This Town Needs Guns - Animals

Taking cues from American post-punk "greats" such as Owls or Cap'n Jazz (or anything the Kinsella boys touch, really) hasn't necessarily been a recipe for mainstream success. Cult followings are all rage now, anyway. This Town Needs Guns, who are indeed a reflection of their entirely erudite stomping grounds in Oxford, England, are a remarkably proficient bunch of technically inclined guitar "wunderkinds," if I may. The band has already released a sizable collection of EPs and singles courtesy of the indie Big Scary Monsters (which, at my behest - please take the time to check out the rest of the label's roster), and will continue the charge into the states with their debut full length "Animals" due to be released via new LA label Sargent House. While those in the states will have to wait while Sargent gets things sorted, those is the UK will find it easy to get their hands on. They're an absolute favorite of mine...certainly you can all share in my exuberance?! -Lizzy

01  Chinchilla 
02  Baboon 
03  Lemur
04  Badger 
05  Quetzal
06  Panda
07  Elk
08  Pig
09  Gibbon
10  Dog
11  Crocodile
12  Rabbit
13  Zebra

True Love Waits: Christopher O'Riley Plays Radiohead

1. Everything In It's Right Place
2. Knives Out
3. Black Star
4. Karma Police
5. Let Down
6. Airbag
7. Subterranean Homesick Alien
8. Thinking About You
9. Exit Music (For a Film)
10. You
11. Bulletproof
12. Fake Plastic Trees
13. I Can't
14. True Love Waits
15. Motion Pictures Soundtrack

http://www.sendspace.com/file/lkv6ga

Mr. Chop - Sounds From The Cave (2008)

The press release for Mr. Chop's "Sounds from the Cave" promises a "fantastic planet of electic sounds". It doesn’t happen very often, but in this instance the press release is spot-on. It’s down-tempo heaven, with hip-hop, jazz funk, electronica and more retro references than a Mike Myers movie. "Sounds from the Cave" is short and sweet. As an EP goes, it is small but perfectly formed.

01 The Caveman
02 Snob
03 Trip Through the Water Door
04 Brainticket
05 Fuel
06 Monolith Voodoo Vibes
07 The Red Baron

08 Conduit Closing

Dim Dim - Whip (2008)

Ten years Dim Dim tried to get the wise fruitcake world party started yet something must have denied him reaching that unique goal. It must be one of the world's greatest mysteries. His combination of juicy jigs and an unbiased sense of exploration perhaps does not comply with the cynical adult world. Dim Dim originates from Brussels, lived with his family in Paris and, settled in Portugal now, has a sixth album on sale which, after four fruit inspired titles and one entitled 'Bounce', is called 'Whip'. How very true, it brings lashings of fun.

Belgium is at the crossroads of many cultures, so we hear touches of central-African guitar licks melting seamlessly with cartoon film sound snippets popping up as if we were hopping between stands at a global music market square. But Dim Dim's music owes a debt to surrealism as well. All is carefully crafted with the sole aim to please body and mind.

'Whip' is one step further on from the 'Bounce' album. Dim Dim now goes Brazil. Not much of a surprise there, given Dim Dim's Portugal residency. Another charming new move is the ska song towards the end of this deliciously innocent and inspired mish mash. Dim Dim's world is a wonderland, where teletubbies mature their carefree behaviour with the aid of electronic music. Bubbling, not jumpy, sounds will uplift even the grumpiest soul. -Maarten Schiethart

01 Haha

02 Sheena

03 Cool Breeze

04 Tatjana

05 Pityfukk Player

06 Split

07 Tune In

08 Whip

09 Urge Gap

10 Hips

11 Urge Gap

12 In Your Own

13 Smart

14 Pourtant

15 Sexy Panda

16 Rank

17 Belle Etrangere

18 Stippy

Dusty - Keep it Raw EP (2008)

01. Keep it Raw

02. Voodoo

03. Loco Para La Pista

04. Tap Tap

Paul Leonard-Morgan - Filmtales (Special Edition)

