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Hello you, 

As in previous months, it gives us great pleasure to curate a mixtape with the majority of artists and tracks featured on the blog in April 2014.

There's oodles of summer sunshine available from Cheerleader and Maui.
Solo psych from The Boy I Used To Be and some exciting lo-fi songwriting from 10Tigers and Billionaire.
Glass Ankle and Swim Free relate two very different urban tales while You and Bernard + Edith provide some unsettling kookiness for after dark.
Post-rock, math-rock, art-rock and rock-rock from Stillwave, Polymath, Movie and Waste respectively.
Some sultry gypsy-folk from Echo Trails leads onto seasoned wistfulness from Yellow Ostrich.
The dancefloor finally fills up for indie-funksters, Pool and hit-makers, The Derevolutions.
I've stuck on a random track on the end. Thank you for your submission, South Korea's Language Of Shapes. Your Scott Walker/Harry Nilsson with mandolin and djembe has been soundtracking some journeys recently.

To read up on what we thought about these tracks and artists and more, hop on over to http://www.gettingneardawn.com/2014_04_01_archive.html.

Thank you so much for your continued support of Getting Near Dawn this last month. We relish reading the emails, DMs and other feedback you give us about the content. It really makes a difference. 

Also we would like to extend our thanks to you for the continued support of all other small, non-profit seeking music sites like our own. As with the indie record shop and small venue, without these outlying islands, inhabited by folk permanently wearing headphones and a pensive expression, new music can wither on the vine.

Jim x


April 2014

Szott Music Paylist

pretty sounds

Tracks from our new album, Mother Mountain!

Download - Bandcamp

Mother Mountain

11/02/2015

Femme Vox

SIDE 2 OF POPPY 7"

WRITTEN + PRODUCED + MIXED BY BERNARD + EDITH

RECORDED AT GEM STUDIOS 
 
LISTENED TO BY GEM

SPELL ON U

Atlantic Thrills - "S/T" debut out 2/4/20014 on Almost Ready Records.   www.almostreadyrecords.com 

Bathrobe Sally she stand around waitin’ for a stranger 
she never found gonna walk her dog up and down the street 
hopin’ for someone to meet you gotta keep on that’s what you do 
keep on pop a pill or two keep on through the acid rain 
keep on till it melts your brain alright Gully Lopes got his name 
shootin’ dice playin' the game he’ll take you for a little ride 
gonna take for more than your pride you gotta keep on 
that’s what you do keep on pop a pill or two keep on 
through the acid rain keep on till it melts your brain alright
Punk Rock Suzy she real sweet unless you cross her 
then she get mean she take it all coke ‘n speed yeah she take it all 
oh yes indeed you gotta keep on that’s what you do keep on 
pop a pill or two keep on through the acid rain keep on 
till it melts your brain alright

Atlantic Thrills - "Acid Rain"

A Shindu rework of 'Pixies - Gouge Away' (4AD)

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Shindu - Gouge Away

ADULT. offers a new mix made entirely of Ghostly artists in anticipation of the Ghostly Stage at Moogfest this April 23-27, 2014.

Tracklist:
Jim Haynes "This is Radio Sweden"
HTRK "Poison"
Xeno & Oaklander "Par Avion"
Solvent "No One Should Be Living Here"
Brian Aneurysm "Das Element Des Menschen"
Matthew Dear "Anger Management"
JTC "Alpha Helix
Bodycode "Equidistant"
Audion "Motormouth"
2 AM/FM "Sweatbox"
Lowfish "No Longer Accepting Complaints"
John Foxx vs ADULT. "Tonight, We Fall"
Tropic of Cancer "More Alone"
Com Truise "Alfa Beach"
Shigeto "No Better Time Than Now"
Black Swan "Passing, Heartbreak"

Ghostly By ADULT. - Mix for Moogfest 2014

Daydream Machine- Twin Idols (drum Mix)

from LIVEFASTDIE - HIT STAINS LP - OUT APRIL 2014

LiveFastDie - Year Of The Debt Collector (ARR-041 LP)

Written, recorded and mixed by Greg Jackson. Mastered by Barry Gardner (Public Service Broadcasting). 

'One of Them' features on FRAGMENTS: the new Glass Ankle E.P. out 07.04.14 on the bands own label, Sleeper Train Sounds. This song will be available for free download from the 24th March on SoundCloud up until the release of the E.P.. Remixes will be supplied by young Mancunian Electro-pop duo, weareaudio (https://soundcloud.com/weareaudio), Electro-Dub producer, Dirty Freud (https://soundcloud.com/dirty-freud), and D'n'B producer, HUNTA (https://soundcloud.com/huntadnb).

'One of Them' is a song which draws on feelings and emotions which come from unexpectedly finding attraction to a fellow shopper whilst doing the weekly shop at the supermarket. It is lyrically witty and stylistically takes influence from the 'baggy' sound of bands such as Stone Roses and Charlatans, the playful humour of bands such as The Kinks, Blur and Pulp, and combines this with the uncategorisable originality one has come to expect from Glass Ankle.

