Name: RAYS "Theatre Of Lunacy" (Trouble In Mind Records) by TroubleInMind in My best songs 2017
Duration: 2 min 8 s
Description: From their "s/t" debut album, out March 31st, 2017 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

My best songs 2017

GROUNDERS' new album will be available May 12 in North America, July in UK/EU. Tour dates coming soon!

“Where do you go? Waiting around, where do you go from here?” wonders the chorus of “Secret Friend,” the first single from GROUNDERS’ debut self-titled LP.

With a dreamy, reverb-drenched intro, the song drifts alongside layers of wobbly arpeggiated synth lines and space-age guitar melodies. It’s the opening track, and it’s also a fitting intro to GROUNDERS. It shimmers and gleams, but there’s a scrappy, stripped-back undertone that chips away at any polish. For every catchy hook and lush arrangement throughout the album there’s a woozy counterpoint that keeps things slightly off-kilter.

Where do you go from here? Into the weird and wonderful pop world of GROUNDERS.

This spring, the Toronto-based band – Andrew Davis (vocals and guitar), Daniel Busheikin (keyboards), Mike Searle (Bass) and Evan Lewis (guitar) – will release their first full-length album, a collection of dense and intricate pop music under the gauzy veil of krautrock and psychedelia. In the time between releasing the Wreck of a Smile EP in 2013 and laying demos for their debut album, GROUNDERS rediscovered their love for classic pop music, an appreciation that had waned over the years as they became obsessed with circumventing the conventional. They listened to pop staples like David Bowie and Devo, and revisited old favourites like Velvet Underground, Neu and the Zombies. When GROUNDERS finally came up for air, they had a newfound love for pop and a glut of ideas for a debut LP.

Meanwhile, Meditation for Dummies and David Lynch’s self-help guide Catching the Big Fish, on transcendental meditation and the creative process, were passed around the van while touring through North America. As Davis’s interest in meditation increased, his lyrics began to reflect his search for serenity and inner peace.

The album came to life in two distinct spaces: Davis’s bedroom in Toronto’s sleepy High Park neighbourhood; and a spacious two-car garage packed with vintage gear from various pawn shops and second-hand stores across the country.

After recruiting DIANA’s Kieran Adams to handle drums, the band headed into the studio with longtime pal Marcel Ramagnano (Born Ruffians, Absolutely Free) to record. Months of tracking, tinkering and layering later, GROUNDERS enlisted the incomparable David Newfeld (Broken Social Scene, Holy Fuck) to give each song the bombastic, fried analog treatment he’s become known for.

First single "Secret Friend" sounds like a bleached and sunbaked Zombies; “Vyvanse,” which yes, is named after the ADHD drug, contains a lilting guitar riff that’ll break your heart; “Pull It Over Me” careens into the dreamy ether courtesy of a wistful cyclical guitar that’s the epitome of a lazy summer’s day; “No Ringer” is a wobbly Silver Apples trance doused in a saxophone freak-out; "Fool's Banquet" sparkles like early Broadcast flooded by constant glistening waves of pleasure. After cross-country tours, an acclaimed debut EP and a David Lynch-inspired spiritual journey, GROUNDERS have finally come of age.

GROUNDERS - No Ringer

2nd single & the closing track of the upcoming debut album 'THE SOUNDTRACK'

BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA

Promesas oscuras (Under a dark light mix)

En el silencio de la noche profunda,
Las promesas oscuras despliegan la duda,
Como susurros de un secreto oculto,
Que en el alma se abre sin rumbo.

En la penumbra de promesas oscuras,
Se teje un manto de misterio y dudas,
Donde palabras ocultan verdades,
Y las promesas son sombras errantes.
Prometen luces dentro de la negrura,
Sus destellos son solo impostura,
Engañan y siembran siempre la duda,
Y detrás de ellas se esconde amargura.

Las promesas oscuras son laberintos,
Marcan el rumbo de nuestros instintos,
Nos atrapan en redes, nos hacen creer,
Que encontraremos lo que deseamos tener.

En la penumbra de promesas oscuras,
Se teje un manto de misterio y dudas,
Donde palabras ocultan verdades,
Y las promesas son sombras errantes.
Prometen luces dentro de la negrura,
Sus destellos son solo impostura,
Engañan y siembran siempre la duda,
Y detrás de ellas se esconde amargura.

Al final del camino solo hallamos vacío,
Las promesas oscuras son un cruel desafio,
Nos dejan solos y abandonados,
Corazones heridos y sueños destrozados.

En la penumbra de promesas oscuras,
Se teje un manto de misterio y dudas,
Donde palabras ocultan verdades,
Y las promesas son sombras errantes.
Prometen luces dentro de la negrura,
Sus destellos son solo impostura,
Engañan y siembran siempre la duda,
Y detrás de ellas se esconde amargura.

