Monday Miscellany #13

Danger Village - Past and Present

Chillout

Indie electro

A collection of music for those cool & calm moments.

mossin

party

electropopa

New album 'When The Night' featuring "Elevate" is now available on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/WhenTheNight

When The Night

Elevate

From the MINDSPEAK EP

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/mindspeakep

Mindspeak EP

Playboy Girl

From the Apparitions EP

Do you know our debut album, The Orchid Room, is out now?
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Amber

Our cover of "Empire Ants" by Gorillaz feat. Little Dragon
Performed live on MTV Unplugged

Empire Ants (Gorillaz Cover Live from MTV Unplugged)

Amethyst Days

Humble Bones

Talk

Remix by http://soundcloud.com/giraffage

Do you know our debut album, The Orchid Room, is out now?
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Humble Bones (Giraffage Remix)

Snow White

this are just a couple of songs i really like... they express what only words can't describe!

Dots Dots Dots - I HEART SHARKS

DjSaint - Souls (Harold-Alexis Remix)

Navy Light

ORIGINAL ACAPELLA: http://soundcloud.com/annekamusic/anneka-acapella-shut-her

Anneka – Overdone (XXYYXX Remix)

Sindri Már Sigfússon, better known as Sin Fang – and as someone who grew up with summer in his heart and on his mind (skateboarding, eating pizza, reading the German “Bravo”) –, called his last album “Summer Echoes”, and even though there was yet another long winter in-between, his new EP “Half Dreams”, dropping only a year after the album, follows in the same vein: It’s not echoes, but omens in this case, harbingers of a summer that has yet to come. Only a few seconds into “Half Dreams”, and this is blatantly obvious: the guitar is there, the voice(s), everything is switched on, going heads over heels, a-tumble, and it feels like running out into nature after months of hibernation. It might sound like a dream, but Seabear’s founder and mastermind, who, unsurprisingly, also creates stunning visual art, hardly ever sounded this joyous and awake.

“Half Dreams” is not all exuberance though: “I won’t be afraid anymore,” Sin Fang sings on the rather dramatic and majestic sounding “Walk With You”, one of five new tracks he presents on this EP. It’s a haunting tune, a circumnavigation of musical worlds, almost an Icelandic R&B track of sorts, with slow beats, glockenspiel, again many layers of vocals, and bittersweet overtones (or undercurrents), like resolutions for the season to come: let’s not forget how bad things were, how stuck we felt, but it has to change, cannot go on like this.

And it doesn’t: the guitar he picked up rather late – he was already in his twenties – is at the core of the obscurely beeping “Shine For Me”, strummed chords at first to wash over hazy vocals, campfire-style, then vast landscapes busted open, lots of room, again more of that element he’s so in love with: the human voice. Here it shines again, this unique take on (indie) pop that Sigfússon has developed over the last four albums (two solo albums and two Seabear records). In fact, it shines like a freshly done tattoo, some blood mixed in as well, and it’s going to last just as long.

Having recently presented his visual skills in a limited edition book with Múm’s Örvar, Sin Fang (no more Bous, in case you didn’t notice), a collector of prison tattoo designs from Iceland, finishes the new EP with some instantly recognizable “sha-la-la-la” sing-along vocals (“Strange House”) for those hours spent on an ideal, imaginary beach that feels like the year 1962 or 1969, and then, lastly, “It’s Not There”: his take on off-beat stomping, beats made for dancing and chanting, a celebration of “not-quite-knowing” and nevertheless going on, even stronger than before.

A few weeks before “Half Dreams” was finished, there was a flood in the studio where Sin Fang was working on the final mix. (No cat was injured or forced to take a bath, rest assured.) The surprisingly cold water must have washed away the last bit of doubt and uncertainty, only to expose something he knew all along: that honest songwriting serves as the ultimate war paint

Sin Fang - Only Eyes

Lithium

"Sometimes you get the feeling the week has too many Mondays. In that case, we need to reduce them by any means necessary." A wise woman once spoke these words and she is right in every sense. Luckily however, spring has arrived; the birds are singing, the days are growing longer and subsequently the number of Mondays are steadily decreasing.

And if that's not enough for you, there's more good news: the darlings in FM Belfast are inviting you to dance with their newest single, 'Stripes'! Because stripes never go out of style—as the breton sailor shirts prove—and it is never a better time for sailor shirts than in the springtime.

"Stripes" is a single from FM Belfast's album 'Don't Want To Sleep', released by German label Morr Music last year. Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson produced the record, but the song was recorded in the shed behind Árni and singer Lóa Hlín Hjálmtýsdóttir's apartment in Reykjavík. Many undoubtedly remember the shed from Árni Sveinsson's music documentary Backyard, where it played one of the lead roles, even serving as the concert stage itself by the film's end.

Word on the street is that hips have never been shaken as recklessly or as dangerously as when the song's recording took place. Innocent pedestrians walking unsuspectingly by the infamous shed were suddenly seen shimmying away uncontrollably.

