Indietronica Mixtape October 2015

Production, Writing, Performance by Travis Blitzen 
Mixed by Chelsea Faith 
Mastering by Shawn Hatfield of AudibleOddities 
Vocal Engineering and Live Drum Samples provided by Eric Bateman 
Layout and Design by Alex Jane 
Ghost of Lightning Live: Matthew Zipkin, Travis Blitzen 
Recorded at The Houseboat and Adeline Manor 
Thank you: Louisa, Sass, Murph, Galidog, Bonnie, Radhika, AJ, Head, Zen, RD, Introflirt, Fools, Family and Friends 

Contact/Booking: ghostoflightning@gmail.com 
Ghostoflightning.com 
soundcloud.com/ghostoflightning 

Zero Card Music 
Copyright 2016
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Generations EP

In case you were having some trouble, we've unscrewed the lid on this week's Jam Jar for you, and picked five of our favorite flavors for you to sample:

 5: @babyalpaca - In Our Eyes - https://soundcloud.com/babyalpaca/in-our-eyes-feat-theresa-wayman-of-warpaint

I'm a sucker for male/female vocals, especially when they're mixed with the kind of gloomy New Wave sound on display here. Maybe it's just the accent, but this guy sounds a bit like Morrissey to me.

4: @hotelapache - Cigarettes - https://soundcloud.com/hotelapache/cigarettes

This one has got the earwormy makings of a real pop song. As much as I generally detest songs that make me feel like I'm a tween girl being serenaded, I'm strangely ok blushing and giggling to this one. Tee-hee. 

3: @yankee-the-foreigners - Not Negotiable https://soundcloud.com/yankee-the-foreigners/04-not-negotiable

Dive bar rock & roll meets indie folk in this infectious, rollocking jam. It doesn't surprise me that these guys hail from Boston. I can kind of imagine people dumping a bunch of tea in the harbor while this blasts in their ears.

2: @tigerandman - I've Got Nothing - https://soundcloud.com/tigerandman/ive-got-nothing-1

What starts as a haunting ballad quickly takes on a surprising heaviness both lyrically and sonically. With just a bit of distortion, a hell of a vocal range, and a surprisingly gnarly guitar solo, this Brooklyn duo's self-described "electro-acoustic" sound combines the best that each of those worlds has to offer.

1: @tennysonmusic - XYZ - https://soundcloud.com/tennysonmusic/xyz

If I had to pinpoint what I find so damn enticing about this lyric-free beat, I'd have to say - it's just chill. In only three minutes, Tennyson builds an entire Indian soundscape out of everything from the trickle of a creek to a hawk soaring overhead. The through line - an exotic and mesmerizing melody - unites the eclectic nature sounds into a somehow cohesive song that I just can't stop replaying.

The Jam Jar: Week 16 of 2016

Sustain/Release: SR1

Playlist for the 11/3/16 show at The Night Light in Oakland, CA featuring Ghost of Lightning, vverevvolf and Big Big Love. 
RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/752010728270493/

Ghost of Lightning, vverevvolf, Big Big Love at The Night Light 11/3/16

ONLY MUSIC - JUL. 2016

R.I.P. Kindred Souls...

sailing away on a wave of synth bliss, aboard the ghost ship... 

http://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Profiles-of-those-who-died-in-huge-warehouse-fire-10691083.php#photo-12001031

https://www.google.com/amp/sf.curbed.com/platform/amp/2016/12/5/13843954/oakland-fire-victims-donate

OAKLAND LOVE: Ghost Ship mixtape

Zanna Nera - Heretic's Oblation

New track from the "Bilingual" EP, released December 13th, 2013. 
Download the EP for free: http://rlmdl.bandcamp.com
Watch the OFFICIAL VIDEO for "Bilingual": http://vimeo.com/78535463

Wildest Dreams

Tender Men

variations on a pattern. memory defined human sequence. 

Changing Tone And Shifting Function

Them Are Us Too "Us Now"

Dorian - A Cualquier Otra Parte (Kane remix)

From the self-titled, capitalized, debut album. Available in FULL at https://introflirt.bandcamp.com. 

Get The Album!

Satisfy

From "Heatwave" — the new EP from Portland, OR's Wild Ones — available everywhere on CD, vinyl and digitally August 14, 2015 from Topshelf Records.

http://www.topshelfrecords.com/artists/wild-ones
http://www.topshelfrecords.com/artists/wild-ones/products

Heatwave

Dim the Lights

Wild Ones - "Dim the Lights"

"Soak" is off of GEMS' forthcoming debut album "Kill the One You Love" out October 30th.

pre-order:
itunes (w/ instant grat download of "living as a ghost" and "soak"):
smarturl.it/gems_itunes
carpark shop: 
smarturl.it/gems_carpark

Oct 20 - Toronto, ON - The Hoxton *
Oct 21 - Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle *
Oct 22 - Boston, MA - Middle East *
Oct 23 - Washington, DC - U Street Music Hall *
Oct 26 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom *
Oct 27 - Brooklyn, NY - Max Cellar
Oct 30 - Brooklyn, NY - The Paper Box
Nov 6 - Atlanta, GA - Aisle 5

* with Autre Ne Veut

Soak

'Cool Blue' from The Japanese House's 'Clean' EP. Available now on iTunes: http://po.st/Clean and limited edition 12" vinyl: http://po.st/Clean12

The Japanese House - Cool Blue

Transviolet

New Bohemia

NEW EP - HEARTS A GUN OUT SEPT 25 
Read/See/Hear more here: www.gypsyandthecat.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/gypsyandthecat
Instagram: instagram.com/gypsyandthecat
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2qROZ6gw4yINamYhBoLPoT

Fire

@SGLewis - Shivers feat. JP Cooper (HONNE Remix)

HONNE:
soundcloud.com/hellohonne
facebook.com/hellohonne
twitter.com/hellohonne

SG Lewis - Shivers (HONNE Remix)

All Is Fair In Dreams

Saturday After The Accident

Say What I Say

All The Pleasantries

Immortality para Doritos

9U Eurorack Modular Synthesizer(Make Noise/Verbos Modules) and Eventide Space Reverb. Light Compression added to final Mix.

