circlesquare

Circlesquare is Vancouver born and Berlin-based Jeremy Shaw. His music is thick and powerful, and I would say more important for the music world (by way of inspiring musicians) than it is great. But it can also be very great. Jeremy began Circlesquare in 1999 with a 3 track EP called The Distance After - an EP which began to sketch out the musical landscape Jeremy sought to chart. By 2003 his orientation in this space was more defined with his full length album Pre-Earthquake Anthem. Boomkat called it “dense, considered stuff… mixing up a brooding and pounding melancholy, bass-fueled sensory exploration, and purest minimal electronic meltdown.”

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In 2006 he released Fight Sounds EP on which he seemed to be pushing the industrial button a bit more, all the while keeping things at the pace of a snail on fire.

Here's Fight Sounds Pt. 1, a track about shifting loyalties among friends and the question as to who is to blame for when they fall apart.

Then in 2007, the label that was releasing his stuff Output went under and Jeremy had to find another label. He first began work on his next LP from Vancouver, writing songs without practicing them with a band. In 2008 he moved back to Berlin, reformed a band and began playing his new songs live. He then went into the studio with the experience and refinement that only playing live can bring. The 2009 full length album that followed, Songs About Dancing and Drugs, was released on !K7. Here is a quick promo interview with Jeremy about the album.




The first single from the album is Dancers

The second single Hey You Guys got remix treatment from Mickey Moonlight, as I posted earlier.
Circlesquare - Hey You Guys by le_maitre


Ten to One



Timely (Excerpt) -- a hommage to Vancouver in the late 90's.

So go to filestube and download Songs About Dancing and Drugs and while your there and in a polished fashion-smart vocal dance mood, get Tiga's pretty excellent Ciao! album from last year if you don't have it already. I have Gentle Giant, the albums deepest cut on repeat here at graefe headquaters. No surprise that its co-written and produced by James Murphy (of LCD Soundsystem). Now go to hotfile and get the Gentle Giant Remix package with a sweet dubstep version by none other than Martyn and a pretty good minimal effort by Efdemin (that unfortunately sounds not enough like the original). Check here for Tiga's typically quirky press release for the package.

Tiga - Gentle Giant (Co-Written and Produced by James Murphy)



Tiga - Gentle Giant (Martyn Heaven Remix)