But now is not the time to worry, quite the opposite. The future is quite literally warm and bright, and if you're ready to shake your hips, you can no doubt sport, and earn, your 'Stripes'.
Björn Teitsson

LIVE:
04.05.2012 — Palma de Mallorca (ES) — Festival de indie de interior
05.05.2012 — Husqvarna (SE) — Popadelica Festival
11.05.2012 — Barcelona (ES) — Festival La Plaça Odissea
01.06.2012 — Nürburgring (DE) — Rock am Ring Festival
03.06.2012 — Nürnberg (DE) — Rock im Park Festival
04.06.2012 — Berlin (DE) — Astra 

FM Belfast: Stripes

XXYYXX - About You

Taken from The Orchid Room out now. 
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Artwork photograph by http://www.shaynestroud.com/

Urchin

Be Forest - Blind Boy

From the 12-track album 'All Blackshirts To Me': http://matineerecordings.com/item.php?item_id=157

Cats On Fire - 1914 And Beyond

Harold-Alexis - Dreams (Original Mix)

Another chill-out track I've been working on

Harold-Alexis - Time (Original Mix)

I guess you could call this our first, official, type single. Yes, you could call it that.

Girlfriend

I've come a long way
So if you wanna wait now
I'll probably stay

Just tell me where you wanna go
I'll promise we'll make it
But I really don't know

So baby come down with me tonight
Just lay it all down upon the line

So I burnt my car
In front of your house
The smoke just rose in the middle of the night
The snow outside was left

To track my steps 
When I struck that match
If we were lovers then you take it back
Then we stayed till the fire died down
Then we let it go

I've come a long way
So if you wanna wait now
I'll probably stay

Just tell me who you wanna be
I promise I'll take you
But I'll struggle with me

So baby come down with me tonight
Just lay it all down upon the line

So I burnt my car
In front of your house
The smoke just rose in the middle of the night
The snow outside was left

To track my steps 
When I struck that match
If we were lovers then you take it bad
Then we stayed till the fire died down
Then we let it go

Wild EP

We Were Lovers

Tried something a little different. Quality mics make all the difference in the world when it comes to inspiration. 

http://serren.bandcamp.com/track/charts

Go grab it!!

Charts

Lets suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream,
and you would naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes.

You would have every kind of pleasure, you see,
and after several nights you would say, "well that was pretty great."
But now lets have a surprise, lets have a dream which isn’t under control.
Well something is going to happen to me that i don’t know what it’s gonna be.
Then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream, and finally you would dream where you are now.

If you awaken from this illusion,
and you understand that black implies white,
self implies other,
life implies death.
You can feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world,
not as something here on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.

What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

- Alan Watts

dreams

Featured on ADAN & ILSE limited cd album "Sadisco" and soon "From The wave" digital ep. on Space Factory !!!! 

ADAN & ILSE  feat. Peter - Swallow You All (David Carretta Remix)

This is a track we wrote over the last few weeks. Hope you enjoy guys

Monsoonsiren FB: 
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Monsoonsiren/333811626735137?fref=ts

Lyrics:

Lorelai, I saw 
Broken photographs on the bedroom floor,
Faded voices and bad choices have gone to rest,
I’m running from you.

Love, won’t you call
You could fall.

Oh I know, that you’re gone, 
Dried up tears don’t fall anymore, 
And I saw your light brush me
It could shed




Free Download

Tom Day & Monsoonsiren - Conversations

Composition made for a environmental awareness short film

Harold-Alexis - Bitter (Original Mix) [Work in Progress]

Boiler Room Los Angeles 017/ LA Vampires, Suzanne Kraft, Pharaohs, Leech, Octo Octa, Bobby Browser

[Broadcasted on 12th February 2013]

Tracklist & video at http://boilerroom.tv

Octo Octa 45 Min Mix Boiler Room Los Angeles

through

Our biggest banger yet.  The original sample is a Northern Cree song.  Be sure to check them out.  

Red Skin Girl (ATCR Remix)

Tracklist:

1. PASARELLA DEATH SQUAD - UNTITLED
2. LEGOWELT - TETRAHEDRON
3. PSYCHEMAGIK - VALLEY OF PARADISE (GREG WILSON EDIT)
4. ROMAN IV - 14X7X4 (INST)
5. FORT ROMEAU - LOVE (DUB)
6. BASIC SOUL UNIT - INTERSECTION
7. KOWTON AND PEV - JUNKED
8. GERHARD POTUZNIK - THAT'S RIGHT GET DOWN
9. SEBASTIEN SAN - THE GAUNTLET AB INITIO
10. GERD - TIME AND SPACE
11. AUBREY - CONTACT FUNK
12. BOOSHANK - SINGLE DUTCH
13. ENDIAN - BIRDHOUSE
14. ROSS 154 - UNTIL MY HEART STOPS
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15. SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO AND BICEP - SACRIFICE
16. MMM - CASIO DUB
17. ELLEN ALIEN - THE KISS (SNUFF CREW MIX)
18. FRED P - PROJECT 05
19. BASIK FIRE - HEADLESS GHOST
20. NEVILLE WATSON - ONE FOUR GREEN
21. DARCO ESSER - LOST IN SPACE
22. MAGNETS - BETABLOCKER
23. CHATEAU FLIGHT - KOUNKA
24. MORNING FACTORY - ANALOGUE SLEEPOVER
25. TENNIS AND PILLOWTALK - THE OUTCAST (MORGAN GEIST REMIX)
26. JOHN ROBERTS - PALACE


Urchin

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