Soft Speaker : Jackie Robinson / Glass Table

psychedelic rock

soul'n'roll

Punk Not Dead

klang klang klang // rock :: blues :: punk :: folk :: acoustic

exotica

Step Inside My Vortex

Sword Of Silence

Ulver Capitel I  I Troldskog Faren Vild

Al Lover returns with another epic mix for Levitation Austin 2014! 

Our 3rd annual SXSW blowout happens March 13 at Hotel Vegas! It's going to be incredible, don't miss it! Details here:

http://www.austinpsychfest.com/levitation-austin-lineup-announced/

Fat White Family - Cream Of The Young
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN - Crystal Fortress Over the Sea of Trees
Outer Minds - End Of The World
Young Magic - You With Air
The Blank Tapes - Holy Roller
Odonis Odonis - Better (Beta Frontiers Remix)
The Wytches - Beehive Queen
Vaadat Charigim - Odisea
No Joy - Second Spine
Mystic Braves - Oh So Fine
Holy Wave -  Night Tripper
GOASTT - Moth To A Flame
Jambinai - 잠비나이 - 나무의 대화 2
Black Lips - Boys In the Wood
Blouse - Eyesight
Golden Animals - Most My Time 
Temples - Test of Time
TEEN - Electric
September Girls - Heartbeats
Imarhan N'Tinezraf - Titre Edeslegh Imadjerad
Forest Swords - Thor's Stone
J.C. Satàn - Légion
Quilt - Arctic Shark
Spires - Candy Flip
Boogarins - Hoje Aprendi de Verdade
Entrance Band - Spider
Electric Eye - The Road
Al Lover - Black Photograph
La Luz - Pink Slime
Bo Ningen - Henkan

LEVITATION : AUSTIN 2014 - OFFICIAL MIXTAPE by Al Lover

Wovenwar "All Rise" from their self-titled debut album

Wovenwar "All Rise"

Split Single No. 4 in the Fuzz Club 10" split single series including Alan Vega and The Vacant Lots. 
Edition of 400. 300 on white vinyl / 100 on clear vinyl (exclusive to Fuzz Club Records)

FUZZ CLUB
Fuzz Club is an independent record label, online store and production company that focuses on experimental rock and roll, influenced by shoegaze, electronica, noise, garage, blues, folk and psychedelia.
Based in East London, Fuzz Club has gained a reputation for surfacing the best emerging talent from Europe and beyond, and releasing them on high end, limited edition vinyl pressings, alongside a roster of the best known names in the underground scene including Anton Newcombe, Goat, Alan Vega, The Black Angels, Dead Skeletons, A Place to Bury Strangers, The Telescopes, Sonic Jesus and The Underground Youth.
Established in rural Norway during the 24 hour darkness of the Arctic winter, Fuzz Club entered the scene in 2012 with their compilation The Reverb Conspiracy – made in collaboration with Austin Psych Fest – a now annual release capturing the essence of the underground scene as it is today.
Today Fuzz Club has around 20 artists and over 40 releases.

The Vacant Lots - Mad Mary Jones (Alternative Mix)

Re-recording of a Merrell Fankhauser & HMS Bounty tune. Recorded in Little Hartley/Surry Hills 2014. Mastered by Owen Penglis. 

Driving Sideways - HMS Bounty Sails Again 2014 Version

Another trip into my blatant disregard for genre pigeonholes with this remix for Heavenly Recordings. Best described as ESG meets The Beatles via DJ Pierre!

Temples - Shelter Song (Leftside Wobble Rocks The Discoteque Mix)

`CRYSTAL BONES ` is the new single by The Balcony Stars  download from BANDCAMP http://thebalconystars.bandcamp.com/track/crystal-bones

THE BALCONY STARS - CRYSTAL BONES

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01 Jackie Robinson  A Man Of Talent   A Man Of Courage

"Crazy For You" from Scars on 45's  full-length 'Safety In Numbers' Get the album now:
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iTunes

Scars on 45 - Crazy For You

We commissioned Al Lover  to create a mixtape for LEVITATION FRANCE. The 67 minute mix features a track from each artist announced on the 1st round of lineup confirmations. Stay tuned for the second round coming up soon! Al Lover will be DJing and playing a live set at the festival, coming up Sept 19 & 20 at Le Chabada in Angers, FR.

