• Meine Top 25 Alben 2009

01 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
02 Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
03 Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
04 Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
05 Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
06 Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
07 DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
08 Shackleton - Three Eps
09 Fever Ray - Fever Ray
10 Memory Tapes - Seek Magic

11 The xx - xx
12 Sunn o))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
13 Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
14 Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
15 Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
16 Jim O'Rourke - Visitor
17 Atlas Sound - Logos
18 The Antlers - Hospice
19 Broadcast & The Focus Group - ... Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
20 Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights

21 Balmorhea - All Is Wild All Is Silent
22 Hildur Gudnadottir - Without Sinking
23 Fanfarlo - Reservoir
24 Washed Out - High Times
25 Various - 5:5 Years Of Hyperdub

Soundfiles zum hören im Top 25 mp3s Archiv!

• Meine Top 25 Alben 2009: Die Gescheiterten

Ab und zu tut es einem in der Seele weh das einige Aben nicht in die Top 25 gerutscht sind. Und trotzdem sollen diese Alben hier kurz erwähnt werden:
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We were An Eagle
Cass McCombs - Catacombs
Cyne - Water For Mars
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
JJ - JJ N°2
Jochen Distelmeyer - Heavy
Lawrence English - A Colour For Autumn
Letting Up Despite Great Faults - Same
Nadja - Numbers
Pomegranates - Everybody, Come Outside!
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx PT II
Raz Ohara & The Odd Orchestra - II
Shawn Lee - Soul In The Hole
Various - Dark Was The Night
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers

Dann noch sehr gute Alben von Andrew Bird, Bat For Lashes, Dan Deacon, The Gentlemen Losers, Girls, Health, Luciano, Lusine, Neon Indian, The-Dream, Trail Of Dead, The Twilight Sad, YACHT, etc.

Nicht in die Top 25 Alben gewertet wurden einige spitzenklasse EPs (die alle in die Top 20 gekommen wären):
Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind
Bon Iver - Blood Bank
Delorean - Ayrton Senna
Destroyer - Bay Of Pigs
Fucked Up - Year Of The Rat
Hauschka - Small Pieces
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Hopes And Past Desires

• Polls 2009:

Spex Redaktionscharts:
01. La Roux - La Roux
02. Die Goldenen Zitronen - Die Entstehung der Nacht
03. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
04. Pet Shop Boys - Yes
05. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
06. BLK JKS - After Robots
07. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillon
08. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
09. Tokio Hotel - Humanoid (sic!)
10. Major Lazar - Guns Don't Kill People

Spex Lesercharts:
01. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
02. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillon
03. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
04. The xx - The xx
05. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
06. Jochen Distelmeyer - Heavy
07. Ja, Panik - The Angst and the Money
08. Die Goldenen Zitronen - Die Entstehung der Nacht
09. Anthony And The Johnsons - The Crying Light
10. Pet Shop Boys - Yes

Gorillavsbear.blogspot.com:
01. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II
02. White Denim - Lies
03. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
04. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillon
05. The xx - The xx
06. The Sandwitches - How To Make Ambient Sadcake
07. Smith Westerns - Smith Westerns
08. Girls - Album
09. JJ - No.2
10. Fever Ray - Fever Ray

Pitchfork.com:
01. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillon
02. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
03. The xx - The xx
04. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
05. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II
06. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
07. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
08. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
09. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
10. Girls - Album

Stereogum.com:
01. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillon
02. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
03. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
04. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
05. The xx - The xx
06. Girls - Album
07. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
08. The Antlers - Hospice
09. Passion Pit - Manners
10. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone

will be continued... (The Wire, de-bug)

• Video: The-Dream

Mein neues Lieblingslied! Und das meine ich verdammt ernst!

• Tocotronic



Längeres Video von "Mach es nicht selbst" findest du bei spex.de oder hier: tocotronic.de

• Video: Hot Chip

• Serdar Somuncu





Alle vier Teile sehr geil: CLICK

• Stream: Deichkind - Die Toco Die (In The Name of Bjoern)

In »Die Toco Die (In the Name of Björn)« spricht das geniale hamburgische Randale-Pop-Projekt Deichkind die Band und die Fans von Tocotronic mittels eines harten gutturalen Black-Metal-Disses mit den Worten »you Indie Scum« auf Fußgeruch und ihren Auftritt im Rahmen des 1999er Bizarre Festivals an, in gut vier Minuten wird mit viel Wut und Ironie auf Tocotronic eingedroschen. via spex

• Video: Delphic + Grizzly Bear

• Video: Neon Indian (Live)

Neon Indian - Should've Taken Acid With You from The Pool Parties on Vimeo via gorillavsbear.blogspot.com.

• Video: Boff Lemurr

music: boff lemurr, video: david ruggiero, hamburg 2008 // all rights reserved.

Vielen Dank David, dass ich das Video hier zeigen darf ;) Und danke Hanna für den schönen Song ;)

• Video: No Age

• Video: Dead Man's Bones



An Oscar-nominated Hollywood heartthrob and his best friend round up a bunch of instruments-- some of which they don't know how to play-- and a massive children's choir and make a concept album about the supernatural. Seems like a recipe for disaster, right? Guess again.
Meet Dead Man's Bones, a collaboration between actors Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson, The Believer, The Notebook) and Zach Shields. The duo plan to release their debut album, Never Let a Lack of Talent Get You Down, on their own label, Werewolf Heart, this summer. You might have seen their MySpace page, or a video for their song "In the Room Where You Sleep" floating around the web recently. In the clip, Gosling and Shields lead a bunch of kids, all dressed in Halloween costumes, through a spare acoustic lament. It's creepy and catchy. It sounds like a middle school assembly gone goth. And it's pretty damn good. [pitchfork]

• Sounds:

Just in time for Halloween comes a spooky new track from Memory Tapes, a rather epic 17-minute suite of icy Italo synths, atmospheric strings, and driving beats that evoke your favorite horror movies of decades past. There's even some creepy Michael Myers piano plinks at the end.
Memory Tapes - Walk Me Home





