2010, Royal Rhino Flying RecordsVisions of Trees are a two-piece from London who make fine dreamy electronic pop with tribal beats. Their debut EP Sometimes It Kills is out now on Royal Rhino Flying Records, order it here. Here’s a track from the EP and another track we like even better.
Visions of Myspace.
CREEP are Lauren Flax and Lauren Dillard (not the Romanian Hardcore DJ and not the ladies from Telepathe either, lol). As LivingEars reports, another new song featuring Romy of The xx on vocals should be up on their Myspace in the coming weeks. Also, look out for a spring release on the hot new label Tri Angle Records. Until then, grab these two remixes and stream one original song. Some hot shittt.
Baghdaddy – Hot Shit (CREEP remix)
Wetdog – Lower Leg (CREEP remix)
Jessica King
CREEPspace.
2010, Captured TracksNew Blank Dogs EP is called Phrases and is due out March 23rd on Captured Tracks. These tracks won’t be on the upcoming full-length, which should be out in June.
Stream ‘End of Summer’ on Blank Dogs’ Myspace. Sounds like the end of the summer.
MP3: Maybes
UPDATE: Here’s a new track by James Blake, ‘The Bells Sketch’.
Myspaces – Mount Kimbie / James Blake.
Fred Thomas of City Center made a very special mixtape for our Guest Mix series.
“This is a mix of songs culled strictly from cassettes I’ve been given or found on tour, traded with bands we played with or are friends with, or otherwise randomly came across over the last dozen years.” Pretty noisy and pretty fun. Plus, gotta love those jazz wolfs at the end!
01. Daytime Television – I Understand
Our friend Jono’s new project, a totally blown out, internet-drenched one-man band. Heavy spiritual secret handshake kind of vibes, this song is from his tape on Green, released early 2010. I think this is the only non-blog release for DTTV, but it’s hard to keep track.
02. Rainbro – Reindeer Dance
In September of 2008, before Ryan had joined the band, City Center and Silk Flowers did a weekend tour of the east coast that was completely amazing. Our show in Providence was at this really nice and motivated kid Ben Fino-Radin’s house. His project Rainbro played, and he gave me this cassette and a hand-knit coaster that was an orange and bright green peace sign. He’s since moved on to different bands and cities, I think, but this tape was astonishing as was his show in the basement of his house.
03. Dreamers Cloth – Marble Halls (excerpt)
My friend Matt gave me this tape at South By Southwest two years ago, saying it was him and a friend. I think he gave me the wrong tape or something, cause a little bit of research has told me that he certainly doesn’t play anywhere on it. I couldn’t even figure out who the band was for a long time, but it sounds really nice.
04. Harry Pussy – Sex Problem (live in Ypsilanti, April 1998)
I recorded this show on a little hand-held tape player at the long-defunct all ages space The Green Room. Harry Pussy played there a few times, and once or twice at Zoot’s in Detroit. I really don’t know if more legitimately terrifying music than this has ever been made.
05. Jean Street excerpts from Chain Fight II cassette.
A pretty radical solo effort from Nate Young of Mini-Systems/Wolf Eyes released on American Tapes circa 2000. My tape was number 5 of 19. These two songs walk a lot of lines, still sound pretty hectic and troubled ten years later.
06. Tyvek – Pricks in a Car
From a tape of demos released last year on Fag Tapes.
07. Ryan Howard – Untitled
I found this tape of stuff Ryan did before he joined City Center in his car when we were touring and I jacked it for just this purpose!!! Seriously 90 minutes of weird Cluster/Eno style jams butted up against fake Strokes/Spoon workouts (??!!) make me love this man even more.
08. The Smiths – Boy with a Thorn in His Side
Live version from the “Rank” cassette I’ve had since I was 13.
09. Jeffery William Thomas – Slip Into The Time Crawlers Club
Part of Detroit’s incredible band Gardens, Jeffery made a sweet tape of all sorts of jams he’s been working on with friends and alone over the last five years. This is one of the spoken-word kinda moments.
10. Aran Ruth – The Dark Lord
A self-released cassingle from Aran, seriously making some of the most gorgeous haunted elegance right now. This is a cover, which rules, but her original compositions are amazing tops of pyramids sinking into infinity.
