CHIX, MAN

SCloud001

February 2014 WithGuitars mix

Hair

Good

Yeah some of these are okay I suppose

Ex hex

Released on November 12th, 2013.

Digital: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/saada-bonaire/id704702097?ls=1
Physical: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/saada-bonaire

Saâda Bonaire // The Facts

Released on October 29, 2013.

Digital: http://apple.co/295EQ0M
Physical: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/the-swamps

Widowspeak // Calico

http://www.intellijel.com/
I met with Danjel van Tijn, the mastermind behind Intellijel Designs, for a collaboration. Danjel jammed on his modular synth rack while I sampled and manipulated on the fly to compose some pretty abstract tunes. 
A tiny bit of editing and we've got here 4 of those jams mixed together.
Your input is appreciated!

Tomas Jirku + Intellijel = 4 Modular Jams

From Cruel Optimist
Don Giovanni Records

Worriers - Best Case Scenario

From the Five Spanish Songs EP, out November 26, 2013 on Merge Records.
http://www.mergerecords.com/store/store_detail.php?catalog_id=952

Five Spanish Songs

El rito

Destroyer "El rito"

Upset - She's Gone

One would be hard-pressed to think of a more quintessential go-to artisan for serene avant-pop than Lisa Papineau. She has swung her hammer in experimental theatre, producing/narrating films as well as soundtrack work but will be most well known for her own mold-breaking voice – which Tori Amos once declared to have “…the power of Bon Scott and yet the lyricalness in the voice of a reed instrument…” Papineau can possess an unmistakably hushed yet still-beating heart-in-hand vocal style, pioneering a sound that has helped define a spectrum of streamlined sub-emotion to independent music, with vocal timbres and melodies that are haunted and unsettling as much as they are earnestly heartbreaking. One may even know her voice before they know her name, as we almost couldn’t keep track of her prolific collaborations with, among them, AIR, M83, Jun Miyake, Anubian Lights, her appearances on the (Academy Award nominated) Pina, Watchman and Crow II soundtracks, as well as her own projects, early career PET (signed to Tori Amos’ IGLOO imprint), BIG SIR (her long running project with Mars Volta bassist Juan Alderete) and her self named group.

On her third and newest solo record, “Blood Noise,” Papineau has woven a intricate and brittle tapestry of her illustrious career’s culmination, where the nine songs successfully create their own microscopic world that runs a vein through each song’s respective atmosphere, resulting in an escapist’s fantasy who’s duality would effortlessly make a bloodshot appearance on “Morning Becomes Eclectic” after being up all night partying in dance hall. From the praiseful hope of “Little Light” to the ceremonial dirge of “Rainmaker,” Papineau remains expansive and unpredictable on a record who’s churning moods and unorthodox methods prove she is more than a vocalist merely “singing” on a song – it is her whole presence that assumes the role of the instrument.

With complications from her long time bout with MS, Papineau recorded parts of the album from bed, microphones and keyboards propped up and strewn across pillows. Recovering from cancer surgery in 2012, she put work on the album aside for a time, but with the new year, returned by degrees to lean deeper into synchronized themes of transformation, escape, or as she more eloquently states, “…Allowing the rain and the tears to break fast after a thousand of years of drought… letting the soul crack out of this broken jam jar.”

“ I very much wanted to make sure it was mostly first takes…” she says. “(With this approach) mistakes and off-key moments abound, but there is a kind of vulnerability in these shaky performances that is special…” That humbly said, there are also plenty of moments where it seems she’s grabbing you by the lapels, whispering grave statements that may be threats or promises, but determined nonetheless as she is on “Out For A Swim” where she affirms “…and now I’ve found the courage to return to the sea.” Indeed, all the songs on “Blood Noise” have a certain swelling undertow that seem to bubble up beneath the listener and envelop them in an earthy, electronic wash, directed by these multi-layered epiphanies and affirmations where we are treated to eye tearing beauty that shines in the shadows of decay.

And it is this fluidity spilled onto her palette, colors running and bleeding together, that makes “Blood Noise” a record almost the aural equivalent of Balinese dance; playful, while stoic and dramatic. The album, while created “holed-up” for the most part, also nods to the collaborative side of her career, with guest appearances by Big Sir’s Juan Alderete, former Pet partner, composer Tyler Bates (300), Crooked Cowboy (with whom Papineau has performed with for several years), Matt Embree and CGak of Me&LP and RX Bandits, as well as Nick Reinhart of Tera Melos, and Matthieu LeSenechal and Johan Guidou of her solo trio.

Rainmaker

Superchunk "Children In Heat (Misfits Cover)"

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Lyrics:
let me hold you in the dying light
like a rose, like a thorn in your side
some wounds cut you to the bone
I know you’re aching but you’re not alone


why can’t  / we wake up
the hard part / behind us
all this pain / a bad dream
faded behind in a memory

I hate that / we said that
the words that I can’t take back
the darkness / we’ve been through
we’ll leave it behind in a memory


don’t make me question your love, babe
don’t give me reason for doubt
the rain’s falling over us now
don’t let the fire go out


you act like / I chose this
to hold on  / to nothing
why can’t / we break free
and leave it behind in a memory

I hate that / we said that
the words that I can’t take back
the darkness / we’ve been through
we’ll leave it behind in a memory

+++++

I touch your face 
wait for the spark 
I see your shadow 
fading slowly into dark 

I lie awake 
and I’m caught in between 
what we lost 
I’m afraid will never be 

I used to feel so free 
the way we used to be 
time got away from me 

(well if you cry out 
I’ll be there now 
I’ll be there now) 

now every night 
I lie awake in my bed 
while these dreams 
turn to stone in spite of me 

no will to fight 
and I’m trapped in my head 
all these dreams 
become haunting memories 

I used to feel so free 
the way we used to be 
time got away from me 

(well if you cry out 
I’ll be there now 
I’ll be there now)

GEMS - Medusa UN₡U₮

Inflammed Heart

What Kind of Monster are You?

