Two great mixtapes from someone in Berlin with a killer Tumblr calling themselves ΠΦn ΠigηΘη, really all over the place but through and through bass led visceralness that will make bits of you dance in opposition to the other bits. Download from the Soundcloud players below.
New Mixtape by Textbeak for LA Substance. Download for free from the player below.
The tracklist: New Mixtape
Talking Heads - The Great Curve // Remain in Light
The Knife - Without You My Life Would Be Boring // Shaking The Habitual // Rabid
µ-Ziq - Old Fun #1 // In Pine Effect // Astralwerks
L.A.S.'s Crime - Pretty Face // Disphoria 1985-1989 LP // Mannequin Records
THE COOMBE - Inbetween Doors // THE COOMBE // Mannequin Records
µ -Ziq - Sick porter // Bluff Limbo // Rephlex Records
Bestial Mouths - White Eyes // Bestial Mouths/Deathday Split 12" // Sweating Tapes
Ferdinand Cärclash - No te detengas
Don Jones - Morning Glory (ft. Le1f)
Destiny's Child - Emotions (Noms "Cry 4 Me bb" Remix)
Magic Fades – CONTEMPLATIVE ft BLAM LORD n SIDDIQ
NФΔH 23 - Tropical Fruit { Pictureplane } // Tropical Fruit
Von Sudenfed - Serious Brainskin // Tromatic Reflexxions // Domino
AIDS-3D - Chillax Cyprus
Coil - Teenage Lightning 1 // Love's Secret Domain // Wax Trax!
Meat Beat Manifesto - Hello Teenage America // 99% // Mute
Joy Division - As You Said // Komakino flexi-disc // Factory Records
Skinny Puppy - Sore In A Masterpiece/Dead Of Winter // Back And Forth Series Two // Nettwerk
Antoni Maiovvi – Nesting
Tannhäuser Gate – Obsession // Tannhäuser Gate (EP) // Function Operate
Depeche Mode - All That's Mine // Delta Machine // Mute
Xander Harris – Necronomiconjure // I Want More Than Just Blood // 100% Silk
Phantom Love - PSYCHIC JUNE // Phantom Love // Mannequin Records
Rolodex -_anthem for the microage
Skin Town - RIDE // Time No Place
Jimi After - Rachel's Theme // Exile In Data EP // Days of Being Wild
Noblesse Oblige - Runaway (Lars Moston Remix) // Runaway EP // Repo Records
Le Carousel - Lose Your Love (Andrew Weatherall RMX) // Lose Your Love EP // Phil Kieran Recordings
Passarella Death Squad – Giant // Giant EP // Days of Being Wild
µ -Ziq - Sick Porter // Bluff Limbo // Rephlex Records
Memory Ghost - 24SEX black and blue
Mr.Incognito is pretty anonymous but has one of the best instrumental downtempo hip hop albums I've heard for ages. Bandcamp is the domain of this artist and the album "93 to Infinity" is just stacked with 90s samples and chilled synth washed beats. It's all late night stoner introspection and chill net graphics, while the opening track "1993" has a more 8bit vibe. Go download the album for free.
Finer Red by Shisa is a killer album that came out in March and I've kept meaning to blog about it for a while now. Shisa's sound has evolved a great deal from when I used to blog about the early releases and mixtapes back in late 2011. A fully rounded sound that plays around with future-house, chill down-tempo, ambient and juke sometimes all within one track. Intellectual progressive dance music for late night sessions.
The album is free to download from Bandcamp, go grab it now while you can.
Sheen have a great post-punk shoegaze sound all melancholic drifting and melodic, great clear chiming guitar that at points evokes early Sonic Youth all topped with a vocal that bests most out there. It's all really good, this is a band that should to have an edge of success about them if the world knows its stuff. Download their demos from Soundcloud for free.
Interesting experimental ambient downtempo sounds from an artist called Gone and an album called "The Circle Is Open But Never Broken". Quiet, beautiful and very textural this dark gothic soundscape reads like a film score to a forgotten 8mm art movie. All analogue in its execution there is more richness to this album than a lot of other artists of a similar ilk. There's also a lot of loose song writing and vocals permeating through, creating a fogged out mash of sounds.
