Aug 31, 2010

Baths

Baths - Cerulean
Anticon records



















Cerulean is the auspicious debut of L.A.'s Baths. Evolving out of Will Wiesenfeld's varied [Post-Foetus] project, and inspired by the energy of the city's burgeoning beat scene (Daedelus introduced Anticon to Baths), the record represents a clear departure from both – an often warm, acoustic-fueled electronic music that hews closer to the work of contemporaries like Toro Y Moi. By combining songwriting with self-sampling, raw musicianship with synthesized textures, and field recordings with propulsive beats, Baths has created a seething sound-cloud packed with bright moments and prone to unexpected turns.






The effect is more baroque pop than bass thump – a digitally infused dust storm that sounds like vintage Broken Social Scene gone glitch, eclectic, spinning rich gloom out of organic, Books-like cut-and-paste and Baths' strange, soulful crooning. Baths excels at crafting thick, living compositions that, while dense, never sound needlessly busy. To this end he employs guitars, bass, various keys, snapping scissors, clicking pens, rustling blankets and more.In either case, Cerulean handily portrays Baths as a vital new talent unbound by genre and spurred on by song.

The Bitters

The Bitters
East General [Mexican Summer,2010]


















The Bitters are Aerin Fogel and Ben Cook (Fucked Up, Young Governor). Formed in the east end of Toronto, The Bitters write and record their self-proclaimed Cave Pop from their studio, an artistic cooperative shared with Toronto’s most creative musicians.The band is a result of Cook and Fogel’s prolific efforts and their ability to construct songs ranging from 50’s melodies atop dark post-punk instrumentals, to 90’s throwback alternative and grunge, which stems from their unique dynamic as friends and partners. Their collaborative work appears live with the help of drummer Jonah Falco (Fucked Up) and a rotation of starry guest bassists.


Aug 30, 2010

Tôkyô zonbi (Sakichi Satô, 2005)


Ostvarenje rezisera i scenariste Sakichi Satô bazirano na istoimenoj mangi. Mozda ce nekom ovaj reziser biti poznat kao scenarista Takashi Miikeovih filmova "Gozu" (2003) i "Ichi the Killer" (2001) ili cak po svojoj maloj ulozi u Tarantinovom "Kill Bill: Vol.1" (2003). S obzirom na napomenute filmove i na sam naslov vec se moze naslutiti sadrzaj ove urnebesne i apsurdne price.

Aug 29, 2010

Noveller – Desert fires


When we talk about Ambient music, most people think of music that can be played in the background and ignored. Music that requires zero attention so we can go about our every day tasks without silence….

Noise music; being avant-garde in nature, therefore almost always demands the listener’s full attention, whether through choice or not. It is obtrusive and abrasive. It certainly can create an atmosphere in a room much like Ambient music can, but in a distracting sense rather than a meditative or relaxing sense, such as we require from Ambient music

Noveller is the solo project of Brooklyn-based sound artist and filmmaker Sarah Lipstate. For her previous album Sarah Lipstate created something that definitely demanded your attention. It was loud and noisy and at times quite harsh. With her new album “Desert Fires” it feels as though she has attempted to try and reach almost the exact opposite of that. The passages of piercing white noise are gone. The sharp textures are gone. Instead she has created something that is; though still rich in texture and timbre, much more subdued, serene and relaxing. The feeling of anxiety created by the noise on the first record is swapped for a feeling of peacefulness and tranquillity, inner calm and stillness.



The Hundred in the Hands

The Hundred in the Hands
Warp records



















“Brooklyn-based pop alchemists” The Hundre in the Hands will release their debut full-length this September. The Hundred in the Hands LP is an album of deceptively complex pop songs which hark back to the dance music of NYC's storied underground. The album is a product of DIY home-recording plus a series of studio sessions in London and New York with contributions by producer friends including Jacques Renault, Richard X, Eric Broucek and Chris Zane.

Washed Out

Washed Out: Hold Out [Mexican Summer]

















Washed Out, the solo project of Georgia  multi-instrumentalist Ernest Greene, fits in almost too well with the balmy lo-fi synth atmospherics of peers like Neon Indian, Toro Y Moi, Small Black, the higher-fi jj, or the darker, heavier SALEM, as well as the more guitar-based Real Estate, Best Coast, and Pearl Harbour. Life of Leisure does with 80s soft rock and synth-pop what Glass Candy and Chromatics did with Italo disco a couple of years ago, only Washed Out evokes summer afternoons indoors rather than the Italians Do It Better crew's early-a.m. urban stalking.
Washed Out is the music to end your night with, when the city is quiet and the walk home, long.




