Summer, 2008. Get ready to Synchronize. Moodgadget and Ghostly International team up to bring you The Synchronicity Suite, the exhilarating sequel to 2006’s blockbuster compilation, The Rorschach Suite, that is unlike anything you’ve ever heard before.
iTunes gave Rorschach a veritable two thumbs up, cementing its place in the top 15 electronic albums of 2006, with two consecutive artist spotlights, and one of the year’s top electronic songs, Mux Mool’s, Lost and Found.
Since that fateful year, Mux Mool and fellow Moodgadget musicians, The Reflecting Skin and JDSY have starred in, Ghostly Swim, this spring’s goodwill mega-hit, co-produced by Ghostly International and Adult Swim. The trio make a triumphant return to Moodgadget for The Synchronicity Suite.
They are joined by fellow stars, Wisp, Small Sails, Benoit Pioulard and an extraordinary new cast, including pop sensation D. Gookin, experimental rockers Brael, and lo-fi piano virtuoso Praveen (courtesy of the Music Related label). 19 artists in all work in synchronicity over 80 pulse-pounding minutes to expose the diversity in electronic music. Are you ready to Synchronize?
Are you alil overwhelmed by all the “bat to the face” remixes and edits these days coming out? well Jerome Covington slows it down for us with a personal favorite from my childhood and does it with ease, look for an EP from Jerome Covington this year.
The Worst Friends put together a mix for Music Related. Animal collective and slow disco? you heard it here. we’re really excited about this eclectic mix. we’ve been enjoying the Worst Friends weekly here in NY (brooklyn actually) whenever we can. you should to if your in the area. it’s right here.
TRACKLIST:
1. michael scott - blood, urine, or semen
2. animal collective - people
3. the knife - marble house (emporer machine mix)
4. born ruffians - this sentence will ruin/save your life
5. battles - atlas (dj koze mix)
6. radio slave - my bleep (luke solomon mix)
7. thom yorke - the eraser (worst friends mix)
8. runaway - ain’t afraid to beg
9. eugene record - i dont mind (runaway edit)
10. hatchback - white diamond
Ypsilanti’s synthpop up and comers put together one of the most catchy EP’s on Moodgadget to date.
Darin and Stacy are the perfect listen when you’ve finished a night of dancing to the video game sampled filled Crystal Castles or the latest italian disco crazed night in your town. Also, these 2 sweethearts might be some of the kindest musicians, if you don’t believe us watch this older promo video for a night they did
1. When Galaxies Form
2. Pop Charts - FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD
3. On Y Va
4. Nebula
Tom Croose and Ry make up this Brooklyn DJ duo. Everything from lo-fi folk to slow motion disco fill in their crates and if you listen close at their weeklies you can hear Will Ferrell and Will Arnett samples sometimes deep in the mixes.
Here is a new mix available thru Moodgadget Records for free with a killer tracklist:
WORST FRIENDS - A Little Help From Your Friends Mix - DOWNLOAD HERE
Intro - Ry
Pocket Check - Windsurf
Aeroplane - Aeroplane
The Secret Field(Todd Terje Remix) - Kaoru Inoue
Take Me To The Metro - Lindstrom
Pazuzu - I:Cube
St. Denis bei Licht - Pantha Du Prince
Father - Luciano
Toninas (Villalobos Remix) - Sun Electric
The Porcupine - Latex
Zugunruhe - Ripperton
Les Violons Ivres - Agoria
Harmonautic String - Joel Mull
Far Out - Sebo K
Like A Sadhu - Luca Bacchetti
Matryoshka - Gui Boratto
Breakfast In Heaven (ARP’S Worn Cassette Version) - Lindstrom
We are proud to announce that Andre Obin’s freshman release is out today, this 2 track release has the perfect amount of all the dance track elements. Please take a sec and check out the tracks:
ALBUM OF THE WEEK
BRAEL / TOKYO BLOODWORM - Living Language
Moteer
CD // £7.99
HOME LISTENING / MODERN CLASSICAL
Catalogue Number: MOTEER013CD
*FIRST 100 COPIES COME WITH A LOVELY INDIVIDUALLY PACKAGED, STAMPED
AND HAND NUMBERED BONUS CD FEATURING 4 EXCLUSIVE RE-WORKINGS FROM THE
REMOTE VIEWER!!!!* Following on from last week’s digital sampler, the
Moteer label deliver this gorgeous album from new signings Brael/Tokyo
Bloodworm who combine intricate sound treatments with elements of
dense, reduced shoegaze, lilting pop and breathless drones with an
exquisite attention to detail. The scene is set perfectly on opening
track “Saturn Shine”, slowly coming to life with diffuse vocal
whispers layered in a manner reminiscent of Grouper’s fabulous “Way
Their Crept” album, before distilled, shimmering glockenspiel and
vibraphone make your spine tingle. Stephanie Flood’s vocals finally
emerge from this velvet arrangement with a subdued, almost downcast
undercurrent that provides the track with depth and dimension,
bringing to mind bands like The Cranes or Slowdive merged with the
other-worldly bliss of Japanese home listening from the likes of Piana
or Gutevolk. It’s immeasurably moving, beautiful music. “Golden Mean
Rectangle”, meanwhile, introduces an acoustic guitar to the equation,
with a swirl of instruments and found sounds coming across like
something off the recent Philip Jeck album strummed along to under a
tree in the middle of the desert - intimate and somehow disjointed
music evocative of youth and long, slowly unfolding summers. One of
album’s loveliest moments, however, comes with “Seed” - a fractured
love song taken straight out of the Remote Viewer school of thought,
revolving around melodies frayed and caressed by miniature processes
and aural degradation, the barely audible hum of machines offering an
indefinable backdrop for cascading keys and a stream of words half
spoken, half sung. Brael / Tokyo Bloodworm have provided Moteer with
the most sumptuous and fragile 40 minutes in their catalogue to date -
and another debut we absolutely implore you to discover. ESSENTIAL
PURCHASE.