Switch was asked to remix The Big Pink’s first single “Dominos”. The band have an album out now called “A Brief History Of Love” on 4AD… It’s a seminal record from the band, and we can’t say for certain but we think the album title is inspired by the book from Nicole Krauss “History of Love”. [via maddecent]
The Big Pink – Dominos (Switch Remix)



Freaky video [via runningsushi]
Royksopp feat. Fever Ray - This Must Be

Totally crazy stuff.
JJ - Things Will Never Be The Same Again

• Special: Classless Kulla & Istari Lasterfahrer

Wie kommst du jetzt bloss auf diesen Scheiß äh an dieses Zeug? Kurze Erklärung: Ende September Schmitti in Kölle getroffen und einen schönen Spaziergang ins A-Musik gemacht, weil wenn in Kölle dann auch eine Platte mitnehmen. Dort unbeholfen in den 7 inches herumgewühlt und sie da ein Rambo Cover! Sehr geil. Platte auf den Vorspielteller und Musik für spuuki und verrückt gehalten, gekauft, Photo gemacht (?), Schmitti geschenkt und nicht mehr vergessen. Back in Vienna kurzer Googleerfolg: Handbag/abba heisst der Künstler (geiles Napalm Death Shirt!). Krasser Breakcore, Gabbacore, Dubmassaker. Google schmeisst mir Sozialistischer Plattenbau an den Kopp (Margarita mag das Logo). Und tatsächlich dort Handbag/abba gefunden. Dann die Bestsellers (sic!) durchgeschaut und Classless Kulla als Beifahrer von Istari Lasterfahrer gefunden (siehe Cover). Totalle Verwirrung. Ist das geil oder saudoof? Für letzteres entschieden und diverse Tracks angehört. Hier gefunden. Bestellen ins Ösiland geht nicht nach getätigter Anmeldung :(. Trotzalledem gehört und gefreut. Lasterfahrers Seite angeschaut und gemyspaced. Classless Kullas Seite angeschaut und diesen lustigen Buffy Song gepostet (vornehmlich um Hippe zu begeistern und für immer diese dämliche "True Blood" Diskussion zu beenden). Buffy forever.

mp3: Classless Kulla & Istari Lasterfahrer - Buffy The Slayer & The Angel of Death

Noch ein kurzes Ohr in die Hey-O-Hansen - Sonn und Mond (mag ich), Fluppe unter die Oberlippe und ab ins Bett. Der Taxi kommt morgen früh um 8:00 Uhr. Shit! Gute Nacht...

• Special: Venice Art Tops 2009



















Silvia Bächli (Giardini, Switzerland) Info
Bestué/Vives (Arsenale) Video
Michael Borremans (Palazzo Grassi) Info
Jake & Dinos Chapman – Fucking Hell (Punta Della Dogana) Video
Elmgreen & Dragset (Giardini, Denmark & Nordic Countries)
Hans-Peter Feldmann - Schattenspiele (Giardini)
Spencer Finch (Arsenale & Giardini) Info
Shaun Gladwell (Giardini, Australien) Photos
Raoul De Keyser – Untitled (Fortuny)
Ragnar Kjartansson – The End (Palazzo Michiel Da Brusà)
Alfred Kubin – The Eye of the Tempest (Fortuny)
Mark Lewis (Giardini, Canada)
Steve McQueen - Giardini (Giardini, Great Britain) Video
Mattia Moreni – Una nuvola colpito dal fulmine (Fortuny)
Bruce Nauman – Giorni (Universita Ca’ Foscari) Info
Fiona Tan - Disorient (Giardini, The Netherlands) Video
Wolfgang Tillmans (Giardini) Info
James Turrell – Red Shift (Fortuny)
Jef Verheyen – Escape ZERO (Fortuny)
Jef Verheyen – Urbino. L’Espace idéal (Fortuny) Picture
Lois & Franziska Weinberger (Giardini, Austria) Info

• Video: Lusine

• MP3s:

Ladies and Gentlemen! Brilliant new track by Washed Out. Enjoy:
Washed Out - Feel It All Around

and the Toro Y Moi Remix:
Washed Out - Feel It All Around (Toro Y Moi Remix)

'Feel It All Around' is a big thick wall of beautifully incongrous sounds. There're heavy, room-punching drums, there's an almost 10-CC style dreamy vocal, there're layers of dense sounds lurking ominously in the back. Yet it all clicks together with Washed Out's magical sonic touch, and the result is one of the most distinctive sevens of the year. The remix is a glorious monged out downtempo version, with Justice-style tudorian keyboards, backwards loops and great slap bass. It's the perfect morning after antidote following the night before. puregroove

myspace.com/thebabeinthewoods

• Videos: Jochen Distelmeyer & Grizzly Bear

• Album der Monate Juli/August: Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem

Over his long career, from the K Records days as auteur outsider with the Microphones to his recent solo-geared output as Mount Eerie, Phil Elverum has developed many contiguous lyrical themes. Chief amongst them is the theme of human's relations with nature, and the boundaries of nature and self. He grew up in the shadow of Mt Erie, surrounded by forests and lakes. You can imagine the young Elvrum somewhat askance from the world, skateboarding alone in a place with no paved ground, making his world in the grasses and the trees. Since then he has not abandoned the wilderness for the lure of the city, living in and around his home town of Anacortes for his adult life. In 2002 he spent a year without proper electricity in a Norwegian shack, in the process gathering material for an album and 144 page book both entitled Dawn. His photographic output is heavy with landscapes. His music is frequently concerned with nature, perhaps most succinctly summed up back in 2002 on the singles compilation Song Islands, when in ‘Phil Elvrum’s Will’ a notional account of his dying wishes he declared ”I want wind / I'll trade the traffic for the roaring waves”.

But with Wind’s Poem there is a sense that before this all was merely flirting, and now Mother Nature and Phil are going at it hammer and tongs. The album is on a Romantic mission to sketch the terrible, grotesque beauty of nature, to tap its darkness and majesty. And in the process perhaps to lose the self in some kind of sublime connection.