Aug 27, 2010

Disfunkcionalne porodice...

Vinsent Galo pisac u egzilu od sopstvenog ludila, njegova prelepa devojka, Argentina, crno-bela fotografija, Patagonija, Almodovarova muza Carmen Maura, nadrealno pozoriste, odnos otac-sin...

Francis Ford Coppola's newest film, "Tetro", starring Vincent Gallo, Maribel Verdu.


 
Dogtooth
 
What if your parents had scared you into never leaving your house via a series of lies? Dogtooth is that house, and its three teenage inhabitants have subsisted on a diet of total fiction since birth.
In the world of Dogtooth, stray cats are deadly enemies, the word "pussy" means a bright light, and sex is something it might not be wrong to attempt with a sibling. This world is only the size of a large house, and has been fabricated by parents determined to prevent their three children, now adolescents, from leaving the confines of their home and garden.A perverse but brilliant exploration of insularity, family and control, Dogtooth is barking in the best possible way. A genuine original.
 

Zola Jesus

Zola Jesus
Stridulum II [2010]
Label: Souterrain Transmissions
















From Fever Ray to Cold Cave, lovers of black lit, emotive pop music are in danger of falling in love with this album from the first listen...
Zola, real name Nika Roza Danilova, studying opera from a young age before succumbing to the vices of pop, no-wave industrial classics and the avant-garde. This nurtured the exquisitely dark and resplendent sound of 'Stridulum', probably her defining release to date. Following more lo-fi releases for Aurora Borealis, Sacred Bones and Die Stasi among others, she's now afforded a proper studio setting to really give flight to her professionally trained vocals.

Aug 26, 2010

Imbogodom - The Metallic Year [Thrill Jockey, 2010]



“The Metallic Year” is a collection of eerie but affecting tracks, where sound collage and unraveling songs present a haunted world of spooling atmospheres, warped instrumentation, and disembodied voices, generated by the UK’s Alexander Tucker and New Zealand’s Daniel Beban…

The genesis of the project can be traced to the pair’s time at BBC’s Bush House, where Beban worked nights as a world service radio engineer. The basis for the project is manually spliced analogue tape loops, manipulated manually to different speeds, also accompanied by Dictaphones, instrumentation and voices.

The strong impact of the tape loops is incredibly effective, and it brings a imperceptible strength to the record – multiple listens reveal a tangible organic feel that simply would not be present had the same effects been created digitally. It’s the sort of affectionate charm old warped vinyl had – an endearing imperfection that works on multiple levels, if you’re conscious of it at all.

Aug 25, 2010

Vizije toka podsvesti

Autor ovih slika, pretežno akrilnih boja i ulja na dasci je Naoto Hattori, rođen 1975. u Japanu gde je u Tokiju završio grafički design da bi se kasnije preselio u Nju Jork gde živi i radi. Koristi klasične tehnike slikarstva uz airbrush koji njegovim delima daje posebnu svežinu i prelaze. Motivi su mu pretežno savremeni ali sadrži i folk elemente tradicionalnog japanskog slikarstva i ikonografije, koji u sadejstvu sa tehnikom hiperrealizma daju neizostavnu sanjalačku atmosferu.

Sellotape Art


Autor ovih neobičnih radova je Mark Khaisman, rođen 1958. u Kijevu, studirao umetnost i arhitekturu u Moskvi, živi i radi u Filadelfiji. Koristi tehniku nanošenja lepljive trake na osvetljeni pleksiglas, čime stvara utisak igre svetlosti i senke.

Aug 24, 2010

Indie pop 2010

Dig out your grandad cardigans, your old-school anoraks and your infant-school plimsolls – the shambling indie 80's scene that was C86 is back...

Definitivno, indie zvuk sa kraja osamdesetih (cirka 86-90) se vratio 2010...Cak je i still kao nekad : anoreksija/nervoza look, male svirke u pabovima, uradi-sam singlovi. Bendovi kao sto su The Primitives, Lush, The Field Mice, The Pastels, The Jesus ans Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine ili izdavacke kuce kao Creation, 4AD, Postcard Records, Cherry Red, Sarah, dobijaju vrlo autenticne nastavljace tradicije u vidu bendova koji traze perfektni, "dreamy" pop.
I kao nekada,devojke prednjace...Veronica Falls, Warpaint, Esben and the Witch, The Joy Formidable.

