Please to enjoy this wonderful new netlabel compilation entitled 52 Weeks, four albums covering each of the four seasons, tied together thusly: basically we had a new artist make a song every seven days that transitioned from the previous week,...
Asthmatic Kitty Records , sort une compilation de musiques pour le jeu vidéo Audio-surf : Music for Videogames v.1 . Je ne connais pas ce jeu vidéo. On dit du jeu Audio-surf qu'il est une synthèse entre Guitar Hero, WipeOut, and REZ. Les spécialistes apprécieront. De mon côté pour avoir fait un rapide tour sur leur site, j'ai trouvé le concept de ce jeu plutôt sympathique et surtout fort ludique. La version démo d'Audio-surf à télécharger. Si la compilation Music [...]
About a month ago, video game distributor Valve released AudioSurf , a sort of Guitar Hero -slash- REZ puzzle rhythm game which has the player goes through track-like stages collecting clusters of identical coloured blocks to make it to the next stage. Yet despite the game's ho-hum premise, AudioSurf is quickly becoming nothing short of a phenomenon due to its main feature: the stages mimic the music the player provides as soundtrack. So essentially, your MP3 collection contains the levels for this games. Now, it turns out the folks at Asthmatic [...]
OH GOD The Comas Conductor Yep Roc : 2004 [Buy It] omigod omigod omigod omigod omigod omigod omigod omigod omigod omigod ... BREATHING ROOM Rafter Sex Death Cassette Asthmatic Kitty : 2008 [Buy It] ... pant, pant ... Oh my god! GLASS PIANO Glossolalia Black Sail [unreleased] http://glossolalia-blacksail.b logspot.com I am getting a piano today. At [...]
In Audiosurf , you race down a futuristic and colorful highway. The highway, the traffic patterns, and the scenery are all synchronized to the music you have chosen from your own collection. You earn points for clustering together cars of the same color on the highway, and can compete with others on the internet for the high score on your favorite songs. Audiosurf builds a highway for any music CD, MP3, iTunes M4A, WMA, or OGG song you choose, so the experience that you have is totally up to you. The kids at Asthmatic [...]
While it is true I suffer serious tunnel - kitty - vision , it doesn't help any that Asthmatic Kitty is such a damn cool label. Those sick kitties have released another free various artist album ; this time fifteen songs--seven previously unreleased--specifically chosen to be suitable for Audiosurf , a distinctive, bizarre 3D video game that takes mp3s and integrates them into a vertical-scrolling "music-adapting puzzle racer." It is the psychotechnic spaceship kin of Guitar Hero. Mp3: Dosh - "Naoise" Mp3: Rafter - "Sassy" [...]
1. The Bird and the Bee - Come as You Were - Try your damndest not to fall in love. With everything you see. While listening to this song. [from One Too Many Hearts | buy ] 2. Ben Karis-Nix - Giants - Trying to move into solo waters after his promising (and effing incredible) previous band (Jupiter Sunrise) kind of fizzled for no reason. Try to imagine an open night sky, stars winking back encouragement. [from We Are Giants Now [...]
Het is geen alledaagse titel voor een cd: Sex, Death, Cassette. Het is wel een titel die gelijk mijn aandacht trok. Da's niet zo raar, gezien Rafter's achtergrond. Hij is van huis namelijk iemand die er (goed) voor betaald wordt...
Experimentation is something to be admired in music, and Rafter has put out an album that successfully explores styles, sounds, and moments.
Françoise Hardy - "je n'attends plus personne" This is like the grandmother to that Kills song . I have a French grandmother, and I really like to imagine her swaying to this song. All its chin-up resolve and grit, all its wholly awesome buzzing guitar and orchestral stabs. The Florida wind softly blowing through her silver hair, standing proud on her balcony, overseeing the Tallahassee skyline, thinking about the thousands of people her life has brushed, like when you let someone go in front of you in a parking lot, or when you wait [...]
