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This is your Daily 2% - Chilled and Ready to Serve. We will try to bring you one "chill" track every day. This is for when you get home and you are trying to unwind. You reach for that glass of wine or that unlit Black & Mild or maybe you reach for something more herbal. This track is for those times. We are just your milkmen and I'm here to make a delivery. Chill... On April 16, Oakland indie outfit Sister Crayon released their Cynic EP on Fake Four Inc. Vocalist Terra Lopez cites Ella [...]
You probably know Ernest Gonzales through his work as Mexicans With Guns , but you probably don't know, unless you live in the San Antonio area, who Diego Bernal is. Not only is he a member of the city council out there, but he's working on a collaborative EP with Gonzales. The EP is in the works, hopefully sooner than later, but for the time being we get a taste with "Somber Arrows", filled with all sorts of warm crackle and floating piano. If only all elected officials were this awesome. Check out the stream of the track below, [...]
Exactly one year and one day has passed since I, totem, published my very first year-end list for Salacious. After that successful go at a top 50 albums list, it's about time I followed it up with a fresh list for 2012 wouldn't you say? Now, I know it's somewhat late for a year-end list (as per blog standards) but I sicnerely hope you can bear with me for just one more....pwetty pwease? I promise I will make it worth your while! Now, a few notes before we begin. I've shortened my list from a top 50 albums [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: My Dry Wet Mess, Ernest Gonzales, Robot Koch Song: Mexicans With Guns - Hummingbird [download here ] What's so good? [...]
Friends of Friends is one of the most generous imprints out there. As those over at XLR8R have already pointed out, it's rare that the label releases a record without at least one or two accompanying remixes and most of the time these edits are offered out free-of-charge. In celebration of the warm weather (or whatever else you feel like revelling in), FoF have compiled a selection of reworked tracks from the first half of the year. Summer’s here, and we wanted to bring you a collection of the FoF crew’s [...]
El sello con sede en Los Angeles de FoF Music ha tenido una muy brillante idea para celebrar la llegada del verano, y la mitad de este año 2012, y ha realizado una selección 8 temas remezclados de artistas de del sello, y lo ha puesto en descarga gratuita, en mp3 320, gran sello Friends of Friends, muy buena idea la de regalar este disco.... en el podemos encontrar desde el edit de Tomas Barfod (WhoMadeWho) para Tyga, el de Nicolas Jaar para Shlohmo, el edit de LOL Boys para Lil’ Wayne....... un compilado [...]
Today's Mix/Cover/Live includes Willie Nelson, Röyksopp and Ernest Gonzales.
Natural Traits, Ernest Gonzales Friends of Friends, USA Rating: 76 by Andrew Casillas In many ways, Ernest Gonzales’ brand of techno is perfect for his hometown of San Antonio. It’s expansive, not very flashy, and infinitely better your second time around. His latest record, Natural Traits , sustains a robust atmosphere of sinewy but nuanced beats but distances itself from the brash, head-spinning swing of his Mexicans with Guns project. Where that project owes much to experimental hip-hop and fat-bass funk, Natural Traits prefers to lie in the weeds, slowly building [...]
For your streaming pleasure, here is our first installment of Friday Night Vids for the year numbered 2012... Streamable: Death (Live @ 285 Kent) (vimeo) by Parts & Labor Streamable: Unsaid (vimeo) by DUBAI Downloadable: Unsaid (mp3) as seen @ imposemagazine.com as heard @ no-conclusion.com [...]
For your streaming pleasure, here is our first installment of Friday Night Vids for the year numbered 2012... Streamable: Death (Live @ 285 Kent) (vimeo) by Parts & Labor Streamable: Unsaid (vimeo) by DUBAI Downloadable: Unsaid (mp3) as seen @ imposemagazine.com as heard @ no-conclusion.com [...]
Jonah Bromwich's most natural trait is telepathy. One of electronic music's most enjoyable characteristics is its ability to seem alien. It can seem like the kind of advanced sound that everyone will listen to once the singularity takes over and our bodies are ½ nanobot. It’s easy to forget that the beats are crafted according to the same melodies and tones that enable us to enjoy less futuristic genres. Ernest Gonzales , better known as Mexicans with Guns , has a handle on the human side of synthetic [...]
