New album from TEAMS

A new album from Teams dropped a few weeks ago! Called Sierra City Center (Diamond Club) it seems a bit more abrasive than his normal smooth chill sound, the slow grooving beats and warm synths are still there but its all gone a bit more disjointed and dirty, more fuzzed up and distorted. There's also a hell of a lot of great Prince style guitar soloing going on! Its an interesting move and there seems to be more vocals on this album too which is nice. Buy/Download it from Bandcamp.

Teams is also playing tonight in Paris if you can get there... The poster is below: 

HEATSTROKE

Heat Stroke 'PRIVATE COLLECTIONS' EP out on AMDISCS now.

Really good, reminds me of Teams. Perfect GTA soundtrack, blissed out and smooth. Lens flares and slo-mo poll dances, riding the coast road with the top down. Dealing to teenagers from fast food parking lots. Cruising in the heat of the noon day sun back lit at all times. Download the EP for free from the Soundcloud player below.

Teamm Jordann - Champion LP

Jónó Mí Ló (Daytime Television) and Sean Bowie (Teams) recorded a bunch of tracks between 2008 - 2012 under the name Teamm Jordann. The resulting Album - Champion is available on tape from Orange Milk Records for $6.

Expect smooth chillwave funk, ambient soundscapes, 80s throwback synth jams and waterworld echoing wonder. Brilliant.

THE NEW BRITISH teaser video

Featuring a soundtrack by Teams this brilliant video is a teaser for The New British.. an upcoming magazine by Kez Glozier & Neville Brody. Video directed by Alis Pelleschi.

Hhome Vvideos, _IN > PUTS_PLUS +

New release out on london's always brilliant Radical Ritual Tapes; this is the first debut cassette release from Hhome Vvideos, called _IN > PUTS_PLUS +  it's a tape full of screwed rave, RnB and hip-hop samples from the golden age of the nineties that smashes smoothly between drunken fuzzed out beats and heavenly computer synths, glittering and bissed out, sounding much like the sort of thing an artist like Teams would create.
Download it for £2 or order the tape from Bandcamp now! 

Teams - ft Dick Models

There's a new Teams release, a 7" featuring Dick Models out 28th April on White Iris Records. Side A is the new track Love Distance -a glossy and plush summer juice track all funked out Chillwave vibes and gospel house vocals. Side B is a new track featuring Dick Models, a bass as fuck heavy stomper of gurning summer Hawaii party vibes. So good.

New Teams tracks!

Here's a few new and absolutely brilliant tracks by one of my hype bands of 2012 - Teams. the first is one done in collaboration with fellow Seapunk Indigo Bunting and its a free chill R&B masterpiece of dragged sex beats, lapping water and vintage glitter synths.

Sentimental feat. Indigo Bunting by Teams

The next track is a straight up funk grooved raver of a track called ღ ♋ ღ !!

ღ ♋ ღ by Teams

Lastly we have Teams remix of Picturplane's Boy Mod track, turning into an aquarium of seaside sparkle and cliff cave echo, jewel like waters slipping between your toes as your ears venture further into the cave of a track that it turns into. Go download them all fro free from Soundcloud.

Pictureplane - Body Mod (Teams Retouch) by Teams

2012 HYPE LIST!

This is my 2012 HYPE LIST! Not a list of the best artists of 2011, or a best album list etc. This is ten artists who should, could and will be influential, successful  and ahead of the game as we go into 2012, the apocalypse year, the end times. Now I'm not saying all these guys will be mega successful but they should be. 


Unicorn Kid: 
With the release of his Tidal Rave EP Unicorn Kid set himself up as just the best thing ever this year, unsigning himself from his label, he released the EP for free as an unsigned artist and was being played on daytime BBC Radio1 within a month or so. Big things for this dude. You blogger haters better get it together and re-listen to this EP. Seapunk magic 2012 into the future!

Adeptus:
This dude sprung to my attention producing the music for Kreayshawn's "Bumpin Bumpin" and the drag version of Justin Biebers "One Night Stand" these were slow epic prog trance tracks, just so good! Then he started the whole "trance war" competition that ended up being hosted by DIS Magazine. This guy has bigger balls than most and some of the best on trend close to the edge pop production skills ever. Post Trance for 2012.


Kreayshawn - Bumpin Bumpin (instrumental) by Adeptus

Crim3s:
These guys just rock. Not only do they look cooler than cool but they're awesomely lovely people IRL and together they make some of the most brilliant music ever. Within the last few months things have really taken off, with loads of little positive moves here and there that add up to a big things. These arent just another laptop and singer duo messing around in an obscurest musical backwater this is big time, this is a band with special moves, mortal combat style. V cool.

o F F:
This is like a strange and subtle assault on the senses that moves in and before you know it is squatting in the upper floors of your brain. This is the what you get for all liking The XX so much; o F F is like some kind of ambient gothic R&B ghetto superstar in the making, lost in a fog of noise and wonder. why this is so great is its artistic take on a more commercial sound, something slick and sharp like Drake but through long tunnel of smoked glass and valium. Slow and drifting but total pop! Brilliant!

