Mar 12 2012

Teen Daze’s new track

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Vancouver Chillwave/SynthWave crossover producer Teen Daze will be releasing his début album ‘all Of Us, together’ in May. This new track, ‘Treten’, is just a taste of what’s to come.

‘Treten’ is typical of Teen Daze’s sound. Lush synthesizer atmospheres layered thick over retro synth bass and melodies. A tack that’s both dancefloor friendly and hypnotically ambient. When you focus in on the tracks core it’s a sweet, nostalgic peice of ElectroPop, playful with shifting arpeggios and a soaring lead line. Then the track is washed with heavy synth pads it give it a hazy, dreamlike quality. The album should be the perfect summer accompaniment.

♫ Teen Daze – Treten

Teen Daze’s ‘All of Us, Together’ is released 22nd May on Lefse Records.

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Mar 8 2012

World Tour’s new EP

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April will see the release of Sweedish three peice eclectic outfit World Tour’s third EP, ‘Believe’, on the home of all things Chilly, Wavey, Interestingy and Left-Field Poppy, Cascine.

This new EP is comprised of four tracks worth of chilled beats and slow-mo Piano House riffs and impassioned wailing from the tundra. An intricately crafted mix of introspective Indie and synth happy electronica, the ‘Believe’ EP is geared toward those times when you need to just stop and take everything in, this isn’t music for those in a hurry. The title track of the EP mixes up wrong speed House and a slightly oriental slant for an end result that makes everything go a bit hazy.

♫ World Tour – Believe

The ‘Believe’ EP is released 10th April on Cascine.

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Mar 4 2012

Nite Jewel’s ‘One Second Of Love’ video

Nite Jewel is just about to release her second album ‘One Second Of Love’ and it’s similarly titled lead single, and has premièred the video for the track.

Delaney Bishop directs this freaky ladies get-together come paper headed goat ceremony. I don;t know what’s going on, but it looks like most people are having a good time, and that’s what counts.

Nite Jewel’s ‘One Second Of Love’ album is released 6th March.

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Feb 28 2012

Tako Tomago

I’m really not sure where to start with newcomer Tako Tomago. there’s not much avenue to put his music into words, all I know for definite is that it’s pretty damn enjoyable to listen to.

So here goes…it’s kinda’ like Glitchy Chillwave with elements of French Disco & Electro and Dub basslines, made out of R&B samples with the end result being played to you when you’re half asleep. It’s a dreamlike swirling of beats, basslines and half heard vocals. It’s music that does take some commitment to listen to, there a lot going on in these tracks and it’s stuff that isn’t always immediately apparent, but if you give it the time it deserves you;ll get a lot out of it. It’s chilled, with out being laid back, it’s loose and floaty whilst retaining a pretty solid groove and once you dive beneath the surface, there are some moments of musical and production genius to be found within these tracks.

♫ Tako Tomago – Late Night Craves

♫ Tako Tomago (Feat. Laura Scheiber) – Into Thin Air

♫ Tako Tomago (Feat. Avery Moore) – Lizzy

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Feb 22 2012

Enjoyed’s new EP

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Is post-Chillwave a thing yet? If it is I would say Enjoyed are trailblazing the Genre, he bills himself as Joystep, not sure if thet’s a thing either, and his new EP, ‘Paws Extended’ (a stuffed-full-of-extra-goodies version of his ‘Paws’ EP of last year) definitely has more in common with things that end with ‘wave than things that end with ‘step.

The lead track of the EP, ‘Paws’ is warm and sublime, a swirling soundscape of relaxed Synths and reverb washed vocals that ebb and flow over a simple ,but Funk laden bassline. It’s ghostly groove is compelling and intoxicating. The EP continues with the hazy dub of ‘‘Waterfoot’ before launching into ‘Pupsqueak’, a meeting of the best of Chillwave with the more eclectic end of LA Funk. A deep, loose rhythm section provides rolling bass for the distant vocals and toytown synth leads to play over. ‘Swap’ sees Enjoyed in a hypnotic House mode that demands to be played in seedy clubs on hot city nights. reMixes are supplied by Glyphs, Vanilla, Ghosting Season and NazcarNation, who bring the broken beats and droning synths in a mid-frequency, mesmerizing, slice of Urban Funk.

♫ Enjoyed – Paws

♫ Enjoyed – Pupsqueak

♫ Enjoyed – Swap

♫ Enjoyed – Paws (NazcarNation Remake)

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Feb 20 2012

TEEEL & Sumuo

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What better way to ease yourself into the week than this new collaboration that sees TEEEL teaming up with Sumuo for some cosmic space-Funk.

