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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Bombay Bicycle Club - Always Like This (Pariah Mix)
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Whatever the nomenclature tells you, this is not the music of a Pariah. The young London producer's remix of Bombay Bicycle Club's "Always Like This" is pretty much unrecognisable, warped into something blissed out and Balearic, full-on social. If I was having a party, I'd want Pariah to be there. I think you would, too.
Sounds Like: Aphex Twin, M83, Teengirl Fantasy
Bombay Bicycle Club - Always Like This (Pariah Mix)
Previously:
Bombay Bicycle Club - Dust on the Ground (Banjo Or Freakout Remix)
DOWNLOAD: The Sight Below - At First Touch (Simon Scott Remix)
If it was possible to lounge inside a black hole, The Sight Below's damp, ballooning sound clouds would be what you'd want to hear. The reclusive Ghostly ambient artist has been working with ex-Slowdive drummer/one-time Brian Eno collaborator Simon Scott, and his new EP, Murmur, features this particularly obtuse Scott remix, two others from Biosphere and Eluvium, and a pair of originals. Pick it up in full here.
The Sight Below - At First Touch (Simon Scott Remix)
Previously:
The Sight Below - No Place For Us
The Sight Below - With Her Kiss (I'd Pass The Sky)
The Sight Below - Twice Failed
The Sight Below - Life's Fading Light
DOWNLOAD: White Rainbow - Tuesday Rollers And Strollers (Excerpt)
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The new White Rainbow album, New Clouds, is actually four expansive, long-ass tracks–one to each side of the vinyl–hence the "excerpt" here. That's not to say this piece can't stand on its own–it's actually a perfect summation of the record's ebullience–just that to get the full holy-shit-I've-lost-myself experience you might wanna consider picking up the full thing. It's out now via Kranky.
DOWNLOAD: To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie - The Needle
Minneapolis' To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie can get morose–beyond the name, most of their noirish post-rock sounds like excavating dead things from silence. Of course, on second LP, Marlone (out now through Kranky), they went and wrote and actual pop song (hear it here), but we're still preferential to cuts like "The Needle" where we can get lost in five minutes of deep, liturgical fog.
DOWNLOAD: Syntaks - Sudden Dream + Mistral Moon (Illuminated Version) + Loscil Stream
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It's raining on a Friday morning–when else to better cocoon ourselves in a cave of numbing ambient sounds. Our pals at Ghostly have two new artists we're cycling through–the Danish duo Syntaks and Loscil, aka Vancouver's Scott Morgan. Both sprawl into synthetically broad expanses, the former unafraid of dirtying drums, the latter a fan of horizon-daring sine waves. Two free Syntaks songs–ostensibly a free taster EP for their upcoming album, Ylajali–and a stream from Loscil should be all you need to get lost.
DOWNLOAD: Codes In The Clouds - Don't Go Awash In This Digital Landscape
Kent quintet Codes In The Clouds makes philosophically-named, dreamy post-rock scores that belong onscreen. Blasting in the background as we watch our anti-hero’s getaway into green, pastoral hillsides, hard mist, and frothy, cold seas. “Don’t Go Awash In This Digital Landscape” precisely instructs us to keep lucid and not fall into the swells. But the track is too lush with epic highs and lows for us not to do just that. CITC’s North American debut Paper Canyon is out now on Erased Tapes.
Sounds like: Explosions in the Sky, M83
Codes In The Clouds - Don't Go Awash In This Digital Landscape
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Harmonia & Eno '76 - Sometimes in Autumn (Shackleton Remix)
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I don't quite know how they pulled this one off. Amazing Sounds - run by the two gents from Allez-Allez - is a fledgling label. This is their first release. And it features Harmonia, Brian Eno and Shackleton. What?! The disbelief slackens somewhat when you hear what the dubstep-techno pioneer has done to "Sometimes in Autumn" - originally part of a 1976 collaboration between Eno and the kosmische masters, Shackleton's remix keeps ahold of the motorik beat and the psychedelic washes so beloved of Harmonia, but strips everything back. His presence on the track is felt in its emptied spaces - in the echo chamber of a chastened snare, for example - but he's respectful, keeping what needs to be kept so this feels less like a remix and more like the English-born, Berlin-based producer has been transported back in time to help birth something lurking, sullen and terrifyingly brilliant. At this point you wouldn't blame Amazing Sounds if they wanted to quit while they were (miles and miles) ahead, but after this comes out in November - on limited edition white vinyl and digital download - there's more gold: cuts promised from Dan Deacon, Luke Abbott and Hudson Mohawke. Keep an eye on things by signing up to their mailing list at the Amazing Sounds website.
Sounds Like: T++, Radiohead, Throbbing Gristle
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Tangles - Tingaling + Momo
Some music is just so desperate to make an impression, battering you about the head with obnoxious noise, screaming at you in motto-punk couplets, blasting coruscating bass synths all over your sore, sorry face. But not Tangles. The impression Tangles make isn't immediately obvious. It sort of creeps on you and puts brains into drift. If you've clicked play you've not even reading this. I know you're not. But it's OK. You're entangled. Just let us know what you saw.
Sounds Like: Ducktails, Durutti Column, Emeralds
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Vorhees - Condensor
Out here in the Big Snapple, the unofficial end of summer has arrived with all its signifiers: a drop in temperature, a spray of chilly rain, the sudden reappearance of shrieking little schoolkids and that abstracted wistful feeling that you maybe didn’t quite have the summer you thought you were going to. Well, here's a daydreamy patch of melodic ebb-tide from Vorhees to both amplify and assuage that vibe. Vorhees is the nom de musique of Dana Wachs, who’s been helping drive the NYC scene for years, only from offstage, running sound all over town and, more recently, on tours with Grizzly Bear, St. Vincent, Lykke Li and plenty of others. Vorhees gets a bit of a coming-out this Monday at Mercury Lounge, setting the table for Hanne Hukkelberg and Sian Alice Group. Fall is on, see you there.
DOWNLOAD: Final - Wrong Signal (alt. mix)
Maybe the deep ambience of Final, a.k.a. Justin Broadrick, feels so weighty because there’s so much history behind it: He first carved his name into the earth playing guitar with Napalm Death in the mid-’80s, then drummed for Head Of David (slogan: “Peace through superior rock power”) before co-founding Godflesh, kind of the Velvet Underground of industrial metal, as far as influence goes. This decade he came back recharged with Jesu, taking on production and remixing duties for a wide spray of bands (including School of Seven Bells). Final was also the name of his first project in the early ’80s, but with the new album Reading All the Right Signals Wrong, you could say his ideas have evolved a bit: “Wrong Signal” is like heavy air under Gothic clouds, and you just want to breathe deeply and become it.
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