So I remember sitting there watching films, listening to the soundtracks and thinking, "what a cool job". And listening to my mum's old records and thinking how cool it would be to work with bands. And then the two things just kind of started to happen at the same time. In a little church in Glasgow where all the bands would come out to play and to record. I had started writing some music for films in a studio at the back of Cava Studios. And then the bands next door would ask me to help out on their records. Arranging the string parts, playing keyboards, conducting - that kind of stuff. And as I worked with more bands, the film guys kind of liked it, and I did more soundtracks. And as I did more soundtracks, the bands kind of liked it, so I worked with more bands. And then I decided to write my own album, and I got those bands that liked the films that liked the bands to write some stuff with me. I call it Filmtales, cos I had to call it something and people say it sounds quite cinematic. Personally, I wouldn't read too much into that, though. And that's pretty much how we get to here. The special edition of my album's just been released, and I'm still sitting here thinking "what a cool job".... -Myspace

01 Wilderness (feat. Isobel Campbell)
02 Seen From The Outside

03 All For You (feat. Esther O'Connor)
04 Sienna 
05 Snatcher 
06 Like A Bullet Through The Head
07 Camera
08 No Peace Of Mind (feat. Jenna G) 
09 Elektra 
10 Sweet Denial
11 Standing Up (feat. Steve Mason) 
12 Glory Of Pursuit
13 Symbiotic

The Von Bondies - Love , Hate And Then There's You

In the five-plus years since the recording of their second album, Pawn Shoppe Heart, the Von Bondies have replaced two key members, lost their deal with Warner Bros., and seen frontman Jason Stollsteimer beaten to a pulp publicly by scene rival Jack White. By all rights, they should be packing it in, so their third album's vitality is a welcome shock. Over punchy, driving riffs and crackling drum work, Stollsteimer howls like a guy with much to be pissed about, while the sharp production and dark pop hooks offer a vision of garage rock that's more grand than grimy. -David Peisner

1. This Is Our Perfect Crime 

2. Shut Your Mouth 
3. Pale Bride
4. Only To Haunt You
5. 21st Birthday
6. She's Dead To Me
7. Chancer 
8. Blame Game
9. I Don't Wanna
10. Accidents Will Happen
11. Earthquake
12. Modern Saints

http://rapidshare.com/files/188788991/TVB-LHATTY.rar

Ayo - Gravity At Last (2008)

01 I Am Not Afraid
02 Maybe (Ayo Blues)
03 Slow Slow (Run Run)
04 Love And Hate
05 Get Out Of My Way
06 Better Days
07 Change
08 Piece Of Joy
09 Lonely
10 Sometimes
11 Whats This All About ?
12 Mother
13 Thank You

Joakim - My Best Remixes

After 3 albums, the French UFO still manages to avoid all sorts of classifications, being a musician, producer, DJ and live performer at the same time. Since 2003 he's also become one of the most demanded remixers out there being regularly charted by tastemakers like Erol Alkan, Simian Mobile Disco or Ivan Smagghe. Joakim tackles each song like he's never done a remix before, trying to find a different angle every time while keeping an eye on the dancefloor - the main target.

That's what is called Haute-Couture dance music (vs Ready to Wear) and that's why people ask for his tailored-made remixes. That's also: after Tiga listened to Lionel Hampton's 'Vibromatic' remix which was one of 2003 club hits, he asked Joakim for a remix of his own 'Pleasure From The Bass'. A few years later there was Antena's 'Camino Del Sol', a crossover dance classic, played by classic house and techno DJs as well as minimal heads, indie dance DJs and even mainstream superstars like John Digweed. Since then, most of Joakim's remixes became club anthems, from the epic italo remix of Cut Copy's 'Hearts on Fire' to the banging take on Alter Ego's 'Why Not?'.

It was actually not easy to choose between all the remixes Joakim's done between 2002 and 2008. Some of you will regret the absence of Gucci Soundsystem, Simian Mobile Disco, Air, Fisherspooner etc. It’s selection of remixes that would turn a simple compilation into an album that you can listen at home if not in a club. -Clubevents.com

01 Annie - It's Too Late (Joakim Remix)
02 The Chap - Ethnic Instrument (Joakim Remix) 
03 DJ Mehdi - Pocket Piano (Joakim 'berger' Remix)
04 Zombie Zombie - Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free (Joakim Remix)
05 Tiga - Pleasure From The Bass (Joakim Remix)
06 Late Of The Pier - The Bears Are Coming (Joakim Dub)
07 Clashing Egos - Aminjig Nebere (Joakim Remix)
08 Alter Ego - Why Not ?! (Joakim Remix) 
09 Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire (Joakim Remix)
10 Lionel Hampton - Vibramatic (Joakim Vibromatic Remix)
11 Antena - Camino Del Sol (Joakim Remix)
12 Max Berlin - Elle Et Moi (Joakim Remix) 

ATOM TM - Liedgut [Raster Noton, 2009]

01 Weißes Rauschen
02 Wellen und Felder I
03 Wellen und Felder II
04 Wellen und Felder III
05 Wellen und Felder IV
06 Überleitung
07 Funksignal
08 Interferenz I
09 Im Rausch der Gegenwart I
10 Interferenz II
11 Wellen
12 Mittlere Composition No. I
13 Mittlere Composition No. II
14 Mittlere Composition No. III
15 Weißes Rauschen (erster Teil)
16 Berge und Täler
17 Im Rausch der Gegenwart II
18 Weißes Rauschen (zweiter Teil)
19 Weißes Rauschen (Ausleitung)
20 Schlusswort

White Shoes and the Couples Company - White Shoes and the Couples Company (2007)

“White Shoes & the Couples Company, a Jakarta-based six-piece, have parlayed not only a musical but sartorial fascination with their nation’s pop culture into a sound and look that have seen them hailed as one of the most “crush worthy” bands of 2006…” - Time Magazine




1. Simple Overature
2. Nothing To Fear
3. Tentang Cita
4. Windu & Defrina
5. Runaway Song
6. Sunday Memory Lane
7. Brother John
8. Senandung Maaf
9. Senja
10. Nothing To Fear
11. Topstar
12. Kapiten Dan Gadis Desa

Women - Women

Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna

The NY wyrd dance party gang did it again! this time with more psycho beats, dubstep injection, brain-melting electronic glitcheries and even a ghetto hip hop collaboration with MC Tinchy Strider! from a great expectations come great satisfaction. DANCE! -Gonzo

01 Bebey

02 First Communion
03 Blue Nile
04 Vacuum
05 Princes
06 Inners Pace
07 Afoot
08 House Jam
09 Interlude (No Known Home)
10 Desert Storms
11 Dust

Snowman - The Horse, The Rat, and The Swan

1. Our Mother (She Remembers)
2. We Are the Plague
3. The Gods of the Upper House
4. The Blood of the Swan
5. Daniel was a Timebomb
6. A Rebirth
7. She is Turning into You
8. The Horse (parts 1 and 2)
9. Diamond Wounds

VARIOUS / RINSE FM - I LOVE DUBSTEP

Disc 1 Youngsta
01 Horsepower Productions - Sholay

02 Skream - Dutch Flowerz

03 Caspa - Rubba Chicken

04 Loefah - Mud

05 Skream - Rutten

06 D2 - Malfunktion
07 Benga - Flames 

08 Skream - I (Loefah Remix) 

09 Skream - Chest Boxing

10 Benga - Crunked Up

11 Massive Music - Find A Way (Kode 9 Remix)

12 Distance - Traffic 

13 Skream - Midnight Request Line

14 Benga - 26 Basslines

15 Magnetic Man - Alright

16 Headhunter - Descent

17 Kromestar - Kalawanji

18 Coki - Tortured

19 Hijak - Dally

20 Pinch - Punisher

21 Conquest - Hardfood 

22 Sp:Mc - Trust Nobody 

23 Mala - Left Leg Out

24 D1 - Give It Back

Disc 2 - Geeneus
1. Shackleton - Blood On My Hand

2. Mala - Give Jah Glory 

3. Trg - Broken Heart (Martyn's Dcm Remix)

4. The Bug - Skeng

5. Mala - Anti War Dub

6. Horsepower Productions - Golden Nugget

7. Conquest - Hard Food

8. Skream - Oskillatah

9. Distance - V

10. Coki - Burning

11. Skream - Make Me

12. Coki - Haunted

13. Benga - E Trips

14. Mala - Cays Cray

15. Skream - 2-D

16. Benga + Coki - Night

17. Headhunter - Sushi Brain

18. 2562 - Kameleon

19. Kode 9 - Bablylon

20. Abstract - Touch

21. Trg - Decisions

22.Burial - Archangel

http://rapidshare.com/files/156915666/VA_ILvDbstp_1.rar 

Niko Schwind - Apollo EP (2009)

