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"Influenced by the Germans, the Italians, pale British button pushers, glamorous alien pop futurists, Mid-Western sweat, NYC disco dreamers, undercover kings and queens escaping a dull grey world with rhythm and noise..."Get pulled in by the inescapably hypnotic groove of "Falling," the sinuous new track from Australian super-group of sorts Lace Curtain (not to be confused wit

Animal Collective's new Monkey Been to Burn Town remix EP is out later this month on Domino, featuring new re-imaginations from Gang Gang Dance, Teengirl Fantasy, Traxman, and most importantly, as far as we're concerned, this towering, dystopian monolith of a remix by the great Shabazz Palaces, who deconstruct Centipede Hz standout "New Town Burnout" and send its remnants hurtling into

Our second Record Store Day-related Nicolas Jaar post of the weekend: Jaar + Sasha Spielberg's collaborative covers project Just Friends quietly dropped a RSD-exclusive, possibly Germany-only 12" for one of our favorite songs of 2012 -- their ghostly cover of Leonard Cohen's "Avalanche" -- backed with remixes by Julia Holter and Shlohmo...

Fresh off one of the year's best hip-hop singles to date, Detroit's Black Milk is set to drop one of the very few essential Record Store Day releases from this year's selection, in the form of his vinyl-only Synth or Soul 12". Listen to a track from each of the Small Wonder-referencing 12-inch's two distinct sides below...

Brand new warped-house summer JAM from Chaz Bundick's Les Sins project, out March 18 on 12" via Caribou's JIAOLONG label. Hear the stuttering flip "Prelims" here.

"'Born Again' skitters with lo-fi drama while simultaneously delivering a crisp neon 80s vibe that would fit perfectly in a slow motion montage of lovers driving down the 10W at sunset in an imaginary John Hughes/Michael Mann movie." -- KCRW "...

Here's a new + much improved extended version of Holy Shit's "You Made My Dreams Come True," a song that originally appeared on a Human Ear compilation almost 5 years ago. This updated, nearly 8-minute long hi-fi take on the track can be found on the forthcoming single from Matt Fishbeck's now-solo project...

We've mentioned Sam Flax's debut cassette Age Waves a time or two here on the blog, and now one of the year's most overlooked records is receiving a proper vinyl release via The Sounds Of Sweet Nothing / Burger Records on September 17. Check album standout "Child of Glass" (one of our favorite songs of 2012) below, and pre-order the limited 12" here...

Here's the first full track to surface from Victoria Bergsman's lovely new Taken By Trees full-length, Other Worlds, and incidentally, the third beautiful song we've posted this week with "dreams" in the title. The breezy, floating Dreams 12" -- which features "extended instrumental and dubbed out remixes by Henning Fürst of The Tough Alliance" -- is out soon on Secretly