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Monster Rally – Drip Drip

Monster Rally makes some really gosh darn pleasant music. His music is sample-based, hip-hop influenced, laid-back and tropical-sounding. Unfortunately, he only has about 20 minutes worth of music available right now. Both EPs clock in a little over 10 minutes. So, hopefully there is a full-length in the works.

You can download “Palm Reader”, his other EP “EP” and his remix of MF DOOM’s “Vomit” for free at his Bandcamp page. And if you’ve got a cassette player, you can get his split tape with Dunian at Sweatlodge Guru.

Monster Rally – Drip Drip

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Mr Oizo – Positif

A totally solid record by Mr. Oizo has got my attention (or lack thereof) for every one of these short songs on “Lambs Anger”. While most of the songs are based around a tight hook and that alone, experimentation keeps it fun and listenable but at the same time acknowledging that song is based around one riff therein; keeping it short and to the point. I compare it to a 45 minute meandering of the French nightclub radio stations (see the moments of jumpy skippyness between songs). My choice select is “Positif”. Get the rest of the album “ici” (a steal for 18 songs at $6.99).

Mr. Oizo – Positif

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Manaré – Voodoo

Killer track off Manaré’s upcoming Quiet Riot EP. This beat is straight up nasty. Remember that crazy underground tribal rave scene in the sequel to The Matrix? Yeah, this is kind of like that except way, way better.

You can preview the rest of the tracks over on TOP BILLIN’s SoundCloud.

Voodoo by TOP BILLIN

Gucci Mane – Rooftop

This Gucci Mane track is about how he is so rich that he can hire snipers to hang out on roofs [rooves?] – in case anybody, you know, tries to come at him.

There are some particularly good lines in this song. For example: “Gucci Man, Airtran is how I fly the hoes in”, “I pull up in a coupe/the same color as soup/and I don’t got on a suit”, and “I got money too/this what money do/my shoes come from the zoo”.

This track is from Gucci’s newest mixtape, Mr. Zone 6. Don’t stop, get it get it.

Gucci Mane – Rooftop

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Baths – Lovely Bloodflow

Baths is a 21 year-old beat-making prodigy from California. Normally, I wouldn’t mention the artist’s age – but this kid is younger than me, plus leagues beyond anyone I know in terms of musical talent. He does really amazing things with drum loops and the way his synths and samples sound. Great job, Baths!

Baths’s new record Cerulean is awesome and available here.

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MyMy & Emika – Price Tag (Appleblim & Komonazmuk Remix)

Appleblim and Komonazmuk transform MyMy & Emika’s “Price Tag” into a full-on ethereal dubstep banger. The beat skitters and knocks over airy pads as the bassline slowly builds into its bouncy and ludicrously catchy peak. I’ve bumped this one on repeat more times in the last week than I’d like to admit.

MyMy & Emika – Price Tag (Appleblim & Komonazmuk Remix)

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Junk Culture – Daydream on Olea

Deepak Mantena writes electro music for nonthreatening crazy people. Or at the very least he is a nonthreatening crazy man. This song, like the rest of West Coast, is a frenzied collage of soothing paces, jarring melodies, and very danceable hooks. It’s like channel surfing on you’re couch and flying on a Persian carpet all at once. It is exactly like that.

Get West Coast here.

Junk Culture – Daydream on Olea

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Idiot Glee – All Packed Up

This song is a slow wave. I would’ve recommended the song prior to the long weekend, but Idiot Glee deserves more isolation than offered by the claustrophobic beach real estate everyone rationed out this past holiday. James Friley’s sugar sweet melodies and drawling beats should be your companion on a far removed island with your other 4 essentials.

Listen to the rest of the EP here.

Idiot Glee – All Packed Up

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Buke and Gass – Sleep Gets Your Ghost

This band makes freak folk sound like you’re not sick of freak folk already. The song is kind of weird, cluttered, intricate, weird, and amazing. Though aggressive, it’s also rootsy, sprialing in and out of repetitive hooks that almost have nothing to do with each other, but tie together in an incredibly fun package. Buke and Gass, a fairly loud duo, have that knack for making strange form seem accessible.

