• Dirty Projectors - The Getty Address

Weird... and RE-MOVED to videoband

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• mp3s:

01 The Field - The More That I Do
02 Madvillain - One Beer (Drunk Version)
03 Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange
04 Wavves - Friends Were Gone
05 The Big Pink - Velvet (Gang Gang Dance Remix)
06 Sonic Youth - Sacred Trickster
07 Magik Markers - Don't Talk In Your Sleep
08 Sunset Rubdown - Idiot Heart
09 Balmorhea - Harm And Boon
10 Black Moth Super Rainbow - Born On A Day The Sun Didnt Rise

• Video: Balmorhea - Remembrance



myspace.com/balmorhea
balmorheamusic.com
westernvinyl.com
pitchfork.com/tv

• Live : Fleet Foxes - Live at Black Cat, Washington DC (2008)
















01 Sun Giant
02 Sun It Rises
03 Drops In The River
04 English House
05 White Winter Hymnal
06 Your Protector
07 He Doesnt Know Why
08 Crayon Angels
09 Oliver James
10 Mykonos
11 Tiger Mountain Peasant Song

From the moment they took the stage at Washington, DC's Black Cat, Fleet Foxes seemed surprised by all the attention. Lead singer Robin Pecknold made several references to the size of the crowd, telling the sold-out audience he'd never seen so many people packed together. This brought a loud cheer from the roomful of fans who otherwise spent most of the night standing in slack-jawed awe over the band's breathtaking harmonies.
After a tentative start, Fleet Foxes seemed to find their collective voice, opening with "Sun Giant," the title track to the band's EP, released earlier this year on the Sub Pop label. They followed with highlights from their self-titled debut LP, including "White Winter Hymnal." Throughout the performance, the band played with a sort of bemused astonishment, repeatedly thanking the audience for their support.

Thanx to indiepassion.blogspot.com

• Audiolicious Part Nine 2009

Schnell noch ein neues Audiolicious rausgeknallt, da mir in den nächsten Tagen die Übersicht fehlen wird und ich kaum Zeit habe.

Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Bill macht folkige Indie Musik. Bill scheibt herrlich komische Texte ("Too Many Birds In One Tree"). Bill hat eine rauchige, tiefgründliche Stimme. Bill hat was zu sagen. Bill benutzt sogar Streicher. Bill liebt seine Gitarre. Mr. Callahan überzeugt voll und ganz und rührt zu Tränen. Smog! (7.5/10)
myspace.com/toomuchtolove

Depeche Mode – Sounds Of The Universe
„Music For The Masses“ war Depeche Mode’s letztes Album was ich gemocht habe. Die älteren Sachen sind ohne Frage Klassiker und dann und wann gerne gehört. Doch kann ich mit Depeche Mode leider so gar nichts mehr anfangen. Da lasse ich fundierte Reviews doch lieber Andere (Telegraph, Spin, Spiegel) schreiben. Bestimmt nicht schlecht aber toll? (5.5/10)

The Gentleman Losers – The Gentleman Losers
Boomkat schreibt: „Opening with the creased prologue of 'An Empire of Coins', The Gentleman Losers sound much as you wish Boards of Canada did - taking a water-bled guitar part then incrementally coating it in a queasy blend of crackling aural lint. Recorded at night in a reputedly haunted house that comprises part of Finland's medieval district, The Gentleman Losers describe their music as "one part 60s movie soundtracks, one part wooden electronica, all recorded through a 50s Telefunken mixer we found abandoned in a basement". 'The Gentleman Losers' encapsulate a universe of quiet musical aspirations in a breezy, effortless way that's all-too rare, managing to distil their sound into a pithy diktat : "we wanted to make music from a past that hasn't happened yet..."
Sehr schönes Release und wieder diese leiernden Sounds irgendwie typisch für Finnland? Mich erinnert das teilweise auch noch neben Boards of Canada an alte Tortoise Veröffentlichungen. (7.5/10)
myspace.com/thegentlemanlosers
gentlemanlosers.com

Lawrence English – A Colour For Autumn
„Droplet“ Track One ist so ein geiles komisches Lied. Ambient Sounds aber diese Stimmenflächen, fantastisch! Auch sonst erinnert mich viel an Fennesz und somit ist das hier ein klasse Ambient Album. Lovely, very approachable micro-drones from 12k (7.5/10)
lawrenceenglish.com

