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The title track from Nite Jewel's new EP! Ramona Gonzalez delivers a soulful, D-I-Y take on '80s new romantic grooves, a la Sade and Spandau Ballet, her yearning vocals joined by some nice slap bass plus a great Paisely Park-sounding keytar solo! Purchase MP3 format for $1.11 or studio quality WAV file for $2.10. To download WAV version, click BUY and then go to VIEW CART and switch MP3 option to WAV.
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Baths will in fact be enjoyed by those of you who love glo-fi hitmakers like Washed Out and Toro y Moi, but Will Wiesenfeld's music finds its own niche, with more complex rhythms that draw on every electronica genre from hip-hop's boom bap to skittery breakbeats and the avant-garde (with many hidden layers of found sounds and textured ambience), rich, hi-fi production, and sharp songwriting that defies categorization.
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The Cologne-based husband-wife duo of Regina and Gunther Janssen have been crafting warm, shuffling electronic pop for over two decades now, and like their more recent albums, the new record sees the band utilizing more acoustic instruments and embracing subtle elements of dusty Americana and ‘70s AOR into their gorgeously bittersweet songs.
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This collection of demos and unreleased Department of Eagles tracks provides an intimate glimpse at the creative process behind Grizzly Bear-man Daniel Rossen's other great band. Though the songs here aren't as fully-formed as 2008's In Ear Park, the fine-tuning and experimentations that take place on these recordings is at times as intriguing as the spectral Americana-pop that would come from DoE, and Grizzly Bear themselves.
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The new full-band project from Jana Hunter, whose “freak-folk” has evolved into more or less a traditional “rock” band set-up. While not much would qualify here as rock, there are some surprisingly spirited numbers folded into Hunter’s traditionally mid-tempo brooders, the album boasting a backbeat that the Ronettes would understand, while some might also sense a kinship with Beach House, via the stately procession of the songs.
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The North Sea is one Brad Rose, who runs the Digitalis label when he's not conjuring black magic from an array of tangled voodoo circuits and synthesized rituals. Rose displays great depth here; the landscape on Bloodlines is dark but lush, overflowing with texture, tension, and most importantly, direction. Fans of the recent Pan Sonic album, of Fennesz's less sun-bleached work, and of synth wizards like Conrad Schnitzler, and even Throbbing Gristle, should take note.
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With "Move of Ten," Autechre are once again fully plugged in! The most inspired release from these electronic music pioneers in years, IDM beats are a-flutter and accompanied by melodic ambient passages. Not necessarily their most ground-breaking work, but undeniably great.
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You pretty much know what to expect from a group that takes its name from a John Lee Hooker album from 1971. Filled with blasted barroom swagger and floor shaking blooze, Full House Head was recorded at the Rare Book Room Studios in Brooklyn, and is oozing with cocksure charm and high voltage bravado. Sounds like putting your head next to a 100-watt tube amplifier and having Boogie frontman Top Dollar play you an E chord.
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Oriol's Night and Day is the sunniest and brightest addition to the Planet Mu label in some time. Fusing a love of Herbie Hancock's late-70's electric period, 80's freestyle synth and drum patterns, and LTJ Bukem's feel for the mellow, late-90's jazz-influenced broken beat, this is the perfect warm weather record, inspired by the sun-drenched soul of Barcelona, and the electronic fusion of London. Hudson Mohawke and Dam-Funk fans should check this out.
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