Amazing stuff found here and there

"Hold Tight" from the forthcoming LP "Mean Love," out this fall on DFA in North America, and City Slang everywhere else.



Hold Tight

Welcome to DJ Harvey's Wildest Dreams! Out now worldwide. 

Rough Trade here: http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/82538
iTunes (EU): http://georiot.co/1g1m
iTunes (US): https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/wildest-dreams/id886229021

www.smalltownsupersound.com
https://www.facebook.com/HarveyDJay

Wildest Dreams - Last Ride

Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen finally release their unique Nordic electronic sounds in album size.

'Full of melancholy-frosted electronics and emotive swells of classical piano, the new single from Nordic duo Ólafur Arnalds﻿ and Janus Rasmussen is a delicate, icy slowburn' – NME

Pre-order the CD/2LP/DL: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP062
Pre-order the DL via iTunes and receive the album version of 'Thrown' instantly: snip.ftpromo.net/kiasmos

After dropping several tracks and performing at select festivals throughout the years, Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen dedicated the year 2014 to explore the area in-between Ólafur’s more acoustic, piano-based solo work and Janus’s synth-heavy electro pop, with their collaborative electronic project Kiasmos.

By focusing solely on their self-titled debut album, Ólafur and Janus have been able to combine and further develop their unique sound aesthetics to complete an album driven by their mutual love for electronic music. Made in Ólafur’s newly build studio in Reykjavík, Iceland, a majority of the album was recorded using acoustic instruments next to a variety of synthesisers, drum machines and tape delays. It features a live drummer, string quartet and Ólafur performing on the grand piano, producing an ambient, textured sound, which makes it a perfect home listen and equally danceable record. If you listen closely, you can spot them record the thumb piano, finger snapping and even the sound of the metal grinder of a lighter slowly to replace the usual electronic hi-hat sounds, giving the album a far more intimate and unique atmosphere.

“We decided to start almost completely over with this record, so most of the material is written this year with the idea of making a record that can stand as one piece rather than a collection of songs. I am very excited to get a proper record out exploring a different territory than I am used to. I touch a lot on electronic genres in my own music but never have the opportunity to go full out electronic like we do here.” – Ólafur Arnalds

“The Kiasmos project has been around since 2009, but because of all our other projects we never really got the time to sit down and write all the tracks we always wanted to. So when we early this year finally found the time to sit down and make a full length album there was so much we wanted to try out. The result surprised us a bit, it's deeper and more emotional than we imagined it to be, but that's the beauty of being able to make an album.” – Janus Rasmussen

Kiasmos – s/t will be released on Double-Vinyl, CD and Download via Erased Tapes on October 27th, 2014.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Lit 2. Held 3. Looped 4. Swayed 5. Thrown 6. Dragged 7. Bent 8. Burnt

LIVE DATES:

29.11.2014 London (UK) – Village Underground
05.12.2014 Berlin (DE) – Watergate
06.12.2014 Istanbul (TR) – Salon
15.01.2015 Groningen (NL) – Eurosonic

OFFICIAL WEBSITES: facebook.com/kiasmos · erasedtapes.com

Kiasmos

Bent

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Kiasmos - Bent

HeyU

lost one frosty misty morn

08 - Coelhion - Canto Do Quarto

Ryan Lee West reinforces his unique style of minimal electronic arrangements with a new 6-track EP – 'Sonne' will be released on 12" Vinyl and Download via Erased Tapes on September 15th, 2014

ORDER 'Sonne' on 12"/DL: http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP059
ORDER 'Odyssey / Sonne' on CD: http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP069
ORDER via iTunes:
http://snip.ftpromo.net/sonne
GET TICKETS:
http://www.erasedtapes.com/artists/events/5/Rival+Consoles

Continuing on from his Odyssey EP released in 2013, Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles creates atmosphere and space whilst exploring waves of sound and rhythm, and the power of colour. With Sonne Ryan creates music to structure itself around a pulse, rather than the pulse being the defining point. 

The title track begins with “a very subtle set of melodies that repeat almost without confidence, and then gradually give way to a huge collage of colour and power”, as Ryan describes it. Not relying on a conventional beat, it’s a prime example of how an analogue synthesiser can create the power and momentum of a rhythm section. From the distorted waves in 3 Chords, growing and shrinking, to the rhythmic waves of constant speeding up and then slowing down in Recovery, it’s the Moog Voyager, Prophet and tape delay that make up the core sound of the EP. Whilst tracks like Helios, Haunt and Think Tank see West play live drums and acoustic guitar.

“I’m often looking at art in exhibitions and I always think to myself ‘why the hell don’t I have this much colour in my work?’ The answer in part I think is down to synthesis. It is very difficult to create colour without it sounding plastic. Colour in music is both the note combinations and the actual timbre of the sounds. There are lots of instances of very colourful ambient sounds, which I took great care to create for each song, using various methods – from passing analogue synths through chains of effects to chopping up random sequences of recordings and forming tiny collages." – Ryan Lee West 

ABOUT THE ARTWORK:  

Resembling the colour and vibrancy in his music, the cover art was created by South London artist Supermundane, who was also responsible for the artwork of the Odyssey EP.

