November 21, 2011
Enjoying Museum Studio’s hyper-patterned identity for Marble, the new record label from ex-Institubes guys Surkin and Para One. Also, if you need some completely over-the-top, arena-sized, piano-banging dance music to start out your week, Marble can do that for you.
November 1, 2011
Enjoying the hand-drawn styles of the Smallville record label and shop. The new Moomin album they just put out is nice too — low key dusty house vibes.
September 9, 2011
Octave One - I Believe (Sandwell District Remix)
Deeply epic, windswept techno vibes. Woosh!
Also, Sandwell District has a Tumblr.
(via Fail)
March 28, 2011
Metronomy “The Look” (via youarelosttothesea)
Not super into the stop motion seagulls, but I can definitely get behind that gigantic organ thing. Metronomy is a band I’m always only kind of on the verge of actually, intentionally liking, but often enjoy in a passive, distracted way. Maybe this new album will be the kicker? I’m liking this song, but the jury remains out (and distracted).
(Source: vimeo.com)
March 8, 2011
These guys can do cute. Also, I’m a sucker for nice looking objects on solid, brightly colored backgrounds.
(Source: lullatone)
January 14, 2011
Roman Flügel ”How To Spread Lies” (buy me)
Really lovely downtempo house stuff, discovered via this great Philip Sherburne mix. Released on Dial, who also put out a great John Roberts album last year. Hoping to give that one a proper blog post soon.
October 15, 2010
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Cologne Tape - Render 4
And here’s a good thing I didn’t miss, thanks to the new allez-allez curated Bleep podcast. Very glad to see two of my most valued music discovery resources teaming up for this. And in the interest of passing on the knowledge, I should probably say that I can’t fully recommend buying this entire album, as I did. As nice as this track is, the rest doesn’t quite live up to it’s majesty. Definitely keeping an eye on these guys though. More info here, and a scan of the backside of the lovely artwork here.
April 21, 2010
Another neat-looking thing by Oscar & Ewan. Lots of cool stuff in their just-relaunched portfolio. (via @remotelocation)
March 29, 2010
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Elkin & Nelson “Al Carnival”
Is this the best morning music ever? ”Like” is not enough. Love.
Via Mark Richardson, which reminds me, it’s really nice to see so many music writers I enjoy getting on Tumblr now. Nisuh Abebe, Michaelangelo Matos, Sasha Frere-Jones; the hits keep on coming! Anyway, I suggest checking out Mark’s post for some actual thoughts on this song.
January 29, 2010
“If anything you could argue we’re better A&R people than journalists, but it’s possible that’s all readers want from a pub these days anyway.”
Assuming you care about Pitchfork and/or the kind of music Pitchfork covers (I’ll avoid stepping into the “indie” semantic dog poo), I highly recommend clicking through on the link above. Scott is considered and thoughtful, as always.
January 8, 2010
Dizzee Rascal feat. Calvin Harris “Dance Wiv Me” (buy me)
This song is the jam. Calvin Harris’s goofball, supremely catchy synth hooks + Dizzee’s badass leftfield lyrical skills = two great tastes that taste even better together.
December 30, 2009
Conceived as a reaction to the glut of new bands called ‘The…’, we created a list of 99 classic band names prefixed with ‘The’.
