Blog: Transparent

Sleeping Alone

Nov 20, 2011, 5:05pm Transparent
Gabriel Bruce - Sleep Paralysis
To anyone who noticed our cold turkey blog detox, we're very sorry for laying dormant in this small corner of the internet over the past few weeks, but what more apt way to crawl out from bleary-eyed hibernation than with this Ferry Gouw directed video for the carefully building, cavernous and cathartic, back-alley ballad "Sleep Paralysis" by gravel-voiced Transparent favourite/friend Gabriel Bruce . "Sleep Paralysis" is released through Off Modern on 7" vinyl on December 5th, accompanied by an illustrated book on the song title subject.
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Leopard Of Honour - Palais Royal-Blue

Oct 11, 2011, 1:59pm Transparent
"UK/EU SHOP – ORDER HERE ": " USA SHOP - ORDER HERE ": http://www.plasticinpaper.com/ leopard-of-honor-palais-royal- blue-good-wives/ "A: Palais Royal-Blue": "B: Good Wives":
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TP030: Leopard of Honour

Oct 10, 2011, 7:22am Transparent
TP030: Leopard of Honour Time today to celebrate the release of Leopard of Honour wonderful new single, "Palais Royal Blue", which is out NOW through us here at Transparent. You've heard the A-side jam already and now here's it's flipside accompaniment - "Good Wives" for your delectation: Leopard of Honour - Good Wives The "Palais Royal Blue" 7" is limited to 300 copies only. Order it here from [...]
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Artist:LEOPARD OF HONOUR
Title:GOOD WIVES (Final Mix)
Link Text:Leopard of Honour - Good Wives
File Name:GOOD WIVES (Final Mix).mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps

TP030: Leopard of Honour

Oct 10, 2011, 7:22am Transparent
TP030: Leopard of Honour Time today to celebrate the release of Leopard of Honour wonderful new single, "Palais Royal Blue", which is out NOW through us here at Transparent. You've heard the A-side jam already and now here's it's flipside accompaniment - "Good Wives" for your delectation: Leopard of Honour - Good Wives The "Palais Royal Blue" 7" is limited to 300 copies only. Order it here from [...]
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Artist:LEOPARD OF HONOUR
Title:GOOD WIVES (Final Mix)
Link Text:Leopard of Honour - Good Wives
File Name:GOOD WIVES (Final Mix).mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps

New Girl [3]

Sep 21, 2011, 9:42am Transparent
Kindness - Cyan
A few days ago we received an unexpected 12" package with a sparsely worded press release that simply read ' Kindness - Cyan'. Since getting obsessive over the terminally grooved-out Swinging Party on these pages back in Oct 2009, this was the first we'd thought about Adam Bainbridge in quite a while so naturally we ran with it straight to the turntable. Having been holed up recording his debut LP, "Cyan" is the exciting first glimpse into what we can expect and will be released in the UK by 'Female Energy' and Terrible Records [...]
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Grown Up [1]

Sep 7, 2011, 12:43pm Transparent
Grown Up [1] Hot on the heels of last week's release of Blood Diamonds we're already fired up to announce news of our next single courtesy of Manchester based songwriter Leopard of Honour AKA David Roocroft. The pitched-up pop of futuristic A-side "Palais Royal-Blue" was unwrapped by our friends at Guardian earlier today and is available to pre-order on 7" through Rough Trade / Plastic In Paper (US) now: Leopard of Honour - Palais Royal-Blue
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Artist:LEOPARD OF HONOUR
Title:Palais Royal-Blue
Link Text:Leopard of Honour - Palais Royal-Blue
File Name:01 Palais Royal-Blue 1.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2011

Blood Diamonds - Grins

Aug 29, 2011, 8:46am Transparent
UK/EU SHOP – ORDER HERE USA SHOP - ORDER HERE A: Grins B: Move The Stars
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Star Dusted

