Various Artists / Seattles Finest in Funk & Soul 1965-75 / 1965 - 1975

dear god i need this on vinyl

Alright, I genuinely was not expecting to get as much as I did out of this album. Its kinda got a Seattle flavour to it. Its indescribable but if you've been there you'll know it (kinda like coffee and ashtray cubensis), i digress.. but really this is some of the finest funk a brotha done heard around her in a tick or two. Also if you like mashups if this shit doesn't inspire you... then.. well shit i guess..? for me the hey jude cover by The Berry Overton trio does it. that was enough of a score to make this album glitter.
but its solid gold.

Brother Tiger / Point of View / 2011

prepare to feel some soul.

Tracklisting:
1. Real Life
2. Back to Us
3. Evening Glow
4. A House of Many Ghosts
5. Lovers (Casa del Mirto remix)

Review: For a strange day, here’s an equally impressive EP from Brothertiger, an up-and-coming chill artist (chillist?) from Toledo, Ohio. Of the normal fare, the stand-outs are “Evening Glow” and “A House of Many Ghosts”. The added remix to Vision Tunnel’s best track, “Lovers” is a wealthy addition.meh

brotigre

link should be fixed

Gold Panda / Lucky Shiner / 2010

HAPPY 4:20

did i mention this is sassy research y'all


Gold Panda breathes the same kind of life into his work as Four Tet. His beats are mechanical but also intensely human. But Gold Panda's trigger finger is a bit itchier. His signature tic involves short, unique samples that burst in rhythmic repetition. So on opener "You", the words "you and me" are sliced into individual pieces and then tapped in brain-screwing succession as a bulbous beat makes the song all too ready for the club inside your head. And "Before We Talked" rides on a quicksilver pulse made up of tiny squelches and glitches that are Aphex-like in precision and scope. Oftentimes, plinking notes from various unique, piano-like sounds add a spotlit solemnity underneath or alongside the drums. A sense of well-thought-out album-style completeness is evident throughout, too, with the two aforementioned tracks coming with their own sequels later on in the form of "After We Talked" and a closer also named "You".

YOU?
you

Junk Culture / West Coast / 2009

ohmg is this tomboy?

So, i felt it was necessary that i post his first album. Lots of samples, glitched with some wikid drums. It works really well in a Star Slinger playlist hehe. but if you like Tobacco, Star Slinger, Blackbird Blackbird, or any of that crazy shiz i think you'll be able to dig this. I must admit sometimes he goes too heavy on the glitch but, all in all they are strong beats. really strong beats.

linin' em up like asscracks?

Junk Culture / Summer Friends / 2011

hihowareya!

Oxford Mississippi native Deepak Mantena of creative pop-project Junk Culture developed the sound for his newest release, Summer Friends, from a lifetime collection of sounds he’d captured on a handheld recorder. Drawing on inspiration he found in the vibrant harmonies, psychedelic noises and dance rhythms that saturated his environment, he created alluring melodies using guitar, keyboard, and percussion and topped them off with choruses of his own explosive vocals.

With influences that range from Caribou, Animal Collective and The Beach Boys, Man Man to MF Doom and Fennesz, his new songs have transformed significantly from his last record. Don’t forget to check out Junk Culture on MySpace, Facebook, and his official site.

wow

westcoast (from his last album which is more instrumental)

Tyler, The Creator / Bastard / 2010

19 year old self-produced (no samples) self-released hardcore hip-hop that disses everything, especially steve harvey

BRING BACK THE OLD SCHOOL

also, new video to get you pumped for the next album, which will be better than the first

POKÉMON Black & White(w/ds emulator)/2011

So.. i'm pretty sure there are some readers who love to play some pokémon!! soooo... i decided to post the latest pokémon game along with an emulator so we can all get a little bit of throw-back-game-time while we're stoned! c;

Emu

White
BLACK

Pele-Elephant-1999

Get this shit up in your itunes, for real. It's a must have if you like Snowing or Maps & Atlases or American Football, but with a banjo. Seriously give it a try, it's going to be on my playlist for a while.

Pele was an instrumental post-rock band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The group formed in the summer of 1997 by guitarist Chris Rosenau, bassist Scott Schoenbeck and drummer Jon Mueller. Ever-evolving in sound, the band was difficult to classify. Early in Pele's career, critics had dubbed the band post-rock. However, later many fans began to hear them as jazzy, with "nimble" guitars, "rolling" bass, and "skittering" drums "with angular fills and layered beats."(via Wikipedia)

Dis shit is illlll. Banjo mathrock!

