Every Recording of Gymnopédie 1

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From the album EARS out April 1st on Western Vinyl

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TOUR DATES
March 	18 - London - Convergence Festival
March 	22 - Dublin - Button Factory w/ Battles
March 	24 - London - Electric Brixton w/ Battles
March 	25 - Paris - La Cigale w/ Battles
March 	26 - Reims - La Cartonnerie w/ Battles
March 	27 - Brussels - BRDCST Festival
March 	29 - Milan - Magazzini Generali w/ Battles
March 	30 - Rome - Spring Attitude Festival w/ Battles
March 	31 - Roncade - New Age Roncade w/ Battles
April 	01 - The Hague - Rewire Festival
April 	05 - Lausanne - Les Docks w/ Battles
April 	06 - Zurich - Rote Fabrik w/ Battles
April 	07 - Berlin - Kantine am Berghain
April 	12 - Belgrade - Resonate Festival
April 	13 - Berlin - Ableton User Group Meeting
April 	15 - Linz - Stadtwerkstatt / Kirchengasse 7
April 	28 - Fayetteville, AR - George’s Majestic Lounge w/ Animal Collective
April 	29 - Austin, TX - Levitation
May 	01 - Tulsa, OK - Cains Ballroom w/ Animal Collective
May 	03 - St. Louis, MO - Pageant - St Louis, MO w/ Animal Collective
May 	04 - Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	06 - Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works w/ Animal Collective
May 	07 - Atlanta, GA - Buckhead Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	08 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel w/ Animal Collective
May 	10 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club w/ Animal Collective
May 	13 - Wilmington, DE - World Café Live at The Queen w/ Animal Collective
May 	14 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom - w/ Animal Collective

Listeners familiar with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's previous album Euclid (an album that prompted Dazed to call her "…one of the most pioneering musicians in the world.") will no doubt notice her heavier use of vocals on her new album EARS.  On all but one song, her gently ecstatic swells of vocals emerge to soar over a dense jungle of synths and woodwinds.

After initially composing on a Buchla analog synth, she wrote arrangements for a woodwind quintet, added vocals, and further refined the pieces with granular synthesis techniques she developed in her sound design work (she contributed sound design to Panda Bear's "Boys Latin" video, and handled sound design and original compositions for Brasilia co-written by and starring Reggie Watts).   

Kinetic arpeggios of synths pulse, often buoying her graceful vocal mantras, while woodwinds breathe and flutter, emulating the wildlife Smith observed while growing up on the West Coast (she even studied recordings of slowed down bird calls prior to composing these pieces).   Though some of her gestures echo the musical tropes used by early minimalist composers, the world she creates on EARS is uniquely hypnotic and full of life, not unlike Miyzaki's film Nausicaä, which she cites as an inspiration.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "Arthropoda"

Award-winning sci-fi writer Geoff Ryman's was commissioned to write a new story for the BBC, investigating the portrayal of gender in utopian science fiction, as part of BBC Radio 4's Utopia season.

I scored the new work and a separate documentary exploring the subject. This is an instrumental excerpt from the score as many people had expressed an interested in hearing it again.

No Point Talking

Taken from the upcoming EP 'Earrings Off!'.
Released May 20th via Tri Angle Records.
LP, CD & Digital.

First single, 'Eggshell' is available to buy on iTunes now. Also available as an instant grat with any pre-order of the album; 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/earrings-off!/id1097992448?ls=1

Adult Jazz - Eggshell

Batumi Master
“One Batumi to Rule Them All”
An exploration of M. Puech’s Expert Firmware for XAOC Devices Batumi: http://xaocdevices.com/main/batumi

Performed on a modular synthesizer using Ableton Live for effects and mixing.

Get exclusive bonus content, patch notes, album downloads, monthly hangouts, and one-on-one lessons → http://patreon.com/lightbath

Watch on YouTube → https://youtu.be/1sjII8wpsZs
Drool on ModularGrid → http://bit.ly/modulargrid
Join the inner circle → http://bit.ly/lightbathemails

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Batumi Master

Mute

Anna Meredith headlines The Scala on 23rd November 2016:  https://tickets.songkick.com/events/27144434

The brilliant Adult Jazz remixed her single 'Taken', from her debut album Varmints:
http://smarturl.it/VarmintsCDLP
http://smarturl.it/VarmintsDL

Anna Meredith - Taken (Adult Jazz Remix)

Happy 75th Birthday, Bob Dylan! Check out Deakin and Geologist's remix of “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right"

