September 2011
14 posts
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Midnight Cassette: A Hearing Gold Compilation →
LYFSTYL and Vancouver music blog Hearing Gold have collaborated yet again, fusing their expert curating abilities together like the wonder twins with “Midnight Cassette”. Reminiscent of the sounds familiar to LYFSTYL, but much less R&B, this free mix is bursting with unreleased and unheard of retro electronic material. Fans of chillwave, glo-fi, IDM, or downtempo ought not...
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Starfawn Signs to Moodgadget + New EP →
So if you’ve checked any of the last few of the seven total monthly mixes I’ve curated (most recent), you’ve indubitably heard some Starfawn. Popularized (?) by the likes of iso50 and LYFSTYL, Starfawn is the electronic collaboration between producer Misha Mross and vocalist Amber Schaefer that started earlier this year. The first Starfawn track I ever heard was by...
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Com Truise/Neon Indian Show
Last Friday night, my girlfriend and I headed to The Mohawk, a venue right off of the infamous 6th Street in Austin, Texas. A month or so before, I had gotten wind of an elite CD release party for Neon Indian’s upcoming “Era Extraña” album, featuring Com Truise as his opening act. Elated, I hurriedly snatched up two tickets, because they were rumored to be limited and going...
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TSQ VOL SEVEN →
This month’s TSQ compilation is very uniform in sound and, as usual, draws from a plethora of different sources, including but not limited to XLR8R, iso50, and Ghostly International. Delving dangerously close to R n’ B turf, “TSQ VOL SEVEN” brings to the forefront the rapidly changing trends in modern art music, such as the burgeoning influence of underground...
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Korallreven's "An Album by Korallreven" Out Now →
Please note that as much as I wish it were, the above video is not an official music video for “As Young As Yesterday”.
I just wrote a huge post about how epic and remarkable this song is, how you should listen to it now, download the free MP3 here, the free Korallreven mix here, and pre-order the upcoming album here, and then I lost it all by trying to copy and paste a...
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Onra's "Change of Heart"
Admittedly, I don’t know much about Onra, but this track has been making the rounds on sites like RCRD LBL, LYFSTYL, and XLR8R. On a side note, why do hipsters love capitalization so much? Anyways, I love the recently collectively acquired taste in the underground for music that is produced in such a way that makes it sound older than it really is. Pioneered by artists like 18 Carat...
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Star Slinger Remixes →
Earlier this summer, I spent a lot of time and money over at Star Slinger’s Bandcamp, where I discovered his Volume 1 and a host of fantastic remixes. Well, the old bean, it seems, is constantly churning out new reworkings and re-imaginings of great new music, so if you’re willing to throw around a little fliff, I highly recommend checking his Soundcloud for new remixes that suit...
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A2591 Minimalist Ads Project →
I love it when giant soulless multinational corporations actually employ people with a nose for good design in their marketing and advertising departments. Granted, rarely does this happen, and neither am I a graphic arts expert, by any stretch. That said, via Comical Concept, a relatively humorous vector art site by Nathan Batson, I discovered this page from last year about a project in...
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Free Mini-Album by Ice Cream Social →
I discovered Ice Cream Social’s music via NOLOVE Recordings, a blog in Spanish run by a fellow who is quite the guru of various sidelined genres of modern artistic music. Right now, he seems to be on a bit of a post-rock kick, but earlier this summer, he compiled three brilliant mixes called the “Chillwave Surface” series. Featured on the third mix, Ice Cream Social’s...
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CORDLESS TELEPHONE →
I need to make the listener aware of this stellar free mix posted by fellow Tumblrer IAM TOM SAW YER. Entitled “CORDLESS TELEPHONE”, this mix bursts with hipsteriffic chillwave/glo-fi jams, introspective downtempo/IDM numbers, and even the oddly snazzy italo-disco tune. If your iTunes library is ironically too full, or you only have time to really meditate on one huge influx of new...
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Cornelius Remixes The Avalanches
I apologize for the low bit rate of this video, but all that means is that now you have you download the MP3 after the jump. You might remember Australian electronic group The Avalanches from the cult hit “Frontier Psychiatrist”, which probably saw a record number of plays in freshman college dorms nationwide. After flirting with punk rock and fusion jazz, The Avalanches released...
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Free EP by Krusht →
The more time you spend learning about and digging through a microgenre, the rarer and more finely honed the things you turn up tend to be. After spending this past year studying and sampling the chillwave/glo-fi microgenre, I am beginning to unearth more and more work from unsigned, uncirculated artists that are absolutely not half-bad. Mad proper respect goes to the LYFSTYL blog, which...
