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why like this?

teebs is a producer and visual artist signed to brainfeeder and his debut album 'ardour' is out pretty soon. lead single from the record 'why like this?' can be downloaded here.

rattling cage

get the new forest swords 7" 'rattling cage' here.

last chants

here's a track from the forthcoming sun araw EP out on woodist this october. this is the project of magic lantern's cameroon stallones which takes you down a distinct psych/dub/drone path of escapism.


sun araw - last chants

crooks & lovers

the mount kimbie album is finally here. at the forefront of the so-called 'post-dubstep' sound (more atmospheric, less 'wonky', less dance-floor orientated, and perhaps more intelligent) that has been growing over the past couple of years, mount kimbie have enjoyed critical success so far with a couple of EPs. 'crooks & lovers' drifts across genre boundaries, touching upon elements of dubstep and hip-hop, you can hear flickers of post-rock and even jazz whilst also being heavily rooted in ambient and electronic sounds. the use/sampling of real instruments such as acoustic guitar gives the album a connection to the non-electronic realm, and the delicate chopping and layering of the vocal samples could be likened to the techniques pioneered on the last burial and four tet albums. some have noted that the record can feel quite restrained at times, for me, however, its beauty derives from what could be more suitably described as a refined nature. it does not feel cluttered, over-complicated, or wasteful, but actually quite creative and extremely infectious. the album is released on july 19th on hotflush records and can be bought here.


mount kimbie - would know

dagger paths

this 2010 ep from forest swords (one-man project from wirral) is an atmospheric journey where drone guitar meets dubstep-esque rhythms. soulful yet ghostly vocals rise above minimal psych-guitar loops; this record is certainly haunting.

listen...


forest swords - miarches

download...

forest swords - dagger paths (ep) [mediafire] or [megaupload]

unkle - heaven

UNKLE's latest video is for the track 'heaven' which featured on the 'end titles... stories for film' album of recent collective recordings, and it continues UNKLE's tendency to produce unforgettable music videos. the footage for this piece was originally from lakai's 'fully flared' skateboarding film; collaborative directors spike jonze and ty evans re-edited a sequence which shows southern californian skaters demonstrating their skills. footage of skaters is slowed down to a snail pace which makes you focus on minute details like t-shirts rippling in the wind, or the skaters wavering in balance when making impact with the ground. what separates this from a simple homage to skaters is of course the unexpected explosions of parts of the skate park which the skaters navigate through. this is really where the slowed down speed of the film has maximum effect as we see sparks flying, concrete shattering, clouds of rubble hanging in the air - all in precise detail. the album this track featured on, 'end titles... stories for film', was made to harness a relationship between music and images, an area of audio-visual association. in the credits to the album james lavelle described making music for film or television as "frustrating" because:

"a lot of the music you're making ends up sitting on the shelf, neither properly released or heard. a waste really, we thought. so this album is our attempt to alleviate our musical frustrations whilst hoping that it will find a wider audience."

the menacing 'heaven' is a great track in it's own right, and this video could be their best since the groundbreaking work on 'rabbit in your headlights' by chris cunningham. the video builds slowly in tension and expectancy, like the song, towards a gallant conclusion. the images are successfully related with the musical backdrop in both matter and timing, producing an extraordinary relationship between sound and picture that lavelle clearly wanted to achieve when making his music.