See Animal Collective perform on tour (dates below): 
6/3	        Barcelona, Spain	Primavera Sound Festival	
6/5	        Villeurbanne, France	Le Transbordeur	
6/6	        Cenon, France	Le Rocher de Palmer	
6/7	        Madrid, Spain  	Joy Eslava
6/9	        Porto, Portugal	NOS Primavera Sound Festival
7/2-7/3    Chicago, IL             Mamby On The Beach
8/22	Honolulu, HI	         The Republik
9/2-9/3	Stradbally, Ireland	 Electric Picnic	
9/2-9/4	Salisbury, UK	        End Of The Road Festival	
9/3	        Liverpool, UK	        O2 Academy Liverpool	
9/6	        Glasgow, UK	        O2 ABC Glasgow	
9/7	        Leeds, UK	        Stylus	
9/8-9/11	Blackwater, UK	Bestival 2016	
9/20*	San Diego, CA	The Observatory North Park	
9/21*	Santa Ana, CA	The Observatory 
9/23 	Big Sur, CA	        Animal Collective Camping Weekend	
9/24	Big Sur, CA	        Animal Collective Camping Weekend	
9/26*	Eugene, OR	        McDonald Theatre	
9/27*	Vancouver, BC	Vogue Theatre	
9/29*	Calgary, AB	        MacEwan Hall Ballroom	
9/30*	Edmonton, AB	Union Hall Night Club	
10/2*	Fargo, ND	        Sanctuary Events Center
10/3*	Sioux Falls, SD	Orpheum Theatre 	
10/5*	Indianapolis, IN	Egyptian Room at Old National Centre
10/6*	Morgantown, WV	Mainstage Morgantown
10/7*	Pittsburgh, PA	Mr. Smalls Theatre	
11/2	        New York, NY	        Terminal 5 	
11/3	        Baltimore, MD	Rams Head Live! 	
11/4	        Richmond, VA        The National
11/5	        Carrboro, NC	        Cat's Cradle	
11/7	        Tallahassee, FL	The Moon
11/8	        Tampa, FL	        The Ritz Ybor
11/10	        Miami Beach, FL	The Fillmore at Jacki Gleason
11/11	        Orlando, FL	        The Beacham Theatre 	
11/12	        Jacksonville, FL	Mavericks	
11/14	        New Orleans, LA	The Civic Theatre
11/15        Houston, TX            White Oak Music Hall
11/16        Dallas, TX                Bomb Music Factory

+w/ Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
*w/ WIFE

Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Animal Collective Remix)

Buy the exclusive collaboration on Bleep: https://bleep.com/release/73657-mark-pritchard-x-kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-nownow-absolut-collaboration

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We believe that « everything is a remix »

Remixes are a major part of the electronic music history. The club culture take off on remixes, some of the greatest dance hits where made from remixing original tracks.
Our primary purpose is to highlight this exercise by offering the opportunity to artists to either work on a remix or offer a track to be remixed by an artist they admire. It is overseen and curated by independent music lovers and supported by The Absolut Company, a brand that is permanently involved in the field of contemporary arts and creation with a tradition of supporting artists such as Keith Haring and Andy Warhol at their very early stage of their career. The Absolut Remix project is dedicated to the art of combining or editing existing materials, to produce something new.

As a start, every last Thursday of the month, we will unveil a new remix, from a newcomer or a legend, from disco to techno or IDM and house music. And more to come...

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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
@western_vinyl | facebook.com/kaitlynaurelia | twitter.com/kaitlynaurelia

Mark Pritchard
@markprtchrd | facebook.com/markprtchrd | twitter.com/markprtchrd

Absolut Remix
@absolutremix | www.facebook.com/AbsolutRemix | twitter.com/AbsolutRemix

Buy on Bleep

Mark Pritchard x Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Now:Now (Absolut Collaboration)

serpentwithfeet - blisters
Written by serpentwithfeet and The Haxan Cloak
Produced and Mixed by The Haxan Cloak
Artwork by Elliott Brown Jr.

Taken from the upcoming EP, 'blisters'.
Released September 2nd via Tri Angle Records.

'blisters' is available to buy on iTunes now. Available as an instant grat with any pre-order of the record. Also streaming on Spotify...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/blisters-ep/id1138356384?ls=1&app=itunes
http://open.spotify.com/album/1xGp824L8ewDEe6Hul88Q3

blisters

serpentwithfeet - blisters

serpentwithfeet - four ethers
Written and Produced by serpentwithfeet
Additional Production by The Haxan Cloak
Mixed by The Haxan Cloak
Mastered by Heba Kadry
Artwork by Elliott Brown Jr.

Taken from the upcoming EP, 'blisters'.
Released September 2nd via Tri Angle Records.

'four ethers' is available to buy on iTunes now. Also streaming on Spotify...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/four-ethers-single/id1144972046?ls=1&app=itunes

http://open.spotify.com/album/5am1lhfVZ1BdqoVOQg5PhF

Mute

-Netsuke-

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