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Record label Ghostly International and modern cult classic programmers [Adult Swim] have paired up for a compilation of new music and art.
A genre-busting 19-song collection, stretching the entire Ghostly International galaxy, Ghostly Swim explores the Avant-Pop style that the Ann Arbor/New York City label has been been championing for the past 9 years. Ghostly Swim features artists like Matthew Dear, Dabrye, Tycho and Aeroc and features new signings like UK cult band The Chap and NYC producer Michna.
The free collection also includes favorite friends of the label like JDSY, Mux Mool, The Reflecting Skin, School Of Seven Bells, and Detroit’s Deastro, Milosh (Plug Research), FLYamSAM (Warp’s Flying Lotus and SAMIYAM), and Dark Party (Mush). Along with the new music, BoyCatBird (Ghostly’s mascots) make their animated debut in the awesome “City Suckers” video by Daniel Garcia/Superfi.
Tracklisting:
1 Michna - Triple Chrome Dipped
2 Dabrye - Temper
3 The Chap - Carlos Walter Wendy Stanley
4 Dark Party - Active5 Tycho - Cascade [Live Version]
6 JDSY - All Shapes
7 Deastro - Light Powered
8 Matthew Dear - R+S
9 FLYamSAM - The Offbeat
10 Cepia - Ithaca
11 Aeroc - Idiom
12 The Reflecting Skin - Traffickers
13 School Of Seven Bells - Chain
14 Ben Benjamin - Squirmy Sign Language
15 Kill Memory Crash - Hit + Run
16 Osborne - Wait A Minute
17 Milosh - Then It Happened
18 10:32 - Blue Little
19 Mux Mool - Night Court
Other FREE MP3 Downloads from these Moodgadget artists:
Saturday April 26th
SINK @ Reboot
A Night of Electronica in Two Movements
XELA | CLOUTIER | PANDATONE | INSIDEOUT | PRAVEEN | VALEO | CHIKA | ARIKAN | SMITH
37 Avenue A (betw. 2nd and 3rd St)
$5 / 10pm - 4am+
For this edition of SINK we have put together a very eclectic lineup of music and visuals to be performed in two movements.
Movement One
To begin our night we have Percussion Lab’s infamous Praveen know for his tasty hip hop and laptop-pop selections. Following Praveen we have Music Related’s Pandatone performing some of the most beautiful noise to come out of a laptop since Finezze was last in town. And to close out the first Movement we have Type Records’ man-in-charge John Xela performing a very special DJ set of some of the most emotive and moving electronica to ever grace the sound systems of NYC. John rarely DJs state-side, so this is a very rare opportunity to get an earful of what the head of one of the UK’s most respected electronica labels throes down.
Movement Two
Following Xela we have RJ Valeo performing as Isomer Transition. For SINK Valeo will be mixing his own productions of recent and past into his Live PA performing a special 2 hour long live set, blurring the lines between experimental, minimal, live pa and dj performance. Closing out the night we have an amazing booking of Detroit’s Eric Cloutier doing a tag-team with Clink Record’s Insideout. This is an idea that Eric and Grant have been working on for sometime and they are excited to have the opportunity to realize their joint vision of what a proper minimal techno tag-team is. This performance promises to be the highlight of the evening as we have arranged with the venue’s management to allow us to go past the usual 4am stop point for the evening. How late we go, no one knows.
Visuals & Installations
For this evening we have booked two of New York’s best visualists, Chika and Burak Arikan to crate an enveloping visual environment. Chika, with her minimalist geometric patterns, has performed along side artists such as John Tejada, Bubblyfish, Sawako, and countless others. MIT Media Lab graduate and Ars Electronica presenter Burak Arikan has been a major player in the field of data visualization, lending his visual wizardry to (amongst others) Richie Hawtin for several of his Minus tours and shows. David Smith, an acclaimed NYC artist and Warp Records colaborator will present Indexed Color, a new installation of video and slide projection. The work engages with a variety of ways of looking at and thinking about color, from Bob Ross’s relation to color field painters, to color wheel aesthetics, to the effect of colored light on photographic film.
