peaking lights

Peaking Lights play a couple jams off one of the albums of the year for WFMU. Featuring a brief cameo by their new baby Miko. In other Peaking Lights news, the band recently inadvertently soundtracked some vintage beach porn (NSFW).

The creators of two of my favorite records of the year hook up on this extended "dancehall psychedelia" remix of Ford & Lopatin's "I Surrender." Taken from Channel Pressure Remixes, out next week on Software Recording Co. / Mexican Summer: Ford & Lopatin :: I Surrender (Peaking Lights Bass Ship remix)

This was unexpected: download Peaking Lights' "spaced-out, dream-dub" version of S-dubz "End of the Night," via Peaking Lights' facebook: mp3:

To celebrate the announcement of their much-deserved signing to Domino / Weird World / Mexican Summer on the strength of one of the best albums of 2011, Peaking Lights have hooked up another one of their impeccable, impossibly eclectic mixes (like the one they made for us back in April) for free download...

Here are our favorite records + songs from the first half of 2011. If you're into reading, we've written about most of these here and in some other places. We've also enjoyed checking out all of your picks, as always. Please let us know what we missed: __________ 01 Shabazz Palaces :: Black Up mp3: __________ 02 Peaking Lights :: 936 mp3: __________ 03 Panda Bear :: Tomboy mp3: __________ 04 Wh

Peaking Lights return with another amazing & wonderful mixtape -- put together for Chicago blog The Minimal Beat -- featuring adventurous and obscure summer-appropriate sounds from around the world. Download below via TMB, and check the tracklist after the jump... mp3: (55 mb)

A casting call for potential Aaron and Indra stand-ins turns into a psychedelic karaoke session in this new official Peaking Lights clip, directed by Ben Shearn & Amanda Brown. "Amazing & Wonderful" appears on the group's brilliant 936, out now on cassette via Not Not Fun...

mp3: (82 mb)

Breezy, hazed summer vibes abound on this amazing hour-and-a-half long mix that Peaking Lights put together for us, featuring sounds that (presumably) influenced the band's brilliant new album, 936. The band says: "this here is a party prep, works good after morning coffee too, or during an afternoon chillin session, it spans from the 50's to the 90's...it's all about listening and there's