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villakang: If you haven’t checked out Hallucinating Arkansas by...

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villakang:

If you haven’t checked out Hallucinating Arkansas by now…click on the photo.

New Villa Kang. Free Download! http://bit.ly/IAdcSf

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New Villa Kang. Free Download! http://bit.ly/IAdcSf

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1000xpm: New Animal | The Sound That It Makes While anxiously...

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New Animal | The Sound That It Makes

While anxiously awaiting for something new from my favorite artists of 2011, this track released about a month ago (with accompanying vid below) shows that they’re still on track for making the same great sounds that still have me listening (and for a long time, I suspect) to their great, self-titled debut. Which can be found at their bandcamp for *free*. I’d apologize that I keep on mentioning these guys, but I just keep wanting people to listen!

Check out the vid, posted via the band’s tumblr, below. And pick up this track (and more!) at their soundcloud page.

electrikpress: Villa Kang’s “Radio Dada” punches the listener...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:09:18 -0500

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Villa Kang’s “Radio Dada” punches the listener with a blast of rich imagery, a quick staccatoed vocal delivery and creative lyricism. The track clocks in at 1:16 and feels like a psychedelic experiment of The Ramones highjacking Hip-Hop.

In many ways “Radio Dada” works as an antithesis to “Hallucinating Arkansas”. Its fast, its vocal is up front and its lyric seems to exist more as an artistic statement, than as an exploration of mood.

The song’s title refers to Dadaism, an early 20th Century art movement who’s sole purpose was to be anti-bourgeois, and anarchistic while ridiculing the meaninglessness of the modern world.

Employing this ethos in his treatment of psychedelic hip-hop, Villa Kang works actively against the genre’s standard 4:00+ song, and use of tired imagery. Moreover, Villa Kang’s lyrical sources are noticeably diverse and pulled from popular culture to create a swirl of lyrical impressionism.

Just as Dadaists created art that was visibly “anti-art”, Villa Kang uses a JDilla inspired psych hip-hop beat, to create a brand of fun, psychedelic, “anti-hip-hop”.

Download it for free here: SOUNDCLOUD, FACEBOOK , OR WEBSITE

electrikpress: Villa Kang’s opening lyric “through a broken...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:07:40 -0500

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Villa Kang’s opening lyric “through a broken diamond” delivered on top a of a hazy, glitch-hop, blissed beat, effectively introduces the listener of “Hallucinating Arkansas” to an isolated speaker who sees only a world of apparitions and clouded memories.

The track boasts lush, reverbed vocals over dream-sequenced instrumentation that heavily samples Memoryhouse’s “To The Lighthouse”. The production uses the strongest melodic aspects of “To The Lighthouse” to create its primary instrumental hook and Villa Kang’s vocal melody works well over this sample.

The lyrics are strong if read, however the production points more toward their aesthetic and mood rather than content.

The Production’s chorus sounds almost like a duet between Memoryhouse’s Denise Nouvion and Villa Kang. The sped up sample of Denise’s voice, like the production on Villa Kang’s voice, makes the phrase less about the lyric and more about the evocation of something lost, which is really what “Hallucinating Arkansas” effectively conveys.

“Hallucinating Arkansas” lyric content deals with isolation, fragmented memory and a lack of identity. The speaker is trapped, trying to reach out, trying to connect but is inevitably lost in a cold place. A place that can only be described as a bizarro “Cheers (TV Show)” world where, as Villa Kang laments in his Chorus, “Out Here No One Knows Your Name.” Ultimately, however, the track’s conclusion employs David Bowie’s voice from a 1973 Interview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZtHxP4EMV0), where he fittingly discusses identity, religion and his celebration of life. How existential.

Download it for free here: SOUNDCLOUD, FACEBOOK , OR WEBSITE

boyattractions: Clearing – “Blank” No Kings honcho and...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:51:45 -0500

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Clearing – “Blank”

No Kings honcho and impeccable soundsmith Lee Noble lifted some of our SOPA blackout blues this morning with a newly-minted vid by Geoffrey Sexton, who’s previously helmed clips for the likes of Pink Priest and Sparkling Wide Pressure. This time around he’s teamed up with Clearing (Police Academy 6/Skylines’ Joseph Volmer), who recently hit up NK with the coyly-named No Titles cassette. Sexton’s refreshingly crisp (read: not Archive.org) collage pairs unsettlingly well with Volmer’s slow drones, which Noble compares to “Baraka-soundtrack-era Dead Can Dance and Philip Glass”.

Related: I never had a chance to properly gush about it due to my September-December hiatus from BA, but Lee Noble’s Horrorism is (still) an absolute killer of a record, and one that ranked high on my theoretical best-of-2011 list. Bathetic is unfortunately sold out of the goods, but you can still snag a digital copy from the good folks at Boomkat.

smokedontsmoke: Seiho is a Japanese electronic artist, who just...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:02:33 -0500

smokedontsmoke:

Seiho is a Japanese electronic artist, who just released a brand new full-length on Japanese-based label Day Tripper Records. There’s a growing, and close knit community of really talented electronic producers in Japan, and they are deservedly gaining some ground. I was pointed to Seiho by one of my favorite Japan-based (by way of California) artists, Magical Mistakes.

Seiho’s production is impressive, and it’s evident he has some serious know how. Which is why it isn’t surprising to find that he has formal training in Jazz. I never cease to be amazed at how different forms of music can inform one another. You can stream the two tracks from Mercury below, and order the album here.

*Also check out Japanese electronic artist collective INNIT periodic mix for a great tracklist including a new track from Seiho, Magical Mistakes and more.

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disconaivete: Tennis follow up this year’s Cape Dory with a new...

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Tennis follow up this year’s Cape Dory with a new full-length next year; the record is titled Young and Old and drops February 14 via Fat Possum. It will be preceded by a limited 7” Origins (available for streaming above) on Forest Family, backed with a b-side Deep In The Woods.

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