Aug 26, 2011, 11:41am Transparent
Star Dusted By now you should have hopefully had time and SPACE to get to know the majestic Grins by Blood Diamonds and its wonderful remixes rather well. BD (Mike Tucker to his mum) is stepping out for his first north American show tonight (at Glasslands in Brooklyn) and here's the appropriately celestial, beautiful b-side to "Grins" in celebration. Move The Stars... Order the "Grins" 7" here Blood Diamonds - Move The Stars
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Title:Blood Diamonds - Move The Stars
Link Text:Blood Diamonds - Move The Stars
File Name:Blood Diamonds - Move The Stars.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps

Fever Pitched

Aug 19, 2011, 10:07am Transparent
Fever Pitched On Monday we release the towering, radiant "Grins" by Blood Diamonds on seven inches of wax barely able to contain its breathless majesty. Before that though, here's our man Deptford Goth - fresh from the announcent of his beautiful forthcoming debut EP for Merok doing his thing with a mystic, shape-shifting remix. Stay tuned for the b-side to "Grins" to explode shortly Order the 7" here Blood Diamonds - Grins [Deptford Goth Remix] [...]
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Artist:DEPTFORD GOTH
Title:grins remix bounce 16bit 12
Link Text:Blood Diamonds - Grins [Deptford Goth Remix]
File Name:grins remix bounce 16bit 12.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps

Starring Role

Aug 12, 2011, 6:39am Transparent
Starring Role Just had our attention diverted in the direction of this strange, sweet little pop song courtesy of Newcastle's Fax Machine . The zoned-out, languid vocals wander through a weird, bipolar, shape-shifting patchwork of a melody on introductory track "1981".
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Artist:fax machine
Title:1981...
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:office based cartoon pop

Wrong Key

Aug 11, 2011, 7:17pm Transparent
Wrong Key It's becoming a bit of a regular occurrence for tracks to drop on the welcome mat of our mailbox with the minimum of fanfare and it was off the back of a wordless correspondence that we came across the cathedral chords and chopped, down-in-the-dumps vocals of "Hurtlove" by attention-shy Manchester (?) based No Ceremony . No Ceremony - Hurtlove
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Title:HURTLOVE
Link Text:No Ceremony - Hurtlove
File Name:01 HURTLOVE.mp3
Genre:Alternative

Dance Away

Aug 11, 2011, 5:39pm Transparent
Dance Away Transparent favourites Stay+ introduce us to their softer side before eventually injecting their dancefloor-pleasing brand of adventurous electronics to transform Computer Magic's "End Of Time" into an triumphant, no-frills, arms-in-the-air anthem. "The End Of Time" is available to order through our friends at Roundtable Records . Computer Magic - The End Of Time [Stay+ Remix]
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Artist:Computer Magic
Title:End Of Time (Stay+ Remix)
Link Text:Computer Magic - The End Of Time [Stay+ Remix]
File Name:End Of Time (Stay+ Remix).mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps

Coming Thru [1]

Jul 26, 2011, 6:10am Transparent
King Krule Has This Hit @ Midi Festival 2011
Last Saturday evening we found ourselves in the south of France at the picturesque Midi Festival watching precocious teenage tearabout Archy Marshell breathe life into his newly assumed monicker King Krule (formerly Zoo Kid). A life-affirming weekend was topped off by this slow-building, sullen-hearted performance of "Has This Hit", the b-side to his debut 7" released on House Anxiety last year.
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Soft Attacks [1]

Jul 20, 2011, 12:14pm Transparent
Soft Attacks [1] Manchester’s Leopard of Honour known to his mother and close friends as David Roocroft gently kneads our forthcoming single by Blood Diamonds , "Grins", into a faded photocopy that manages to be even more of a grooved out, carefree lounge jam than the original. "Grins" can be pre-ordered in the UK through Rough Trade and US through Plastic in Paper (shortly). Stay tuned for news of a standalone LoH release on Transparent this Autumn. Blood Diamonds - Grins [Leopard of Honour Remix] [...]
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Artist:Blood Diamonds
Title:Grins (Leopard Of Honour Remix)
Link Text:Blood Diamonds - Grins [Leopard of Honour Remix]
File Name:Grins (Leopard Of Honour Remix) 1.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps

Covered Over [2]

