Matthew Dear continues down his path of wayward techno as Audion with his new Billy Says Go single and takes a second to look back with a compilation of his early Spectral Sound singles.
'Billy Says Go' is a compelling trip down the psyche, a bumpy exotic track played by fave DJ's of ours like Ellen Allien. The track is full of eerie and unforgiving sonics, leading some to describe it as "Techno for the Aztecs."
Beginning Of The End: The Spectral Sound singles collects all of Matthew's vinyl-only work for Spectral Sound from 2001-2004 up to his breakthrough album Leave Luck To Heaven. It's a deep look into the development of this artist and a formidable batch of tracks for 4/4 music fans in general.
DOWNLOAD:
Matthew Dear - Making Out From Beginning Of The End: The Spectral Sound singles
Matthew Dear - Future Never Again From Beginning Of The End: The Spectral Sound singles
STREAM:
Audion - Billy Says Go From the Billy Says Go 12"
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Violets , the long awaited follow up to Twine's self-titled debut, is a foray into a haunting and expansive cinematic world. With it's mix of languid guitar work, emotive, saturated melodic textures, noises and static, field recordings and found sounds including a diverse collection of variously recorded human voices (highly emotional phone conversations between family members, an anti-war rally, CB broadcasting truck-drivers, answering machine messages as well as vocal contributions from Gail Schadt and Cranes' Alison Shaw) the effect achieved is ominous, hinting at decay and transformation. Its expansive, shadowy soundscapes have a distinctly American ambience- like the soundtrack to some bleak American Gothic cult-favorite that has yet to be filmed. But Greg Malcolm and Chad Mossholder while taking us on this tour, will do no hand-holding; it is all simply laid out before us, beauty and wreckage both.
"one of the year's most haunting releases, a collection of hallucinatory soundscapes [and] psychedelic ambience"
- Textura [full review here]
Now available as an exclusive pre-release at The Ghostly Store, and available June 17th on limited CD Digipak.
Download: Twine - Disconnected (edit) from Violets
Download: Twine - Girl Song from Twine
On July 1st Ghostly will be releasing Mega Breakfast, the latest album from London's acclaimed art-pop outfit The Chap. Atlas Sound, better known as Bradford Cox of Deerhunter, has worked his remix magic on “They Have A Name”, from The Chap's upcoming full length. Treating the song more as a starting point than as a heap of material to simply rearrange and augment, it’s apparent that Cox’s real anchor to the song is his appreciation of the band he’s remixing, as he wanders steadily and confidently into the realm of personal, noisy, melodic psychedelia we all love him for.
Download: The Chap - They Have A Name (Atlas Sound Remix)
Germany's Playhouse label (and their sister labels, Klang and Ongaku) is one of those labels we've always felt an affinty with. They are of the same "down with genre" ethos as us and also dance music neo-classicists in their hearts.
Their roster is some of the most character-driven and quality in the game. Checklist: Isolee, Alter Ego, Villalobos, Farben (Jan Jelenik), LoSoul, John Tejada, etc. We have both released records by disco king Daniel Wang and acid genius Hieroglyphic Being too. To us, Playhouse is like the Def Jam of dance music when they came out blazing with Public Enemy, LL, Slick Rick and the Beasties.
Here's a sunny remix of Osborne by Isolee, a collaboration between our artists on vinyl.
Download: Osborne - Daylight (Pyjama Remix by Isolee)
Playhouse
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We are pretty psyched about our new free compilation. After a year of talking and brainstorming, Adult Swim were mighty gracious and let us do it up in our own style. 19 new songs at 320 kpbs DRM-free downloads from the label roster and some special guests we love like FLYamSAM (Flying Lotus and SAMIYAM), School Of Seven Bells, Milosh and Dark Party.
To celebrate, here's an exclusive remix of Michna's Triple Chrome Dipped which is featured in the Ghostly Swim video.
Michna is our newest signing. He's an NYC/Miami native and makes music that feels familiar but also somehow indescribable.
Download: Michna - Triple Chrome Dipped (12" Version)
Also, check out The Chap's Ghostly Swim track, Carlos Walter Wendy Stanley.
Stream: The Chap - Carlos Walter Wendy Stanley
Also check out our new site and let us know what you think.
- dado@ghostly.com
Christopher Willits and Stars of the Lid, two American leaders of beautiful and innovative music, explore 19 dates throughout the United States and Canada. The tour will visit a typical and non-traditional range of venues such as the Independent in San Francisco, the Masonic Temple in Montreal, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and more. Christopher Willits, hot off his collaboration Ocean Fire with Ryuichi Sakamoto, will be performing new solo guitar work alongside videos he has created from his photography. SOTL will be accompanied by a string trio for the entire tour and Luke Savisky will project layered 16mm films.
In 2004, Willits' occupied the first half Ghostly's SMM Vol.2 with his sprawling “Breathe (in seven sections) ”, a seven-part extrapolation of the custom-made guitar sounds that have garnered him so much acclaim. The suite is now available on it's own and in it's entirety, here at RCRD LBL.