Teams: 
Since the release of the Dxys Xff album Teams has probably had a pretty great summer, if the two most recent tracks created since then are anything to go on. Embracing the Seapunk vibe as much as the 80s bass and glam, the funk and smooth woosh of LA. Throbbing heat and no sleep, sunlight through blinds, endless R&B speedboat chases echoing through street soundsystems, roller skates and a forever summertime vibe. If things are fair in music then this dude is rolling on some big times!

Crave: 
This dude is from Berlin and does heavy grunge electronica, neo folk bass, black metal dubstep, whatever you want to call it its intense and powerful as fuck and has all the sounds and influences that have made 2011 great. Salem sounds but just that bit meatier on all levels.

Heavy Strife: 
This artist made one of the best albums this year, Synthétiseur was everything you could want, it was shoegaze electronica, it was 80s synth, it was epic dystopian post punk, it was warm and relaxing and beautiful. 
It was all you wanted from the new M83 album but didnt get. Perfect Valium music hidden away and relatively unknown. How Heavy Strife is not signed and doing massive stadium tours with wicked lighting rigs is beyond me. Go download his album for free from Bandcamp now!

SHADES:
I love hype, I love when people invent stuff; genres, movements, pop stars.
So I was pretty psyched to discover that Witch House big hitters (if there's such a thing) Ritualz and Teehn Bwitches were the producers behind SHADES, a new and uninterested seeming Mexican pop star in the making. Whether or not she/they make it big is anther thing but I sincerely hope so because I love these kind of projects. So you never know this could be the big hope of 2012 and you'll all be surprised!
THROWDOWN by SHADES ☺

Glass Popcorn:
This dude is like the most precocious teen ever, he truly believes he's the next big thing, cool thing, hottest thing. And that's all it takes to win big. It also helps he can sorta rap and produces some great tracks! Glass popcorn is total Tumblr generation, still in school and inspired from everywhere all the time and constantly evolving. Brilliant and all set for 2012.

Glass Like Me (prod. Clams Casino) by glass popcorn Popcorn Christmas (ft. Dadpopcorn) by glass popcorn

Zombelle:
Last but in  no way least we have Zombelle. Zombelle invented a whole new genre this year, #seapunk (hashtag for added twitter props) less of a musical genre and more of a lifestyle, visual, conceptual genre to be fair. Seapunk has been a lovely addition to 2011 and has been adopted by more than one artist on this list, Teams, Unicorn Kid etc. Zombelle aka Shan Beaste has been more ahead of the Zeitgeist than nearly anyone this summer with her style being appropriated by people like Lady Gaga amongst others! This is all gloss and polish, luckily her music is also brilliant! A slow and low dub feeling witch house, squelchy pop. It reminds me of Grace Jones for some reason and thats a great thing. This is someone who'll only ever do her own thing but could easily take over the world if she felt it was important to do!


♆ ZOMBELLE ≈ BAD CREATION ♆ by ZOMBELLE
♆ ZOMBELLE ≈ TROPOCALYPSE ♆ by ZOMBELLE

Teams/Def Jam news!!

Since the release of the Dxys Xff album Teams has probably had a pretty great summer, if the two most recent tracks created since then are anything to go on. Embracing the Seapunk vibe as much as the 80s bass and glam, the funk and smooth woosh of LA.  Throbbing heat and no sleep, sunlight through blinds, endless R&B speedboat chases echoing through street soundsystems, roller skates and a forever summertime vibe. 


With releases via Amdiscs Mexican Summer and Coral Records Internazionale He is soon releasing the 'Boyhood' LP as physical and digital release on DEF JAM Records!!

Also heres the new and official video for Teams "Based Love" from "Dxys Xff" LP which was released on AMDISCS

Teams Catch Pool EP now on tape.

The Catch Pool EP from Teams is now available as a limited cassette release of a 100 copies from Otherworldly Mystics here. Get to listen to it in a warm analogue tape style.

#Seapunk Volume 1 Limited Edition CD​-​R

Coral Records Internazionale #Seapunk Compilation Volume 1 Limited Edition CD​-​R available from Bandcamp from tomorrow. Next level 2012 future sounds of ocean worlds, dolphin music, hair like seaweed, mermaid rock,. Featuring Fire For Effect, Teams, Slava, Indigo Bunting and more. This is a pro #seapunk blog. 2012 into the apocalypse, waterworlds and seaquests.

Teams - Anml Life video!

Teams: Dxys Xff EP

Teams is by far one of my favourite bands of recent months, creating a sonic assault of beauty with layers of dream like nostalgic chillwaved beats, sounds from blissful dancefloors and sunny nights, drifting and ambient at points, abstract R&b at others, always smooth and polished like perfumed air though sunglasses, warm and inviting. In fact Teams is so good I kinda haven't wanted to write anything about him 'cos it just seemed a bit intimidating.

The brilliant and full length release Dxys Xff is out on Amdiscs but you can also download each individual track from the Soundcloud player below.



Dxys Xff by Teams

Teams, Catch Pool EP.

Teams is an unsigned artist who, like Cool Runnings, is also from Knoxville Tennesse.

This is a wild concoction of drums, dancing, echoes and Chillwave, choral incantations into experimental fogs, tropicalia to samples!

Teams five song Catch Pool EP is available to download for free from his Bandcamp page.

Or you can have a quick listen first below: