Boards of Canada – Seven Forty Seven. Earlier unreleased song, now featured in the Warp20 box set (Unheard). Bliss.
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Twiggy Frostbite’s ”Through Fire” is a remarkably beautiful album. We’ve known that for a while, haven’t we? However, I can’t recall to have heard the music from this sweet band associated with moving pictures. Therefore happiness struck me earlier today when I noticed a directed video of their stunning tune ”Heroes” at Vimeo. The video itself is made by RadarMusicVideos and the concept is a kind of sad story about a girl and a robot, love and rejection. Gaze and love. And don’t forget to visit their label Despotz Records while you’re at it!
I’ve been associated with the free music community CLLCT for a while. As a forthcoming writer to the first issue of the dedicated magazine, I was asked by Luke to write some reviews of the community’s releases. And my, what did I find if not one of the finest ambient records all year. ”Enemy, Enemy” by Automobile, Swift is a definitive must in the rain and storms of fall. Download immediately at CLLCT and wait for the physical edition over at Heat Death Records. Lush and wonderful – that’s my autumnal soundtrack.
I have a friend whom I’ve never met. I don’t know very much about him, but my friend almost solely listens to noise music and old english indie pop (preferably the likes of Sarah, Creation and Cherry Red, I seem to recall). At first this combination felt utterly divided and inconsistent, but the more I reflected upon the fact, the more logical it actually seemed. He told me that whenever he’s fed up with Dead Machines’s brutal doomsday noise, he gives the magnificiently wonderful Blueboy a go, furtherly accelerating against Sunn O)))’s massive sound walls only to drift into dream land with ambient techno master Axel Willner in his ears. ”It’s a nice contrast”, he explained. Considering these arguments, I feel more people’s listening habits should be like my friend’s.
Among the genres above, I’d like to emphasize the ambience part and a song which I got sent to me by another friend. I’ve never listed to Brock Van Wey’s work under his own name before (Bvdub is amazing as well), but this surely caught my interest. This post will also function as the first one of the blog, but without all the ramblings about what got me into designing this blog. Because nothing special really did. So let’s just skip the formalities and instead enjoy plain good music, shall we?. This is Brock Van Wey – White Clouds Drift On And On (Echospace, June 2009).
(I know the sound quality won’t justify the song, but have a listen anyway.)