Tickets and info : http://www.levitation-france.com

TRACKLISTING

Woods - Tomorrow's Only Yesterday
Spindrift - The Legend of God's Gun
La Femme - La Femme
Al Lover - Stone Goat (Official Goat Remix)
Moon Duo - Seer
Aqua Nebula Oscillator  - Human Toad
Quilt - Mary Mountain
Zombie Zombie - Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free
Kadavar - Come Back Life
The Asteroid No. 4 - Back Of Your Mind
Loop - Black Sun
Christian Bland & The Revelators - The Last Summer
Eagles Gift - Supernatural NZ
The Goastt - Animals 
The Soft Moon - Breathe the Fire
POW! - 66
White Hills - Forever in Space (Enlightened)
Holy Wave  - Do You Feel It
Orval Carlos Sibelius - Asteroids
Amen Dunes - Lonely Richard​

LEVITATION FRANCE 2014 - official mixtape by Al Lover

This is the first track from the upcoming 12" Ep "Evil Doings Of An Evil Kind" out on Bad Afro records september 22nd. 
Pre-order starts september 1st at www.badafro.dk

Right Now Europe is experiencing a wave of political forces attempting to normalize fear, oppression and exclusion of people of other cultures, skin tone, sexual preference and in many cases other gender than their own. This band believes in equal right for everyone. 

Here They Come

My House

Van der Vous - La Fuga

King's Ransom - Shame

The Gun Club -  My Dreams

The Walkabouts -  Man From Reno

The Fuzztones ft.Ian Astbury -Down On The Steet (Stooges cover)

Мария Чайковская - В Комнате Цветных Пелерин

Bad Romance (Heavy Metal Radio Remix)

An annual tradition, the 1st official Levitation 2015 mixtape from world renowned San Francisco DJ and producer Al Lover has been released! 

Levitation 2015 will be held May 8-10 at Carson Creek Ranch in Austin, TX. Weekend passes, camping passes and rentals, and deluxe upgrades are on sale now!  https://austinpsychfest.frontgatetickets.com

TRACKLIST

Tame Impala - Elephant
Spiritualized - Run
Fuzz - HazeMaze
Thee Oh Sees - Penetrating Eye
The Sword - Freya
Eternal Tapestry - The Weird Stone
Primal Scream - Slip Inside This House
Spindrift - Space Vixens Theme
Mac Demarco - Salad Days
Melody's Echo Chamber - Shirim
The Soft Moon - Black
The Black Ryder - All That We See
Krakatau - Riddells Creek
Fat White Family - Touch the Leather Redux
The Blank Tapes - Coast to Coast
L.A. WITCH - Get Lost
Rose Windows - Wartime Lovers
Holy Wave - Star Stamp
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
Mystic Braves - Desert Island
The Myrrors - Mind's Eye
Earth - From The Zodiacal Light
White Fence - Like That
Las Robertas - Marlene
ZZZ's - Busy Bee
The Flaming Lips - Silver Trembling Hands
Night Beats - Satisfy Your Mind
Heaters - Solstice
Metz - Wet Blanket
A Place to Bury Strangers - Straight
Lightning Bolt - Dracula Mountain
Indian Jewelry - Oceans
Chui Wan - 啵儿啵儿 Berber
White Manna - Sweet Jesus
nothing - Get Well
Vaadat Charigim - Ze Beseder Lefahed
Black Angels - Molly Moves My Generation