Download "The Circle Is Open But Never Broken" for free from Bandcamp, and check out and download the other two similar and equally good albums called "The Darkling" and "Sins Of The Visitation"
Here have some Nightcore! I've always been a fan of what is essentially a one trick remix effect but sometimes it just hits the spot so well. These are all free to download from a project by some dude actually calling himself "Nightcore" grab them from his Soundcloud.
I shot this bands first video and now they have an EP out, you can download it for free from their Bandcamp. Their sound revels in all the best moments of '90s Brit Pop, soaring and instantly catchy tunes that stick like glue in your head. The production on these four tracks is also one of the things that really makes this record, brining to mind some of the best of late 90s British bands from Suede and Supergrass to Space and The Bluetones but all with a firmly cemented foothold in 2013. Killer songwriting.
Very late night ambient post RnB sounds from Nicodxmvs and an album called Humilty. This global quiet genre, minimal, spacial and slow as anything should really be acknowledged as new trip-hop, its got all the same elements I suppose, only slower, more considered, no dancing at all, barely even a tapping foot. Nicodxmvs sounds aren't exactly like The Weeknd or oFF but they are in the same ball park. Download from Bandcamp for free.
Girl Band are an Irish noise punk band that remind me of Liars a lot but without being derivative in any way. Their latest release is free to download from Bandcamp. It will blow you away!
New Glass Teeth track! Hard and whipping, almost dropping into a dupstep wobble but keeping firmly on the Death Rave side of the police tape."In2 The Darkness" download from Soundcloud.
Now I really loved the new Crim3s Stay Ugly EP but they've just gone and put out a new track and it is by far my favourite song they have ever made... and I'm not even at the end of listening to it as I type. This is THE Crim3s track. Ripped with heartache and blistering beats, menacing time signatures and adhd synth trills, Sadies vocals switching between her throat tearing scream and a new grungy anthemic gospel sound, a classic rave anthem format updated for 2013. Oh and the song is called "Still Goin" which has loads of great angsty implications.
Download for free or "pay what you want" from their Bandcamp.
Spanish/Italian electro duo Skinny Reptile Youth make punk dance in the same vein as they stick the crushed up Crystal Castles cds, mainlined dark dance for cheap bedrooms and sticky nights.
They haven't even met except through the usual digital interfaces and are looking for money to meet and play in real life. (Arent we all.) Listen for a more than a few seconds and you'll discover these guys are better than you might think!
Download their EP for free from Bandcamp here.
Filthy post Witch House rap from Coco ᴐaᴚᴃoᵯᴃ, one in collaboration with Witch Boy. Label it as "slave wave".
As much as I would like to stop blogging With House, there keep being great releases and great new artists working with that sound, stuff too good to let slip by. French artist River Bones is just one such Witch House bothering genius. I'm a sucker for drone and bass, for slow apocalyptic beats and giant fuzz, before the Witchian sound it was Doom and drone artist that brought that to me but since 2010 it's usually Witch House with its beautiful gift of huge synth chords and slow rave celestial magic. Rive Bones has that to give and more. Subtle then brash, gentle then hard as. Epic and eternal with jittering pre-Trap beats and soaring saw-toothed synth melodies. Go download the ten track album called Icon from Bandcamp (Pay what you what or download for free)
KKING FELIXX is the new musical project from Ellah A. Thaun with a full length album called "49 hearts" released at the end of March this year. It's beautiful psychedelic folk songs are layered in drone and hypnotic effected vocals. It's bliss folk, lo-fi and laced with an authentic grungy beauty. This is something really really special. I urge you to go download it from the Bandcamp for free and listen to it in its entirety in a flower filled field somewhere with the one you love.
Wicca Phase Perfect remix of Pictureplane - called "PICTUREPLANE // TECHNO FETISH (WICCA PHASE SPRINGS ETERNAL LOHAN LOVE REMIX)" Because, you know you can. Oh and it kicks ass, slow and relentless mall goth post witchian doomtronica.
Make up your own genres, you cant correct me my grammar is expressive, there are no rules.
Wicca Phase Perfect have a whole load of great tracks littering Soundcloud, great remixes, really messed with and reworked into giants. Go download with impunity
Here's a nice Trap feeling minimal rap thing from Coco ᴐaᴚᴃoᵯᴃ, its catchy and dirty and got a great little groove to it. Download it from her Soundlcoud along with a whole bunch of other new tracks.
21 year old Montreal beatmaker Langelier has a new track called Ganondorf. Its really good and heavy and free to download from his Soundcloud.
