2012 hype list to come...

My 2012 top ten hype list is coming soon, a mix of the best of 2011 with the artists set to shape some sounds and go off big time in 2012, the apocalypse year. 

CRAVE

If you wanted to sum up 2011 and predict 2012 in terms of what was new and making waves, all be it "butterfly creating a hurricane" style, then CRAVE  is it, a Berlin denizen, CRAVE creates deep dark and heavy pop synth punk drone, epic like James Cameron, brutal like Charles Bronson, evil like Kenneth Anger, its intense and harsh, did I say its harsh? Damn its harsh, black metal stylee but so beautifully bassy and dynamic, slow low down tempo to soundtrack cooking up meth. So you go along listening to bass and static, melodic death beat, then his music changes lanes and goes all Nirvana suicide acoustic distorted but wondrous. Just some genius stuff here. You all have to give it a listen and then a second and then you are like SO there. Bad trip vibes and loving it. 


The album Heal is out now, $6.66 from Bandcamp. Its better than Salem's - King Knight by at least a solid mile. 

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CRIM3S EP - Promo!!!!!!

Lo0k 0Ut W0rlD CRIM3S is C0m1nG! 
2012 mAj0r Lab3l sigNing, mArK mY w0rdS!
NeXt l3V3L sUp3rStArs!

Pressed And - Video for Raid.

Directed by Nathaniel Whitcomb (with footage from 2001: A Space Odyssey - Star Gate sequence - Stanley Kubrick) Get the album via Crash Symbols here.
Intense psychedelic introverted space adventure, beautiful as a newborn sun reaping through the eyes of babes uncoddled by lifes great foibles, death and taxes, savings and loans, take this up to the highest resolution possible, press the iris to the screen and let loose. 

Pressed And - Imbue Up

Imbue Up is the début release from Pressed And - two dudes from somewhere Stateside, it's a super tactile synth and chilled out pop drone space music with beats to stab for, heavenly shit that drips into your ears, gold lamas riding down all the tongue hairs of your ears, headphone central and eyes closed. Melodic bass dreams, the party Valium brownie of rave, celestial Gurkha parties in the ice caves of the Himalayas. It's drifting, chopped and screwed, drag and bass, ambient R&B, chillwave as seen from behind the bike sheds, ghetto hippie music.


You can get a limited edition cassette version of the release from Crash Symbols which is probably well worth the hassle. And you can grab the album for $5 from Bandcamp. Worth it x10!

Tyler De Naag - The Rise and Fall of Europe

Tyler De Naag has just dropped a brilliant mini mix entitled The Rise and Fall of Europedark Witch Housian electro magic. This Italian DJ mystery is as booked up as a you can be and never fails to re-invent himself on a near monthly basis, his website, Facebook etc is always evolving and shifting forever obtuse. 


Oh yeah also here's some pics of his awesome looking night Vietnam that I promo'ed a while back.


Tyler de Naag - The Rise and Fall of Europe by TylerdeNaag