Vancouver-based producer Tor once had the brilliant idea to make some of Sufjan Stevens' songs – taken from his concept album Illinois – into elegant and extremely well produced hip-hop beats. His second best idea was to mix these beats with underground rap vocals, from Aesop Rock to Brother Ali, from Big Daddy Kane to CL Smooth. And the result, Illinoize , is absolutely amazing: the instrumentals are one the best I have ever heard and they perfectly fit with the rappers' flows. The overall dreamy feeling, along with the mind-blowing production, makes it, without a doubt, my favorite hip-hop mixtape of these [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Polyphonic Spree, Sufjan Stevens, The New Pornographers Song: St. Vincent - Krokodil [download here ] What's so good? St. [...]
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 It's finals week and, to be honest, I've been left me devoid of much creative inspiration. However, if there's one thing I love as a study aid, it's a good ambient or classical song. Just turn it on quietly in the background to help you sink into a focused state, or pump it up loudly to wake yourself up at 3:22 AM, when you're just trying to finish the chapter notes. Thus I bring you: my top 3 study songs. : Sufjan [...]
The fertility of Montreal soils and surrounds for the musically creative mind has been richly documented and entangled in the undergrowth like pheasant cowering from the clamour of maniacal furore; somersaulting in the undertow of the city's whirlpool whirr like an otter in a Hotpoint is Patrick Watson and that thistly little voice of his. Having slipped into a more mainstream consciousness on the back of his overtly organic masterpiece of 2006 Close to Paradise , as others may have ebbed away over the passing of time Watson remains. Not so much like limescale nor barnacle but [...]
Photography: RIĆOR Have a nice Sunday! Shinamo Moki - Zeal Tycho - Dive (Memoryhouse Remix) Sufjan Stevens - Futile Devices (Shigeto Remix) Shinamo Moki | Tycho | Memoryhouse | Sufjan Stevens | Shigeto
One of the best ways to discover new music is to talk to your friends about it. Over coffee or a casual game of DJ Hero, you might just end the night with a list of recommendations that later become your new musical obsessions. This is exactly how I discovered the Great Lake Swimmers , a folk/rock band originally from Wainfleet, Ontario that was recommended to me from my good friend Mike. Upon hearing their song "Your Rocky Spine" I was immediately hooked, and couldn't wait to share their music with all of you. [...]
Words by Jacob Barron In honor of the spirit of rebirth with which spring is so frequently associated, I'll be using this edition of Soundtracking Your Spring 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me to completely destroy everything you know and love about this column. Or, you know, freshen it up with a more piecemeal approach, whatever. The point is, last time got me thinking about the whole idea of seasons not as one monolithic thing, but a diverse set of vignettes, each with its own mood or temperature. In the end, you [...]
In honor of our 100th piece on the new site, this week we're putting together a special series on pop music. Five pieces, five authors, five new records that either conform to, expand upon, or utterly destroy pop conventions. Beak & Claw, the debut collaborative EP between Sufjan Stevens, Serengeti, and Son Lux (collectively known [...]
How many East Coasters does it take to programme a drum machine? Erm in the case of Cat Martino's contribution to Weathervane Music's latest Shaking Through compilation, I Promise, that'd be two and they'd happen to be a certain Sufjan and Chris Powell of Philadelphian experi mentalists Man Man. If the Stevens-featuring single Yr Not Alone from Martino's forthcoming full-length of the same name signalled an approach to the histrionic grandiosity of The Age of Adz then I Promise conversely harks back to somewhere solemn; solitary; sometime in '97. [...]
Finalmente chegou o Record Store Day ! Quem acompanha o Rock'n'Beats já deve ter lido notícias sobre esse dia nas últimas semanas. Caso você ainda não saiba o que é, não se desespere. Seus problemas acabaram. Segue com a gente e veja detalhes dessa iniciativa que marca espaço na venda independente de discos. O Record Store Day ocorre anualmente no terceiro fim de semana de abril simultaneamente em vários países. A comemoração foi criada em 2007 para relembrar os eternos vinis e alavancar vendas dos artistas. Nesse dia, as lojas de discos contam [...]
Cat Martino, the singer-songwriter and former Sufjan Stevens band member, is the latest participant in " Shaking Through ," a video series that documents musicians who are presented with the challenge of making one song in two days. For her song "I Promise," Martino got help from Stevens himself and from Man Man's Chris Powell. Below, we've got a stream of the song itself, which is spacey and pretty, and the video of the musicians making the song together. It's fun to see all the nuts and bolts going into place before you hear the final product. Watch the video [...]
Presented by the non-profit Weathervane Music , Shaking Through is a documentary series with a simple, albeit daunting premise: indie acts are given two days to record one song. The series features 10 acts per year, with past contributors including Sharon Van Etten , Reading Rainbow , Twin Sister , Dreamers of the Ghetto , and more. For the fourth episode of volume three, Brooklyn songstress Cat Martino teamed up with Sufjan Stevens and Man Man's Chris Powell for the dark, electro-tinged [...]
Listen to and download Cat Martino 's new song "I Promise" below, from the Shaking Through sessions. Every year (for the last few) Philadelphia's Shaking Through series gets 10 different artists and has them create one song in two days, and record the entire thing from start to finish, then giving the end result away for free. The latest installment sees Cat Martino spend a couple of days with Sufjan Stevens [...]
In Philadelphia's Shaking Through series, artists are filmed recording a complete song over the course of two days from start to finish in the studio. The project - a collaboration between Weathervane Music and WXPN - premiered a few years back with the debut of Sharon Van Etten's "Love More," featuring SVE/Sufjan Stevens collaborator Cat Martino. Now Martino returns along with Stevens, Man Man's Chris Powell, and a brand new tune in tow. Given last year's excellent Yr Not Alone and our discussion of [...]
Cat Martino - I Promise (feat. Sufjan Stevens ) As premiered over on NPR Music today, another incredible single from the Shaking Through project. You're not going to want to miss the session video where Cat and Sufjan are joined by Man Man drummer Chris Powell in their creative pursuit:
photo - Josh Goleman - Cat Martino + Sufjan Stevens "Brian Mctear with the other Weathervane cohorts have really created this template, you know, allowing artists to come in and really explore and play...I feel lucky." - Cat Martino As music sees it's way through some necessary growing pains, authentic music communities are emerging as a way to support the new infrastructure of music, or as Shaking Through's Brian McTear puts it, a "music ecosystem". Weathervane - the non profit collective that nourishes the Shaking Through project started a few years [...]
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Afternoon Dream Edition I can't get enough of Kishi Bashi's newest LP 151a , and since you can't access that album on Spotify currently, I've put together a playlist that pulls from the same sounds of airy/folksy dream pop. As the weather warms and the days grow longer, this week's Hump Day Power Play is perfect for lounging next to the open breezy window. So go ahead and grab your favorite book, hit play on this HDPP, and as always, enjoy. Hear it by simply clicking [...]
This coming week will see the release of the next episode of Shaking Through , the "birth of a song" online music initiative from Weathervane Music and WXPN . Last month featured Boston's Faces On Film that was curated by Marissa Nadler. Over two days, Faces On Film recorded "Waiting For GA." The entire process was recorded and documented here . Next week's episode featured singer-songwriter Cat Martino . She recorded her song "I Promise" with help from Sufjan Stevens and drummer Chris Powell from Man Man . The [...]
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