2016

Stuff I like a lot that isn't trap

Queue pt 7

LiStening Now // April 4th 2016

Relax

MF1403 - OL - Scape Border EP
Released 10/11

Available to pre-order from Phonica Records
http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/ol-scape-border-ep-pre-order-meda-fury/124527

Meda Fury welcome OL from Moscow, Russia. Following many varied contributions for labels such as Faces, Fine Grains, Phonica and Capital Bass. 
Lum Edit barges in sirens blaring, banging out machine like kick, hats and toms. The heaviest raw funk bassline is unleashed, and lumbers amongst Rap TV show samples and gunshots. Industrial gangster house. 
Around has a broken, jazzy Detroit feel. Sparing R&B vocal samples and afrocentric percussion ride the wah-wah and heavy bass guitar. 
Rimms comes straight out of leftfield, cutting edge drum machines rubbing up against Baltic art-rock samples. Its a strange claustrophobic affair with ghostly vocals. East European dancefloor paranoia. 
Myxa breaks the tension wide open, building a coiled spring of whistle-like riffs. R&B vocal snippets hype it up further before snapping and spilling its own elastic sub-bass. Fine feelgood ghetto-house action. 
Podumay's glitchy raw drums stomp forward towards all kinds of unknown sci-fi sounds and Kraut synth backgrounds. The contrast is a Detroit soul bassline and house percussion. 
Melt Down brings the tempo and mood way down to a mysterious close. The echoing sound of water and eerie isolationist synth washes recalling BOC. The beat is straight current-day Hip-Hop, tight snares rolling over dangerously low Miami-strength bass. Game over.


OL - Podumay Clip

The KDMS is an international collaboration between British singer-songwriter Kathy Diamond & Polish producer Maximilian Skiba. With support from the likes of Hot Chip, Dimitri From Paris, and Andy George & Jaymo, the duo are currently hard at work on their second album. Created exclusively for i-D, this mix is one for the spontaneous times, the fun times, the 'fuck it! let's go on an adventure!' times. This is music to drive into the unknown to. Speed off on a musical journey through your past, present and future. Hold tight! 

Tracklist:
Tomas Barfod - Honey (feat. Sleep Party People)
Last Waltz - Magicke
Ptaki - Ponure Miasto
Kakkmaddafakka - Lie (The KDMS Remix)
Tomas Barfod - Mandalay
Secret Track
Banda Westfalica - Tulum (Castro Remix)
DJ Nature - Dance
Curses - Call The Doctor
Knights of Olde feat. Angie May - Capricorn Man (Idjut Boys Remix)
Bryce Hackford - Another Fantasy
Kasper Bjorke - Sylvia feat. CTM (a/jus/ted remix)
Ultracity - Lonely
Bastedos - Sit On This
Tyedie - Trip Through The Night (Mongolian Jet Set Remix)
Sean Roman - It Doesn't Matter
Anton Klint - Spritzer Part 2
The KDMS - Terminal One (instrumental demo version)
secret track
secret track

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The KDMS: Music to... Drive Into The Unknown To

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And you can now download Blue Asphalt on Itunes !
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Blue Asphalt

Royaume - Blue Asphalt

Documenta
Drone Pop #1 
LP / DL
TSR004 | Touch Sensitive Records
Friday 13th November 

Limited Red/Green Colour Vinyl + Insert + Download Code

Drone Pop #1 is the second album by cosmic drone-pop septet Documenta. Recorded over four days at Start Together Studios Belfast by Ben McAuley and the band, it also features additional production from David Holmes on ‘Love As A Ghost’.

Influenced by the English guitar minimalism emanating from 1980s Rugby, the darkness and light of Detroit’s hit factory, and the German Kosmische set’s concrète groove - Documenta present a true psychedelia through repetition, melody and rhythm.

A patient year-long process of experimentation and mixing - during which the group added “washing machines, aircraft and the sound of Saturday night” - encouraged a fuller overall feel and a marked sonic progression.
“We experimented at home quite a bit before returning to the studio so we got to stretch our imagination. We’re constantly learning as a band and this seemed like the next musical step.”

Soul music in outer space.

