Taken from SYMMETRY's limited repress of The Messenger promo LP out now on Italians Do It Better.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Monday, October 14, 2013
[EVENT] ITALIANS DO IT BETTER VS DFA NIGHT [PART X]
Chicago I Love You, Do312 & The Minimal Beat Presents:
Italians Do It Better VS DFA Night (Part X)
Who will prevail? Who fuckin cares! Come dance the night away with some sweet, sweet tunes by LCD Soundsystem, Chromatics, The 2 Bears, Mike Simonetti, Shit Robot, Benoit & Sergio, The Crystal Ark, Glass Candy, Farah, Desire, Hot Chip and much more from the labels Italians Do It Better and DFA and some super hip Garage Disco!!
DJ 's BILLEH OCEAN, RANDY NIETO w/ special guest DJ JIMMY KAPS
10pm - ?
NO COVER
RSVP HERE
Thursday, September 5, 2013
[EVENT] ITALIANS DO IT BETTER VS DFA NIGHT (PART IX)
DJ 's BILLEH OCEAN, RANDY NIETO w/ special guest DJ JIMMY KAPS
9pm; NO COVER
Thursday, August 22, 2013
ITALIANS DO IT BETTER RELEASE AFTER DARK 2 INSTRUMENTALS
“Due To Popular Demand From Djs, Designers, Directors, Dancers, & Debutantes…We’re Posting The Instrumental Version Of “AFTER DARK 2” For Everyone To Cut Up For Their Mixtapes, Runways, Films, Stages, Parties, Etc…”
Download all of the instrumentals from After Dark 2 for free HERE, courtesy of Italians Do It Better.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
VIDEO: GLASS CANDY - REDHEADS FEEL MORE PAIN
Italians Do It Better's After Dark 2 is finally available on iTunes still waiting on vinyl, which means we can expect a slow trickle of new videos from Johnny Jewel and his collaborators. The latest is a clip for "Redheads Feel More Pain," the Glass Candy track that closes the compilation. Check it out below!
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
DOWNLOAD AFTER DARK 2 (FREE)
If you don’t have After Dark 2 yet, quite possinbly the nicest musician I have met Johnny Jewel has generously upped a mixed version of the full comp on his Soundcloud— one of my favorite releases of the year so far — and it’s a free download HERE
Friday, May 17, 2013
ITALIANS DO IT BETTER FINALLY RELEASE AFTER DARK 2 COMP
Available on iTunes now. Physical copies “on the way…
01 Glass Candy: Warm in the Winter
02 Desire: Tears From Heaven
03 Mirage: Let’s Kiss
04 Appaloosa: Fill the Blanks
05 Chromatics: Looking For Love
06 SYMMETRY: Heart of Darkness
07 Chromatics: Camera
08 Twisted Wires: Half Lives
09 Glass Candy: The Possessed
10 Chromatics: Cherry
11 Glass Candy: Beautiful Object
12 Farah: Into Eternity
13 Appaloosa: Intimate
14 Mike Simonetti: The Magician
15 Glass Candy: Redheads Feel More Pain
” Italians Do It Better on the slight discrepancy between the tracklist that’s been floating around and the final tracklist:
“NIGHT SHIFT & JOHANNA WILL COME OUT EVENTUALLY. AND THE GLASS CANDY SONGS WILL BE ON “BODY WORK”. JOHNNY HAD 27 TRACKS MIXED & MASTERED FOR AFTER DARK 2. BUT THESE 15 WERE WHAT HE SAID …”COMPLETED THE ETIRE VISION OF THE RECORD”… FOR EXAMPLE, “CHERRY” & “LOOKING FOR LOVE” WERE BOTH RECORDED & MIXED BEFORE “KILL FOR LOVE” WAS RELEASED…BUT HE THOUGHT THEY FIT AFTER DARK 2′S PURPOSE MORE”
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
[LISTEN UP] MIRAGE - LETS KISS
“Let’s Kiss” was written the same week as “Under Your Spell” in November 2008. After a bizarre & beautiful twist of fate, I walked into a remote bar in Montreal where I met the love of my life. The next morning… Ida & I had to leave. We flew to France for a handful of sweaty club shows. On the train out of Paris, I realized my whole world had been permanently turned upside down. The rain was crashing against the windows… & I decided I wanted to make a record that felt like that moment frozen in time… “For Ever Ever”. That’s when After Dark 2 was born. The last five years have been a blur of art & parties. This record represents the people we’ve connected with along the way…in Moscow, in Mexico, in Barcelona, in London, in Portland, in Montreal, in Melbourne, in Houston, in Berlin, in Beijing, in Los Angeles, in Dublin, in Athens… I am so excited to finally be sharing it with you. In 20 minutes, Ida & I get on a plane to Warsaw for our first tour overseas with Chromatics. Even though she is on crutches thanks to a brutal Roller Derby pile up on Sunday… we can’t wait to see all of you again… it’s been way too long. After Dark 2 is out this Friday.
