March 23, 2012
IS IT ALL OVER YOUR FACE?
January 23, 2012
I COULD BE YOUR RIGHT GIRL
November 22, 2011
I’LL GIVE YOU FISH
October 5, 2011
~ DEEP ~
September 4, 2011
chikwithme
‘shake what your mama gave you’
‘shake your booty’
sunday grooves week 1
July 30, 2011
This is something that GP wholeheartedly approve of.
It started as a joke, but it’s not just a joke.
“We are nautical by nature,” DJ Tony Skratchere says with his tongue gently in cheek as he quotes the title of his upcoming mixtape of yacht bounce, the fusion between ‘70s and ‘80s soft rock and New Orleans bounce…
You’re probably asking yourself: what the hell is yacht rock? Thanks to the wonders of Wikipedia, now you know:
“Yacht rock” is the name[6][7] for the soft rock format that peaked in popularity between the years of 1975 and 1984. In the musical sense, yacht rock refers to the…
Switched-On Bach (1968) was an early album demonstrating the use of the synthesizer as a genuine musical instrument. As an early user of Robert Moog’s first commercially available synthesizer modules (Moog assembled these as custom installations that differed greatly from user to user), Carlos helped pioneer the technology, which was significantly more difficult to use than it is today. Multitrack recording techniques played a critical role in the time-consuming process of creating this album. Switched-On Bach was the last project in her four-year-long collaboration with Benjamin Folkman and won gold records for both Carlos and Folkman. The album then became one of the first classical LPs to sell 500,000 copies, going gold in August 1969, and platinum in November 1986
July 27, 2011
VIBES.
New Album: DUDES - NARCISSISTS ANONYMOUS
Ryan from self-confessed “neo-funk-chill-psych-swag-goth-wave” three-piece DUDES, based in San Diego, sent over their first official EP “NARCISSISTS ANONYMOUS” on Monday night. This is set to be a huge cassette for any fans of Small Black, AnCo or even Toro Y Moi - blending the noisier elements of the three to make for a glitch-ridden and delay-heavy proximate of over-driven trip-hop.
Accompanying the release is a 90s style role playing game eponymously titled DUDES, which is worth a mention for the innovative marketing strategy alone.
The musical side of things however, don’t falter - ‘TURF TALK (SWAG EDIT MIX)’ is a soulful 70s disco ballad with a squealing lead, and the Galapagos remix of ‘1/5 OF THE DRIVES ON TOUR’ is a 106 second ambient sample jam as much as a big name collaboration for DUDES to name-drop. I’ve attached 5 minute song and title track ‘NARCISSISTS ANONYMOUS’ below, an airy 70s ballad with horns, soft synthesisers and some very colourful hip-hop beats. The colour associations I get with this music is overwhelmingly grey-scale, nostalgic and dream-like in its array of trippy spoken word loops which are constantly making their way in and out of time with the rest of the music.
Download ‘NARCISSISTS ANONYMOUS’ in EP form at Bandcamp, find out more about the video game here, or buy your own cassette, shipping on or around the 1st of August, via Grizzly Records.
DUDES - NARCISSISTS ANONYMOUS (MP3)
DUDES - TURF TALK (SWAG-EDIT MIX) (MP3)