Tracklisting:
1. Idle Hands
2. Spanish Artist 
3. Horror Vacui i 
4. Selene

5. Love As A Ghost
6. Chiaroscuro
7. Horror Vacui ii
8. The Day My Heart Stood Still

Documenta - Chiaroscuro

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KNAME - Dynasty

NOW ON HYPE MACHINE! Please help a girl out and give me a heart on Hype Machine! Thanks for the love! http://hypem.com/track/2e2t5/Micky+Blue+-+Firebird

@MickyBlue
Written by: Micky Blue, Joren Van Der Voort & @lyonhartmusic 
Produced by: @MickeyValen

Lyrics:
Hold me down with an army of lights
lullabies that I sing at midnight
always trying hard to make you stay but you couldn’t ever find a reason
trying to part with my secret creatures
dance around all my silent sleepers 
don’t wanna wake you but I’m locked up tight just fighting off all my demons 

Flying high too close to the sun, you’re gonna catch fire, you're gonna catch fire
Spread your wings and melt in my arms, you're gonna catch fire

Firebird, don’t burn so bright, I can’t be helped if I wantcha 
Entourage of golden lights, blinds the heart of me 
Firebird, don’t burn so bright, bringing me back to bad habits
I’d forget you if I could. Won’t you set me free

Showing off all that gold you’re finding 
(when) All I want is a silver lining 
trying to getcha but I’m always hitting everything but the target
Breathe me in just to fill the spaces
hits me hard in all the wrong places
leave behind all of your changing faces, take me back where we started

Flying high too close to the sun, you’re gonna catch fire, you're gonna catch fire
Spread your wings and melt in my arms, you're gonna catch fire

Firebird, don’t burn so bright, I can’t be helped if I wantcha 
Entourage of golden lights, blinds the heart of me 
Firebird, don’t burn so bright, bringing me back to bad habits
I’d forget you if I could. Won’t you set me free

In a glass cage you're on stage, but I can’t keep you up there
from the outside you look bright, but I know now you’ll burn out 
In a glass cage you're on stage, but I can’t keep you up there
from the outside you look bright, from the outside you look bright

Firebird, don’t burn so bright, I can’t be helped if I wantcha 
Entourage of golden lights, blinds the heart of me 
Firebird, don’t burn so bright, bringing me back to bad habits
I’d forget you if I could. Won’t you set me free

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Firebird

Last year we were asked to write a tune for the Bond movie Spectre.
Yes we were. It didn’t work out, but became something of our own, which we love very much.
As the year closes we thought you might like to hear it.
Merry Christmas. May the force be with you.

Spectre

RAC - Magic Hour feat. Little Boots

iTunes: http://found.ee/magichour
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Written by André Allen Anjos & Victoria Hesketh.
Produced by André Allen Anjos.
Mixed by Andrew Maury.
Mastered by Joe LaPorta at Sterling Sound NYC.
Artwork by Matthias Heiderich.

Intro To RAC: http://smarturl.it/RACINTRO
RAC Discography: http://smarturl.it/RACDISCOGRAPHY

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RAC ON TOUR - smarturl.it/RACTOUR
SEP15 - Neumos, Seattle, WA
SEP16 - Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR
SEP17 - The Imperial, Vancouver, BC
SEP20 - The Fonda, Los Angeles, CA
SEP22 - Life Is Beautiful Festival, Las Vegas, NV
SEP24 - Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO
SEP26 - Trees, Dallas, TX
SEP27 - Mohawk, Austin, TX
SEP29 - The Republic, New Orleans, LA
SEP30 - The Basement East, Nashville, TN
OCT1 - Terminal West, Atlanta, GA
OCT2 - Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, NC
OCT4 - Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA
OCT5 - Black Cat, Washington DC
OCT7 - Coda, Philadelphia, PA
OCT8 - Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, NY
OCT11 - Mod Club, Toronto, ON
OCT12 - Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH
OCT13 - Metro, Chicago, IL

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Magic Hour (feat. Little Boots)

Recorded live at the Rimsky-Korsakov Museum in Saint-Petersburg, RUSSIA.

Rimsky Loop Russian Easter Overture LIVE (Excerpt)


From Wabi-Sabi on Ba Da Bing. More info: http://www.badabingrecords.com/store/cross-record-wabi-sabi-pre-order

Cross Record "Basket"

'I Am Chemistry' taken from the forthcoming Yeasayer album 'Amen & Goodbye' - released April 1 2016.

