March 2016 mix
Listen to our March 2016 monthly mix, featuring new tracks from the past month by Negative Gemini, Merely, Maria Usbeck, Mall Grab, Japanese Breakfast + more. March was a particularly good month if you like to dance:
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Sam of Yumi Zouma shares new song as Zen Mantra
Sam Perry of Yumi Zouma shares the warped and woozy first single from his solo psych-pop project Zen Mantra: “Second Skin” elicits an eerie nostalgia and the inescapable tinge of vague melancholy that tends to go along with that, but there’s a brightness that comes from Perry’s pop sensibility shining through the song's dark undertones. Sam says of the new record:
hear an achingly beautiful song from Cindy Lee’s new MALENKOST cassette
Cindy Lee, the experimental pop project from former Women guitarist/singer Pat Flegel, follows up one of the best albums of 2015 with MALENKOST, an 11-song cassette release on Vancouver label Isolated Now Waves...
Kedr Livanskiy – Sgoraet (Burning Down)
Thanks to Josh for the heads up on this sprawling, ominous new track from Russian underground dance-pop producer/singer Kedr Livanskiy, inspired by "the otherworldliness of Russian winter", "the feeling of impending death and transition to another state when winter is over", Laurel Halo, Autechre, Inga Copeland, and Mazzy Star, among other things...
premiere: Negative Gemini – You Never Knew
Fledgling Brooklyn label 100% Electronica continues their streak of releasing some of the most exciting and substantial pop music around these days, with the glorious new single from producer and future future-pop star Lindsey French, aka Negative Gemini...
album premiere: George Clanton – 100% Electronica
Of all the wonderful new music that Skylar Spence introduced us to during his site takeover on Friday (there was a lot), George Clanton and his brilliant new record 100% Electronica stood out as our absolute favorite...
stream Skylar Spence’s new record Prom King
Prom King is out later this week (September 18 on Carpark), and to celebrate, we have the man formerly known as Saint Pepsi taking over the site on the day of the album's release. Come chill with him all day on Friday, and in the meantime, you can listen to the new record below:
mp3 premiere: Kotomi – Swimming
Here's a balmy summer night jam from LA electronic pop composer Lauren Hillman, aka Kotomi. "Swimming" has a warm, intoxicating vibe, thanks in part to Hillman's soothing vocals and the welcome appearance of some gloriously woozy lap steel, and is the latest in a series of singles that Kotomi is releasing for free download on the first Tuesday of each month...
Recycle Culture – AYA
Add this one to an already impossibly varied and consistently stellar year for the prolific Recycle Culture: soaring new single "AYA" -- which RC calls a "strange oceanic blend of female vocal chant and balearic electro-pop" -- joins that new Taylor Swift remix, Drown Me Up, "Back to the World", In Transit II, the brilliant Doss remixes, Puzzle Logic, etc...
Juniore – La fin du monde
Thanks to Yumi Zouma for the heads up this afternoon on their "new favourite band", Paris' Juniore, and their elegant, haunting '60s French pop-noir vibes, which have been described as sounding like "...