
Italians Do It Better: After Dark 2 - After Dark 2, a compilation of tracks from various artists on the Italians do it Better Label , is now live. Don't let the fact that it's a "compilation" fool you; it's a highly cohesive piece of work. Italians do it Better could be thought of less as a label and more of an Overband; every act on the label is a different incarnation of prolific electronic artist, Johnny Jewel. The only thing that really differentiates each band is the singer. They all sing over the same sinister [...]
Reduced to basics and full of magic - wave pop band Chromatics play a fascinating little set in Berlin's Lido. Read the NBHAP show review of the event The post Chromatics – Lido, Berlin – May 20, 2013 appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .
A sequela de After Dark de 2007 ( download aqui ), a nova compilação de Mike Simonetti After Dark 2 , tinha lançamento agendado para 15 de Outubro de 2012. Depois de meses de ameaças e eternos adiamentos, a editora Italians Do It Better lança finalmente o álbum de 15 faixas disco-noir e inéditos dos Glass Candy, Mirage, Desire, Farah, Twisted Wires, Appaloosa, Symmetry e Chromatics. Aproveitem para descarregar três temas do álbum dos Chromatics, Glass Candy e Mirage. After Dark 2 está disponível no itunes . [...]

El sello norteamericano Italians Do It Better , creado y dirigido por los populares artistas Mike Simonetti y Johnny Jewel , acaban de publicar la segunda entrega de " After Dark ", compilado que nació en 2007 con la intención de promocionar a sus artistas y sus últimas creaciones. Italians Do It Better [...]
Larga espera para la continuación del compilado del gran sello de Mike Simonetti de Italians Do It Better desde que en el 2007 publicará el maravilloso 'After Dark', y ahora por fin se publica el 2º volumen de esta excelente compilación, 15 temas de 9 grupos/productores (de la órbita del gran Johnny Jewel), 15 excelentes tracks, desde los maravillosos Glass Candy (Ida No & Johnny Jewel) con 4 tracks, "Warm In The Winter", "The Possessed", "Beautiful Object" y Redheads Feel More Pain"; los excelentes Chromatics [...]
After months of teasing, Johnny Jewel's record label, Italians Do It Better, has finally released the soundtrack to your next dozen midnight drives, After Dark 2 . A compilation worth waiting for, a rare beast in today's playlist-heavy social media landscape, After Dark 2 comes six years behind the seminal After Dark ( free download ), and is packed with new music from bands steered by visionary producer Johnny Jewel , including Chromatics , Glass Candy , Desire and others. It's out on iTunes now. Check [...]
Nearly six years after Italians Do It Better released the seminal After Dark mix, spearheading the career of Johnny Jewel - aka Mr. Chromatics - the label finally put out the much anticipated sequel. The second mix features help from Jewel's aforementioned Chromatics (three songs), Glass Candy , Mirage, Symmetry, and plenty more worth the time. Click here for the entire setlist . Downloads are available now on iTunes , but for those waiting for the real deal, physical copies will be distributed in the near future. [...]

After months of teasing, Johnny Jewel's record label, Italians Do It Better, has finally released the soundtrack to your next dozen midnight drives, After Dark 2 . A compilation worth waiting for, a rare beast in today's playlist-heavy social media landscape, After Dark 2 comes six years behind the seminal After Dark ( free download ), and is packed with new music from bands steered by visionary producer Johnny Jewel , including Chromatics , Glass Candy , Desire and others. It's out on iTunes now. Check [...]

Descarga la nueva compilación de Italians Do It Better, After Dark 2 Finalmente, Italians Do It Better lanzó la continuación de su compilación del 2007, After Dark . Titulada simplemente After Dark II , el disco de 16 canciones cuenta con música nueva de Chromatics , Glass Candy , Desire , y varios otros proyectos relacionados con Johnny Jewel . "Los últimos cinco años han sido un torbellino de artes y fiestas" explicó Jewel recientemente. "Este disco representa [...]

Pop the champagne: Italians Do It Better have finally released the follow-up to 20072s After Dark compilation - ahem, After Dark II . The 16-track compilation features new music from Chromatics , Glass Candy , Desire , and a variety of other Johnny Jewel-related projects. "The last five years have been a blur of art & parties," Jewel explained recently. "This record represents the people we've connected with along the way…in Moscow, in Mexico, in Barcelona, in London, in Portland, in Montreal, in Melbourne, in Houston, in Berlin, in Beijing, in Los Angeles, in Dublin, [...]

