It's always reassuring to hear an artist nail their sound, but it's also refreshing to hear an artist progress and develop their sound. What makes an artist stand out is when an artist is comfortable incorporating their old sound with their new sound, creating a mixture of both familiar and unfamiliar territory. A take on Dead Moon's "Demona" is still Grouper , but with some straightforwardness. The druggy, Clams Casino-like murkiness still wraps around Grouper's production. The voice is still buried in thick reverb and the guitar's distortion still stresses the song's mood. "Demona" is Grouper's take [...]
Download : Space Blanket - Distorted Space Blanket is an electronic music duo from Athens, Greece, formed in 2009 by Abdul and Biscuit. It's a serious live proposition and one of the most promising electronic acts in Greece. The duo has been performing already for two years putting some of the most intense shows. They are to release their debut EP "Cosmic" in spring 2012. Dani by KEEPREAL Creative Label - Visual & Musical [...]
marissa nadler covers bruce springsteen's "the river" and clinic's "distortions" - both songs are just exquisite. of the songs she says they are "part of a 13 song Covers Volume II. These covers records aren't part of my official discography but are collections I like to make to cover songs of artists I revere. This song song features harmonies from Faces On Film and Red Heroine, both from Boston. I will be making this collection available on the second week of November as a handmade on ETSY. (after I get finished with this new LP). Love! Happy [...]
A free-improvising piano trio, in the studio, conjuring melody. It has been an exceptional year for pianist Craig Taborn. His most recent solo album, Avenging Angel, came out on ECM -- the fabled label of seminal solo piano work by Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea -- giving him the widest pure exposure of this career. Playing solo acoustic piano for Manfred Eicher's sonically pristine microphones gave Taborn the chance to explore matters of dynamics, texture and pure pianism. But at his core, Taborn has...
Funeral Home // Vera 7" This is the kind of music to get lost in. I was sent these tracks a couple days ago by a guy named Taylor MacKillop who creates music under the name Funeral Home . Now if you're assuming that a name like Funeral Home is an indication of dark music then you'd be dead (heh) wrong. In fact I get an unexplained warm feeling when I listen to his music. Stylistically the music borrows from shoegaze, drone, [...]
Saw the tracklist... first thought "Oh no not fucking U-God". But I like Blu. I W A S E V E N T H I N K I N G A B O U T W R I T I N G T H I S R E V I E W I N T H E A N N O Y I N G S P A C E D A L L C A P S T H I N G H E L O V E S T O D O but it gave me a headache. Blu is a [...]
Distortion aka James Myatt is what you can call an old-school-head. Living close to the windy city of Chicago, his music breaths the House-vibes of his hometown and the Techno-soul of Detroit. James works as a truck driver during the summer and runs a snowplow company in the wintertime. This means he is on the road a lot, where he catches pure American atmosphere and spirit day-by-day, what can definitely be heared in his music. With the 'Battle Your Head EP' James delivers his first full EP to Connaisseur after his successful remix for Estroe's classic 'Driven' for our 5th [...]
More fire from your favorite Wompday. Obviously the Feed Me and Calvertron had to be listed first today, those jams are dub-house, fire. Kidnap & Ransom have an 'Unreal' track in here. And I've been feeling some Run DMT lately, so I included an original track and a remix track of RJD2 which really caught me off guard. [...]
THIS IS NAG !!! For all of you still indoors , go out and claim the streets of Copenhagen, for the rest not in Copenhagen , wish you were here Live Videos by Ustream All the tracks is also added to the player in the "Downtempo" category, so if yo want non stop music - [...] Live from DISTORTION! is a post from: FAT BERRI'S | Electronic Music Blog
Outland is a new artist on the block and he is packing panflutes from the Amiga-era. he is not hiding that he is highly influenced by the game Shadow Of The Beast, or Danger which is also inspired by Shadow of The Beast (haha wow). So what can you get with lofi-panflutes and distortion bass laced with hard beats? Outland of course! All his songs tells a story of a warrior struggling through dangerous levels catching dangerous monsters and spirits and as of now he is only at level 3 and from there the only way is [...]
