electronica

The Juan Maclean - Feel Like Movin'

Tycho "Awake" LP on Ghostly International
Release date: MARCH 18, 2014

Purchase "Awake": shop.iso50.com/collections/awake

formats:
CD/LP/DIGITAL

artwork by:
ISO50

For nearly a decade, Tycho has been known as the musical alias of Scott Hansen, but with the release of Awake – his second LP for Ghostly International – the solo project has evolved into a three-piece band. Relating closer to post-rock than ambient soundscapes, the record is situated in the present, sounding more like Hansen than drawing from his influences. “This is, in many ways, the first true Tycho record.”

Following 2011’s Dive LP, the San Francisco-based designer toured extensively, and with a full band on stage, his sound coalesced into a percussive, organic whole. Zac Brown (guitars, bass) rejoined Scott on the road for this tour, but it was the particular addition of Rory O’Connor’s live drumming that ultimately sent Hansen back to the studio with a more precise vision. “After the tour, I decided that I wanted to capture the more energetic, driven sound of the live show on the next album,” Hansen recalls. Bringing musicians into Tycho’s creative process was a step towards expanding his own songwriting and advancing the project beyond its current sound.

In a cabin near Tahoe last winter, Zac and Scott began fleshing out the structure of the new record, but it wasn’t until they set up shop in the hills of Santa Cruz with Rory that it all fell into place. “It crystallized the vision of how the drums would come to the forefront on this record,” says Hansen. The sound was much more stripped-down and concise with more organic instruments in the fold. Songs like “Montana” and “Awake” are a departure from Tycho’s previous material – unique to the group effort poured into the songs on the new record – while “See” and “Dye” echo ideas from previous works, bridging a middle ground between the old and new. Working with Count Eldridge, who also engineered Dive, the team could fixate on the pulses that Tycho might previously layer under synthesizers and exhume them with distinct bass and guitar patterns.

Also known for his design work as ISO50, Hansen’s visual and sonic efforts have dovetailed throughout the course of his career. “This is the first time in my life I've dropped everything to focus on one artistic pursuit,” notes Hansen. Previous Tycho releases came to fruition when an amalgam of songs were nearing completion, but Awake is where music becomes the focus and true expression becomes the result.

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Awake

Utopia - Footprintz

GLASS CANDY / BEAUTIFUL OBJECT (Instrumental)

"Bubbles" from EP "Wandering" OUT NOW.
from First Word Records.

bandcamp
http://yosihorikawa.bandcamp.com/album/wandering-ep

iTunes
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/wandering-ep/id530796489

Bubbles

Footprintz - Dangers of the Mouth

With all its ups and downs, its climaxes and pitfalls, epic victories and sudden u-turns, the true story of Wolf + Lamb echoes the wisdom of fellow New York wiseass Woody Allen, who once remarked that “a relationship is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies.” Together Zev the wolf and Gadi the lamb have kept the shark alive for over a decade by embracing the courage to venture into uncharted waters—forever plumbing the depths, riding the waves, and scouting new horizons. Whether assuming the roles of production duo, DJ team, or label owners, Zev and Gadi have written every page of their true story with wit, ingenuity, disarming warmth, and good old Brooklyn swagger. Strong-willed and staunchly independent, the two have resolutely steered clear of conventions and the expectations of others, always believing that the only way forward is to follow the beat of your own inner drum, no matter where it takes you. In recent years audiences the world over have resonated with this singular vision, eschewing minimal machismo fist pumps and embracing Wolf + Lamb’s glittery head-banded hug.

Wolf + Lamb vs. PillowTalk - Real Love (Nick Monaco's Ode to Marcy Remix)

Tristan Coleman - Good Money

Tristan Coleman - Precious Ghostly Metal

Tristan Coleman - Bad Money

Apparat, aka Sascha Ring, will release “Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre)”, an album of music based on Sebastian Hartmann’s theatre production of Tolstoy’s War and Peace.

Sebastian Hartmann is considered one of the big innovators of contemporary German theatre, and asked Ring to contribute to this mammoth project, which was commissioned by the renowned German arts festival Ruhrfestspiele in Recklinghausen.

Apparat - Krieg und Frieden - Music for Theatre is out now!

http://smarturl.it/KundFiTunes

Apparat - Krieg und Frieden - A Violent Sky

Pre-order Young Galaxy's new album 'Ultramarine' on limited white vinyl & CD:
shop.paperbagrecords.com/products/ultramarine
2013 Paper Bag Records
Young Galaxy - Pretty Boy (Peaking Lights Remix)
Available digitally February 5th, 2013

https://www.facebook.com/younggalaxy
Check out the original here: https://soundcloud.com/paper-bag-records/young-galaxy-pretty-boy-3

YOUNG GALAXY - Pretty Boy (Peaking Lights Remix)

Bonobo’s Live Album ‘The North Borders Tour - Live’ is available on CD + DVD with 70-page hardback book, or ltd vinyl and audio download.