It’s 78 minutes & 16 seconds.
See you on the train!
xo Johnny Jewel”
Thursday, May 2, 2013
[EVENT] ITALIANS DO IT BETTER VS DFA NIGHT [PART VI]
Who will prevail? Who fuckin cares! Come dance the night away with some sweet, sweet tunes by LCD Soundsystem, Chromatics, The 2 Bears, Mike Simonetti, Shit Robot, Benoit & Sergio, The Crystal Ark, Glass Candy, Farah, Desire, Hot Chip and much more from the labels Italians Do It Better and DFA and some super hip Garage Disco!!
DJ 's BILLEH OCEAN, RANDY NIETO w/ special guest DJ JIMMY KAPS
RSVP at Do312.com HERE through Facebook HERE
9pm; NO COVER
Sunday, April 7, 2013
VIDEO: SYMMETRY - STREETS OF FIRE
Italians Do It Better artist Johnny Jewel just released a video for the track Streets Of Fire featuring vocals by Ruth Radelet by his other band Chromatics. Symmetry is a project that released Themes For An Imaginary Film back in 2011. The video is full of footage shot around New York City, and was directed by Alastair Uhlig. Check it out below.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
REMIX: CHROMATICS - TICK OF THE CLOCK (VISIONES THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT REMIX)
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Download Visione's Agressive "Tick Of The Clock" remix via Johnny Jewel's Soundcloud page... Visione takes a razor to this now classic Chromatics track. Enjoy!
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
VIDEO: GLASS CANDY - THE POSSESSED
A few days ago Johnny Jewel of Glass Candy released the mp3 of "THE POSSESSED a (EXTENDED RUNWAY EDIT)" now they drop the Alberto Rossini directed music video for it!
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
[LISTEN UP] GLASS CANDY - THE POSSESSED (EXTENDED RUNWAY EDIT)
New GLASS CANDY here is an extended take on what’ll appear on Italians Do It Better’s forthcoming compilation After Dark 2, which everybody has been anticipating since last summer but which still has no release date. We’ll keep you posted!
From... "After Dark 2"
Through The Glass
Our Cares Are Laughable
We Are Flies
We're Six Billion Terrible
Women In Vogue
To The House Nightly
Wanton Galore
The Happy House Nightly
We Are Flies
We're Blue & We're Beautiful
Multiplied
We're Six Billion Terrible
Mortals Forlorn
Through The Glass Darkly
Wanton Galore
The Looking Glass Darkly
Wild Child
Set Free In The Night
Wild Child
Set Free In The Night
Through The Glass Darkly
The Looking Glass Darkly
Too Bad
The Mad
Darkly Obsessed
To The House Nightly
So Sad
We Have
Le'Go The Possessed
The Happy House Nightly
It's All Things To The Menagerie
We Die & Wait For The Burn
It's All Things To The Menagerie
We Came To Learn
Await The Return...
Of The Child Made Wild !
XO
Ida No & Johnny Jewel
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
ITALIANS DO IT BETTER VS DFA NIGHT (PART III)
DJ 's BILLEH OCEAN, RANDY NIETO, DJ MISA along with special guests spinning all night long.
