Grimes - Go ft. Blood Diamonds

I swear it's not because I'm a hopeless fangirl and there's a new song and video out, but because Grimes has the coolest swords! ⎝( ´ ⩊ ` )⎠

Klartraum — Diving Dancer

Some electronic vibes … does this even belong here. Does it belong anywhere?

Archive - Axiom

This video matches the song so completely - repeating, evolving structures that grow, dissipate, taking the listener/viewer along on a trip that encapsulates both chaos and harmony.

Archive - Axiom

Trust — Capitol

Wolfsheim meets a-ha, with a dash of Deine Lakaien thrown in. It's just awesomly 80s, I think. Out since February, this is from the 2nd album by Trust, called Joyland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu438gwa4uE

The Faint - Lesson from the Darkness

The Faint - Lesson from the Darkness

If there's a lesson
I can take it
I can take a lesson
from the darkness

Son Lux - Alternate World

Son Lux - Alternate World

alternate world
alternate age
alternate life

oh-oh we'll shed our skin
we'll walk the other side
oh-oh we'll brace for it
and conquer everything
oh-oh we're magical
we'll wake the dead from sleep

tear me away from this fight
tear me away
take me to an


alternate world
alternate age
alternate life

make what we believe
don't we

make what we can

CHVRCHES - Bela Lugosi's Dead

A lovely spin on a classic tune:

CHVRCHES - Bela Lugosi's Dead

Braids

Braids - Victoria

My father always said
To get out of my head
Maybe he meant to see
What's next to me
A beautiful three
With their roots extending
I hope forever
Happily

Egg Hell - Suffering

Egg Hell - Suffering

Suffering you're floating in the void
among thought-waves long destroyed
our starry heads are yours
dazed
and locked again
in your horny embrace

I find everything there
everything that exists
I find myself whole again
jumping to reach your fists

Suffering your eyes are so aware
they only flinch sometimes out of care
and then you can be seen
free of space debris
your dark and silent love

Dirty Dogz vs Wolffman - Wonderful Day

This is a song was made by a friend of a friend in Holland, so I'm promoting it. Hope you enjoy the chill mix of hip-hop & reggae as much as I do ;)

Dirty Dogz vs Wolffman - Wonderful Day

Grimes - Venus In Fleurs

Because, to me, anything and everything by Grimes is always a real treat, I'm popping my blogging cherry with this beauty. Here's what Claire herself wrote about the video on her Tumblr:

Hey — this is a video my friend Video Marsh made for this really old Grimes song from my first record.  We were supposed to release it ages ago and somehow it didn’t happen probably because it didn’t comply with the press cycle at the time and since I’ve stopped caring about complying with press cycles im sharing this now.

This is the only post-genesis official grimes video that i didn’t work on myself that will ever be released :).   it’s a different vibe entirely as you can see.  i think it’s very very beautiful and haunting and peaceful and scary

all footage is from the reifel bird sanctuary in British columbia

enjoy :)

Grimes - Venus In Fleurs from Video Marsh on Vimeo.

Too much new music to write seperate articles, here are my latest discoveries.

Every so often I find a tap into the primal flow of music and discover so many bands it's like a rennaisance. Now is one of those times and these are the best acts I've discovered this year. They may not be new bands but they are new to me.

1. Geographer

A 3 piece outfit, this band blew me away with their track "Kites" on Animal Shapes. Geographer is what you would get if M83 and Beirut had mad monkey sex, and produced an offspring that has more talent than either. This album has been around since 2010 and received almost no press, to add insult to injury they have several other full length albums which have also been overlooked by the music press. I will spare you colorful euphemisms for what my ears are telling me and leave you with this.

[youtube=http://youtu.be/gxUVNoiVdts]

2. Imagine Dragons

Dubstep basslines in an indie song? Le gasp. Yet I defy you to deny rocking out to their song Radioactive. It's crafted for radio play yet is under the radar, the band has a few youtube videos up to show you who they are, and who they are is weird people. Case in point, view the video to Radioactive below. When I heard this song I imagined a video of a couple teenagers about to have their first kiss in somebodies basement when the windows suddenly get blown out, they run outside to see mushroom clouds on the horizon and suddenly an urban war breaks out all around them and hand in hand they run to the countryside to escape it. Instead we get this oddity. At first I was like "They take themselves a little too seriously, and stop interrupting the song!" and then I was like "Wait" and finally "What?" They definitely don't take themselves too seriously. (Bonus points for white Lou Diamond Phillips)

[youtube=http://youtu.be/ktvTqknDobU]

3. Blood Orange - Champagne Coast

Finding this band, a pseudonym of mr Dev Hynes, is a bit like discovering Prince just before he exploded onto the charts and became a household name. I don't just say this because of his remarkably similar voice, but because of the laid back, one man band, approach and style of the music. You will have to listen to the song to under stand what I'm getting at. I see great things for mr Hynes.

[youtube=http://youtu.be/nO6y1-erVEw]

4. Villagers - Earthly Pleasures

Americana, Indie, beautiful, whimsical, this band reminds me a little of Tom Waits at least in their cantankerous and eccentric natures. I really enjoy the lyrics to this song, which is unusual because I usually listen to lyrics last, after several viewings. I think this song is genius and shows a unique voice in an increasingly crowded music scene. Enjoy.

[youtube=http://youtu.be/3QpXlcGNVz0]

5. Sir Sly - Ghost

I have begun to notice a trend in a lot of new bands towards using bits and pieces of the hardcore, electropop, and dubstep scenes and turning them into something different. Sir Sly manages to incorporate dubstep type bass warbles into a sound that is laid back with vocals as dry as paper. His voice reminds me at times of Wayne Coyne , tempered by the much smaller world of a young mind. I love how stripped back their sound is, there is a lot of air and they have a strong grasp of pacing and those little flourishes that separate an artful track from a demo.