LYRICS:

She's got a way of walking,
and it's got all the women here talking.
Is she one of them, 'cause she sure ain't like one of us?

Red curly hair to her shoulder,
d-dirty one and not a day older.
Dressed to kill, all it takes to thrill one of us.
One of us.

Takes a special immaculate feeling, just a feeling, yeah 
to create such a powerful dream, can't stop me dreaming, no.
Takes a side not all of us can muster, hot and flustered I
wonder what it'd be like to take home one of them, one of them.

Shopping for food in Appleland (http://www.appleland.co.jp/),
and my mind's not quite on the task at hand,
'cause I seen her smile in the bakery aisle buying bread.
Just as she's reaching for Hovis,
'can't help my eyes wander down to her pelvis
Waaa curse my brain 'cause it's moved again from my head, oh no. (Oh, Oh, No!)

Takes a special immaculate feeling, just a feeling, yeah, 
to create such a powerful dream, can't stop me dreaming, no.
Takes a side not all of us can muster, hot and flustered I
wonder what it'd be like to take home one of them, one of them.

(One of them) x 4
She's got a way of walking (One of Them) x 2
She's got a, she's got a, aaaaooooo.

Buy CD EP

One of Them

'These Things Happen' Available Now
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G-Eazy - Far Alone (feat. E-40 & Jay Ant)
Produced by Jay Ant
Additional production by G-Eazy & Christoph Andersson

These Things Happen

Far Alone (feat. E-40 & Jay Ant)

We are a bit weird but we mean well.

YOU are:
Anna Waldmann
Sam Campbell
Harrison Ball
Massimo Zeppetelli

Debut video: 'In Halves'
youtu.be/MLiTpai38-U

Join us:
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YOU - In Halves

Animal Shapes EP -- Released 2010 on Tricycle Records

Geographer - Kites

Recorded and produced by Language of Shapes. From the new album, Mother Mountain.

Mastered by John Davis at Metropolis Studios

Recorded in a living room. Watch the animation and lyric video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Q46zeVg_Q

Lyrics

Stitches


For reasons that we may never know
The gates to this labyrinth are locked 
but the maps been left behind

And so to the heart of this monster we go
Hand to hand, back to back 
with a fire in the mind.

And from this wild and holy flame we emerge unscathed
a writhing searing stellar snake kissed the earth and the sky awake.

No sense of the fury
no sense of the violent consequence
of a species disappointed
Hypnotized to worship obsolescence

Opened to folds of space we've never known
Stitches of skin and bone 
discarded for bodiless flight

Beings of day dissolve in the night
All the terror we've known 
just shadows for myopic eyes

And from this pulsing nova gate we emerge reborn
No longer human more like the snake
Winged, crowned and rainbow scaled..

No space for the fury
No space for the violent consequence
Of an ego's disappointment
Of a human need to feel love

Stitches

From the "On Your Side" EP - OUT NOW!
http://smarturl.it/CheerleaderEP

Perfect Vision

Recorded 2013/2014 Lewisham/Little Hartley - Mastered by Owen Penglis 

On A June Morning (under the photon band magical shroom version)

Check This Joint Out We Produced For Tarik

Tarik - Everything I Am III  (Produced By Jerz & The Fatman)

The Synthetic Dream Foundation's remix of Craig Armstrong and Elizabeth Fraser's track "this love"

Craig Armstrong feat. Elizabeth Fraser - This Love (The Synthetic Dream Foundation Mix)

Recorded and Produced in a South Korean apartment by Language of Shapes

Mastered in Canada by Harris Newman at Greymarket Mastering

And so we rode into the morning Sun
Throwing rocks into the veil
We smashed a hole through which these colours run
And with the hammer pinned the nail

With hearts so worn and minds so tired
We'd give it all for one last try
But all of these armies we overdosed with bomb
Know not what's going on

As the Empire scrubs our lights away
We set alight their damaged face
Did we ever know what we should do?
If we did it seems now like we never knew

Our eyes are open hands untied
Our broken spirits spitting fire
And now this army tired and void of fight
Will ride into the night

What if all your fickle dreams come true
It's clear that only the blind follow you
What would it take for you to leave
And give us all our planet back and ample space to breathe?

And so we rode into the morning Sun
Throwing rocks into the veil.

(C) Language of Shapes  2014 

Into The Veil

http://youtu.be/IzcC1exrn8Y
It's like a fellow I once knew in El Paso. One day, he just took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. 
I asked him that same question, "Why?"...He said, "It seemed to be a good idea at the time."

Low Gravitation

Stolen Dresses

Out Of This World

"Pull the skin over cold steel
blackened lungs won’t breathe but fire will!
Satiate my tongue with battery acid,
sign on the hill says NO ONE DANCES,
but white flags are waltzing on the oil stains,
on the blisters of hearth, rain, and bone;
animal skulls flower on clusters of speaker cones
that cry and wail and moan like cats in holes.

