Where the food sounds good, and the music is pretty tasty too.
Tracing Skylines is a mini-documentary showcasing off the beaten path adventures of five professional skiers and their respective journeys to find interesting and challenging locals to plow powder.
Watch Sean Pettit rediscovering his home turf in British Columbia. Logan Pehota gets dropped into remote Alaska and uses a lighthouse as a home base, there he launches a helicopter expedition and finds fresh terrain to attack. Continue reading “things we like: tracing skylines”
Crystal Fighters are the funnest of bands. Their songs always manage to be infused with nary a molecule of malicious intent. Listen the song Love Natural and have your spirit buoyed and uplifted. It is all kinds of good feeling. Just so you know, the band’s Cave Rave LP could be one your favorites of 2013 if only you gave it a chance. Stick around and check out the Ben Perry & Duncan Christie directed video after the jump. Peace. Continue reading “crystal fighters // love natural + video”
The GTW (aka James Akaninyene King) is an after effect. Here is yet manifestation, another self-aware tendril from the Hip Hop’s Big Bang. The legacy of what Hip Hop continues to spawn and reinvent in the wake of a continual, intercontinental and relentlessness global reach which is endlessly awe inspiring.
Born in Etinan, Nigeria The GTW is an electronic hip/hop producer/songwriter currently based in Chi-Town. His fresh beats are just picked, warmed by the sun. After the jump check out his latest cut Bleach Pool. This is a mellifluous and melodious make up after you break up track. It is heavy on bass, it resonates the kick and snare and those tickling ivory interludes are akin to kisses upon her perfumed neck.
James King is also a member of the R&B collective called JODY, find them and know joy. Peace. Continue reading “the gtw // bleach pool”
Sunbeam Sound Machine is the sonic spaceship and 23-year-old Melbourne denizen Nick Sowersby is its sole pilot. Check out the video premiere of the Tobias Willis-directed kaleidoscopic swirl which is the celluloid adaptation of Cosmic Love Affair. The written song crated by Sowesrby is an ode to first love . And if you cotton to this sublime euphoria then check out his debut the One/Sunbeam Sound Machine Double EP.
The release is comprised of the One EP, an earlier albeit gritty exploration into the open sore sounds of honest garage rock. Continue reading “sunbeam sound machine // cosmic love affair + video premiere”
Kool A.D. drops a freelease worthy of your spare ear time. Das Racist alum Kool A.D. goes the solo route but trust he brings aboard a gaggle of talent. The 15-track Not O.K LP features collabos with Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Milo, Jabee and others. There’s also production from Oh No, Jay Casio, Toro Y Moi, in short it pushed the sound meter straight into the black. Name your price and cop yours right here, right now. Stay tuned for Kool A.D.’s forthcoming 2014 release Word O.K. I’ll keep you posted. Peace. Continue reading “kool a.d. // not o.k. + album stream”
Booka Shade are Berlin-based duo Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier, and there is little doubt they are one of the most pioneering electronic music acts of the past two decades. Booka Shade return with their fifth studio album Eve released on November 1, 2013, through Embassy One/Blaufield Music. After the jump watch the Thomas Hayo directed video for the track Love Inc. Peace. Continue reading “booka shade // love inc + video”
Black Butter Records is not to be slept on. On the Black Butter Records: Volume # One release you get a sampling of why BB Records is spun in clubs and headphones everywhere. Check out such notorious music makers as Rudimental, Gorgon City and Kidnap Kid. This is one that’ll soundtrack the chills and thrills of being alive. Peace. Continue reading “black butter records // volume # one”
Nadine Carina has a way of delivering a song entwined in a honey-jar-throated-timbre that leaves bees and humans wanting more. And much like light waves caught in in the pull of a black hole, one falls easily into her musical grace, beautifully inescapable. Watch the Shondel Bervini directed video for the first single taken from the Things That People Love To Remember EP, out now on On the Camper Records. Peace. Continue reading “nadine carina | the love | video”
Metronomy drops the official music video for his latest track I’m Aquarius, directed by Edouard Salier. The song is off the new album Love Letters via . The video is totally Stanley Kubrick-ish (2001: A Space Odyssey anyone?) with equal parts wtf and quirky. The video involves lead vocalist Joseph Mount engaged in interstellar travels to a distant orb were Sphynx cats and iffy inhabitants are constant themes and it ends in a burst of space dust or kitty litter, you decide. Love the track though. Peace. Continue reading “metronomy // i’m aqaurius + video”
Phantogram (Joshua Carter and Sarah Barthel) is a personal fav around here and I am only too happy (understatement) to showcase the electro-duo’s brand new video Black Out Days. The track is taken from their forthcoming Voices LP. It drops February 18, via Republic Records. Also, if you pre-order Voices now you get an instant download of the beautiful track Fall In Love. I like that. Peace. Continue reading “phantogram // black out days + video”