Ooooh yeah. There must be something in the Helsinki waters that breeds electro gods. Shine 2009 certainly don’t disprove the hypothesis, as demonstrated by ‘Eurozone’, which dares to critique capitalism and avarice. Social commentary from a synth-pop band? Shine 2009 went there. The track gets a makeover from Montreal’s CFCF…
After a weekend of record news and releases from everyone from Jai Paul to Daft Punk to Janelle Monae to Empire of the Sun, it’d be easy to look over Shine 2009. One of the first things I ever featured on this very website after the relaunch back in …
It’s hard not to be a little inspired by Wildarms, aka Brooklyn producer and FADER associate editor, Duncan Cooper. Skipping over any sense of melodrama or over-exuberant romance peddling, his songs under the Wildarms moniker are thinly-veiled tributes to the subtler beauty in an everyday relationship, allowing samples and …
Jonquil is the brainchild of Hugo Manuel, key member of Oxford’s mathy music scene and electronic beat producer extraordinaire (cc side-project Chad Valley). We’ve seen them play live a few times now and must admit that as much as we tried not to move, we were hypnotised into a slow …
With a previous widely acclaimed album ‘Delusions’ in 2011, and ram packed schedules supporting the likes of Jamie Woon, Craft Spells, Chad Valley and Puro Instinct, Brooklyn’s Selebrities have announced an upcoming 30+ date EU tour, plus the delectable 7” single ‘Night Heat’.
Night Heat can be summed up in …
When we asked Austin from Jensen Sportag to explain the meaning behind some of his song titles and lyrics, we didn’t expect as full, entertaining and beautifully written answers as those he supplied. Unfortunately, we only had limited space in the mag for not even half of what he wrote, …
On December 3rdsome of the most splendidly spectacular independent labels in the UK will unite at the fantazmical 7s-Eleven record shop.
But all you music heads out there don’t be all nonchalant about this crazy cool news because the record shop, based at Bloomsbury’s Orange Dot Gallery, is …
The brilliant bro-duo Jensen Sportag are on the up, being given a nudge in the right direction by the flawless year-old label Cascine. Word on the grapevine is that a Sportag album is being recorded, but in the meantime they’ve been remixing their asses off – the latest rework Austin and …
Introducing T H E W H E N D A Y S; Serge and Simon from Stockholm –as well as being filmmakers, actors
and travellers, the two guys are also the creators of the kind of bass-heavy throwback tunes that any other lovers of Summer Camp, Com Truise and most …
Excuse us for inundating you with blissful free music on this balmy Friday afternoon because we’ve got yet another download for you all. Fusing 70s soul with contemporary electronic music, Pandr Eyez are a London-based duo sculpting the dimensions of art pop with their slick sounds.
And to celebrate the …
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