01. Tsi Tau (Original Mix) 

02. Aut Ist (Original Mix) 

03. Apollo (Original Mix)

04. Autistic Music Diary (Original Mix)

Marcus Intalex Presents DAT Music 2 (2008)

CD1:

01 Naibu - Newport
02 SPY vs Kiat - Close Encounters
03 Lynx vs Hellrazor - Shady Pastimes
04 Lomax - Resist
05 Instra Mental - Hunter
06 ST Files - Cold Front
07 SPY - Monochrome
08 Marcus Intalex - Electrocution
09 Zero T & Mosus - Monarch

10 Marcus Intalex - Skizm
11 SPY & Mosus - Cold 909s

CD2:

01 Marcus Intalex - Astro Dance
02 Calibre - Cant Get Over You
03 D Bridge - On Your Mind
04 Lomax - Too Real
05 Chris Coda - U142
06 Commix - Life We Live
07 Marcus Intalex & ST Files - Sark
08 Commix - Underwater Scene

Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid

Epic post-rock tinged emotional indie stalwarts Elbow release their fourth album 'The Seldom Seen Kid', another staunch and anthemic collection of songs. The tense and emotional sound of previous records remains, but with a distinctly more commercial riff-based template, particularly on lead single 'Grounds For Divorce'. The band produced the record themselves, as with previous records, lending it a homespun quality that would be out of synch with any external influence. Revered by their peers as a reliably independent act, Elbow have created a subtly innovative extension of their sound and scope with 'The Seldom Seen Kid'. -Play

1. Starlings 
2. Bones Of You 
3. Mirrorball 
4. Grounds For Divorce 
5. Audience With The Pope 
6. Weather To Fly 
7. Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver 
8. Fix 
9. Some Riot 
10. One Day Like This 
11. Friend Of Ours 
12. Were Awa

 

Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel

1. A Ghost Story
   
2. Recent Bedroom
3. River Card
4. Quarantined
5. On Guard
6. Winter Vacatio
7. Cold As Ice
8. Scraping Past
9. Small Horror
10. Ready, Set, Glow8
11. Bite Marks
12. After Class
13. Ativan
14. Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel

One of the latest "true queer art punks" to emerge from the cracked pavement of southern suburban sprawl, Atlas Sound is the solo moniker of Deerhunter frontman / provocateur Bradford Cox. Here on his debut album, Cox / Sound moves out of dank nightclubs filled with eternal existential drone punk, and relaxes at home in his Grant Park, Atlanta bedroom. And this is, essentially, a bedroom album, a collage, mixing the garage rock and ambient electronic influences previously explored with Deerhunter in a new context, with newly explored recording techniques, mainly laptop-based, learned with guidance from kranky artist Nudge's Brian Foote. The result is 14 Songs of melancholy and mania.

This is a true solo album, entirely created and produced by a single person. That is certainly not unique, especially in the contemporary scene. But Bradford Cox's unusual talent is the ability to take a wide variety of seemingly incongruous sound elements, and seamlessly meld them into a cohesive pop narrative. A sunken 4/4 techno beat underpinning "Winter Vacation"? Perfect. Mbira loops running over the top of "Quarantined"? Just what it needed. An insistent, clipped drum roll carrying "River Card"? Masterful. And ultimately it is this innate ability to combine all these disparate elements into a singular whole that makes this album such an enjoyable, and unique listen.

"This album is for my best friend Lockett. It has a lot to do with childhood. I wanted to make an album that was uplifting but honest, which is why it seems sad a lot of the time. I want to make music that could be 'healing' or therapeutic to people who relate to it." Bradford Cox, Oct 20, 2007, Harlem, New York

"A largely ambient meditation on romantic obsession full of densely layered electronics and guitars that sound as if they were beamed in from some haunted parallel universe." The Fader

-Brainwashed

Naked on the Vague - The Blood Pressure Sessions (2008)

Originally released in 2007 on CD by the fearless Australian Dual Plover label, The Blood Pressure Sessions ventures into a darker realm than their debut 7-inch (also on Dual Plover) had erroneously suggested. Propelled by the sharp, rhythmic snare drum beat and anchored by thunderous, fuzzed bass-lines and stinging, swinging organ and synth fills, Phelan and Hopkins take turns rounding out the vocal duties, giving the whole of their sound a sonorous curtain of ecstatic foreboding. Betraying a gallows wit, the band refers to their music as "apocalyptic pop," which could be construed as both drowning and waving. -Insound

