feat. JONES)

'Be Good' on iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/be-good-feat.-tom-rosenthal/id1034482006

This song was co-written with Max Brodie, and it is currently featuring on a Vodafone ad in the UK. 

You can see the ad here - https://youtu.be/HuahFRutADs

LYRICS: 

To begin or to remain 
All the questions of the day 
We are just beginning 
There's a smile in your eyes 
What will we find? 

Turn it all around 
Flip that frown upside down 
Let it beat like a drum 
Oh be good and be young. 

Oh we're to save the day 
We are gone and on our way 
Light it up and let us go 
To the stars and to the moon 
Start it up we'll be there soon 

Turn it all around 
Flip that frown upside down 
Let it beat like a drum 
Oh be good and be young. 

Behind those eyes
Behind those lies 

Turn it all around 
Flip that frown upside down 
Let it beat like a drum 
Oh be good and be young. 

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Be Good

‘FF Bada’ is the second track released from ‘La Di Da Di’ out now – http://s.warp.net/battles-ladidadi

The album is available on 2xLP, CD, digitally and to stream at,
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“La Di Da Di finds Battles arm-wrestling the urge to repeat previous efforts — and winning.” – Rolling Stone

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FF Bada

Ty Segall - Imaginary Person

Rock And Roll Night Club EP/CD/MP3 out March 20th. 

Mac DeMarco // She's Really All I Need

A dear friend, who scours Craigslist for a bicycle for me, turned 24 mid-October. 