Headbangin’ fuzzy guitars from Oxford, Mississippi anyone? As previously posted, we are awaiting the ILLLS debut EP “Dark Paradise” in deep anticipation. And just now ILLLS dropped another song from it. “Goods”. Claming being influenced by Jay Reatard and The Cure, to Jeremy Jay, and despite it is supposed to be on the “darker strands” of the EP, “Goods” is definitely the most summery sounding tune on it. It just screams get in a car and scroll down your window. Excitement!
Well a Sydney/Berlin based Record Label can only be interesting (awesome). That was what I thought when coming across Herbede Records and Adelaide based artist Oisima. The soothing beat maker dropped his “Dusk Til Dawn” just yesterday and we think it is the perfect soundtrack for your summer rooftop barbecue. Seriously. Percussions and smooth electronica, captivating and breathtaking all at once. Yes!
A beautiful month full of sunny days is coming to an end über-nicely with another not-to-be-missed event hosted by the girls of Nordic by Nature Berlin: it’s Finnish Wave Night!. This time we’re not only stoked about that line-up of Finnish frenzy, we’re also massively excited for the launch of Nordic by Nature‘s Indie Travel Guide To Helsinki! Kreuzberg’s Prince Charles will be made into a piece of Helsinki and Flow Festival that night, when upcoming bands and DJs from Finland storm the stage while we wear short shorts in the Prince Charles backyard and enjoy the soundtrack of our Scandinavian summer with Black Twig’ woozy shoegaze folk…
SAVE THE DATE BERLINERS, Nordic by Nature was lovely enough to make this one open-guestlist, so make sure you put your name on the thing by dropping a mail to rsvptohelsinki@nbnberlin.de until May 29!
When discovering new tunes, sometimes I think – “how can I not know about this guy?” Same thing happened when I found out about Germany born Frenchie Onra. He defines disco and afterhour tunes in new ways, evolving over Hip Hop to House to Funk. His Vietnamese ancestry made Onra go travel to his homeland, sampling Chinese and Vietnamese records from the 60′s and 70′s and putting together a collection of the 32 track strong “Chinoiseries” in 2006. A lot happened since then. Now here we are, listening to the first release for Fool’s Gold, the “Deep In The Night” EP called “L.O.V.E.” and wonder how one tune can be that sticky in our brains. Catch Onra on his USA tour if you can. And get ready for some serious “deeply funky, late-night vibes”!
Hot Chip just dropped a new video to their single Night & Day and this one feels so hilariously awkward, it reminds me of the first time almost-watching Star Wars. Starring Dutch superbeauty Lara Stone, the video directed By Peter Serafinowicz features hooded and maxi-skirted male dancers in a library, praying animals, a mysterious egg and a whole lot more weirdness.
Also, why does Lara’s right boob look so much bigger than the other one?
Night and Day is taken from Hot Chip’s forthcoming album In Our Heads, out on Domino Records on June 11th. Pre-order the vinyl here / Buy Night & Day here.
Why does not everybody make such good music in such a simple way? Just start the drumcomputer ‘when your heart is a symphony’.
‘Advance Base‘ creates his songs in the piano exercise room of the Chicago public library. If you listen he will tell you stories about old childhood friends he used to have, the feeling of being strange, and the feeling about strange family members and lost love – often with a distinctive songwriting between deep melancholic and intelligent cynicalism. While I was listening to this record, I had the feeling of walking around in an old house, in which I have never been before: the dust dancing in the shafts of the sunlight, the ground creaking gently and old pictures looking down on me. Feeling pleasefully nostalgic I want to thank Owen Ashworth for this record and hope he’s coming to Berlin soon. That might sound very cheesy but you probably feel the same way about it.
Advance Base is a new project of Ashworth and it is very different to his former music experiment ‘Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.’
It is adventure time and Jesus, this is beautiful.
Flume, my favourite Aussie discovery from 2k11 has recently put a party in my headphones with a couple of banger remixes that show the dude can seriously show some different colours and work niceties on pretty much everything. And after waking up happily to these beatsy beauties, here’s another thing to get you smilin’: Flume’s remix of Matt Miller & Kilter’s Gravel Pit and of Ta-ku’s Higher are available to download for free, brought to you with a soundcloud-orange-colored ribbon on them.
I sort of like everything about this. I like the vocals, I like the bass, I like the little guitar riff in between, I like the lyrics, I like the build up in the song, I like the black & white video… I like you Gold & Youth from Vancouver! Their debut LP ‘Beyond Wilderness’ is coming out “soon” on their label Arts & Crafts. When soon will be? No idea. In the mean time, grab that free download of ‘Time To Kill’ on SoundCloud!
“I simply run, simply run I don’t wanna stay
Found all my dreams while outside in the summer rain
Rain down on your town on your town where we can begin,
Count on my dreams like a dream ought to be followed yeah”
Yeeees! Midi Matilda have written the catchiest song I’ve heard in a while! It doesn’t even take more than 5 seconds until this piano driven song gets straight into your head and makes you smile. Midi Matilda are Logan Grime and Skyler Kilborn, two friends from the Bay Area around San Francisco. They released their EP “Red Light District” on February 15, 2012 and of course you can buy the EP on their bandcamp for the price you like.
I also hope they are coming on tour soon, as they just stated in an interview that they want their shows to be like Daft Punk meets The White Stripes, but with more dancing. Sounds promising.
Matthew Walker aka Bristol house music producer/DJ Julio Bashmore just got it. Since his debut on Ditybird in 2009 he constantly made his way up through the English electronic scene. After many releases on labels like FutureBoogie and Fabric Records he now founded his own one: “Broadwalk Records”. The label will launch with a 12-inch release from Bashmore himself called “Au Seve” on the second of July . What I’ve heard so far is massive. This could be one of the biggest house tracks of 2012. Listen up.
