Click image to download full album Sounds like: Mount Kimbie, Bon Iver, How To Dress Well "James Blake - Wilhelms Scream" What's so good? Music that can evoke true emotion is a revered thing in my book. Imagining making a sound which has the complete power to rummage up feelings you'd forgotten you had - it's a daunting endeavor and is not is accomplished lightly. After my first listen of James Blake's self-titled album, I felt [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: Daft Punk, DJ Mehdi, Fake Blood, The Phantom's Revenge "Fitz & The Tantrums - Money Grabber (PartySupplies Remix)" What's so good? After much deliberation about what to write (this is my first post for Indie Shuffle), I decided to go with this new remix from Brooklyn's highly mysterious Party Supplies. You may be familiar with his immensely popular remix of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes track "Home" [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: Baths, Com Truise, Memoryhouse "Geotic - Unwind" What's so good? Just yesterday, I was telling my boyfriend I hated listening to classical music while reading. It's a paradox, I know, because I also can't listen to music with words for the obvious reason that listening to lyrics interferes with my concentration on a book. There's a fine line between boring orchestral music and complex instrumental music that distracts from the task at [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: The Knife, Robyn, Fever Ray, Air "Röyksopp - Le Cantique de Noel " What's so good? I find trying to reconcile my music passions with holiday music is terribly difficult. Most Christmas music makes me cringe, unless you're talking Nat King Cole and the like, and many people don't want to listen to what I would prefer... I mean, what's wrong with Deadmau52s 44 [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: A movie soundtrack, Hans Zimmer, Deadmau5 "Daft Punk - TRON Legacy (End Titles)" What's so good? I remember how pumped I was when I heard that Daft Punk would be doing the entire Tron: Legacy soundtrack for the highly-anticipated sequel of 19822s Tron , and even more so when the trailer gave me a sneak peak with the soundtrack's booming first piece "The Game Has Changed." Well, here [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: Sigur Rós, Ólafur Arnalds, Jónsi "Amina - Rugla " What's so good? This music belongs in an early 20th century bourgeois toy store that only carries toys made of the finest oak. Remember when you were a kid and there was the toy store for the "smart kids"? I'm not talking your Noodle Kidoodles - I'm talking about the kind of toy store that was disguised as a library, the [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: Air, Jean-Claude Vannier, Jean-Pierre Massiera "Serge Gainsbourg - Cannabis " What's so good? The film Cannabis (also titled French Intrigue for U.S. release) is a vengeance tale which featured lots of unnecessary (but real) sex scenes. It was a commercial flop. But the score to Pierre Koralnik’s 1969 film, created by Serge Gainsbourg (Charlotte Gainsbourg's father), is one of the most sophisticated pieces of music ever conceived, [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: BSOD, Wolfgang Gartner, Daft Punk, Matt Rock "Deadmau5 - Sofi Needs A Ladder" What's so good? Thanks to his mesmerizing live shows and infectious beats, Joel Zimmerman, better known as Deadmau5 , has become one of the most influential electronic musicians in the world, drawing huge festival crowds, playing packed concert halls, even DJing the MTV VMAs. On his third production, 44=12 , Zimmerman [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: Erik Satie, Max Richter, Peter Broderick "Hauschka - Union Square" What's so good? Truth is, you don't listen to enough classical music. No, I'm not talking about Chopin or Beethoven, I'm talking about Max Richter, Ólafur Arnalds , Peter Broderick, and Hauschka. Instead of old guys with wigs rocking out on a grand piano, these contemporary auteurs are known for pushing the beauty of contemporary classical into the current [...]
