Artist: George

Introducing a guest post by Mathew (above), who plays and steers humongously endearing sounds with IntotheNorthSea . (that's a free download link, yeah!). NorthSeaSounds #1 from mathew.keightley on 8tracks . I think I speak for many music listeners/creators when I say once every so often I find myself [...]

To Go Somewhere, Not To Get Somewhere from APocketFullOfSeeds on 8tracks . Time to go now everyone, get your sounds together, forget yourself, you're about to find the alternative, live out the alternative, create alternative patterns that would not have been created otherwise. Your journey from this point on will be utterly alternative and no convention of your previous lifestyle will find your place. It ends when you get used to it. At that point you must conventionalise and savour your experiences like you would sentimentalise your childhood belongings. Time [...]

Matthias Zimmerman (formerly known as MMMathias ) is offering up his new "Oasis EP" at the end of this month on Discobelle. Below you'll find a preview of the most definitely non-eponymous Noob remix of "George". Techno Viking should have a good time with this one.

LONDON gets ready for your KITSUNÉ MAISON PARTY - Easter Speacial - this Sunday at Heaven With/ THE MAGICIAN, JAYMO & ANDY GEORGE, PUNKS JUMP UP, IS TROPICAL, CITIZENS! JUVENILES and MANY MORE… Let's be prepared for this amazing night with Jaymo & Andy George's very special warm-up mixtape including some recent Kitsuné goodies (The [...]

The Mono Polys - You Think You Know It All Shout out for The Mono Polys. There's just visible on my eye at the corner of the large convention, to which we all commit, where the gathering goes on until the night and there's cool things and most importantly weird tribal dances. For me, this tribal dance constitutes itself well within these guys' songs. The band has cultured construct, if not very cultured (i.e. of a fashion), but in this cool construct you get good consistent rhythm accompanied with some primitive lyrics... they match, [...]

Winter North Atlantic - Drifts and Panels (Fieldhead remix) Every so often, there becomes a phase. This particular phase is one that aims to sooth you and yet also draws from the deep sub-conscious a spark of interest. And so today initiates a series of instalments of relaxing music that isn't boring. An added bonus is that these songs are fairly unheard of/out of sight from the beaten track. This for me adds to the soothingness, like being in a hut in a remote place... [...]

Kim Janssen - Tor Everyone be still, there's a lull here weird and weightless. So many pictures sometimes like rocks, sometimes like stones on the floor. They often tiredly embrace a small tide flowing inwards and outwards. But these pebbles are getting caught today's sunday somewhere in the middle, just beneath my skin. And I'm inactive. And I shouldn't be. These rocks out the ground, where age old water goes over, those rocks we'd go back to. It was an October afternoon and somewhere in the distance I see 20 [...]

Ole Torjus - På Badet If you're a scandinavian musician and reading this, please send us your music, you are currently inhabiting a place that is the object of the thinking of the weary side of my brain that settles itself in unreal places, taking real form so as to convince myself that its actual unreal environment really is a possibility... ...uh I want to swallow it up. Waffle and coughing aside, I wanted to set aside some sincere praise for Ole Torjus . His music is [...]

The Boats - The Ballad of Indecision stalling, don't fall in the flight of days, they fly away, time runs ahead, runs, trickles forth through the cracks of my conscience, i'm just a fault, flying forth, out of 4. past rickets so rigid there, and somewhere, ahead, stands colour of all colours, I can see it. This is on The Boats ' newest album, Ballads of the Research Department Their last album was called [...]

A source said: "George is working on his album for the first time since his life-threatening illness and he's in great shape. "It is no secret that he adores Adele. He even left his boyfriend Fadi Fawaz in Australia for three days while he flew in to present Adele with her Brit. "They've become pals since then and are talking about doing something together. We hate to break it to George, but it would probably not be the best move for Adele to duet with George right now. She's like up here and he's like up there. He doesn't do [...]

And so it is that each sunny moment stands high chance of bringing within me an appetite for being led outside and for being surrounded with hypnotic walking-pace rhythms, mixed with the ambient sounds of summer-like scufflings, circling round like flower shapes, each petal a piece of xylophone, melodic and sweet sounding yet solemn enough to incur the eery transformed cries of human excitement. Carnival - Seams from *safe solvent™ on Vimeo . I've never been able to get enough of [...]