Veronica Falls













Veronica Falls continue to cast their dark spell over our ears with this killer ode to, well, ending it all. a dangerous proposition here: wastoid punk chords pinned to the ground by sweet / sad 4-part harmonies, soaked in poignancy and urgency. already far surpassing the constraints of genre, veronica falls are evolving into a quintessential british band, both of the moment and eerily timeless.

Veronica Falls




Warpaint


















Los Angeles' mystical warpaint weave majestic, haiku-like guitars,hypnotic vocals, and driving post-punk rhythms into gorgeous,sprawling songs that skirt the line between the soundscapes of psychedelia / shoegaze, the haunting intimacy of folk, and rock's primal heaviness.Their debut EP Exquisite Corpse is on Manimal Vinyl. Warpaint will release their debut album, "The Fool", on October 25. on Rough Trade.




Aug 22, 2010

Altar Eagle - Machanical Gardens [2010]


This excellent debut-proper from hotly tipped duo Altar Eagle finds itself nestled somewhere between the icy drum machine pop of Cold Cave, the Kosmische refractions of Emeralds and the classic layered shoegaze of Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine. Eden Hemming and Brad Rose have previously made music together as Corsican Paintbrush before changing their name and style on a pair of sought-after cassettes absorbing darkwave pop genius and the 1st wave techno moods of Juan Atkins. With a heavy heart and distorted touch they’ve drafted a deeply affected sound where vocals are typically half-heard and happy to be so, while an ongoing mastery of their analogue synths lends a flush of wide-eyed man/machine pop potential.

Francuzi za leto

Gainsbourg (Vie Heroique)

Adored and despised in fairly equal measure, Serge Gainsbourg is the subject of an appropriately spiky biopic. A glimpse at the life of French singer, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991.


LE REFUGE
Prolific French director Francois Ozon returns to the big screen with an elegant drama about a pregnant woman recovering from drug addiction and the death of her lover.



The Illusionist

This new animated feature from Chomet (Belleville Rendezvous) centres around a down-on-his-luck illusionist. Now that the theatres and large performance venues have been taken over by rock bands and pop singers, he has been forced to ply his trade in bars, cafés, and basements.One day, whilst performing in a small Scottish pub on a remote island, the illusionist encounters a pretty young girl who is captivated by hisotherworldly abilities and joins him on his travels. Eventually he must decide whether to continue trying to impress, or to reveal that he lacks supernatural powers – and thus crush his young charge’s dreams. Beautifully illustrated, The Illusionist will break your heart.

Aug 19, 2010

Laurel Halo


Laurel Halo is a solo artist of Brooklyn. She composes and performs with a style I have yet to hear before. Laurel Halo’s sound has been fascinating me as of late. A blend of ambient trance, harmonic vocals and new age psychedelia, it’s eclectic, electric aura transcends higher dimensions.

Halo makes dreamy electronic music that she describes as “a collection of pulsating sci-fi fantasies”.

With the King Felix EP (get it free on her website) released in April and now this remix, Laurel Halo is still very much active in a scene of her own. In keeping the tightly bound sound of BRAHMS’ whilst adding her own unique, transdimensional qualities to the music, this track has the perfect balance all remixes should have but very rarely do. I’m sure we can expect to see a lot more from both BRAHMS (tumblr, website) and Laurel Halo (website) in the future.


ANOTHER TIME from TRAPPEDINACUBE on Vimeo.

source: indiemusicfinds.com



Grouper - Hold/Sick [Room40, 2010]



The songs of Grouper aka Elizabeth Harris are densely compelling micro-universes. Each piece is layered with glowing washes of reverb and softly howling echoes of delay, in which Harris positions herself. Soft focus, and at times lost amid the clouds of audio, her voice emerges with a haunting fragility.

Grouper's work epitomises the potentials of textural songwriting - a practise of ukiyo-e like qualities, where audio colours are squeezed through a gauzy treatment, ultimately imprinting new and unexpected sound-shapes.

For her limited edition 7” tour single Grouper unveils two works, unsettled explorations into the counterpoints of the human condition. “They’re about feeling like an observer of one's owns emotions,” Harris explains, “You’re in that space where you’re not sure whether to follow or reel them in.”