Pendle Coven – Self Assessment
Tolle 12“s haben Pendle Coven veröffentlicht auf Modern Love! Neben Andy Stott und Claro Intelecto DAS Aushängeschild bei Modern Love. Deep, technoid, rollend, grollend, minimal, düster. Schöne sphärische Technosounds mut dubbigen Elementen und immer furztrocken. Sehr clean, teilweise vertrackt. (7/10)
myspace.com/pendlecoven
pendle-coven.co.uk
Textura review

Bald geht es weiter mit 65daysofstatic, Merzbow, Dirty Projectors, Del The Funky Homosapien, Nathan Fake, Peter Broderick, Mokira und Storsveit Nix Noltes...

• Video: Depeche Mode - Wrong

Director Patrick Daughters

• Tipp: 65daysofstatic

Focusing on instrumental post-rock with live and electronic percussion, 65daysofstatic is based in Sheffield, England. The band, whose name originates from an unreleased John Carpenter film, formed in 2001 as a trio (Joe Shrewsbury, Paul Wolinski, and Iain Armstrong). Armstrong left in May 2003 and by the end of the year Rob Jones (drums) and Gareth Hughes (bass) were added. The band released three albums: The Fall of Math (2004), One Time for All Time (2005), and The Destruction of Small Ideas (2007). As of spring 2007, the lineup included Shrewsbury (guitar), Wolinski (guitar, programming), Jones (drums), and Simon Wright (bass, programming). New release 2009 "Escape from New York"

mp3: 65daysofstatic - Radio Protector
mp3: 65daysofstatic - Await Rescue

myspace.com/65propaganda

• Video: Del tha Funkee Homosapien - Get It Right Now

Ya Hip-Hop geht auch ohne Titten und wackelde Ärsche!

• Video: Kevin Drew & Feist - The Water

"The Water" is not just a music video for the Feist song of the same name. It's a short film. You know, like "Thriller". Except with less zombie dancing.
The 15-minute short is directed by Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew and stars Feist, Cillian Murphy (28 Days Later, Batman Begins), and Canadian actor David Fox. Produced by Revolver Film Company, the nearly wordless piece plays out like a wintry fairy tale that's equal parts touching, mysterious, and unsettling.

Da mich der Autoloop so dermassen annervt gibt es jetzt nur noch den Link zum Video auf pitchforkcom/tv

• Audiolicious Part Eight 2009

Damit das hier nicht zum Video/Gimmick Blog verkommt habe ich mal wieder durchgehört.

Atom™ - Liedgut
The Wire Magazine 299, January 2009:
"In the publicity photos that accompany Liedgut, Uwe Schmidt, the man behind both the sculpted electronica of Atom TM and the cheesy exotica of Señor Coconut, stretches out in a chair at the Schumann Haus Zwickau, at a piano that used to belong to Clara Schumann. His hair is slicked, the moustache perfectly trimmed, and his clothing immaculately creased. The moods which it captures are multiple: European aristocratic sophistication, Weimar decadence, the stiff poise of Kraftwerk. The apparent inspiration for Liedgut was an exploration of Romanticism in the Germanic mode, from Schubert and Nietzsche to Kraftwerk. While both the presentation and the iridescent electronic sheen of the music suggest a gloss on this weighty historical heritage, the multi-layered nature of the project means this is superficiality which takes deep roots.
Liedgut is precise, pulsing but mostly beatless electronica, with none of the flirty Latin flippancy of Señor Coconut.
Although it shares a melodic purity and some vocodered spoken cadences with Kraftwerk, the dynamic is not Europe Endless motorik horizons, but the frozen-in-time classicism of the waltz. Concise, graceful melodic segments are duplicated across many of Liedgut´s 19 short tracks, with the album´s centrepiece three exquisite "12 Mittlere" compositions. The repertoire of Liedgut is intimately familiar but uncannily assimilated, as if Germanic classicism had been rendered as a endless fractal electronic composition.
Florian Schneider adds vocals on an elegiac epilogue to the album, and even some repeated sampled tics of mobile phone interference in the middle section can´t quite shatter the mirage of timelessness." (7/10)
myspace.com/atomtm

