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Selected tracks from Mars Arizona's "High Desert" release.

High Desert is the fourth album from Mars Arizona, the name Nicole Storto and Paul Knowles use when they’re fashioning their brew of country, rock, and roll. As a matter of practice they’re joined by some talented helpers including drummers Billy Block (Frank Black) and Ken Coomer (Uncle Tupelo and Wilco), fiddlers Ollie O’Shea (Hank Williams III) and Woody Vermeire (Commander Cody), lap steel guitarist Paul Laques (I See Hawks In L.A.), and a host of others.

Recorded in Nashville, Berkeley, and Cotati, California, the album features eight originals and some inspired covers, including a version of “Sweet Virginia” which rescues the song from the Stones’ country-camp, a moving reading of Robert Hunter’s “Must Have Been the Roses,” and a vigorous reinterpretation of Neil Young’s “For the Turnstiles.” The originals, though, are good enough that the covers don’t call attention to themselves, although it’s worth noting that Knowles had a little help from Jack Kerouac in the lyrics to “Lookout Radio.” Which makes sense: both writers are expressing complicated, adult themes in these songs and cloaking them in evocative melodies and highly atmospheric production.

Mars Arizona belongs to a small club of highly literate, socially concerned, artistically involved performers, and High Desert is their best work yet. And although you can’t get to Mars Arizona from here, the good news is that they’ll bring it to you: the band is touring to support High Desert and may well be performing at a venue near you soon. It’s a trip worth taking.

1 Glad To Be Here

In The Back

Agar, Cal Johnstone - Party Trip (Original Mix)

Di Chiara Brothers - Love me (Original Mix)  Out NOW ON BEATPORT!

Buy on Beatport:  https://goo.gl/DBQ73K

Youtube Original mix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqnsCArPA9k

Youtube Flashmob remix mix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E4-gheSlR8

Morenita (Flashmob Remix)

Germany's Tolstoi and Andsan return to the highly respected Flashmob Records imprint. The release, out 28th December, also welcomes a remix from Clock.

We're happy to premiere the original mix of Niza. The Cologne artists have whipped up a lovely track with an encapsulating groove that, together, alongside several percussive elements, an enslaving bassline and tribal vocals provide another fruitful release on Flashmob Records.

Preorder: https://goo.gl/RGDCcU

Toilstoi:
https://soundcloud.com/tolstoiofficial

Andsan:
https://soundcloud.com/andsanofficial

Clock:
https://www.facebook.com/clockdj/