LEVITATION 2015 - OFFICIAL MIXTAPE BY AL LOVER

InnerSpeaker

Expectation

Alter Ego

Дандаа би ганцаараа амьдрана гэж хэнд ч хэлээгүй
Дассан би чамд ганцхан даанч харин чи надаас холдсон
Өөрийгөө л зөвтгөх гээд чамайгаа буруутгаагүй
Өөдөөс минь гомдонгуйгээр ширтсэн чинь чиний зөв
Юу ч хэлэлгүй намайг орхисон

Дахилт: Хайрт минь уучлаач
Чи намайгаа ээж шиг минь ойлгоно
Даанч дээ бүгдийг мартлаа гэж үү
Би л ганцхан чамдаа хайртай
Чамайг хайрлана гэдгийг чи л мэднэ

Наддаа чи хайргүй гээд зүрх сэтгэлээ нуулаа
Анхны хайр ирсэн шигээ анир чимээгүй буцлаа гэж үү
Нулимастай нүдээр чи над руугаа гуниглан харсан
Бүгдийг тэр харцнаас чинь өөрийгөө олж мэдэрсэн
Үнэн хайрыг би ухаарсан

Дахилт: Хайрт минь уучлаач
Чи намайгаа ээж шиг минь ойлгоно
Даанч дээ бүгдийг мартлаа гэж үү
Би л ганцхан чамдаа хайртай
Чамайг хайрлана гэдгийг чи л мэднэ

Сонсооч чи
Хайрт минь

Харанга - Сонсооч Чи [Үгтэй]

Dig Al Lover's latest official mixtape for Levitation, happening May 8-10 in Austin, TX! This new mix features tracks from psych legends The 13th Floor Elevators and all the other new lineup additions from the 2nd round of confirmations + a track from shoegaze goddess Tamaryn, who has been added to the lineup today!

Lineups per day and single day tickets have been released for the fest, details here: http://www.austinpsychfest.com

TRACKLIST

The 13th Floor Elevators - Roller Coaster
DIIV - How Long Have You Known
Hundred Visions - I'm Inoculated
Los Mundos - Lentes Mágicos
Ringo Deathstarr - Rip
The Paperhead - Africa Avenue
Ryley Walker - The West Wind
The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger - Xanadu
Samsara Blues Experiment - Singata Mystic Queen
Mugstar - Beyond The Sun
Föllakzoid -Electric
This Will Destroy You - Killed The Lord, Left For The New World
HEALTH - We are Water
Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel - My Purple I
Tamaryn - The Garden
Mini Mansions - Any Emotions (ft. Brian Wilson)
Willie Thrasher - We Got to Take You Higher
S U R V I V E  - Hourglass
Fever The Ghost - Calico
Jeff Zeigler / Mary Lattimore Duo - The White Balloon
Gourishankar Karmakar & Indrajit Banerjee - Live Improvisation
Sungod - Shiftless en Nkawkaw

LEVITATION  2015 - Official Mix by Al Lover - Vol 2

Eventually

Enigma - Sadeness

Grandfather Clock

A Three-Legged Workhorse

Ahora O Jamás

Psicópata

I'm Lost In Translation

Produced by Casper & B / Big Drez 
Mixed by Casper & B / Big Drez
Mastered by Reuben Cohen

11/11/16

Lost In Translation

11 track live in a day session at Skinny Mammouth Studio's, Isle of Wight

Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown

From Cigarettes After Sex LP out now:
https://cigsaftersex.lnk.to/cas

website: http://www.cigarettesaftersex.com/

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Apocalypse

recorded December 2015 in Brooklyn, NY

Written by Greg Gonzalez
Greg Gonzalez - vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Phillp Tubbs - keyboards
Randy Miller - bass
Jacob Tomsky - drums

Recorded by Greg Gonzalez
Mixed by Rocky Gallo
Mastered by Greg Calbi

Cover photo by Ryan Zoghlin
Cover design by Randy Miller

Released on Partisan Records

Apocalypse

From the album, 'Let It Be A Dream'

