Category: Sound
Protected: Fellows and Friends – The Holiday Album
4th December
Elle Lefant is pachyderm-style indie pop
3rd December
Continuing with the habit of interviewing bands that find their name inspiration in the Animal Kingdom, this time The Gopher went to talk to Nijae Draine, half of American indie pop duo Elle Lefant. Injecting love and emotion into …
Tunes straight from the mouse’s house
7th September
Bronzerat Records is a UK-based independent netlabel. With the amazing and creative talent a metallic musical rodent obviously needs to have, BR works with a variety of genres focusing on the individual artists and their genuine music. With worldly appeal, …
The SZ gives us music in B+W
9th August
In the audiovisual era of today, it is definitely not new to experience music both through eyes and ears alike. Concerts and musical presentations have become a mix of visual and auditive stimuli running through entire crowds around the globe. …
Making Rob Gordon proud in the blog era.
26th July
Proyecto Playlist is the brainchild of Ma. Elizabeth (Marie) Hernández and the Maracaibo lovechild of High Fidelity character Rob Gordon (neé Fleming). The blog, born out of a hybrid need to share – Marie is the youngest of six children …
Tasty, tasty Trastienda
13th July
We continue our series on netlabels with one we’ve followed for a while. trastienda.org was founded in Salamanca (Spain) during the summer of 2005, an odd frog type of netlabel and among the very few putting out material other than …
The Peppermill: conquest through music
30th June
This here is a disclaimer for the change-sensitive.
Cool new idea we’re going for: this Sounds section will now have a series featuring music labels. Yes! We’ve decided to reach out to independent record labels that (a) are doing interesting …
Pick a Piper makes us wonder about drums
2nd June
Having made the (admittedly very basic) Internet rounds it’s clear that Pick a Piper is exciting the ears it reaches. Their sound gets described in elaborate, evocative, complex and sometimes downright nonsensical terms like “Ecstatically charged yet almost trance-inducing, …
Retrato Robot gets us all mixed up
21st April
Super Lambada en Hollywood
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The tallest man on earth is freakishly good.
29th March
Tallest Man on Earth - Burden of Tomorrow
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Flying Lotus shows his Nintendo bleeps
8th February
GNG BNG – Flying Lotus (Los Angeles)
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2009: Noah and The Cramps
30th December
Ok people listen up: is December 29h, midnight’s approaching and we haven’t decided yet which song will end up being our last post of 2009. You know how it is: you plan to work all night but then wine uncorks …
Hi Ho Silver Oh: On State Lines and the Internets
12th December
Communion – Put It All in One Place and Burn It
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The Sound of Arrows Whooshes By
24th November
The Sound of Arrows – Winding Roads (Danger/2008)
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Toro Y Moi / Omnipresent
12th November
Toro y Moi – Causers of This [ Carpark, 2009 ]
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The Sound of Lucrecia / Congost
21st October
The Sound of Lucrecia
Ara from the album Congost [ Pruna Recordings, 2009 ]
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Ulises Hadjis is irresistible
9th October
Ulises Hadjis
Lunes (nuuro remix) - Remixes 2009
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Panther Touches our Sounds
1st October
Love is Sold (Lips and Ribs remix) Entropy, 2009
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Deastro / Tone Adventure #3
21st September
Tone Adventure #3 from the album Moondagger by Deastro [ Ghostly International, 2009 ]
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Rita Indiana y Los Misterios /
26th August
El Blu del Ping Pong by Rita Indiana y Los Misterios
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Havalina: Like Javelin with an H… in Spanish
12th August
We met Manuel Cabezalà when he was touring with songstress Russian Red in a room papered with foil. It was then he mentioned his project Havalina, a band formed eight years ago and in the process of releasing their …
Op3rador means “Op3rator”
28th July
Op3rador
Epa Chapela
from the album Operador Vive [ Pilla Records, 2008 ]
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Vanity-Shmanity
23rd July
It’s Just Vanity
Oh Kiddo, You Don’t Even Know
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Dylan Shrader
4th July
Let’s test this thing, shall we? This one features our friend and Appalachian-dweller Dylan Shrader, who will be reviewing music in our upcoming first issue. We break the seal on our nifty music section with Shrader’s “Some Day” – recorded …
