It’s getting difficult to keep up with all these CREEP remixes, since Brooklyn duo seems to really have a thing for remixing as well as having their own songs remixed. (And we seem to have a thing for them.) So what is it this time? Their latest single ‘Animals’, featuring Holly Miranda on vocals, gets a treatment from London duo Alpines. CREEP’s debut album is coming out sometime soon. The sooner the better.
CREEP – ANIMALS (ALPINES REMIX)
January 26th, 2012MIRACLES CLUB – I CAN’T HELP IT [VIDEO]
January 24th, 2012The Miracles Club stick to black-and-white imagery, pantomime and dancers in this new video for ‘I Can’t Help it’, a track originally released on Wurst‘s The Wurst Music Ever compilation. The clip was made as a part of Portland’s Experimental ½ Hour video series.
ECSTASY blawg.
WHITE CAR – GENEVIEVE
January 24th, 2012
‘Genevieve’ is a recent internet single from Chicago’s Elon Katz, better known as White Car. The song won’t be featured on his debut full-length Everyday Grace, which comes out February 28 via Hippos in Tanks. But ‘Now We Continue’, another White Car gem we’ve had stuck on repeat but haven’t posted for some reason (laziness??), will be on the record, as well as ‘She the Bodiless’. Watch the trailer for Everyday Grace.
White Car Net.
FATIMA AL QADIRI – HOW CAN I RESIST U [VIDEO]
January 19th, 2012In case you haven’t seen this already, you should definitely check out Fatima Al Qadiri‘s terrific new video for ‘How Can I Resist U’, taken from her latest EP. I just searched the blog for the also great ‘Vatican Vibes’ video only to find we never posted it?! Oh well, at least we haven’t forgotten to include Genre-Specific Xperience on our EPs of the year list. This video was made by Sophia Al-Maria, you’ll find more info if you click through to YouTube.
Fatima Al Qadiri’s website.
TONY COPS – UMBERTO
January 19th, 2012Last October Montréal’s 
Visage Musique label/collective introduced us to some fine minimal synth/disco artists with their free compilation Volume 1. Their first release this year is a four-track debut EP by an italo freak called Tony Cops. Eventide EP is out now, you can stream and buy it at Tony Cops’ Bandcamp.
Facebook Cops.
LIGHT ASYLUM – SKULL FUCT [VIDEO]
January 18th, 2012Got super lazy with posting lately, but there’s one thing that can always wake me up from a little blog hibernation. And that’s something new by Light Asylum! The duo has released a video for ‘Skull Fuct’, one of the songs from the good ol’ In Tension EP. Shot and directed by Emilxa Xuryłowicz and Cezary Zacharewicz, the video “contains flashing lights which may not be suitable for photosensitive epilepsy”. And c’mon y’all, it’s not all THAT scary and glaring? Anyway, it sure does work great with the song.
UPDATE: RCRD LBL just premiered a remix of Light Asylum’s ‘Shallow Tears’ by Berlin duo Kool Thing. And earlier today Dazed Digital premiered Kool Thing’s video for ‘Light Games’. We haven’t premiered anything.
Shallow Tears (Kool Thing remix)
Light Asylum official site.
LITANIC MASK – KABUKI
January 11th, 2012
When we *really* like a band, we can’t help but post about anything they do. So here’s a little update on our darlings Litanic Mask: Last week the Portland duo shared two new songs on their Soundcloud, along with a remix of ‘Virgin Spring’, one of our favorite songs of the past year. Stream the wonderful eight-and-a-half minutes long gem ‘Kabuki’ below and then click here and listen to ‘Grey Stones’ as well. Thank you.
Kabuki
TRUST – BULBFORM [VIDEO]
January 9th, 2012Watch the new TRUST video for their smash hit ‘Bulbform’. Originally released as a single in September, the song will also be featured on their upcoming Arts & Crafts debut full-length TRST, due out February 28th. Video directed and edited by Duncan Alexander Forbes.
TRUST.COM.
MKRNI – DEEP DREAMS
January 9th, 2012
We were first introduced to MKRNI via High Places’ guest mix. MKRNI are a “psyco electropical” trio based in Santiago, Chile. Last month they released a new album called Playa Futuro, a follow-up to their debut Jumper (which featured the incredibly catchy tune ‘Humedad‘). Stream the new album in its entirety on MKRNI’s Bandcamp.
Deep Dreams (feat. Nico “Chico” Demaske)
MKRNI FB.
TWIN-GEMZ – CAR WINDOWS [VIDEO]
January 6th, 2012This video is all over my Facebook feed… And since it’s pretty awesome, I thought I’d pass it on to the blogosphere! Twin-Gemz are a Brooklyn duo made up of Bunny Michael and Aqua Eyes aka A. Ibarreche. The video features their own art; directed and edited by Bunny Michael. Stream a few more gemz on their Soundcloud. Royal orphans in gay art war:
Tumblr-Gemz.
NC GUEST MIX#45: O F F Love
January 5th, 2012
Kinda got used to having other people (ie. artists we like) write for the blog. So we’re gonna start the year with yet another guest feature – a guest mix by o F F Love. (Apparently he will only make a mix for your site if it’s guest mix number 45.) Artwork used for cover was made by Aude Levere for “oFF is Loved” fan art project, featured in the video for ‘Close to U, I’m Not’. o F F Love’s debut album Probably Love is coming out in two weeks via M=Maximal.
The combination of mainstream hits, r’n'b, avant-pop and fragile vocals featured on the mix reflects his music pretty well. Also, it works great.
o F F is Love. This is mix is love? What Rihanna said:
o F F Love MY LOVE IS YOUR LOVE, YOUR LOVE IS MY LOVE
Tracklisting in a random order:
Palmistry, Backstreet Boys, Cyan Kid + Allie, Thom Yorke, Metallic Falcons, Panda Bear, o F F Love, Chris Brown, CocoRosie, Rihanna, Arthur Russell, Min Ronnersjö, pan pipe sound.
If you can guess the exact tracklist you’ll get, um… A mention on our profile on the social network of your choice. Whoa!
o N line Love.
BEST OF 2011: WATER BORDERS’ PICKS
December 31st, 2011
Water Borders‘ debut album made it in our top 10, and here are top 10 albums of the year from both members of the duo. Harbored Mantras is out now on Tri Angle.
Loric:
Pinch & Shackleton: S/T
Portable: Into Infinity
Blawan: What You Do With What You Have / everything else he did in 2011
Perc: Wicker & Steel
Peaking Lights: 936
Holy Other: With U
Andy Stott: Passed Me By / We Stay Together
Drake: Take Care
Byetone: Symeta
Chelsea Wolfe: Ἀποκάλυψις
Amitai:
Cindytalk: Hold Everything Dear
Julia Holter: Tragedy
Prizehog: Thought Nest
Ayshay: Warn U
Of The Wand & The Moon: The Lone Descent
Aelter: III
Planningtorock: W
Chelsea Wolfe: Ἀποκάλυψις
Leyland Kirby: Eager to Tear Apart the Stars
Gang Gang Dance: Eye Contact