Slow Century- Only (Coma Cinema Remix)

Thought I'd share a fresh take on a song that I love.

Slow Century takes us into expansive caves where words and limbs retreat into the static fog. Stuck somewhere within.

Slow Century - Only (Coma Cinema Remix)
Coma Cinema - Only

GET YOUR TURKEY ON>?!

GOBBLE GOBBLE has been making waves around the music scene for quite some time now, and it's about time we acknowledge our undying love for Cecil Frena and the whole GOBBLEGBL crew here in Ann Arbor.  In fact, if you're a 'Michigander' yourself, you should know that Gobble Gobble will be bringing their pychadelic freak/tweak out to Ann Arbor for a show at our very own Tweaker Pad in September (more info on that in the coming months)

Be on the lookout for what seems to be a Lawn Knives 7" (listen below) in the coming months via our super pals over at Royal Rhino Flying Records, and if you're as obsessed with GBL's glitchy lo-fi hyper-speed remixes as much as I am, check out a whole FREE ZIP worth of spine tickling remixes on their Tumblr--

MP-FREEEEEEEE

GOBBLE GOBBLE - Lawn Knives

Persona La Ave - Beach 2 (GOBBLE GOBBLE'S R. Kelly Magic Carpet)

Coma Cinema - Only (GOBBLE GOBBLE's Sunshine Dust)

Subvader remixes Kavinsky

Our very own resident 'womperman' SUBVADER has just given us the link to a new track and we're goin gaga for it!

Nightcall (Subvader Remix)

The vader-meister has gone all out on this deep, deep, vastly deep track, showing us that there's (a shit-ton) more to dubstep than a melody-less, wobbly 'WAMP WAMP.' He retains a similar melody to the original but then takes it to some otherworldly space odyssey shit. After listening to it, I feel like I'm in a rave in deepspace where we're kinda floatin around in astro suits outside the starcraft and i just took a hit of DMT. Please crank your speakers when listening to it, and if possible, take some drugs (preferably hallucinogens).

>>ALSO!!!!<<
please give it some hearts on soundcloud because this track was made for a COMPETITION! and the track with the most hearts wins some shit and gets mad street cred. maybe you could even tweet @kavinsky himself and tell him how awesome you think it is. please vote for it tho! spread the word on twitter or facebook or whatever! here's the tiny link: http://tiny.cc/n5nqz ! plz spread tha word yallzz!


alzooo-->>> follow SUBVADER ON TWITTAAAAHHH!!! he's cool. i promise.


i love you guys,
pacman


dubstep loves you guys,
womp womp

don't ever say womp womp or subvader might blast u w his lazy beams

[REVIEW] Coma Cinema :::: Stoned Alone

     Coma Cinema's new album, Stoned Alone, dropped this past Monday on cassette and digital download via one of my favorite young labels, Arcade Sound Ltd, and boy what a treat it is.  From the softly smooth beginnings of "In Lieu Of Flowers" Mat Cothran's vocals creep into your head and whisper from a world of truth most bands take several years to find.  It's hard to describe the emotions associated with this album.  It's definitely sad music, but something about it makes me feel at peace with its depressed loneliness.  Where many bands transfer sad and somber sentiments through noncommittal lyrics, Coma Cinema's word choice and vocal delivery scream with raw and beautiful emotion that draw you in. Stoned Alone definitely seems be coming from a darker, more well defined, conceptual place than their last effort, Baby Prayers, but all of the elements that made their first album the pop gem that it was are still standing strong.

     "Only" is the album's quintessential slow builder, starting off with nostalgic chords on your grandmothers ancient and dusted house organ, and then picking up slowly to stumble through minimal drums and sparse but heavy piano stabs.  Sucker Punch comes at a noticeably faster pace than earlier tracks, following behind "Only" with a driving, harsher attitude that earlier tracks lack.  "One good death deserves another, one good death deserves another; gunna drive these feelings out of my heart and drown them in the lake."  I guess now is as good a time as any to mention how soothing Mat's falsetto ooh's feel throughout the whole album, and the end of Sucker Punch if a perfect example of how they give many songs that extra push to drown you in blissful sound.

     By Bath Of Time the album briefly reaches a more upbeat chord progression, but the screechy synth/guitar noises that trade musical moments with the verse serve as reminder of the emotional space where this album came from: somewhere in the uncomfortable and undeniable beauty of solitude.  Blissed brings us back home as the second to last track, and comes as a much more blatantly sad but beautiful piece of dwindling high guitar and lethargic drumming, building slowly only to be drowned out by synths and soon after die to make room for the albums closer, Have You?: a painfully honest fingerpicked lullaby.

Sing me to sleep Coma Cinema---

Really great video for "Only" by Tyler T Williams.  Below preview album opener, "In Lieu of Flowers", and check out a remix I did for Sucker Punch-- enjoi>

mp3:

Coma Cinema - In Lieu of Flowers

Coma Cinema - Sucker Punch (Kohwi Remix)

Buy Coma Cinema :::: Stoned Alone via Arcade Sound on Cassette+Dgtl for $5+shpping (for realz, you won't regret it)

TWIN SISTER x TEEN DAZE

One of Twin Sister's stellar tracks off their recent release Color Your Life from Brooklyn got remixed and re-vamped up by Arcade Sound labelee Teen Daze.  Enough Said. Yet another fine showcase of the awesome musicians that are coming out of Canada these days (Gobble Gobble, Kumon Plaza, etc).  This remix throws Twin Sister's track immersed in sweet synth and drum machines with a heavy dose of nostalgia -- to the max.










I'll be honest when I say that at first Color Your Life didn't really live up to my expectations, but good thing I kept it in rotation...this album is for sure a grower.  The first track is certainly a standout for me, with gorgeous synths and driving drums overlayed by beautiful and almost eerie ooh's and ah's to lull you into a warm bliss....tracking in at a full 7:07, The Other Side of Your Face is a slow builder, worth every second.  Head over to their site and grab it for free while you can, and let it be a testiment to why you should pre order it vinyl or CD from infinite best all the same.






Teen Daze also has a EP, Four More Years, coming out soon on Vinyl and digital via Arcade Sound, which from what I hear sounds quite promising as well.  So be on the lookout for those goods too-

mp3:

Twin Sister - All Around and Away We Go (Teen Daze Remix)

Twin Sister - The Other Side of Your Face

It's April and....

I'm swamped with finals.  Big whoop!

Got a lot of stuff I've been wanting to post about recently, but with my brain being hacked by Csound and Poincare Duality there isn't much room for blogging.

However, in light of all this swampness there seems to be a little room for procrastination, eh?

I now present you with the one track that's been blissing out my brain all day.  Caribou has done it again with new album Swim, and even put up a remix contest for one of my favorite tracks on the album, Sun.

Enter new Waaga Records signee Spirituals (a solo project of sample-based electronic musician / drummer / producer / graphic artist Tyler Tadlock) and you've got one of early summers first splice and dice irresistable dance tracks.  Tadlock does an incredible job here of taking an already great track, and turning into something very much his own with added jazz samples of horns and drums.

Be on the look out for Spirituals' new album due out on Waaga Records on June 22nd--

mp3:

Caribou - Sun

Caribou - Sun (Spirituals Remix)