Snuzz Control

2011-09-10T22:17:00.000-05:00

Returning to this.

2011-06-26T21:34:00.000-05:00

Kauf Nicht Von TPK

2011-05-16T10:46:00.004-05:00

More of the inferno. German reggae from TPK. Do not buy. or maybe you should...

Teenage Panzerkorps - Born Reborn

previously...

Teenage Panzerkorps - V3

Buy Kauf Nicht Von TPK (bit of a contradiction if you translate)

eUphoric

2011-05-12T11:50:00.000-05:00

Mysterious cloud formations in the mind splinter apart then form again into symbols familiar only to our DNA.

http://8tracks.com/snuzzcontrol/euphoric

18+

2011-04-10T22:50:00.002-05:00

This genre has many mutations from its origins and most of them suck. This one's good.

LCD Sound

2011-04-04T10:54:00.003-05:00

Like many people that couldn't fly out to NYC nor get a ticket to the MSG final performance by LCD Soundsystem, I huddled close to my computer screen and cracked a beer Saturday night. Later, I joined my friends for the last 20 minutes or so of the performance. It was really cool to see James Murphy's final bow and it was very historic, definitive, a marker. For lots of music nerds and fans alike, LCD was a band that took you through your 20s. For a generation that is still very much redefining just what and the fuck we're doing, LCD was as much the reflection of our own external party as it was our internal after-party. This band will be missed but at the same time it feels right that they should be moving on. Farewell, LCD.

SXSW 2011

2011-03-09T15:53:00.003-06:00

Next week I descend into the vortex of cut off jean jackets, free beer, too many cigarettes, cosmos ripping tacos, and best of all, FREE SHOWS by some of my favorite bands. Here's a short list of what's got me flippin out but expectations can go awry, thrown out the window when you come up on a house show or just get lost and wander across town to the The Broken Neck. Unfortunately, it looks like there's no BPP/PPM showcase this year. Get in touch if you'll be down there or if you can recommend some additional shows my dumb ass overlooked.

Some popular shit I'm lookin to be @:

Psychic TV
O.M.D.
The Soft Moon
John Maus
Pictureplane
Jamie XX
Lil B
Odd Future/Wolf Gang Kill Them All/ Tyler The Creator
Glasser
Tamaryn
GAMES
Dum Dum Girls
Dom
tUnEyArDs
Blissed Out
Cult of Youth
Zola Jesus
Amen Dunes
Bun B
Yuck
Hunx & His Punx
Screaming Females
Girl Unit/Bok Bok/Egyptrixx
Kingdomm
DJ Rashad (CHICAGO)
Grimes
Great Lake Swimmers
Basketball
RUN DMT
AraabMUZIK
Laurel Halo

Iceage

2011-03-04T10:05:00.004-06:00

Some days you just feel like listening to a bunch of pissed off teens throwing their guitars against the bejeweled wall of convention and routine. That brings us to Iceage. New Brigade dreams of throwing an elbow into your computer, trampling the trophy PR girl that's just come to tell you she doesn't know how to open the .zip you sent her Tuesday morning, and kicking in the bathroom stall while your boss is taking a shit. Burn it all down, you're dreaming.

Iceage - New Brigade LP

Clams Casino

2011-03-03T18:27:00.002-06:00

Beattts by Clams Casino for the likes of Lil B, Soulja Boy, Main Attraktionz, etc. An instrumental mixtape instrumental to night bus dudes like you and I. This is like the third place I've posted it so if you follow all of my estranged social dimensions you'll know that the universe is licking your butthole on this one. Cop it!

Clams Casino - Instrumental Mixtape

Negativ Magick - Live at New Guernica

2011-02-25T14:03:00.002-06:00

Negativ Magick put together a fantastic set at New Guernica.

Negativ Magick – Live at New Guernica

Tracklist:

1. Poesie Noire - Mohenjodharo
2. Richard Wahnfried - Time Actor
3. LB Bad - Just Don't Stop The Dance
4. Six Sed Red - Shake It Right
5. Yello - Vicious Games (Negativ Magick Edit)
6. T99 - Invisible Sensuality
7. Propaganda - Abuse
8. Spiritual Sky - Sky My House Band (Ecoutez Et Repetez)
9. Ricardo Cioni - Fog
10. Arbeid Adelt - Death Disco
11. Fatal Error - Fatal Error 1
12. Trax - Malfunction
13. Erotic Dissidents - Shake Your Hips
14. Mac Sample - House Inspector
15. Off - Electrica Salsa (Negativ Magick Edit)
16. Spectrum - Total Recall
17. Talex - How Do You Dance
18. Cultural Vibe - Ma Foom Bey
19. Dr Phibes - Baby Phibes
20. Cabaret Voltaire - Ghost Talk (Western Reworks)
21. Big Audio Dynamite - In Full Effect
22. Public Relations - Vava
23. Prins Thaoms - Fehrara

Spoek Mathambo - Control

2011-02-25T12:09:00.002-06:00

SPOEK MATHAMBO - CONTROL from spoek mathambo on Vimeo.