The Radio Dept. / Clinging To a Scheme / 2010

a screen cap from everyone's favourite film GRASS
SASSY RESEARCH

The long-awaited new album 'Clinging To A Scheme' will officially hit the stores in March 2010 directly from Labrador Records.
'David', released in 2009, was the first single for the album. The track 'Heaven's On Fire' was the second single & was released March 2010.
Melodic shoegaze from the 21st century.

Heaven's On Fire

Dreams / Forgotten Thoughts / 2011

To go along with Kris' post on Washed Out, here is an EP by DREAMS. "Forgtten Thoughts" has elements of a "chillwave" groove with a balance of synth-pop. Headphones are recommended. 

HIGHly recommended

Washed Out / Life of Leisure / 2009

Do your Sasquatch research.

Washed Out submerges a sense of intense feeling within its 80s-fantasy electronic ether. Greene's "copy of a copy" distance, then, comes across as a form of emotional repression. The yearning-in-utero effect is strongest on woozy centerpiece "Feel It All Around". With blurry singing, cheap-sounding synths, and a humid, syrupy flow, the track suggests an 80s synth pop hit that won't come straight out and cop to itself-- or a young man in love, too tongue-tied (or too stoned?) to admit it. "You feel it all around yourself," Greene echoes. As for what "it" is, the song never says.
You'll see it.

Gold Panda / Unreleased Medical Journal / 2010

Glitchit

CD comes packed in a card sleeve. It was available at his shows during June 2010 and while ordering Lucky Shiner album from www.luckyshiner.com. This is some heavy shit. Every time i listen to Gold Panda i think of someone making the music with multiple tape recorders and just picture some dude onstage with a box full of tape casettes throwin' them in the crowd n'shit... but this is definitely good music to relax too. Take a couple deep breaths, look up and get lost in the repitition.

Seeing Suge / Breaking (single) / 2011

E-May, Star Slinger, Blackbird Blackbird

This is a collaboration between Blackbird Blackbird, Star Slinger, and the canadian hip-hop artist E-May. For the most part it is very chill, I find it nearly impossible for someone to successfully rap over glitch hop, but this shit is next to tolerable. The whole single (4 songs) will certainly keep you coming back for more though. The pieces that Blackbird and Slinger doo separately on the album are gems for sure.

Teams Vs. Star Slinger / Collab / 2011

En'the album cover chill as fuck even?

I cannot tell you how much i enjoy this fucking album and i JUST downloaded it. I don't know why but I'm infatuated with Star Slinger. I'm going to have to look into Teams. Expect some up in this shit.

"Online collaborations between producers Star Slinger (repping the UK for Manchester) and Teams (standing up for America from Knoxville, Tennessee) reward the fruits of online labor: six blog-rockin’, booty-shakin’ rippers, culled from vinyl-sourced samples of R&B and modern soul classics and reworked, twerked, and shimmied into the matrix of hip hop rhythms, sunshine, and classy, electro-clipped states of mind. The work of these two individuals permeates the original material up, under and around, until you’re not entirely sure how you’ll ever listen to the dusties in your collection again without treatments like the ones provided here. Good times for the summertime state of mind, no matter what time of year you’re livin’ in."

Carnifex / Dead In My Arms / 2007

 It's been a while since I posted any metal. This is Carnifex's first album and I'm surprised this hasn't been posted yet. I have been dabbling in metal for a little while but the second track on this album is simply mindblowing. Fellow DMS contributers Abby and Rob played a couple tracks for me the other day and I've been meaning to post it ever since. They tell me Carnifex, and this album in particular, are a pretty good foundation for listeners, and I agree. This album has all the things good metal needs.

If you've wanted to start listening to metal and didn't know where to start, this is where

Mogwai / Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will / 2011

So I guess this leaked a week early. I don't really listen to much post-rock but this album is kind of growing on me. If you listen/enjoy Mogwai you'll like this album it's got the same four-minute-plus songs that take their time and know they aren't in any rush to impress. Special thanks to my n-word Black Snow for informing me of the album's leakage. Ew, album leakage...

Get at it!

