Pitchfork’s SURVEILLANCE Jim Jarmusch, Bradford Cox, and No Age’s Randy Randall Cortez the Killer

An Awesome cover of Neil Young’s Cortez the Killer.

Bat For Lashes – Two Suns Special Edition (CD+ DVD Documentary) [VIDEO]

Bat for Lashes is releasing a special edition of the album Two Suns. The special edition will include double Disc plus a 48 minute DVD documentary called Two + Two which was shot in places including Joshua Tree, CA and New York City. The album is set to release in the UK by September 7th and a US date to be conformed very soon. Trailer of Documentary after the break. (more…)

The Union: Business Behind Getting High – Music

BC’s illegal marijuana trade industry has evolved into a business giant, dubbed by some involved as ‘The Union’. Commanding upwards of $7 billion Canadian annually, The Union?s roots stretch far and wide. With up to 85% of ‘BC Bud’ being exported to the United States, the trade has become an international issue. Who are the players, and when do their motives become questionable?

Follow filmmaker Adam Scorgie as he demystifies the underground market and brings to light how an industry can function while remaining illegal. Through growers, police officers, criminologists, economists, doctors, politicians and pop culture icons, Scorgie examines the cause and effect nature of the business behind getting high.

Nobody’s innocent in this exploration of an industry that may be profiting more by being illegal

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Gui Boratto – Acrostico

Gui Boratto (born 1974 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian electronic music producer. He started his career working in the Publicity sector in 1989.

His album Chromophobia was awarded the title of Mixmag Album of the Month. Regarding why he chose the name Chromophobia, Boratto said: “The same meaning as monochromatism in architecture, which means simplicity. That’s all. I don’t have a morbid fear of colors at all. But also, I was ironic. My music is really colorful.”

On stage, Gui uses a laptop equipped with Ableton Live, a Jazz Mutant Lemur, a monome and an Evolution Uc33e, and he sometimes even invites a guitar player to join him.

In Acrostico, Gui seems more upbeat and relaxed than his other individual songs. Take a listen and dive in

“Gui Boratto might have the ugliest cover of 2009 but that didn’t stop me from checking out his album. When the vocal comes in i’m not too fond of the song but until then it reminds me of the good old days of Kompakt where you’d go to your local vinyl shop and check what this weeks Kompakt 12″ sounded like” – iso50

Gold Panda: Quitter’s Raga

There’s something awesome about the way chopped-up vocals have come back around in the last couple of years. They were all over the place in the early part of the decade, when IDM was being taken seriously and rapidly accelerating CPU clockspeeds meant that a new way to process sounds lurked around every corner. Back then, you took a CD of a voice and made it skip and that was enough to give a track an extra twist of poignancy. Now it’s in the realm of dubstep and all of its offshoots where the most interesting vocal processing is taking place, often as a way to add tension to mean, heavy, bass-heavy beats. Terrific recent examples of the form have come from Blue Daisy and Pariah, but this powerful track from Gold Panda, recently released on a 7″ single via Make Mine, ups the ante for affecting vocal processing considerably. An undercurrent of bass flecked with vinyl crackles pushes the track along, but it’s the voices, bits of guitar and sitar, all given the sonic Cuisinart treatment, that take things to another, more achingly beautiful realm. The fragmentation gets more intense as it goes, and you start to wonder if the track is going to shake itself apart, and then it ends suddenly, less than two minutes in, so short it breaks your heart.

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Supermarket Love Interviewed

Hasan Ahmed is best known as Supermarket Love, that practitioner of audio botany and warped soundscapes that seem to leap out of your speaker like passages from a timeless novel or folk story. Hasan’s distinct sound forces a discerning melodic language through a dense jungle of tape hiss and bend, to mesmerising effect. With a two-album career on nothing but his head , Cisumesion Lanoitazivorpmi & RainyDaysToFadeAway. Supermarket Love’s music is now an established feature in the collections of musicologists and chill-seekers alike. I chatted to Hasan about his music, recording techniques and philosophy. After the break for interview. (more…)

Broken Social Scene Reunite [VIDEO]

Featuring the rarely-seen-together triple threat of Feist, Metric’s Emily Haines, and Stars’ Amy Millan– along with Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Andrew Whiteman, Justin Peroff, and (let’s just say) more– this looks like one for the history books. Too awesome. (more…)

Have Media Overplayed Jackson Story?

According to Pew research, the public believes star’s death generated too much coverage

NEW YORK Nearly two in three Americans said news organizations gave too much coverage to the sudden death of Michael Jackson in the days following his June 25 heart attack in Los Angeles, according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
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Making of Sugarette by Bibio

Stephen Wilkinson of Bibio shows how he used a sampler to put together Sugarette a track off his new album Ambivalence Avenue. Click post to watch video.

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