Monday, October 31, 2011

10/31/11 Wavelength of the Moment: Nu Shlohmo Videoh

Shlohmo - Trapped In A Burning House (Official Video)

We have finally been granted an official video from one of our favorite albums of the year, Bad Vibes: a haunted, hallucinatory, Halloween-ready trip through the woods, directed and edited by the man himself: Henry Laufer, alias Shlohmo.

An unsettling enigma from beginning to end (not unlike its musical source material), this video does an excellent job of showcasing Laufer's tact in visual storytelling: nothing is explicated, no answers await the perplexed viewer when they reach the end of this dark journey – only elusive images of windows and silhouettes, like distant memories briefly flitting in and out of our consciousness as we are dragged through the dim forest...

You gotta check out Bad Vibes if you haven't heard it yet. Shlohmo's making some really beautiful sounds right now, and we can't wait for what comes next (dance music, apparently).

Go iTunes that shit.

Lobster out.


~ ~ ~ BONUS ~ ~ ~


Cook, Clean, Pay the Rent (New House Version) - Teebs


New Teebs track being passed around in honor of his upcoming release on Brainfeeder, Collections 01. On some real ethereal shit, gotta love what this dude does with samples.


And on a less exciting note, it's likely that I'll be reducing my posting to more like once a week from now until the new year...unfortunately (for you dear readers), I've been cast in a production of "Hamlet," and as one can imagine, rehearsing for that is gonna take up a shitton of my (previously free) time. So hopefully patkins will be able to pick up my copious slack. Though it's also possible that I'll still manage to post more than him.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

10/25/11 Wavelength of the Moment: DEEZ VIBEZ

GET IT???

I download a lot of music. So not all of it gets the listening attention it deserves, at least not immediately. But a select few of this past week's acquisitions managed to catch my ear, so here they are. Mostly chill/trip/downtempo electronica. Might try to make this "random batch" format a regular (weekly?) thing.


Paradise (3:33 Remix) - G-Side

Let's start with some atmospheric, impressively dark production work from 3:33. Best rap remix I've heard in a while.


An Iceberg Hurled Northward Through Clouds (Peaking Lights Vocal Remix) - Gold Panda

Man, do I love Gold Panda. He consistently puts out the most gorgeous, lush, beautiful productions. I've been listening to his album Lucky Shiner a lot lately. Peaking Lights throw in some reverb-washed vocals and dubbed-out experimental vibes on this stellar remix.


Luv Luv - Two Inch Punch

Got this gem from XLR8R, who got it from Two Inch Punch, who made it. #CAUSALITY


Still Sleeping ft. Steffaloo - Chrome Sparks

Chrome Sparks is the drummer for Stepdad, one of the most exciting synthpop acts around nowadays. He's also in the business of producing delicate, intricate electronic pop musics. Go grab his My <3 EP for FREE (though you can pay if you'd like), you won't regret it.


Video Games (Balam Acab Remix) - Lana Del Ray

Gorgeous remix by one of my new favorite producers, the Balam Acab. Ghostly vocals galore.


Waiter/The 5 Senses - Jeremih

D33J posted this to his facebook on a while back. Shameless boner jam, but it's got that tripped-out sex-in-space kind of vibe, which we here at CC are kind of into.


~ DEEZVIBEZ.ZIP ~


~ ~ BONUS ~ ~
nebula - dr.dr.

Unbeknownst to most of y'all, I occasionally try my hand at making music. Mostly psychedelic ambient stuff for the time being, but I'm working on more beat-oriented things nowadays (even the occasional trip-pop track). Give me a Listen / Like / Follow if you dig!


~ ~ ~ ADDENDUM TO THE BONUS ~ ~ ~

One of our favorite producers, Asura, just did an XLR8R podcast. You have no excuses.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

The Zeroh/BlqBird Experience.


This man.


Man.


///p///

Salva Remixes


Salva is the man. Runner of cutting edge music label Frite Nite and producer of great music that runs runs the gamut from intense bass-driven dance bombs to chilled, textural arrangements of very original synth sounds. The Complex Housing LP was soundtrack to my summer, and as the seasons turn, I keep finding [read: looking for] Salva all over the place. He's all over XLR8R, which cant be anything but a good thing. Here is a collection of his remixes, plus a ridiculous bonus track that lovers of CC are sure to enjoy.


BONUS TRACK: RAR ONLY
I Be Everywhere (Mumdance Remix) - Gucci Mane
Gucci Mane gets turned into a sitar-laced wobble whomp. Definitely a complement to the jonwayne joint.



Salva Remixes.rar

///patkins///

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Zack Sekoff x Def Sound

Oh man. Some trip-as-fuck swag rap courtesy of Def Sound. Production by LA wunderkind Zack Sekoff.