Jul 13, 2011, 4:49pm Transparent
Covered Over [2] It's been a while since ??? mind-melter Nike7UP has let one of his contorted beautiful pop bastardisations into the world but he's back tonight with this genius take on Britney's "Seal It With A Kiss" - a deep , blown-out version that sounds very much of the shaved-head era; everyone's favourite Billboard car-crash queen dragged into a cavernous psychedelic K-hole of thrilling mania, the suggestive declaration of "Yeah, I like it like that" sounding positively sado-masochistic in its new surroundings. NIKE7UP - SEAL IT WITH A KISS [...]
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Artist:NIKE7UP
Link Text:NIKE7UP - SEAL IT WITH A KISS NIKE7UP MY TOMB REMIX
File Name:SEAL IT WITH A KISS NIKE7UP MY TOMB REMIX.mp3

Time Up [4]

Jun 30, 2011, 9:29am Transparent
Time Up [4] Our boy down south Deptford Goth returns briefly ahead of his debut EP for Merok (slated for later this year) in order to drop about a million ideas on the chirpy, cut and paste electro-pop of "The End Of Time" by Computer Magic . Proving himself almost as good and intriguing a remixer as he is a songwriter, here the Goth pitch-twists the pretty but straight-up vocals of the original until they're sinister in their pixie-like innocence before dipping them deep in a dream - glacial synth strobes, mysterious low-end rumble, bracing thunderclap drum snaps [...]
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Artist:Computer Magic
Title:End Of Time (Deptford Goth Remix)
Link Text:Computer Magic - The End Of Time [Deptford Goth Remix]
File Name:End Of Time (Deptford Goth Remix).mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps

Been Better [1]

Jun 30, 2011, 5:52am Transparent
Been Better [1] What better way to gently stroll our way into the sunshine daybreak than with some early-morning "Rocket Fuel" provided by London's compulsively listenable Fanzine . This is a classic two minute pop song stripped back to its wonderfully simple, fragile core with soothing, unshakably intimate vocals laid over glimmering, floating guitar chimes. Tune into Abeano , Double Denim and TLOBF for three other Fanzine premieres today and check out the band's newly internet enabled Fanzine zine in PDF form.
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Artist:Fanzine
Title:Rocket Fuel
File Name:SoundCloud

Hanging On

Jun 16, 2011, 7:05am Transparent
Hanging On Brighton based upstart Sam McGarrigle is the precocious, enfant-terrible axeman behind Gross Magic and he's already got us by the scruff of the neck with "Sweetest Touch", a staggering, grunge-glam anthem laced with bruised but blue-eyed romance. "Sweetest Touch" is part of the Teen Jamz EP to be released through our friends at The Sounds Of Sweet Nothing . If you're feeling particularly brain-crazed today you can also check out the Webstarts page Sam has made. Gross Magic - Sweetest Touch
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Artist:Gross Magic
Title:Sweetest Touch
Link Text:Gross Magic - Sweetest Touch
File Name:03 Sweetest Touch.mp3
Bitrate:256 kbps
Year:2011

Disclosure - Carnival / I Love... That You Know [1]

Jun 13, 2011, 7:59am Transparent
UK/EU SHOP – ORDER HERE USA SHOP - ORDER HERE A: Carnival AA: I Love... That You Know
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TP028: Disclosure

Jun 7, 2011, 9:50am Transparent
TP028: Disclosure Overcome with excitement to be able to finally pull back the rest of the curtain and shine a light on more of our forthcoming 7" single from London's Disclosure . We revealed lead track "Carnival" in all it's melodramatic garage glory a few weeks back to much fanfare and subsequently squeezed it for even more fulfilment courtesy of a brilliant edit by Little Black Ant . Ahead of the vinyl dropping onto welcome mats and hitting store shelves next Monday check out the record's soulful pitch-shifting, underwater electro rhythm from flipside cut "I Love... [...]
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Artist:Disclosure
Title:Carnival
Link Text:Disclosure - Carnival
File Name:Carnival 1.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Artist:Disclosure
Title:i love...that you know
Link Text:Disclosure - I Love… That You Know
File Name:i love.that you know 1.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
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