Blimey, blimey! We have some new stuff from Phlu (this guy is hyper productive) in the pipeline, and some of it is swell sounding, nothing like you’ve heard him do before – nice! I’m also eagerly awaiting a few tracks from Eddie, which we will hopefully be able to release pretty soon (although I’m not exactly holding my breath on this one, haha). Oskars Herlins, who released a wonderful record on the label a good three years back, have just sent me his second record for the label, and boy is it sweet! Modern classical music at its best, no wonder this guy is getting commissions and gigs all around his native Latvia at the moment. We also have a few very interesting edits by Wasserfall lying around, which will be released soon enough. Finally, Stegan Tango just showed me some of the stuff he has been working on recently, which we will hopefully release whenever he has the material for an EP – and it’s sounding very good, something like a mix between an upbeat version of Six Orders of Addmittance and Bibio.
So, no reason to not stay tuned – smell the fume from the loom, June!
This in from Ulf a couple of months back (been too busy procrastinating to put it out);
Phlu and Bananeter (aka. Eddie Tambongo/Snared) ate tacos, drank beer and made this EP on a friday night last fall. Two of the tracks can be slightly reminding of a drunk or high James Blake. While made on a friday, the tune ‘Happy Friday, Motherfucker’ resembles that old friday-feeling most people get when the working week is over and they can pop their first beer of the weekend, finally free from the chains of societys money-making circus (At least as long as they are at their own home.) But we know that as a reality, it won’t last long. It’s just for a limited time-span called the weekEND. Another working week will come. That insight can cause a sad moment even though it’s a friday night, so play this EP loud and sing along like you are a drugged down, drunk walrus who’s never going back to work!
Cover by Phlu.
Preview the track ‘Free Pills Through My Soul’;
Tracklist;
1. Impregnated World
2. Free Pills Through My Soul
3. Happy Friday, Motherfucker
DMZ, or De Militarized Zone, is a physical or logical subnetwork that contains and exposes an organization’s external services to a larger untrusted network. There’s a certain noir comic vibe to this release, although, musically speaking, there’s no escaping the comparisons to Burial, Mount Kimbie and Sepalcure. Some league to be in though! Sounding somewhat like a mix between the three pioneers within experimental and perhaps more subtle dubstep isn’t exactly a negative feat, it’s a pretty incredible accomplishment in my book! The good kind of spine shivers. There’s a hazy and frail fidgeting feeling over this, slightly skipping with off-beat jazz-like rhytms, but the textures and melodies are oh so warm and comforting.
I’m really honored to release this 6-piece on the label, and like so many other releases on the label, it really deserves a vinyl release. So, if you feel like sponsoring or lending us money, give me a holler! Artwork by Morten.
Preview the track ‘Cease All Creation’;
Tracklist;
1. Cease All Creation
2. Encourage His Arrogance
3. Bolstering Lost Ground Fortress
4. A Golden Bridge To Retreat Across
5. Penetrating Spies Cannot Pry
6. Secret Ops
When I in a few minutes will press ‘submit’ to free Thomas Bergsten’s latest contribution to the human race, I will take great pride in knowing that the level of weirdness in the world just increased by 36. On this phenomenal record, we have nothing less than 12 exceptionally outlandish, beautiful pieces of music made for a film that is just around the corner. The fabulous thing about this movie is the fact that the movie itself was shot with the intention of describing the sound, yet not making it a mere music video, but a full fledged Jim Jarmusch-like flick with lots of awkward people doing whatever it is awkward people do. You’ll see, you’ll see.
‘New Orleans Vampire’ opens the show with a strange african/mexican-sounding blues track that suddenley drops into a stripped down 80’ies hip-hop beat, before the title song, ‘Jesus Was Walking On The Water’ rips your head open with some Nick Cave-like aesthetics, and then Oscar (from the movie), or what have you, takes it too far (honey), and has to cool down on the beach. Et cetera! It just goes on! I’m finding it very difficult to choose one track for preview on this, because they are all so different. A personal favorite it is though, ‘Subway (Club Scene)’, which is absolutely sublime! Artwork by Thomas.
