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Triphop

We covered Chris Isaak's 'Wicked Game' as the Wild Card track for our Zane Lowe Maida Vale session. Listen back to the full session on the BBC iPlayer now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b037ldww

Our debut album 'If You Wait' is out now: 

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Wicked Game (Chris Isaak cover - Live At BBC Maida Vale)

Amelia Rivas and Christian Pinchbeck don't just sing about feverish, frayed and  fractured romances – in the three years since forming  Elephant, they've been living one.

Their first recordings, recorded in the strung out early mornings after the night before, were delirious and light-headed. Rivas’ stream of conscious lyricism combined with Pinchbeck’s innate melodic nous to create vignettes of delight and wonder.  A debut single followed, 2011’s woozy Ants, followed by the Assembly EP.   But before they had a chance to capitalise on the growing acclaim around them the duo’s relationship broke down, almost to the point of no return.

That seemed to be Elephant’s graveyard.  Yet an unexpected rapprochement in late 2012, and a renewed musical hunger saw Rivas and Pinchbeck reconcile.  The first fruit was this year’s gauzy single Skyscraper, which announced their return in spectacular fashion, with Rivas’ swooping vocals allied to a spectral chorus creating an eerie, lens-flared 3 minute wonder of song.

Now, new release Shapeshifter provides confirmation that Elephant are truly back as a force to be reckoned with. “I flew to the moon to mirror you and I saw the future” sings Rivas, with a raw melancholy and nostalgic longing. A sumptuous missive of love lost and lessons learned, that sparkles with charm, optimism, and the sort of lush swoonsome string arrangements that reach into your chest and wring your heart dry. 

Backed by the sparse and stretched out Snowday, as icily cool as it sounds, full of chiaroscuro contrasts and flickering atmospherics, it’s a release that suggests their debut album is set to be one of the standout albums of 2014.

ELEPHANT LINKS: 
 
Facebook - www.facebook.com/elephanttheband    
Twitter – www.twitter.com/ElephantTwit  
Label -  www.memphis-industries.com


Elephant - Shapeshifter

Buy 'Innocents':
Deluxe CD: http://smarturl.it/innocents2cd?IQid=soundcloud.description
iTunes LP: http://smarturl.it/innocentsitunes?IQid=soundcloud.description
Double Gatefold LP + CD: http://smarturl.it/innocentslp?IQid=soundcloud.description

Hear more from 'Innocents':
http://innocents.moby.com

Moby on 'Everything That Rises':

“I just thought this song had a really odd, strangely beautiful quality to it, which is why I used it to open the record. I like the idea of starting absurdly small and then getting quite big and epic about two-thirds of the way through. Hopefully, people won’t turn up their stereos really loud at the beginning to compensate, because it does get quite loud at the end; but when it begins, it’s just so thin and strange. When you first listen to it, there’s a chance you’ll wonder what’s wrong with your stereo! 

It’s hard to talk about instrumentals because… they’re instrumentals: It’s difficult to say, “The song is about this,” because technically it isn’t about anything. And I never know what to name them, either, so I figure, why not pay homage to my favorite writers and borrow their titles? I’ve named a few of my songs after Southern Gothic stories, and this one comes from “Everything That Rises Must Converge,” which is a Flannery O’Connor story.”

Innocents

Everything That Rises

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Noahs Boat - Reminiscence

GNs Compilation - Break Asymmetry 
Tracklist:
01 Printempo - 40000 words
02 Crookram - Booby Trap
03 Maed - Yfelful
04 Nienvox - Namae
05 Thallus - A4
06 Bandfx - Babydub (VIP 2011)
07 Ears - Red Rope
08 Maed - Trip to LA
09 B.R.O. - Story of sad human
10 Quantifier - Thread
11 JazzClams - Morningbirds
12 Bandfx - City traffic (skit)
13 B.R.O. - Proxima Centauri
14 Lupid Ocampo - Kalter Winter
15 Niteffect - No Doubt
16 Ears - Bus Trip
17 Danny Bow - Only got One

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Thread

Purchase "Montana" on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/montana-single/id799641047

Tycho "Awake" LP on Ghostly International
Release date: MARCH 18, 2014

Purchase "Awake": http://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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TWITTER - www.twitter.com/iso50 
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INSTAGRAM - @iso50

Montana

"Not For Long" is the first single from TEEN's new full-length, "The Way and Color".

