
"Yubiwa" is the Japanese DIY-recording scene's equivalent of The Avengers , a long-awaited meeting of some of the most popular bedroom-based projects in the country today. This song brings together the shadowy Jesse Ruins (signed to Captured Tracks), swirling-pop maker Sapphire Slows (Not Not Fun) and the hazy rock of Hotel Mexico (Double Denim). Despite having connections with Western labels, "Yubiwa"arrives as a limited-run cassette and digital download, with all profits going towards victims of last year's Tohoku earthquake. Each contributin g artist manages to standout sonically over "Yubiwa's" nearly six-minute playtime, but no single one dominates the song, with [...]
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Estas ultimas dos semanas han estado bastante activas en el mundo de Shapphire Slows con toda la serie de presentaciones que estuvo dando antes, durante, y despues de SXSW e incluso por ahi llego a compartir escenario con algunos de mis proyectos favoritos de los ultimos meses como Tearist dentro del showcase que armo Impose pero ahora, no me enfocare tanto en hablarles sobre su participacion dentro de SXSW sino en este track que acaba de postear en su soundcloud apenas hace un par de dias titulado "Break Control". Este corte estara apareciendo [...]

SAPPHIRE SLOWS // Los Angeles
Tokyo's she-electro-minimal-popper the SAPPHIRE SLOWS unleashes her new ANIMAL DREAMS video that shows off her home-town through the eyes of one who's had a lil too much the night before and the following day can not recall if he scored this groovy chick. wotyougot
Hoy salio el nuevo sencillo de Sapphire Slows titulado "True Breath" a traves de Not Not Fun y con motivo de esto, ya pueden ver el video oficial de "Animal Dreams". Esta bien padre, solo denle play en lo que suelta mas informacion de su proximo lanzamiento el cual ooobviamente estara saliendo en 2012. Shapphire Slows: Twitter / Facebook / Bandcamp
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Sapphire Slows : Animal Dreams - Video

Heading into the FunFunFun weekend, I figured I might give you some stuff to chill to when you make it back to the house to decompress. What better than an installment of tracks from the IT Department? I do a featured FFF6 artist in this edition, so I am "relevant" and "thoughtful". Heh. Tycho melts your face, Small Black continues to mellow, Simian Ghost blurs influences, Sapphire Slows is and Grimes is the fun feature. [...]

I'm on a roll tonight and my inbox is treating me well, serving me up delicious tune after delicious tune. Here's a new track from Estonia's Maria Minerva from her Sacred & Profane EP due out on November 15 on 100% Silk . And here's an also awesome track from fellow 100% Silk labelmates Sapphire Slows in the form of "Spin Lights Over You". You can find this track on their True Breath EP due out on November 8. I really, really, really like both of these songs. Have a pleasantread [...]
At a time of great output by our beloved up and coming indie artists and groups, the lamestream corporate music media is on an agenda of pushing the same old faces in the same way that Rolling Stone keeps questionable rock legends in print. Normally I can duck away from most Chris Martin press blast blitzkriegs, but Coldplay was everywhere this week on account of some new album, then there was Beyoncé's seductive but forgetable "Party" with J. Cole, while the Black Keys comp...
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El mes esta llegando a su fin asi como el año en general y son esos momentos en los que la informacion comieza a descansar un poco para los anuncios que puedan a llegar a ser 'grandes' en Diciembre con motivo de los lanzamientos del proximo año asi que, pues, por eso esta semana ha estado un poco carente de nueva musica en este blog pero les prometo que esto se los voy a compensar dentro del playlist de halloween que si todo sale bien, les andare posteando el dia de mañana con una extensa seleccion de tracks pero por [...]

ARTIST: The SWAG Report 79 with freebie mp3 downloads for songs by The Darcys, Through and Through Gospel Revue, Bass Drum Of Death, The Spits, Kurt Vile, Hurricane Bells, Marine Dreams and more! So much more! DATE: 10-27-11 WRITER: Don Loder Awrightcha mugs, Good ta see ya. In fact, i's great ta see ya - I ben cooped up in my apartment fer days, layin' low (long story). Anyways, da beauty o' bein' stuck at home izzat I got ta shake as many [...]

As some of you may know, 20JFG's recently recruited belligerent Sci- Fi dinosaur - Preston G. Parallax - is also something of an armchair academic. Allegedly, he was one of the pioneering forces behind the emerging field of Psuedo-musicology - holding an MAPhil in the subject from the Open University. Lauded by the forces of regular Musicology as a 'piss take', Preston maintains that Psuedo-musicology offers a much deeper and clearer insight into the function, and history of popular music - because it is 'unbound by anything that actually happened'. Let's take a look at an extract from one of his most radical [...]

Sapphire Slows är Hiramatu Kinuko, ännu en ny talangfull artist från Japan med känsla för skapande av omgivande och drömlik electronica, och en introduktion till detta tilltalande sound kommer nedan i form av cosmo cities Sapphire Slows - cosmo cities