11. Deathwish – Untitled
12. Strangebrew – excerpt from Daddy Issue cassette
Two new Ypsi jams on my friend Thom’s label Pleasuredome tapez. I like them both so much for opposite reasons. Deathwish keeps things moving and never stays on one idea too long. Strangebrew exhibits patience and concentration beyond regular focus, deep into some death-lock stare.
13. Peoples Coke – Overdose
Another Green Records & Tapes production, from Green mainman Knox Mitchell. This is sweet synth-congestion of the highest caliber.
14. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Taste The Pain
From the “Say Anything” soundtrack cassette, procured from a thrift store this weekend. I sincerely, non-ironically love this song, which is why I put it on here, but I will admit that the full 5 1/2 minute version gets a little tedious. So, I did an edit for this mix as not to get things too boring/perma-90′s.
15. Jerry Garcia Band or Grateful Dead – Positively Fourth Street
No clue what’s on this live audience tape, which was only labeled “The Dead”. I found it at The Thing in Greenpoint, a tiny little thrift-store/junk shop with so many records in the basement that people wear face masks and sort through the black-molded 12″s for hours looking for a prize. Two completely un-informed Grateful Dead-related tapes and a bunch of anonymous photos are the only things I’ve ever had the patience to buy there.
16. excerpt from Jazz Wolf cassette
My mom got me this tape for Christmas in 1999 and I’ve held onto it ever since. It’s basically the synthesized, fake sound of fake wolves howling over some studio musicians’ jazzy-jazz compositions. It was a pretty amazing gift, and I hope you get even some of what I’ve gotten out of it over the years.
City Center’s new Cops Don’t Care 7″ is out now on M’Lady’s Records. They’ll be doing a lot of touring this spring, and are completing their second album. Yay! City Center blog / Myspace.
Light Asylum is Shannon Funchess and Bruno Coviello. You should already be familiar with Funchess’ powerful voice as she has provided vocals for the likes of !!!, Telepathe and TV on the Radio. Download two dark new wave gems below and stream a few more (‘Dark Allies’!) at their Myspace. Light Asylum = awesome. Can’t wait for a proper release. UPDATE: Got some more mp3s.
Knights and Week-Ends [via]
Shallow Tears
A Certain Person
Dark Allies (Live at Wierd Party 9.9.9.)
Light Asylum @ Myspace.
That video for ‘Mirror Rim’ was pretty cool too.
Effi Briest Myspace.
2010, Young Turks‘Tremel’ is an old Glasser song now getting an official release on Young Turks in late March. The single features remixes by Jamie of The xx, Romantic Three and Astronomer. Grab the new mix of ‘Tremel’ below, as well as that exquisite Lemonade collab we mentioned yesterday. And speaking of The Subliminal Kid, he’ll apparently be a part of her backing band on the upcoming UK tour. (Hah, this post makes for a nice connection between the previous two.)
Tremel is due out March 29th, pre-order it here.
Tremel [via]
Lemonade & Glasser – C-Thru
Glasser’s Myspace.
2010, Digitalis RecordingsRoll The Dice is a collaboration between film composer Malcolm Pardon and producer Peder Mannerfelt, better known as The Subliminal Kid. The duo used only synths and piano on the entire record, creating dark atmospheric instrumentals. And you can totally tell that Mannerfelt worked with Fever Ray on her magnificent self-titled debut. Need I say more?
Get Roll The Dice here.
‘The New Black’ video by the photographer/film duo Frode & Marcus:
Roll The Dice on Myspace.
NME recently posted a mix by Dean Bein from True Panther Sounds. Some of the tracks he shared are exclusive. There’s a Teengirl Fantasy live track, Lemonade & Glasser collaboration, Glasser remixed by Tanlines, Lemonade remixed by These Are Powers‘ Brenmar, Janka Nabay and Magic Kids songs… Oh, and a track by a certain band named Girls (?).Lemonade & Glasser – C-Thru
Teengirl Fantasy – Floor to Floor (Live on WFMU)
Lemonade – Lifted (Brenmar remix)
True Panther Sounds @ Myspace.
Got this in our inbox a few weeks ago (yeah sometimes we’re slow on submissions). That gave Brooklyn’s Psychobuildings enough time to put out another great song and evolve from Peter LaBier’s solo project to a trio that includes Peter Schuette of Silk Flowers and Juan Pieczanski of Small Black. Their music is pretty new wavey, something like a modern Talking Heads with more of a focus on electronics.Psychobuildings’ Myspace.