Recently I feel hit by a wave of good sounds. Last year was mostly mediocre for me, but 2008 is laying it down! Right so this should be a review or rather a preview, the Quiet Village album hits stores May 12th.
You better get ready, put your party hats on, feast on this, then re-evaluate the electronic genre. I can’t use too many words, or I’ll drown the goodness.
Quiet Village Pacific Rhythm mp3
Silent movie – microsite listen to tracks, retail links and stuff
On the eashfa shopping list: Jamie Lidell is beckoning us to his one-man funk storm, which basically means a new album, JIM, a video, and promo image from said video of him dining with a horse-lady.
if you can’t wait for the album or single then grab a new unreleased track for free by signing up to Jamie’s mailing list.
Now, Jamie videos are sure easy to come by, not so in the case of Leila Arab. I tell you I did not want to see this. Not even a video per se.
Leila just got herself signed to Warp Records, she tames the IDM/trip hop vibes like no other, and with no official LP outing in a decade, all those pent up creative juices must be waiting to burst out. You can burst on me, Leila. A 10-inch is out April 21→, followed by the album, Blood, Looms and Blooms in June. The album includes a Martina Topley-Bird collaboration, oh how you do tease. To think this is from 10 years ago:
Cyanide Valentine have got an album out that is not emo as their name suggests, and as they themselves suggest to de-suggest. So no emo I suppose. Though they do have a fallback plan in that.It’s a good album, it’s free so it can’t hurt to download and check out. The vocals do seem amiss at times, and set me contrary, but on Sugar Coma they silently smithereen you away. All in all, a mish-mash of guitar pop and electronica. And, no, not emo I dare say. I smell a trail of potential.download The Three Sides of the Cyanide Valentine (zip)couple i like:
Canon Blue sounds like the party’s been going on in the kitchen with folks playing spin-the-bottle between shots of tequila and maybe milk, and all silently wishing they could run in the fields/forest/Iceland (ok I want to run around in Iceland). Rum Diary can only agree with the circumstances. Then it moves on to the bowels of the house, with a living room you’re seeing at lightning speed and a basement that sends your pace from horizontal to vertical. Yeah, you can jump now to Battle Hymn.
There’s definitely something atmospheric that’ll prevent you from just plugging in directly. But don’t you just wish that once in a while your music player can surprise you? (I know you said yes damn it). That said/Still you should cop this. Which is why downloading from blogs is so much more fun than from music stores.
Now. It’s morning. Around 5 am. Writing a story about the kitchen with alcohol stinging the air you remember — White tea with mango bits anyone? Or maybe just some Pilguin Pop.
Remixing is raised to art status when you give new life to music, any type of music. To see potential in a boring cut, to push the envelope all the way to different galaxies, to let your mind wander where the originary intention left off, all this presumes passion and marquees lighting up over your head as opposed to a mere lightbulb.
A writer, most of the cases, is a passionate reader and afterwards a remixer of words. Tago-Mago does that with music. I may not like each and every track but that would be a strange and new feeling anyway. Rarely have I heard a reinvention of music I was, or thought I was, familiar with, in such unexpected ways. His major influence is Can, and the mixes are inspired by a variety of hip hop and electronica artists.
tago-mago – touch upon touch (marvin gaye and cocteau twins) mp3
tago-mago and the aliquot part – love and war (space lightning mix) mp3
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