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Hype Machine Favorites Vol. 4

Best of 2017

Let's see if we've managed to pick 10 tracks that last... the last two lists have both had a track pulled from SC, which explains why they are now only 9 tracks long. Anyway, some Post Rock to open this week, courtesy of Ranges. If I was being a smartarse, I'd have started with Sunflower Bean (Rock) then Public Access TV (Alternative Rock) and *then* Post Rock! Lydian Collective, who sound a bit like Pentangle, then lead us to African grooves courtesy of Boy Azooga (shades of William Onyeabor) and the excellent Hamad Kalkaba who provides the bridge to this week's dance interlude courtesy of Champion (remixed by Four Tet), Arkajo, and Grant. Then it's back into rock territory before winding up (down?) with some ambient post classical sounds from Sebastian Reynolds. Track of the week? Another very tough one: the Boy Azooga track is very good, as is the Lydian Collective one, but by a very very small margin Hamad Kalkaba's "Astadjam Dad Sare" (from the latest excellent compilation from Analog Africa is the winner.

Nov 03 - Nov 09 2017

Favorites

(Youtube video for Young at Heart:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBRxG7HHFeM)

Young At Heart, due 3 March 2014 on limited cassette and digital release from Howling Owl Records (http://howlingowlrecords.bigcartel.com/product/howl029-towns-young-at-heart-cassette-presale), will be the first single to be released from TOWNS' debut album 'Get By' due May 2014.

Childhood friends TOWNS create a spaced out suburban escapism that combines the experimental guitar sounds and DIY aesthetics of psych and shoegaze with the melodies of 60s and 90s guitar pop. Seeing the excitement of rock’n’roll as a way to escape the everyday humdrum of growing up in Weston-super-Mare, they believe in the beauty, glamour and power of ‘proper’ pop music.

TOWNS contrast kitchen sink lyrics, attractive melodies and dreamy guitars with feedback, driving bass-lines and baggy beats. The band have already made waves with previous single releases, scooping up single of the month from ARTROCKER before being nominated as their new band of the year, crashing THE GUARDIAN and XFM playlists with ‘Just Everything’, exciting Zane Lowe to declare his love for ‘Gone Are The Days’ live on air, while NME predicted that their 'new band of the year' ‘are about to cover themselves in glory’ after a typically exciting live show.

Young At Heart, as with the album, was recorded and mastered with the help of fellow Howling Owl Records label mates Dom Mitchison (Velcro Hooks), Hugo Bishop (Oliver Wilde) and Olive Wilde at their recently opened Malthouse Studios.

TOWNS have nurtured their sound amongst like-minded people in Bristol, to create an underground of DIY guitar noise, warehouse parties and good times where there are no rules and anything goes as every show finishes in a flurry of chaotic scenes and stage invasions. Catch them live here:


07 Feb - Bristol Live Magazine 2 Year Party at Start The Bus, Bristol
08 Feb - Antidotes Night Club, Old Blue Last, London (Free Entry)
14 Feb - Talking Heads, Southampton (w/ The Twang)
15 Feb - The Fleece, Bristol (w/ The Twang)
16 Feb - O2 Academy, Liverpool (w/ The Twang)
19 Feb - The Ruby Lounge, Manchester (w/ The Twang)
20 Feb - O2 Academy 2, Newcastle (w/ The Twang)
21 Feb - O2 ABC 2, Glasgow (w/ The Twang)
23 Feb - The Lexington, London (w/ The Telescopes)
25 Feb - The Duchess, York (w/ The Twang)
27 Feb - The Cockpit, Leeds (w/ The Twang)

07 Mar - The Grapes, Falmouth (w/ The Black Tambourines)
18 Mar - The Nest, Bath
19 Mar - Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
20 Mar - The Louisiana, Bristol
21 Mar - Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham
26 Mar - Carpe Diem - Leeds
27 Mar - The Horn, Saint Albans
28 Mar – This Feeling at Purple Turtle, London
29 Mar - Club 85, Hitchin

10 May - Lennons, Southampton
15 May - Moles, Bath
21 May - Old Blue Last, London
23 May - Zephyr Lounge, Leamington Spa

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Young At Heart

SIGN ON

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Sign On

iTunes

SIGN ON

Download ‘Sucker’ on iTunes: http://po.st/TheBigMoonDL
Listen to The Big Moon on Spotify: http://po.st/TheBigMoonSP

Written and Produced by The Big Moon
Mixed by Ben Baptie

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Sucker

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The Road

The Frights - You Are Going To Hate OUT NOW on Dangerbird Records.

