Teddy Briggs is hungry. The drummer and self-taught producer (who performs as Appetite) has taken his taste for electronics and tropicalia and served up "Fiery Ring," a fitting scramble of Johnny Cash's original. Slowing it down island-style, Briggs adds mellow vocals to compliment the layers of drum work driving the track. It is well-polished and balmy and a fine teaser for the song writer's upcoming LP Scattered Smothered Covered, out August 16 on Crossbill.
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Last week, we fed you a handful of clutch remixes from the tropical-electro-madmen Lemonade, from blissed-out synth heavy shimmery aural massages, feigned electro zap wars, to dance-hall-friendly dub tropicalia.
This week, we packaged it all into one, sleek, "click da button" REMIX ALBUM DOWNLOAD. The overall effect is like a flood of endorphins has instantly hit your brain's somatosensory system and has made everything feel warmer and lighter, and smell kinda like coconuts (or if you are really lucky like that little kid David after the dentist).
Oh and for you Lemonade aficionados, the band has a live set this Sunday, Feb 15th, at Santo's Partyhouse in NYC, along with a DJ set by Holy Ghost! (DFA), courtesy of Justine D. and the slick mag Dossier Journal. (Email RSVP: RSVP@dossierjournal.com.)
Sounds Like: Ghosts On Tape, Stay High, Roche, Lazer Sword, Soft Thing
Lemonade_- Remixtape (FULL ALBUM DOWNLOAD)
Lemonade - Real Slime (Stay High Remix)
Lemonade - Unreal (Roche Remix)
Lemonade - Sunchips (Bookworms Remix)
Lemonade - Blissout (Shades Remix)
Lemonade - Big Weekend (Delorean Remix)
Lemonade - Real Slime (Lazer Sword)
Lemonade - Blissout (Soft Thing Remix)
Lemonade - Real Slime (Mashepest Remix)
Lemonade - Sunchips (Ghosts On Tape Remix)
Lemonade - Real Slime (C.L.A.W.S Remix)
Lemonade - Big Weekend (Yao Remix)
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Here's a new flood of Lemonade remixes to get you through to Friday. If you are running low on energy, I'd recommend to download Brooklyn NY-based Stay High's krunked-up dub remix of "Real Slime before your boss notices. Meanwhile Roche deposits waves of acid-friendly psychedelic sounds - the type that you'd listen to while walking through a desert oasis without clothes in search for a higher power. Then Bookworms carves a more dance hall-friendly "ghettotech' beat and Shades closes out the package with scintillating, atmospheric twirls and shudders in their rendition "Blissout." It's a tropicalia electro lovefest.
Sounds Like: Heaps Decent, Happy Mondays, CAN, Alex Pasternak
Lemonade - Real Slime (Stay High Remix)
Lemonade - Unreal (Roche Remix)
Lemonade - Sunchips (Bookworms Remix)
Lemonade - Blissout (Shades Remix)
Previously:
Lemonade - Big Weekend (Delorean Remix)
Lemonade - Real Slime (Lazer Sword)
Lemonade - Blissout (Soft Thing Remix)
Lemonade - Real Slime (Mashepest Remix)
Lemonade - Sunchips (Ghosts On Tape Remix)
Lemonade - Real Slime (C.L.A.W.S Remix)
Lemonade - Big Weekend (Yao Remix)
There are many musical riches to be had once you get past Boozoo Bajou's silly psychedelic name. For their third album, Grains, the German duo expanded their dubby, down-tempo sonic palette to include strains of folk/indie rock and British songstress Rumer on vocals. The breezy finger-picked melodies and hand drumming on "Same Sun" evoke notes of tropicalia as Rumer's strong satin pipes beckon for listeners to "rely on me." Tontelas push the Caribbean vibe to Jamaican ends, replete with throbbing bass and huge swathes of reverb. But it's "Messengers" that brings the house down with Cat Power-ed swoon of melancholic arrangements.
Sounds like: Cat Power, Os Mutantes
Boozoo Bajou - Same Sun (Tontelas Roots Version)
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It's amazing to hear what Rafael Cohen, the man behind Las Palabras, can create with nothing more than a guitar, a woodblock and a set of lips. This exclusive new track fades in to the sound of a one-sided musical conversation, with call-and-response vocals, staccato exhalations, and even some tasteful whistling. Download for the skittering melodies and cascading guitar patterns, but be sure to stick around through the credits. If "La Primera Vez" was the soundtrack to a short film, "Salmos" is a field recording of the wrap party.
Sounds Like: Caetano Veloso, El Guincho
Exclusive Download: Las Palabras - Salmos
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Download: Las Palabras - La Primera Vez
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When I tagged along to see Rafael from El Guapo/Supersystem's solo project Las Palabras a few months ago, I was expecting something along the lines of his previous bands' output on Dischord and Touch & Go. Instead I found him with an acoustic guitar (and a toy guitar he got when he was five) singing beautifully in Spanish about car rides, relationships and life in general. I've been after him ever since to a) record an album, and b) give me a song to post here. I'm keeping my fingers crossed about the album, but the wait is over for the first single: "La Primera Vez," freshly mixed by the man himself. Download and listen as the guitar, organ and percussion chase each other in circles right up to the near-psychedelic climax, where the layered vocals drift off into space. Every time I hear it I'm scoring the next Almodóvar film in my head.
Sounds Like : Caetano Veloso, El Guincho
Download: Las Palabras - La Primera Vez
Check out this brand new jam from San Francisco-based Alex Pasternak via our friends at Turntable Lab, from Alex’s new release on the Bersa Discos label. “Pajaritón” takes elements of electro, favela funk and cumbia rock to create a tropical, eternal sunshine feel. It’s pretty amazing, and given Alex’s other projects (he’s the drummer in the experimental psych band Lemonade), it’s a great achievement in a long line of awesome music.
Sounds like: The Avalanches, Bonde do Role, Esau Mwamwaya
Download: Alex Pasternak - Pajaritón
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Adron is the pen name of 20 year old Adrienne McCann— Brooklyn-via-Atlanta transplant, budding sorceress of sound and paper fruit enthusiast. Pretty sure that last part might be a gnarly bit of stretching (you never know), but McCann's Tropicalia-stamped numbers are bonafide beach jams— serpentine acoustic lines, percussive kitchen sinkery and a voice that's more Devendra than Chan.... which is awesome.
As her self-titled debut is fixing to be on shelves next week, below is an introductory motherload, including an exclusive remix of "Bicicleta" by Atlanta beat tamer Chris Devoe.
Sounds Like: Devendra Banhart, Feist
Exclusive Download: Adron - Stringsong