Pre-Order 'Amen & Goodbye' at iTunes and receive an instant download of 'I Am Chemistry:  http://po.st/YeasayerAGiTunes

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Band Store: http://po.st/YeasayerStore

Stream 'I Am Chemistry':
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Apple Music: http://po.st/YeasayerIAmChemAM

Watch the video for 'I Am Chemistry' here:
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I Am Chemistry

Caution (B3)

October (B2)

Previously unreleased bonus track from the forthcoming cassette rerelease of my 2008 album 'Always From This Point'. 

- Limited Edition of 50. 
- Handmade insert woodblock printed on Japanese washi paper
- 5 unreleased, mostly unheard bonus tracks
- I couldn't let it lie

Alba

Tremble - Far Wud / Troubles And Temptations - RUFFCUT007 - In store now!

Out on VINYL: March 25th, DIGITAL: April 1st
Burly, UK-styled rave tackle from Berlin’s Phon.O for Tectonic after spending the last few years exploring subsets of garage-techno on 50 Weapons. Clearly carving towards Tectonic’s ruder ‘floor criteria, he plays out the dank, shadow-boxing 2-step drums and swooping subs of Mercurial next to the aggier grime slap of U8 Phunk for the Berlin scallies, and yokes some splintered breaks into a submerged jungle-techno chassis with Bell Blender.

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http://www.tectonicrecordings.com

PHON.O - Afterglow Ep (Tectonic 092) (Snippets)

BUY VINYL: https://honeysoundsystem.bandcamp.com/album/justin-cudmore-crystal-12

As a kid growing up in Illinois' tucked-away capital of Springfield, Justin Cudmore played the drums at home and in school as a jazz percussionist. In his college days Justin dove into electronic music, workshopping new-wave influenced beats in bands and DJing parties. Currently, Justin is a fixture across Brooklyn, popping up on dance floors and behind booths, where he has spun records at his Hotmix parties along with Mike Servito and Gunnar Haslam. 

“Crystal” is Cudmore’s debut 12” single. Raw, rough and ready to rumble, “Crystal” marries snaking acid lines and bouncy grooves to a sample from cult underground film classic 'The Queen'.  On the flip is Detroit-bred and Bunker resident DJ Mike Servito’s “730 Reshape”, that gives the wiggly worm vibe harkening back to the early days of Transmat, Warp and the minimalism of Dan Bell's DBX project. L.I.E.S. mainstay Gunnar Haslam provides his “Dekalb Avenue Remix” made while living in New York, a modular synth cruise with the top down. All tracks have been mastered and EQed for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley and labels are as pink as Crystal’s lipstick. 

Justin Cudmore - Crystal (Mike Servito's 730 Reshape)

Justin Cudmore  - Crystal

Vamp / Arco / Bronze
12" / Digital
Out Now on Black Acre

Vamp

First track from the upcoming @lissvik album release "Midnight" out June 10th via Smalltown Supersound!

℗ and © 2016 Smalltown Supersound / www.smalltownsupersound.com

Dan Lissvik - N

Vinyl: http://bit.ly/yoncalla-vinyl
Apple: http://smarturl.it/YumiZoumaYoncalla
Spotify: http://smarturl.it/YumiZoumaSpotify
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"Keep It Close To Me” appears on Yoncalla, the debut album by Yumi Zouma.

Where Yumi Zouma’s previous EPs were created in isolation, capturing the nuances of each member’s life half a world away, Yoncalla was given a singular voice. “Yumi Zouma has always been an exercise in refining ideas and collaborating,” reflects guitarist Charlie Ryder, “but this was the first time we weren’t limited or protected by distance. With Yoncalla, the process was different, and it can be scary to present raw ideas to your friends ‐ but it’s also incredible to see songs evolve through the sparks of inspiration that bounce between people in the same room.” That intimacy is apparent on Yoncalla ‐ an album about being close to people, rather than miles apart. Yumi Zouma’s effortless waves of harmony have been redefined and the creative process laid bare to expose an act more unguarded and interconnected than ever before. 

To capture the concepts on Yoncalla, New Zealand visual artist Henrietta Harris was tapped to create the cover art, illustrating the band together on a front cover for the first time. 