Fancy Mike / Madison Square Gardner / 2010

is he just trying too hard?

Neon Indianesque space travel tunes. imagine being inside the grid when you listen to the opening track Ramachandran. Glitchy and heavy on the synthesizer. When you hear the beginning Lazer Opera,,, you will be like that copy cattin' s.o.b. it seriously sounds just like derezzed... but just the beginning. But back to the story.. its some glitch hop that will help get you to the chillest groove station in proximity to you.
HIPSTER CRACK

The Go! Team / Apollo Throwdown (Starslinger Remix)

One hella groovy remix. Some harpischord in the background with some nice little chimey deals.
definitely another top of the line Star Slinger Remix.

Right Click+Save_As=.mp3

Treefight for Sunlight / A Compilation of Vibrations For Your Skull / 2010

Treefight for Sunlight's debut LP, upon my first listen, reminded me of The Turtles and The Beach Boys. It's a fairly short album (33:53) but some of my favorites from this album are "What Became of You and I," "You and the New World," and "Rain Air."

DOWNLOAD "WHAT BECAME OF YOU AND I"
DOWNLOAD THE ALBUM

Alexander Ebert / Alexander Ebert / 2011

I haven't really listened to Alexander Ebert's (lead singer of Ima Robot and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros) self-titled LP as much as I should because I am permanently stuck on one particular song- "Remember Our Heart."  It's a bittersweet track with beautifully layered harmonies and instrumentation. 

DOWNLOAD "REMEMBER OUR HEART"

DOWNLOAD THE ALBUM

The Durutti Column / Factory 14 / 1980

While researching this I learned this is a re-release.
mindfuck.

The Durutti Column are an English post-punk band formed in 1978 in Manchester, England. The band is an ongoing project of guitarist (and occasional pianist) Vini Reilly who is often accompanied by drummer Bruce Mitchell. Other current members are Keir Stewart (on bass, keyboards and harmonica) and Reilly's girlfriend Poppy Morgan (on piano).
Listen to a sketch for summer
Wtf i though this was new shit...

Star Slinger / Rogue Cho Pa / 2011

This is the latest release by Star Slinger. Some things he "had layin around"... Enjoy
Rogue Cho Pa EP by Star Slinger

it has reached its download limit on soundcloud, but...

Satanstompingcaterpillars / Flower Slides / 2000

This is Black Moth Super Rainbow before Black Moth Super Rainbow was called Black Moth Super Rainbow.

sooooo lo-fi mannnn 

Camper Van Beethoven / Key Lime Pie / 1989

Camper Van Beethoven is an American alternative rock group formed in Redlands, California in 1983.
An eclectic band, Camper Van Beethoven mixes elements of pop, ska, punk rock, folk and alternative country, as well as various types of world music. Their aggressive musical pluralism created a multi-disciplinary sound that has rapidly evolved from record to record. The band initially polarized audiences within the hardcore punk scene of California's Inland Empire that birthed them before finding wider acceptance in their new home of Santa Cruz and, eventually, an international audience. Their strong iconoclasm and emphasis on Do It Yourself values proved to be influential to the burgeoning indie rock movement.

TRY / This is something my father introduced me to. Got to show his influence somewhere. 

AZ / Doe or Die / 1995

As if I hadn't posted enough of this shit: Here is some more 90's East Coast. My main man AZ, many of you may know him off his lines from "Life's a Bitch"

If you ever wanted a second Illmatic, this is as close as you'll get

Robert N Paulson / Empty Hymns EP / 2011

This is a brief five song demo from one of DMS's own, Rob Paulson. It's an easy blend of piano and vocals with a surprising ability to get stuck in your head. Give it a try, you'll be glad you did.

If Jesus liked music, which he doesn't, he'd listen to this

The Wombats / A Guide to Love Loss & Desperation / 2008

The Wombats Proudly Present: A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation is the first album to be released in Britain by British indie band The Wombats. It was released on November 5, 2007 on 14th Floor Records.[1] There is also a DVD to accompany the album which includes footage of them at the South by Southwest festival along with music videos from the band's recent singles. The album was recorded at the Rockfield Studios. The album managed to reach #11 in the UK Albums Chart. On the single for "Let's Dance to Joy Division" there is a B-side of "Derail and Crash" and a hidden track of the Fireman Sam theme song played by the band.

This album brought brit pop to the radio in 2009