EP: Savage Sister & Lykanthea // sundrowned

sundrowned, a collab between Savage Sister and Lykanthea is everything it ought to be. It aims at the right target and hits dead-center bullseye. This is the kind of music  Memoryhouse might  have made if they hadn't gotten signed; perfect dream pop shoegaze. The EP a is a clear '10', and one of the best we're likely to hear this year. 

This, the astonishing remixes they've made, and what I heard of their forthcoming Wild Sleep EP (February 28), Savage Sister has established itself as a major artist. Lykanthea is Lakshmi Ramgopal, an experimental solo musician, also based in Chicago.

"Savage Sister is a kewl-bear dream pop/shoegaze/dreamwave band based in Chicago, made up of Michael Tenzer, Chloe Lundgren and Caitlin Klask."

Track: Savage Sister "Old Orchard Beach" (Magnetic Fields Cover)

                                     Shoegaze dreampop dreamwave Chicago Savage Sister
                                                Wild Sleep EP drops 18 February  2014

TRACK OF THE MONTH: MEISHI SMILE "PALE"

I remembered  "PALE" from  MEISHI SMILE's SPF420 set in June 2013. It's one of the best tracks I've heard lately, state-of-the-art dream-pop, or maybe dream-rave is a better term, because it's a glowing, breathing, side-chained future-bliss anthem that had me fist-pumping on the roof when I heard the track on a proper system.

"Lust" is from the forthcoming LP PALE, which drops January 28th on vinyl and CD, via Attack The Music,  and digitally via ZOOM LENS. 

Track: Savage Sister "Katy Song" (Red House Painters Cover)

"Savage Sister is a dream pop/shoegaze/dreamwave band based in Chicago." -- from their Soundcloud. My kind of music, and a great re-visioning of the original.Their new  Wild Sleep EP drops on Feb. 18.

Track Download: "Silver Liar" by AyGeeTee

Silver Liar by AyGeeTee

GuMMyBeAR // Sakura MP3

GuMMyBeAR - Sakura by GuMMyBeAR

TAQUWAMI // BLURRYWONDER EP

                                        New EP from Tokyo's Taquwami via Void Youth.

DEEP SUMMER DREAM // July 2012 Podcast Mixtape

D E E P _ S U M M E R _ D R E A M The anothercountyradio July mixtape / podcast is 18 tracks, trimmed, replay gained and sequenced for play as a 'set'. At 75 minutes it fits nicely onto a CD. This is NOT headphone music. It's bass music, best heard on a loud amplified system with sub. There's no track list - just trust me; it is all killer, no filler. The best of current 'dream'.

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RAJA // WITCH LP

My favorite album of the summer is a record released in November 2011?? Yes it is. the volume of new music flowing from the internet in the past two years is so great  that there’s no shame in having overlooked something,. The real shame would be to bypass promoting such a wonderful record simply because it’s eight months old, because it’s still ahead of its’ time.

 Raja’s WITCH is a veritable encyclopedia of beats and processing effects, drawing on every current in contemporary internet music – witch-wave-trap-hop- dream-step, if you will, but essentially unclassifiable. Bits of movie dialog, familiar hip-hop samples, droning witchy organs are combined with uninhibited invention. Moody dark witch vibes alternate with beautiful chillwave glo-fi swells.  The album is filled with startlingly original fresh beats. WITCH is like what J Dilla might have recorded had he met with glo-fi;  sortofa DONUTS 2011 or GLO-NUTS. 

There’s nothing lo-fi about this, the sound is terrific at high volume.  The diversity of the material is striking, and the invention is sustained over the thirty tracks. The album (in spite of the 'mixtape' label) succeeds beyond its' own evident ambition, and marks the emergence of RAJA as a major talent.  Listen to WITCH below, and you can download a zip of the LP here.

WITCH is one third of a Magnum Opus by Raja, The October Series. RED and COLOR are the other parts, which I haven't even opened. They released 77 songs on one day! No wonder it's taken a few months to diffuse...all are available from Astro Nautico.

He released Remixes 2012 in April, a collection of bootleg remixes / mash-ups, which is still available via Astro Nautico, go here

or download it direct.

PRESSED AND // Komuso Flutter Kick IV

Andrew Hamlet and Mat Jones (of It Is Rain On My Face) together make up Pressed And. Their new EP HYPER THISTLE is out July 24 on MUSH. This oddly titled track is a taste.