[youtube=http://youtu.be/q1TbI44oRtE]

6. Mr. Little Jeans - The Suburbs

Yes, the same titled Arcade Fire album has been out long enough to inspire cover songs now. This is a deconstructed and more electronic interpretation of the song that evokes memories of Portishead, and early Bjork. I love the atmosphere it adds to the songs message and the images it puts in my head. This is almost a new song

[youtube=http://youtu.be/eFKYHVfD2Zw]

Major Lazer — Jessica

We're told Major Lazer fought as a Jamaican commando. He lost his arm in a secret zombie war in 1984. He fights vampires and various monsters, parties hard, and has a rocket-powered hoverboard. What's not to love about him?

The new album "Free the Universe" is out since April 16th. Great single from it, which features Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend:

A good start for a lush sunny Saturday afternoon. Love to all Jessicas out there.

Oh ... and while we're at it:

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The Knife - Shaking the Habitual

The Knife have a new album out, 'Shaking the Habitual', released on 8 April 2013. As always, the Swedish duo are able to ease past current musical (and social) boundaries. There are two videos available on youtube from the album:


The Knife - A Tooth For An Eye

The Knife - Full Of Fire

Sometimes I get problems that are hard to solve
Here’s a story
That’s my opinion

When you’re full of fire,
what’s the object of your desire?

Kishi Bashi: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

K Ishibashi is a master of building his music from the ground up, from live violin loops to layered singing to beatboxing, in order to create pocket symphonies steeped in classical music and 21st-century pop. He brings that ingenuity and songcraft to the Tiny Desk at the NPR Music offices.

(from the youtube comments)

Mallory Cerise - Three Mixes

Mallory Cerise's witch house mixes are shimmery, eerie; night-fueled soul-food:

My Secret Name

Mallory's introduction to the Black Lodge Witch track reads:

"One of my aspirations is to create a musical space in which David Lynch's hauntology and Dario Argento's black-gloved Euro-occult attitude would coexist.

This goes out to my lovely friend Kanjena, who's done a lot to bring me to the point where I am now, the point of quiet, deceptively fragile, always nocturnal power."

Black Lodge Witch

"... dense, haunting atmospherics, morphing into the unabashedly naive, delicately retro je ne sais quoi, as an homage to dreams... When you listen to the echoes of these eerily kitschy, sweet dreams, resonating through the fatally cascading time, all you know is that something, somewhere is hurting. The dreams destined to become an intoxicating descent into the world Laura didn’t want to be in, which ends in the pure chilling testimony to what’s in jeopardy.

The true work of mourning in Twin Peaks in done through music. And this work of mourning unfolds in the undecidable space between light and fire."


Love Laura

Elbe Lisle

Mueran humanos - Monstruo

Ok this is 2011. But it's so now. Light and superficial, deep and dark. A cold hypnotic playful Berlin breath with gothic Argentine roots.

Arlt - Le pistolet

I never knew blues could be blended with the French language and a medieval flavour. 2012 showed me that.

About Soundproof, seeking DJs

At Soundproof we endeavor to keep it eclectic, weird, wild, and mix lots of old school, classic alternative along with current, contemporary bands. The focus at Soundproof isn't on the indie hits, the popular bands and songs topping Pitchfork lists and charts or other popular blogs and publications. There's a shift here away from dancey indiepop.

Our motto is dare to be different and make it truly alternative or indie in the sense of indie label bands going back as far as indie started, right up to current day. A history of indie and alternative (including punk, postpunk, new wave, garage rock, alt-folk, goth, psychedelic and much more) of all kinds is what I hope people can find in the sets here. Creativity with sets is strongly encouraged. The only real requirement for playing at Soundproof though is having a real passion and love for alternative music. It's about DJing for the music, not the crowds and tips.

No cliques, no elitism. Uniting the freaks, the outsiders, the music nerds under one roof, to be silly as shit and party on. Wanna DJ here? Contact Paradox Messmer.  All friendly people are welcome. As of now, there are DJs on Tuesdays and Fridays. We are also featured in the Destination Guide! SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bloom%20County/100/140/23

Crazy White Boy - Zoma

I've promised to post this song a couple of times, so here it is :)

Crazy White Boy's bio reads:

"Crazy White Boy is the brainchild of South African producers Ryan Murgatroyd and Kosta Karatamoglou. Both experienced and successful DJs and producers in their own right, the pair met and decided to collaborate."

Chrisodd

Picking only two top, favourite tunes of 2012, so far is not so simple. A load of tunes released this year have all the features of a great single/song. So I had to pick among songs that lift my spirit or make me happy or give me pleasure or a hug or all of these at the same time. I finally choose two that combine spirit-lifting and huggies. Sorry for the others.

First, a MYLO remix of "Reunion" , one of the best songs ever written by the cool French M83, from their 2011 "Hurry up, We are dreaming" LP, that came out as a single this year. Stripped down to the basics and fueled with bass liquor it turned out as a sweet, nostalgic tune: easy to dance, dream and get blissful at the same time.



Second is a non-single song from the The Beach House's second dream pop masterpiece LP in a row, from "The Hours" could stand as a single alone but the most important of all is that it's sweet melodies and dreamy arrangements plus the amazing magical voice of miss Legrand turn a simple dream pop to a hug anthem, ready to embrace and comfort you...