Here's a pretty cool SXSW performance captured by the homies at Yours Truly for p4k.tv featuring two of my absolute favorite artists of last year, North Carolina's Washed Out and Brooklyn's Small Black. Incidentally, I wasn't able to fucking see them play with YACHT at the fucking Echoplex because all the fucking LA people bought out all the fucking tickets.
Fuck.
Enjoy.
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03 April, 2010
12 September, 2009
THE SEBASTOPOL MIXTAPE - Vol. 8
Quite possibly the lowest-fi Seb mixtape yet, Vol. 8 in our series of new*, old, and [interesting] music features jaw-dropping new cuts from Washed Out, Atlas Sound, and Ducktails, as well as various kiwi/guitar pop/lo fi gems from the likes of the Pin Group and Flying Color.
- HEALTH - Die Slow [Get Color 2009]
- Girls - Big Bad Mean Mother Fucker [Album 2009]
- Washed Out - Get Up [Life of Leisure EP 2009]
- Boogie Boarder - USRA [Pizza Hero 2009]
- Flying Color - Dear Friend [Flying Color 1987]
- Orange Glass - Cosmic Pilot [Mix-Tape 1996]
- Beck - Run Run Run (Record Club Version) [Record Club Vol. 1: The Velvet Underground and Nico 2009]
- Beach Fossils - Daydream [Demo 2009]
- Peter Jefferies/Robbie Muir - Catapult [Making Losers Happy comp 1992]
- Ducktails - House of Mirrors [Landscapes 2009]
- The Bitters - Warrior [Wooden Glove 2009]
- Memory Tapes - Bicycle [Seek Magic 2009]
- Guided By Voices - Gelatin, Ice Cream, Plum.... [Static Airplane Jive 1993]
- Weed Hounds - Embrace (More or Less) [Demo 2009]
- Fluffy Lumbers - Cruisers Pt. 2 (Police Cruisers) [The Police Cruisers EP 2009]
- Atlas Sound - Washington School [Logos 2009]
- The Pin Group - Ambivalence [The Pin Group 1981]
- Black Moth Super Rainbow - Things From the See [Electric Avenue: Chapter 8 2003]
01 September, 2009
New Washed Out - Luck
Happy September.
Columbia, South Carolina's Ernest Greene a.k.a. Washed Out doesn't need any more blog exposure. The still-young lo-fi electro project is already one of the Summer of Glo-fi's most rewarding success-stories, and is quickly becoming one of its most prolific. The latest track to surface online, "Luck" is a woozy instrumental built on a loping hip-hop beat and fluttering, ephemeral synths out of Black Moth Super Rainbow's wilder dreams. The track appears on Greene's forthcoming Mirror Universe tape High Life, alongside the hazy nostalgia-trip of "Belong," which we recently featured as part of our summery Fuzzy Dreams mixtape.
mp3-> Washed Out - Luck [from High Life, out September 15 on Mirror Universe]
[Download][Transparent]
Columbia, South Carolina's Ernest Greene a.k.a. Washed Out doesn't need any more blog exposure. The still-young lo-fi electro project is already one of the Summer of Glo-fi's most rewarding success-stories, and is quickly becoming one of its most prolific. The latest track to surface online, "Luck" is a woozy instrumental built on a loping hip-hop beat and fluttering, ephemeral synths out of Black Moth Super Rainbow's wilder dreams. The track appears on Greene's forthcoming Mirror Universe tape High Life, alongside the hazy nostalgia-trip of "Belong," which we recently featured as part of our summery Fuzzy Dreams mixtape.
mp3-> Washed Out - Luck [from High Life, out September 15 on Mirror Universe]
[Download][Transparent]
16 August, 2009
Mixtape: Fuzzy Dreams
As we reach the tail-end of Summer, our friends go off to school once again and idea of doing so yourself becomes evermore tangible, my mind inevitably drifts, loses focus. This ephemeral period of social realignment is a weird one for me, as old friends disappear and the carefree floating of the Summer months comes to a crushing end.
Which is to say, the end of Summer sucks, and it makes me sad, and the music of the moment speaks to this aimlessness. Inevitable derision be damned, I am an unapologetic champion of this "dreamgaze/glo-fi/GvsBxcore" thing that's been going on.