Brooklyn Brewery will be there starting at 9pm buying you tastings from their exclusive Brewmaste
Monday, December 3, 2012
JOHNNY JEWEL RELEASES BLACK & WHITE / A MIX FOR AUTUMN
“After looping the globe twice…We’re finally back in Montreal for one of my favorite times of year. It’s the end of Autumn, & all of the Reds, Greens, & Yellows have disintegrated into Black & White. Everything is buried by the snow…Perfect weather for locking yourself in the studio with a synthesizer & your favorite records… I put together a collage of songs that, for one reason or another… always remind me of Autumn. Something Old. Something New. Something Borrowed. Something Blue.”
-- Johnny Jewel
Black & White / Autumn Mix
01. Lamuka (Johnny Jewel Edit) / Zazou Bikaye Cy1
02. The Fading Faces / Symmetry
03. Nuit / Xeno & Oaklander
04. The President Is Gone / John Carpenter & Alan Howarth
05. Dans Mes Reves (Test Pressing) / Desire
06. One Night At The Raw Deal 12″/ Twisted Wires
07. Ceremony (16 Track Demo) / Chromatics Feat. Ida No On Lead Guitar
08. Stars & Houses (Feeling Without Touching 12″) / Glass Candy
09. It’s More Fun To Compute (Symmetry Edit) / Kraftwerk
10. Home Is In Your Head / His Name Is Alive
11. Alone In The Ring / Bill Conti
12. As We Could Ever / His Name Is Alive
13. Boy Girl / Blonde Redhead
14. Afraid / Nico
Monday, November 5, 2012
CHROMATICS RELEASE RUNNING FROM THE SUN [KILL FOR LOVE SESSIONS]
Jet
lagged & buzzing from Friday's show in Paris, I couldn't sleep...so
I stayed up all night with Oko talking about color based dreams while
blending these tracks together. Since the album came out, a lot of
people on the road have been telling us they are curious to hear some of
the unreleased music from the Kill For Love sessions...Recorded
November 2009 through December 2011, these songs were all mixed between 4
& 6 a.m. After hours of tracking at the studio in Montreal, we'd
clear the channels on the mixer, open a bottle of wine, & feel
around in the dark...working our way through the atmospheric elements
& peeling back layers of rhythm...throwing the songs into the
abstract pile & playing them while driving home in the snow. In
Amsterdam right now trying to upload it from the hotel. Fingers
crossed...
This is a lullaby for you...
Sweet Dreams!
xo
Johnny Jewel
CHROMATICS – RUNNING FROM THE SUN [Kill For Love Sessions]
- Dreaming In Color (00:23-03:08)
- Red Car (03.09-07:27)
- Kill For Love (07:27-11:30)
- Last Wish (11:31-15:01)
- Running From The Sun (15:02-19:13)
- Disintegration (19:14-22:31)
- These Streets Will Never Look The Same (22:32-30:53)
- Blue Moon (30:54-34:38)
Thursday, October 11, 2012
AFTER DARK REMASTERED
With After Dark 2 almost ready to be released, Johnny Jewel has dropped a free download of the classic first compilation After Dark [Remastered], which features tracks from Farah, Mirage, Glass Candy, Chromatics, and the rest of the Italians Do It Better roster. JJ had this to say.
Over 5 years ago we released a slow-burning label sampler at midnight on my birthday. The original pressing was a demo CDR that Ida No colored with markers & glued cutouts of my hand spraypainting our names on the world. It was supposed to be a limited edition of 237 copies meant for the merch tables of Texas & California. It exploded overnight. 77 minutes of analog electronic music mutating through Italo Disco, Krautrock, Electro, Giallo Cinema, & Pop. By now, After Dark seems like it's in its thousandth pressing...(we lost track a long time ago). And as we prepare for the release of After Dark 2, we wanted to share with you where it all began. The last 5 years seem like a beautiful blurry dream. Since the October 15th release date was announced back in July, everyone has grown increasingly anxious for the hard copy. At that time, we didn't know Karl Lagerfeld was going to commission Chromatics to choreograph 27 minutes of music for the Chanel runway. We also couldn't have known that Symmetry was going to be asked to score a top-secret motion picture for 2013. There is so much music we can't wait for you to hear. For the diehard fans, we're going to start leaking tracks next week. After slowly chiseling away at it since the spring of 2008, After Dark 2 is finally right around the corner. Thanks to everyone for being so enthusiastic & patient. I promise it's worth the wait. In the meantime, download the fully remastered version of the first After Dark from my soundcloud. I blended it together at 5 am this morning.