Hildur Gudnadottir – Without Sinking
Boomkat say: “The sound Gudnadottir's cello makes paints these mysterious landscapes with an almost mystical purity, opening track "Elevation", for example, manages to outline an increasingly intense, almost mournful picture with seemingly simple layering techniques and barely perceptible processes submerged by the pregnant sound of Gudnadottir's hugely evocative instrument. (…) The album closes with the dense "Unveiled", an ominous drone undulation steered by those cautious, towering strings and barely perceptible found sounds. It's the space between the notes, the restraint and expectation, that packs the biggest emotional punch on this incredibly moving recording, never allowing those 'cinematic' qualities to get in the way of the genuine dread and catharsis resting at the core of this utterly magnificent album. Amazing music.”
Sehr dronig, sehr soundtrackig, sehr viel Cello Sounds. Mir dann doch etwas zuviel. (6/10)
hildurness.com
myspace.com/hildurness

The Horrors – Primary Colours
Habe die Platte jetzt schon x-mal gehört, unschlüssig ob das jetzt ein fetter Achtpunkter oder ein schmallippiger Fünf-Punkter ist. The Horrors erinnern mich an was was ich nicht genau beschreiben kann. Sie klingen oft sehr nach alten The Cure, besonders der Basslauf und der jammernde Gesang, dann nach The National. Sie sind aber punkiger und krachiger als The Cure, aber waviger und achtziger als The National. „Scarlet Fields“ ist sooo geil! „Sea Within A Sea“ ist sooo geil! (7.5/10)
thehorrors.co.uk
myspace.com/thehorrors

Maximilian Hecker – One Day
Ich liebe Maximilian Hecker ja seit seinem ersten Album. Ich verbinde mit dieser Musik so wahnsinnig viel, vor allem meine Zeit in Berlin, meine Zugtage in Wien. Irgendwie macht mich Heckers Sound immer so selig, rührig, gut. Ich weiss das ist alles so verdammt kitschig, schleimig, unerträglich aber was solls. Richard Sanderson’s „Reality“ habe ich auch irgendwie geliebt, trotz „La Boum“ etc. Und jetzt hört mir auf mit James Blunt ;) Ich Schmalzkopp, peinlich ist das! (7/10)
maximilian-hecker.com
myspace.com/maximilianhecker

Pj Harvey & John Parish – A Woman A Man Walked By
Gut ich bin bei glühender Verehrer von Pj Harvey und von John Parish habe ich vorher noch nie etwas gehört. „Black Hearted Love“ hat doch was interessant herbes, gequältes. Leider ist das Album weniger interessant und derbe langweilig und gequält cool. (5/10)

Stimming – Reflections
Auf Diynamics! Hamburger Tausendsassa macht fluffigen Minimal House. Oder ist das Deep House. Seht mir bitte nach da Klassenunterschiede zu machen. Stimming ist sehr direkt. Lest dazu de-bug: "Hamburg, das ist immer Melodie. Hamburg war immer schon House. Während Frankfurt Muskeln waren, Berlin eine geistige Brechstange, weht in Hamburg etwas luftiges. Stimming, und Diynamic als ganzes, verkörpert das seit Jahren deutlicher. Dabei ist das Debut-Album von ihm wirklich nicht nur blumig. Auch wenn man es an den Titeln ablesen könnte, "Sonntag Morgen", "After Eight", "Die Schönheit", "Der Kuss", steckt in der Melodiösität der Stücke von Stimming, die schon seit zwei Jahren die Dancefloors immer wieder in ein besonders Licht tauchen, mehr. Es geht ihm, wie kaum jemand anders darum, in die Melodien nicht nur in ihrer Struktur, ihrem harmonischen Zusammenspiel, einzutauchen und diese klassische Tiefe in ihnen zu sehen, sondern die Akribie mit der sie bis in die Details der Sounds aufgefächert, fraktalisiert werden, hat gelegentlich schon etwas chirugrisches. Präzision, Perfektion, aber doch in einer Sanftheit, die immer wieder verblüfft. Der Beweis jedenfalls, dass Schönheit und Komplexität auf eine ganz Neue Weise immer wieder zusammenfallen können." (7/10)
myspace.com/stimming

