Monday, April 29, 2013

[LISTEN UP] SHIT ROBOT - FEELS REAL


The Hi-NRG history of Luke Jenner’s hometown San Francisco is freshly revived for Shit Robot’s cheekily-titled “Feels Real,” on which Jenner plays the slinky Sylvester to Marcus Lambkin’s Patrick Cowley wizardry. Meaty and a bit menacing, Jenner asserts “I think you’ll always want my love” over washes of organ. It all builds to an ecstatic, shouted peak before the whirligig synths implode under the weight of Jenner’s pure falsetto. For the remix, Luke Solomon scrapes off some gloss and opens synthetic space around the ghosts of a guitar lick, while extending the blissful vocal peak over analog bombast and tasteful strands of acid. Order the 12" over at DFA RecordsHERE

[RADIO] THE MINIMAL BEAT 04.20.2013


ARTIST / TRACK / ALBUM
  • Keep Shelly In Athens / In Love With Dusk / In Love With Dusk
  • The Who / Blue Red And Grey / The Who By Numbers
  • The M's / Future Women / Future Women
  • Valeska Valcov / ...But Rather To Escape The Pain / EP
  • Pulp / After You / 12"
  • The Knife / Full Of Fire / Shaking The Habitual
  • The Cure / Close To Me / Greatest Hits
  • Surahn / Watching The World / Remix (Prins Thomas Dikomiks)
  • Police / Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic / Ghost In The Machine
  • James Blake / Digital Lion / Overgrown
  • Shintaro Sakamoto / In A Phantom Mood / How To Live With A Phantom
  • Chromatics / Im On Fire / In The City EP
  • Nite Jewel / One Second Of Love / Peaking Lights Remix
  • The XX / Sunset / Jaimie XX Edits
  • White Mystery / Fun Times / Telepathic
  • Lower Dens / I Get Nervous / Twinhand Movement
  • Muse / Madness / The 2nd Law
  • Grizzly Bear / Sleeping Ute / Nicolas Jaar Remix
  • Sinkane / Jeeper Creeper / Mars

Sunday, April 28, 2013

NICOLAS JAAR LIVE AT BOILER ROOM NYC






This past FEB (02/03/13) I was in NYC visiting my brother and went to this... Nicolas Jaar LIVE at Boiler Room!

Thursday, April 25, 2013

[MIXTAPE] BILLEH OCEAN - A/P/R/I/L/F/L/O/W/E/R/S

MIXTAPE
  • Ghost Loft / So High
  • Darkside / A1
  • Acid Pauli / Requiem For A Loop
  • Surahn / Guilty
  • Wilk & Miskey / Wing Clipper
  • Nicolas Jaar x Grizzly Bear / Sleeping UTE
  • Charleston / Piece By Piece
  • The xx / VCR
  • Nicolas Jaar / I Got A Woman
  • Chromatics / In The City (Low Motion Disco Edit)
  • Peaking Lights / Beautiful Dub
  • Soul Clap / Twist


Wednesday, April 24, 2013

VIDEO: SINKANE - WARM SPELL



A man appears in an alternate reality inhabited by foreign terrain and populated by sirens. He attempts to avoid the sirens’ spell but ultimately fails and he submits to his primal desires and fantasies. Only when he finally submits, is he ultimately able to decode the strange world which surrounds him.

That's the plot for the new Sinkane released video for Warm Spell via DFA.

VIDEO: JC BROOKS AND THE UPTOWN SOUND - ORDINARY


Feast your eyes on “Ordinary”, from JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound's new album Howl starring Traeveon Howard, with a guest appearance by 2012 Air Guitar World Champion, Justin “Nordic Thunder” Howard. Howl is out May 21st on Bloodshot Records.

VIDEO: HEMMINGBIRDS - TOXIC SINGLE


New video from Chicago band Hemmingbirds titled "Toxic Single". Check them out May 3rd at Beat Kitchen more info HERE

Monday, April 22, 2013

[LISTEN UP] DAFT PUNK - GET LUCKY


New single from Daft Punk "Get Lucky" featuring Pharrell Williams is now available now via i-Ttunes

[LISTEN UP] GRIZZLY BEAR - SLEEPING UTE [NICOLAS JAAR REMIX]



Nicholas Jaar released a collaborate 12-inch featuring remixes of Grizzly Bear’s “Sleeping Ute” and Brian Eno’s “Lux” for Record Store Day on Warp Records. Check out the Grizzly Bear remix below. The track is expanded to nearly eight minutes with a mesmerizing bass line along with some deep minimal drum beats.