Get them at their site. Make sure to check out “Bundletuck”.

Buke and Gass – Sleep Gets Your Ghost

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Glass Ghost – Mechanical Life

This song unfolds so well. The off-putting, awkward, pet-shop boys vocals sits on top of a just barely there beat, and takes its sweet time to open up into the jam that follows. It’s the minimalism that Glass Ghost gets that makes this song such a gem.

I highly recommend listening to more.

Glass Ghost – Mechanical Life

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Menomena – TAOS

Portland, Oregon’s Menomena use a wide array instruments in their songs. This one in particular has saxophone, piano, cello and the regular stuff. I don’t know why, but the saxophone really caught me off guard —that, and the sick drum breaks.

You can preorder the Menomena’s Mines here.

Menomena – TAOS

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Wavves – Take On The World

I didn’t like Wavves’s first two albums because I’m a crabby old man that doesn’t like when music is too fuzzy and peaked-out to understand. Fortunately, Wavves’s newest album was actually recorded in a studio instead of through a MacBook Pro’s internal microphone. As a result it’s now clear to my old-man ears that Wavves can write really fun, tight and catchy songs that are only a little fuzzy and only a little peaked-out. Also, the artwork on the new record is really neat.

Pre-order Wavves’s “King of the Beach” here. It comes out in early August.

Wavves – Take On The World

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Cold Cave – Life Magazine (Delorean Remix)

We like this. Soundtrack to the summer.

Delorean and Cold Cave on Myspace.

PS. Happy Birthday Rahul, this one’s for you.

Love,
Matt, Ish, Tim, and Tendo

Cold Cave – Life Magazine (Delorean Remix)

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HEALTH – Die Slow (Tobacco Remix)

HEALTH’s single “Die Slow” has been getting some serious remix work since it dropped last year. This one from Tobacco (of Black Moth Super Rainbow notoriety) is particularly nasty. Tobacco’s characteristic analog synths and slumping beats play real nice with Jake Duzsik’s ethereal vocals. If Black Moth and HEALTH banged, this track would pop out 9 months later.

HEALTH – Die Slow (Tobacco Remix)

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KiNK – Bitter Sweet

A moody cut from minimal house label liebe*detail’s KiNK. They should probably be packaging this vinyl with a bootleg fog machine and flashing disco lights. Thanks to Jason for this one.

KiNK – Bitter Sweet

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Bad News Brown – Reign

A harmonica has never sounded so badass before. Bad News Brown has got this soulful jam to get you through those humid days and nights of summer. Get some more good news here.

Bad News Brown – Reign

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Data Dog – Twists & Turns and Dangerous Twists

If you’re one of those who talk about a summer night like it’s current events, or romanticize a night fair in Hyannis despite never being there, or are convinced that cars sweeping on a nearby road can often sound like the ocean, Data Dog will make sense to you. This band writes in that same vacant atmosphere that a band like Deerhunter can, leaving lots of space between the rock song, the humble electronics, and your ear.

Get their ep for free.

Data Dog – Twists & Turns & Dangerous Twists

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Roof Light – Heart Like An Airport Runaway

Loving this track makes me feel predictable. Sometimes I think that all it takes is reverb-soaked piano/vocal chops over a tight beat to win my heart. That’s okay, because this is one hell of a sexy tune from producer Roof Light.

You can grab a bunch of his releases off Boomkat. Don’t sleep.

Photo credit: six.five

Roof Light – Heart Like An Airport Runaway

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The Black Keys – Everlasting Light

This is the first track from The Black Keys’s new album Brothers. The album came out about a week ago. This song is really catchy and fun – so much so that I really wouldn’t be surprised if it ended up being a giant radio hit, or at least appears in the background of a Cadillac commercial.

You can pick up the album here.