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Autoband - Tree Gudmund Østgard has, as Scandivanian electronica outfit Autoband, released to my vision an island of air, an island of fresh cold air that soothes my heart. His air, his air that moves, that is provoked by 10 songs of sound, his air drifts and settles in and around my body, it gets behind my eyes and it eases the strain. Sometimes I haven't the words for music that really affects me - it's a symptom of being a human with only fingers and head to express complex [...]

Dingus Khan - Knifey Spooney With my dear beloved in a warm room, burrowed from dark nights and cold air with many layers of curtain and duvet, somewhere unimaginably habitable, the home of all homes, warmed with loving facial expressions and subtle movements, I needed the loo. Being productive and the boy I am, I took my needing the loo as an opportunity to convey to my excellent girlfriend the true wisdom of music that I have accumulated from two years of writing about songs on the internet. So I fetch the music player [...]

Little Teeth - Suha's Aphasia (demo) Little Teeth are a three piece, pieces of complex crackling kindling in a fire, thankfully still alight (through temporary break-up) - since brother Marcus brought back the band's debut LP from his 2008/9 days at now peacefully dormant Absolutely Kosher ( apfos'd in younger days ) . The songs are usually striking, generally fraught...and fragile...but always alert, energetic. The creativity is clear. I find the stress and pitch of the vocals sometimes saddening, like darting eyes [...]

Theo Wangemann - "Otto von Bismarck (October 7, 1889)" The past didn't speak to Edmund, it barked at him. His great grandfather, Georg, was a lunatic, which isn't a nice word, but a nicer word would be an apology. Georg had three kids and then, according to his great grandmother's letters, "left forever in a flurry of violence." , in the late 1800's, he moved to New York City and lived on the streets, getting arrested for drinking and fighting and public blasphemy. Edmund's grandfather, Martin, had set himself on a journey to find his [...]

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• Theo Wangemann - Otto von Bismarck (October 7, 1889)

Linn Öberg - Jump Peddling round the rising and glittering. This song is powerful, you don't have to empathise with her message of lost love, of getting it together; this is the sort of song that captures you, it's strong purely on the feet of a Swedish girl's voice and rhythm. I haven't the words for it now, there's too much spinning and spindling. This song is powerful like pounding feet like peddling person around the sides of the lake, circling, a small black figure around, speeding round the contours of a rising, mounting, slanted [...]

The Argonauts - Ellafrell This is an 'every so often' uncharacteristic post inconsistent with usual incoherent and lively atmosphere that exudes from your clickings on apfos. I sense this is a busy time, otherwise Marcus might have had some music to talk about since my last excitement about Oxy-Yan. One of the reasons I feel at home on this blog is because each post is worth something; each word of each post build up pillars for a ceiling under which I sit looking out the name-scratched windows of a train [...]

Oxy-Yan - Northern Lights I can swing to and forth, from a fifth or sixth or however many months not spent, but given up in the cradle of coils, kept in form, kept in shape like the hammocks of brighter eyes been, in trees, in between time, sleeping, our sleeping scene. The current, the routes beneath our feet so spoilt with water of the lake of thought, today, now, a current circling the island in the middle, always north, shining [...]

Plaitum - She Speaks Spanish Plaitum - Temptress Plaitum - Geisha (IntotheNorthSea remix) This boy and this girl, Plaitum , they could turn up loud, turn up wanted, fashionably late in the middle of some room of decaying faces immersed in yellow light. Decay like growth, time-telling tales of all that makes one queazy with future thoughts, what the fuck is the future thinking that makes us roll and roll and [...]

Kohib - Hear This I open holes in the wall, brick by brick, I scramble through to more trees, more tangled up angles through thickened air. I find the relief of the hill conquered to see from the mist, the white musty fog, another gradient opening up, steep hill unseen, another wall to take apart. I feel the air clog up inside, each breathe an effort of pushing, of forcing out something that doesn't go, concentrating on the work and means and ways of day-to-day life. If [...]