Let Magic Fades be your summer soundtrack!

Portland Oregon always produces good music and this is no exception, Magic Fades are a duo making awesome celestial sounds, these are blissed out smooth pop jams like Chillwave without any nostalgia, crooning vocals dispensing R&B-isms and star spangled magic through slow low sex music and house inspired shoe gaze electronica. Beautiful stuff, there are even some guitar solos in there! They are planning on releasing an EP or album at the beginning of the summer but until then everything on their Soundcloud is free to download so go grab it now because it's great!

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:Kinema: free xmas single giveaway!

:Kinema: are on the cover of The Brighton Source magazine this month and they are also saying Merry Xmas to you all by giving away a free single 3 Wolf Moon a huge cold disco work-out of a track, minimal nervous guitar and great stabs of keys and a smooth dancey beat for sad dance floors, avoiding xmas and pulling in indie clubs.

What's great about the cover photo to the the left here is how Andy and Ross are all Xmased up with the holiday knitwear look while Dom (singer/front man/) seems to have refused to join in, instead looking his normal self.. well you cant let the ladies down!

Hit the download arrow on the Soundcloud player below to get your free Christmas giveaway.

3 Wolf Moon by :kinema:

Skweee pioneer Boss Kite.

I really don't know much about the genre of Skweee but if its all like Boss Kite then it seems pretty damn good.

Clean, precise, glitchy and funky, stabs of dubstep bass with computer game high end squeals and 8 bit samples, but its also got a groove to it, its what Prince should be making these days if he had a clue. Wow imagine that, a real Prince come back with Skweee and proper creepy lover lyrics like days of old!

Anyway Boss Kite is part of :Kinema: from my home town of Brighton and his Bandcamp profile has a 4 track EP to download for free, go get it!

Kinema Circles EP interview exclusive!

Recovering from their epic EP launch Kinema discuss albums, Barry White and Ferraris made out of cake!

So the Circles EP Launch went SO well were you pleases with the response?

Yeah, completely. Our Brighton shows are becoming few and far between now, so it was great to play in front of so many people we know again. Our friends have always been great to us - very few of them are wallflowers, so shows in our home town are always lively.

You guys seem to have a very sexual vibe on stage and pretty much the whole audience were hot ladies, as a band do you keep the sexual vibe going off stage?

Ha! As much as we'd like to think of ourselves as being irresistible to the ladies, I'm not sure there's a whole lot of evidence to support that. We've obviously got a couple of tunes that are inspired by the more physical aspects of life, but I'm not under any illusion that I'm Prince or anything - those songs have always got a sub-text about being worried that you aren't going to live up to the girls expectations. A lot of the time the bravado is there just to mask the anxiety.

I've noticed from your Twitter posts that you're fans of R&B crooner Bobby Valentino, who else rocks :Kinemas: musical world?

Bobby V has a special place in our hearts, but we listen to a pretty wide variety of stuff. In terms of contemporary music - I'm listening to a lot of European disco; people like Ilija Rudman, Aeroplane, Siriusmo etc. Band-wise I'm liking Casiokids, the new Yeasayer stuff and those Hot Chip boys always seem to remind you that you got a lot to learn.

We also love the Skweee from Scandanavia - Ross (:Kinema: keytar/synth operator) has a Skweee solo project under the name Boss Kite; you can check him out at this month's Donky Pitch in Brighton).

The production on this EP is pretty sweet, are you bedroom/laptop centred or did you splash out on studio time?

Funnily enough we did splash out on some studio time at a couple of places but we weren't very happy with the results. In the end we just knuckled down, stripped the songs back to their bare bones and started again doing it all ourselves. I think we had a very strong sense of how we wanted the songs to sound, as well as what we wanted them to do musically, and if that's the case then I think its going to be hard for a producer to deliver what you want.

And the EP is out on Hot Pockets yeah? Will we be seeing an album soon?

If 2010 goes exceptionally well you might see an album by the end of the year, but its more likely it will be early 2011. The songs are pretty much all there but we've a lot to sort out behind the scenes. It will probably take us several months to think of a name for it as well.

If :Kinema: could play anywhere, where would be your ideal place to play a gig?

Personally I wont be happy until we've played at one of P.Diddy's legendary birthday parties - one of those ones where he has shark tanks and ferraris made out of cake.

Again with the sexual vibe but I'm pretty sure there's a lot of girls out there desperate to know if you guys are single?

Are you sure? No one has been in touch. Anyway, yes, we are all single.

Well finally which would you rather: that for the rest of your life you had massive reverb on your speaking voice or that every time you walked into a room you had a little keyboard fanfare?

Reverb on the voice would be good. No-one likes the sound of their own speaking voice - listening to ourselves being interviewed on the radio was kind of painful; maybe a bit of reverb would sort that out. Imagine how great it would make your pillow-talk sound as well. Everything you said would sound like the intro to a Barry White ballad.

Kinema, Circles Ep launch!

:Kinema: are celebrating the launch of their Circles EP by throwing a party of epic proportions on Saturday 23rd January at Jam on Middle street. Featuring the Kitsune signed Grovesnor and Alexis Taylor from Hot Chip!









(photo by Emily Barnett emilymarybernett@yahoo.co.uk )

The night will be split in two (one ticket, £8, gets you into the whole thing) - firstly a gig showcasing some of :Kinema:s new material + it will be a first chance for Brighton to hear live material from Grovesnor's amazing forthcoming (Hot Chip-produced) album!!

Then secondly there'll be two of London's top Dj's coming down to take the party into the small hours. Hot Chips frontman Alexis Taylor and Bugs Raplin. "Just one hour of Bugs on the decks is worth the entrance fee alone. We do not joke!"

:Kinema: have said on Facebook that.. "If this isn't the best party you ever go to we will personally refund your money."

Cant find better than that!