Somewhere In The Distance

Lewis Cancut is NLV Records’ tropical piece of the puzzle. He never fails to instil his fruity sounds into his music and we get the freshest batch of those in his latest single, Say Ok featuring TIGARAH. The Japanese pop star’s super sweet voice compliments Lewis’ equally sugary production and together they have you feeling like you’re walking the streets of Shibuya. An immediately loveable pop song, Say Ok is built from sounds that drip and thump wrapped in futuristic synths that tie everything together. One of Lewis’ catchiest club songs to date, you’re going to have this one on repeat.

Recorded at RBMA studios Tokyo.

Check out @lewis-cancut 
facebook.com/LewisCanCut
twitter.com/lewiscancut
instagram.com/lewiscancut 
www.lewiscancut.com

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Lewis CanCut - Say Ok (feat. TIGARAH)

spotify

Official remix of @chvrches "Empty Threat", which was included on the limited edition Record Store Day vinyl release, 'Every Open Eye The Remixes'.

Catch Big Wild's Spring 2016 US Tour
http://www.bigwildmusic.com/shows

CHVRCHES - Empty Threat (Big Wild Remix)

Rare MP3s # 31 - @AndreaValle - Take Me Up
Produced by @Matti-Free & @DrizzKoby
Mixed & Mastered by Rare MP3s

Andrea's EP #THEWAYITGOES comes out 4/27

Artwork by Kerry Gilbert

YouTube

Andrea Valle - Take Me Up

Flume ‘Say It’ feat. Tove Lo.

Official Music video: http://smarturl.it/SayItVideo

Artwork by Jonathan Zawada

Order the Skin vinyl at http://flu.me

Stream Skin: http://smarturl.it/SkinStream
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Download Skin on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/SkiniTunes
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Follow @Flume
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Say It feat Tove Lo

Download

Say It feat. Tove Lo

how deep is your love (live on berkeley liberation radio)

It Doesn't Bother Me (Ricardo Gautreau ReDUX)

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

Help Me

Nackt - Scheherazade (City Mix)

Falling Apart (Ft. Bed Of Stars) by Neverending White Lights

 This track appears on A Compilation to benefit LCM (life changing ministries) a DIY performance space in West Oakland.  If you love having venues to play at (touring artists) , all proceeds go to paying rent/security improvements/construction upkeep for the venue.  There are 66 tracks on the compilation! get ALL of them for $6.66! check it out here :  http://lcmoakland.bandcamp.com/


LYRIX:;;;;;;

theres a portapotty
an empty bottle of wine
an abandoned bicycle 
with one wheel
 a man in a wheel chair
with a suitcase 
the suitcase breaks when it hits the cement
it opens and space invents
300 orange pharmaceutical bottles
and Chaos Dossiers
flying around tax returns
court summons 
declassification requests 
emails from his mom
invitations to his daughters soccer game
in 1978
a receipt for a Basquiat painting 
300 pages of printed out Ebay adds
duct tape 
4 cell phones 
stock listings cut up into tiny pieces and glued onto (manilla) envelopes
and stuffed inside tattered pissed on manilla folders 
a VHS tape of a romantic interlude with a Hells Angel
an Altoids tin with dollar bill pyramids cut  out
16 sets of ear plugs 
mostly worn
934 cents in change
42 bottle caps 
from 13 different countries
two knives
one glass eye
the keys to the helicopter

collect all the photographs
cut them in pieces 
and reveal something bigger

the globe 
a map 
not the territory 

i shake his hand 
and get in my armored tank
(and make money)
drive down the the dentists office 
talk to the secretary
who knows a guy
at the court house 
says he can get me in the back door

collect all the photographs
cut them in pieces 
 reveal something bigger


Dynamite on the shore
i walked to the abandoned train car
there a girl was crouching
she was writing
she wrote about the sideshow
she wrote about the dayglow
she wrote about the embryo
she wrote about the noosphere
words that sew
words that reap
words that set up
words that move in for the big kill
books that bleed 
through centuries 
if trees could talk
pulp synapsyses
train car littered in symbols
poltergeist graffiti
the drugs are setting in
i speak with a man in omaha
i speak with a man in wyoming
i speak with a man in arizona
i touched the cracked paint of a girls hand
from Saint Louis
i breathe the same molecule as confuscious
things tumble in 
i smell the ship
i smell the sails
i smell the breath of conquistadors
i see the contemporary conquistadors

THEDISCONTENTSOFHISBREIFCASEandthecontemporaryConquistador

Exorcisms.
Oakland, CA. 

Generations EP out now @ https://ghostoflightning.bandcamp.com/
All music composed and performed by Travis Blitzen, or otherwise noted