Twiggy Frostbite Returns...Again.

We don´t know exactly when, what or even if it will happen but this is how it goes when you give an artist total freedom. No demands on format, no deadlines. no nothing...

"By The Ocean" is a new track from Twiggy Frostbite featuring members from The Deer Tracks. To be honest, we don´t know if it´s a part of an upcoming album, if it´s a single or maybe a part of a limited 7" vinyl but what we do know is that this song is yet another brick in a dream that started off with the track "Written Within" a couple of weeks ago. A track that Twiggy Frostbite defined like this..."What can we say you about that feeling? The feeling when you wake up and realize that this might all just be a part of that dream you had. You're neither asleep, nor awake, you're somewhere in between. The only thing you can be sure of is that you exist, or can you?"

While you're thinking about that...download away.

Download: By The Ocean
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Early Day Miners...Mine Something New

I'm not sure when it happened...but it did.  At some point, Early Day Miners left the Secretly Canadian mellow atmospheric pop stable, listened to a bit too many Spoon records and changed their name to EDM. Now, signed to Western Vinyl, and sounding nothing like their previous selves, the band are preparing to release their new album, Night People.  I have to admit that while the proposition of their new sound scared me to death...I actually found myself liking it.  I suspect they're hoping you do as well. 

Just as the band's name has been abbreviated, their process of recording and producing has been been stripped down for this album. Unlike the meticulous self-production that defined Early Day Miners' albums, their first effort under the EDM moniker finds the band relinquishing engineering duties. Recorded and mixed by engineer Mike Bridavksy at Russian Recording in just five days, the Night People sessions have yielded the most expressive vocal and instrumental performances of Burton's career.


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Tristy Nesh Gets Dark and Insane

The Croatian wonder boy Tristy Nesh is back on Absolut Freak Records, with elektro frau Xenia Beliayeva and together they've come up with a beast of dark tune called, Acting Sane.

Sounding something like a well medicated Siouxsie the tune saunters it's way across the dance floor covered in a cloud of Clove smoke.  It's dark, subdued, and fantastic. 

The single, out now, features a whole host of mixes featuring, John Lord Fonda, (the French sensation from Vitalic's label Citizen Records), Latvian producer(!!) Max Brannslokker, and Nicolas Chenard brings the techno.

Throw in the B-side, "Turkish Bass," and you have a pan-European/Balkan tour de force that covers all it's bases and then some.

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Letting Up Despite Great Faults

Hailing from Los Angeles, California, Letting Up Despite Great Faults are excited to announce the release of their forthcoming EP Paper Crush, on Old Flame Records out on August 2. Letting Up Despite Great Faults is the sonic diary of founding member, Mike Lee.

Lee's interest in music started at an early age, picking up piano, bass and guitar. After rooming with two DJs in college, Lee started to explore sampling and sequencing beats, taking a cue from DJ Shadow, IDM and dance pioneers like Aphex Twin and Daft Punk.

This of course means that Letting Up Despite Great Faults sounds nothing like any of that.  Somewhere between Ride, Slumberland Records, and fields of heather is where you'll find Paper Crush residing.  The Anglophilia that Letting Up Despite Great Faults suffers from runs rampant here and you can hear it oozing out of every single riff.  This is the sort of record that has summer written all over it and had it come out in 1992 would have been declared single of the year by Melody Maker.

Charmingly brilliant stuff then.

Download: Teenage Tide
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Cassettes Won't Listen...Just Don't Listen

Jason Drake, aka Cassettes Won't Listen, is not a stranger to cease and desists. Back in 2008 CWL was served with a cease and desist from none other than the RIAA for his Guns N Roses / Ludacris mash up titled Ludacris Democracy. The release matched up the yet-to-be-released Chinese Democracy with Ludacris acapellas. Needless to say, GNR nor RIAA liked the idea. The mash up was removed from the Internet, left exclusively to the savviest of Internet searchers.

Fast forward 3 years later, CWL gears up with a brand new album titled KEVINSPACEY, to be released June 21st, only to ruffle the feathers of the award winning actor and be hit with yet another cease and desist. Just another fork in the road for Mr. Drake as he's just announced the album's re-titling, EVINSPACEY. Same great taste, different name.

And somewhere you know the actual Kevin Spacey is listening to this album going..."I have an album named after me, nah nah nah.  Even if it doesn't have a K attached to it." 

Download: Perfect Day
Download: The Echoes
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Andy Petr Is Anything But A Rapper Turned Singer

Prolific beyond his years, Milwaukee native Andy Petr recently signed with Brooklyn-based Mixpak records and will release his debut album Rapper Turned Singer EP on May 10th. Andy's profuse output of intricate chops doesn't stop there. He is also delivering a spate of free EPs which APD004 being the first. The planned trilogy of EPs will feature original material as well as heavy reworkings of some of his favorite rap songs.

Simply put, the kid is good.  He slices, dices, chops and grinds together samples with an ear to the floor while keeping an eye out for the next great sample.  And when he's not doing that he gets lost in his own little world where Brian Eno and Justice live together in electronic harmony.  It all might seem a bit disjointed and strange at times, I mean it's hard for it not to with samples flying around everywhere or new agey synths floating by, but either way the kid writes grooves that are so deep they make the Mariana Trench look shallow.

Download: Rapper Turned Singer
Download: Drinking Milk From His Hands
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Fleet Foxes Return To The Fray

Fleet Foxes highly anticipated sophomore release Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop/Bella Union), is officially available today, May 3rd. The release of the twelve-track album coincides with the band’s first North American tour (which kicked off on Saturday in Vancouver) since August 2009 followed by a string of UK and European dates with more stateside shows to follow in July.

Here are the dates...(through June)

May 03, 2011 Moore Theatre / Seattle, WA

May 05, 2011 Fox Theater / Oakland, CA

May 06, 2011 Spreckels Theatre / San Diego, CA
May 07, 2011 Hollywood Palladium / Hollywood, CA
May 08, 2011 Rialto Theatre / Tucson, AZ
May 10, 2011 Stubb's Waller Creek / Austin, TX
May 11, 2011 Palladium Ballroom / Dallas, TX
May 13, 2011 Ryman Auditorium / Nashville, TN
May 14, 2011 The Tabernacle / Atlanta, GA
May 15, 2011 DAR Constitution Hall / Washington, DC
May 17, 2011 Orpheum Theatre / Boston, MA
May 18, 2011 The United Palace Theatre / New York, NY
May 19, 2011 The United Palace Theatre / New York, NY

May 21, 2011 Tower Theatre / Upper Darby, PA

May 25, 2011 Astra / Berlin, Germany

May 26, 2011 Dachau Summer of Music / Munich, Germany

May 28, 2011 Primavera Sound / Barcelona, Spain

May 30, 2011 Bataclan / Paris, France

May 31, 2011 Hammersmith Apollo / London, UK

June 01, 2011 Hammersmith Apollo / London, UK

June 02, 2011 Hammersmith Apollo / London, UK

June 23, 2011 Civic Hall / Wolverhampton, UK

June 25, 2011 Custom House Square / Belfast, Ireland

June 26, 2011 Live at the Marquee / Cork, Ireland

June 28, 2011 Manchester Apollo / Manchester, UK

June 29, 2011 Corn Exchange / Edinburgh, UK

Download: Grown Ocean
Download: Helplessness Blues

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