This Four Tet remix of Ultraísta's single, "Smalltalk", is the best thing I've heard from the band so far. And that's not a knock on Ultraísta, the project of Laura Bettinson, Nigel Godrich and Joey Waronke. It just shows what happens when a great song mixes with an excellent DJ/producer like Four Tet [...]
Matthew Dear: Beams - Think about a sober menage a trois of LCD Soundsystem (especially ' Someone Great ' ) , the grooves of Fatboy Slim , and The Blue Man Group 's primal sense of rhythm. Therein breathes and breeds Matthew Dear 's Beams , in that atmosphere of techno groove brooding. This plays well enough in headphones or even left on your iTunes, however I believe Matthew Dear's Beam s is meant for the live show. The intimately layered beats are to be [...]
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The one and only Matthew Dear has gone ahead and released yet another amazing album, Beams , an amalgam of extraterrestrial pop that highlights his seamless transition from tech-house shaman to scion of modern music in the image of Bowie or Byrne. You're probably not going to be hearing his tracks on the radio anytime soon; I mean pop in the classical sense, like when radio music happened to be accessible, catchy and fun to dance to. Dear's label Ghostly International has had nothing short of an amazing run these past few years [...]
Albert Swarm is Finland's best kept secret. The Substitute Teachers mix he made for us is an extraordinary reflection of the sounds you'll hear on Wake - his sophomore release on Ceremony Recordings - and I was able to speak with him a bit about his work. Where does the name Albert Swarm come from? The name comes from a book I read while traveling on a subway in [...]
Matthew Dear - Beams By Russell Warfield Matthew Dear wore his mood on his sleeve with the cover art and title of his last LP Black City – a dark, industrial, almost soulless (I mean none of this as a criticism) sheen of grinding rhythms and Dear’s idiosyncratic, dehumanised vocal. (I’ll leave you to imagine the colour scheme of the album sleeve). With Dear’s newest LP – his sixth – the same can almost be said: the title Beams suggesting piercing rays of [...]
Hamburg’s finest Tensnake made this great remix of Osborne's "16th Stage", which is now available for free download, as part of Ghostly International's compilation, entitled "Of Art And Artifice: A Ghostly International Exhibition". The free 12-track compilation also features new and unreleased songs by Matthew Dear, Com Truise, Shigeto, Beacon, Gold Panda, Tycho, and more. Download the whole thing via Incase . Download Tensnake's remix here
Incase is pleased to partner with Ghostly International’s Of Art and Artifice series of art events. Ghostly has grown from a boutique record label, known for its experimental pop and techno acumen, into a multi-platform cultural curator for the work of the world’s best visual artists, designers, technologists and musicians. To commemorate this partnership, the two organizations have decided to release this compilation that features the likes of Beacon, Matthew Dear, Com Truise, Shigeto, and Tensnake.
Monday Music’s the one weekly post wherein Some Of It Was True! drops its London-only rule Indian Wells - Wimbledon 1980 It was only a matter of time before someone released an album entirely based around tennis. Totally inevitable. So here's Wimbledon 1980 , from the album Night Drops . About tennis. Grunts et al. Big Scary - Bad Friends ( Collarbones Remix) For a fun game of audio spot [...]
Think a sober menage a trois of LCD Soundsystem (especially Someone Great) , the grooves of Fatboy Slim, an The Blue Man Group's primal sense of rhythm. Therein breathes and breeds Matthew Dear's Beams , in that atmosphere of techno groove brooding. This plays well enough in headphones or even left on your iTunes, however I believe Matthew Dear's Beams is meant for the live show. The intimately layered beats are to be loved by the pulse of a moving audience. But this does not mean Beams cannot be appreciated in the [...]
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Matthew Dear is not a new entry in the music scene. In fact, he's been charting his own course in the music industry for some time now. You probably wouldn't guess it, but he actually released his first single in 1999 (a year after he co-founded Ghostly International). Indeed, while a number of artists who first debuted over 13 years ago sound stale, bored, or like they now lack direction, Dear suffers from none of those concerns. Instead, Dear continues to prove that he is one of those rare veterans who continues to find new innovation and new [...]
Matthew Dear è nell’ordine: un DJ, un produttore musicale, un artista pop sperimentale e un maestro d’orchestra. Per quanto riguarda la sua ultima pubblicazione, questo sorprendente "Beams", si può dire che sia tutte queste cose messe insieme. Altra cosa da sapere, il musicista, oltre ad essere Matthew Dear , è anche 3 altri moniker: Audion , False e Jabberjaw. È insomma un’artista poliedrico che in questi dieci anni si è dato molto da fare qualsiasi fosse la sua identità artistica, coprendo un ampio spettro sonoro che va dalla club music alle radio edit. Considerato [...]
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On "Do The Right Thing," Matthew Dear instructs you how to listen to Beams as he repeats "Close your eyes to look at me, I'm the world inside your sleep, it's the right time to be." Listening to Beams it's easy to slip between reality and nostalgia. Sonically, the murky production laden with percolating synths, intricate sampling and hollowed bass kicks forms a haze that upon a closer inspection is like a kaleidoscope of Labyrinth, Prince, Talking Heads and Brian Eno. The fifth album under Dear's own name, showcases his range of styles and attention to layering (as on "Fighting [...]
True fans of music spend countless hours searching for that next great song, album or artist, whether it be online or in a local record shop. The beautiful thing about music in today’s age is that technology has created an infinite supply of great music that is available to us at the click of a mouse. How perfect is that? We can discover a brand new artist on the opposite side of the globe in seconds without a radio or a music television channel. It only makes sense that a website so dedicated to this gorgeous universe of music would [...]
Imagine if Depeche Mode, Trent Reznor, and Underworld had a baby. How freaking amazing would its music sound? It's hard to imagine what their superhuman spawn might create. Nonetheless, I'll go ahead and suggest that if they did, their sweet little love child might just be named Matthew Dear . That bouncing baby boy would be a Detroit based producer that spun out textured grooves mixing upbeat, dark house-inspired grooves and gritty rhythms. It would be pretty glorious and I'd listen to that man's music on repeat this week. Shockingly, Ghostly International 's Matthew Dear sounds [...]
There's long been a paucity of male American synthpop artists. I'm talking about the kind of techno-indebted electropop proffered by the likes of Cut Copy and Miami Horror (Australia), Hot Chip, Grum, and the Pet Shop Boys (UK), John Talabot (Spain), Matias Aguayo (Argentina), and Tesla Boy (Russia), just to name a few. Sure, we've got a couple big names stateside — I'm thinking of Nicolas Jaar and Dan Deacon especially — but it's still easy to feel like the US is simply behind the curve when it comes to synthpop sung by men. Which is one of [...]
As summer fades, the number of new album releases steadily increases. Last week was one of the best weeks of the summer for new album releases, featuring new singles from the latest albums by bands like Yeasayer, Bloc Party, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, and others. This week, the musical offerings are even better, with singles [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Cada semana Super 45 en Radio Zero (97.7) va por partida doble: martes y jueves desde las 22:00 horas. Hoy Boris Orellana y Claudio Ruiz en la edición #690 de Super 45 revisarán lo más reciente de Matthew Dear ( Beams ) y Yeasayer ( Fragrant world ). En el apartado nostálgico, comentarán el debut de Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, a propósito de su venida al festival Primaver Fauna. Además, entrevistarán a Javiera Mena, que nos contará detalles de su participación en la próxima Fiesta Super 45 , este sábado 1 de [...]
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