Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms

This is one is a bit off the line but I really like the synth compositions and the lo-fi-ness is definitely delish. Kinda like crossover between Daft Punk and Ariel Pink? You decide.

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Eric Copeland - Alien in a Garbage Dump

Taking off where his last record, "Hermaphrodite" left off, these seven jams are steeped in modern media overload; dense, often fragmented blasts of ideas and sounds, representative of a half hour of prime-time TV (or something like that). This is overloaded, over-processed, overdosed music rooted in public sounds, but is somehow a giant leap from any fashion dominating the public mind.

Eric Copeland - Alien in a Garbage Dump

Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna

The NY wyrd dance party gang did it again! this time with more psycho beats, dubstep injection, brain-melting electronic glitcheries and even a ghetto hip hop collaboration with MC Tinchy Strider! from a great expectations come great satisfaction. DANCE!

Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna

High Places - s/t

The holographic finish line of our buttered anticipation! SELF TITLED! The band creates their layered recordings with Mary Pearson singing and simultaneously manipulating her vocals with various delay and reverb pedals, while playing some hand percussion, recorders, and creating and controlling various loops. Rob Barber handles the drums triggering a variety of percussive sounds with his drum pads, as well as playing hand percussion, wooden blocks with contact mics, and singing some ambient vocals. High Places’ self-titled debut was recorded by Rob and Mary in their apartment in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood between January and May of 2008. So yeah this is it! this is what you guys been looking for yeah? Enough said about these guys! Hit it!

High Places - s/t

Astral Social Club - Skelp/Ginnel

For Neil Campbell, the ascent to ecstasy has been at the center of his work with the Vibracathedral Orchestra; Astral Social Club is his solo vehicle, and it stands as perhaps the purest expression of his art of the ecstatic on record. Up to now, Astral Social Club’s music has only been available in limited run CD-R pressings. This record is a self-styled “mega-mix” of Astral Social Club highlights culled from those releases. He may be a master of droned out noise, but he's been flirting with club music on and off for the last few years, each full length hiding at least one dancefloor gem, and so Mr. Neil Campbell, ex of Vibracathedral Orchestra, now of Astral Social Club, at least on this here new 7”, is all about the tripped out psychedelic electronic groove with bonus remixes by John Clyde-Evans, Magnetize and RICHARD YOUNGS. MUST HAVE!

Astral Social Club - Skelp/Ginnel

Lucky Dragons - Widows

Luke Fischbeck has been making Lucky Dragons music for almost seven years. He is an industrious tinkerer, and very clever with words. He has made so much great music in the past seven years that States Rights Records recently released a retrospective of his work entitled Sewing Circle. Fischbeck's fourth album, Widows, was recorded on three separate occasions, then endlessly torn apart and mashed together over the course of a year. One of the things Fischbeck discovered with this album was "a tradition of American culture that I agreed with, even felt inspired by. This is my attempt at making American music - music that describes and remembers and criticizes and embraces and expresses and illustrates and ornaments and digests and shits out what it means to be American." With an impressive array of instrumentalists and Fischbeck's established talent, Widows is truly mythical, mystical, and amazing.

Lucky Dragons - Widows

Terry Riley - Shri Camel

Terry Riley's place in the minimalism camp of modern classical music has been secured ever since his '60s debut. His career eventually found its zenith with such marvelous as 1964's In C and 1969's A Rainbow in Curved Air, Riley's use of cyclical and repetitive patterns brought comparisons to fellow minimalist Steve Reich during this time, too. Having since fallen deeply into Indian music by way of several years of study with the north Indian vocal master Pandit Pran Nath, Riley found a fine middle ground for his classical minimalist training and the music of India on this 1980 release. With a specialized Yamaha keyboard and a 16-track studio as his tools, Riley creates four instrumental longplayers here, all sporting a mix of Far-Eastern atmospherics and minimalist explorations. Meditative yet quite provocative, Shri Camel will definitely please your swollen eardrums. Have a nice trip.

Terry Riley - Shri Camel

High Places - 03/07 - 09/07

High Places channels the spirit of school bus sing-a-longs, back country camping trips, and first prize science fair projects, while conjuring dreams of faraway places through the use of field recordings, contact mics on houshold items, wind instruments and electronic thingamabobs.

High Places - 03/07 - 09/07

Jane - Berserker

Jane is made up of Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear of Animal Collective) and Scott Mou, a New York City DJ, the two of them basically jamming together, riffing on a theme until they find something they like, something that speaks to their spirit. When writing of the sessions that turned into Berserker, the first full album from Jane, Noah expresses the following: "...its the dance that gets us going on Jane... mostly it was about hanging out together and talking and playing music and thinking and feeling and having fun and dancing most of all." One would likely be forgiven, then, for approaching Berserker and thinking it's going to be a dance album. Because it's not. Not by a long shot. The only people that would have a prayer in the world of dancing to Berserker are the same people who spend long hours in their homes interpretive dancing to sounds of the rainforest.

Jane - Berserker

Björk - Volta

Björk's 6th studio album is promising to be a ten track eclectic mix of beats & vocal, reflective of Björk's visit to Aceh, one of the hardest hit areas of the 2004 tsunami. It also hits hard on Bjork's anger with what is happening in the world right now. According to her interview with Pitchfork, Bjork admits Volta is a “sort of reaction to the state of the world today.” She explains, “I mean, the human race, we are a tribe, let’s face it, and let’s stop all this religious bullshit. I think everybody, or at least a lot of my friends, are just so exhausted with this whole self-importance of religious people. Just drop it. We’re all fucking animals, so let’s just make some universal tribal beat. We’re pagan. Let’s just march.” Her vision is worth the price of submission.

Björk - Volta



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Black Moth Super Rainbow - Falling Through a Field

One of the best bands in the new generation of early 70's psychedelic pop revival. But this band, in electronic clothing. This is a reissue album from the 2003 released Falling Through a Field. Alien vocoders + Howling moog + Bubble gum rhodes + Twisted woodwinds + Cool beats = HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

BMSR - Falling Through a Field

Manitoba - Up in Flames

Dan Snaith's early project Manitoba. Tons of sunny psychedelic buzz on every track of this electronic pop fiesta. Dedicated to my dear friend, Grace. (:

Manitoba - Up in Flames