Lose yourself in the low fidelity and distorted guitars of Zen Mantra's debut single "La La La La La". Zen Mantra is the brainchild of New Zealand's 17-year-old Sam Smith, who bedroom-produced his first album How Many Padmes Hum?, out now for streaming on his Bandcamp. The album is due for international release this spring via MUZAI/Stroll On Records/Crash Symbols. Much like its name would lead you to believe, "La La La La La" will entrance you from the get-go, providing a melody that seems familiar and will cause...
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Anybody out there getting hit by this massive storm sweeping the mid-west and east coast? It sure can be pretty stressful with powerful winds, strong rain storms, and debris flying everywhere. Lucky for us, Perth native Ta-ku still has his tribute rolling out to calm your nerves down. In this segment, you'll finally coast through "Night 16-20" in 25 Nights For Nujabes, a tribute for the late Japanese producer Seba Jun, more widely known as Nujabes. For the past consecutive 20 nights, Ta-ku has dedicated each night to...
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As we pass the midway point in Ta-ku's 25 Nights For Nujabes, he continues to crank out tunes dedicated to the late Nujabes without fail. Each song is different in its own respect, though each are haunted by Nujabes' influence and style. The Australian beatsmith has been doing a wonderful job of...
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Last week, we shared the video for the debut single from Brooklyn shoegazers Lazyeyes. The track caught our ears with its piercing guitar lines, swooping vocals, and exploding choruses. As we'd hoped, the whole of the band's self-titled debut EP aspires to the same heights traced by "Wait". The...
As half of Parts & Labor, Dan Friel's become an expert on making both noise and trouble. His solo expeditions take him deeper into a minimal abrasiveness; under his own name, he cuts out rough slices of sound that somehow coalesce into addictive, raspy grooves. Now, he's given us the first...
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Last time, we left off our nightly dose of oozy downtempo sauce all out on the dinner table with Australian beatsmith Ta-ku. "Night 5" marked one of five checkpoints in this 25 track tribute to the late Nujabes, a well-respected and influential Japanese DJ and producer. "Night 5" featured a...
Brooklyn’s Beach Fossils came onto the scene with their guns cocked for their debut 2010 self-titled LP, adding new elements to the common surf-rock sound that was all too common for the time. The band then went on to put out 2011’s What A Pleasure EP, which amplified some of the ideas explored...
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It's been a good week for space. The largest cosmological object to date has been discovered, and Brooklyn-based reverb cosmonauts Lazyeyes have cut through the outer vacuums of boredom with their sweetly melodic single "Wait". In anticipation of the release of their debut EP, the band has...
