Guest Mix: JEANS WILDER

Jeans Wilder - How I Spent My Summer Vacation (Doing Nothing) (52mb)
Psyched to get this mix across from San Diego's mythos miner Jeans Wilder. He made it for us with what seems to be this Summer almost passed initially via blown out garage ie our favs Eat Skull and by later mixing Miracles Club's new age techno into Eno's "Lion Sleeps Tonight" w/ almost ridiculous insight. Same goes for including hits from The Clientele and Boris Gardener. CHECK IT OUT:

1. Ghetto Cross "Dog Years"
2. The Bitters "Travelin' Girl"
3. Ean Eraser "It Does Not Matter To Me"
4. Eat Skull "Heaven's Stranger"
5. Dara Puspita "Believe Me"
6. Brian Eno "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
7. Miracles Club "A New Love"
8. City Center "Gladest"
9. Animal Collective "Taste"
10. Beach Fossils "Gathering"
11. The Clientele "Reflections After Jane"
12. Boris Gardener "A Groovy Kind Of Love"
13. Dominique Young Unique "Show My Ass"
14. Cloud Nothings "Leave You Forever"
15. Christmas Island "Twenty-nine"
16. Dent May "Meet Me In The Garden"

[Jeans Wilder MySpace]

[Buy Relics from Bathetic]

BITE YR TONGUE

Oh man ever since I heard the WMFU session from a Big Troubles a while back I haven't been able to stop with this song; here on a way more reverberant version with ultra fuzzy and summer shimmery/stoned-moving distortion that actually probably isn't too far from the "eat-pizza-til-U-drop" feeling you might desire, pulling off that other semi-trasancendent feeling of "feeling alive" without sounding dorky/hackneyed. Good news in that their new OESB full length Worry is out in August and can be pre-ordered soon.

[Big Troubles MySpace]

[More details at Olde English Spelling Bee]

YELLOW HEX

Kes Trio - Thieves Beat

Like other wins for Kes' various outfits, this track from the forthcoming Kes Trio album is imbued with a kind of low-key proggy wonder. This latest band is great (who knows what the name changes from Kes to Kes Band to Kes Trio signify, but anyway): this song and others sound like they could twist into Dn’D epics at any second, but they hold it down while still hanging on to that magic vibe. The press release says “Black Brown Green Grey White is a yin-yang dichotomy, juxtaposing contemplative, melodic beauty and inward-gazing ballads with jerky dischord, banshee yells and whirlwind anti-rock riffs” – actually, this is as close to a “stomper” as we've ever heard from Kes and it sounds great, totally propulsive with this amazing singalong quality.

[Kes Trio MySpace]

[Black Brown Green Grey White out September 18 through Mistletone]

SHRED HEAVEN

Surf City - Crazy Rulers of the World

AT LAST: Auckland's Surf City, AKA our long-time "surfgaze" dreamcrushes commit to "going steady" with us, "going all the way" etc etc. It's three years since their ultra sweet debut EP won our hearts; since then, they've teased us with a slow stream of magnificent singles (Zombie, Autumn), with no album release date in sight. But now it's in sight! It's going to happen in November, it's called Kudos and that's the artwork up there. And this is the first single from it and... it's great. Rich on melodix and total half-remembered "cool", like the teenage summer you discovered Daydream Nation. This track sounds like it was recorded in some kind of fictional golden yesteryear; all warm tones reverberating off into the ether.

[Surf City MySpace / Facebook]

[Kudos is out November through Fire/Popfrenzy]

DO IT WILD

Jimmy Edgar - Midnite Fone Call

Hotness. A few minutes into XXX, I was overwhelmed with the urge to throw on something velour and cruise to wherever the sexy's at while some Roger Troutman voicebox action blared from my ride. Detroit's Jimmy Edgar specializes in music heavy on eliciting that kind of effect on people. Weaving together everything from Zapp funk leanings through to Sebastian Tellier sextronics, we're treated to a hotbed of synths, layered galactic textures and neon rhythms. This is the kinda record I think rappers from 2030 will rediscover and use as a basis for a whole new genre.

[Jimmy Edgar MySpace]

[Buy XXX from !K7/Inertia]

KINDLING

Jon Lemmon - Home

This track from Wellington, New Zealand-based Jon Lemmon glows in a similar style to those Coyote Clean-Up and Sunvisor blissers we chilled to a while ago; gauzy sunkissed synths and reedy vocal echoes filtered through mid-afternoon bedroom curtains loop toward a kind of triumphant zenith, complete with bassy drum rolls and cymbal echoes.

[Jon Lemmon Bandcamp]

CRUSHIN' DIAMONDS W/ HER TEETH

Pageants - Airbrushed Dolphins
Re: last week's post about the new Night People comp featuring Melbourne's Pageants they just sent us some jams from their new EP. It's out in September/October on Sensory Projects and it's callde Forbidden Delicious which "vibes pretty right" with their dark and weirdly sultry slow garage, a few Lynched-out guitar scales are in here but elsewhere they prefer the slacker garage semi-waves of something that feels particularly Australian in its DIY.

[Pageants MySpace]

[Buy Forbidden Delicious from Sensory Projects]

PARK HOURS

Human Resources - Fort Carl's Jr
Off the cuff summer jammer from Brooklyn's tape lovers Human Resources. It's a real shuffler and kind of jives a bit "bluesy" through the stoned Sunday afternoon-ness of it all is packaged w/ some ultra productive sounding work kick. I guess that's what you get when yr sat in the sun and lock into a groove like this; baseball memories seep in through this time-passer, a the run up to a new, str8 out poppy Human Resources 7" soon.