Friday, April 19, 2013

[RADIO] THE MINIMAL BEAT 04.13.2013



ARTIST / TRACK / ALBUM
  • Whilk & Misky / Darkland / Single
  • Ghost Loft / So High / Single
  • Frank Ocean / Lost / Channel Orange
  • Soul Clap / Twist / 12 Inch
  • GMLN / We Dont Stand A Chance / Cover
  • Mike Snow / Jokers Lair / Happy To You
  • Paul Simon / Crazy Love Vol 2 / Graceland
  • Avi Buffalo / Truth Sets In / Avi Buffalo
  • Shellac/ The Rambler Song/ 45
  • Wire / Fragile / Pink Flag
  • Wire Manaquin / Pink Flag
  • Pavement / Shoot The Singer / Watery Domestic
  • Where Wolf City / Episode 3 / Secret Art Cosiety
  • Glass Candy / Feeling Without Touching / 12 Inch
  • Gang Of Four / I Love a Man In Uniform /
  • The Sherells - Will You Love Me Tommorow - Greatest Hits
Damon Carruesco of Dissappears Guest DJ Set
  • Disappears / Konkact / Kone EP
  • Howard Shore / Welcome to Video Drone / Videodrome OST
  • Eddie Okwedy / Happy Survival / Happy Survival
  • Index / Fire Eyes / Index
  • Denial / California Dreaming / The Weatherman
  • William Onyeabor / Why Go To War / Tomorrow
  • Ruth White / Spleen / Flowers Of Evil
  • Sibylle Baier / I Lost Something In The Hills / Sibylle Baier
  • The Marvelettes / The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game / Pink LP
  • Small Island Pride / Taxi Driver / Jump-Up Carnival, Cook

Thursday, April 18, 2013

[LISTEN UP] PULP X SOULWAX - AFTER YOU



“After You,” Pulp’s saucy disco collaboration with James Murphy finally gets its physical release in two days, on Record Store Day. The B-side of the 12″ single is an eight-minute remix from the Belgian dance-rockers Soulwax! This is a must on Record Store Day 2013.

VIDEO: VACATIONER - FARTHER


Vacationer just released a new music video for the track Farther off there debut Gone featuring footage from there tour this past year.... Gone is out now via Downtown Records

[EVENTS] MOSTLY DISCO (FT. GOLROOM / HEY CHAMP DJS / REDUX DJS / TMB DJS)


Goldroom hits Chicago alongside Hey Champ DJs, Redux DJs & The Minimal Beat DJs Billeh Ocean + Lauren Cole for MOSTLY DISCO! Grab your tickets for guaranteed entry HERE. Limited availability tickets almost sold out!

Monday, April 15, 2013

[RADIO] THE MINIMAL BEAT 04.06.2013



Artist / Track / Album
  • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Jubilee Street / Push The Sky Away
  • Cold War Kids / Water & Power / Dear Miss Lonely Hearts
  • The Strokes / Tap Out / Comedown Machine
Josh Chicoine & Maxton Koc preview music and film from Cimm Fest happening April 18th-21st
  • Big Star / Feel / #1 Record
  • Rolling Stones / Connection / Between The Buttons
  • Pontiak / Lions of Least / The Meters / No More Okey Doke
  • JC Brooks And The Uptown Sound / I Am Trying to Break Your Heart / Want More
  • Tinariwen / Imidwan Win Sahara [ft. Tunde Adebimpe] / Tassili
  • Lydia Loveless / Learn To Say No / Indestructible Machine
  • Van Dyke Parks / Another Dream / The Clang Of The Yankee Reaper
  • Corey Harris / Fulton Blues / Fulton Blues
  • Peaches / Serpentine (I Don't Give A..Part 2) / I Feel Cream
  • Rolling Stones / Memo From Turner / The Singles Collection: The London Years
Jayson Brooks (JC Brooks And The Uptown Sound) Guest DJ Set
  • Disclosure / White Noise / Hudson Mohawke Remix
  • Michael Jackson And The Drastics / Smooth Criminal / MJ A Rocker
  • Joe Jackson / Stepping Out / Night And Day
  • JC Brooks And The Uptown Sound / Security / Howl
  • Joe Jackson / This is Another World / Night And Day
  • St Vincent And David Byrne / Dinner For Two / Love This Giant
  • JC Brooks And The Uptown Sound / Before You Die / Howl