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Snowbird - Porcelain

Cameron Mesirow, AKA Glasser, has made her first ever solo mix exclusively for DIS which showcases the eclecticism that inspired her latest project, Interiors.

Hiroshima - Ren (Glasser edit)
Van Rivers - Arp Song
Brainticket - Robotika (Glasser edit)
Buffy Sainte-Marie / Ø - Poppies (For Mr Allerton)/ Atomit
Cocteau Twins - Seekers Who Are Lovers
Bobby McFerrin - He Ran All The Way (Glasser edit)
Claude Debussy, Hubert Laws - Syrinx (Glasser edit)
Horizontal Ground - Ghosts on Acid (Glasser edit)
Bamboo Massage - Pointy Teeth Anarchists (Glasser edit)
Akiko Kiyama / Hiroshi Yoshimura - The Misidia Monarchy (JPLS remix) / Creek (Glasser edit)
Tim Story - Monkey Builderizer (Glasser edit)
Adam Johnson - Four Squares
Peptalk - Endall

Glasser - L'otion

Snowbird x RxGibbs - Porcelain

From Grimes' split with d'Eon, "Darkbloom"
Arbutus Records/Hippos In Tanks 2011

Darkbloom

Vanessa

Grimes - Vanessa

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Snowbird - All Wishes Are Ghosts

Flesh And Wires - Impermanent

Snowbird x RxGibbs - All Wishes Ares Ghosts

Snowbird x RxGibbs - Where Foxes Hide

Glasser – Folksexual

GRAVE113 :: Night School 'Heart Beat' :: Out Oct 7th, 2014
pre-order: http://www.graveface.com/graveface-catalog.html

"Because I had nothing better to do."  When a coincidental event turns into a landmark moment, sometimes you have to acknowledge its random significance.  This seems to be the case for northern California three piece Night School. Already accomplished singer Alexandra Morte (Whirr, Camera Shy) was at work on some new material, but was having trouble finding a drummer.  Enter Baylie Arin, the pair integrate song ideas, and plot their first EP.

That EP took six hours to record.  The songs were bounced back-and-forth between Morte and Arin, who contributed various alternative synth, post-punk, and shoegaze elements.  Recorded, mixed, and mastered at Atomic Garden in Palo Alto by Jack Shirley, that six hour session produced Heart Beat; four tracks of pure bliss rock inspired by the sad love songs of 1960’s girl groups like The Shirelles, The Crystals, and The Shangri-las.  After the recording of Heart Beat, Sarah Trevena, a friend of Arin's, was asked to join Night School as lead guitarist.  Night School’s spontaneous debut fuses garage-rock sounds with the intimacy and soul of the previously mentioned artists.  It is as if by total coincidence that Night School was even formed and these songs were written.  I’m glad they didn’t have anything better to do.   

Night School - Birthday

FREE

Often times I miss living in the country where life seems almost too simple. The sleepy towns, sweet air and especially the autumns. Hailing from the british countryside, Worries is truly a product of his environment, perfectly encapsulating the simplicity, nostalgia and isolation. 

When I first heard Worries, they contained everything I had loved about indie pop, or rather a variant of it, which I thought had long been dead. Simply put, the debut single is a few daydreams turned to melody and brought to life.

Music and Words by Alex Williams
Mixed and Mastered by Julian Brau
Artwork by Alex Roulette
Layout by Drew Diver

Worries - Age

Our new track “Knees On The Ground” might benefit from an explanation. This is the most unguarded I ever intend to be when writing about Clipping.

What had happened was this: our very brief UK/Europe trip got called-off the day before we were supposed to get on a plane to London. Since we didn’t have any other plans, we met up in the studio with an idea to crank out a new track. On our list of songs to finish was one particular piece aimed directly at the club (or, at least, our twisted idea of what clubs should play). But none of us were in the mood for it. Each of us had spent the previous several days following the news of protests in Ferguson, MO. It was the only thing on our minds. We couldn’t bring ourselves to think about anything else, so we decided to direct our fear, our revulsion, our heartbreak into a new track.

The problem was that we’d defined our band — in interviews and to each other — as decidedly-not-an-activist-project. Diggs’s lyrics have been criticized for seeming apolitical, at least in comparison to what many listeners (perhaps rightly) expect to hear from an ‘experimental’ rap group. I have many times said (perhaps naïvely) that our politics lie in our structures, in our formal engagement with the rap genre. We love its conventions, its clichés, and we’re not above them. We see our participation in rap as something resembling an old punk flyer — an out-of-context collage of charged images with an fractured, contradictory, multiple point-of-view. I hope that our more dedicated listeners hear this and understand that we’re not interested in spoon-feeding them a position. At the same time, I’ve always assumed that they pretty much agree with us on most issues anyway. (We have yet to meet the misogynist, homophobic, white supremacist Clipping fan with an MBA and an NRA membership).