The San Antonio producer Ernest Gonzales released his second solo LP "Natural Traits" combining delicate 8-bit synths with drum beats, guitars and natural sounds. As its title reveals, the album focuses in the feelings evoked by the beauty of nature and feels more like a collection of great instrumental songwriting rather than a dance/electronic studio [...]
Ernest Gonzales might be better known to some as Mexicans With Guns , but his latest release, Natural Traits , makes his birth name something to remember. I've been sitting with it for a few weeks now, and it's just one of those albums that feels effortlessly good . Sublimely peaceful, it is at once calming and captivating - an admirable achievement for an instrumental album. Its hard to quantify in words, bu this video for "The Voice of Fate (I ♥ You)" perfectly plays into its subtleties and [...]
" Natural Traits " es el mas reciente material de Ernest Gonzales el cual pueden adquirir con mucha facilidad a traves de Friends of Friends y, la verdad es que no tenia tan contemplado llegar a hablarles en estos momentos sobre este tipo pero hace unos minutos me encontre con el video de su mas reciente sencillo "The Voice Of Fate (I ♥ You)" (si, con todo y el corazon) y creo que incluye unos de los mejores visuales que han aparecido en lo que va de este primer mes del 2012 y la verdad, me extraña que [...]
Ernest Gonzales is many things. Middle school teacher. Record label owner. Husband. Father. Even as a producer, he wears many hats. As his alter ego Mexicans With Guns, Gonzales makes hard, aggressive beats rooted in dirty low-end bass, collaborating with hard-edged rapper Freddie Gibbs and electro-Afrobeat fusionist Chico Mann. But sometimes he takes off his Lucha Libre mask and explores his softer side, creating gorgeous, lush electronica under his given name, and that’s where we find him on his third Friends Of Friends release. In a lot of ways, Natural Traits picks up where his [...]
★★★★☆ With his brand of enclosed house and down-to-earth electronics staying forever humble, Ernest Gonzales doesn’t ask for much, but gives plenty. Always good for natural glows born out of a delicately and plainly managed analogue-digital relationship, the songs Natural Traits speak volumes, what with San Antonio, Texas’ Gonzales not being much of a talker. "The Sentimental Sea" is deep house that’s hard to disturb once in the zone, waiting to write postcards from memorable experiences. Another budding Balearic memory-maker/road trip taker, "When Synchronicity Prevails", alludes to everything falling into place at the right [...]
Ernest Gonzales - Natural Traits Friends of Friends: 2012 It is so refreshing to hear San Antonio's Ernest Gonzales meddle in both analog and digital instrumentation on his latest album Natural Traits . Not in the sense that the sound of a guitar is more pleasing than that of a synth. Or in the sense that real percussion is more true than a drum machine. No, it’s more like the sound of branches sprouting forth from a tree, already full of non-uniform leaves, roots in various genres and a phyla so unique it [...]
Aaaaand... we're back. After a slow start to the year, this week provides a relative bounty of new releases, including the latest from London-based group The Duke Spirit , who, according to our Music Director, Don Yates, "add a bit more studio polish and musical sophistication to their bluesy psych-rock sound on their third album, a solidly crafted set ranging from tension-filled rockers to atmospheric ballads." Fellow Brits The Big Pink also drop a new album, their second, and if their super-catchy single "Stay Gold" is any indication, it's going to be full of hooky, fuzzy dance-pop [...]
My early expectation for Ernest Gonzales 's third LP, the first I've actively checked out, was based upon the chilled-out, perfect-nap-worthy track "The Prudence of Evolution", which we posted as a part of our Daily 2% feature a little while ago. That track, the opening track for the album Natural Traits out January 17 on Friends of Friends , is restrained, mystical, twinkling beauty. It does employ a really nice build-up and a lot of multilayered sounds, but all-in-all, it's a pretty relaxed piece of music. It makes sense for Gonzales's works under [...]
My early expectation for Ernest Gonzales's third LP, the first I've actively checked out, was based upon the chilled-out, perfect-nap-worthy track "The Prudence of Evolution", which we posted as a part of our Daily 2% feature a little while ago. That track, the opening track for the album Natural Traits out January 17 on Friends of [...]
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