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Carpe noctem, darlings.
Brand new SBTRKT video featuring Roses Gabor for “Pharaohs”, a highlight off the South London producer’s debut self-titled album, one of the year’s best, without a doubt. The pace and style of the songs vary fantastically throughout, taking eclectic cues from reggae, dub, R&B, jungle, experimental bass and urban pop. With one ear tuned to the past and about seven other ones to the future, the album is a thoroughly engaging and enjoyable listen, start to finish. And oh yeah, you can dance to it. !
Pick it up from Rough Trade recs right here.
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New video directed by former member Shannyn Sossamon. Grab the track below…
Warpaint - Undertow [320]
Don’t forget, The Fool is out October 26th. Warpaint forever.
![“Why you wanna blame me for your troubles? Ah ah ah, you better learn your lesson yourself. Nobody ever has to find out what’s in my mind tonight.”
Finally. New music from L.A’s Warpaint. They manage to effortlessly retain their dreamy, post-punk sound and intertwine it with an always intimate and melancholy lyrical style. One of my favourite acts, without a doubt.
Warpaint - Undertow [320]
You’ll be able to find this track on their upcoming LP The Fool, due out October 26 via Rough Trade. I can hardly wait…](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8s4ycXqjJ1qzblvgo1_r1_500.jpg)
“Why you wanna blame me for your troubles? Ah ah ah, you better learn your lesson yourself. Nobody ever has to find out what’s in my mind tonight.”
Finally. New music from L.A’s Warpaint. They manage to effortlessly retain their dreamy, post-punk sound and intertwine it with an always intimate and melancholy lyrical style. One of my favourite acts, without a doubt.
Warpaint - Undertow [320]
You’ll be able to find this track on their upcoming LP The Fool, due out October 26 via Rough Trade. I can hardly wait…
Photo with 3 notes
I realize I’m a bit behind here, but I only discovered this incredible band after they played at a Factory Party in Calgary a few weeks ago. I just wrote up paragraphs of absolute garbage on them, rambling with excitement (an excerpt is below), but this official description will do them more justice than my hyperactive exclamations ever could:
Warpaint are an all girl quartet from Los Angeles. They weave intricate guitar lines, hypnotic vocals, and driving post-punk rhythms into gorgeous, sprawling songs that skirt the line between the soundscapes of psychedelia and intimacy.
Let me tell you one thing. You have to hear this band. You have to watch this video, download all three of their songs. I couldn’t pick. Visit their myspace; buy their EP Exquisite Corpse… do all these things. You just have to. Diamond in the rough. I’m in love. Did I make myself clear?
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I am eagerly awaiting their full length LP, which unlike their previous release on Manimal Vinyl will be coming our way via the increasingly popular Rough Trade records, home to bands like The Strokes and Islands.
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Ugh, no I did not just post that picture up because Hendrik Weber, aka Pantha du Prince is kind of gorgeous in it. Shut up.
I admit unabashedly that I’ve been posting a lot of techy house and minimal stuff lately, and I know it’s not the movement of the moment, but damnit, I have a lot of respect for artists who are sticking to their guns and not trying to jump on the 2-step, future garage, UK Funky tip that so many other producers are switching to. Do your thing, don’t try to attempt someone else’s.
Well, I think that just earned this post a “Shameless Ranting” tag. Speaking of which, here’s what the man himself had to say about his new album Black Noise (his first on Rough Trade), released last Tuesday:
“On his new album, Pantha du Prince, who lives in Berlin and Paris, claims: music slumbers in all matter; any sound, even silence, is already music. The mission, then, must be to render audible what is unheard and unheard of: black noise, a frequency that is inaudible to man. Black noise often presages natural disasters, earthquakes or floods; only some animals perceive this “calm before the storm.” Black noise is something archaic and earthy. The music on Black Noise balances precariously on the slippery threshold between art and nature, between techno and folklore, which lends it a certain spectral and intangible aspect.”
Uhmmm yeah. “The threshold between techno and folklore?” Whatever, Hendrik. Anyhow, everyone else is pushing “The Splendour,” which is a fine track, and features bassist Tyler Pope (of !!! and LCD Soundsystem fame), but may I offer you my favourite instead and insist you go pick up the whole thing here. Here is “Welt Am Draht,” which means ‘World At The Wire.’
Pantha du Prince - Welt Am Draht
With such a high-profile collab, and his switch to Rough Trade records, I dare say Black Noise will be the breakout record for Pantha du Prince. Let’s watch & see.
