D2P : Hot Horizons
This week at the FADER I chatted with Hot Horizons about their debut single and found out that we all like wearing coats. Coats are the best. Hot Horizons – Spoken [mp3]
29.10.10.
This week at the FADER I chatted with Hot Horizons about their debut single and found out that we all like wearing coats. Coats are the best. Hot Horizons – Spoken [mp3]
29.10.10.
Are ghost eyes still jagged black holes cut into white sheets or are they something like this now? Either way: spooky. These guys are touring with our buddies Gold Panda and Banjo Or Freakout in November and we can’t wait to see them. Happy Halloween. Ghost Eyes – Phantom Mountain [mp3]
28.10.10.
A few weeks ago Kwes made an amazing mixtape for my D2P column at The FADER. He mentioned he was producing an EP for the “crazily talented” Elan Tamara, and now here it is, the first release on his excellently named Bokkle label. It’s called Shadows which makes me want to watch this again and [...]
28.10.10.
This 37 minute single chord epic is one of a series of live recordings that Chord has unfurled in anticipation of their new album, Progression. I recommend listening to it like I did, whole and in public, on a long bus journey. C9sus4 begins with uneasy calm, but as the towering tones and the ambient [...]
26.10.10.
As promised, here are the songs that make up Pingcast 2 : Ariel Pink Special, all recorded especially for the broadcast. Acts who made amazing music for us include: Bullion, Echo Lake, Visions Of Trees, Your Twenties, C Powers, Waskerley Way, Happy Corners and His Clancyness. We’ve bundled the songs together as a free Soundtrack [...]
25.10.10.
Every week I write about awesome new British music for my buddies at The FADER. This week I caught up with Young Montana. This is an amazing beat he made after I set him a challenge. You can read the whole story in this week’s Dollars to Pounds. Young Montana – Fuckin Miley Remix [mp3]
24.10.10.
Darren Aronofsky’s audaciously mental Black Swan is about a fragile ballerina’s struggle with the dual lead role in Swan Lake. If Twin Sister’s original version of All Around And Away We Go is the innocent White Swan, then this D/R/U/G/S’ remix is its darker double, a twisted, mischievous Black Swan, and one that takes an [...]
22.10.10.
[Artwork borrowed from Saiman Chow] Episode two of the Pingcast is an Ariel Pink special, dedicated to his weird and very wonderful world. He kindly agreed to do our first ever broadcast 321 interview, and some of our favourite new bands took part, covering or remixing Ariel’s songs. What they came up with is incredible. [...]
21.10.10.
Fixers – Amsterdam Since Chad Valley first told us about Oxford’s pub-born music and arts cult Blessing Force, we’ve seen their name everywhere. Among its most ardent adherents are astral travellers, Fixers. Watch their beatific new video closely and you will realise the universe has no independent reality, but derives its apparent reality from the [...]
18.10.10.
Here is a strange, stomping epic from the epically strange Cleckhuddersfax. With lines like, “This ravine is only four feet long but you know that it’s a drop that you can’t comprehend, you’re going to land on your body”, it sounds a bit like they’re auditioning for Danny Boyle’s latest opus. Or maybe they’re just [...]
15.10.10.