It’s part of the album’s strangeness that Elverum searches for a dialogue with natural forces. On ‘Summons’ Elverum implores the wind “Come revealer / come destroyer ... speak to me” in his soft curiosity-inflected voice (his poetry directly recalling Shelley’s 'Ode to the West Wind': “Destroyer and preserver; hear, O hear!") The dialogue takes on the character of mental illness on ‘Lost Wisdom Pt 2.’; “I think the screaming wind says my name / significance found in rocks”, as the perennial post-Darwinian difficulty of finding where nature might end and where we ourselves might begin is dramatised in psychological meltdown. And indeed at points Elverum completes the sublime transformation and becomes nature itself. On ‘Wind Speaks’ he chants “I am the river / I am the torment of tearing flame / I remove bodies / I hold void I have no shape”. This hints that ultimately he has no control of the dynamic transformations he exposes himself to, as on ‘My Heart is Not at Peace’ he softly intones “If my heart were at peace would it be a blossom satisfied / or would it be a stone?”

Questions of self bleed into political questions. In Wind’s Poem Elverum derives a nationalism from nature, citing the American continent’s “wild fresh heritage” as a basis for a love of his country. On ‘Through the Trees’, (an 11 minute sloW-core anthem built around sustained rough-hewn synths, like a Boards of Canada confined to world-weary Casiotone), he gently croons “I can see / the land of dreams / through the trees”. America obscured to an outsider perhaps, but more likely America as home of the natural: a nation redefined in Elverum’s own interests.

There's darkness here too, which he unveils by hitching the album to David Lynch’s cult Nineties supernatural soap-opera Twin Peaks. Angelo Badalamenti’s dreamwave electronics, that could convey idyll and cellar-dungeon in the same chord, are looped into a lo-fi grove on ‘Through the Trees’. ‘Between Two Mysteries’, opens with a synth lead lifted straight from the show’s ‘Laura Palmer’s Theme’, and lyrically references the series’ title. In between the glades, the overpowering oceans and identity-shifting winds there is the seamy rub of human evil that flourishes in disconnected towns and fragile suburban outposts.

And the music itself holds an immense darkness. The dense, percussive wall of layered synths and brazenly distorted guitars that usher in ‘Wind's Dark Poem’ stand as a revisitation of the kind of big sound experimented with on Microphones' Don’t Wake Me Up. But they also announce a new tone of ferocity and depth of darkness, an expansive hardness throughout the album. Not only did Elverum succeed in his aim “to make the loudest album yet”, but he also succeeded in presenting it delicately.

As a photographer, author, poet, musician, comicbook writer and label owner, it is always tempting to posit Elverum as a Renaissance man, but he is not that. The Renaissance man seeks to resolve contradictions in a totality, by bringing the world together in personality. Think Lars Ulrich or Sting. Publicity-shy Elverum is happy to let ironic opposites exist side by side, an artist shorn of the neurotic impulse to make their mark on the world at all costs. The Renaissance man’s garden was classical and ordered, his home the rational city. Elverum’s garden is vast and untameable, and he is of the American country. The Renaissance man seeks to hold a candle to the darkness. Elverum imagines the darkness, and makes music that is the stuff of darkness itself. Elverum is the long lost heir to Romanticism, creating heavy symphonies of limitations. This is a terrifying, wise album, sung by, in his own words, “the voice of an old boulder”. Daniel B. Yates in Drowned In Sound

• Ranking July/August 2009

Bin leider in den letzten Monaten nicht dazu gekommen viel Musik zu hören und zu bewerten. Wird aber noch erfolgen. Bitte um Nachsicht.

Juli/August 2008

9
Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
8.5
Destroyer - Bay of Pigs EP
8
The Dodos - Time To Die
Radiohead - Kid A (Deluxe Edition)
Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delight
7.5
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
HEALTH - Get Color
Yacht - See Mystery Lights
Sparklehorse + Fennesz - In The Fishtank
Dan Deacon - Bromst
Six Organs of Admittance - Luminous Night
Various - Kompakt 10
Radiohead - Amnesiac (Deluxe Edition)
7
Delorean - Ayrton Senna EP
No Age - Losing Feeling EP
Zoot Woman - Things Are What They Used to Be
The XX - XX
JJ - JJ n° 2
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Anti-Pop Consortium - Fluorescent Black
Nadja - Belles Betes
Various - Kitsune Maison Compilation 7
Giardini di Miro - Il Fuoco
Balmorhea - All Is Wild, All Is Silent Remixes
Cass McCombs - Catacombs
Sunn O))) & Pan Sonic, Burroughs, Vega - Che
Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence EP
6.5
Tyondai Braxton - Central Market
Yellow Swans with John Wiese - Portable Dunes
9dw & Boris - Golden Dance Classics (Split)
Matthew Ship Trio - Harmonic Disorder
6
Jesu - Infinity
Why? - Eskimo Snow
Amiina - Re Minore EP
5.5
Aber das Leben lebt - Hospital Years
5
John Zorn - O'o

• Video:

HEALTH

It's all bacchanalian fun until someone gets their throat cut. Such is the case with the refreshingly professional-looking new video from noise rockers HEALTH, for their jam "Die Slow", from their new album Get Color. Bonus points to the band for directing their own clip, too.



+ Bonus MP3: Fever Ray - Seven (Martyn's Seventh Remix)

• Videos fürs Wochenende ;)

feat. Dan Deacon, The Walkmen, YACHT und Jochen Distelmeyers "Wohin mit dem Hass?"

• Live: The Whitest Boy Alive + Erobique @ Arena, Wien 18.08.2009

REMOVED

quazaro on youtube

REMOVED

aufderlichtung you tube

• News: Lightning Bolt + Nadja

Brian Chippendale and Brian Gibson release their fifth album Garden Of Earthly Delights in mid-October. The album title felt sort of Boschian when I heard it and turns out the album art kind of is as well. Speaking of expansive, take a listen to the seven-plus minute "Colossus." From the start it locks into an interestingly half-speed groove -- littered with those echoed, cavernous vocalisms -- until the guys start running uphill at the 3:40 mark and then pass into a phased-out stratosphere in the last minute.

