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Released today, Oh! What A Night Before Christmas features a selection of festive numbers by the former Arab Strap man. Sadly this won't be out physically but as of today you can download it from his bandcamp page by bashing your mouse on this text which is a hyperlink. »
Before we announce our albums of the year, we thought we'd spend twelve days building up to it with lists and giveaways.»
Following on from his ornate DiS 2010 year-end list bothering album Learning, heart-string snapping tearjerker Michael Hadreas aka Perfume Genius has a new record. His 'people' have confirmed that this new album'll be out on February 20th 2012 and it will be entitled Put Your Back N 2 It.»
Yep, a whopping 180+ UK tastemakers voted for the three names of new acts they like (and think will do well in 2012). Can you imagine 180 people agreeing on anything? Especially a disparate bunch of music snobs? »
A week of DiS, as a playlist...you should probably have the gist of what this weekly digest is by now. A Spotify playlist + amongst the blathering below you'll find links to the best bits of this week...»
Throughout 2011 the Brooklyn based 'sigh-fi' duo Blondes put out a series of 12" singles on the New York label RVNG Intl., all of which unsurprisingly show up on their debut album, via the same label. They've also slung together a second CD of remixes by an enviable list of awesome sorts. RVNG Intl. will release Blondes (it's self-titled) digitally and as a double-CD on February 7th, 2012.»
All week this week Apparat Organ Quartet kick off a new 'Planet Gear' irregular feature for DiS, in which we ask musicians to get a bit geeky and talk us through the equipment that makes the magic happen...»
All week this week Apparat Organ Quartet kick off a new 'Planet Gear' irregular feature for DiS, in which we ask musicians to get a bit geeky and talk us through the equipment that makes the magic happen...»
All week this week on DiS Apparat Organ Quartet kick off a new 'Planet Gear' irregular feature on DiS, in which we ask musicians to get a bit geeky and talk us through the equipment that makes the magic happen...»
All week this week on DiS Apparat Organ Quartet kick off a new 'Planet Gear' irregular feature on DiS, in which we ask musicians to get a bit geeky and talk us through the equipment that makes the magic happen...»
All week this week Apparat Organ Quartet kick off a new 'Planet Gear' irregular feature for DiS, in which we ask musicians to get a bit geeky and talk us through the equipment that makes the magic happen...»
Walls have created a concentration-enhancing mixtape for DiS. Plus you'll find a stream of their album and them remixing The Field, and The Field remixing Walls.»
Daniel 'Oneohtrix Point Never' Lopatin didn't say much about this mix, because, the music does the talking. He did entitle it "BROOKLYN BOMBERS" say that it is "A SURVEY OF VARIOUS ARTISTS CURRENTLY RESIDING IN BROOKLYN I BELIEVE" and, yes, he did write everything in capital letters. These mixes are so much more than what we expected when asking if he could provide us with a guide to his local music scene in Brooklyn, which if you didn't know, is a super-awesome suburb of New York, which if you didn't know, is in America. »
Those Southend kraut-goths The Horrors aren't just snobby fans of Can, Bauhaus and Simple Minds, no siree, they've taken their crate-digging hands and reworked Gaga's 'Bloody Mary' into a throbbing beast that's half-Skying, a third Mother-Monster-anthem and whatever percentage is left is the sound of underworldly beings rising up from the mist. Don't take our jumbled word for it, have a listen:»
This is a premiere of dance-drone post-futurists Factory Floor's new single. It's available as a 12" via the legendary DFA Records on 14th November 2011. It's a song called 'Two Different Ways'. It sounds something like mutant-robots dancing as Fred Dibner blows up a German design museum to make way for a laboratory. And it is awesome, immense and othe-such words to that effect, isn't it? »
Walking into Grande Halle de la Villette - past a gigantic neon Pitchfork Music Festival sign which over-looks a courtyard with a big impressive fountain - first impressions are over-awing. Pitchfork haven’t got some tiny theatre turned into a music venue but a huge enormo-barn, purpose-built for music... or possibly for housing a family of blue whales. As the lights dim, what looks like 5,000 people are gazing at the stage...»
For a bit of fun and as some vague ‘celebration’ of the fact we’ve existed long enough to reach our 11th birthday, over the next few days the current crop of DiS contributors will be writing about records released in the year 2000 that they loved and continue to admire...»
Imagine modern French chamber music remixed by iPod commercials and Macbook sound effects: minimized and deconstructed into chat function sound clips, an email alert blip, a ring tone or Apple Store automated door bells.»
This isn't the new David Lynch album...? Oh..really? Why can I still see Bob creeping behind the sofa?»
With their new 38-song National Treasures box set out on Oct 31st, the guys have made some special videos talking about some select tracks on the record, and they've given us a box set to giveaway. »
With their DiS-recommended debut elpee now in shops, husband-wife sigh-fi duo New Look have revealed a brand new video...»
If you don't know by now (this number one hundred and twelve, where you been?), Spotifriday is basically a weekly playlist of the best bits of our past seven days. Think of it like one of them cover mount cassettes you used to get with Melody Maker but without all that strange rubbery glue with torn bits of paper that you'd find weeks later attached to your favourite hoodie. Anyway, fire up the playlist by bashing your mouse here and listen whilst perusing the following links.»
Nominees announced for the inaugural Association of Independent Music (AIM) awards.»
Summer Camp have gone and done their own take on this multimedia album-ness and made a special handmade magazine.»
The slightly more upbeat moments like ‘So Real’ could easily be filed on mixes alongside some of 2011’s truly exceptional new acts Austra and When Saints Go Machine which define the technology (“tech-noh-h-ol-gee-eee_”) embracing times we’re living in. Fascinatingly and thankfully, they’ve grasped that the sound we all need to hear right now, is one that gives us space to punctuate our thoughts and the result is bliss. Easily one of 2011’s finest releases. »
Listen to the new Walls album in full. And then read their commentary.»
With a debut album brewing for 2012, DiS would like to bring to your attention of the finest new bands in the UK (and, as you may have noticed, with the exception of Stay+, EMA and a few others, it's rare we waste your time with brand new bands these days).»
EMA. New Video. Premiere. Here. Now.,, 'Marked' howls from a numb place and time, which - like most of her DiSser-adored LP Past Life Martyred Saints - has a blunt gwunge edge that pummels you repeatedly into a sweaty, bruised and elated state of submission. 'Marked' will be out as a 7” release (backed with a new track featuring Oakland rapper Mz'Gorjis of Platnum Platnum) on November 21st to coincide with these UK dates supporting Zola Jesus. »
Today, Tori Amos releases her new record and DiS has it below for you to stream, in full. Not only that but we've also got a little competition for you, with a different prize everyday this week.»
To say Belgian odd-poppers dEUS are DiS-favourites, is a bit like asking if kittens climb christmas trees. So it's hardly a surprise that today we're posting a stream of their new album...»
