PREMIERE: Girls Names - Falling (Twin Peaks Theme)
Girls Names don't do "Falling" all that differently to how Angelo Badalamenti did it, but that's probably more apt than anything else—I'm not saying the Belfast group are massive stoners, but there's a queasy reverence here which throws them in with a Rest Of World lo-fi lot in thrall to David Lynch's masterpiece series. Perhaps it's also a sign of the "hyper-connectivity" London's Tough Love cite as a reason for the existence of their new, free 15-track sampler Young & Research. Also featuring tracks from Cymbals, Becoming Real and Nowa Huta, you can find it now at the label's Bandcamp page.
Girls Names - Falling (Twin Peaks Theme)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Jonathan Jeremiah - See
No new names in that 'Sounds Like' column: London-born Jonathan Jeremiah is debonair like the 21st Century just does not do, his sweeping, string-backed croon making "See" seem like the sort of song that'd cajole James Bond into karaoke. Probably on some Hawaiian island rather than the back room of a piss-reek London bar, though. James Bond was always going to Hawaii. That motherfucker.
Sounds Like: Nick Drake, Burt Bacharach, Scott Walker
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Memory Tapes - Bicycle (Horrors Cosmic Dub)
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Do you remember Memory Tapes? As Sam Duke said exactly one month ago, whoever's behind this beautiful, anonymous noise has a 12" out through Loog Records, backed by a remix from The Horrors - this remix from The Horrors. It begins like Ennio Morricone and Mike Oldfield meeting in the midnight rain and ends as a throbbing, yet surprisingly tender, club take on New Order's "True Faith", wandering synths tied to a compulsive arpeggio and snare drum THWACK. It's fucking great. No sign of Memory Tapes' identity slipping just yet, though.
Sounds Like: Patten, New Order, Chromatics
Memory Tapes - Bicycle (Horrors Cosmic Dub)
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Detachments - Flowers That Fell (Parallels Mix)
The team behind this lot is stellar - Detachments are currently in the studio working on their new album with DFA man Tim Goldsworthy, Andrew Weatherall, SALEM and Trevor Jackson, who used to run Output Records, the label that introduced DFA to the UK back in the early part of the decade. It's no surprise then that this track - remixed by Crystal Castles' live drummer Cameron Findlay - has dance bliss down to a science; arpeggiated Moroder synths maraud from start to finish, bass goes four-to-the floor, John Carpenter strings leak blood all over the chorus. All the while Detachments man Sebastien Marshal wheezes away in his English drawl, adding the weary, solemn tinge all great club music needs. "Flowers That Fell" is out on limited edition 7" and as a download from April 27th, through Thisisnotanexit Records.
Sounds Like: Depeche Mode, M83, Psychedelic Furs
Detachments - Flowers That Fell (Parallels Mix)
DOWNLOAD: Max Richter - Cradle Song For A (Interstate B3)
Few composers hold water with Hollywood film-makers and indie taste-makers, but Max Richter is one such composer. He's worked with electronica pioneers The Future Sound of London, recorded a handful of widely praised solo albums, found his music borrowed for the movie Stranger Than Fiction (starring Will Ferrell), and produced folk legend Vashti Bunyan's comeback album. At the heart of his 2008 album, 24 Postcards In Full Colour, lies an interesting concept: composing brief pieces to be used as mobile ringtones. "Cradle Song For A (Interstate B3)," is a charmingly simple lullaby that would surely sound better curling up from someone's pocket than any default ringtone.
Sounds like: Eluvium, The Future Sound of London, Philip Glass
Max Richter - Cradle Song For A (Interstate B3)
DOWNLOAD: DJ Hell - The Angst Pt. 1
You'd be forgiven for suspecting DJ Hell's tracks are a miasma of clanging techno beats at face melting tempos -- his back catalog wouldn't prove you wrong. But his latest album, Teufelswerk, and "The Angst Pt. 1" which precedes it, is much more inviting and nuanced. With only a gentle kick drum and oscillating synth to connect "The Angst" to the dance floor (that's where a Henrik Schwarz remix comes in), it's the overcast electric piano, mournful strums and shredded vocals that usher in the moody atmosphere. It's almost as if Hell is setting the stage for a dramatic dual set in Germany's Black Forest. His album will reveal what comes next.
Sounds like: Earth, Kraftwerk
Kabuki Old School
We love that Cinefamily brings us the obscure film runnings. And we know that they love music too because Dublab and one of our favorite tree-killers, LA Record, are sponsors. Last night at LA's Silent Movie Theatre we were presented with director Teinosuke Kinugasa's 1926 silent film called "A Page of Madness." As seen before, Cinefamily decided to add their own musical score to this film. But what would pair well with the Kinugasa's theme of hallucinations and obsession played out in Japanese kabuki and the use of superimpositions, flashbacks, rapid montage and complex subjective camerawork? None other than California's psychedelic soundsmith, The Gaslamp Killer, who we first discovered from Sound in Color Records and who is now rocking with Obey Records.
Check the Cinefamily website for upcoming experiments in music and film, including an upcoming evening with Mike Mills.
Scott Pagano Short Film + Trifonic = Stunning
Our friends Trifonic have just informed us their latest collaboration is featured on Apple's HD quicktime gallery. And it's a doozy. The short film (essentially an insane music video) is called "Parks On Fire", and the visuals are courtesy of Scott Pagano, an emerging digital filmmaker, motion designer, and "spatial reconstructionist", according to the press release.
Fans of the rich, textured visual imagery of Aeon Flux, The Cell, Encyclopedia Pictura, and Gondry should enjoy. Pagano has also created motion art works for such artists as Funkstorung, Christopher Willits, Monolake, The Kronos Quartet - and now our SF area homeys Trifonic.
Check the high-res madness (youtube eat your heart out) here:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/hd/parks_on_fire.html
