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Sunday, April 15, 2012
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
White Car - Everyday Grace (Hippos In Tanks 2012)
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"Everyday Grace' brings you White Car's mutant rendering of America's electronic dance roots, European electronic post-punk, Dutch drug techno and British post rave absurdity lead by the paranoid neo-greaser kiss of Elon Katz's hyper-ego digital whisper and processed stammer.
The sound of the debut LP is less 'site-specific' than White Car's previous work, with Katz cooking his influences and interests into a personal vision that has little to do with retro-fetishism and genre-fascism. 'Everyday Grace' deals with assimilating human life into this digital age- 100 years of western industrial dominance now morphing into a nebulous stream of globalized interconnected captivity. 'Everyday Grace's' lyrical content charges the narrative of technological incorporation with sexuality and élan, words about the truncation and abuse of time, the contracting of personal space while the universe expands, and the virtual / physical interfacing of human interaction."- Hippos in Tanks
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Dolphins Into The Future - A Star Maker, Strange Dreams and Clairvoyance (NNA 2012)
Preview Buy "Naturalist visionary Lieven Martens brings us along the latest voyage of his musical vessel, Dolphins Into The Future. “A Star Maker, Strange Dreams, and Clairvoyance” induces a state of lucid dreaming where we experience tales of romance, stargazing, cosmic motion, and eternity. Not unlike a painter’s brush, Martens utilizes a sound palette of colorful, synthesized organics to bring the listener directly into the vivid and exotic world that Dolphins has spent years cultivating. After much anticipation, we’re very pleased to offer the latest creation of a true hero of the Nu New Age."- NNA
LX Sweat - Sweat Sweat Sweat (Not Not Fun 2012)
Preview Buy "Given that we're living in the age of the come-back, one terrain we’ve been extra-pleased to see get resurrected and siphoned through the stargate of cassette-crud mutation is hypno R&B. A significant cut of global listeners can count the style as one of their formative musical memories, so there’s nothing shallow or ironic about its recent reappropriation in alien-ized bedroom beat scenes (regardless of what blog conservatives post to the contrary). All of which is joyously confirmed and celebrated in the retro-futurist exoskeletons scavenged and funkified by Germany’s one-man groove merchant LX Sweat. Screwed Up Click backing tracks are stacked high with sci-fi vocoder-soul vox, lush synthesizer counter melodies, and classic echo/reverb unit studio trickery for a production that’s vaguely reminiscent of Barry-White-on-morphine-transmitted-through-a-fax-machine-to-a-low-wattage-pirate-radio-station. Steamy, disembodied bubble baths of endorphin slow-rides and pleasure crunk. Excellent shit, and only the beginning for this inspired dude."- Not Not Fun
Casino Gardens - Fantasies in Cools Palace (Lillerne 2012)
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"We are always asking if the pyramid gives us meaning/Asking if our simulacra can lean in close and whisper/A few sweet words about our paranoid operation/But does anyone ask if the music is still playing? Casino Gardens' follow up to his brilliant 2011 self-titled debut on Beer on The Rug. Twenty-four minutes of perfect short-attention span pop, 4-track detritus, cooing vocal modulations and infectious melody. Lo-fi dream state transmissions. CG takes the current cut and paste aesthetic to new and more honest, analog realms with this release. Captivating soundscapes placed into tiny portable radios. As easy of a tape to listen to repeatedely as I've ever heard. Upbeat, vintage radio pop and sleepy synth ambience filtered through a yellowy-lit, late night bedroom window."- Lillerne
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