Shuttle is a name you most likely don’t know, however I’m sure you’ve heard him before as its the new moniker for Boston’s very own Etan (most recently of Passion Pit fame, but he’s always been one of Basstown’s darlings). He comes roaring out of the gate with an eclectic and very well done mix for the masses.
Additionally, he’ll be putting out a release on Ninja Tune in March with a track featuring Cadence Weapon. I’m sure we’ll get the hookup and you, our loyal readers (and haters) will get the low down.
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And, since no post is complete without remixes, here’s some of my favorites! I was going to post a newer mix he did as Shuttle, but zshare is being retarded AGAIN and just looping me in circles instead of, you know, letting me download the file… Why would I ever want to do that?
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This is a beautiful, pensive piece of ambient experimentation, and, in the quiet, not-cold-enough wake of the long stretch of winter holidays, it feels right at this moment.
Maybe you remember their piano-grunge track called “Lion”? Its sweeping intro and nasty gritty breakdown? Its a shame if you don’t –it was a great track to listen to, but sadly the quality was something to be desired. But have no fear!
ZZZ is now back with a proper release of “Lion” featuring a reprise -”Leonine”- on the A side, and three quality remixes on the B. Bag Raiders and Breakbot are the two big names that I’m sure will recognize, but my favorite of the bunch comes from Toyko based Lowbrows.
Forgoing some of the grittiness of the original, The Lowbrows turn “Lion” into a full on afro-wearing king of the dance floor track. I played it this week with much success, and I think that you too, will have the kids dancing.
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There is absolutely no stopping the ways in which both my brain and my heart warp, melt, shiver and collapse each time a Salem song starts. It’s phenomenal that, in the short time that they’ve been actually in my frame of consciousness, they have become both a standard and a trademark. Fear-inducing, nail-biting low-end with chopped-and-screwed melodies and a toss-up of either the sweetest, lucid female vocals or the most menacing, destructive goblin-in-the-night-to-rape-your-children voice possible. A completely original and at-times-unpalatable sound that just may become a touchstone of something new entirely.
Anyway, Salem, via Merok Records, has a new EP, Water
Unlike Animal Collective’s similarly-named 2008 E.P. ,these four song are all actually curses, plagues and poxes on your nightmares and dreamscapes that suck you in and spit you out, raw and bleeding and begging for more. Audio nihilism? Yes, please, and more, please, and thank you yes I do like it, please, like that, please.
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A pornographic nightstory bedfable that conjures, in my head, images of the heavy-lidded Laura Palmer pouting her red lips.
Pin yourself down and trap yourself in a room with this, in the dark, and see if you don’t reach a new level of existing.
If you’re in Atlanta, you’re obviously not at Blip. And that means that you are in need of a Resonator-approval-stamped means of entertainment tonight. It IS Saturday, after all-what, are you like 90? Are you going to stay inside and nurse a hot toddy or a hot teddy or whatever it is that you old people drink? You’d know better than I would, after all.
Tonight (Saturday, the…6th. Yes! The 6th!). Atlanta. The Drunken Unicorn (a venue I only recently learned has a name that incites amused chuckles from those who are hearing/reading it for the first time).
This:
In addition to being sponsored by a plethora of fantastic folks all deserving of your attention (Stickfigure Records, WonderRoot, etc), the highlight of this, for yours truly, is the first time I’ll be seeing The Swear since their release of their criminally under-noticed full-length Hotel Rooms and Heart Attacks this year.
It’s long since been lost in the Resonator shufflings, but you may recall that like a billion years ago Hacks and I saw The Swear play an opening set for The Subways (hey, where did THEY go?) and they utterly floored us. This is a rock band that puts on a real, honest-to-god ROCK show with heavy, intelligent and melodic tunes to match.
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While “Vampire” isn’t my favorite tune off of Hotel Rooms And Heart Attacks ,
A) I can’t settle on just ONE song, it takes about a trio of them, played back-to-back, for me to sufficiently feel like I’ve captured the many moods of the record
B)It IS the first song on the album, and it’s raging.
After an initial fake-out panning, “Vampire” utterly SLAYS (no pun intended), so watch your speaker volume. This has the entire band firing on all cylinders, with frontwoman Elizabeth Elkins wasting no time and leaving a trail of bodies from the rock scene as we know it. “I’m jealous/I won’t lie”, the song begins, before the explosive chorus cry of “you stole my fame”.