Download: Christopher Willits - Milkweed
Download: Christopher Willits - Fountain
Download: Christopher Willits - Flown
Download: Christopher Willits - Floating
Download: Christopher Willits - With Homemade Rockets
Download: Christopher Willits - Touch Me and I End Up Singing
Download: Christopher Willits - Blue and Coral
Christopher Willits + Stars of the Lid, North American dates:
4/14 Echoplex - Los Angeles, Ca.
4/15 The Independent - San Francisco, Ca.
4/17 Holocene - Portland, Or.
4/18 Triple Door - Seattle, Wa.
4/21 Southern Theatre - Minneapolis, Mn.
4/22 Staerkel Planetarium - Champaign, Il.
4/23 Sebring-lewis Concert Hall - Grinnell, Ia.
4/24 930 Listening Room - Louisville, Ky.
4/25 Warhol Museum - Pittsburgh, Pa.
4/26 Lakeshore Theatre - Chicago, Il.
4/27 Museum London - London, On.
4/28 Music Gallery - Toronto, On.
4/29 Memorial Masonic - Temple Montreal, Qc.
5/1 Museum Of Fine Arts - Boston, Ma.
5/2 Good Shepard Faith Church - New York City, Ny.
5/3 St Mary ’s Episcopal Church - Philadelphia, Pa.
5/4 Iota Club & Cafe - Washington, Dc.
5/5 Fine Arts Theatre - Asheville, Nc.
5/7 Ritz Theatre - Austin, Tx.
Our dance label Spectral Sound is proud home to some new artists and we couldn't be happier. First off is Kate Simko, who we've admired from afar for a while, but we finally joined forces to release the spankin' new She Said EP. Pitchfork calls the EP "her most muscular offering yet" and Ryan Elliott delivers a cool late night edit. The cover art is by Mike Cina of WeWorkForThem / TrueIsTrue fame and represents the dark beauty of these. We will be selling prints of these on our site soon, and in the meanwhile we have tees by WeYorkForThem in The Ghostly Store.
Look for live dates from Kate soon and be sure to check our her release at Beatport .
DOWNLOAD: "Soltera", from Kate's She Said EP, out now on Spectral
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Written during the recording sessions for Asa Breed but previously unreleased, "Don't Go This Way" is now available, exclusively here at RCRD LBL.
One of the standout albums of 2007, Asa Breed is a brave vision, spanning electronic love songs and Detroit techno with a deep Southern lament in its belly.
"Dont Go This Way" is another enigmatic pop gem from Matthew with a hypnotic, almost tribal percussive stance, complete with disembodied falsettos swirling in and out over the deep, neatly compressed kick. Synth stabs pile onto each other building the suspense only to pull back- a sly and calculated anti-climax from an artist for whom tension has always been an instrument of choice.
DOWNLOAD: Matthew Dear | "Don't Go This Way"
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Tadd Mullinix and Todd Osborn are longtime friends and partners in crime. The Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti duo is responsible for a slew remixes/collaborations for artists as diverse as Depeche Mode, Zero 7, DMX Krew and Flying Lotus.
As a duo, they are known to wreak havoc. As SK-1 & Soundmurder, creating ragga jungle for both their Rewind! label and Aphex Twin's Rephlex imprint, they've also been collaborating as TNT, spreading their blistering acid gospel on remixes and 12"s.
But both Mullinix and Osborn are emerging from their go-to aliases—Dabrye / James T. Cotton, and Osborne, respectively. Dabrye's Get Dirty EP which includes banging remixes from Flying Lotus and dubstep king Kode9 and features Doom, AG, Phat Kat and Jay Dee on MC duties, hits this week. Under the James T. Cotton alias, alongside his new maniacal house/techno work on the Cotton LP, Like No One. Osborne re-enters the spotlight with the Ruling EP- four dancefloor-ready house tracks to whet fans appetites for his forthcoming self-titled full-length "Osborne" in May.
PREVIEW:
Dabrye- Get Dirty EP
James T. Cotton - Like No One
Osborne- Ruling EP
Osborne- Osborne
DOWNLOAD:
James T. Cotton - "The Drain", from The Dancing Box
Osborne - "Bout Ready To Jak (TNT mix)", from Bout Ready To Jak Remixes
Dabrye - "Game Over (original mix)", from 2/3
Ghostly is proud to present this live recording of Cepia's performance as part of the Wordless Music series. Performed and recorded in the historic Good Faith Shepherd church in NYC, the live set was performed opening for Max Richter, known for The Blue Notebooks and for producing albums by Vashti Bunyan and The Twilight Sad, as part of Richter’s first U.S. concert appearance ever. Cepia performed variations of songs from Natura Morta and Brown as well unreleased tracks, available only on this live recording.
DOWNLOAD: Cepia - Live at the Wordless Music series
DOWNLOAD: Cepia - Hoarse, from Natura Morta
Tracklist:
Me And My Gin
Brown, from Brown
Clay Face, from Natura Morta
Hoarse, from Natura Morta
Red Soda Water
Dimmo
Ithaca
