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...
Ranvir Bassi
Ranvir Bassi considers his music a rebellion against fidelity, the same fidelity that he considered himself to be a slave to. Perhaps we’re speaking the same language because I feel the same way. This struggle to constantly achieve, fit the mould, keep to the same cloth you were cut from, blindfold yourself and keep to...
Crystal Fighters – Plage (Lapalux Remix)
Crystal Fighters got the Lapalux treatment via this insanely amazing remix of their track Plage. It’s the kind of woozy, ambient beat music style like Gold Panda or Dam Mantle. Psychadelic, random, experimental but a treat to the ears because of the so many layers of sound textures and samples. There are folks who might...
Old Arc
These guys are going to gain a cult following soon, mark my words. Old Arc are 2 guys from Santa Cruz, California doing some crazy weird beat funk thing, heavily sampled and exploding with synthwave color. It’s complicated pop, saturated in delirious psychadelia and 80s day time television haze, it’s satisfying and it is going...
K-X-P
Ya’ll are probably not in the mood for this but I don’t care. Hotly tipped krautrock band, K-X-P is apparently playing at The Brudenell Social Club in Leeds next week on the 26th (although according to the venue’s website it’s on the same date as Jeffrey Lewis…) and their press folks just emailed over the...
No Gold
Watch this band. Canada’s No Gold paints a colourful soundscape with their experimental jams – incorporating heady, spaced out krautrock grooves, folky repetition, offtimed technical tropical beats and laidback pop sensibilities. It is as complex as it is simple, which makes this an acquired taste but one that you will embrace once you get into...
Fear And Loathing in British Wildlife, Drag & Drop, Leeds 20th Nov
Nothing sorts your head out better than an egg Mcmuffin from Mcdonalds. I was such a dick last night, dropped my camera and got too munted by the time the last band got on. British Wildlife did another one of their signature epic gigs, this one was called Fear & Loathing in British Wildlife and...
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...
The Boxing Lesson
I must say I was swayed by The Boxing Lesson. These 3 (now 2?) folks out of Austin. Their story is this: they got their gear stolen from their apartment, which somehow by the grace of god, managed to find its way back to them with the help of the friendly guys at LAPD. By...
Gold Panda – Same Dream China
It’s late and I’m still trawling through my inbox. Found some love by Ghostly International again. Derwin aka Gold Panda‘s just released Lucky Shiner 2 weeks back. We’ve got a promo track courtesy of the label and a lovely video for the track Snow & Taxis. Watch and listen. Also, read that post I wrote...
Lapti – Circadian Rhythms (Error Broadcast)
Delving further into my foray through this 21tst century beat music phenomena, I find that Error Broadcast, has released this excellent new compilation, entitled Fly Russia. It’s a collab they’re doing with Siberian blog, Gimme5 and it’s a 17 track whopper of a compilaiton featuring the very best of Russian beatmakers. Especially close attention should...
Matthew Dear
The man behind the Ghostly label, Matthew Dear has announced the release date for Black City, the highly anticipated 4th full length output. Little People (Black City) will be the first single off the album and is scheduled for release on September 14th. Little People is a monster of a track, rolling on a cosmic...