The result of this meeting of minds is ‘Cosmic Collision’, in more than just title. It’s a glorious synthesizer workout loaded with soaring, stratospheric lead lines. the whole track is underpinned with some nice bass, reminiscent of New Order or Ned’s Atomic Dustbin which provides a rolling melodic groove for some seriously space-age electronic noodling. Chilled and futuristic, perfect Monday morning fodder.

♫ TEEEL & Sumuo – Cosmic Collision

Teeel’s ‘Amulet’ is out now.

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Feb 4 2012

Neon Indian’s ‘Fallout’ video

So, [adult swim] went after Neon Indian to convince him to let them make a video for him, I don’t think he needed much convincing, and the result is this clip for ‘Fallout’.

Lilfuchs directed this ‘80’s cartoon homage that works so well with Neon Indian’s chilled Dreamwave. Although I don’t remember so many boobs in M.A.S.K. or Pole Position.

‘Fallout’ is taken from Neon Indian’s sophomore album Era Extraña.

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Feb 2 2012

Aimes reMixes Teeel

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Brooklyn based purveyor of introspective retro Pop Aimes has just revealed his reMix of Teeel‘s Triangle Waves’. He’s given it an energy boost and delivered a really quality slice of vintage electronic Pop.

The original version of ‘Triangle Waves’ was the lead track on Teeel’s ‘Amulet’, a mid-tempo, almost SynthWavey, example of post-Chillwave ElectroPop, all analog synths and distant vocals. It was a good tune, but Aimes has made it even better. Drawing on both the current wave of Indie-ElectroPop, with it’s catchy ‘80’s electronic Soul reference points, and bits of Italo and Disco Aimes turns in a track with all the charm of the original but more of a solid groove behind it and some really sweetly processed synth sounds. If Aimes is going for a retro futuristic style of chilled and soulful RoboPop, he’s absolutely nailed it. Part BladeRunner and part ‘80’s Discotheque with the soul of a poet, I remember when defenders of Real Music™ said that synthesizers had no soul, looks like it’s some humble pie for them then!

♫ Teeel – Triangle Waves (Aimes reMix)

Teeel’s ‘Amulet’ is out now.

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Jan 31 2012

RxGibbs

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Michigan based RxGibbs is the latest producer to join the awesome Cascine family, releasing his first EP for them toward the end of February. Ron Gibbs is keeping it chill but not forgetting tracks need a hook.

Taking Chillwave to it’s logical extreme is something that has been on the cards for a while now. It was only a matter of time before someone bled reverb soaked ElectroPop into true ambient and RxGibbs kinda’ hit’s that mark between the two. The six tracks on his forthcoming ‘Futures’ EP are supremely chilled electronica, atmospheric soundscapes layered with evolving tones and roomy beats. Droning synths echo around ethereal, half heard, vocals. The whole effect is quite haunting. But here’s where RxGibbs doesn’t forget the hook, most of the tracks on the EP have got a pretty solid rhythm section. Almost Disco beats and head -nodding basslines keeps the tracks in check, keep them grounded and keep them something that’s still fun to listen to. Check out the EP’s title track, ‘Futures’, one of the more left-field grooves on the records, and experiment in the filter as an instrument with hypnotic synth bass groove.

♫ RxGibbs – Futures

RxGibbs’ ‘Futures’ EP is out 21st February on Cascine.

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Jan 26 2012

Nite Jewel’s ‘One Second Of Love’ album

Nite Jewel

Track ten on Nite Jewel’s forthcoming second new album ‘One Second Of Love’ freaked me out! It’s titled ‘Clive’, but that’s my name! For a good few seconds I genuinely thought they we’re somehow doing personalized promos now, I had to check and double check other sites tracklistings. But there is it, track ten on ‘One Second Of Love’ is named after me. It must be, right? Why would you call it that otherwise?

Ramona Gonzalez’s second record is a thing of beauty. From her Nu-Funk influenced basslines to the washes of Chillwavey reverb drenched synths to her quirky, left-field delivery this seems to be a more focused record than her début ‘Good Evening’, more coherent. It’s a dark and moody vision of ‘80’s Synth Funk and R&B fed through a modern LA Funk machine and dunked in the Chillwave river. There a particular production here that makes the lush synths and Ramona’s intimate vocals sound quite sparse and separated, but that’s the Nite Jewel sound, it’s something that is at once far away and right next to you. ‘One Second Of Love’ is a melting pot of ideas that is made one by Nite jewels vision. If you want something chilled, but a bit funky, check it out.