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BONUS:

Belly Beat by Zack Sekoff

Friday, October 14, 2011

10/14/11 Wavelength of the Moment: BORN GOLD X BRAIDS

So I really hate to do another one of those manic fanboy posts but one of our favorite bands just remixed one of our other favorite bands and it sounds fucking awesome.

Braids: "Native Speaker" (Born Gold Remix - Prefix Premiere) by prefixmag

The serene, dreamlike wonderland that was the centerpiece of Native Speaker just climbed on board a hyper-glitched noise-techno spaceship, captained by none other than Born Gold (who were no strangers to remixes when they called themselves Gobble Gobble) that takes Braids vocalist Raphaelle Standell-Preston's ethereal vocals and chops them up with a kaleidoscopic–but no less psychedelic–finesse. The overall style actually reminds me a lot of some of Asura's remixes on Unreleasables.

Go buy Native Speaker. It's an incredibly beautiful album.

Then go get Born Gold's album Bodysongs for FREE. It's some of the most forward-thinking and experimental music I've ever heard, and it's catchy-ass dance-pop to boot.

Lobster out.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

VARIOUS AND SUNDRY THINGS PT. II

GUESS WHAT Y'ALL, IT'S ALL CAPS TIME AGAIN AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS: A BIG-ASS BATCH OF RANDOM/AWESOME MUSIC. ALL 4 U.

whole post:
~ VARIOUS & SUNDRY.ZIP ~


KING - JONWAYNE

THE WAYNIAC JUST DROPPED THIS EVIL-ASS SINGLE FROM HIS UPCOMING LP, THE DEATH OF ANDREW. WE'RE SUPER PSYCHED FOR OCTOBER 25th, YOU SHOULD BE TOO


POST98 - MNDSGN.

THIS DUDE IS ONE OF MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE BEAT PRODUCERS. GO GRAB DAYPASS, OR NOMAPS IF YOU WANT A LITTLE MORE BANG FOR YOUR BUCK. BUT SERIOUSLY, PEEP THIS DUDE'S WARES


HORMONES - BIRD PETERSON

NEW ELECTRO HOUSE JAM FROM AN OLD STANDBY. BIRD PETERSON HAS GOT THAT HARD-N-QUIRKY SHIT ON LOCK


BABYFACE (JIMMY TAMBORELLO REMIX) - THE ELECTED

SOME SWEET ELECTRO-POP FROM ONE OF OUR IDOLS HERE AT CC


BACKWARDS, FASTER - RYAN CHAPIN MACH

THIS DUDE WRITES KILLER HOOKS OVER HAND-CRAFTED BEATS. LOTTA COOL SOUNDS GOING ON HERE, I REALLY LIKE WHERE HE'S TAKING HIS STYLE


LAMENT FOR MORNING - RALEIGH MONCRIEF

SOME REALLY NEAT EXPERIMENTAL ELECTRONIC SHIT FROM THE DUDE WHO CO-PRODUCED THE DIRTY PROJECTORS' BITTE ORCA. REALLY DIGGIN HIS STUFF LATELY, GRAB THIS MIX HE DID FOR ALTERED ZONES IF YOU DIG


TRILLA (PROD. BY BEAUTIFUL LOU) - ASAP ROCKY FT. A$AP TWELVY & A$AP NAST

AND WE CLOSE IT OUT WITH SOME TRILL SHIT FROM ASAP ROCKY. YADIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG


whole post:
~ VARIOUS & SUNDRY.ZIP ~


AIGHT IM OUT

~

((( zip-only bonus track!! )))

Levert - Davis
Serengeti (left-field rap shit) dropped mad rhymes on some matthewdavid (experimental/ambient/beat shit) tracks, and you can get a whole album of this awesomeness for a mere $7. I suggest you do, if you consider yourself a connoisseur of the strange like ourselves...

Monday, October 10, 2011

"Not-Dubstep"



None of this is dubstep. but if you don't jam like its dubstep, you don't get it.


wait, what?
Obsidian (Mux Mool Remix) - Mexicans With Guns
Los Perritos - Mexicans with Guns
Lets Get Ill - Jantsen
Brobylon - Heyoka
Lilac - Blue Hawaii


wait... this is all dubstep.
except for that blue hawaii track. wait, what? singer/guitar player in braids? what?
BUMP THIS SHIT
///patkins///

The Weeknd - Initiation

Really trip new joint from The Weeknd. "The Morning" this ain't.

Initiation - The Weeknd


Hot on the heels of Thursday's brilliant experimentations with genre and sonic atmosphere, it looks like Abel Tesfaye & co. are looking ever forward. There's shit going down here production-wise that blows my mind.