TOUR DATES 
www.yumizouma.com 
September 1 - Wellington, New Zealand @ San Francisco Bathhouse
September 2 - Auckland, New Zealand @ The Other's Way 2016
September 3 - Christchurch, New Zealand @ Wunderbar
September 7 - Bondi, NSW, Australia @ Beach Road Hotel
September 8 - Fortitude Valley, QLD, Australia @ The Brightside
September 8 - Brisbane, QLD, Australia @ Bigsound 2016
September 10 - Brunswick VIC, Australia @ The Penny Black
September 12 - Tokyo, Japan @ WWW 
September 13 - Nagoya, Japan @ Tokuzo
September 14 - Osaka, Japan @ Pangea
September 16 - Hong Kong, China @ Hillywood
September 23 - Hamburg, Germany @ Reeperbahn Festival 2016 
September 24 - Heidelberg, Germany @ Heidelberger Herbst 2016
September 25 - Utrecht, Netherlands @ Tivoli Vredenburg
September 27 - Zurich, Switzerland @ Papiersaal
September 28 - Milan, Italy @ Biko
September 29 - Bologna, Italy @ Covo Club
September 30 - Rome, Italy @ Quirinetta
October 1 - Turin, Italy @ Astoria
October 5 - Luxembourg, Luxembourg @ Bar National
October 6 - Antwerp, Belgium @ TRIX Centrum voor Muziek
October 9 - Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel @ Tmuna Theatre
October 12 - Gothenburg, Sweden @ FOLK
October 15 - Stockholm, Sweden @ Debaser Strand
October 17 - London, UK @ Oslo Hackney
October 21 - Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Festival 2016 
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Vinyl

Yumi Zouma - Keep It Close To Me

The new single from Albert Gold coming out on In Stereo Records.

Don't Let Me Go

Taken from his forthcoming album 'Spells' out June 10 on Erased Tapes.

Pre-order the LP/CD/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP085
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Spotify: http://snip.ftpromo.net/goldentimes
Bandcamp: http://snip.ftpromo.net/spellsbc
or any other good record store worldwide

"It's just incredible" – Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC 6 Music
“Strangely upbeat nocturnes" – The Wire

‘Spells’ merges programmed piano pieces with live instruments, combining the controllable technical world and the often unpredictable aspects of live improvisation. In some ways it continues where his underground debut ‘Gravity’ left off, though a lot of weight is lifted, making room for a lighter and more energetic listen. Friend and fellow Erased Tapes artist Nils Frahm mixed and mastered both albums. Ben is not a master pianist like his dear friend, but his sound collages are so meticulously designed that after hearing the result an impressed Nils declared: “from now on, if anyone asks – this is a real piano”. 

His intricate, humanised programming – enhanced by drummer Achim Färber, cellist Anton Peisakhov and harpist Lara Somogyi, and a considerate selection of echoes, delays and compressors – has been used to create a hybrid sound that intends to deceive, question and challenge existing listening habits. Utilising the contrast between reduction and decoration, ‘Spells’ can be seen as a quest to find out how much or how little composition is required to constitute a song. Why the ear can and should be deceived about the authenticity of instruments. What significance these instruments have within this process, and why the personal perception of balance and sound exclude ultimate truths. 

Linking the two albums are the four movements of ‘Nocturne’, an ever-developing conversation that on occasion flirts with the grandeur of compressed rock drums. The first single, ‘Golden Times 1’, received a world premiere by BBC 6 Music’s Mary Anne Hobbs, proclaiming it as "incredible." An alternative version of ‘Sleepers Beat Theme’ – composed for the soundtrack to a short film about the Trans-Siberian Express – opened Jon Hopkins’ Late Night Tales album from 2015, who noted “I thought it was such a calming and sensitive piece that sounded to me like the beginning of something...the warmth and depth of the sound entrances me every time”. 

Though ‘Spells’ and ‘Gravity’ are his first albums recorded under his own name, as acclaimed electronic producer HECQ he’s released nine albums since 2003, exploring everything from ambient to breakcore. He has simultaneously established himself as a trusted composer and sound designer, working for a wide array of clients including Amnesty International and Marvel Comics; composing for feature films, games, art installations and convention opening titles.

