White Fold
What started as a mix tape trading relationship between, Cory Thomas Hanson and Jesse Hlebo quickly morphed into an intricate aural and visual project that gave birth to White Fold. Hanson is better known as W-H-I-T-E and Hlebo via Swill Children. The two collaborated throughout the summer of 2011 to produce the material on the...
Cymbals – Good Luck (D/R/U/G/S Singularity Remix)
Remember the first time I talked about D/R/U/G/S? They make everything sound good. From original electronic mutations to remixes, these 2 cats make trippy, spaced out auralgasms out of anything they can lay their hands on. This version of Cymbals‘ track Good Luck is no exception – it begins with synthesized loops and a steady...
Hounds of Hate
I’m actually quite liking this genre of lo-fi electronic spasms. The Fuck Buttons namedrop has gotta happen somehow, (Holy Fuck? D/R/U/G/S?) usually much later, but I cannot be arsed with foreplay at the minute. Hounds of Hate is basically an attempt to “recreate exact sounds and recording techniques” of the early 90s, the generation of...
Crystal Fighters vs D/R/U/G/S
Yes baby. More D/R/U/G/S please. First broke their story on this blog 3 months ago. Looks like they’ve done another sweet remix. Stopping just short of 6mins, they’ve totally epic-ised Crystal Fighter‘s new single Follow. It’s dance but its kinda not: bright trance synths, booming drumkick, chopped up vox looping, detached at first and then...
Andre Obin – Front Runner
So it’s getting colder. And you cannot wear your loafers without socks now to be practical. You cannot listen to surf / chillwave without realizing the novelty has passed. So you despair. I have always mentioned quite a few times here I can’t wait for this whole chillwave trend to either die or progress into...
Raw Moans
Raw Moans, as a form of medication. Let go, space and epiphany. I wanna be sedated. Joseph Vorachack is certainly not emo, and although you may shelf him with the rest of the tender surf pop sounds that is flooding the scene, I feel his slo-fi possess a certain amount of zest, a childlike innocence...
D/R/U/G/S
D/R/U/G/S. The sound of too many pills slaughtering your high, the beat of circling lights and broken machines, skipping discs. Errors. Here, this is the formulation of a plan, dischord turning into dance turning into disorder. Rewind, the VHS hiss, can we not or can we dance to this. Textured percussions, filtered trance, butchered IDM...
Wavves at Primavera
Wavves, Primavera: I Dont Like The Drugs But The Drugs Like Me [image taken from the tripwire.com] Continuing our current trending topic of over-hyped bands and their shenanigans, we now hear that Wavves, that Pitchfork-endorsed California lo-fi noise bedroom outfit totally fucked up, BIG TIME at Primavera. [Watch Video Clip] Nathan Williams, admitted to taking...