Hails From: San Diego, California Label Affiliation: Asthmatic Kitty File Under: Explosive jazz, experimental pop Visit Rafter at his MySpace page. MP3: Rafter - ZZZPenchant
It's quite a week for new releases. Only 3 weeks into the new year and we already have a ton of great music on the table. If you're heading to your local record store this week you are going to have plenty of difficult decisions. Hopefully some of the mp3's we've posted will aid in the decision making process. If we've left any new releases off the list don't hesitate to let us know. New Releases and MP3's after the jump...
Q: What's up with Ohio? A: Ohio, well... rocks. First it was The Black Keys , then Times New Viking , and El Jesus De Magico and Psychedelic Horseshit . And now Grafton . A little about Grafton (a/k/a Lou Poster, Jason McKiernan, and Chris Burney): they sound like "a knife fight between Mudhoney and Mule officiated by a man with his leg in a beartrap." Rock! Quick Aside: speaking of bear traps... what the fuck is this ? Downloadables: "Never [...]
The second full-length from San Diego's Rafter Roberts will hit store shelves on Tuesday. The effort is titled Sex Death Cassette and will be released via Asthmatic Kitty . What does it sound like?! Portfolio Weekly gave a description that pretty much nails it: "A smorgasbord of sounds, shapes if they had sounds, and colors if they had sounds." The listening experience is exactly that...an experience. There are so many sounds to behold on this album and I'm not just talking about the different instruments (horns, sax, etc.). Give the album's opening track [...]
DOWNLOAD: Rafter - Salt (MP3) salt - i had this dream - i'm dancing with this girl, see, and i really like her, yeah? but there's this other dude - step off, dude! hey lady, we should jam! yeah, we really should jam. then i feel bad and apologize to them both for being so forward, but really it's the truth. we get cooking at the end, and we're jamming. cooking and jamming. sweet! - Rafter [...]
Rafter returns, once again donning his indigenous brand of oddity. His school bus-cum-Cabinet of Wonders rambles down dusty roads, polluting the air of pristine studio-calculated-concoctions with post-pre-psychedelic exhaust. He sets up camp in strip mall parking lots, steps out of the truck hat in hand, red hair gleaming in the sun, and offers a taste of his many sonic trinkets and audio delights. With a wave of invitation, he hops into the back of the Jalopy. [ ZZZPenchant ]
Now that magazines and websites are putting out their best of '07 lists, I can't help thinking back and....getting bored. I'm ready for 2008! Here are some preview-y bits from some Jan/Feb releases I'm excited about. [See post to listen to audio] Cryptacize - "Cosmic Sing-A-Long" [MP3] Dig That Treasure , out Feb 19 [See post to listen to audio] The Apes - "Beat Of The Double" [MP3] Ghost Games Through Gypsy Eyes , out Feb 19 [See post to listen to [...]
DOWNLOAD: Rafter - Anthropomorphic (MP3) about the project... hi, i'm rafter ( www.myspace.com/rafterroberts & http://asthmatickitty.com/musi cians.php?artistID=7 ), and these songs are from a project i'm doing with my sweet and rad girlfriend lizeth - we both were feeling unproductive, and somehow ended up daring ourselves to finish 1 art project a day. we take turns giving the day a theme, and we both do something for it. for her, that's photos ( www.lizethsantos.com ) and for me it's songs. so i've been writing [...]
Big thanks to Rafter and Asthmatic Kitty for the new song exclusive. Rafter is doing a song a week over at AsthmaticKitty.com. This is an extra-goody-goody for your consumption. And an addition to his already fantastic song, Rafter's included a photo and text to go along with it. Song, photo ...
Comfort Music
Le Goûter du Mercredi
A Limerick Ox
Moistworks
THE CULTURE OF ME
hoboghost
linesthroughlines
File Under: New Music
PopMatters
Said the Gramophone
the music slut
Salad Days Music
The Invisible Girl
GIMME TINNITUS
Rock Sellout
BrooklynVegan
MOMI... our own little music industry
Kids Pushing Kids
You Aint No Picasso
Video: 2:54 - "Creeping"
Sleeve: “1991″ by Azealia Banks
Tango In the Attic: "Sellotape"
Sleeve: “Summertime Sadness” by Lana Del Rey
