Name: The How - Polly by Slumberland Records in Music to fertilize by
Duration: 2 min 17 s
Description: The How are Matt from Henry's Dress/Sic Alps and Stew Boyracer, teaming up to create some explosive mod/beat pop. Here they blow-up a Kinks b-side to great effect. Taken from a super-limited single released to commemorate our 20th anniversary.

Freeform DJ set made for personal use. Includes jazz, soul, electronic, minimal, synth, sitar, psychedelic, shoegaze, garage rock, punk, oink, krautrock, library, pop. Dutch, Italian, French, Welsh, Spanish, pop, bubblegum, African, Latin, reggae, etc. etc. etc.

Music to fertilize by

Rough Dimension

Snake Water

The Silent Song

The Living Dead

WITHER AND WARP

Some Kind Of Control

The Flood

Rindert Lammers - "Thank You Kirin Kiki"

"Waves of Fear" by Pissed Jeans, out now on Sub Pop Records.
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Waves of Fear

Pissed Jeans - Waves of Fear

Hey, goodbye
So walk with me from night
I don’t like the way you talk to me, girl
You wanna be 
The screen
You sing about me
I don’t rethink
The thoughts you wanna be

And when you walk away
There’s nothing left to sing about me
There’s time to think about the one you love

You wanna be
The screen
You sing about me
I don’t rethink
The thoughts you wanna be
And it’s time to think
There’s nothing left to sing about me
Anyways
Anyways
It’s all mistakes
You feel things
That you said you wanna be
It’s honestly a pain
That you notice now
And it’s not about
It’s all mistakes
You feel things
That you said you wanna be
Anyways
Anyways

Tim Burton's Tower

TERANGA BEAT proudly presents YISHAK BANJAW on his first international release. YISHAK BANJAW is a composer and keyboard player from Addis Ababa known to his country for his innovative compositions and unique sound. His ability to transform traditional Ethiopian songs into spacey Minimal-Wave gems creates an ultra hypnotic and psychedelic atmosphere, a sound that you have never experienced before.  

Love Songs Vol.2 was recorded in 1986 at Yishak’s house, while he was working for the Police Band in Eritrea. It was released by an Eritrean label on cassette and was also distributed in Ethiopia. However, due to the shaky political situation, Yishak was forbidden to travel anywhere outside his country, including Ethiopia. Consequently Love Songs Vol.2 remained a very obscure and neglected musical experiment. Until now Yishak has released 7 albums on cassette but, unlike many Ethiopian musicians, has never managed to reach a wider and international audience. 
 
On this album Yishak Banjaw chose to play everything on a small Casio PT, “a keyboard for kids” as he proudly mentions. He recorded the whole album live, directly to his tape recorder. Although his main instrument was a Godwin keyboard, he actually preferred to rent the Casio from a friend, as he was blown away by the way it sounded. This choice alone reveals a genuine talent that dared to beyond what his colleagues were doing at that time.

The LP version of the album is a Deluxe Edition and comes with a gatefold cover, a printed insert and an MP3 download code. The CD version includes a booklet with photos and liner notes outlining the story of this unique musician who carried the long tradition of Ethiopia into another level.

Love Songs Vol.2

Fikrehoy Temekeri

YISHAK BANJAW - Fikrehoy Temekeri

Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit

Elevator Operator

Pass The Distance

Very Close Friend

The How are Matt from Henry's Dress/Sic Alps and Stew Boyracer, teaming up to create some explosive mod/beat pop. Here they blow-up a Kinks b-side to great effect. Taken from a super-limited single released to commemorate our 20th anniversary.

The How - Polly

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Claudia, Wilhelm R And Me

Been blogging, music sharing, etc. for a while now (see blog under this name) & DJing since 1982. I like all kinds of music.

Most of my playlists are not organized & just hold songs I'm interested in, many of which I haven't listened to yet. The "freeform current listening" playlist is as it says & will be updated regularly. Many of my reposts were unintentional, they were just random tracks I was trying to add to a playlist using my phone & I've got clumsy fingers.

Slumberland began operations in 1989 as a collective effort consisting of members of DC area bands Velocity Girl, Big Jesus Trash Can/Whorl, Black Tambourine and Powderburns. We were inspired by such musical happenings as C86, early Creation, Postcard, K, Bus Stop, lower East Side noise, and also the renegade art aesthetics & methods of people like Cage, Burroughs and Duchamp. The explosion of punk had left behind a thriving network of 'zines, labels and distributors and we felt that there was room for our noise-loving, pop-obsessed aesthetic. While there were loads of US indie labels releasing a steady stream of 7"s, there wasn't much pop going on. Notable exceptions included Bus Stop, K and Picture Book, and we hoped to join that group and help chisel out some space for melodies amongst the noise.

Early releases from Velocity Girl, Whorl and Black Tambourine struck a note, and we found like-minded popsters getting in touch from all over the world. As we expanded the label roster and our own horizons, the goal was always to share great songs and interesting sounds from a range of styles. Our first burst of activity through the 1990s and early 2000s brought seminal records by legendary bands like Stereolab, Rocketship, The Ropers, Lorelei, The Aislers Set, Hood and Boyracer.

By the mid 2000s we were seeing a resurgence of interest in guitar pop and the start of the ongoing vinyl revival: the perfect environment for Slumberland! We launched into our latest phase of activity with as string of classic releases from The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Crystal Stilts, Frankie Rose, Veronica Falls, Allo Darlin', Joanna Gruesome and so many more.

2025 is our thirty-sixth (!) year we are still at it, ploughing our own furrow and bringing you unique, genre-defining (and genre-defying!) releases from bands like The Laughing Chimes, Humdrum, The Cords, Autocamper, Jeanines, The Umbrellas, Neutrals, Artsick, Kids On A Crime Spree, Papercuts, Lightheaded, Tony Jay, Chime School, Lunchbox and many, many more. Indie fashions come and go but we're still thrilled by great songs and the new ways that pop can be rejuvenated to fit the times.

The How - Polly

Slumberland Records

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