And yet, miraculously, the song itself still manages to give you just "What You Need" (sorry) – a dark, driving, chopped up beat; an eerie vocal melody, distorted and pitch-shifted to hell and back; then, of course, there's Tesfaye's trademark lyrical menace.

The content is familiar, to say the least: some poor girl gets sucked into a dark underground world of sex, drugs, and fame, where power games and depraved hedonism are the norm. But with every track the Weeknd put out, the menace of Tesfaye's lyrics seems to be reflected more and more in the sonic atmosphere of the songs themselves, and I'll be bold to say that this might be the most beautifully paranoid and dramatic track they've put out so far. You actually feel scared listening to it, and I feel that most music doesn't do that nearly enough nowadays.

Keep your eyes on the OVOXO, kids. Toronto's doing seriously big things right now, and Drake's new album has the Weekend all over it.

Go get Thursday and House of Balloons for FREE. Best decision you'll make today.

Lobster out.

~ . ~ . ~ . ~ . B O N U S . S W A G . ~ . ~ . ~ . ~


Beautiful collab from two UK electronica legends, Burial and Massive Attack (pre-order the vinyl HERE because there will be no digital release), slated for an October 17th release. Found this over at Live For The Funk.

Sky Raper (Shlohmo Remix) - Comfort Fit

An old Shlohmo track I dug up, show the boy some love and go buy Bad Vibes (which I'll be reviewing shortly)

Nope - CBG (Chill Black Guys)

And finally, on an entirely different note, some swagged-out L.A. shit I found over at WEDIDIT. For anyone who would prefer the party in this video over one of the Weeknd's typical jaunts.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

10/5/11 Wavelength of the Moment: Take 1



Been getting real into ASAP Rocky lately. This is a track the self-proclaimed "pretty motherfucker" did with Oakland's Main Attrakionz, and it comes with one of the most profoundly deep beats I've ever heard (courtesy of Clams Casino, who I've also been all over lately). You can get it on Main Attrakionz' recent tape, 808s & Dark Grapes II, which you can go grab for free (and I suggest you do).

Likewise with ASAP's recent tape, Deep Purple.

Swag.



Shouts to WEDIDIT for putting me on this tip (via the above video).

EDIT: ///patkins/// also found a nice, chilled out bootleg of purple swag that you can add to your collection:
Purple Swag (Jim-E Stack Bootleg) - ASAP Rocky


Lobster out.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Low End Theory Podcast 20: D-Styles and TOKiMONSTA


You, if you are reading this blog, probably know about Low End Theory, the wednesday night club night at the Airliner in LA. Low End is pretty much universally acknowledged as the epicenter of the beat music scene and forward-thinking electronic music in general. And, if you know low end theory, you know that every so often, they put out a podcast. This is the closest you can come to immersing yourself in the very special Low End aesthetic without being there yourself on a packed, sweaty, bass-y, glorious wednesday night. the only thing missing is the tremendous array of subs... unless you have a tremendous array of subs to bump this shit on.


Podcast number 20: D-Styles and TOKiMONSTA. D-Styles' set takes up the majority of the podcast, and he frickin ROCKS this. The beats are choice of choice, including some Odd Future joints that he takes and drops in with Gucci Mane a capellas and all sorts of other things. Mono/Poly's in there, TOKi is in there, all manner of wubs and womps and booms.... D-Styles put together a woofer-rattling set that is pretty much mindblowing. TOKiMONSTA's set is shorter, but still packs a pretty serious punch. Somewhat more laid-back, TOKi's set includes (obviously) a lot of her own beats, which lends it a pretty specific sound thats hard to describe but complements D-Styles' set very nicely. 


The best part? ITS FREE, guys! Check the link below. Let D-Styles and TOKi blow your mind. Use good headphones or speakers, and let 'er rip. 


Low End Theory Podcast #20


///patkins///

Saturday, October 1, 2011

A WHOLE GANG OF NEW SHIT


RANDOM BATCH ALL CAPS LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


DROP DOWN - DESIGNER DRUGS

I FUCKING LOVE DESIGNER DRUGS


SEARCHING - JONWAYNE

SUPER CHILL SAMPLING ON THIS JONWAYNE JOINT


GRAPES ALLA VODKA

RL GRIME IS THE SHIT GO GET HIS CLIPZ EP FO FREEEEEE


WILDFIRE (DRAKE REMIX) - SBTRKT

DRAKE ON SOME SBTRKT SHIT I'M REALLY FEELIN THIS


ACT LIKE A HO - BORGORE

GURL WHEN WE IN BED ACT LIKE A HO....BUT FIRST DO THA DISHEZZ!!!!!


AIGHT PEACE