Click image to download full album Song: Of Oceans - In Love, Not Limbo "Of Oceans - In Love, Not Limbo" What's so good? Let me tell you a little story about how difficult it was for me to find even a sliver of information about this band. I originally found today's Song of the Day by reading SF Critic's blog (thanks, guys!) - I was then directed to their bandcamp page , where you can download [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: Van She, The Presets, The Twelves "Bag Raiders - Sunlight" What's so good? Bag Raiders is Chris Stracey and Jack Glass. The self-proclaimed concrete-slash-jam-band Aussies use piano, some electric guitar, synthesizers, drum machines and some dreamy vocals to create their own unique sound. The guys have had a few EPs drop since 2007 and have just released their first self-titled LP. This album wastes no time warming up. [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: Royksopp, Sigur Ros, Daft Punk "Solar Bears - Forest of Fountains" What's so good? Meet Solar Bears: a rather obscure take on digital psychedelic electronica. While there are 14 tracks on this instrumental album, the line is blurred when it comes to deciphering one track from the next. There's a noticeable effort on this Dublin duo's part to make She Was Coloured In seem like one long, loopy [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: Royksopp, Sigur Ros, Daft Punk "Solar Bears - Forest of Fountains" What's so good? Meet Solar Bears: a rather obscure take on digital psychedelic electronica. While there are 14 tracks on this instrumental album, the line is blurred when it comes to deciphering one track from the next. There's a noticeable effort on this Dublin duo's part to make She Was Coloured In seem like one long, loopy [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: Holy Fuck, Of Montreal, The Books "The Octopus Project - Catalog" What's so good? Hexadecagon is the fifth album by The Octopus Project , an electro experimental, primarily instrumental band who consists of Josh Lambert, Toto Miranda, Yvonne Lambert, and Ryan Figg. This indietronic crew from Austin has mastered the art of complex layering and instrumental climax - the kind of climax that crescendos and leaves [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: Cut Copy, Chromeo, A-Trak "Cassius - I Love You So" What's so good? Working together since 1988, French house music duo Philippe Zdar and Hubert Blanc-Francart (aka Boombass) have been producing for 15 years under the name Cassius. Cassius has been consistently producing and remixing tracks for other artists such as Chromeo and Cut Copy . Ed Banger Records recently released their six-track EP entitled The Rawkers. [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: Jon Hopkins, Boards of Canada, Apparat "Helios - Bounce Dive" What's so good? I knew earlier this week that I wanted to write about Helios for this post but I wasn't exactly sure of what to say until this morning. Today marked the first day where I really felt the change of the seasons. Leaves of all different colors were blowing from every direction as I drove into work, and [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: Flying Lotus, Architeq, Ras_G "Teebs - Long Distance ft. Gaby Hernandez" What's so good? Teebs (his real name Mtendere Mandowa), was an accomplished painter and skater before he ever picked up a sampler and attempted to make his own compositions. A resident of the Chino Hills suburb of L.A., he was inspired by weekly trips to the beat mecca that is Low End Theory downtown every Wednesday night. From there [...]
Click image to download full album Song: Codes In The Clouds - We Anchor In Hope (:papercutz Moonlight Remix) "Codes In The Clouds - We Anchor In Hope (:papercutz Moonlight Remix)" What's so good? Usually when I get emails from artists trying to promote their work I just disregard them because I have plenty of other things to write about that I think are good. But when I received this track from Bruno Miguel of :papercutz, I could tell that [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: Jamie Jones, Tiefscharz "Art Department - Vampire Nightclub" What's so good? Seth Troxler is just about the hottest DJ and producer on the planet. And I mean that in a few ways, his beats are outrageously mind-blowing, he is taking the club scene by storm with his killer sets, and he’s a seriously handsome devil. In addition, I was told his normal body temperature is a whopping 102.6 degrees Fahrenheit. [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: J Dilla, Samiyam, Ratatat, MGMT "Flying Lotus - Physics For Everyone" What's so good? When your great-aunt and uncle are Alice and John Coltrane, you are bound to do great things in life. Speaking of his family, FlyLo wanted Alice to play the harp on what would be his debut record, 1983 . She said she would, if he got her harp fixed, but it never happened - [...]
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