Enjoy! xo
Johnny Jewel
- Glass Candy / Rolling Down The Hills (3:32)
- Chromatics / Hands In The Dark (4:48)
- Mirage / Last Nite A Dj Saved My Life (6:42)
- Mirage / Lady Operator (5:37)
- Glass Candy / Computer Love (5:37)
- Professor Genius / La Grotta (6:33)
- Chromatics / Killing Spree (1:19)
- Farah / Law Of Life (7:28)
- Chromatics / In The City (7:09)
- Glass Candy / Miss Broadway (6:46) Feat. Nat Walker / Saxaphone & Eyvind Kang / Strings
- Mirage / Lake Of Dreams (9:26)
- Farah / Dancing Girls (5:36)
- Glass Candy / The Chameleon (4:55)
- Professor Genius / Pegaso (2:44)
Monday, September 24, 2012
JOHNNY JEWEL RELEASES LET’S KISS MIX
“Sunday morning mix” from Chromatics/Glass Candy/Desire/Symmetry mastermind Johnny Jewel of Italians Do It Better featuring Tangerine Dream, Nico, Symmetry, unreleased Farah, and more.
JOHNNY JEWEL :: LET’S KISS / SUNDAY MORNING MIX
TANGERINE DREAM / LOVE ON A REAL TRAIN
SYMMETRY / OVER THE EDGE
TIM THALER / DAS BOOT
NICO / MY FUNNY VALENTINE
SYMMETRY / JACKIE’S EYES
TRISOMIE 21 / COMING FROM DARKNESS
FARAH / SHADOW OF A DOBT (Sonic Youth Cover / Unrealeased Demo From The “Into Eternity” Sessions / November 2008)
SYMMETRY / BLOODSPORT
KRZYSZTOF KOMEDA / ROSEMARY’S BABY (Piano Theme)
PATTY WATERS / MOON, DON’T COME OUT TONIGHT
SYLVESTER MUSIC COMPANY / WATERFALLS
MOODS / TROPICAL BIRDS
TELEMUSIQUES / NO. 37
TWILIGHT SINGERS / DON’T CALL (Desire Cover)
HANDEL / SARABANDE SUITE NO. 11
Monday, August 27, 2012
CHROMATICS RELEASE KILL FOR LOVE 2xLP
Hot Off The Presses... "Kill For Love" Is Finally Available On Vinyl
- Two LPs Pressed On Magenta Vinyl In Black Sleeves
- Double Sided Lyric Insert
- Silver Foil Stamped Back Cover
- Mp3 Download Codes
Download The Free Digital Art Book Designed By Chromatics & Desire. Includes 37 Drawings Plus A .wav file of the track "No Escape".
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD ART BOOK
CHROMATICS KILL FOR LOVE (DRUMLESS VERSION)
According to folks at Italians Do It Better HQ there will be a vinyl release of the Kill For Love Drumless Version soon!!! Here is the quote below...
"JOHNNY'S WORKING ON A VINYL VERSION OF THIS WITH THE ALTERNATE VERSION OF "KILL FOR LOVE" THAT WAS NEVER RELEASED. MORE ELECTRONIC THAN THE ALBUM VERSION. EXPECT A VINYL RELEASE FOR THAT IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS. MAIL ORDER ONLY. GOING TO BE SIMILAR TO DRUMLESS...BUT WITH A FEW ALTERNATE TAKES SWAPPED OUT FROM THIS VERSION. IT'S ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!"
Drumless version of Kill For Love available for FREE DWLD HERE
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