Interesting cover caught me by surprise. Gorgeous video too!

Rafting

2011-02-25T10:06:00.002-06:00

Porcelain Raft's Gone Blind EP is a spiraling dive, partially submerged in a haze congruent with night bus and a refreshing psychedelic churn that thankfully doesn't reference, at least explicitly, any particular period/genre [as is the plague of so many lo-fi, Urban Outfitter bands (YEAH FUCK IT, I SAID IT!]. Go use your google engines or buy the EP here.

Porcelain Raft – Little Warning

Der TPK

2011-02-21T10:48:00.002-06:00

Just got this excellent 7" from anglo-germanic errr somethin band Teenage Panzerkorps. It sounds exactly how you'd expect; raw, vengeful, like a nazi boot crushing your hand as you pull a pin on your last grenade. Must have this shrapnel.

Teenage Panzerkorps - Thee Incantations of Bunker Wolf

Gamelan Bourbonese

2011-02-05T18:33:00.004-06:00

Shit blogger...shit blog.

Perish05

2011-01-14T10:29:00.002-06:00

I will be un-spooling a web of blackness in the form of goth/industrial/post-punk/coldwave tunes next Thursday at the Kitty Cat Klub. If you're free, you should stop by. The Goths are so lonely without you.

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GAWTH CLOUD

2011-01-11T01:08:00.003-06:00

Unfurling like the night's blanket covering our heads, two deep tracks to lower your eyes and hide your mind from any light. Caroline K re-released last year and RIP Mick from Dali's Car.

Goldendust

2010-12-16T19:03:00.003-06:00

Is it just me or do I need to get my minimal synth/industrial project up up and away before the moment drops out again? These guys from Iowa City have the right idea.

MORE WEEKEND

2010-12-15T00:23:00.005-06:00

Excellent video for the Smith Westerns' single Weekend. Bro-down!

WEEKEND

2010-12-14T00:06:00.003-06:00

That basically sums up what I did last weekend. Now, here's some guitar music from a band called Weekend.

"IN THE MIDST OF WINTER, I FOUND THERE WAS, WITHIN ME, AN INVINCIBLE SUMMER." — Albert Camus

Absolute Body Control

2010-12-09T20:05:00.005-06:00

My radar must be fucked because I totally missed the fact that Absolute Body Control, a band that has been making minimal/industrial/synth music since 1981, released a new album this year. 2010. 30 years! Unlike many other bands that try to adapt to the time and release music that is outside of their sound, ABC deliver up an album that proudly continues in their tradition. And it actually rules pretty hard.

Absolute Body Control - Shattered Illusion [2010]

The full Monte Cazazza

2010-12-06T11:42:00.002-06:00

Sex is no emergency. Don't be deceived by the simple electronics of Monte Cazazza. I heard this tune in an Optimo podcast and thought it was Gary Numan at first.

Monte Cazazza - The Worst of Monte Cazazza

Softer Moon

2010-11-24T11:46:00.003-06:00

Driving like a Semi truck cutting through the bleakest fog. Been awaiting these chanting guitar jams for some time.

The Soft Moon - S/T

FEAR KNOCKED AT THE DOOR, FAITH ANSWERED, NO ONE WAS THERE

2010-11-15T10:00:00.007-06:00

When faced with such a disgusting departure from feeling, only a world of malignant hate can flourish. The door's locked from the inside. You're alone with the winter in your heart. I'm sorry, I don't pray that way.

FEAR KNOCKED AT THE DOOR, FAITH ANSWERED, NO ONE WAS THERE
a mix by Chrono Cross

Tracklist:

Blackhumor - No Lust For The Wicked

Trisomie 21 - Love For A Life

Dark Day - Chameleon

Sentimentale Jugend - Angst

Death In June - Foretold (Negativ Magick Edit)

Vrischika - Angoisse

Portion Control - Sure Is Kinda Spooky

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - The Gentle Hum of Anxiety

Raime - We Must Hunt Under The Wreckage Of Many Systems

Coil - Tainted Love

Ambulatorio Segreto - Some Time Ago (The Anonymous Girl)

Tone Set - ??? - Track 10 (Unknown)