Lightning Bolt - Colossus

Across four extended soundscapes, psychedelic Denton post-metallers Pyramids team with seemingly everywhere/highly collaborative Toronto duo Nadja to create expansive ambient dirges that feel both fragile and heavy. You get the blast beats and wraithlike black metal vocalism of Pyramids' gorgeous self-titled debut on the airily pummeling "The Sound of Ice and Grass" and for sections of the highly triumphant closer "An Angel Was Heard To Cry Over The City Of Rome," but elsewhere the Texas quartet meld with Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff to create something entirely new: A spacious, darkly illuminated naturalist drone. The collection includes well-chosen guest spots from Cocteau Twins/This Mortal Coil bassist Simon Raymonde, Albin Julius of Der Blutharsch, and Mineral's Chris Simpson. The Mineral/Gloria Record frontman provides haunted vocals for "Another War," a track you can lose yourself in right now.

Listen here (via Stereogum)

• Video: Alva Noto - u_08-1

• Video: Memory Cassette - Surfin'/Body In The Water

• Special feature: Kompakt 10 via Pitchfork

For the past decade, Cologne's Kompakt has been the pre-eminent techno label in the world. Emerging in the late-1990s-- at a time in which techno itself was the province of a cabal of Detroit devotees with a conservative, narrow definition of their scene-- Kompakt used the 4/4 thump of the dancefloor as a means rather than an end. Label owners Wolfgang Voigt (Gas, Mike Ink), Michael Mayer, and Jürgen Paape created a central, branded imprint willing to release any and all sounds that took their fancy. Over the years, that has included ambient washes, hands-in-the-air electro-pop, thumping floor-fillers, and above all microhouse, a minimal take on house in which elements of rhythm are often glitches, whirrs, and clicks rather than more traditional mechanistic drums.

Today, Kompakt is a mini-empire. Its "act local, think global" approach has resulted in 16-person company that runs not only the label and website but also handles distribution, one of the world's largest techno record stores, a booking agency, and a publishing arm. In addition, compatriot Tobias Thomas handles a monthly Total Confusion residency in the label's hometown of Cologne. Meanwhile, the label is home to an international all-star team of dance artists, from not only Germany (the label's owners, as well as Superpitcher, DJ Koze, Justus Köhncke, Jörg Burger, Thomas Fehlmann, Sascha Funke, Dettinger, and many more), but also Sweden (the Field), Brazil (Gui Boratto), Chile (Matías Aguayo), Japan (Kaito), Iceland (GusGus), and the UK (Rex the Dog, the Orb).

Kompakt - The Early 20 Years mp3

Tracklist (with commentary from Michael Mayer)

1. All: "Alltag 1"
It's appropriate to start this journey with the godfather: All is Wolfgang Voigt's first appearance on Kompakt. "Alltag 1" still breathes the spirit of the Profan era and marks the birth of the Pop Ambient concept.
2. Ehlert & Lohberger: "Vito E.P. 2"
This is the most overlooked record in our catalog. Nobody liked it at the time-- except Wolfgang and myself. If I received this demo today, I'd sign them right away! One of many records we've released knowing it would be a flop but that we'd made a statement.
3. Dettinger: "Totentanz 1"
Dettinger's ambient long players, Intershop and Oasis, became our first true "classics." His 4/4 works are lesser-known but as revolutionary as the rest. Today, "Totentanz" still sounds shockingly modern and it somehow predates the whole Kuduro/UK Funky movement with its harsh digital dancehall vibe.
4. Sascha Funke: "Safety First 4"
Sascha Funke released his first records with us. His father (a Berliner) was a diehard supporter of Cologne's soccer club and little Sascha inherited the same passion. He'll drive a Ford because the cars are manufactured in Cologne, and he'll play Cologne techno on its stereo. We love Sascha.
5. Peter Grummich: "Schleusen Auf 2"
Another visitor from Berlin. "Schleusen Auf" sounds like an old, rattling subway on pretty decent drugs. I just put this one right back into my record crate...a timeless piece of confusing techno.
6. Schaeben & Voss: "Tombo's Revenge"
Aside from running the ever-excellent Firm label, these guys recorded some of the most dirty and "out there" tunes during Kompakt's early days. They're a snotty techno band with an amazing live show.
7. Jürgen Paape: "So Weit Wie Noch Nie (Ata's Playhouse Mix)"
The original version-- a tantalizing hybrid of German schlager and house-- was released on Total 3. For the 12" single release we requested a remix from our good old friend, Ata from Playhouse/Robert Johnson in Frankfurt. He did what he does best: music for late night girls.
8. Leandro Fresco: "Cera Uno"
This one may very well end up in my Kompakt all-time top 10. Leandro Fresco lives and works in Buenos Aires and he created a monster. All cuts on this EP are just unearthly and beautiful, particularly the ambient ones.
9. Superpitcher: "Heroin"
No words necessary here...just a little advertising for his new album coming up in February. It's going to be a.w.e.s.o.m.e.!
10. Dorau / Köhncke: "Durch Die Nacht (Geiger Mix)"
One of the kinkiest records on our Kompakt Pop offshoot featuring two of the most notorious German disco-teers. The Geiger remix turned out to be the gem...I'm still playing this out a lot.
11. Closer Musik: "2 the Beat 2 the Rock"
Matias Aguayo and Dirk Leyers gave birth to Kompakt classics like "Maria" and "One Two Three (No Gravity)". When the duo broke up, the girls in Cologne wore black for the rest of that year. The track featured here perfectly documents Aguayo's daredevil approach in production.
12. Lawrence: "Teaser"
We've been in love with the Hamburg-based Dial label and its protagonists Lawrence, Carsten Jost, and Pantha du Prince since day one. Bringing Romy Schneider to the techno floor is something that had to be done and nobody could have done it with more class than Lawrence.

• Stream: Jochen Distelmeyer (Ex Blumfeld) - Wohin mit dem Hass?

