"Autre Ne Veut ('I want no other') was inscribed on the back of a gold and garnet hat ornament (ca. 1475) found at Hanley Castle in Worcestershire. It is rumored to be the gift of an English Duke to his French mistress, but this is simply conjecture." - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City www.autreneveut.com
Cow Parade Cow began as the solo recording project of 22 year old Mike Litton, born from the thriving Perth music scene in Western Australia. His first release was the full album-length "To the North" (2010) which was initially only intended as a collection of CD-Rs to be shared among friends. However, after a series of international blogs stumbled across the bandcamp website, a larger audience was found.
Beat Connection are Jordan Koplowitz and Reed Juenger, with special performances by Tom Eddy on tracks 2 and 6 of their Surf Noir EP, which was released 06 July 2010 and can be downloaded at
http://beatconnection.bandcamp.com/
Slow magic is the sound made by an unknown imaginary friend. http://slowmagic.bandcamp.com/
Balam Acab is the musical project of 21 year old Pennsylvania, USA native Alec Koone. Balam Acab's contributions fit squarely into the contemporary witch house canon made popular by bands such as Purity Ring and Salem. Forming tracks consisting mainly of arpeggiated riffs and synthesized beats layered over obscure, distorted samples alluding to classic animated films, Balam Acab creates a dream world worthy of its nostalgic references.
hooray.bandcamp.com
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Star Slinger is an Instrumental Hip-Hop project started in 2010 by UK Producer Darren Williams. So far he has released an 11 track LP, a Remix EP and a bunch of singles. You can download all for FREE at www.starslinger.net OR purchase/support at: www.starslingeruk.bandcamp.com
Under the moniker of Niva, Stockholm's Christian Niva makes dreamy bedroom pop that borrows elements from modern dance music. http://facebook.com/nivamusic
http://niva.bandcamp.com
http://soundcloud.com/nivamusic
Blackbird Blackbird is an electro psych-pop band from San Francisco. 23-year old producer/multi-intrumentalist Mikey Maramag is a Filipino-American electronic musician who started Blackbird Blackbird after studying Literature and American History at UC Santa Cruz. Blackbird Blackbird released a slew of EPs in 2010, including "Happy High" and "Let's Move on Together". In Summer 2010, Blackbird Blackbird released their first LP "Summer Heart", which is a compilation of the first two EPs in addition to five additional tracks (including the hit single "Hawaii"...
Blue Hawaii tells the story of a lush paradise. The way begins ambient and uncertain, but beautiful white shell beaches and carefree sunshine parties await and nourish those travelers with love in their hearts; their peace thus raised above the arguments found along the rocky road. The duo consists of Raph (Braids) and Agor; they use voice, guitars, synths, drum machines, and other electronics to create a kind of tropical-pop with love ache melodies and experimental club rhythms.