Tingle In The Netherlands - Prostitute's Handbag

Beat The Devil - 400 Blows

Hunting Rituals - Track 06 [S/T 2009]

Solid Space - A Darkness In My Soul

Linear Movement - Five Faces

Joceyln Pook - Masked Ball (Extended Version)

Langley Schools Music Project - In My Room (Chrono X Delay Edit)

DIS Magazine - Muslim Trance Mix

2010-10-29T10:09:00.004-05:00

DIS magazine, for those unfamiliar, is a digital magazine that explores the possibilities of creativity and anthropology within the digital space through art, fashion, music, writing, etc. For questions of identity and individuality within said space, please see here. Diverging realities are nothing new and neither is the smashing together of two seemingly incompatible genres. But there's something spiritual about this 15 minute mix from DIS magazine, by Ayshay, something that trancends it all. Allah wears a PLUR bracelet.

Muslim Trance Mix

Gawth

2010-10-26T10:05:00.004-05:00

Goth is getting thrown around like paint in a high school art class [everyone thinks they're a Pollock you know]. Oh it has a cross on it, it's black, it must be goth. I think we can throw all those symbols out the window anyhow, they've been tarnished so much as it is. A confident, solitary human is probably the only symbol of irreligion I believe in.

Here's some stuff I suppose is goth or is being labeled as such. I'm posting them together for comparisons sake, but I really do enjoy both. Zola Jesus has increased her power two-fold on this EP, I'm looking forward to a full-length from her soon. Overcast and endless vacations on a foggy river, I tell you.

Two - Dreaming Spires [1983]

Zola Jesus - Valusia EP [2010]

FACT Mag Mix #194

2010-10-21T10:39:00.004-05:00

Great selections from the East Village Radio founder and total babe, Veronica Vasicka.

FACT Magazine Mix #194 by Veronica Vasicka

Tracklist:
Goblin – Opening To The Sighs
MJ’s Voice
Šizike – Don’t Stop
Danton’s Voice – I Hear The Bells (forthcoming Minimal Wave)
Barbara Norris – Heavy Hitter
Jesse Velez – Laugh The Night Away
Soma Holiday – Shake Your Molecules
Metro Pakt – CTI
Philippe Laurent – Cerises (forthcoming Minimal Wave)
Nemesy – Arabian Sacrifice (Sacrifice Version)
B- Beat Girls – For The Same Man (Nasty Version)
Wet – That’s The Game (Instrumental)
Ruins – Daily And Blue (Minimal Wave)
Spooge Boy – Reggae Dance (Snareless Radio)
Nightless – Crazy Night
Martin Lloyd – Science Fiction Man (Minimal Wave)

No Balls

2010-10-19T10:21:00.002-05:00

Back to the snuzz. The original shit. The noisy stuff to piss off your parents that you still live with. No more curfew for you..yeah smoke that cig, cancer is just a lie. And as they say; No balls, no glory. Excellent fucked up noisy drudge music from Stockholm's No Balls. Reminds me of Francis Harold a bit.

No Balls - Less

Nice One Bruv

2010-09-30T11:02:00.003-05:00

So this dude, The Syrup sent us a mix of UK Funky jams. We're feelin that vibe a lot lately...it's like a marriage of House with sweet R&B vocals, sometimes a good push/pull between masculine and feminine sounds. Something for everybody. Check it out.

NICE

ONE

BRUV!

Nice One Bruv by snuzzcontrol

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Tracklist:

Roska - The Sheppard

Oriol - Memories (Jake Slazenger Remix)

Teedra Moses - Be Your Girl (Perempay 'N' Dee's Soulful Mix)

Ruffnexx Sound System - Eeny Meeny (Sweet Temptation)(Let It Move Mix)

Scratcha DVA/ Cooly G - Dis Boy (DVA's Hi Emotions Remix)

N.B. Funky - 2nd Strike (VIP Mix)

Aaliyah - Rock The Boat (Ill Blu Remix)

Perempay & Dee feat. Shola Ama - DJ Play (Geeneus Mix)

Altered Natives - Rass Out

Crazy Cousinz feat Kimona - I See You

T. Williams - Chop & Screw

Lone - Pineapple Crush

N.B. Funky - Riddim Box

Katy B - Louder

Breach - Man Up

Ill Blu - Bellion

Cooly G - Floating

Kingdom - Hottest In America

Lil Silva & Kyra - Something Different

Twizzle & Greenmoney - Skydiving

Zinc. - Wile Out feat. Ms. Dynamite

Jaydee - Plastic Dreams (Rhythm Masters Remix)

NGUZUNGUZU - El Bebe Ambiente

Brenmar - Back Beating

Redlight ft. Ms. Dynamite - What You Talking About!?

