
From a hideout in the East Bay, Erik Jourgensen, under the moniker Toujours, crafts minimalist beats that first caught our attention in the form of a Brian Eno cover. That was many moons ago and Toujours is on some other shit. Intent on producing a mixtape for every month, June '11 crawls like the fog rolling in over the Bay and with the chilling weather that's blanketed Nor Cal for two of its most coveted months of glorious weather, it would seem Toujours is tuned in to the waves of chi...

[RSS Readers: See post to listen to audio] Emeralds head man Mark McGuire *insert baseball reference here* is on the right track to grabbing up a Best Of 2010 song on my end of the year list. Not only is this song a bubbly lush piece of work but there's dynamics, it blooms when the distorted guitars hit, I want more. I have no info on this collab besides posting plenty of Teen Daze on the blog. Part of me hesitates to say this but stripped down there is some Selected [...]

Toujours - Trance Lone Californian synther building some sweet jams out of scraps from "last nite's party"/other discarded club romances with real dense trance ambience and well-placed light beats as honed by Blondes (this one's sooo "Spanish Fly"! EXCELLENT) or Teengirl Fantasy, all about the full space (just as good crammed into headphones as a "dancefloor") and glitzed-out feelings. [ Toujours Soundcloud ]
Enjoy the 3-day weekend, folks. Rogue Wave "Good Morning" from Good Morning Scary Mansion "Scum Inside" from Every Joke Is Half The Truth Toujours "No Love" from toujours ep Beach House "Norway" from Teen Dream Bobby Birdman "Setting Sun" from New Moods Rock out with the Umlaut every Friday .

Some gangsta azz shizz. Meet Toujours, he is from San Luis Obispo and makes electronic pop Toujours - No Love