The Upload 4-7-18

Taken from FST161 A Strange Desire - Sunny Days at Salem
Available as LP
www.firestation-records.de

Sunny Days At Salem

A Strange Desire - Promise To Lie

Taken from FST58 Rik Rak - Illuminated
Available as LP/CD
www.firestation-records.de

Illuminated

Rik Rak - It's Not Easy

it's the middle of the night
and you're not feeling quite right
take a look whats in your sight
is it bright, my eyes don't know

where did you go?
i'm stuck in the snow
will i ever know?

when it's really cold outside
there's nothing left to do but hide
you won't be needing me much more
i'm another person you can ignore

where did you go?
i'm stuck in the snow
will i ever know?
will i ever know?

orange juice

air
lovelyhead;; goldfrapp
glory box; ; portishead
nothings gonna hurt u;; cigs after sex
dreams; fleetwood mac
everything is embarrassing;; sky ferreira
army of lovers;; army of lovers
augustine;; blood orange
true blue;; dirty beaches
dum surfer;; king rule
geto boys;; glass candy
it wasn’t me;; jersey club remix by ??
heartbroken;; dj jay hood x nadus x dj slink x adolf joker
on my mind;; jorja smith x preditah
make it rain;; yaeji

album art by IG @ qswoon

City Girl

HQ-Download: https://ericlymon.bandcamp.com/album/dave-gahan-elr-mixes


Video by Aquario: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHev23r7qh4

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Hourglass

Dave Gahan - Endless [Eric Lymon - Man Machine Mix]

From the album Genericana available August 3, 2018 from Western Vinyl.

Pre-Order
Bandcamp https://productofpalmyra.bandcamp.com/album/genericana
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/genericana/1380844018
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv124

Genericana’s opening moments advertise a virtual vacation place, where soft waves of AM static crash and synthetic gulls call to a hazy sun.  A skeleton-thin drum loop jogs by--but these lazy synth tones are just working on their tan.  And then, just as the soundscape approaches maximum repose, a gnarly guitar band busts into the mix like an odd choice by a half-baked algorithm.  

“What?”

Indeed, “what” is the mantra of our moment.  And Genericana aspires to be that moment’s soundtrack.  

“WHAT is happening to our culture?” Americans ask themselves, in the era that sees entertainment, politics, and community life consolidated in a digital communications ecosystem.  Responding, Elephant Micah has tuned its music to an appropriately disorienting pitch.  For songwriter and recordist Joe O’Connell, that means remixing his own cultural experience, and questioning how “where we live” affects “what we sound like”:

“To me, ‘country’ music could mean any of the music we listened to growing up.  When my sister and I were teenagers, in the 1990s, we put a lot of effort into trying to access alternative music.  You had to steal Rolling Stone issues from the public library to find out about artists.  Or stay up late when you could get in some different radio stations than you could during the day.  I think of that whole experience as a ‘country’ music experience.”
  
In the place of “Americana,” the band offers Genericana.  Evoking genealogy, genre, generic brands (and perhaps a bottled genie), the album title points the way to a different theory of what binds our culture together. 
 
“I think Genericana just means ‘the stuff from which stuff generates,’” O’Connell explains.  “It's a short hand way of shouting out to the stock elements that I'm mashing up in this music.  I wanted this project to be sort of like a lucky mutation, that could lead to a heartier version of Elephant Micah for the digital world.” 

Mining the aesthetics of the average compact disc collection, Elephant Micah makes room on Genericana to play with sounds for their own sake.  O’Connell and company follow in the footsteps of songwriter-producers like Arthur Russell and John Martyn—artists whose descent into effects made their voices all the more poignant and personal.  Frequently, Genericana also pays tribute to laid back club sounds, from dub to ambient techno--and to the resourcefulness of the producers who invented these genres.       

“To make this record, we assembled a bunch of gear that was devalued or discarded,” O’Connell explains.  “A cheap FM synth, some Hindustani electronics, and an old three-head tape deck to use as a ‘poor man’s Space echo.’”  

At the top of this heap of equipment was something new.  And in fact, there had never been anything quite like it before.  Working from a series of manic band meetings and napkin drawings, percussionist and keyboardist Matt O’Connell brought to fruition a one-of-a-kind digital synthesizer.  Its inspiration comes from the possibility of alternative playing interfaces—ways of interacting with digital instruments that aren’t based on techniques for existing instruments.  Matt and Joe named this synth The Mutant, a title that’s right in key with the themes of Genericana.  Enjoy!

Genericana

Elephant Micah - "Surf B"

Un tiempo - Daske Gaitán

American Fool

https://open.spotify.com/track/2yfb8QdtPhgB3OL94Oy00i?si=msPUWihLTXOaf3Ztolx5yA

Lately I can't concentrate
Stuck in this revolving door
I cant even meditate
I just wind up sitting on the floor
Pick my brain, jog my memory, remember me
Walk my dog, thats my remedy, no pedigree
Ramble on, got no meaning, just a melody
Fuck what your job says 
Fuck all your dumb friends

Now I'm that friend thats always flakes 
At home eating beans and playing bass
Slept in cuz I stayed up late
But fuck it I'm on summer break
Psychedelic tendencies and unborn fetus industries
Destructions finest prophecies all flow like natural energies
Free thinkers imitate when greed is what we generate 
Can't recreate what isn't made
Is freedom real or is it fake. . .

Dumb Friends

New 5 track EP, released 13th July on limited 12“ clear-marbled white vinyl by Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten in a edition of 200. Finest Noise/Indie/"Schrammel"-POP! from Brighton/UK.
KUS 015 is sold out at our label.

Jetstream Pony - Self-Destruct Reality

PROD Martín Sobel
instagram.com/martinsobel

basic land plains

produced this eurythmics cover a few years ago for my live show. finally recorded a vocal so that it can exist outside a venue :) 

new music coming soon

HereComesTheRainAgain

There's a man waiting 
He meets their friends on a nearby street
They don't have to go very far they get something quick to eat
They're just waiting in the car

know, know it well
I know know it well
I know know it well

You won't see it straight away in someone
When you meet and you think that they don't have a vice
Then you get to know them you realise
They're hooked on something in the way that you are too
Took a while to see it

There's a man waiting 
He meets their friends on a nearby street
They don't have to go very far they get something quick to eat

He gets his girlfriend to drive for him
She's gonna bump into a stranger there
But look what happens when you can't control
What someone takes into their own hands

The Upload 4-7-18

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