Promesas Oscuras

Opening track from Jonas Munk's "Pan" album, released in 2012. The album is being reissued on vinyl March 2nd, 2015!

Orders from www.elparaisorecords.com include downloadcard and artprint.

Preorder: http://www.elparaisorecords.com/content/jonas-munk-pan-lp

Bundle (including Jonas Munk's new record + two artprints): 
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"Pan simultaneously betrays Jonas Munk's connections to the European stoner-rock community and the world of electronic ambient music – this album combines ideas from both worlds, while the result really doesn't belong in neither of them. With Pan's motoric analog synthesizer patterns and its warm, fuzzy drones the influence from 1970's German synthesizer- and new age music, such as early Kraftwerk, Ashra and Popol Vuh, is apparent from the first note. But there's also definite traits of American styles running through this album – from the flowing optimism of Alice Coltrane and Terry Riley to the modern-day psychedelia of Comets on Fire and Bardo Pond. 

While large parts of Pan has been programmed on electronic equipment there's a jam-like quality emanating from album's seven tracks. The album reflects the idea of giving up rationality and control with the purpose of letting the music flow towards it own ends. The compositional ideas are incredibly simple while still carrying a certain depth. Soundwise Pan is all about analog machines, 30+ year old synthesizers, detuned guitars and heavily cranked vacuum tube amplifiers weaving together in fuzzy, pulsating glory."



Jonas Munk: "Orca"

from the nextcoming S/T album on Desire Records

featuring Oksana Xiu on voice

Newclear Waves - Tishina

Neón is a 5-track remix EP by the duo Utopyk & El Fulminador, founders of Fulmen Records. The release features 3 alternate versions by El Fulminador and a remix signed by Fulmen’s techno specialist Sacv. With the original version being part of the album 2011, released on Fulmen Records back in 2016, the Neón remixes create a journey that goes from 80s influenced, uplifting pop to breakbeat and techno at 145 BPM.  
The release exudes the freedom of endless summer nights on the streets of Berlin, long, drunk walks along Miami’s Ocean Drive and the glamour of seductive afternoons at a vacation resort in Tenerife. It talks about quintessential nihilism after years searching for ecstasy in nocturnal landscapes, using an irresistible rhythm to convey its fresh message, amidst captivating chords and atmospheres. 
The Streets Mix, first alternate version by El Fulminador, takes the song from a concert stage to the dancefloor. It uses the original instrumentation to develop a dub mix with an adaptation of the song lyrics into Spanish, evolving in waves like a fractal mamushka. It takes the most addictive elements from the original and combines them with darker sounds reminiscent of 80s extended jams. Narcotic.

🛒: https://fulmenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ne-n
youtube: https://youtu.be/lP1YRcShE20
https://soundcloud.com/utopykelfulminador
https://soundcloud.com/fulmen-records

PREMIERE | Utopyk & Fulminador - Neon (Streets Mix)

Fate

My remix of Neila Invo's "B.P.D." single from 2024. Remixed and mixed at Aeterna, NYC.

Available for download: 11 May, 2024 at: 
https://neilainvo.bandcamp.com/music

Also available on all other major download and streaming platforms.

Bandcamp

Neila Invo - Bastards Portraits Of Demons (Cage Remix)

SW014 - BOSS - Mr Dan's I'm Dub With That

Recorded with Andrija Tokic at The Bomb Shelter in January 2016.  Mastered by John Baldwin in March 2016.  

Sometimes (single)

Sometimes

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1st single off "Just For Fools" the brand new full length available December 16th on LP, Cassette and iTunes!  Pre-order at urinalcakerecords.com!

Rebel Kind- Kiss You

The second single from Tim Cohen's first solo album for Sinderlyn, Luck Man, out January 20th, 2017.

Pre-Order Physical here: bit.ly/2g9xSH7
Pre-Order Digital here: apple.co/2g9uw7d

Luck Man

Tim Cohen - Meat Is Murder

Album title track "Just For Fools" off the brand new full length from Rebel Kind available December 16th on LP, Cassette and iTunes! Pre-order now at urinalcakerecords.com!

Rebel Kind- Just For Fools

From their "s/t" debut album, out March 31st, 2017 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

RAYS  "Theatre Of Lunacy" (Trouble In Mind Records)

Goth-ful electro by the illustrious Dmitry Distant in trouble up by notorious vocalist & electro producerette Beta Evers. Comes with a rad Cestrian remix on the flip!

BAL004A Dmitry Distant - Delirious Pains (ft. Beta Evers)

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