TRACK LISTING:  	

A1. Sonne  A2. 3 Chords  A3. Helios  B1. Haunt  B2. Think Tank  B3. Recovery 

PRESS FOR ODYSSEY EP:

'Glorious...unabashedly epic...’ – Dummy
'Atmospheric synths swell victoriously' – XLR8R
‘Rival Consoles, is the likes of Nils Frahm and Olafur Arnalds' glitchy, electronic cousin’  8/10 – The 405


ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Some might be surprised that London based electronic producer Ryan Lee West, the man behind Rival Consoles, shares a home with contemporary classical composers such as Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds and Peter Broderick. And yet they have a lot more in common than expected. Fascinated by sound from an early age, Ryan chose to dedicate his time to studying, experimenting with and producing sound graduating from De Montfort University in Leicester. One consistent element in his musical journey has been his desire to create a more organic, humanised sound. Ryan often drafts early ideas on piano, violin and guitar, although the end result is much more electronic-laden. As an accomplished sound designer he has repeatedly performed at the Tate, and recently created a bespoke audio-visual performance for Boiler Room at the V&A. Ryan is currently composing music for a soon to be announced BBC production.

LIVE:	
	
After supporting Luke Abbott on his recent UK tour and I Break Horses on their North American tour in spring, Ryan will debut his new live set with a special release show in London, followed by a string of West Coast U.S. dates culminating in Decibel Festival in late September – more details to be announced soon. 

OFFICIAL WEBSITES: www.facebook.com/rivalconsoles · www.erasedtapes.com

Sonne

3 Chords

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Rival Consoles - 3 Chords

India bug

WOOF. EP> Itunes> https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/woof./id960117636

My Device

From Parquet Courts upcoming album Content Nausea, available Nov 11th Digitally and Dec 2nd on CD/LP. 

Pre-order the record from What's Your Rupture?  http://whatsyourrupture.bigcartel.com/product/parquet-courts-content-nausea-preorder-cd-lp-2xcd 

Or internationally from Rough trade.  

Parkay Quarts - Uncast Shadow Of A Southern Myth

From Fugazi's "First Demo" out 11/18 on Dischord Records. 

This record is currently available for pre-order here: http://www.dischord.com/release/181/first-demo

Fugazi - Merchandise (Version)

Berlin-based DJ and producer Steffi returns with her second album “Power Of Anonymity” on Ostgut Ton. More info: http://ostgut.de/label/record/129

Pre-order LP / CD

Steffi | Power Of Anonymity

"Vortex" taken from the album Lost Themes, Out Now. 

LP/CD: http://bit.ly/1uJTy0G
iTunes (Including remixes by Zola Jesus, ohGr, Blanck Mass, Silent Servant, JG Thirlwell, and Bill Kouligas): http://hyperurl.co/LostThemesRemixed

Website: http://www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/John-Carpenter-The-Master-of-Horror/180461998405?fref=ts
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thehorrormaster

Tour dates: https://bit.ly/1R0KsHL


John Carpenter - Vortex

Dynamic Italian duo, Pelussje, have been seated at the crest of the European electro wave for the better part of the last decade. Over the years, their high-octane productions and infectious energy have earned them the support from fellow Italian electro mavens Bob Rifo, Benny Benassi, Crookers, and Congorock, along with a growing catalog of releases on big time imprints like Ultra, Sony, EMI, and more.

Today, however, James Nayler & Chiara Benelli of Pelussje are revealing an all-new creative direction with the release of AH-ITE -- a cohesive, three-track EP that overtly evokes nostalgia from the glory days of the 90s Jock Jams era. Blending familiar, arena anthem sounds with contemporary elements of electro, hip hop, and breaks, Pelussje construct an exciting bridge between past and future in AH-ITE that even flows into track names like "Macaulay 23," "GacMyver 90210," and "Ouija."

Support already in from SBCR (The Bloody Beetroots), Botnek, Congorock, Astronomar, Dyro, and Skrillex.

Pelussje Links:
http://www.soundcloud.com/pelussje
https://www.facebook.com/pelussje/
https://twitter.com/PELUSSJE

Free Download

Pelussje - Macaulay 23 [NEST041]

UPDATE (20 Aug 2015): What made the comet sing? Scientists working on Rosetta's RPC instrument have found out why 67P/C-G was singing. Via http://wp.me/p46DHN-1nN
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ORIGINAL Citation (Oct 2014): Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) has uncovered a mysterious ‘song’ that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is singing into space. The comet seems to be emitting a ‘song’ in the form of oscillations in the magnetic field in the comet’s environment. It is being sung at 40-50 millihertz, far below human hearing, which typically picks up sound between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. To make the music audible to the human ear, the frequencies have been increased in this recording. This sonification of the RPC-Mag data was compiled by German composer Manuel Senfft (www.tagirijus.de).  Read full details in ESA's Rosetta blog: http://wp.me/p46DHN-Li 

Copyright Notice

Original Data Credit: ESA/Rosetta/RPC/RPC-MAG
Sonification: TU Braunschweig/IGEP/Manuel Senfft, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Thumbnail image credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0

A Singing Comet

track found from a tape stuck to the bottom of a can of paint thinner in a region of the basement that hadn't been explored in at least 9 years 

always that rope ya hurd

Does Love Come With Those Fries?

The new album 'Undertow' out now.
iTunes: smarturl.it/undertowitunes
CD: smarturl.it/undertowCD // LP: smarturl.it/undertowLP
Hear more from Drenge - smarturl.it/drengespotify

We can Do What We Want

We Can Do What We Want

3.Waiting for the day

Available exclusively on iTunes:

US -  http://itunes.apple.com/album/lady-single/id528495030
CA - http://itunes.apple.com/album/lady-single/id528495030
UK - http://itunes.apple.com/album/lady-single/id528435037

iTunes

Red Hot + Fela - "Lady" (tUnE-yArDs, Angelique Kidjo, ?uestlove & Akua Naru)

I Want You (She's So Heavy)

K. Board & The Skreens was born in 1998 out of a tweaked splintered toy keyboard.

Jay The K. was born in 1978.  He's a Groanie Boy and forever will be one.




Amazing stuff found here and there

KBoardTheSkreens/JayTheK