"HI-FIVE" from the forthcoming release 'Burn Your Fire For No Witness', out Feb. 18 2014, on CD/ LP/ Digital on Jagjaguwar. 

Pre-Order Burn Your Fire For No Witness at: 
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/angelolsen_itunes 
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Burn Your Fire For No Witness

Hi-Five

Angel Olsen - HI-FIVE

The first track to be lifted from the Art Reeks 12", a collaboration between Art is Hard & Reeks of Effort.

Although Poledo pummel you with a unforgettable riff for the first 30 seconds of 'King of Cool', they don't waste any time in launching into an attack on pretenders with Evan Clement's proclamation "you fail to comprehend, you don't hear The Wipers and start a band". From this point on, the song follows in much the same fashion; various yelped warnings about putting in too much effort and partying too hard matched by catchy Mascis'esque licks.

Available on white 12" with a choice of four covers from
https://artreeks.bandcamp.com/album/art-reeks

Buy split 12"

Poledo - King Of Cool

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What Have We Become

"Hot and Cold" b/w "Waterfall" and "Everywhere"

Buy from Merge

Ex Hex "Hot and Cold"

Take from the album 'Let's Go Extinct' - Premiered via i-D

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Fanfarlo - Cell Song

The first single from Clouder's forthcoming sophomore album, Sister Raygun, available March 4th on cassette and digital formats via Fleeting Youth Records.

Pre-Order: http://bit.ly/1dkPuqp
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Clouder- Lost In Reverie

So what

Taken from Remixed with Love by Joey Negro Vol.2

Double CD & Vinyl available now from ZR - http://www.zrecords.ltd.uk/new-releases

Digital - https://zrecords.lnk.to/JoeyNegroRemixedLove2


Grace Jones Pull Up To The Bumper Joey Negro Remix

Tender Opposites

Double Vision

TOPS - Double Vision

It's the Wind by Summer Cannibals

They Die By Dawn - THE BULLITTS (ft. Yasiin Bey, Jay Electronica & Lucy Liu)

Some artists in the hip-hop genre are so confident in their natural talent, that they can do whatever they please on the mic.  The Mighty Mos Def, I'm sorry, Yasiin Bey is one of those people.  Being able to flex his acting chops, serve as a conduit for the spirit of Ali by way of Louis Vuitton and not miss a beat on the microphone, is an amazing feat by any standard.  DJ Dub brings portions of his vast catalog to life mixing classics, b-sides and his infamous Dub mixes to create a listening experience that should not be missed. With the support of the good folks at OnSmash, you can indulge in a collection of beats guaranteed to rock from Brooklyn to Bosnia.  Consider Re:DEFinition as your official introduction to the artist known as Yasiin Bey.  Enjoy!

http://www.sharebeast.com/aunv84ezpw46

Tracklist:

1.  Intro (beat by Hi-Tek)

2.  Inner City Rock** (beat by DJ Premier)

3.  Travellin Man**(beat by Mathematics)

4.  24 Hour Karate School (beat by Ski)

5.  Next Universe** (beat by Rza)

6.  Life Is Good (beat by DJ Deckstream)

7.  B-Boy Document '99 w/Mr. Eon, Mike Zoot (beat by Mighty Mi)

8.  Standing On Guard Interlude 

9.  Fix Up w/Talib Kweli (beat by Madlib)

10. Wannabwhereur w/Floetry** (beat by Saukrates)

11. Another World w/Talib Kweli (beat by The Kreators)

12. Undeniable** (beat by DJ Premier)

13. Made You Die w/Mike Flo, Dead Prez (beat by Salaam)

14. Stakes Is High Remix w/De La Soul, Truth Enola** (beat by Pete Rock)

15. Forever Alive (beat by Oh No)

16. The Edge** (beat by J Dilla)

17. Oh No w/Pharoahe Monch, Nate Dogg** (beat by Diamond D)

18. Sex Love Money** (beat by Madlib)

19. Sunshine Screwface (beat by J Dilla)

20. NY Is Killing Me w/Nas, Gil Scott-Heron**  (beat by Gil Scott-Heron)

21. Black Radio Remix (beat by Pete Rock)

22. I Dont Like (beat by Young Chop)

23. Niggas In Poorest (beat by Hit Boy)

24. Bey** (beat by Marc Nfinit)

25. Taxi (beat by Ski)

26. Holiday w/Jay Electronica (beat by Just Blaze)

27. Just Begun Interlude

28. Just Begun w/Jay Electronica, J. Cole, Talib Kweli (beat by Hi-Tek)

29. Love Rain w/Jill Scott** (beat by Ski)

30. Cream Of The Planet (beat by Ski)

31. Re:DEFinition (beat by DJ Dub)

32. You Already Know (beat by Oh No)

33. Exhibit B** (beat by Just Blaze)

34. Exhibit 2** (beat by Just Blaze)

35. Omfgod (beat by Mannie Fresh)

36. Say You Will (Live)

Yasiin bey - Re:DEFinition

Yasiin Bey ( mos def ) x Mannie Fresh = OMFGOD BK X NOLA 

Black Jesus - Yasiin Bey x Mannie Fresh

Sourced from a Youtube cover

Created for the Mabson Enterprises compilation "NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MABSON VOLUME 7." Download the whole thing for free on Bandcamp. 

http://mabsonenterprises.bandcamp.com/album/now-thats-what-i-call-mabson-volume-7

Ex Hex "Hot and Cold"

MergeRecords