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TEEN - Not For Long

First single from the debut album 'Built On Glass', out April 11 on Future Classic / Downtown Records. Pre-order and get 'Talk Is Cheap' http://smarturl.it/BuiltOnGlass

Talk Is Cheap

Emancipator - First Snow (Ooah Remix)

Anders Trentemøller has become one of the most respected names in cutting edge electronic music in the last few years. His rise to notoriety was sparked by his early, techy releases for Poker Flat and Audiomatique and has since gone on to stellar highs with his own personal take on the  genre, spanning, pop, rock, indie and classical. His debut album 'The Last Resort‘ was released in 2006 to much international acclaim, and the producer also began to become an in-demand remixer in the house and techno world. 

As the decade wore on his sound continued to progress, opening up his studio to more live instrumentation, and a looser, rock-meets electronic vibe with his stunning 'Into The Great Wide Yonder‘ LP. From legendary live shows with the 'Live In Concert‘ tour with a full backing band, to remixes for a whole host of talents outside of the electronic world, to producing new bands like Darkness Falls on the label hfn music, the restless creative is always a powerhouse of productivity.

Now this special double CD and double vinyl release celebrates some of the producer’s favourite remixes he completed for other artists, and also some of his personal picks where other musicians have reworked his music. With over 20 super-slick productions to choose from, this is a real treat for any Trentemøller fan, or indeed a great introduction into his sound. From crisp electronic beats, to atmospheric and filmic moments, to heavy post-rock mutations and beyond. This sheer variety in store here is testament to the talent and musical vision of Anders Trentemøller.

All the reworked tracks are taken from last year’s 'Into The Great Wide Yonder‘ album, which fused melancholic, emotional melodies with a more indie/electro-rock studio focus.

This double CD packs so many quality songs and productions it’s hard to list them all, yet highlights on CD 1 include the introductory swathes of Marie Fisker‘s wonderfully contemplative version of 'Sycamore Feeling‘, taking us into lazy, hazy hypnotic waves of neo-folk. Fisker sang vocals on the beautiful album-track, and here we take an insight into her own very talented world. ‘Tide’ flows in as three different versions: Efterklang‘s beautiful new remix, a Trentemøller version, and the inimitable Berlin-based bad-boys Modeselektor remixed 'Tide‘ in their 'Last Remix Ever‘... and it’s a dirty ride with plenty of lo-fi synths fusing with high end production in a rolling melancholic electronic story. Of course we‘d be fools not to forget remixes of Trentemøller songs by none other than Andrew Weatherall, or the main man‘s remixes of artists like UNKLE, The Dø, Franz Ferdinand or Modeselektor featuring Thom Yorke - all must-have modern works, also including Kasper Bjørke‘s tender ‚Does Not Matter‘ which is re-shaped by Trentemøller in glorious cinematic coloured sound. 

Gliding into CD 2 we find even more electronic versions, kicking off with Trentemøller‘s foreboding new mix of his own ‚Neverglade‘, before we hear his interpretations of Efterklang‘s ‚Raincoats‘ or the heroric version of 
Depeche Mode‘s 'Wrong‘. I Blame Coco provide their brilliantly different interpretation of '...Even Though You‘re With Another Girl‘, featuring the new recorded vocals of Coco Sumner, transforming the original with her own low-slung mutation of pop and electronic styles. 'Even Though...’ is also contributed by Hamburg upstarts Kollektiv Turmstrasse providing their stomping mix, in a stylish mixture of pop-meets-deepest-electronica.

Furthermore, we discover brilliant reworks of bands like Mew, Giana Factory or Chimes And Bells. Trentemøller‘s raw and industrial remix of Giana Factory‘s ‚Dirty Snow‘ features the wonderful guitar skills of Lisbet Fritze, who currently tours with Trentemøller on his live show.

UNKLE, maverick UK producer James Lavelle‘s ambitious on-going pro-ject, reaches out into filmic, spacey zones with their remix of Trentemøller‘s classic 'Neverglade‘. Among UNKLE’s version and the bristling, tense electronic remix by Trentemøller himself, this track also appears as an instrumental version that lets the wonderful instrumentation shine.

Trentemøller 'Reworked/Remixed' is a beautiful journey into the musical world of one of the best producers and musicians today, enriched with reinterpretations by some of the most interesting artists. Alternative? Electronic? Rock? Pop? Although it's become a consistent album, genre-barriers completely fade away. But who cares... Enjoy!


Reworked/Remixed

The Do - Too Insistent (Trentemoller Remix)

Lay Down

Noodles

From the debut Fox + Sui EP 'Taboo' released on Two Bright Lakes/Remote Control, October 2012.
PURCHASE FROM:
http://foxandsui.bandcamp.com/
http://twobrightlakes.com/foxandsui.html

Fox + Sui - Grass In Flight

New label Double Drop, drops the debut release single with two Balearic / Cosmic / Rock / Funk / Disco inspired sounds. 

