Winter is here. There is ice in the trees, ice on the streets and ice in our cold, dark hearts. If this thermometer was an inch longer we’d all freeze to death. Fostercare‘s frosty new mixtape will not thaw us out. Fostercare – Land Ov Ether Take Me Back mixtape [mp3]
30.11.10.
Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx – NY Is Killing Me This is shaping up to be the best partnership since Kuqi/Bent (c. 2004).
29.11.10.
If you’re worried that you are too happy and well adjusted and have no problems sleeping at night then help is at hand. Disaro and Robot Elephant have joined forces to scare the living shit out of you with ISVOLT, “the first Witch House compilation.” It features nightmare sounds from Raw Moans, Fostercare, Horse Macgyver, [...]
26.11.10.
Why does the Sphinx have a golden eye? Why do you need to extract the ore from Oceana and stockpile your alloys? Which zoo do you have to drill through after you drill through Mount Sinai? Psych darkhearts Trogons have the answers to these questions and more. Find them on a homemade CD and Suplex [...]
26.11.10.
Our buddies The Samps have an insane EP out soon on the wonderful Big Love. The picture above does a pretty good job of describing it. The Samps – Where You From [mp3]
23.11.10.
Museum Of Bellas Artes – Days Ahead Nowadays, everyone talks a lot about nostalgia in music, but the panpipes in this wistful disco tearjerker from Museum Of Bella Artes take me straight back to a boyhood spent playing in Peru’s Urubamba Valley while my archaeologist parents explored for mysterious cities of gold. OK, not really, [...]
22.11.10.
Two 10 year old twins from Possil, Glasgow (via Ghana) covering ESG. How could this be anything but amazing? The Green Door Studio in Glasgow teamed up with kids from the Youth Music Summer School for this charming project. The awesome results, an album called Muzikal Yooth, will be released next week by Optimo Music. [...]
18.11.10.
There is always something mysterious about Celestial Bodies‘ songs, like they’re shot through with a secret sadness. Take their haunted new bass ballad, Turn Into You, and its beautiful split screen video directed by main man Ferry Gouw. They’re as immense and enigmatic as the spaces between stars. Download the song from their Soundcloud now.
16.11.10.
Acéphale + (Korallreven – Bergsman) x Lissvik = Korallreven – Honey Mine (Lissvik Remix) [mp3] [Buy]
15.11.10.