Produced by Andy D Park 
Music by Silver Torches 
Lyrics by Erik Walters 
Engineered and mixed by Andy D Park 
Assistant engineering by Samuel Rossen 
Recorded at Studio X | Hall of Justice | The Biltmore in Seattle, WA 
Additional tracking at Bob Thiele's studio in Los Angeles, CA 
Mixed at Studio X 
Masted by Ed Brooks - Resonant Mastering

Publishing as administered by Rough Trade Songs (BMI)

Music by Walters / Park / Lane / Warman 
Lyrics by Erik Walters

Erik Walters - Vocals / Acoustic Guitars / Electric Guitars / Synth
Andy Park - Piano
Sean Lane - Drums / Percussion / Bike
Jonathan Warman - Bass / Electric Guitar

I wish I could heal 
All the pain in the world
The stitches are tearing    
One more crack and the dam will spill
I wish I could know 
Whenever the fever comes
Head cooked like an egg 
On the pavement 
In the blazing 
Arizona sun

If you leave before me	
Don’t you know 
I won’t be far behind
If you make your peace
Before me 
I won’t mind
Will you still decline
If I reach 
Out my hand 
To you

It’s hard to remember
How joy used to feel
Staring at the ceiling
Dreaming
Pretending
Happiness is real 
It’s all an illusion  
We’re made to kill and eat and fuck
There’s no heaven or hell waiting for us 
When we punch the clock

If you leave before me	
Don’t you know 
I won’t be far behind
If you make your peace
Before me 
I won’t mind
Will you still decline
If I reach 
Out my hand 
To you

If I Reach

Into the Wild

into the wild

Click for the new EP!

Spaceman

I want you, Lotte Kestner

Biography
THE ORIGINAL SANFTSPRECHER

Under duress from the USM (Unified Society of Milkmen), Joseph Daley, Blair Douglass, Paul Foreman and Nicholas Rocchio shut down their independent milk delivery service in 1929. A smattering of unsuccessful endeavors followed, until they discovered an undeniable chemistry blending finger-picked guitars with lutes and clarinets. Although initially less lucrative than the milk business, the quartet, who settled on the name Sanftsprecher (trans. “Soft Speaker”), were championed by Austria’s Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in 1932 and subsequently enjoyed a period of massive popularity in their newly-adopted home country. The band split following Dollfuss’s assassination in 1934. Their only official recording, the 78rpm single,“I’ll Tend Your Garden,” is highly sought after by record collectors. In 2008, enthusiasts of the band purchased sheet music for a number of unrecorded Sanftsprecher songs that were discovered in Rocchio’s safe deposit box in UniCredit Bankengruppe. Austria’s Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich has been recording interpretations of these songs and releasing them for the public’s listening pleasure. Separately, a ramshackle group of Chicago-based musicians has taken it upon themselves to perform and record these songs in a strikingly rudimentary manner with crude electric instruments, much to the dismay of purist fans who prefer the orchestral versions.

DOLLFUSS WRITES VORTROBOS

Prior to accepting the office of Chancellor of Austria, Englebert Dollfuss was a soldier with the Austro-Hungarian army, fighting on the Alpine Front in WWI. Although he was highly decorated and well-regarded, his time in the battlefield had a significant effect on his psyche. It did not help that his diminutive stature was the source of great amusement for his peers, who referred to him as "The Jockey." He grew insular and took to writing lengthy works of fiction, featuring eerie parallel realities inhabited by characters who were obviously based on himself. Although his writing skills were limited, the stories were detailed and engaging. These pieces of fiction inspired a large batch of songs written by Sanftsprecher between 1932 and 1933. It is believed that the members of Sanftsprecher were among a very small audience with whom Dolfuss shared the stories. The present-day Soft Speaker (Chicago) recorded a selection of these songs and has released them as this album, Vortrobos, which borrows it's title from one of Dolfuss's works. The cover art was created by Chicago-based painter, Jason Brammer, and is the artist’s interpretation of one of Dollfuss’s parallel realities.

Description
"The group mines the rich vein uncovered by the melodic adventurousness of pre-Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd and Neil Young's mid-'70s crunch." - Chicagoist

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SOFT SPEAKER