You Are Going To Hate This

Kids

The Frights - Kids

7" Single out now on Thrill Me Records.

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Your Old Man

A Bit Out Of Time

Head On To Nowhere

Ny EP på vei. | www.facebook.com/verdensrommetno/ | Cover: Emir | Foto: Mrt Eed

lyrics:

jeg ville lagt det bak meg
kan du legge det bak deg
jeg har lagt det bak meg
folk ler ikke av deg
de ler av meg

(de tingene der)
de tingene jeg kjenner nå
så blass og rå, kjenn til meg nå 
du klarer ikke engang å stå, jeg har et punkt hvor tingen slår
hvor tingen slår
(gjør det for lett å forlate)
(du bare gjør det for lett å forlate)
hvor tingen slår

jeg har tenkt på en annen 
jeg lover, jeg har tenkt på en annen
for jeg har tenkt på en annen
jeg har tenkt på en annen [x 4]
han har tenkt på en annen [x 5]

skulle gjerne gitt deg alt, men har ingenting å gi
du har dessverre blitt en kjerring som jeg holder litt på si
prøver å være ærlig, men det ender bare kjipt
for den tingen som vi hadde var ikke ment for å bli
for du vet hva du gikk til
du kan bli med, bare litt til
for du vet hva du gikk til
du kan bli med, bare litt til
for du trodde på det selv når du sa det
at det ikke var noe mer enn en fase
og du drøyer det hver gang vi skal si hade
men jeg vil ikke være kjip når jeg drar vekk, nei
vil ikke være kjip når jeg drar vekk
men du gjør det for lett å forlate
gjør det for lett å forlate
du bare gjør det for lett å forlate

jeg har tenkt på en annen [x 12]

hold rundt meg, for jeg har holdt rundt deg
du har et grep rundt meg

Aldri igjen (med Onge $ushimane)

Visible Cloaks - Terrazzo (Ft. Motion Graphics)

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Video by Brenna Murphy. From Reassemblage
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Visible Cloaks - Terrazzo (ft. Motion Graphics)

This is the first single from Julia Lucille's new album Chthonic coming out April 7, 2017 via Keeled Scales on LP/CD/CS & digital release.

Chthonic

Julia Lucille "I Don't Think I Can"

“In protest of the current inhumane political climate, I could not rest my head in privilege. I wrote 'Bebin' in Farsi, to solidify. I stand strong with love. In this case I choose to avoid mainstream media, because I have no interest in part taking in a victimized concept. As I will not be able to travel to the United States for indefinite duration, take this without lights, camera, action. I am solely a messenger. In the brain of love, there is no place for racism, nor bigotry.” -Sevdaliza

Donate by purchasing via bandcamp. All donations will be immediately transferred towards funds supporting victims of racial exclusion.

Lyrics:
This feeling 
Makes you feel grande 
Yet this same feeling 
Makes me feel small 
Don't oblige me what to feel 
If I don't feel it at all 
You ask me how I feel 
Yet close your eyes 
To truth be told 
Behold.. 

Whatever it is you demand of me 
My love for this world 
My love personally 
Is larger than life 
This is my story


Written and Composed by Sevdaliza 
Produced by Mucky & Sevdaliza 
Strings by Mihai Puscoiu 
Mixed & Mastered By Mucky & Sevdaliza

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BEBIN

Dark Red

Out now on !K7 (vinyl, digital)
Order Link: https://K7.lnk.to/ForYouKozeRMXFP

Tracklisting: 

01 Michael Mayer & Joe Goddard - For You (DJ Koze Club Mix)
02 Michael Mayer & Joe Goddard - For You (DJ Koze Club Instrumental) (DIGITAL ONLY)
03 Michael Mayer & Joe Goddard - For You (DJ Koze Mbira Mix)
04 Michael Mayer & Joe Goddard - For You (DJ Koze Mbira Instrumental)

For You - DJ Koze Remixes

Michael Mayer & Joe Goddard "For You (DJ Koze Mbira Mix)"

Thirty One

Physical Albums and Merchandise (2XLP Vinyl, CDs, Apparel):

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RANGES Website - www.rangesmusic.com

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C. Blessum // J. Caldwell // J. Gabriel // M. Levy

Produced by RANGES // Recorded and Mixed by C. Blessum at The Low Country // Mastered by Emily Lazar at The Lodge, NY.