Lass ich mal kommentarlos hier stehen. Der Stream zu finden auf distelmeyer.de

Am 25.09. erscheint HEAVY! Das erste Soloalbum von Jochen Distelmeyer. Bereits am 11.09. erscheint die Single "Lass uns Liebe sein".

• Video - Zoot Woman - We Won't Break

• MP3:

Lusine - Two Dots

While much of Lusine’s output, including his upcoming second album for Ghostly, A Certain Distance, is deep in the bubbly ping of bedroom electronics, his new single “Two Dots”, a collaboration with Finnish singer Vilja Larjosto is more lucid, and more, well, Brazilian. Though he’s a solidly American dude, Lusine—when he’s not writing soundtracks—must be listening to a lot of Bebel Gilberto and getting open. He cuts up Larjosto’s vocal into something a little scat, a little sad. Pretty sure this is downtempo, actually. Pretty sure downtempo is cool again now that Portishead is cool again. Oh, that was triphop. Maybe Lusine is triphop. (The Fader)

• Listen:

bvdub - Waiting For The World To Go By (Mix) via textura.org

• MP3s: Summer tunes

Frischgestärkt aus dem Kurzurlaub. Bomba Bomba Bungaloo...

Atlas Sound - Walkabout (feat. Panda Bear)

On “Walkabout,” the first song from his upcoming album Logos (Oct 20, Kranky), Cox sings along with Noah Lennox, What did you want to see/ What did you want to be/ When you grew up, and generally seems to be focused on moving on, becoming an adult, or at least acknowledging that he can’t be a child anymore. The song samples the bubbling keys of “What Am I Going to Do” by the Dovers, as inspired by some tour bus song games between Cox and Animal Collective, and reflects that song’s simple and beautiful pop, with Cox and Lennox’s signature soft layers. If Logos is in any way as good as this song, we will not need much else in the fall. (The Fader)

Wavves - Mickey Mouse

The tag to Nathan Williams most recent blog post—about finishing Resident Evil Vol 4000—is “I have no life.” This was also the apparent tag to every song he ever recorded, at least until he played them for other people, though he might say that driving forever, playing a show, drinking, sleeping maybe and repeating, is less of a life than an Xbox narrative. Maybe bored but not enough to write a song about it, Williams posted “Mickey Mouse,” an undulating, unused demo on his blog. It sounds like Panda Bear, the drums in Guitar Hero and spit. (The Fader)

Toro y moi - Timed Pleasure

It would seem that South Carolinian Chaz Bundick is already making a strong play for "best of 2010," as his project Toro y Moi is releasing not one, but two albums that year, and every advance track that he's put out there so far is strikingly impressive in style and execution. "Timed Pleasure," is a dreamy lump of ketamine disco, that's slated to appear on Toro y Moi's cassette, Body Angles, forthcoming on Mirror Universe Tapes. Also, don't forget the "Blessa" 7-inch due in October, and of course, those two LPs due out in 2010 on Carpark. (Gorillavsbear)

The Big Pink - Dominos
The Big Pink - Dominos (Gang Gang Dance Remix)

Previously named as one of BBC's most likely breakout acts of 2009, UK duo the Big Pink are set to release their full-length debut A Brief History Of Love this September via venerable indie outpost 4AD. The first single from the eleven-song, self-produced LP is "Dominos," a catchy mid-tempo groover that pulls shoegaze and noise bits into a fat backbeat in a way that might recall previous gig-mates Secret Machines. (Stereogum)

Washed Out - Feel It All Around

In a similarly dreamy realm as fellow Columbia, South Carolina multi-instrumentalist and friend Toro y Moi, Washed Out, aka Ernest Greene, gets us ready for a chilly summer (or July Language, if you're thinking Belong) with the woozy ambience of "Feel It All Around." It's like a more insular Quiet Village until the vocals start and draw you a few steps closer, but the ending fade makes the whole thing disappear before you get a chance to burrow in deeply enough. This fleetingness is maybe part of its charm. (Stereogum)

Memory Cassette - Surfin Sail A Whale Version

New Jersey dream-beat project Memory Cassette (aka Memory Tapes) has a collection of remixes called Calls & Responses coming out on the The Acephale imprint. It includes reworkings by the likes of CFCF and includes this blissful, lush retake from Sweden's Sail a Whale. (Pitchfork)

Best Coast - Sun Was High So Was I

Best Coast is Bethany Consentino of Pocahaunted, and while there's maybe something of that lo-fi drone funk outfit in her newest work, Best Coast is clearly a sea change for Consentino, one whose waves she's riding on a pop surfboard. (Prefixmag)

Memory Tapes - Bicycle Horrors Cosmic Dub

It was just last week we were telling you about Memory Tapes (aka Memory Cassette, aka Weird Tapes, aka Southern NJ resident Dayve Hawk)'s fully remixed (and downloadable) Calls & Responses EP. Now the gothy Trent Reznor-approved and Mercury Prize-nominated UK garage rockers the Horrors have done a "Cosmic Dub" remix of "Bicycle," the first single from Memory Tapes' forthcoming full-length Seek Magic. They've increased the precipitation, reduced the vocals, and made it spookier. (Stereogum)

• Video: Tradition in Transition: A Postcard from Cali (TRAILER)



Tradition in Transition - recorded in Cali, Columbia - is the upcoming album from Quantic and his Combo Barbaro. It sees Will "Quantic" Holland mining the lesser-tapped musical sources from the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa and fusing those rediscovered psychedelic, experimental and rhythmically rich sounds of the past with deep funk and soul elements and folkloric vocal styles. This exceptional longplayer gives life to an explosive sonic snapshot of an ever-evolving musical landscape, played out by a carefully assembled international cast of musical creators.