Track one 'Lucio' starts off with laid back guitar and strong hand clap, this funky groove goes behind the main melody line giving it a great Cosmic / Psyche Rock feeling. For the fans of A Mountain of One, Beyond The Wizards Sleeve, Worst Friends....

Next up sees 'Faber'. Light kick, pleasant catchy codes, Latin male vocal with a Bug Pipe sound – imagine the Balearic classic of ‘Stop Bajon’ by Tullo De Piscopo with a twisted modern feeling and you are half way there.

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LUCIO

Funk Harmony Park remix of Sweet Impressions by Hjaltalin

Sweet Impressions (Funk Harmony Park remix)

All sounds are from sample besides beat and voices.

<a href="https://theartistunion.com/tracks/b7f55b" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

Free Download

Watching the Dark

JAZZHOP. c) 2006

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Kero One -  In All The Wrong Places (2006)

A cover of the classic jam from DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. All rights belong to the original songwriters. 

Engineered and Mixed by Jeff Piper
Mastered by Jared Stachowitz

Summertime

DJ Whitesmith - The Delta

MOS 6581 (ALBUM VERSION)

Emancipator - Maps

02 wolf drawn

A rather chipper tune taken from the 'MRSCRUFF' album

Mrs Cruff

Jazz Potato

(c.)&(p.) jebu records.Jens Buchert

With his release ‘Interstellar’ he enters new spheres of musical interpretation within the Chillout genre. Again he shows his flexibility to recreate himself and his sound easily at the first glance. But with a deeper and more detailed look you see the complexity of his creations and his talents.
Epic science fiction and fantasy pictures will flow through your mind’s eye and some outer space sound will hit your ear to flow into the progressive lounge-beats and music.

The Vortex

Taken from the album Enter 4. Buy here: http://hjaltalin.spinshop.com/
www.hjaltalinmusic.com

Hjaltalín - Myself

Poldoore - Dreamworks (EP)
https://www.facebook.com/Poldoore

Poldoore - Solstice (05)

 Appears on "Lost Track of Time; Unreleased 2002-2012"

http://artsthebeatdoctor.bandcamp.com/album/lost-track-of-time-unreleased-2002-2012

Arts The Beatdoctor - Between The Lines

Pink Matter Remix (Dirty)

Great Instrumental music - Polish hiphop
Praktik - Good frequency feat. Michal Urbaniak
Praktik - polish producer
Michal Urbaniak - Polish jazz musician and composer

Praktik - Dobra Czestotliwosc feat Michal Urbaniak

but the spotlight makes you nervous...

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artwork by LYMAN 
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Spotify

Get Ahead

A collection of tracks that hadn't seen the light of day yet.

buy here:
http://artsthebeatdoctor.bandcamp.com/album/lost-track-of-time-unreleased-2002-2012

Get the separate stems for All We Are here:
http://www.artsthebeatdoctor.com/all-we-are-material/

Arts The Beatdoctor - All We Are

Arts The Beatdoctor - Body Double

DJ Whitesmith - Gone

The Poison Tree (David Lynch Remix)

We're pleased to announce the signing of Treasureseason for their double A-side, 'Archipelago / Don't Hold Back' due for release on DL and limited-edition 7" white vinyl from 24 June 2013.

Treasureseason first emerged in 2012 with their debut EP 'Ocean Beach' released as a download and limited cassette. Having met in San Francisco, the duo released the EP before returning to their native UK and Sweden homes to finish their university degrees. 'Archipelago / Don't Hold Back' is their first new music proper since their debut, pushing the band's sun-drenched dream pop tectonics into crystalline focus.

Order the vinyl: http://cojarecords.limitedrun.com

Order the 7"

Treasureseason - Don't Hold Back

"We're The Kids" now available on iTunes on "Feeling Electric" » http://smarturl.it/POLFeelingElectric?IQid=SC.Kidsdescrip « Visit http://fb.com/paradeoflights for more info. 

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Band » Ryan Daly, Anthony Improgo, Michelle Ashley & Randy Schulte

We're The Kids Lyrics: 
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falling like a neon star
doesn't matter who you are
undiscovered lovers call
don't you want to risk it all?

we are
yeah, we're the kids now
we're the kids now
we are
yeah, we're the kids now
we're the kids now

feeling like you can't go on
cigarettes and future hearts
i don't want to waste your time
let's just make it last tonight

we are
yeah, we're the kids now
we're the kids now
we are
yeah, we're the kids now
we're the kids now