10-20 – 10-20
"10-20’s self titled album is a claustrophobic hulk of a release, constructed from parts of discarded machinery, short-circuiting currents of krautrock, broken hip hop structures, dense aquatic substreams and spectral elements, all of which are funnelled towards a single cohesive hypnotic pulse.
Based in devon, the coastal and elemental forces of the producer’s environment is evident in the scope of intricate sounds layered and woven into rough shorn textures, where only a filtered ghostly impression of club-land’s influence can be discerned within the resultant sound."
Ambient Hip-Hop ohne Vocals? Ambient Dub? Auf jeden Fall eine empfehlenswerte Geschichte! (7/10)
highpointlowlife.com
myspace.com/1020musik

Nächstes Audiolicious folgt alsbald mit The Gentleman Losers, Pendle Coven, Neil Young, Depeche Mode, Bill Callahan und Lawrence English.

• Video: Franz Ferdinand - Womanizer (Britney Spears Cover)

• Video: Suzanne Ciani working on the music and sounds for the Xenon pinball game from the Omni televsion show.

• Tipp: John Wiese & C. Spencer Yeh - Cincinnati

The cooperative of composer/improvisers John Wiese (Sissy Spacek) and C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) presents new a collection of works titled "Cincinnati." So far Wiese & Yeh's previous full-length documents have been culled from live performance situations and one could site "Cincinnati" as the duo's first studio album.
Recorded face-to-face in late 2007 at Ashworth Tap Room in Cincinnati OH, "Cincinnati" reveals further unexpected developments and strategies of this ongoing partnership. Familiar machineries were primed, but an increasingly alien attitude was fed through and processed into churning and bewildering shapes. The results of these sessions were catalogued and surgically isolated into specimens by Yeh; a little editing employed to carve the forms somewhat presentable, but no "studio trickery" to mask the organic nature. Mastered by Saff Mastering to sharpen the bulbs and polish the blades, the whole of the fourteen tracks form a monumentally intimate body touched by indeterminate intuition, instant composition, and interior logic.
Wiese and Yeh first joined together on a stage in Columbus OH, and since then have participated in the No-FI/CMN "Free Noise" 2007 tour in the UK, as well as fireworks-laden travels through coastal, midwest, and southern USA. With many finished missives yet to be issued, and many ideas discussed but not yet realized, the combined restlessness and curiousity of the team insures that "Cincinnati" gestures not only towards the past and present, but the future as well. dronedisco.com

John Wiese & C. Spencer Yeh - Swedish Couch
John Wiese & C. Spencer Yeh - Mr. Northside

• Tipp: "And Yet It Moves" Game

And Yet It Moves is a puzzle-platformer, set in a unique world, made of ripped paper. Within the paper collage, you can jump, run and last but certainly not least: rotate the world. Learn how to apply the physical consequences of rotation to master the many tricky situations you may encounter.
You can play a race against the clock on different levels, too, competing against previous clocked times. Your run will be recorded, as a »Ghost« which can be submitted, along with your time, to the global high scores online. You can download other users' Ghosts to compete with friends and strangers around the world and see who found the fastest route.
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• Videos: The Gentleman Losers - Gold Dust Afternoon / The Gentleman Losers - Horses of Instruction

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Diesen Sommer vermutlich Ende Mai soll nun endlich das mit Spannung erwartete neue Album von "Aphex Twin - Fur" erscheinen. Und der Gute lässt sich nicht lumpen und veröffentlicht eine streng limitierte CD Edition im "Fur Style"! Das Ding wird mal richtig viel Wert sein.
Warp Founder Steve Beckett: "We're definitely going to be putting out a new album by him," he told BBC 6 Music. "Hopefully it will be this year, if I can prise it out of his hands. It's definitely on its way."
Erste Samples vom neuen Album kursieren schon durchs Netz. Hier der Beweis:
mp3: Aphex Twin - Joking Apart

01 Town Owt (2:46)
02 Grated Chicken (5:08)
03 Two Of (5:46)
04 Powderkex (3:14)
05 01706 (5:38)
06 Joking Apart (5:41)
07 Whore (4:22)
08 Asymetric (1:56)
09 Destination Tomorrow (1:43)
10 Probe (6:31)
11 Night Raid (5:01)
12 Mood Swingz (6:21)
13 Cyclomethicone (5:46)
14 Flat Slab (2:46)
15 Peel Xyzdub (3:10)

Mehr Infos auf warprecords.com