She drew her lips into a bullet kiss,
pumping black bellows spit and hiss
a jagged bit key goes into her breast -
with a sigh she spilled her guts and confessed,
there were red moths and butterflies inside her,
they flowed out in flaming streams into the rusted world,
we hollowed out the fair of spoiled grounds
and that old hungry grave ate our wounds.

They drew a circle around her iron feet, oh
how she’d loved the sweetness of honey teeth
we raised our dead anthems to burning fields
and gave up all we gathered, just bits of peels,
out where the slaves pumped and craved,
the howls of pain of their chains and broken wheels.
She made that old machine baby cry and squeal!
And sang the wastes to sleep with a tongue of steel!“

Sing the Wastes to Sleep

Recorded and Produced in a South Korean apartment by Language of Shapes.

Mastered in Canada by Harris Newman at Greymarket Mastering.

The last time you stumbled over these shores
The dawn seemed so far from your grasp but now it's all yours
Some lessons we learned from our time in the darkness seep through
And even the same stupid bullshit behaves as if new

The last time you stood without turning away
The corpse of your conscience floated on past
But you couldn't reach out right away
Lucky for you it grows back like the shards of your soul
That you traded for whiskey and cheap finite thrills to distract you from taking your throne

The light fires down on the lost

The first time you knocked on the otherworld door
Your brain flood with yellow you quaked in your robes and backed out from completing the call
And all of those angles they flooded your brain from within
A straightforward message from the ancient of days burst out from the eye to your skin

Love is blind

The first time you knocked on the otherworld door
The dawn seemed so far from your grasp but now it's all yours.

Download!

Light On

Song 3 on "The Rocket Wife EP - A Benefit for the Bob Moog Foundation". Purchase the 3 song EP here: http://bobmoogfoundation.bandcamp.com/album/the-rocket-wife-ep-by-tara-busch

100% of all donations benefit the Bob Moog Foundation to help them develop "Dr Bob's Sound School".http://www.moogfoundation.org/2011/notes-from-the-soundschool/

ABOUT THE SONG:
I felt this song was appropriate to add as it features my very first adventure using Moog gear in a recording that I created on my own. There were a few chances to release this, but it never felt right until now. 

Written &amp; recorded 2006, this updated version is remixed and remastered. I used my newly acquired Fender Rhodes to pin down the main melody &amp; popped it through my Moogerfooger 12 stage phaser. Excitement mounted as I discovered how fantastic my Etehrwave Theremin sounded through the MF 103 and into the MF 104…it was with this  song, I became curious and hungry to constantly reinvent and “make new sounds”. My bandmate, Mike Walters popped in later to add beautiful swoops on his Minimoog Model D and his widely beloved invention, the Melloman (the Mellotron make with Sony Walkmans).
 
REMIX CONTEST:
We are also holding a remix contest for the title track of this EP, "Rocket Wife"! Purchase both the EP and the stems at the links below. 100% of all proceeds from the remix and the EP benefit the BMF!!
http://bobmoogfoundation.bandcamp.com/album/the-rocket-wife-ep-by-tara-busch
http://bobmoogfoundation.bandcamp.com/album/rocket-wife-remix-contest


Motorcrash

From Veckatimest (2009)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/veckatimest/id314837656

Veckatimest

Ready, Able

Paul Oakenfold - Dead Can Dance - The Host of Seraphim Trance

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The Fool

Elephants

The Space in Between (Dawn of the Dreadfuls Mix)

Sleepy Sleepers (badly recorded version)

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I do not own, no copyright infringement intended

ASAP Mob (ASAP Rocky & ASAP Ant) - Bath Salt ft. Flatbush Zombies

ASAP Rocky - Big Spender

Out to all the supporters and fans, this ones to celebrate 10,000 Facebook likes, can't thank you guys enough!

The vocals on this are by Lisa Gerrard, the same vocalist on the 'Now We Are Free' track I remixed from the film Gladiator.

Also out to Dead Can Dance on some truly amazing music!

Dead Can Dance - The Host Of Seraphim (ENiGMA Dubz Mix) [10k FB Likes FREE DOWNLOAD]

The Glorious Dead present "Palm Trees" an advance from BetterOffDEAD. Produced by Erick Arc Elliott.

Flatbush ZOMBiES - Palm Trees

Psych-Fi Sci-Folk for the End of Time.

https://languageofshapes.com/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3qDOXD1SaWIqXvYENqEPSR

Tristram Burden - vocals, mandolins, stringed things and French horn
J.E. Seuk - vocals, mandolins, stringed things and flute
Patrick Mackay - Guitars
Kimberly Brigner - mandolin, flute
Courtland Miles -  bass
Robert Goldberg - djembe

All songs (c) 2011-2015 Language of Shapes