
Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago ? Listen to the February 2012 One Year Ago Mix and find out. You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Downloadables: [...]

Exactly one year and one day has passed since I, totem, published my very first year-end list for Salacious. After that successful go at a top 50 albums list, it's about time I followed it up with a fresh list for 2012 wouldn't you say? Now, I know it's somewhat late for a year-end list (as per blog standards) but I sicnerely hope you can bear with me for just one more....pwetty pwease? I promise I will make it worth your while! Now, a few notes before we begin. I've shortened my list from a top 50 albums [...]

For the rest of the year, we'll be spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2012, leading up to our 2012 Top Album Countdown , as voted on by our listeners! Voting ends on Friday, December 21st , so let us know your favorites now , and tune in on Friday, December 28th to hear if your picks made the list! Japandroids at Neumos, 11/28/12 // photo credit: Brittany Brassell ( more photos ) Morgan's 2012 Top Ten Albums [...]
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 [...]
84 mins : 27 secs | 48.3 mb Nas "The Don" ( def jam records ) The Don (Single) [ amazon ] website | myspace | facebook Icona Pop "I Love It" ( x5 music group ) I Love It (Single) [ amazon ] website | myspace | facebook Santigold "Big Mouth" ( atlantic ) Master Of My Make-Believe [ [...]

It is time for the second volume of the Best Downloadables of 2012 . You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can download any or all of the tracks at your leisure (with the usual right-click or control-click) and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Listen. Downloadables: Super Vague (mp3) by Roomrunner Fatherland (mp3) [...]

Decibel Festival founder, president, and curator Sean Horton stopped by The Morning Show to reveal the first half of the 2012 lineup first to KEXP listeners. Seattle is beyond fortunate to feature one of the world's preeminent festivals of electronic music, running September 26-30, and based on this early look at this year's lineup (60 artists out of 120), it's only getting stronger. Rising Australian star Kimbra , Carl Craig , Fennesz , John Talabot , Ariel Pink and Matthew Dear top the list. KEXP listeners will also [...]

photo by Dave Lichterman If you caught the amazing new Yppah record Eighty One when it came out at the end of March here in the United States, you may not recognize those songs here. When Yppah stopped by the studio, they were aided by the help of a sampler or two, but for the most part, Yppah's set was stripped down, organic, and completely incredible. Eighty One is all about mixing simple with complex, and in this form, Yppah can show off and wow anyone listening. Yppah [...]

Zoon Van Snook is the alias of Bristol, UK’s Weirdsmith Alec Snook. Following keyboard and sampling duty for numerous experimental-indie bands in the south west of England (which included nationwide touring, festivals and support for such acts as: I Am Kloot, Skunk Anansie and BBC Radio 1’s Zane Lowe), the debut Zoon Van Snook 12” EP was released on the acclaimed Brighton label Cookshop at the end of 2008. This garnered radio support from BBC’s Rob Da Bank + Tom Robinson and lead to his debut hour mix for Ninja Tune’s inimitable Solid Steel. Since then, his [...]

Zoon Van Snook is the alias of Bristol, UK’s Weirdsmith Alec Snook. Following keyboard and sampling duty for numerous experimental-indie bands in the south west of England (which included nationwide touring, festivals and support for such acts as: I Am ... Continue reading

Yppah - Eighty One By Jim Merrett The soundtrack to your life is probably a playlist of songs that have wormed their way into your subconscious through a process involving repetition, zeitgeist, emotional response, repetition, ubiquity and/or repetition. In this light, the output of – much like the name of – Ninja Tune’s Yppah appears to have been reverse engineered. Most notably on his last joyful effort They Know What Ghost Know , Californian Joe Corrales Jr turned out ditties such as 'Bobbie Joe Wilson' that could’ve [...]

21 songs of Le Miel du Mois, what the f%*k is a Monday blues? Steph is back with another installment of LMDM and it's another wonderfully eclectic blend of everything you didn't even know you loved. Stephs all-embracing approach to music is one of the reasons why LMDM has been and continue to be one of the most interesting mix tapes on any side of the globe. I don't know about you but I get bored quick fast listening to the same music or style over and over. Musical monogamy is not a concept I can get behind. [...]

photo by Dave Lichterman Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription . This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Each and every Friday we offer songs by local artists. Today’s selection, featured on the Midday Show with Cheryl Waters, is “Film Burn" (featuring Anomie Belle) by Yppah from the 2012 album Eighty One on Ninja Tune . Yppah - Film Burn [...]
For Easter, we are airing one of our most popular shows this year: Grimes . But I will also give you some tunes from upcoming guests. the interview show with Grimes Yppah (ft Anomie Bell) "Film Burn" Is it wrong to say xhillwave? Housse de Racket "Chateau" New French electro produced by Zdar! Young Liars "Colours" (Teen Daze remix) Teen Daze's dance-rock pals from Abby! [...]

It's time to check out a bunch of the tracks I have not posted recently. These are just a few of the songs that would get their own individual posts here on GIMME TINNITUS if I only had the time. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. Listen. Downloadables: No Ass (mp3) by FIDLAR Bambi Slaughter ( Kurt Cobain Cover) (mp3) by DIVE Surf (mp3) by Black Gum [...]

Yppah - Blue Schwinn Yppah - Film Burn (ft. Anomie Belle) Oh man. Listening to the shimmery summertime soundtrack that is the new Eighty One long-player is getting me all giddy and hopped-up on a weird surge of serotonin from all these feel-good electronic beats/glitches and fantastic ethereal melodies (plus dreamy guitar and synth combos, spaced-out samples/scratches, and gorgeous guest vocals strewn about), and I'm fairly sure that fans of other like-minded atmospherically adept musicians/producers [...]
Eerder dit jaar hebben we het al aangekondigd en vandaag is het dan zover. Het nieuwe album van Yppah (a.k.a. Joe Corrales Jr.) is gereleased op het label Ninja Tune . Eighty One, het 11 tracks tellende album staat vol met heerlijke breakbeat briljantjes.. De vocale ondersteuning op dit album komt van Anomie Belle . De plaat is geïnspireerd door de zee en het strand van Long Beach Califonrnia en dat is duidelijk terug te horen. De plaat bevat veel strijkers en warme arrangementen (Film Burn, Never Mess With Sunday) maar schuwt ook het wat [...]
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Taken from Yppah’s newly received album entitled “Eighty One,” this title stems from the year in which Joe Corrales Jr. (aka Yppah) was born. Residing in Long Beach, California after originally coming from Houston,Texas; Yppah places his journey on a quest where he is trying to recreate certain feelings & melodies through music; thus imparting a breakbeat and downtempo affliction through ‘R.Mullen.’ Early nineties guitar cells are littered all over this number, with the editing of the loops hurling its way back to the golden era of Norman Cook, Moby (Play) and Garbage. [...]
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Taken from Yppah’s newly received album entitled “Eighty One,” this title stems from the year in which Joe Corrales Jr. (aka Yppah) was born. Residing in Long Beach, California after originally coming from Houston,Texas; Yppah places his journey on a ... Continue reading