Preview the track ‘Subway (Club Scene)’;
Tracklist;
1. New Orleans Vampire (Vampire Band Scene)
2. Jesus Was Walking On The Water (Title Song)
3. Honey I Went Too Far (Beach Scene)
4. Disney (Turn The Page)
5. Don’t Drink And Drive (End Credits)
6. Fuglane (Last Scene)
7. Indianarane Kjem! (Theme Song)
8. Subway (Club Scene)
9. Subway (Praying Scene)
10. The World Is Burning (Birth Scene)
11. The Dada Priest (Preaching Scene, Amazing Grace)
12. Aix Sponsa
Ok, ok, I don’t really know how to mix to save my life, but today I made a mix anyway, and these tracks are damn fine for summer. Stream it from Soundcloud or download it from the link below the tracklist. Dedicated to the late Gil Scott-Heron and Sup Kubb.
Tracklist;
Matthewdavid – Audio Track 14
Jeremiah Jae – $easons
Madvillain – Horny
Mane Mane – Just Called 2
Young Montana? – Suchbeats (feat. Stainless Steele)
Frank Ocean – Songs For Women
heRobust – Shawty Swing My Way (Busted)
The Soul Investigators – Soul Investigators Theme (Mike Slott Remix)
Thomas Fehlmann – Berliner Luftikus
Beach House – Silver Soul
Sumsun – Colors
Kona Triangle – Air Lock
Jar Moff – Uknown Track
Ous Mal – Aamubussi
Bibio – Great Are The Piths
Blockhead – The Prettiest Sea Slug
SSaliva – Moonblood
Alborosie – Sound Killa
Collie Buddz – Come Around
Sepalcure – Love Pressure
Oriol – Night And Day
Opiate – Snow Story
Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX – My Cloud
Simbad – DNA Metamorphosis
G.R.I.T – Hope (Dub Edit)
Lucky Dragons – Don’t Lie (Bonus)
The Ruby Suns – Kenya Dig It
Beach Fossils – Daydream
Boards of Canada – Olson
Eddie Tambongo is playing live at Blå this Friday, so be sure to check him out! He’s also playing at next weekend’s Sommer Øya Festival. Just got a little mix of some of the new stuff he’s been producing, and it’s just sick, some absolutely incredible drumming and melody making on show. Hopefully we’ll have a release or a mix or something on this site very soon! Stay tuned.
It’s that time of year again, folks. Another dive into the sweaty sunscreen drenched beat crates of Mr Anders Wasserfall. Tracklist, courtesy of a guy in a speedo;
Intro
Lalo Schiffrin – Bullitt (End Title)
Nightmares on Wax – no title ( Wasserfall summer edit)
Robag Whrume – Bricke Eins
Sensorama – Sunday Morning Superstar
Gene Farris – Smoke Session Pause
Seu Jorge – Everybody loves the sunshine
Charles Bukowski – Winter Comes (Wasserfall edit)
Arthur Russell – 01 (Instrumentals)
Count Ossie – So Long
Gifted & Blessed Interprets Exile – Radio Medley
Radiocuts
Vondelpark – Camels
Lhasa de Sela – De cara a la pared
Vaage & Wasserfall – He bought me a guitar
Harvey Steel was left on the doorstep of an Amish family in October 1977. He was raised as a real family member, and they didn’t tell him about were he came from until he was fifteen. He then left his Amish family following a calling. A few years later, he met a musician in Mississippi claiming to be Jim Ford. Jim thaught him how to play the guitar. After finding out that the man claiming to be Jim Ford was just a cocaine addicted ex-hippie (he had planted a kilo heroin in his guitar on the way home from a gig in Mexico), Harvey Steel quit music and moved to Norway in 1997 and has lived in a small cabin in the woods just outside of the ski jump hill in Vikersund. He hadn’t even touched a guitar until one day he came home from a walk in the woods and someone had set up a small studio with a small amp and a few guitars with a note;
- I’m sorry, Harvey, hope this makes up for something.
- Buck
PS! It took me ten years to find you.
Harvey Steel then recorded ‘Turn On Your Lovelight’ right away (after figuring out how to use the equipment) and used the two more days to write and record the rest of the album. Harvey Steel has now put together a band and we are waiting for the comeback concert! All songs by Harvey Steel except ‘Turn On Your Lovelight’ written by Joseph Wade Scott and Deadric Malone aka Don Robey, ‘I Told You A Lie’ written by Harvey Steel and Jan Fredrik Bjerk. Artwork by Åse & Morten.
Preview the track ‘Standing On The Corner’;
Tracklist;
1. Turn On Your Lovelight
2. Standing On The Corner
3. Dead Ahead
4. Outer Space (Part 1)
5. 1969
6. Outer Space (Part 2)
7. I Told You A Lie