01 Old Leader

02 All Aboard

03 Mothers Footsteps

04 The Horse, He Sick

05 Brown Sun/Sydney Lane Rd

06 Lonely Boys

07 God Nor Devil

08 Blood Pressure Drawing

09 The Beach Pt. 2 (Black Sun)

http://www.mediafire.com/?w90yrw1ddqm

Asobi Seksu - Citrus

This New York City band's second album cements the appeal that put them near the top of the neo-shoegaze heap. The secret is that Asobi Seksu's generous use of effects (reverb, wah, delay, feedback) is not a typical masking device, but rather a complement to great pop craftsmanship and chops. They're not just one of those loud bands that sound cool despite being melody-challenged. Hook-laden high points like "Thursday" and the almost overwhelming "Red Sea" best demonstrate Asobi Seksu's firm grasp of their chosen style. And Yuki Chikudate (who sings in both Japanese and English) is served well by a dense mix that pushes her vocals back into the sonic thick of it. -newburycomics

1. Everything Is On
2. Strawberries
3. New Years
4. Thursday
5. Strings
6. Pink Cloud Tracing Paper
7. Red Sea
8. Goodbye
9. Lions and Tigers
10. Nefi + Girly
11. Exotic Animal Paradise
12. Mizu Asobi 

Collapsing New People - Collapsing New World (2005)

01. the beginning of the end 

02. burning flags 

03. meat machine (paid advertising) 

04. collapse collide capitulate 05. blank generation 

06. colour of the year 

07. majority report 

08. regressive attack 

09. off the track 

10. collapsing new world 

11. song without words 

12. smoke & spotlight

Soldout - Cuts (2008)

Yet another of those bands that are so brilliant I sort of feel like I should have known about them ages ago. I need to fire some of my staff. I can get my own damn cookies. Soldout are Cassandra and David, a couple of tremendously nice-looking Belgians who have just released their sophomore album, Cuts, on Anorak Supersport. I have listened to Cuts an embarrassing number of times already because I’m a little bit in love with everything about it. It’s the combination of two distinct personalities within their sassy synth-pop aesthetic – the gorgeously dark with a hint of psychaedelia, and the twitchy CSS-like dance-inducer – that make this album a total keeper (I need a new harddrive). -Bec

1 The Call
2 The Last Ride3 The Box
4 One Word And The Next
5 Build It Up / Knock It Down
6 Silence
7 Mysteries8 The Cut
9 Come On (Part 1)
10 Come On (Part 2)
11 The Darkest Night
12 Midnight Express
13 The Shape Of

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Lykke Li - Youth Novels

Excluding the kind of ambition and open defiance of convention that could only come from an artist just barely out of her teens, Youth Novels, while not without its share of bumps, is an extraordinary first album. With famed Swedish pop producer Lasse Marten assisting (the guy behind Kelly Clarkson's ingenious mainstream-to-indie poptimist crossover smash 'Since U Been Gone'), Lykke Li and Yttling have created a surprisingly stark-sounding album, an enticing blend of Robyn's unpretentious dance-pop and El Perro del Mar's introspection and tenderness. For a record whose thematic center is the hormonally-enhanced, bipolar passion of one's teenage years, it's remarkably mature-sounding. -popmatters

1	Melodies & Desires
2	Dance, Dance, Dance
3	I'm Good, I'm Gone
4	Let It Fall
5	My Love
6	Tonight
7	Little Bit
8	Hanging High
9	This Trumpet In My Head
10	Complaint Department
11	Breaking It Up
12	Everybody But Me
13	Time Flies
14	Window Blues

Errors - It's Not Something But It Is Like Whatever

Produced and recorded by guys from Mogwai at their own studio, Errors share some tricks with the biggest Glasgow post-rockers. Errors' sound is intense and eventful, the kind of sound that does not need human voice (they experimented with adding it by the end of the album, though). Rhythmical and slightly gloomy, this kind of music goes well with purposeless night walks. Generally, I find this debut highly pleasing, though it's not too hard to lose attention somewhere in the middle of this clicking electronic soundscape. -Katz

1. Dance Music
2. National Prism
3. Salut! France
4. Still Game
5. Toes
6. Crystal Maze
7. Cutlery Drawer
8. Pump
9. The Bagpipes
10. A Lot Of The Things
11. You Don't Isn't