The Black Keys – Everlasting Light

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Mr. Gnome – Night Crickets

This song is an exercise in reservation. It is a constant back and forth between sweet, drawn back, melancholy hums, and bright and driving hooks. Mr. Gnome, a Cleveland duo, tend to lean towards pop songs with a steady force and sounds that stop and stall throughout. Everytime “Night of the Crickets” slows down to breathe, i get really excited knowing that looping chorus is around the bend.

They have a few releases, and a new one, you can grab here.

Mr.Gnome – Night of the Crickets

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Synkro – Lost For Words

Talk about a deep cut. I could be listening to this at my desk at work and still feel like I’m on an introspective midnight journey through empty city streets. Manchester, UK based producer Synkro makes dubstep for the soul.

Grab the Lost For Words EP here.

Photo credit: Monotone ~ Extraordinaire

Synkro – Lost For Words

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Young Mammals – 8 4 8

I heard very early mixes of this band sometime during CMJ a couple years ago. Despite the raw recordings, i could hear the cluster of small tinkerings and sounds that Young Mammals avalanche into epic, bigger creatures. While this tune is buried under reverbed harmonies and fuzzy walls of guitar, the song stands out clear and above it all. 848 is great pop in a pool of noise.

Watch here for something to pick up soon.

Young Mammals – 8 4 8

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Freddie Gibbs – The Ghetto

Freddie Gibbs is the hardest working man in hip hop. He just put out a mixtape with 88 tracks, he’s putting out another sure classic within the next month.

This video is from his upcoming album, “Str8 Killa, No Filla”. The track is so good that I’m not even going to make the obvious Sum 41 joke about the album name.

Active Child – Voices of an Old Friend

From the moment the crystal glass sounds of the opening synth begin to play, effortlessly sweeping in and out of time signatures, I can’t help but think of words like “celestial”. Active Child kind of sounds like church music for a thousand years from now. The harp helps a lot too.

Grab the EP in all shapes and sizes.

Active Child – Voice Of An Old Friend

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In Tall Buildings – The Way to a Monster’s Lair

It’s always like finding treasure when you hear a singer/songwriter like Erik Hall writing singer/songwriter stuff that won’t sell in a coffee shop. The Way to a Monster’s Lair has that great yearn you hear in Mark Linkous, or Carter Tanton, or Neil Young, or any other man you imagine leaning over his guitar and bleeding songs out onto his scuffy basement carpet.

Buy the debut.

In Tall Buldings – Monsters Lair

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Holy Ghost! – Say My Name

Catchy little electropop number from NYC duo Holy Ghost!. Next month they’re touring with LCD Soundsystem and Hot Chip in support of their debut EP Static on the Wire. I see big things in the future for these guys – best get it while it’s fresh.

Holy Ghost! – Say My Name

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Bonobo – Kiara

There’s something instantly gripping about this Bonobo track. It manages to be hauntingly beautiful while simultaneously cracking you upside the head with a fat beat. I think it’s this contrast that won me over within seconds.

His Black Sands LP came out last month and it’s well worth your time.

Bonobo – Kiara

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Deadmau5 – Faxing Berlin

I may be a little late on the draw for deadmau5 but i haven’t been on an aural adventure like this since, dare i say, the first time i listened to Orbital .

Random Album Title’s bass is so good it will lull you to sleep while in a different setting, could keep you raving till morning. Check out the evolution of “Faxing Berlin” (Pt’s I & II).

Deadmau5 – Faxing Berlin (I)

Deadmau5 – Faxing Berlin (II)

Flying Lotus – Do the Astral Plane

Flying Lotus has really outdone himself with his new album Cosmogramma. I loved his last one, Los Angeles, but this one just feels fuller, wider and overall nastier. Also, what’s a Cosmogramma? Cosmo Gramma – like grandma in space? (Not funny? Ok.)

Preorder Cosmogramma here. It comes out May 3.

Flying Lotus – Do the Astral Plane

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Spoon – Back to the Life (Ed Blammo Edit)

Prolong the magic of this song with the Ed Blammo edit and remember how much you love a good clap track.

Spoon – Back to the Life (Ed Blammo Edit)

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