[Human Resources MySpace]

SMOKE OPERA

Outer Limits Recordings - On The Rocks
Outer Limits Recordings - (Secret Track)
Jammed up w/ smog from the L.A. skyline and gross odours from the pavement comes Sam Meringue's new Foxy Baby LP under the Outer Limits Recordings name (also his label), and it's cluttered with that rad FM/boombox glamm all alien and transient. Couldn't stop pumping "Driving At Night" and its muffled end-of-the-night transcendence when Shea posted it earlier this year. "Smoke Opera" is right; "for blazers only" or just perpetual night cruisers, got some fuzzy memories of swimming on a Florida rooftop swimming pool as a 7-yr-old but this one's actually about babes and Berlin clubs.

[Buy Foxy Baby from Not Not Fun]

G&GS&G&GS&L&VE

Bare Girls - Zoned
Bare Girls - Tran Sistor
Couple of new Dilla-sized jams from London's Bare Girls aka B&Gs who we had up this weekend to play live and was riding a new wave of instrumental hip-hop or actually nice/tropical dubstep coasted by the likes of Becoming Real, Young Montana and Knxwledge (real glad to finally catch onto some of this stuff) which is actually probably not worlds apart from someone like say Bathcrones and their lucid soft feelings, nice and escapist which also seems to happen more and more from London dwellers, these "West Coast dream sequences". He's got a new mix up over at Soundcloud too:

Sob.001 Rekordah by Streets Of Beige on Mixcloud

[Bare Girls MySpace]

SUAVE IRL

2 Hungry Bros & 8thW1 (feat. The Sleepwalkers) - Be On You

Reeking of sweat-tinged Drakkar Noir on a day at the park, harbor, farmer's market and other non-threatening locales for ideal, sunny outings, this song is the epitome of "that guy" applying his "A-Game" on unsuspecting members of the opposite sex. The beat shimmers and shuffles effortlessly in a Native Tongues kinda way but with the added freshness of trilled flutes and downplayed, semi-tropical funk. With that in mind, 2 Hungry Bros and 8thW1 embrace the mindsets of the characters they seek to portray and deliver rhymes dripping with sleaze while oblivious to the amount of eye-rolling taking place. Taken from the upcoming No Room For Dessert, the vibes are all Burgundy and it's another reason why the AOK Collective rule at putting out music that makes listeners double take.

[2 Hungry Bros MySpace/8thW1 MySpace]

[No Room For Dessert will be available for free download on July 27th. Get it here.]

ITALICISE YOU

CRUMBS - Pigeons Kissing

It's not the kind of jam you can instantly "vibe" with, being all heavy (I'm talking in terms of actual weight here) and smacked out and kind of remote, but once that instant's passed and them tremulant synths are creeping in over the fluctuating bass, shit gets pretty earworm-y pretty quick. This is a massive track; it smothers your eardrums in bass and ecstatic buzz and some sublime falsetto vox. Crumbs is the solo project of Max Kohane, who's previously scored a win with Brain Children, his collaboration with Eddy Current Suppression Ring's Mikey Young. This track's taken from Pieces & Portions Vol. 2 (both volumes can be downloaded for free from his Bandcamp page), presumably offcuts from his production work with acts like Catcall and Agents of Abhorrence, but don't let that put you off: this is some stellar shit from a seriously talented dude.

[CRUMBS Bandcamp]

LUXURY SHOWER

The Ancients – Street Funk

This is the latest adorably sunny, naive pop jam from the Ancients. Hooray! They’ve been drip-feeding us cuts from their second album, The Ancients 2, which we think will be released sometime in the future (probably). Not sure what the chronology here is, but this super-sweet (and whiter than white) song has a hint of them loneliness & despair vibezzzz heard previously on frontman Jonathon Michell’s totally amazing one-off solo track from earlier this year, Tone Defeat. Could he have influenced himself?! It seems possible. Also on the album will be the previously blogged The Rambler, which suggests to me the “mood” on The Ancients 2 will be something between early Go-Between and non-rock Yo La Tengo, which obviously rules!

[The Ancients 2 will be out sometime on Sensory Projects]

[The Ancients MySpace / Facebook]

COLA HEAVY NIGHTS

Pageants - Drink The World
EMA - Mouth Like The Sun
Rene Hell - Club Night Stalker
Spent about 8 hours downloading this new Night People compilation (life sux; F U Virgin Broadband!) but BOY was it worth the wait, full of the usual NP suspects but truely born from Cola Heavy Nights; murky pop syrup coats all the weird mythos of these faked old worlds, creaky and antiquated in that skewed way, even across Pageants' spooked TV/Mantles-y jangles is old summer dread but the inverse trance of Rene Hell with .jpg'd rainforest feelings at the back of their night is more greasy street-dwelling and the just plain fucked sun-awe going through EMA's weird acid awkwardness is ultra explorative.

[Night People Website]

[Pageants MySpace]

привет

Motorama - Compass

Whilst listening to Motorama for the first time, I was struck at first by just how familiar everything seemed. I dug the jangle, the melodies, the C86/Ideal Guest House leanings but delving deeper and deeper into Alps, I was overwhelmed with vibes heavy on the wistful side. There's a whimsical beauty apparent in their nostalgic approach. Kinda like looking at old family vacation snaps and zeroing in on the one that was taken accidentally. It's worn, faded, adorned with light leaks but you know it only adds to the charm. However, the real clincher is seeing everyone in the picture unaware, guard down and lost in their ways.

[Motorama MySpace]

[Alps is available for free download here.]