myspace.com/quanticmusic

• Preview: The Dodos - Time To Die

San Francisco duo, The Dodos return this autumn with brilliant new album, ‘Time To Die’. The follow up to last year’s critically acclaimed sophomore effort ‘Visiter’, ‘Time To Die’ is the band’s third long player and produced by Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, The Shins, Built to Spill).
The Dodos’ wildly percussive style is still centred around the two key elements of punchy percussion courtesy of Logan Kroeber and the Fahey-infused finger-picking of frontman Meric Long, but ‘Time To Die’ introduces one major addition to the Dodos’ creative core: Keaton Snyder, a 21-year-old music school dropout who plays a mean vibraphone.
“After Visiter, we had a lot of options for which direction to go,” says Long, “But I knew we wanted to make a rock record. Being an acoustic band—primarily, at least—sort of works against this idea, but Phil’s production showcased that side of our band.”
“The vibraphone is pretty crazy and loud,” adds Long, “and if you put it through some effects, you can make it sound like a guitar or synthesizer. It still has that element of something you’re hitting, though, which is central to how Logan and I play our instruments.” wichita-recordings.com

Outstanding! (8/10)

myspace.com/thedodos
dodosmusic.net

• Preview: Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem

What if the sound of wind through trees could be translated into human words? What is it saying?
For WIND’S POEM by Mount Eerie, Phil Elverum spent almost two years out behind the house, at the edge of the woods, listening into the night and finding these words. Songs of impermanence, dark change, destruction, temporary blossoming, mortality, and an immense river of air tearing through the world make up the 3rd official album by Mount Eerie.
A hundred kinds of distortion, oceans of synth, and clouds of bass are the elements these twelve songs are built from, with moments of clarity occasionally revealing soft harmonies (featuring Nick Krgovich from Vancouver’s NO KIDS) reverently attempting to describe a dark mystery. The album holds a large debt to the music and world of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, as well as to some of the more innovative artists on the edges of ambient, colossal Black Metal. Like these influences, WIND’S POEM also drifts back and forth between a “dream world”, where the wind screams about fleeting existence, and reality, standing on the street, wide awake, looking at the hills outside town, remembering.
The album is well built, resting on the stone-solid production of Mount Eerie’s only actual member, Phil Elverum, recorded at various locations around his hometown of Anacortes, Washington. In large walls of warm noise you can hear the wind, or is it flames?, or cymbals?, voice-like through the fog. And then all at once the clouds part and a song hangs in the air, soft and clear.

One of the best albums 2009 ! (9/10)

pwelverumandsun.com

• Album des Monats Juni: Nadja - Numbness

Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker (guitar, vocals, drums, piano, flute) and Leah Buckareff (bass, vocals, violin) from Toronto, Canada. Their sounds have been called “ambient doom”; music that combines elements of metal, shoegaze, ambient, post-rock, experimental, and neo-classical. They have released numerous albums on such labels as Alien8 Recordings, The End Records, and Conspiracy Records and have toured extensively throughout the world including appearances at noted festivals like Roadburn, FIMAV, and SXSW.
“Numbness” is a special collection of tracks, compiled by Nadja themselves choosing “shoegaze-oriented” tracks among their vast previous titles. Most of the tracks were originally released on very limited vinyls or rare compilation albums. Among the 6 tracks, total time of over 70 minutes, there are two vocal-centered tracks which reveals the influence of My Bloody Valentine. The last track “Numb” is an amazing 21 minute drone noise track as if synchronizing dark psychedelia of Mono and Mogwai. A perfect compilation for Nadja beginners to Nadja freaks. Packaged in a special cardboard sleeve. Just Awesome! (7.5/10)

• Ranking June 2009

8
Omar S - Just Ask The Lonely (ReIssue)*
7.5
Nadja - Numbness (Reissue Compilation)
Rick Wade - Harmonie Park (Reissue Compilation)
7
Mirko Loko - Seventynine
The Most Serene Republic - Words Are Something Else
Various (OST) - The Limits Of Control
Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent
Boduf Songs - There Is Something Hanging Above
Gossip - Music For Men
Tiny Vipers - Life On Earth
The Boats - Words Are Something Else
Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
6.5
Various - Cocoon Compilation l
Max Richter (OST) - Henry May Long
Pillowdriver - Sleeping Pills
No Neck Blues Band - At 6 A.M. We Become The Police
Jamie T - Sticks n Stones EP
Pelican - Ephemeral EP
Windmill - Epcot Starfields
Christopher Tignor - Core Memory Unwound
6
Vladislav Delay - Tummaa
Taylor Deupree - Live1: Mapping
The Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going Away
Kevin Drumm - Alku Tape
5.5
The Mars Volta - Octahedron

*original released 2005

• Video: Holiday Shores - Phones Don't Feud

The next big thing?!?

• Video: MGMT - Kids

Schönes Monstervideo passend zur unserer Ausstellungseröffnung ;)

• Video: Death Cab For Cutie - Little Bribes

The new Death Cab for Cutie video doubles as a feel-good, triumph-of-the-little-guy tale. Director Ross Ching was simply a longtime fan of the band when he made the clip for "Little Bribes", a track off Death Cab's recent Open Door EP.

He uploaded the time-lapse-crazed clip to the web, and next thing you know, his beloved band declared his video totally official. Plus: A press release tells us Ching has been hired by DCFC label Atlantic to film another project.

• Video: Dirty Projectors - Stillness is the Move

• Zuletzt hinzugefügt

Neue Rubrik die irgendwie die "Audiolicious" ersetzt bzw. es mir um einiges leichter macht etwas darüber zu erzählen was ich mir so anhöre zur Zeit. Trotzdem wird es die "Audiolicious" dann und wann mal wieder geben, vorallem wenn ich genug Zeit finden sollte (was im Moment leider nicht der Fall ist).
Nun (nicht)gut. Die Rubrik "Zuletzt hinzugefügt" versteht sich eh von selber oder? Jeder iTunes Besitzer weiß worum es geht und alle Anderen müssen sich halt mal selber umhören.

