
DOWNLOAD: Pocket featuring Steve Kilbey - "Hear in Noiseville" Last year, Pocket (aka Richard Jankovich) started releasing a series of singles where he collaborated with a "dream list" of vocalists on the A-Side and introduced a breaking artist on the B-Side. Each of these singles also featured three remixes from a variety of electronic music producers. Pocket has compiled the A-Sides from the first five singles along with five of the remixes and three of the B-Sides and has released this compilation through iTunes as " 5 [...]
Richard Jankovich is a producer from Los Angeles who goes by the name Pocket . He is also the front man of electronic pop outfit the Burnside Project who have put out two excellent albums; 2003's The Network, The Streams, The Harmonies and 2005's The Finest Example is You. Under the Pocket name, Jankovich has has remixed Beck, Radiohead, Kristin Hersh, Of Montreal, Elk City, Joanna Newsom, Mendoza Line, Dirty on Purpose, Eskobar, Cat Power and others, always with groovy results. [...]
Chicago Illinois based electro-indie-pop group Helicopters have released an excellent new album entitled "Sizing up the Distance". What is unique about this project is that the electronics stem from the melodies and the organic elements of the music rather than a beat defining and predicting all other elements. Kind of like how the Notwist accented their tunes with electronic ornamentation on their latest album "The Devil, You + Me". Imagine that kind of sonic mix, now think straight up indie pop with guitars blazing. Imagine the Postal Service or The Burnside Project with a little more fire on the [...]