Aug 18, 2010

Manimal Vinyl

Manimal Vinyl je izdavacka kuca iz Los Andjelesa,osnovana 2006.godine. Objavljuje eksperimentalnu pop,folk,esid rok,elektronsku muziku.Uglavnom su to male skupine izvodjaca,koji medjusobno razmenjuju uloge u bendovima.Veliki fan ove etikete je John Frusciante,koji svira sa nekima od njih ili ih producura. Retko ko od njih ima zvanicni album,sve se uglavnom svodi na singl & EP izdanja.. 

Hecuba












This LA two-piece do 50's-influenced spook-electro, with sparse keyboards building atmospheres pregnant with dread and desire, while Isabelle Albuquerque croons nightmare-logic lyrics, one minute a victim, the next a femme fatale. Their phenomenal debut LP seamlessly embraces avant-pop, classical/electronic minimalism, and club/dance music transforming it into something captivating, beautiful, and otherworldly strange.Hecuba opens your eyes, literary and emotionally...this uncategorizable band belongs to museums, to happenings, to clubs, and to theaters; it is familiar as the past but takes you into the future
...it sounds like Soft Cell doing Grease...




Rainbow Arabia












Rainbow Arabia marry electro-acoustic dance sounds and world music with the youthful energy of punk using an array of Lebanese synthesizers and drum machines, serpentine guitar lines, live percussion, and Siouxsie-esque vocals that are at times war calls while beautifully spectral at others.The coolest thing about Rainbow Arabia is their ability to create an alternate universe around themselves and their music...their bizarre dream world seems so psychedelic, infectious, and fun that, upon hearing them, you instantly want to be part of their gang. I kinda imagine this will be our soundtrack shortly after all the cities are destroyed in the apocalypse, and we’re nomads wandering the deserts of the world.

Aug 17, 2010

oOoOO


















oOoOO (a.k.a. Christopher Dexter Greenspan, who pronounces his stage name "oh") is a solo artist, occasionally duet. The band seems to be strongly influenced by Africa and strange films. Releases include a CDR off of Disaro Records in early 2010, featuring songs popularized by oOoOO via MySpace. Shortly after, a split 7” with the track Seaww was released with the band White Ring.  oOoOO's Debut EP is out September 27 on Tri Angle Records.


Aug 15, 2010

Donato Epiro - Supercontinent [Casette C30 - Stunned Records, 2010]




Supercontinent is Donato Epiro’s freshest hypnotic adventure, and a glimpse into some future tropical world where lysergic acid rain waters the neon foliage. Animatronic apes and mechanical birds flock around Donato as he expertly fashions his sonic hieroglyphs, while sibilant rhythms and humid chants pour freely into the deviant ceremony from all sides. Join the intoxicating celebration, and play this tape whenever you need a little break from the continent you’re currently standing upon.

Aug 12, 2010

Anbb (Alva Noto & Blixa Bargeld)

Anbb (Alva Noto & Blixa Bargeld)
Ret Marut Handshake
Label: Raster Noton,june 2010




















being friends and admirers of each otherʼs work for a long time, electronic music composer / visual artist alva noto (carsten nicolai) and composer / voice- artist blixa bargeld (also known as singer of einstuerzende neubauten and guitarist of nick cave and the bad seeds) decided to join forces to initiate a collaborative project in 2007.
together they developed a musical concept based on the combination of improvisation and abstraction. the impulsive live performance of blixa bargeld and the elaborated beat structures and sound landscapes of alva noto merge to a surprising and unexpected result. working on their own experimental material that gains its strength from the spontaneity of the live-performance of bargeldʼs voice as well as rethinking traditional songs in their own special manner, they deliver an outstanding and inspiring musical blend for their audience.
ret marut handshake comes as limited edition on 12“ vinyl only.


Aug 11, 2010

Automelodi

















Montreal's Automelodi.
Lead by vocalist and songwriter Xavier Paradis.
Automelodi proudly embraces the infinitely rich ground of French pop musical influences - including the legendary ‘Chanteurs’ of the ‘60s and ‘70s, classic French cold wave(aka ‘La Vague Froide’) and minimal synth, and early UK new wave. The album carefully weaves together a series of hook-laden uptempo pop trax with with a set of stylishly confident, yet vulnerably melancholic downtempo songs that allow the listener to catch his misty breath in the mix, with nearly all vocals smoothly delivered in French.

Aug 9, 2010

Singl ploce

mozda odlicni albumi na jesen...za sada odlicni singlovi...

