Back in full force this week, a healthy list of great new music below. Also, be sure to check out the full album streams of Frankie Rose and Tennis, both albums are quite good and songs from both have been referenced in previous posts.
Beach Fossils – Lessons [Download]:
Ben Browning – I Can’t Stay [Download]:
Memoryhouse – Walk With Me [Download]:
Superhumanoids – Geri [Download]:
Small handful of tunes this week, but all great. Busy week this week so not going to be able to say much more, not that much needs to be said… let the music do the talking. Enjoy!
Beach Fossils – Shallow [Download]:
Princeton – Florida (Cosmic Kids Remix) [Download]:
Rxgibbs – Futures [Download]:
Shearwater – You As You Were [Download]:
The electronic music community lost big this week, with the passing of Shem McCauley (aka Slacker). I was first introduced to Slacker through Paul Oakenfold’s Transport compilation in ’98, then again the following year on Nick Warren’s Global Underground: Brazil, but it wasn’t till he appeared repeatedly on Sasha & Digweed compilations that he really caught my ear. In Sasha & Digweed’s Communicate (’00) compilation alone, Slacker appears three times, and two remixes of his appeared on Sleep is Overrated, a compilation released the same year from yours truly.
Every release on his label Jukebox in the Sky was a must buy, and everything he touched musically was epic and stands the test of time. I have included a few of my favorite Slacker tracks below, and while they aren’t exactly newly discovered tracks over this last week, every time I listen I do discover something new. Hopefully you will enjoy his music as much as I have. RIP Slacker.
Blonds – Treasure Coast [Download]:
Disclosure – Flow (Amusement Remix) [Download]:
Head Honcho (Slacker) – Waters of Jericho:
Miike Snow – Black Tin Box [Download]:
Slacker – A Million Dreams:
Slacker – Fusion:
Slacker – Looky Thing (Eye Eye):
Yellow Ostrich – Mary (Alternate) [Download]:
Smaller list of great music this week, in this the third installment of the music discovery series. It appears Orbital is coming out with a new album which is always great news. I’ve included a video of a song from their new album.
Class Actress – Bienvenue [Download]:
Lower Dens – Brains [Download]:
Matthew Dear – In The Middle (I Met You There) [Download]:
Oberhofer – HEART [Download]:
Don’t you dare doubt that I will be able to keep this weekly music post going. If it were to fail, it certainly wouldn’t be for lack of music. Here is another great batch of music I have discovered over this last week.
The Big Pink – Hit The Ground (Superman) (King Krule Remix) [Download]:
Bosco Delrey – Baby’s Got A Blue Flame [Download]:
Caged Animals – All The Beautiful Things In The World [Download]:
Frankie Rose – Know Me [Download]:
La Sera – Please Be My Third Eye [Download]:
Rival Sons – Only One [Download]:
Tanlines – Brothers [Download]:
Either my tastes are too ambiguous or forgiving and I like way too much, or there is just a lot of a great music out there right now. I don’t know which it is, maybe a little of both, but I am not complaining. Thanks to changes in the music industry, changes in the web, blogs like Stereogum and mu-sique, tools like iTunes, services like Rdio and Spotify, and even events like SXSW, it’s never been easier to discover new music, and I sure am discovering a lot.
I am going to try something new this year. Instead of sporadically linking/liking newly discovered music on Facebook (and having to hold back for fear of overwhelming friends and family), I am going to make a weekly post here on my blog, of music that I discover. Ambitious I know, might be biting off more than I can chew and maybe this should be a monthly thing, but again, I am just finding so much that it’s hard not to want to share with everyone.
As you will be able to tell, my tastes are vast… there will be a little something for everyone in these lists (in just the list below you have Darkwave, Disco, Electronic, Hip Hop, Indie Rock, Lo-Fi, Synth-pop, etc.). I will always attempt to track down and share an audio file directly, but often some of the music has not yet been released and will have to be shared in some sort of embeddable medium.
So without further ado, here is some stand-out music that I discovered last week (there was a lot last week due to the holidays and all) and as you can tell there are two artists I am really excited about, Grimes & Tennis. Hope you enjoy!
Clock Opera – Once And For All [Download]:
Be sure to catch the touching video for the song above.
Grimes – Genesis [Download]:
Grimes – Skin [Download]:
Pandr Eyez – Shinin [Download]:
Solar Bears – Cubs (Keep Shelly in Athens Remix) [Download]:
Tennis – Deep In The Woods:
Tennis – Origins [Download]:
Just added my Last.fm and Pandora profiles to my links list over in the sidebar.
Last.fm has made a lot of great improvements to their site, and I have been on a good streak of finding full tracks of the songs I want to listen to. I do wish however that the player was a separate part of your browsing experience, meaning I could play a song, then navigate away from the current page (much like Beatport). I do realize there are stand-alone applications that would allow for this, I would just much prefer a strictly browser experience.
Pandora’s website on the other hand could use a major overhaul. I find it extremely difficult to navigate and clunky. I also wish they would an option to accompany the thumbs-up and thumbs-down, because I hate thumbing-down a song I actually like, but not in the context of the station I am trying to build.
Either way though, I am thankful for both sites as they have allowed me to stumble across so many great new artists/bands, and would happily live with these annoyances (and am) rather than not having either available at all.
In my previous post containing videos from Friday nights’ Dirtybird party, the sounds heard in the first 4 or 5 are coming from Christian Martin. He did a great job at setting the mood for the evening. It appears there is a “showcase mix” of his hosted on Dirtybird’s website, for those that are interested.
Here are some videos I took on Friday at the Dirtybird 4th Anniversary party. Of course there is not much to see, but the audio sounds great. The little Sanyo CG6 continues to impress! It almost does too good of a job, especially at picking up conversations around me, as evidenced in the first couple videos.