Blog: Texanite

Ssaliva - Teenage Brain Ssaliva is the newest artist on the increasingly eclectic Leaving Records roster. The man behind the magic is a young man from Belgium named François Boulanger who knows how to make the Internet work for him; apparently, he passed his debut album, Thought Has Wings, to Leaving Records’ matthewdavid through direct Twitter message. The music is distorted lo-fi in the vain of Matrix Metals , with some oldies station accents popping here and there. (Via Visitation Rites ) Thought Has Wings LP [...]

Gold Panda - Marriage The " Marriage " single will be out March 1st on Ghostly International . This track is the standout cut on the album Lucky Shiner that was released in 2010. The video is directed by Ronnie Shendar . Via Pitchfork

" You Know Your Youth " is a bonus track off of his S/T debut LP that is expected to be released in the Spring. The CD and digital formats of the new album are out now over at Insound / Amazon . James Blake - You Know Your Youth Via Post-Dubstep

You may know Konx-Om-Pax as the title of a 1907 essay compilation by British occultist Aleister Crowley ; it's also the nom de plume of Glasgow digitital artist Tom Scholefield , who has done videos and album art work for the likes of Oneohtrix Point Never , Laurel Halo , and Jaime Lidell , and helped define the visual aesthetics of Warp , DFA , No Fun Productions , Universal Everything, and Optimo Espacio . Scholefield recently released a debut LP of his own electronic sound experiments, appropriately dubbed [...]

Black Iris feat. Bethany Cosentino - When Will I Feel Love (Via MTV Exit ) Music collective Black Iris joined forced with MTV EXIT and Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino to do “When Will I Love.” The song is about human trafficking, especially the human trafficking of young women, who are forced into prostitution or slavery away from their homes and families. MTV EXIT is MTV Europe’s anti-human-trafficking foundation. (Via Stereogum ) This song will be available on February 16th over at Itunes .

Could not be more excited to get word this past weekend of the holy matrimony between our buddies over at PMR Records and their newest signing, London producer and love-step luminary Two Inch Punch AKA Ben Ash. Continuing the L-word based cupid theme, Ash will release a 12” double A-side white label of Love You Up backed with the screwed up repetitive samples, skittering knife-edge glitches and warm journeying rhythm of “Luv Luv”: (Via Transparent ) Two Inch Punch - Luv Luv (Demo)

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Extremely happy to introduce a new endeavour undertaken by Austin, Texas's Jesse Jenkins & Kyle Dixon. Brain Club is a limited edition 12" series that will highlight boatloads of "outtakes, side projects, collaborations, rarities, live shows, b-sides, etc.," from friends in Austin and beyond. The inaugural 12" is a duality, one which seems to define Brain Club – the first side a deep spelunker in a stalagmite city; side two a more visceral, melodic experience amped by drum machines. While the sides contrast, the forces are working in conjunction to form a unilateral experience. I could spend a [...]

The new album The King of Limbs is to be released on February 19th digitally and March 29th on CD/LP. You can pre-order it now over at the bands website .

You can pick up the free I Remeber EP here .

London's Echo Lake has a new 12" EP entitled Young Silence coming out February 14th on No Pain in Pop . I will have the title track streaming below via Echo Lake . Echo Lake - Young Silence

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Little Scream - The Heron and The Fox (Live) Little Scream performs a beautifully stark and fragile rendition of “ The Heron and the Fox ” in the back of a station wagon in the dead of Montreal’s bitter winter. (Via Gorilla vs Bear ) The Golden Record will be out April 12th on Secretly Canadian .

Planningtorock - Doorway The new album W will be out May 16th via Rostron Records / DFA .

Lia Ices - Daphne Directed by Aaron Brown/Focus Creeps . Via Gorilla vs Bear

Phantogram - When I'm Small The Saratoga Springs, NY duo of Josh Carter & Sarah Barthel, known collectively as Phantogram , made an incredible video for the song “When I’m Small”, from their acclaimed debut album Eyelid Movies . (Via Welikeit.indie ) Eyelid Movies is out now on Barsuk Records .

Tyler the Creator - Yonkers " Yonkers " is the first single off of the upcoming new LP Goblin that will be out in April. Via OFWGKTA

LA Vampires feat. Matrix Metals - So Unreal Much like the previous LA Vampires and Matrix Metals videos, this new clip, directed by Spencer Longo and Jon Clark , brings us to a wonderland of artifice. However, this time around it’s much more Lisa Frank than Sunset Blvd. This clip takes us into an imaginary and stylised version of Longo's design process who, as you will quickly notice, designed the cover art for the So Unreal LP. Vibrantly colored still images take on a life of their own. Meanwhile, LA [...]

Austra - Beat and the Pulse The Toronto trio Austra have a debut LP entitled Feel It Break coming out May 15/16th on Domino Records .

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Tomboy will be out April 12th on Paw Tracks . I will have the new album version of this track streaming below via Hypetrak . Panda Bear - Last Night At The Jetty (Album Version)

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The Kills - Satellite Here is the first single off of the forthcoming new album entitled Blood Pressure that will be out April 4th/5th (UK/US) via Domino Records . Via Pitchfork