Minks


















Goth-pop upstarts Minks
Minks penchant for crafting dark pop songs with classic sensibilities sees no end in sight. Pastoral, reflective mood,drawing on Felt/Durutti Column guitar textures and dreamy, whispy vocal melodies. Two more tracks on the B-Side and that’s all you get until the debut LP comes out in the Fall.





Cosmetics


Cosmetics are a two piece from Vancouver, BC. Their music is made for dancing, and with feeling and attention to the details. Their trip is sleek and synthetic meets human emotion. Cosmic glamour meets do-it-yourself. Voice and a rhythm. Frosty tropics and hazy nites. Love on the beat. Nic M and Aja Emma formed Cosmetics in Summer 2008, the first band for both of them. In 2009 they put together the Tuff Trax 8-track studio in their home where they work on sound and visuals every day. Cosmetics is their lifestyle.



Cosmetics // Soft Skin from Wooden Lens on Vimeo.

Aug 7, 2010

Demdike Stare




Demdike Stare's "Forest of Evil (Dawn)"
spot sa filmovima koje koriste za live nastupe...

Cudno je da ovakva ezotericna muzika dolazi iz Mancestera. Dvojac Sean Canty & Miles Whittaker, koji pravi muziku pod ovim imenom, drzi i klub Haxan u istoimenom gradu, kao i izdavacku kucu Finders Keepers, koja objavljuje muziku iz obskurnih horor filmova, madjarski funk iz komunistickog perioda, odbacene projekte ekperimentalnih kompozitora. Demdike je, inace, ime vestice koja je "stvarno" postojala u 17 veku u Lankasiru.
Ovo je sa novog vinil albuma,od tri koja planiraju da objave u kontinuitetu. Zove se Forest Of Evil, sastavljen od dve stvari - Dusk & Dawn.
Pospani klavir,filmska podloga za kic film sedamdesetih..
Kad se zavrsi poslednji takt, osecaj je kao da je sunce izaslo posle noci provedene u delirijumu...

Aug 5, 2010

Forest Swords


Forest Swords - Miarches from OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE on Vimeo.



















Ko voli Amon Düül,Burial,Aphex Twin,drone,dub,psihodeliju....

Aug 4, 2010

Various - Keys (A Comprehensive Collection Of Contemporary Piano Compositions)


Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself.” – Erik Satie
For Satie, I believe, the piano represented a way of realizing unparalleled moments of oneness. I always like to use the term “transmigration”, whereby the subject projects their entire being onto another, a process that can be compared to active reincarnation: the soul moves away to exist within another. In the above quote, I believe this is what Satie was getting at; the act of composing requires the musician to accompany oneself away from oneself. In a very Kafka-esque way, the musician becomes the piano.

Dream Boat



odlicna opskurna izdavacka kuca - AMDISCS...
tesko je opisati sta sve objavljuju...imaju izdanja na kasetama
ovo je jedna od grupa : Dream Boat
preporuke sa iste etikete : Ghost Animal,Mickey Mickey Rourke

Aug 3, 2010

Teen Daze




















Who: Teen Daze
Where: Vancouver, Canada

Operating in a cloud of mystery, young Canadian producer Teen Daze has made a name for himself simply by opening a tumblr account and posting some tunes online. He's yet to play any live shows, release anything officially, or even publicly disclose his name, but Teen Daze's washy bedroom synth exercises have already been both widely praised and shoehorned into the chillwave genre. Yet that ignores the music's melancholy pop vibe, something that wouldn't be out of place on an '80s John Hughes movie soundtrack. His debut EP, Four More Years, comes out this summer on Arcade Sound Ltd.

HEALTH ::DISCO2


HEALTH ::DISCO2 [Lovepump United / City Slang; 2010]

Though HEALTH improved on the Boredoms-inspired sound of their self-titled debut with last year's more melodic Get Color, they still shine brightest on their remix collections. They followed up the 2007 release of HEALTH with Disco, a surprisingly coherent collection that re-jiggered their sinewy, abrasive tunes. On Disco, artists like Pictureplane and Nosaj Thing channeled HEALTH's chaotic rhythmic power into tight, four-on-the-floor tracks and created sweaty, spazzy, and sexy songs from the noisy source material. And most importantly, Disco seems to have influenced them in making new music. Get Color found HEALTH taking cues from those remixes, growing in a more streamlined, synth-heavy, groove-oriented direction.

Which brings us to Disco2.