It’s a total powerful kiss-off of a song. Again, it’s not my favorite on the album, but it’s a good starting point. The best way to experience The Swear, though? Live.
So do that. Tonight. And hold me accountable to writing more about Hotel Rooms and Heart Attacks here.
Normally Trixie brings you all the hot chiptunes jams, but since she’s off being important, I figured I’d step up to plate this time.
Maybe you’ve noticed the banner added to the top of our site about a month ago? Well that’s Blip Festival, and it starts…. TONIGHT!
It’s international mayhem of the chiptunes variety; taking Game Boys (DMGS), Ataris, Nintendos, 8-bit emulator VSTs, Commodore 64s, Nintendo DS’s (and just about anything else you can think of), our stalwart adventurers hack, slash and tweak the hardware in ways mere mortals thought impossible, creating the most epic music you’ve heard in a long long time (or at least since you beat Metroid for that first time).
It starts tonight with full on mayhem, and continues for 4 days until the final level Showdown on Sunday. The Brooklyn half of Res is heavily involved in the chiptunes scene, and let me just tell you that the past two nights of non-official events have already been insane beyond belief. Tickets can be purchased here!
This year the journey takes place @ The Bell House in Park Slope The Bell House
149 7th Street
Brooklyn NY 11215 US (map)
And now.. the MEGA POST (there’s echo on that, fyi)
Nullsleep | New York, NY, USA | Performs: Saturday night at 11:20 PM
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USK | Fukuoka, Japan | Performs: Sunday night at 10:00 PM
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minusbaby | New York, NY, USA | Performs: Friday night at 12:00 AM
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Glomag | New York, NY, USA | Performs: Friday night at 11:20 PM
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Trash80 | Los Angeles, California, USA | Performs: Sunday night at 10:40 PM
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Bit Shifter | New York, NY, USA | Performs: Friday night at 11:20 PM
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Animal Style | Philadelphia, PA, USA | Performs: Friday night at 8pm
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Mr. Spastic | New York, NY, USA | Performs: Saturday night at 8:40 PM
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Role Model | Stockholm, Sweden | Performs: Friday night at 10:00 PM
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Anamanaguchi | New York, NY, USA | Performs: Sunday night at 9:20 PM
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Stu | Basel, Switzerland | Performs: Saturday night at 12:00 AM
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Not enough? Check out 8bitpeoples for over 89 quality creative commons releases! RSVP on Going or Facebook and then purchase tickets here. Blip Fest is also brought to you by The Tank, so swing by and check out what other events those crazy kids have going on.
It was walking through cold downtown Atlanta streets, bundled up but not nearly enough, hands shoved in pockets, that I first listened to the entirety of NYC-based Dead Leaf Echo’s newest release, the 6-song Pale Fire. I almost wrote “E.P.” there, but as an adjective it doesn’t really do Pale Fire justice. These six songs swirl, swell and cohere together in a foggy mist that seriously had me trapped inside my own headspace for the half-hour in which they played out in my headphones, and with each tender jolt of heartfelt darkness I fell more and more for these out-of-time-and-place songs. My 4AD affection is pretty much well documented any and everywhere, and I feel no remorse in tacking Dead Leaf Echo as a band owing a debt of gratitude both to those hazy, heady shoe-gazings as well as to modern electronic music production.
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To hammer the last point above home, wrap your ears around the title track from Pale Fire. Produced by electronic trance-gaze mastermind Ulrich Schnauss, this song, more than any of the other 5, perfectly captures the prevalent love-lost winter-haze of the Dead Leaf Echo sound. I shared it with one of ResonatorMag’s most notoriously picky associates, Dr Shlomo Zelig:
Dr Z: ROCKING… this song Shaun: :-)
can you guess
who produced it? Dr Z: brian eno
wait no
william orbit Dr Z: but srsly i assume mr shields? Shaun: ulrich schnauss Dr Z: yah reading the wiki
very cool
and german Shaun: i am very into that song
the rest of their stuff is good
that song
explodes
just totally EXPLODES
with passion Dr Z: yeah i freaked out Shaun: ? Dr Z: that song
freaked me out
Rix del Rio hit us up with a new remix over the break and its well deserving of a Resonator Post. Its been quite a while since we’ve heard form him (or maybe we have and I just slacked on it!) Regardless, its well worth the time to check out. Taking the slightly haunting vocals of upstart Naim, Rix transforms this into a 6 min, slow rolling squiggly 303 acid fest. The kids love that, right? Well, I know YOU will, so here it is:
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