ORDER NOW
Bonobo Store: http://bonobomusic.com/shop
Amazon: smarturl.it/northborderslivecd
iTunes: smarturl.it/northbordersliveit

PREVIEW
DVD Trailer: youtu.be/onCHyksRWiE
More Info: bonobomusic.com/news/live

Cirrus

„Amygdala“ is Koze’s Sgt. Pepper. It’s an unreal 78-minute walk through Koze’s mind, complete with moods, intensities, sounds and scenes as yet unheard of. It feels more like a double album, urging you to turn over and change the records time and time again. "Amygdala" amazes by its sheer musicality, deepness, and its  ethereal sound design; it’s a kaleidoscope of a great variety of soundscapes where you keep discovering new nuances even after listening to it a thousand times. Nobody else could unite artists like Caribou and Dirk von Lotzow, Hildegard Knef and Mathew Dear, Ada and Milosh in such an organic way and on one and the same record as Koze did. There’s never been anything like it.

He weaves new garments around the a capella parts of his guests, garments that only he can tailor, and that’s how the album, for all the diversity of its artists, sounds consistently homogeneous and in the true style of Kosi Kos. It’s all about “the courage to dare”, about letting voices resonate undisguised in all their authentic peculiarity.  About creating  truthfulness.

How much can you cut out, when does the flame die down? On the other hand, under which circumstances could it even burn for ever?

The album, which in large parts has been composed in a Spanish fishing village, starts off with Balinese gamelan sounds from which a relaxed discoid bass peels off, caressed by mystic backwards basslines, balafon resonances and slide guitar chords. You can hear the ceaseless chirping, twittering and cheeping from all the treetops of Koze's exotic jungle.

DJ Koze feat. Caribou - Track ID Anyone?

from the album "Random Access Memories" 

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http://www.wpahp.com

you can now download this remix :) 
thanks for listening

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=melv23aVPyw

WPAHP on iTunes (US)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/any-day-now/id520296074

Daft Punk - Get Lucky (We Plants Are Happy Plants Remix)

Stash EP will be out on 15th April on beatport and all good record stores. 
Heres a sneak preview of the first track on the four-track EP. 

Stash

Juno Vinyl Presale

Bicep - Stash

In the southern Indian Ocean all hell has broke loose recently. Some weeks ago the cyclone Dumile lashed the island La Réunion. But in the eye of the storm Alex Barck also sweeps one stormer after the other towards club land. For his second preliminary 12“ of his upcoming solo album („Reunion“) this time he invited the Swedish exceptionally gifted singer Jonatan Bäckelie aka Ernesto.

“Don’t Hold Back” is an incredibly euphoriant dancefloor anthem – that contrary to its title – celebrates the coitus interruptus until it hurts. Or is this how the infamous quiet before the storm feels like?


Alex Barck "Dont Hold Back" with Jonatan Bäckelie (original version)  Reunion 2

NEW WEBSITE - www.richardnorris.dj One of 5 mixes I've completed for 'Jagwar Ma - The Time and Space Machine Dub Sessions', out to accompany the debut Jagwar Ma album on June 10th. 'Stunning' - Rough Trade. 
Vinyl - http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/prod/JagwarMa-TheTimeAndSpaceMachineDubSessions-MarathonArtists-96912.html
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http://jagwarma.tumblr.com
http://youtube.com/jagwarma
http://soundcloud.com/jagwar-ma

Jagwar Ma - Did You Have To (Float On?) - The Time and Space Machine Dub

THE SWISS  - ELOUISA EP
Buy - http://smarturl.it/theswisselouisa
Beatport - http://www.beatport.com/release/elouisa-ep/1104125

The peaching Australian duo “The Swiss” is back with an announced success: their new disco funk EP “Elouisa”! Out on Kitsuné, June the 17th!

The Swiss are what disco should be. Insistent drums, tractor beam bass and melodies that got here on a rainbow - all in sync with the biorhythms of ecstasy and heartbreak.

After 3 smashing singles including the hit single “Bubble Bath”, The Swiss now deliver for Kitsuné a real disco/dance EP with catchy riffs and heady keyboards tunes, the band’s trademark. On “Elouisa”, The Swiss’ neat vocal line reminds us of the old fashion disco codes. “Peach Pit” on the other hand shows funky guitar riffs and efficient basses lines for a title as striking as relevant.

The EP also contains two exclusive remixes of “Elouisa”: one from the very dynamic Late Nite Tuff Guy and one from the Belgium duo Villa who offer us an incredibly catchy remix which sounds that could be what an encounter between Scissor Sisters and Mika!

Buy on iTunes

The Swiss - Elouisa

What is Night Bus?

First, the simple answer - it's an electronic music soundtrack that works rather well on that long, late night journey on the night bus. It's atmospheric, ethereal, ambient, modern music with just enough drive to get you home. It's music to help you stare out of the window and notice the little details that make the ride kind of special. It's music to take you there and help you feel like you are somewhere else.

Then, the more complicated one - Night Bus is a collection of music made by a new generation of London based producers who work around the disadvantages of the current economic climate, resorting to computer programs and MIDI keyboards to create their musical exodus; who have grown up in the metropolis plugged into music on their mobiles, listening to dubstep and hip hop and auto tune pop and the sound of the city itself; who have filtered all this through their software to nurture and create a new sound, a new feeling, a new C21 ambient that, sometimes unconsciously, draws on the spirit of the classic artists  to create a new style. Everyone from Erick Satie to Brian Eno to Tangerine Dream to Burial is hidden in there somewhere. Night Bus is steeped in history but it has a sound that is all its own, and now it's becoming a genre in its own right. 

Night Bus is a compilation put together in collaboration by recording artist Jamie Isaac, film maker Wesley Stokes Mellor and MelodicaRecordings label boss Chris Coco.


electronica

Dim. G. Din.