Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Best of 2014- Top 10 EPs

An here goes the last list to round up 2014's listomania. Some great EPs from this year:


01. Kleerup- As If We Never Won
02. Peachblack- Dark Horse
03. Visonia & Doppelefekt- Die Reisen
04. Y- Dance of The Illusions
05. Shamir- Northtown
06. The KVB- Out of Body
07. X Priest X- Samurai
08. Client Liaisons- s/t
09. Kelluar- Vitreum
10.Tyburn Saints- With The Night in your Eyes

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Best of 2014- The Singles List

Simply said, here is our list of 40 songs that made our 2014. We tried to keep it one song per artist this year. Enjoy the list:


01.  Beck - Waking Light
02.  School Of Seven Bells -I Got Knocked Down(But I'll Get Up)
03.  The Horrors - Change Your Mind
04.  People at Parties - Mineral Material/Mazes
05.  iamamiwhoami – shadowshow
06.  Tempers - Hell Hotline
07.  Minuit Machine- Sabotage
08.  Perfume Genius - Queen
09.  Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You)
10.  La Roux - Let Me Down Gently
11.  Papercuts - Life Among The Savages
12.  The War On Drugs - Red Eyes
13.  White Hex - Paradise
14.  Get Well Soon - Careless Whisper
15.  Lykke Li – Gunshot
16.  Liars - Vox Tuned D.E.D.
17.  Sébastien Schuller - Regrets
18.  Zastranienie - Prism
19.  Client - Refuge
20. Terror Bird- The Wrong Way

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Best of 2014 - The Album List

It's less than ten days before we send off another music year into history. From this perspective it was great, but the years that come will tell. We almost gave up blogging, but came back. It was great to hear the Horrors returning with another great album which somehow went unnoticed. Lust for Youth proved that they can also be pop and even more. Ronika's electro dance got us on our feet. We meet the People at Parties which are our new comers of the year and lots more.
This is the official album list of 2014.


01. The Horrors- Luminous
02. Lust for Youth- International
03. Ronika- Selectadisc
04. People at Parties- People at Parties
05. Sebastien Schuller- Heatwave
06. Future Islands- Singles
07. Lykke Li- I Never Learn
08. Beck- Morning Phase
09. Temples- Sun Structures
10. Manic Street Preachers- Futurology

Saturday, December 13, 2014

In Conversation: People at Parties

 People at Parties came as one of the best discoveries in 2014 and we are already thinking about naming them as our newcomer of the year. Very impressive, prolific and brilliant what these girls managed to deliver this year. A real new wave music inferno combining influences from both sides of the Atlantic. People at Parties are LK Naps (Vocals) Kelly Harris (drums) and Becky Kupersmith (synths). The bands first official full length self titled release came out November  2013 in digital form with official vinyl release in February 2014. Their debut album which combines dirty lo/fi electro with underground synth pop has certainly been a great soundtrack for our 2014 and we do hope to hear more of them in 2015. About this and more, find out in this exclusive interview below.

2014:  Edna Leshowitz

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Next Wave: Miaux

Miaux is the stage name for the Belgian underground artist Mia Prce who is originally from Sarajevo (Bosnia). Mia a contemporary pianist whose music is dreamy and melancholic art pop. To this date, from 2010 Miaux has released four EPs and this year finally sees her releaseing her debut album 'Dive'. The album is out on the Belgian record label Ultra Eczema. 
https://soundcloud.com/miaux

Monday, December 8, 2014

WAW: Kline Coma Xero- Mannequin

Kline Coma Xero is one of the brand new acts coming from Seattle based Medical records, a label know for a very distinctive and experimental minimal synth styles. The band was mainly influenced by the sterile and isolated iconography of authors such as Philip K. Dick, William Gibson and JG Ballard. The sound scapes are analogue spanning a realm of styles from experimental noise, tape loops and early industrial. We are presenting the video for their song "Mannequin" which was released this year. You might notice a Kraftwerk refernce in both vision and musical style.



WAW: Tempers- Hell Hotline

Tempers have announced a brand new video for the song "Hell Hotline" which is one of our favorite tunes this year. The video was revealed through their Youtube channel and was directed by Bela Borsodi. This is their third and final single for this year. We hope for their debut album in 2015. 


Psychic TV Release New Album 'Snakes'

Psychic TV will release a brand new album entitled 'Snakes' on Angry Love Productions. This is their first album since 2009 and musically it touches on various parts of Psychic TV's 35-year history. This LP will be a limited run of 1,000 copies bearing stunning five-color artwork and will have the trademark "random recycled vinyl" color process, meaning each copy of the vinyl will be completely unique in color. 'Snakes' is out next week, December 12th, 2014. 

 www.forcedexposure.com

Saturday, December 6, 2014

A-ha Deluxe Reissues Announced for 2015

A-ha have confirmed an extensive reissue plan for 2015 which will see four of their albums expanded and remastered. 'Stay on these Roads' (1988), 'East of the Sun', 'West of the Moon' (1990) and 'Memorial Beach' (1993) will all be reissued and expanded next year. 2015 will also see vinyl reissues of the first two albums, 'Hunting High' and 'Low and Scoundrel Days'. www.superdeluxeedition.com
 

Dimension Gondry: Daft Punk- Around The World

Here another great video in the Michael Gondry series most of you will remember from the 90's MTV heavy rotation. The song was taken from band's debut album 'Homework' and it was released in 1997. As already mentioned the video was directed by Gondry while the choreography was credited to Bianca Li. The video features five groups of characters on a platform representing a vinyl record: robots, skeletons, athletes, mummies and women as synchronized swimsuits move to the rhythm and beats of Daft Punk. According to Gondry, the video is meant to be a visual representation of the song in which each group of characters represents a different instrument or something from the musical arrangements. "Around the World" was Gondry's first attempt at bringing organized dancing to his music videos. 


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