Superhumanoids
“Palm Springs”
La-based Superhumanoids dropped their Parasite People EP on Tues 4/19 and this is the cut that got me. Gonna layout by the pool today? Put this on repeat. You can check the rest of their warm weather offerings here.
KAUF
“When You’re Out”
Kauf is my new favorite artist.
Via We Are Binary’s premier, the new track from LA’s KAUF is equally as sexy as his first single Relocate, a song I haven’t been able to stop playing for anyone who’ll listen (seriously). He has the uncanny ability to create groovy, supremely-alluring music unfettered from anything that could make it another stale, electronic project. I wanna watch Knight Rider to this. I wanna have a dance party with Washed Out & friends to this. I wanna go back to the future and save the world to this.
Check out the previous track Relocate (d/l link below), follow him on twitter/soundcloud, and keep an eye on his website. This single should hit iTunes on April 28th, so be sure and support him!
KAUF | Relocate
Shades
“Hard Fall”
Man, I thought I was over chillwave…guess that’s like getting over sun drenched summer days and BBQ’s. This RULES!
Check out the Boise group thru Holy Page Records, or on FB
***GUILTY PLEASURE***
Kitten Berry Crunch
“When This Is Over”
This is kinda stupid, right?? It’s tongue in cheek. The band name is ridiculous. It kind sounds like Head Automatica meets an early 90’s synth pop band. But why do I keep listening to it??!! Why??!! Sometimes, you have no control over things you really like. Get it.
M83
“Midnight City”
M83 stay ahead of the curve once again with the first single off the new LP Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming. One of the things I have always loved about M83 is that their music feels so authentically of a time past, yet so new. It’s nostalgia, but for the future; a longing for the return of a time that has not yet happened. Also, I may have briefly been in one of their videos.
Head on over to their website to grab the single for the price of your email.
Tundra Vole
“Rush Hour in the Department of Early Humans”
This is growing on me.
Found here are super stretched out & unwound sentiments from Tundra Vole, an Australian based musician whose small rodent citing name isn’t nearly as profound as the music behind it. The whole atmosphere backing each and every track found on the self-titled release is about as distinctly driven and sparingly uneased as any Bandcamp release I’ve come across this year. All while not being too overdone at the same time, the album follows through with the tags listed on Bandcamp; cinematic & fleshy. Name your price for the release at the link below.
Listen to more tracks @ Tundra Vole’s Bandcamp
mp3//Tundra Vole — Rush Hour in the Department of Early Humans
The Distnce
“Clouds”
Take a moment and melt to this day dreamer from L.A. duo The Distnce.
Get “Clouds” and the also terrific “Dry Land” from bandcamp.
Conveyor
“Foreward”
This reminds me a lot of Grandaddy, so it’s not surpising that I have been enjoying the Brooklyn based band’s Sun Ray EP. While Conveyor have already released newer material, their EP is worth the look.
Cold Blood Club
“White Boyz”
This is modern new wave. Blending breakbeats, guitars, and dance floor electronics to a gritty, punchy perfection, NYC’s Cold Blood Club come out the gates with quite the declaration…she needs a nice white boy.
Catch them during CMJ at Fontana’s 10/21. Get this track.
Slow Magic
“Feel Flows”
Slow Magic is back at it with this gothic chillwave slowburner. Press play and float along. Get it.
I’m back at it posting for photosynthblog, so check them out.
Labyrinth Ear
“Amethyst Days”
This sexy little slice of earnest electro builds and builds and builds and then dissipates back from whence it came… leaving you aching for more.
Grab your copy of the UK artist’s Apparitions EP over at bandcamp.
Spanish Prisoners
“Downtown Chicagoland” (PE1000version)
Inspired by a recent purchase of a Korg PE1000, this B-side alternative version of the latest single from Spanish Prisoner’s 2011 Gold Fools LP will be avilbable on their forthcoming Prior Art Mixtape. Check it out because it gives the original a run for it’s money. Thanks to Leo from SP for sending this over. Get it.
*****FLASHBACK FRIDAY*****
Company B
“Fascinated”
Emerging out of NYC Latino neighborhoods in the early 80’s, freestyle music rode the wave of breakdancing and hip hop to solidify itself as electronic music force.
Commonly remembered as roller skating music, freestyle combined syncopated percussion and electronic elements to create rhythms that could be danced to fast or slow.
Freestyle quickly spread and soon Miami was an epicenter of the movement, Company B’s classic “Fascinated” is a great example of Miami freestyle.
Wann hear more? Come hang out at Duck Duck in Brooklyn tomorrow night as I spin some NYC freestyle and my homeboy Microphone Mike drops that Miami sound. Roller jams all night.
David Douglas
“California Poppy”
Stumbled upon this beauty from Dutch artist David Douglas over at Pasta Primavera and Laurent nails it:
The electronics tipping the scales of David Douglas’ Royal Horticultural …Society all sound familiar…the beats have been struck before…the synths have buzzed my ears once or twice in the past…I have heard this so many times in so many forms…so many speakers echoed these sounds…yet why is it so fresh…
…its beautifully crafted electronic dance/chill music that is molded and chipped and massaged so wonderfully that every song on it makes you just want to close your eyes and fall backwards into a sleepwalking dance.