After embracing this demanding line of work, in 2010 Ben felt the need to explore his roots and early education, which inspired these albums under his own name. Born in 1981 as the third child of opera singer Deirdre Boysen and actor Claus Boysen, his classical music training on piano and guitar began when he was seven years old; the works of Bruckner, Wagner and Bach laid an important foundation. Rediscovering this music shared with his parents – united with the sounds of Autechre, Cristian Vogel and Jiri.Ceiver to Pink Floyd and Godspeed You! Black Emperor – brought back an understanding of why he wanted to write music in the first place.

“Finding my views understood, reflected and welcomed by Erased Tapes was an encouraging experience, crowned by the offer to release ‘Spells’ and re-issue ‘Gravity’ with them. Through many caring conversations with Robert I felt that there’s no better home for the existing ideas and no better cradle for new ones.”  – Ben Lukas Boysen 

TRACK LISTING:  	

01. The Veil  02. Nocturne 3  03. Sleepers Beat Theme  04. Golden Times 1
05. Nocturne 4  06. Keep Watch  07. Golden Times 2  08. Selene

Spells

Golden Times 1

Buy LP/CD/DL

Ben Lukas Boysen – Golden Times 1

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The single, ‘Lied’ / ‘Decorate My Bones’
A Houndstooth release – 29th April 2016

For those already aware of the work of Snow Ghosts it will come as little surprise that their new single ‘Lied’ creeps into your ears and finds a dark corner from where it slowly spreads into your consciousness and refuses to budge. Shot through with the gothic drama that has been a hallmark of their work since their debut EP, this first instalment of a new approach from the band marks another staging post in the band’s transition from studio project to fully fledged, fully instrumentalised outfit.

For those new to Snow Ghosts, their music may be familiar to you without your knowledge. Having recently soundtracked the trailer to ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ and featured on a multitude of television shows including, most recently, ABC’s celebrated ‘How To Get Away With Murder’, Snow Ghosts are a band that are, quite literally, more present than you may imagine in the public mind. 

Their last track ‘Undertow’ for the Houndstooth compilation ‘Tessellations’ received acclaim from no less a supporter than NPR, handpicked by their staff for a 'Songs we Love' premiere, comparing them to the ‘British and fatalist’ sounds of New order.

The 2016 Snow Ghosts now combine the original core of Snow Ghosts; producer / instrumentalist Ross Tones, aka Throwing Snow, and singer / songwriter Hannah Cartwright, aka Augustus Ghost, with guitarist and violinist Oliver Knowles, sometime member of renowned math rock groups Meet Me In St Louis and Exes for studio work. With Alistair, Ross’ brother, stepping in on drums for live shows, Snow Ghosts continue to develop and enhance their approach.

From their inception, Snow Ghosts’ music existed in a meeting point between the dynamics of dance, rock and traditional songcraft, Ross and Hannah’s childhood and formative musical experiences being a massive influence on the way that their sound developed. For Ross, a childhood in the Dales of the North East soundtracked by the eclecticism of John Peel augmented by a move to the soundsystem culture capital that is Bristol created a love of music outside of genre, as a mover of mood, feeling and innovation. For Hannah, a childhood in Abu Dhabi, blending her parent’s late 60’s western rock with the sound of the muezzin from the nearby mosque, delivered a similarly diverse soundscape to a young ear. 

With the addition of Oliver for second album, ‘A Wrecking’, (a man with a soft spot for both the soundscapes of Mogwai and Godspeed and the full on attack of the Sub Pop and Dischord rosters), another layer of musical input was added.

The culmination of these influences and abilities is a music that transcends the labels that are so often attached to contemporary music. Whilst Drowned in Sound were undoubtedly onto something when they talked of electronica ‘assimilated into the worlds of ambient and folk music’ on ‘A Wrecking’, Snow Ghosts’ latest recordings have moved the goalposts once more, utilising all the talents at their disposal to create music that can incorporate the high drama and pure (original) gothic of ‘Lied’ and the plaintive, naked beauty of ‘Decorate My Bones’ in under ten minutes.

‘Lied’ / ‘Decorate My Bones’ is released by Houndstooth on 29th April.

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Snow Ghosts - Lied

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