Cocoon Compilation l
Cocoon ist das nicht so eine Partyreihe die Mr. Sven Väth in Ibiza vom Stapel lässt mit schrillen halbnackten Boys and Girls auf Drogen. Und ich muss euch gestehen keine Ahnung zu haben und auch keine vorherige Cocoon Compilation zu kennen, obwohl es da wohl schon sauviele gibt. Nun kennen tu ich schon einmal ein paar Artists auf der Compilation: Johnny D, Kollektiv Turmstrasse, Radio Slave, Timo Maas. Schon einmal gehört: Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts, EMT (mit Tobi Neumann). Was soll dieses Fachgesülze die doch keinen interessiert. House, Techno, Minimal Tracks viele nicht sonderlich inspirierend aber immer flott um die Ecke gekurvt. Klar, satt produziert und im Club ein Vermögen wert. Und Kollektiv Turmstrasse machen immer tolle Tracks! Radio Slave eher schwach um die Hüften, Timo Maas nervt, sonst ordentlich.

Moritz von Oswald Trio – Vertical Ascent
Basic Channel/Chain Reaction Mitbegründer, Maurizio, Quadrant. Von Oswald hat nicht nur Berlin als Techno Stadt geprägt sondern auch mir schon treibende, monotone, minimalistische Nächte im Auto auf langen, quälenden Autofahrten versüßt. Wenn man in den Oswaldschen Sound so richtig hineinkippt ist das die geilste Musik der Welt. 2008 veröffentlichte von Oswald mit Carl Craig das von Kritikern aller Welt geliebte „ReComposed“ Album, was mich nur bedingt zu überzeugen wusste. Auf „Vertical Ascent“ setzt er diesen Trend gnadenlos fort. Treibende elektronische Sound, perfekt in der Machart. Unumstößlich genial Zeitgemäß und doch seiner Zeit weit voraus.

Vladislav Delay – Tummaa
Hektische Beats gepaart mit tröpfelnden Jazz-Piano, verflucht von Bös-quakenden Bässen. Sehr vertrackt und um die Ecke gedacht. Durchaus spannend. Ich mag den stringenten, minimalistischen Delay aber sehr viel lieber.

Jamie T – Sticks N Stones EP
Kurz und knapp: Der Titeltrack „Stick N Stones“ ist sehr geil, kickt den Flow und bespringt einen unaufhörlich rammelnd. Der Rest ist ganz grosser Mist ;)

Rick Wade – Harmonie Park
Zusammenstellung seiner Werke aus der Frühphase. Habe so einiges noch auf Vinyl. Wade’s Piano Loops sind wunderbar, seine springenden Beats echte Klassiker. Detroit !!! Meisterwerke !!!

Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
Neuer Topact auf Warp!?! Fleet Foxes auf Elektrosound? Verschrabbelter Anticon Hip Hop? Und lustig: Passt irgendwie alles. Aber nicht die Entdeckung des Jahres wie so mancher Kritiker meint. Abwechslungsreich, verspielt, bisweilen schön.

Max Richter – Henry May Long
Max Richter ist Komponist. Er vertont Filme und das sehr klassisch, wunderschön. Viele Streicher, Klavier, einiges an Pathos. Schon mit „Waltz With Bashir“ ist es Richter eindrücklich gelungen seine ganz eigene Art an Sounds in die Bilder des Films zu verweben und eine einzigartige Stimmung zu erzeugen. Tadellos, perfekt, tieftraurig. Ganz großes Kino!!!

• Video: MSTRKRFT - Featuring John Legend

• Super Flu - Shine

Der Sommer kann kommen ... ;)

•

• Tipp: Omar-S - Just Ask The Lonely

Alex O Smith, better known as Omar S, finally delivers this hugely anticpated cd album, re-producing his inimitable, f*cked-up Detroit variations in a style which he claims to be uniquely his own – and who are we to argue? “Just Ask The Lonely” is a brilliant trawl through the Omar S sound, wholly unexpected turns making for music that’s deliciously hard to place. Beyond the supremely atmospheric ambience of the opening intro, “Jit” explores this enigmatic poetry perfectly, stretching from a padded 4/4 build-up to a full-flow track that’s so fast and incoherent it takes you several moments to work out what’s going on. This is the beauty of the man’s music – its somehow so raw and primitive yet challenging and, dare we say it, groundrbeaking that you’re never quite sure whether you’re listening to a rough collage of demo’s or to something so advanced and unpretentious it’s yet to be properly defined. For our money this release falls sqaurely with the latter, making itself one of the most exciting and un-formulaic techno albums we’ve heard in ages and a prelude to what will no doubt become a frenzied approach to a man who’s already been cited as the next Theo Parrish. As Omar himself says : “You can not copy Omar-S style. You can only copy a song that has already been produced by Omar-S”. Awesome!

omarsdetroit.us
LISTEN here

• mp3:

Air France - CBG Belongs To Us

Air France just tipped us off to a new song they've recorded, a tribute to their hometown Gothenburg, called "GBG Belongs to Us". They've even recorded a little "teaser" video for the tune, which can be found at the "Part III" link below. Follow "Part II" for a .zip file with the track. ("Part I" seems to be a very detailed travel guide, in case you were thinking about visiting Sweden!)

info und myspace

• Video: Bjork - Declare Independence (Live)

• Video: Double Dagger - Vivre Sans Temps Mort



via pitchfork.tv
myspace.com/doubledaggersucks
posttypography.com/doubledagger

• Video: Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes



via pitchfork.tv

• mp3s:

You can't improve upon perfection, but TV On The Radio give it a shot in this update of their fellow Brooklynites' "First Communion." You'll remember Gang Gang Dance remixed them for Read Silence so it's only fair. The original version appears on last year's excellent Saint Dymphna, which you really should own. Here the weirdo dance groove gets 909's familiar sputtering breaks and claps, but Lizzie is still front and center. It appears on the "First Communion" 12" along with last year's Hot Chip remix of album standout "House Jam."

Gang Gang Dance - First Communion (TV On The Radio Mix)
Gang Gang Dance - House Jam (Hot Chip Remix)

Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes (Dam Funk Remix)

• Special Feature:

Really amazing new stuff!!! congrats!!! Und am geilsten ist das "passt" am Ende ;)

vimeo

v+
Projektion auf Timecode Schallplatte
Jonas Bohatsch, 2009

v+ erweitert Timecode-Schallplatten, welche in Digital-DJ-Systemen zum Einsatz kommen, um visuelle Aspekte. Das von der Schallplatte ausgelesene Kontrollsignal wird nicht nur zur Steuerung von Ton sondern auch zur Steuerung von Video, welches direkt auf die Platte projeziert wird, verwendet. Die Platte wird somit Träger virtueller Audio- und Video-Objekte.

