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 // volume # one
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 | the love | video
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 // i’m aqaurius + 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 // black out days + 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”
active child // she cut me
Active Child (Patrick Grossi) is indeed active (I couldn’t resitst). Listen to his latest, She Cut Me, the track is taken from his latest Rapor LP out now courtesy of Vagrant Records. Peace. Continue reading “active child // she cut me”
the colourist // lido ep
The Chainsmokers (Drew Taggart & Alex Pall ) recently accosted the track Fix This, an original track by the band The Colourist. The re-work is as shapely and voluptuous as a futuristic pin-up beauty, or it could be I am just shamelessly smitten with Maya Tuttle’s amatory vocals? Both.
Anywho, get more of the Chainsmokers here. And check out The Colourist right here on iTunes. Peace. Continue reading “the colourist // lido ep”
shearwater // fellow travelers lp + video
Fellow Travelers is the new, upcoming album from Shearwater. Here’s what Shearwater’s own Jonathan Meiburg has to say about it:
“Fellow Travelers wasn’t supposed to be a full-length record, so I’m a little surprised to admit that it’s my favorite Shearwater album so far. Somehow it slipped under the door.”s
Well, I am glad this album came to be. The forthcoming album, Fellow Travelers dropped in November courtesy of Sub Pop Records. Peace. Continue reading “shearwater // fellow travelers lp + video”
erasure // snow globe
Erasure presents the animated video is directed by the team behind the Gaudete video, Martin Meunier & Tonya Hurley, and mirrors the single’s hope and positivity. The exposition involved in a song as open and hopeful as Make It Wonderful came easily to Andy Bell, who explains, “…what I love is that Vince managed to add something quite childlike and almost scary to it.”
Make It Wonderful is taken from the duo’s latest album (listen here), Snow Globe, a collection of original compositions and seasonal classics. Peace. Continue reading “erasure // snow globe”
pnik mexico | pnik mxeico cassette | limited editon
Pnik Mxeico is a band that’s hard not to love. There’s bleeding guitar shredding abundantly everywhere, so watch were your ears step. Too late. And, these guys wield a phalanx of sound reminiscent of the best of garage grungy rock ever to plague the airwaves.
For a limited time Pnik Mxeico is releasing their debu 9-track t Pnik Mxeico LP on cassette via Fleeting Youth Records. I ordered mine but you gotta hurry ’cause only 50 copies are available online! The other 50 will be available through Pink Mexico at their live shows. Peace. Continue reading “pnik mexico | pnik mxeico cassette | limited editon”