Art Direction by L U X I N V I C T U S // Released by A Thousand Arms Music (US) and dunk!records (EU) //  Copyright MMXVII

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The Ascensionist

I remember the day clearly. I was searching for treasures in a record shop in Yaoundé, the Capital city of Cameroon, when suddenly I came across a 7-inch record with a picture of a young man wearing a traditional hat and bearing the marks of several imposing vertical scars on the side of his face, carved when he was just a boy as a reminder of his heritage in the Musgum tribe of the northern part of the country.

The record contained two songs – ‘Gandjal Kessoum’ and ‘Touflé’ – by an artist I had never heard of before named Hamad Kalkaba. Both cuts were raw classics of fuzzed-out bass, pin-sharp horns, built upon the unshakable foundation of Northern Cameroon’s mightiest rhythm: the Gandjal. The shop owner - who noticed that I was listening to the same record over and over again - mentioned that ‘There is another single with a green cover of the same artist, if I am not mistaken’.

Over the next six years I searched for that ‘green cover’ and finally found it in a record collection belonging to an old bar in Parakou in northern Benin. While most of the records had been beaten and worn by a life spent in the jukebox, this one had been sitting in its paper sleeve for forty years, untouched and unplayed, seemingly waiting for us to pick it up and rip the two soulful Gandjal tunes from it, the masterpieces ‘Fouh Sei Allah’ and ‘Tchakoulaté’.

These two records, plus a third simply named ‘Nord Cameroon Rythms’ constitute the entire discography of Hamad Kalkaba. Neglected for decades by all but the most devoted collectors of Afro music, Hamad Kalkaba and the Golden Sounds at long last gathers together the body of work of one of Cameroon’s forgotten geniuses.

But unlike many musicians who emerged from nowhere, recorded a few singles and vanished again, Kalkaba hadn’t disappeared. Far from it. He was a distinguished public figure, a retired Colonel in the army of Cameroon, and a former member of Cameroon’s Olympic Selection Committee. When we tracked him down he was serving as president of the Confederation of African Athletics. And Although Kalkaba’s job kept him busy, and he seemed initially dismissive of the music he’d made as a young man, he turned out to be an enthusiastic ally in this project. He arranged interviews, helped fill in the blanks and, when we finally met him in Yaoundé in 2016, provided us with photographs, lyric sheets and notes.

During the interview Kalkaba explained how the songs recorded in the mid 1970s were part of a movement, a movement initiated by musicians from all around Cameroon who, with the help of keyboards, drum kits and electric guitars, had started to modernise the traditional rhythms of their regions. For Kalkaba it was no different and backed by his band the Golden Sounds, devoted himself to the promotion of the sounds of northern Cameroon.

One of the aims of Analog Africa is to showcase the colourful diversity of styles that exist in Africa and its diaspora and today we are very proud to be able to give these Gandjal tunes their first worldwide release.

Hamad Kalkaba and the Golden Sounds 1974 - 1975

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Hamad Kalkaba - Astadjam Dada Saré(Leave a comment, tell kalkaba how much you love his song!)

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I Was A Fool

Face Behind Her Cigarette

Available here https://championdj.bandcamp.com/

Champion - World Ft. Four Tet

new song with lovely @winstonsurfshirt, hope y'all enjoy it kinda our new favourite song by us 💕

dl/stream ~ http://smarturl.it/CM.GetToKnow

Get To Know (feat. Winston Surfshirt)

Swangin'

written by ashley koett
prod by ashley koett and rex roemer
additional guitar by doba
mastered by michael stein

lover

http://www.thefader.com/2018/03/05/yoshi-flower-movies

I Will Not Let My Love Go To Waste

Movies

thank you to @sofidelatorre and @imadroyal for making this one with me....hope yall fuck with it
🌹💀

lyrics:
if u jump then i jump to
so high what a dope view
no byes cuz i'm  goin where ya goin
no byes yeah i'm going where ya
and i hope i never have to say
that i'm missing you baby
cuz if i'm dreaming dreamin let me sleep
as close to heaven as i'll ever be

if u jump then i jump to
so high what a dope view
don't cry cuz i'm goin where ya goin
no byes yeah i'm  goin where ya goin
if u jump then i jump to
so high what a dope view
don't cry cuz i'm goin where ya goin
no byes yeah i'm  goin where ya goin

if u jump then i jump too
so i don't gotta say i love you
cuz it shows when i hold you
go head and fly baby i'm here beside you
sky high that's a nice view
you called and i came thru
this is how i say i love you
go head and fly baby i'm here beside you

if u jump then i jump to
so high what a dope view
don't cry cuz i'm goin where ya goin
no byes yeah i'm  goin where ya goin

if u jump then i jump to
so high what a dope view
don't cry cuz i'm goin where ya goin
no byes yeah i'm  goin where ya goin