Downtempo Lo-Fi synth disco from Gus BC (Chalices of the Past, Teen Wolves). Despite common belief, the name has nothing to do with Badly Drawn Boy. Has so far released two EPs, 'U Know' and 'Slow it Down' and currently has a full length album titled 'Running' set for release on Australian based Airlines Tapes on April the 17th
Small Black is an emerging band from Brooklyn, New York. Their self-titled full length album will be out this fall. They describe their music on their myspace as "Acousmatic / Tape music / Concrete / Pop." Their blog is here: www.myspace.com/smallblacksounds
CFCF is the stage name of Canadian electronic musician Michael Silver. Based in Montreal, Silver took the name CFCF from the call sign of the city's CFCF-TV. CFCF's debut LP, Continent, was an impressive collage of vintage electronic textures evoking grandiose landscapes worthy of a Michael Mann film. The River, an EP based partly on Werner Herzog's classic film Fitzcarraldo, deepened a growing obsession with conjuring far-away landscapes and voyages through a style which is at times melancholy, propulsive and ecstatic.
Mac DeMarco, formerly Makeout Videotape, is the anti-thesis to your stereotypical singer-songwriter. Disregarding the seriously somber moments, he replaces them with whimsical and youthful spontaneity, whilst retaining the endearing and subtle commentaries that exude his familiarity. Promptly after leaving his Edmonton garage for Vancouver he embarked on a North American tour accompanying fellow Canadians Japandroids on a grand voyage of enlightenment and alcoholic debauchery.
It’s the sound of putting your head underwater in a hot tub and listening to slow jams being pumped out of the jet stream, sun beaming above, and legs all around you. Formally known as Treasure.
Stockholm-based Sand Circles started activity in late 2010, releasing fuzzy tapes filled with deep synth chords filtered through tape echo units. http://sandcircles.tumblr.com
Shrouded in secrecy, hidden behind an alias and disguised by a beard, Chet Faker is an artist that enjoys the mystery. Hailing from the tight-knit deep disco scene in Melbourne, Australia and taking elements from an acoustic past, Chet Faker has carved out his own style that fuses personal stories of love and loss with an electronica soul, which reaches far beyond his homeland. Chet quickly came to everyone’s attention when his cover of 'No Diggity' hit number 1 on the worldwide indie music aggregator, Hype Machine.
Sun Glitters is the result after many
years of sound research through different genres under the moniker Sug(r)cane since 1998. Sun Glitters sound is an ocean of lush melodies, pitch-shifted vocal samples, ghostly digi-diva choirs, warm bass melodies driven by alternately dense and relaxing beatwork combinations between downtempo and wonky beats. RIYL:
Boards of Canada, Burial, Balam Acab
Mister Lies is the product of dorm-room insomnia, the development of a family of friends in a city of strangers under altered states and the feeling of homesickness for places where one only feels homesick. It is also the operational alias for a 20-year-old producer, multi-instrumentalist and feral child who was raised by wolves in the forests of a Connecticut suburb. Somewhere down the road, those winds whisked him away and dropped him off in Chicago.