Electronic music--out of nowhere, and all of a sudden--gets me. These artists are tapping into a long-faded, rainbow-tinted and oversaturated Saturday-morning-TV cultural aesthetic shared by an entire generation of lost suburban kids. These are the sounds of growing up in the early 90s, 16-bit Nintendo symphonies crashing into shimmering FM radio electro-pop; and also:skateboarding, weed, the beach, heartbreak, surfing, dreams. If--as P4k ever-so-cynically declares--it "all sounds the same," then it does so in that it taps into an archetype, an image that resonates with the overstimulated post-MTV Millennials because it's formed out of the scraps of their--our--collective experience, phased-out, half-remembered, echoing with a glimpse of all of our not-too-distant Rugrats phase.
And "Walkabout" is just a great summer jam, so yeah.
Tracklist:
1. Phaseone - (Only) Reprise
2. Washed Out - Feel It All Around
3. Atlas Sound - Walkabout (ft. Noah Lennox)
4. Small Black - Despicable Dogs
5. Neon Indian - Terminally Chill
6. Trailer Trash Tracys - Strangling Good Guys
7. The Depreciation Guild - Stuck Pig
8. Washed Out - Hold Out
9. Gentle Friendly - R.I.P. Static
10. Memory Cassette - Body in the Water
11. Pictureplane - Transparent Now (Thin Veil)
12. My Summer as a Salvation Soldier - Monument
13. The Depreciation Guild - Parasol Parachute
14. Neon Indian - Seriously, It's Over
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Also, I'm going to SF for a while and school starts next week, so we're on hiatus till August 24. Peace.
Which is to say, the end of Summer sucks, and it makes me sad, and the music of the moment speaks to this aimlessness. Inevitable derision be damned, I am an unapologetic champion of this "dreamgaze/glo-fi/GvsBxcore" thing that's been going on.
Electronic music--out of nowhere, and all of a sudden--gets me. These artists are tapping into a long-faded, rainbow-tinted and oversaturated Saturday-morning-TV cultural aesthetic shared by an entire generation of lost suburban kids. These are the sounds of growing up in the early 90s, 16-bit Nintendo symphonies crashing into shimmering FM radio electro-pop; and also:skateboarding, weed, the beach, heartbreak, surfing, dreams. If--as P4k ever-so-cynically declares--it "all sounds the same," then it does so in that it taps into an archetype, an image that resonates with the overstimulated post-MTV Millennials because it's formed out of the scraps of their--our--collective experience, phased-out, half-remembered, echoing with a glimpse of all of our not-too-distant Rugrats phase.
And "Walkabout" is just a great summer jam, so yeah.
Tracklist:
1. Phaseone - (Only) Reprise
2. Washed Out - Feel It All Around
3. Atlas Sound - Walkabout (ft. Noah Lennox)
4. Small Black - Despicable Dogs
5. Neon Indian - Terminally Chill
6. Trailer Trash Tracys - Strangling Good Guys
7. The Depreciation Guild - Stuck Pig
8. Washed Out - Hold Out
9. Gentle Friendly - R.I.P. Static
10. Memory Cassette - Body in the Water
11. Pictureplane - Transparent Now (Thin Veil)
12. My Summer as a Salvation Soldier - Monument
13. The Depreciation Guild - Parasol Parachute
14. Neon Indian - Seriously, It's Over
DOWNLOAD
Also, I'm going to SF for a while and school starts next week, so we're on hiatus till August 24. Peace.
29 July, 2009
New Music: Small Black - Despicable Dogs
The latest in a string of lo-fi dance music acts blowing up lately, Small Black may very well be the best yet.
Eschewing more explicit dancefloor jams, the Brooklyn duo go for a low-rent New Order aesthetic served well by their deft Casio arrangements and sub-Radioshack fidelity.
mp3-> Small Black - Despicable Dogs [from Small Black, out soon on Cassclub (I think)]
[Download][P4k]
Eschewing more explicit dancefloor jams, the Brooklyn duo go for a low-rent New Order aesthetic served well by their deft Casio arrangements and sub-Radioshack fidelity.
mp3-> Small Black - Despicable Dogs [from Small Black, out soon on Cassclub (I think)]
[Download][P4k]
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