soft and warm

Some soft and warm for you (aka informal installation #4 of my drag series).

NYC's up and coming How To Dress Well makes a firm salute to the lusty moments of Top Gun in his cover of Matthew Dear's Slowdance, the highlight of Black City. The track will be properly released April 5 on Dear's Slowdance EP.
Matthew Dear - Slowdance (How To Dress Well Seance) by ghostly


Check out an interview with How to Dress Well and some of his collaborations with Parisian videographer Jamie Harley





Sun Glitters soft-focus take on drag is pretty convincing.






No Modest Bear has a couple tracks off the album, Everything Could Be Fine up for download.


Lastly check out this nice Kodak to Graph track (which sounds like its working out a Jackson 5 sample?)






Post-Script

Jamie Harley's video for Canada by Prizes



Recent Matthew Dear interview

surfacing

Some nice things surfaced this week...

A new Four Tet single on the A side of this
Pinnacles by Four Tet
...The b-side is a jackin' track from Caribou as Daphni called Ye-Ye that I am still unsure about.


A super nice new Burial/Four Tet/Thom Yorke release (as ripped from London-based Rinse FM). All three collaborating on both tracks.
Burial, Four Tet, Thom Yorke - Ego by colorante

Burial, Four Tet & Thom Yorke - Mirror by ListenBeforeYouBuy


A surprise Thom Yorke DJ set at Low End Theory Club in LA, alongside Flying Lotus and Gaslamp Killer.

His DJ set included tracks from Burial, Modeselektor, Kraftwerk, Squarepusher, Madvillain, Major Lazer and lasted about 80 minutes. Check the LA Times report.


Post-Script
I am absolutely loving that new Radiohead 'album'. Here are some extras.




Radiohead - Codex (Mojib Remix) by Mojib

appreciation

What you appreciate, appreciates.

Brandt Brauer Frick is a German trio specializing in acoustic minimal techno. Daniel Brandt and Jan Brauer played together in school jazz ensembles and later formed the jazz-influenced dance group Scott. Paul Frick was heavily trained in classical music at a young age and went on to study composition with Friedrich Goldmann at the Berlin University of the Arts and write house music sampling orchestral instruments. The three joined forces in 2008, formed the labels Doppelschall and The Gym and began releasing EP's - culminating in their full length debut album You Make Me Real released on !K7 in November, 2010.

'We had felt for years that most instances of combining techno and classical music lack an authentic approach,' says Paul Frick. 'Instead of using only the typical epic orchestra or piano sounds, we love to explore the dirty and percussive sides of those instruments, adapting techniques from composers like John Cage or Helmut Lachenmann: preparing our piano with screws and rubbers, knocking against every single part of an instrument, until we find that one great sound.' - From bio.

Snippets of You Make Me Real



Brandt Brauer Frick - Teufelsleiter by elninodiablo

(A bouncy, cinematic Lee Jones BBF remix here )


One of my top 5 non-dance oriented songs of the year, from Paul Frick's solo I Mean single/EP



paul frick - process part 117 (steal my heart feat crawford) by modyfier



Post-Script


The above Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers was the 2001 short film that lead to this:

Synopisis



Bonus

vinyl only

Some fresh and not-so-fresh vinyls for you.

Out soon!
CB005 - You Make Me So Hot / Sunrise by Cosmic Boogie


Out soon!
The Horses Edits KAT011 Samples by KAT Records


Cosmic Metal Mother - Rat's Poem (buy)

kay bc

This is the first installment in a new series with the working title, The Web Adventures of Kay BC. This new series is not some weak effort to 'boost ratings', thrill the cheap seats or make up for my lack of content - it's just an honest collection of some of the highlights of Kay BC's internet explorations.

Kay BC is a good friend of mine whose scope of interests are far wider than most peoples. He is knowledgeable about everything from politics to plants, cosmos to conspiracies and is known to recount seemingly useless but highly interesting facts at curious times. He is also an expert woodsman and definitely the guy you would want to get stuck in the forest with. Rcent years have seen his sense of humor and taste in music blossom thus nicely rounding out this dynamic character.
Combine all this with his magnetic lust for youtube and his optimistic zest for the internet and you have a lethal combo.

Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado... Mr. Kay BC!!
(applause)