Outland is a new artist on the block and he is packing panflutes from the Amiga-era. he is not hiding that he is highly influenced by the game Shadow Of The Beast, or Danger which is also inspired by Shadow of The Beast (haha wow). So what can you get with lofi-panflutes and distortion bass laced with hard beats? Outland of course! All his songs tells a story of a warrior struggling through dangerous levels catching dangerous monsters and spirits and as of now he is only at level 3 and from there the only way is [...]
Clear Wash // Sunset Ridge There is alot of technical music out there. Complicated stuff that requires more of the listeners. There is a certain amount of satisfaction that comes with that sort of music, an almost deeper sense of appreciation. On the flipside though, there is also music that is so simple that it becomes a channel of pure enjoyment. The kind of music that makes you want to just kick off your flip-flops and lay back on a hammock (come on, we are kinda close to summer). [...]
Some New Wave noise rock, from Copenhagen, Denmark, where Shoegaze meets Joy Division. The perfect antidote against all the Royal Wedding hysteria going round! Geez! Here we are, barely survived the Mexican Swine flu and now we have to put up with this outbreak of British Upperclass Pig Flu? Where's the WHO when you need them? May I suggest a honeymoon to Fukushima, or is that pushing it too far? Tripoli maybe? Or somewhere south of Kabul? I'd have to be in a coma to care any less about the whole bourgeoisie-at-play event, but it's just everywhere. Now even the [...]
Recently was introduced to chopabilly experimentalist, David Atlas aka Sifaka Kong. He masters at fabricating utterly distorted and chopped-up dark instrumentals and somehow manages to incorporate a far-out melodic groove to them. 'Devoider', a track he released last month, creeps drabbed-out rhythmical basslines with overlying distorted cut up vocals, creating a mesmerizing witch-house mantra of some sort. This is one of the many songs he has released on his soundcloud for free, stream and download them all HERE . devoider ft. Alma Söderberg and Melody [...]
Be wary, those below the Mason-Dixon line, because Mad Decent's spacey fuzz pop dude Bosco Delrey is coming to haze up your towns, touring with resident distorto-destroyers Sleigh Bells. With all of the high school fetishism of Sleigh Bells recently, the pairing is a total win, because if Alexis and Derek are the Ally Sheedy [...]
Tweet After moving to SF in 2009, Bob Mould , rock legend/DJ/remixer/author (whose autobiography See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody comes out June 15), reached out to Chris Xefos, producer/engineer/musician/wri ter, about starting a bimonthly DJ night. That party is Distortion+ , which features the duo spinning "the sounds of loud guitars coupled with melodic songs: indie rock/pop, punk, post-punk, psych, shoegaze…all presented in a relaxed atmosphere so folks can get their (music) geek on while hanging out [...]
This nautical themed little gem by Orange County's Fever B hit me like a ton of bricks, bricks made of pedal-to-the metal fuzzed out power-pop. Released as a limited edition 123 on Orange County's Burger Records, Fever B is a solo project by a dude in a bunch of local bands I've never heard of. With a one-man show this solid, I hope "B" kicks it into gear with a full band sometime this year. Fever B - This Sea Is My Life Fever B - Words That Make [...]
Last year at this time, I think I was obsessing about Washed Out and Lunice. And now, I find myself obsessing again, but only with that grimey, bit-crushed, distorted-sounding jammy shit; that seems to balance nicely between hip-hop and what we all know to be basic "noise". My interest probably started around last year also, ... Read more
Reading Rainbow is a husband / wife duo from Philly with a friendly and fuzzy garage rock sound. It's got all the distortion you want and none of the extra reverb you don't. Prism Eyes is the title of their new album, which is out now via Hozac . Stream the track "Wasting Time" below. -
San Francisco faves The Mantles have graced this little blog a few times, and for good reason as proven by this hot new slab-o'-wax courtesy of Mexican Summer. The Pink Information 123 is five tracks of hazy, psych-pop with a growing emphasis on the pop (oh fine, AND the production quality AND the shredder guitar riffs). Definitely a band you and your balding-but-ponytailed baby-boomer dad could totally agree on. The Mantles - Lily Never Married Download audio file (Lily_Never_Married.mp3)
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