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Take a little trip back to last summer with us as we watch this nicely shot live clip of our friends Seapony and their Double Denim sellout ‘Dreaming’.
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Another new one from London’s Ghost Eyes. They continue their torn-speaker beat making on ‘They Left’. This one has some darker hues and doesn’t sound a million miles away from early Metronomy as well as some more obvious knob-twiddling influences. We’re defiitely looking forward to seeing this one at our Double Denim night next week.
Don’t forget to RSVP for our night next week below too.
DOUBLE DENIM 3D // GHOST EYES, FELICITA, DAUWD (dj) + Don’t Die Wondering DJs.
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We first blogged Palmistry and a song he made with current DD-faves Felicita quite a while ago but this time Palmistry is back with his own juice this time. The mysteriously titled ‘(rip southhouse) cutt’ touches on the kind of yearning and left-of-centre R&B that The-Dream has been mining for a while now. The dark, ruffled edges and hypnagogic production values also draw this close to stuff like The Weekend, except a little softer and more venerable perhaps. This new slant to Palmistry’s stuff definitely marks him out as worth keeping an eye on for the next couple of months.
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DD006 // Celestial Shore - ‘Pals/Place Aux Dames’ 7”
(Limited to 300 with 100 colour vinyl)
Tracklisting
a1: Pals
a2: Place Aux Dames
b: Maps
We’re very happy to announce the release of Celestial Shore’s debut 7” single with Double Denim out on the 4th of July. We first heard the band a couple of months ago and set about working with them as they moved from the sunshine of California to New York. You can hear that interchange of geography in their first single with gorgeous Beach Boys-esque harmonies punctuated by angular, mathy guitar riffs that sound more like New York’s Dirty Projectors.
You can check out ‘Place Aux Dames’ from the A-side above and some of you may already know ‘Pals’ but if not check it out below:
DD006 A1: Celestial Shore // Pals by Double Denim Records
The weaving and complex hit of b-side ‘Maps’ will follow soon!
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We’ve been keeping an eye on South London’s Felicita for a little while. His production errs towards the ethereal pop spectrum of things. ‘Skypecry’ places a meloncholy vocal at it’s core letting it revolve and spin as new layers join over the top - a bit like a vocal round. The loops are eventually punctuated by some warm synth. It’s nice stuff and we’re definitely interested in where he goes from here.
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We can never have enough hushed jams in this big, loud world so welcome Magnetic North, who draw on stuff like the xx and maybe even St. Etienne but there are some nice flourishes of their own, particularly a sped-up sample (guitar?) that floats in after the first chorus. The vocals overlap each other nicely towards the end to round off a neat, nicely structured couple of minutes.
They have another one on their bandcamp (linked below) and from the strength of this they seem worth keeping an eye on.
Here is a video for Christian AIDS b-side ‘Young Luv’, which premiered on The Fader yesterday.
There’s some more video magic going on here with reverse nuclear explosions, and plants un-blooming. It’s creepy and has a kind of 50s Cold War vibe to it.
Still some vinyl left too, not many so get on it here: 7” Pre-order.
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Ivo Pacheco is possibly the most exciting Portugese electronic musician you have never heard of. He makes some pretty forward thinking dubstep music that we’re going to term Portostep as IVVVO, Your Sister and Baliac - all with their own subtle differences, but each worth checking out. However it’s his music as I Sky that really grabbed us. It’s more out there and visceral, along the lines of beatmakers such as Clams Casino, and even How To Dress Well. He submerges his usually strong rhythms deep into the mix, letting mysterious and destroyed vocals come to the fore. It makes for some pretty beautiful, stoned sounding music. Check a couple of things out below.
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We’ve been listening to Slime for a little while. 19 year old Will Archer is another Londoner making sensitive music with plenty of space in the mix. This track features Vondelpark, on hazy vocals, and has a nice laid-back sound, fit for any Bank Holiday weekend. Slime should have more emerging soon and definitely one to keep watching.
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Rare Berries is a producer of chopped-up and blitzed beats, and this is a pretty obtuse piece of music, from its rolling, dramatic piano line to cut-up pieces of what sounds like Aaliyah’s ‘Hot Like Fire’ (but don’t quote us on that). Rare Berries takes the disconnected, multi-layered sound of early 00s Timbalands and takes it to the nth degree, at times sounding like a collection of samples sparring together, but somehow connecting in unexpectedly pleasing ways.
More of this interesting strangeness over here:
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We have never blogged as much UK stuff as we have in the last couple of months. Its certainly a good time to be looking for promising British music right now. ‘Being There’ are another fine example of UK ambiton with there creep vocals, lush organs and addictive tight percussion. Hit up their bandcamp below to download some free tasters.
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Everlone is a producer from London. His misty late-night sound encroaches the ever-fractured landscape of dubstep but maybe this falls closer to what some people are calling Night Bus. It’s an evocative genre term for what can be quite lonely music, less the sound of being on a night bus, but more the distant rumble of bus after bus passing the window of these Clark Kent producers.
Varekai starts with delicate piano and destroyed thuds before spinning into pitched vocals, sub-bass and subtlely busy percussion. It’s a post-Burial sound that has been captured over and over again the past couple of years, but something in Everlone’s throb sounds closer to Midnight in a Perfect World-era DJ Shadow, or Bristol’s Trip Hop crowd.
Here’s another song from Liverpool’s Outfit who we featured a little while ago. This one has some Grateful Dead nodding double-tracked vocals, and some subtley intricate changes of pace. It drives headlong into its less contained sections with a real sense of verve, but knows the right moments to reel everything back in.
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We have a lot of love for Keep Shelly in Athens. Who doesn’t? Even more so now that they have re-worked ‘You Can’ by our favourite Brooklynites - Body Language. Its a blissful 3 minutes 26, that you can now download for free courtesy of the good people at the New Musical Express. ‘You Can’ is out now alongside ‘Social Studies’ - head over to our store for one of the final copies on 7”.
