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Botany, 'Dimming Awe, The Light is Raw' out September 18th on Western Vinyl

Bandcamp: https://botany.bandcamp.com/album/dimming-awe-the-light-is-raw
iTunes: hyperurl.co/qzgj6u

Botany:
Artist Page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/botany
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/BotanyMusic
Twitter http://twitter.com/botanymusic
Instagram https://instagram.com/botany.vibes/

Under the Botany moniker, Spencer Stephenson creates rich psychological and emotional experiences through audio. When he started creating his own music at age 15, he was enamored with Four Tet, Stars of the Lid, Madlib, and Dilla. In his late teens, he went through a heavy period of discovery with Psychedelic rock, Krautrock, and Brit-folk. "I started imitating a lot of those forms in my own music, sampling them sometimes, recording from scratch sometimes, but really just trying to bridge a gap between those worlds and sample-based hip hop, and I’m still trying."

On his latest effort Dimming Awe, the Light is Raw, the 27-year-old producer and composer continues dissolving the borders between his disparate-yet-beloved psych, hip hop, and ambient influences. Unlike his debut LP Lava Diviner, which peaked and valley-ed through a narrative arc, Dimming Awe focuses on the artist's ever-unfolding, present state of mind. As a former jazz student, spiritual/free jazz philosophy regarding what he calls “emergent” music has increasingly become a guiding light when he creates. "The more emergent I let my music be when I'm making it, the more I like the result, it feels like a truer reflection. I feel like I am getting closer to doing that with computer-made music," he says. "This album is a document of what I do, not a statement in any explicit way. I feel like I'm moving closer to a jazz underpinning that I've always felt, philosophically more than aesthetically…making music feels more like exhaling as I grow older.”

Botany - "Glow Up w/  Matthewdavid"

1960s french pop aesthetics inspired by Chris Marker's 1962 post apocalyptic vision of Paris La Jetee

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Crocodiles - "Telepathic Lover"
From the album "Dreamless"
Produced by Martin Thulin & Crocodiles
Mexico City 2016

Available October 21st on Zoo Music

Telepathic Lover (Single Version)

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The Freak

BUY 12" EP/CD http://hopest.re/HS028VINYL

The best way to speed up a chemical reaction is to invite change and introduce an outside force: light, heat, movement. As The Cactus Channel know full well, the same goes with sound — introducing change compels a composition forward, as it rises, falls, peaks and boils. On their first release of 2017, vocalist Sam Cromack (Ball Park Music, My Own Pet Radio) is this catalyst for change, as the band collaborate with him on a full EP, introduced by lead single “Sorry Hills”.

As frenetic rhythms build only to fall away, and melodies loop, dive, and stutter, The Cactus Channel make music that both functions on and demands reaction. This collaborative EP treads a thin line between alt- soul and the best of indie pop, swimming in compelling atmospherics and deftly weaving Cromack’s rich, drawling vocal and disarming, meditative lyrics through the band’s typically intuitive arrangements.
The Cactus Channel formed in high school, united by shared interests and a shared sense of humour — a love of soul music and the kind of hip hop, jazz, and alternative releases that spring from it, meant that from the beginning The Cactus Channel have prided themselves not just on eclecticism, but on the constant sharing of influences among their members. On this EP, the band venture into their second recorded project with a vocalist, exploring new influences and sonic territories.

Lyrically, “Do It For Nothing” is heavy with a kind of guilty melancholy that belies the wordplay in its title — Cromack’s dark, introspective lyrics are accompanied by an instrumental that buzzes with a slight sense of paranoia: in the song’s instrumental bridge, the rhythm section simmers as horns let forth quiet squeals.

The band takes equal cues from hip hop instrumentals and golden era Soul — counting the sounds of frequent hip hop collaborators BADBADNOTGOOD and the tight arrangement and production style of Stax Records as influences — as they build tracks that leave room for words to grow, breathe, and take focus, but never underestimate the power of beat and rhythm to build tension and release.

Cromack’s voice is afforded a new palette in this project, as his vocals climb through horn arrangements and rhythm with unprecedented light and shade.

Do It For Nothing

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The Cactus Channel & Sam Cromack - Do It For Nothing

new song by Rikky Gage
all music and lyrics by Rikky Gage
recorded at Studio G in Los Angeles, CA
2017

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Slips Away

The new Fanfarlo album Let's Go Extinct is out on February 10th (in the US February 11th). Official video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8xHq1kdxes

Limited pre-order version - http://www.fanfarlo.com
Pre-order on iTunes - http://bit.ly/letsgoextinct

On tour in Europe and North America throughout spring 2014:
http://fanfarlo.com/shows

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