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.

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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


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AIGHT IM OUT

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((( 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...

Dntel/The One AM Radio/Geotic - The Soft Alarm Tour EP

So there's this electronic music producer named Dntel. Also goes by Jimmy Tamborello. He's half of the legendary Postal Service. He's one of my idols. Read up on him.

Then there's the indie/synthpop outfit known as The One AM Radio. I have been listening to their most recent album, Heaven Is Attached By A Slender Thread, pretty damn obsessively. I'll be writing a review of it at some point, look out for that shit.

There's also this ambient-electronica act called Geotic. It's the ambient side-project of one Will Wiesenfeld, also known as Baths. He's probably my favorite producer of the past year, and he's released every one of his (many) Geotic ventures FOR FREE! So get those.

Anyways, you can imagine why I was bummed when they announced a tour together (The Soft Alarm Tour) and I was unable to attend any of the performances.

BUT my salvation has arrived. In the form of a free EP consisting of these three geniuses remixing and reworking each other's tracks.

As one might imagine, it's really frickin good.

Go get it for the excitingly slight price of an email address!

~ The Soft Alarm Tour EP ~

Tracklist (in no particular order, as the artists apparently intended):

Clear Light (The One AM Radio Remix) - Geotic
An Old Photo of Your New Lover (Dntel Remix) - The One AM Radio
Jitters (Geotic Remix) - Dntel
Rock My Boat (The One AM Radio Version) - Dntel
Sunlight (Geotic Remix) - The One AM Radio
Union (Dntel Remix) - Geotic

Lobster out.

RELEVANT BONUS:

An Old Photo of Your New Lover (Baths Remix) by The One AM Radio

09/08/10 Wavelength of the Moment: Dntel

This song is beautiful. The sounds this man can put out never cease to make me smile and put me at peace.

Rock My Boat - Dntel


You can read our earlier post on this man here.

Patkins will post soon. I swear.

Jimmy Tamborello

Jimmy Tamborello is an electronic music producer, probably best known as the other half of The Postal Service (the first half being Death Cab frontman Ben Gibbard). And if you don't know who they are, then please turn off "Fireflies" by Owl City and listen to this track:

The District Sleeps Alone Tonight - The Postal Service

	The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight .mp3
	Found at bee mp3 search engine

Yes, "Fireflies" is catchy, but Mr. Adam Young owes a LOT to the Postal Service. He essentially took the same electronica/pop approach that they did, but steered it in a more poppy, Top 40 friendly direction (i.e. auto-tune and lame lyrics). Yes, the Postal Service had a hit too ("Such Great Heights"), but their music seems to have more actual aesthetic value to it...I mean, Give Up (alas, their only LP) came out in 2003, and I still manage to listen to it at least once a month. All of you should own a copy.

Jimmy Tamborello's other aliases include dntel (mostly instrumental electronica/pop) and James Figurine (electronica/pop, but he sings, too!) of Figurine (a three-piece group in the same vein). James Figurine released an LP of covers (the ironically titled Covers) this year, and I was able to get it for free a few months back from his website. Worth checking out, I posted one of the songs a while back, here it is:

Other99 - James Figurine


He's been working as James Figurine and Dntel for a good 10 years now; the track that preceded and really created The Postal Service was a Dntel track featuring Ben Gibbard, the simply fricking amazing "(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan." Such amazing lyrics, and the production just creates this ephemeral, dreamlike quality; it's actually very different from pretty much all the postal service songs, except "Natural Anthem." which has a lot of the same white noisey goodness.

(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan - Dntel feat. Ben Gibbard

	Dntel - The Dream Of Evan and Chan .mp3
	Found at bee mp3 search engine

BONUS! Ben Gibbard covering the same song:

	Ben Gibbard - The Dream of Evan and Chan .mp3
	Found at bee mp3 search engine

Mr. Tamborello is also associated with the internet radio station and all-around badass collective of musicians and music lovers, dublab.com (I check it every day, they have amazing taste). He DJ's for them on occasion (and posts his mixes here), usually on his show, Dying Songs, or with other DJ's in a show called "Give Up: stop dancing and cry," which of course only plays sad music. He also has a live-electronica collab with a bunch of other Dublab folks (they're called Golden Hits, and they give away free music here).

All I have to say is that this guy is amazing, and you should know him and his work. A real artist of electronic music. Buy something of his!