So what do we do when all we can think about, all we can feel, is a profound injustice — yet another young unarmed person of color is murdered by a police officer? How does a band, which overtly rejects affect and the emotions, address something that is, for its authors, a deeply felt, deeply affecting topic? Well, we don’t entirely know. But the fact is: there’s more truth in Diggs’s lyrics than we generally let on. “Inside Out” describes a drive-by shooting in Oakland, “Chain” is about three stick-ups. They are presented with a lot of detail and specificity (perhaps the result of personal experience). But at the same time, they represent archetypal scenarios within rap music. One trope we had yet to explore as Clipping was the anti-police rap — the lineage of Public Enemy, NWA and Paris, straight through The Coup, and all the way into the ‘stop snitching’ panic of the early 2000s. “Knees On The Ground” is a paradigmatic white-cop-kills-an-unarmed-black-kid-and-gets-away-with-it tale — a story that happens all the fucking time in the US. What we have learned — from our first hand experience in Oakland in 2009, and from the media coverage of Ferguson in 2014 — is that the second part of this story involves a police response better suited to a war zone than to an American city. Cops think they’re playing Call Of Duty when they’re supposed to be part of a community. If Ferguson were in Iraq, Obama would have sent in an airstrike already.

This is the least obtuse Diggs’s lyrics will ever get. We’re embarrassed by the timeliness of this track. We do not intend to capitalize on what is, undoubtedly, a terrible tragedy. But journalists make think-pieces and we make songs. Writers write what they know, and this is what we know right fucking now.

— William Hutson, Clipping.

Knees On The Ground

Falling Apart

A Kiss Goodbye (feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sampha & Devonté Hynes)

Discover Temporal taken from the EP of Buscabulla just enjoy the Caribbean-tinged, chilled out vibes.

 "Temporal means hurricane in spanish, but it also means a passing thing. We wanted the song to feel like that, like the passing of a tropical storm." Say's Buscabulla  

Out Now! http://bit.ly/BuscabullaO

Buscabulla EP 

Temporal

Buscabulla - "Temporal"

More: http://www.hennwill.com/2010/03/tiny-vipers-z-cafe-kulturalnej-czyli.html

Tiny Vipers - Development (Live at Cafe Kulturalna, Warsaw, Poland)

Grouper - Hold the Way (Thrifted)

Unauthorised remix of David Sylvians 'Answered Prayers' from the Gone to Earth album (1986).
Created with Ableton Live in the spring of 2010. Instruments used: Fender acoustic bassguitar and Novation bassstation.

Listen to the original here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv1snf4jTI8

Although I have enjoyed the music of Japan and David Sylvian since the mid eighties, I only heard 'Gone to Earth' for the first time in December 2009. Initially I thought it was a bit old and not relevant anymore, but soon it touched me and I played it a lot. Because of its beautifull sound 'Answered Payers' became one of my favorites. Later I felt that I could create a more earthly context for it. So I added a bassline and percussion and played some guitar on top of that. All parts were recorded around the first minute of the original. I enjoyed doing this remix and I'm happy with the result.

David Sylvian - 'Answered Prayers' (Farbeak remix)

Mirroring (Grouper + Tiny Vipers), "Fell Sound"

Lemonade

Liz Harris, aka GROUPER (Portland, OR), performing live at Café Oto, London, UK, 7 April 2012. First concert of Counterflows Festival, April 2012, event held in London and Glasgow, UK; and Berlin, Germany. All Rights Reserved © to GROUPER, Liz Harris. Produced and recorded by Bruno Ferrari, 2012.

Grouper, live at Café Oto, London, 7 April 2012

Grouper, side a from her limited edition tour single for Room40

AU tour dates:

7/10 - Brisbane Powerhouse - w/ Nadja, Lawrence English

UK tour dates:

4/11 - Islington Mills, Manchester - w/ Rafael Anton Irisarri
5/11 - Cafe OTO, London - w/ Lawrence English, Rafael Anton Irisarri
6/11 - Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol - w/ Lawrence English, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Andrea Belfi
8/11 - Venue TBC, Glasgow - w/ Lawrence English, Rafael Anton Irisarri






Grouper - Hold

Tiny Vipers Live at Galley 1412 (June 17, 2012)

Glasser :: Apply

Taken from the 'Dagger Paths' E.P. 

Released on 12" vinyl via Dense Truth and CD via No Pain In Pop.

Buy at www.forestswords.co.uk
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Debut album "Engravings" out now through Tri Angle Records.

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Miarches

Officially my first cover song. I haven't put my voice to anything in quite some time, but I love this song and I hope i did it justice.
"Deer Stop" from Goldfrapp's album Felt Mountain, a must-hear.

Deer Stop (cover)

David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees (Live)

Grouper - "Vital"

[p*dis] distribution sampler for January 2013

Grouper - The Man Who Died in his Boat - Vital(clip) (kranky)

From Doldrums' "Lesser Evil"
Arbutus Records 2013
Release Date: Feb 26th

Lesser Evil

Anomaly

Doldrums - Anomaly

tiny vipers ~ 2   live@Fremont Abbey Magma Fest 09

David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - Damage (Meow-Meow Attack Remix)

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