Tracklist after the jump . Get it on iTunes . Physical copies apparently " on the way ..." Italians Do It Better on the slight discrepancy between the tracklist that's been floating around and the final tracklist: "NIGHT SHIFT & JOHANNA WILL COME OUT EVENTUALLY. AND THE GLASS CANDY SONGS WILL BE ON "BODY WORK". JOHNNY HAD 27 TRACKS MIXED & MASTERED FOR AFTER DARK 2. BUT THESE 15 WERE WHAT HE SAID ..."COMPLETED THE ETIRE VISION OF THE RECORD"... FOR EXAMPLE, "CHERRY" & "LOOKING FOR LOVE" WERE BOTH RECORDED & MIXED BEFORE [...]
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Chromatics, Glass Candy, Italians Do It Better Song: Johnny Jewel - Mirage/Let's Kiss [download here ] What's so good? [...]

Y con 6 meses de retraso, hoy al fin podemos escuchar " After Dark 2 ". Una nueva entrega que empezó hace 5 años, cuando Johnny Jewel (el cabeza de bandas como Glass Candy y Chromatics), que por aquel entonces era casi un desconocido, hizo el mix el día de su su cumpleaños . "After Dark 2" recoge canciones nuevas de Chromatics , Glass Candy , o Farah (que en principio debutará este año con su primer disco). Johnny Jewel nunca decepciona, y vuelve a mostrar que como productor tiene una larga [...]
Finally, finally , Italians Do it Better has set a date for After Dark 2 : this Friday (May 17). Here's another lengthy cut off the sampler, from Johnny Jewel 's Mirage project: "Let's Kiss" was written the same week as "Under Your Spell" in November 2008. After a bizarre & beautiful twist of fate, I walked into a remote bar in Montreal where I met the love of my life. The next morning... Ida & I [...]

Another gem from After Dark 2 , which is finally/officially out this Friday(!): this glorious 9+ minute vocoder jam from Mirage : "Let's Kiss" was written the same week as "Under Your Spell" in November 2008. After a bizarre & beautiful twist of fate, I walked into a remote bar in Montreal where I met the love of my life. The next morning... Ida & I had to leave. We flew to France for a handful of sweaty club shows. On the train out of Paris, I realized [...]
Chromatics'in 2007 tarihli albümü Night Drive'da yer alan şarkısı Tick Of The Clock yıllar sonra Visione'nin remiksiyle tekrar karşımızda. Daha önce Drew Id olarak bilinen, Italians Do It Better ekibinden Visione'nin agresif, hipnotik, sinematik elektro remiksi, bu tarzdan hoşlananları memnun edecektir. [free download] [Ek Bilgi: Glass Candy - The Possessed (Extended Runway Edit)] Filed under: ... Continue reading
Chromatics'in 2007 tarihli albümü Night Drive'da yer alan şarkısı Tick Of The Clock yıllar sonra Visione'nin remiksiyle tekrar karşımızda. Daha önce Drew Id olarak bilinen, Italians Do It Better ekibinden Visione'nin agresif, hipnotik, sinematik elektro remiksi, bu tarzdan hoşlananları memnun edecektir. [free download] [Ek Bilgi: Glass Candy - The Possessed (Extended Runway Edit)] Filed under: ... Continue reading

Italians Do It Better anuncia nuevos lanzamientos de Chromatics y Symmetry Italians Do It Better el sello co-fundado por Johnny Jewel tiene planeado lanzar una serie de vinilos de Chromatics y Symmetry . En primer lugar tenemos el mixtape del 2012 de Chromatics , Running From the Sun . El trabajo de ocho canciones consiste en material sobrante de las sesiones de grabación de Kill For Love , que tuvieron lugar en noviembre del [...]

Johnny Jewel y Nat Walker formaron Symmetry, un grupo que empezó en 2008 a grabar su "Themes For An Imaginary Film" que casi acaba siendo la banda sonora de la película "Drive". Symmetry este año sí le pondrá música auna película(aunque por ahora es top secret)y Johny Jewel también ha trabajado en la música de varias series. Mientras esperamos por "After Dark 2" y todo lo que Italians Do It Beter quiera compartir, toca disfrutar del vídeo para "Streets of Fire" (la voz es la de la vocalista de Chromatics, Ruth Radelet), y la canción toma prestada parte del [...]
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