• Video: New Buffalo - I've Got You and You've Got Me (Broken Social Scene Remix)

Official music video for New Buffalo's "I've Got You and You've Got Me" remixed by Broken Social Scene.
Directed by: Karen Abad
Shot on Super 16mm with the Arri SR3 and a Bolex H16 Reflex on Kodak 7219 500T Vision 3 and 7205 250D Vision 2.
This music video was created as part of my thesis for my MFA in Cinematography for Graduate School. (karenabadmfa.tumblr.com)

myspace.com/newbuffalomusic
newbuffalo.net
obscuresound.com

• Tipp:

• Album des Monats Mai: Shawn Lee - Soul In The Hole

Waaa maggu wirklich Soul? Und das als Album des Monats trotz Sunn O))), Sonic Youth und Tortoise. Und ja meine Lieben! Soul, klar warum nicht? Hat mich damals in Düdorf immer extrem genervt im Unique und auf diversen Partys. Doch dank Marvin Gaye und Roy Ayers habe ich es irgendwann verstanden - den Vibe. Dann Moodymann, Theo Parrish. eine wenig Jazzanova und Jamie Lidell mochte ich auch immer. Nun hier das Shawn Lee Album. Es hat mich gepackt wie selten eine Soul Platte, wie eigentlich erst ganz wenige Soul Platten, wie eigentlich keine Soul Platte die nicht aus den 60zigern oder 70zigern produziert wurde. "Soul In The Hole" ist fantastisch...

Ubiquity Records schreibt: "Soul In The Hole is a tribute to multi-instrumentalist Shawn Lees favorite soul sounds through the eras. Featuring guest-appearances from Paul Butler (The Bees), Nicole Willis, Darondo, Karime Kendra, Fanny Franklin, and Kirin Lee, the album is an homage to styles from the late 1960s to the 1980s. “Writing and recording this project felt so natural. It was like coming home,” says Lee. “The great Richie Havens famously once said "I'm going back to my roots." That's exactly what I've done,” he adds.
He hand-picked his global selection of guests like the amazing Paul Butler (of The Bees, and currently working with Devendra Banhart) from the Isle of Wight, who appears on a track that is part Shuggie Otis, part Style Council mod. Northern Cali’s old school man of soul, Darondo is featured on two tracks, and the super-talented Nicole Willis, hailing from Finland, drops a Northern Soul shaker.
The title track features Lee on vocals and has a late 1960's Detroit stepper vibe. Two crackly-southern-ballads feature Fanny Franklin and Karime Kendra, the latter pulling off a deep version of a little-known Al Green/Willie Mitchell ballad. Lee teams up with his wife on the cosmic funk of “The Stuff,” “ I was thinking of the late 70's jazzy sophisticated productions of Roy Ayers. It reminds me of the UK rare groove scene of the late 80's early 90's,” he says. And there are even funk-rock and sunny Miami disco styled sounds to complete the chronological nod to the past that is mixed with just a touch of the present."

myspace.com/shawnleemusic
shawnlee.net

• Ranking May 2009

7.5
Shawn Lee - Soul In The Hole
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
Orchestra National de Jazz - Around Robert Wyatt
Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship
7
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Mount Eerie - White Stag
Peter Broderick - Ten Duets
Passion Pit - Manners
Nathan Fake - Hard Islands
ES - Kesämaan Lapset
St. Vincent - Actor
The Field - Yesterday and Today
6.5
Mokira - Persona
DNTEL - Early Works For Me If It Works For You II
DOOM - Born Like This
Animal Hospital - Good or Plenty, Streets + Avenues
6
Riceboy Sleeps - Riceboy Sleeps
Nate Young - Regression
Hecker - Acid In The Style Of David Tudor
Maximo Park - Quicken The Heart
Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
City Center - City Center
Luke Hess - Light In The Dark
5.5
Dietmar Dath & Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Im erwachten Garden
Storsveit Nix Noltes - Royal Family-Divorce
5
Various - Score!
Phantom Ghost - Thrown Out of Drama School

• Videos: Passion Pit - Sleepyhead + The Reeling / Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks

Enjoy ;)

• Off Topic:

• Tipp:

• Track: Phoenix RMX

For free! Phoenix - Lisztomania (Holy Ghost! loves Paris remixomania)
Via Fairtilizer.

• Video: Tortoise - Prepare Your Coffin

• Video: Modest Mouse - Satellite Skin

• Video: Whitest Boy Alive - Golden Cage

Ja ich weiss irgendwie verkommt der tonband Blog immer mehr zum Videoblog. Aber was soll ich machen, kaum Zeit zum Musikhören geschweige denn zum Schreiben. Und Videos sind ja auch etwas schönes oder? Ausserdem gibts wirkungsvolle Sounds im mp3 Archiv. So warte ich dringlichst auf das nächste Audiolicious wie ihr ;)

• Videos: Kid 606 + Amadou and Mariam + The Mae Shi

RE-MOVED to videoband

• Tipp: Chromatic Flights - Favorite Cat EP

A long time coming, the third Monotonik release from Chromatic Flights, aka Florida's Kyle Wyss, debuts after some heavy buzz for his main project, the two-man band Blind Man's Colour, online.

The band signed to Kanine Records (Grizzly Bear, Mommy And Daddy), we're delighted to be continuing to put out his solo material for Monotonik fans.

Continuing from his first and second free releases on Monotonik, 'Memories From The Audible Color Wheel' and 'Heavy Stars Will Fall', respectively, this new EP continues to layer in gorgeous mixes of shoegazing melodies and electronic goodness.

mp3: Chromatic Flights - Favorite Cat

mono211.com
myspace.com/kylescolour
info