February 2012
35 posts
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WatchExcavate
London via Leeds electronic singer-songwriter Charlie Tappin under the moniker Excavate creates asymmetrical, off-kilter productions, bits of loops and vocals coming in and out seemingly at will, in free-flowing, disobedient fashion. It’s when the minor key piano loops lock in with his unusually expressive, jazz-tinged melodic croon that something very nice happens, such as on...
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WatchRyan Winters
London producer Ryan Winters takes the opening lines of Tyrese’s otherwise lackluster What Am I Gonna Do and transforms it into a movingly lush and intimate house workout on Make You.
Ryan Winters - Make You
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WatchBoatfriends
Boatfriends - Kaleido (mp3 go here)
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WatchBirthday Sex
YES - I did get access and YES, it WAS incredible.
Birthday Sex - Bitched It
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WatchDrop Out Venus
The tumbling, colossal goings on with the rhythm section of Deptford’s Drop Out Venus on their first track Love In Vein are situated several miles behind the cold, unflinchingly direct and lovelorn apparent plead for fellatio of the vocals, culminating in what may be lazily described as a glorious, screeching car crash.
Drop Out Venus - Love In Vein
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WatchKing Caves
King Caves - Smckwrm (I Like To Be Warm) (mp3)
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WatchMantella
Mantella - With The Midnight
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WatchOnly Real
We’ve been enjoying the charmingly lighthearted ditties of Only Real, aka the project of Londoner Niall Galvin, for a little while now, with their idiosyncratic blend of lazy blues riffs, juvenile rapping and catchy, carefree melodic crooning, all of which can all be found in ample supply on latest track Cadillac Girl.
Only Real - Cadillac Girl
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WatchShrieks
We recently surprised ourselves by really liking the offhand practice recording of The Coldest One by Brighton’s deceptively metal art work propagating Shrieks. Today, the group up the ante nicely with the angsty bossanova pirouette of Hollow Out My Bones, which, even though recorded with a mobile phone, is still more engaging than 74% of things recorded using traditional recording...
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WatchBare Pale
Last week we shared the detached, doom-tinged lo-fi lament of Mexican Wave by London’s Bare Pale, aka Matthew Rickleton. Fast forward one week and Bare Pale have a couple of new recordings up and we especially enjoyed the pitch-tuned, emotional guitar tantrum of As Always.
Bare Pale - As Always
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DP Dummer
DP Drummer, the project of Doug Poole...
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WatchIslam Snake
Islam Snake - The Pleasure Garden
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Elegant Animals
Check out the...
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WatchMarika Hackman
19 year old Brighton-based singer songwriter Marika Hackman writes pretty melodies on the old six string, recalling fond memories of (insert favorite folky female singer-songwriter), or long afternoons in (insert favorite season) spent lounging in the (insert favorite part of the house) engaged in (insert ‘comforting’ indoor activity) for hours on end, or alternately...
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WatchJFame
JFame - Write Or Wrong
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WatchShaper
Pulsating with a certain ramshackle vibrancy, Leeds based Shaper’s winding post-punkish pop hits upon some intriguingly great moments interspersed with some head-scratching ones in its disorienting 5 minutes of sparkling guitars, galloping drums, horribly cheap keyboards and spirited teenage belting, coming together for some Wu Lyf recalling artsy bros chants only to disassemble...
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WatchFinn Riggins
Finn Riggins - Benchwarmers
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WatchNick Das
It took Texas musician Nick Das the whole of seventeen years to reach the point of writing, recording and posting these five (admittedly very good) songs on Soundcloud. SEVENTEEN YEARS. Think how long that is. Sit down and count the seconds until you reach seventeen years. 1… 2… 3… 4… 5…. 6…. 7… 8… 9… 10… 11… 12…...
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WatchYoung Forch
Young Forch - Whispers (feat. Onoe)
Young Forch - Taking Sides (mp3 go here)
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Car Wash Love
Car Wash Love - Loverboy (mp3)
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Utility Fog
Birmingham’s Friday Wash...
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WatchEwar Paris
Through the rapids.
Ewar Paris - Wilde With An E
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WatchMstrn
Mstrn - LDNSKY
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WatchBare Pale
Bare Pale, aka Londons Matthew Rickelton, make very nice on Mexican Wave, a lonesome, xx-tinged guitar riff making way to a blurry, lackadaisical shuffle, the stop and start march of the drums empowering the proceedings with a vague, distant tension. Hmmm.
Bare Pale - Mexican Wave (mp3)
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WatchA Mix By… Bwana
Every now and again a new artist comes along who takes us ever so slightly deeper, and whos psyche we would like explore further via the medium of audio. Twenty year old Canadian born, and currently Leeds-residing, Nathan Michay, aka Bwana, has been producing for not long over a year. His tracks however shine with immaculate veteran craft and ingenuity, juxtaposing...
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WatchTwin Gemz
Twin Gemz - Dark Thots
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WatchLX Sweat
Look out for the upcoming “Sweat Sweat Sweat” debut release on Not Not Fun.
LX Sweat - Touch Your Body
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WatchPaleman
Manchester producer Palemans’ tracks hinge predominantly on skeletal 4/4 stomps, used as a fluid palette on which to mount shifting rhythmic layers of daintily metallic percussion and club-ready, icy techno stabs. The result, such as on Sun Dance, is both magnetically groove-laden and ambiguously pensive. Look out for a debut 12” on startup Manchester electronic label...
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WatchBeams
“Fine day today”.
The women looked at him for a moment inquisitively, then lowered her head again to rummage through the content of her bag, undisturbed,
“The last time I was here,” he continued, “there was a very dense fog all over the town, and you couldn’t make out the person walking next to you the street from a foot away. But we are indoors now so...
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WatchWe Humans
We Humans - Paranoid
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WatchAmorphous
A pair of pacifying synth pop gems from Japanese duo Amorphous that come down on the frayed nerves like long overdue moisturizing lotion on a pair of chapped, frost-bitten hands, i.e the relief is immediate, if the sensation slightly oily, but quickly dissipating into a vaguely external, if agreeable, homogenous texture. I am a music journalist.
Amorphous - My Phantom
Amorphous -...
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Cool Lauren
Cool Lauren - Strangers (mp3)
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WatchSegment
Segment - Far From Fallen
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WatchBearcubs
Maybe there’s something good percolating in the Brighton aquifer… Because we seem to be posting about quite a bit of music from there of late… And that’s gotta stand for something… doesn’t it!?!?!?
Bearcubs - Mountains, Forests
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WatchBy The Sea
Oh how I would like to live in a Heroic age.
By The Sea - Waltz Away