Tension

2010-09-27T10:10:00.004-05:00

Rattling the gates of an industrial mausoleum, Light Asylum conquers a raw semblance of pop and black smoke billowing out of the last coal power plants. In Tension calls up Hunting Lodge and Front Line Assembly, but glistens unexpectedly bright on A Certain Someone, a creation of perfect tension. Light Asylum demonstrate how emotions can play a significant role in creating a very tense experience that also just so happens to move us to dance. I look forward to seeing them live in the near future.

Light Asylum - In Tension EP

Teenage Moods

2010-09-13T20:53:00.005-05:00

Went to Cause (formerly Sauce) to support the Teenage Moods a week or so ago. It was their release show so it had a pretty good turn out. Maybe people were there to support the other bands though...I dunno why though. The Moods pretty much blew everything else away (sorry, as they should). My friend bought their tape and I acquired it from another friend to share with you. Lots of grunge influence, great songwriting to back it up. Hope you enjoy.

Teenage Moods – RPG Picnic Time

8 Tracks

2010-09-13T15:31:00.003-05:00

Remember muxtape? That site was sweet, I used to post a mix every week. I had some pretty conceptual shit going on. Now there's 8 Tracks and they're trying to pull the "if you agree to these terms, then we won't get in trouble" which really isn't going to keep bootlegged, buzzworthy mp3s off their site but it probably makes them sleep better. I made this September mixtape of some tracks I acquired quite legally [er, I think?]. Hope you like them.

Nobuns, hun

2010-08-31T10:43:00.002-05:00

"Love is patient. Sometimes gross. Always weird. Scarf up a dozen at the barf party."

- Nobunny [2010]

Nobunny - First Blood

Muslimgauze

2010-08-26T10:03:00.002-05:00

Snappy percussion hollowed out by sand storms in the deserts of Persia. Muslimgauze is my mecca, my hajj.

Muslimgauze - Hussein Mahmood Jeeb Tehar Gass

Soft Moon, G. Green 7 inches

2010-08-20T16:45:00.003-05:00

Two more treats for y'all. A super short, but tight 7" by G. Green, I know its good because I keep returning to it (especially The Garden). Second, a new 7" from The Soft Moon. You may recall "Breathe the Fire."

G. Green - I Will Not Withdraw This Statement 7" (Malt Duck, 2010)

The Soft Moon - Parallels 7"

Hallogallo 2010

2010-08-20T10:35:00.003-05:00

Droner boner from Michael Rother.

Hallogallo 2010 – Blinkgürtel/ Drone Schlager

Artistic Youth

2010-08-19T10:10:00.005-05:00

No, they're Autistic...A-U-T-I...err yeah. So us 20-somethings are defaulting on our loans and fumbling around and basically now because its being studied by real adults (scientists, psychologists, sociologists) we get off the hook. We gotta figure shit out and that's how adaptation occurs. That's how we create the next level of society. I just hope it doesn't suck.
I caught Autistic Youth (Portland) at Club Medicinal last weekend and they ripped it up. If you have a chance, see them.

Autistic Youth – Landmine Beach, Lost Boys, Empty Eyes 7", Cola Freaks split 7"

Bassic Training

2010-08-10T22:25:00.002-05:00

I recently revisited Robocop and so many similarities were flying out of the screen and uniting themselves, greeting with a handshake IRL, with so many status quos of late. The empty streets of Detroit (apart from criminals and drug pushers), our empty dance floors (filled with the same?). You see the shift from scene to scene, people going for authenticity or grasping at the same iconic straws of authenticity that were valid in the past. We expel them, then on to the next, dumping genres along our pathway to hyperscenes where the moment is what's happening. These carnal flavors are the raw ends, the bent branches and leaves on that pathway telling you "I BLEED" and "I WEAR A SIZE 9 BOOT."

Teengirl Fantasy – Cheaters

Chicago Shags – Flamingo World

Trisomie 21 – Love For A Life

Antony/Fennesz – Returnal

Mike Simonetti – Torino Fog

Planning Application

2010-07-31T15:51:00.002-05:00

Mentioned here before, Factory Floor, are a nuts and bolts clanging sound you can't shake from your mind. The grit on these new tracks solidifies something uniquely cold in a world already gone very chill. Hopefully you'll understand what that means upon listening.

Factory Floor - Planning Application EP

Sex Church

2010-07-21T00:15:00.006-05:00

6 Songs, sick songs by BC's Sex Church [out on Sacred Boners].

Sex Church – 6 Songs By Sex Church LP [2010]

The Cherry Smash

2010-07-20T23:55:00.004-05:00

Here is some archival indiepop fuzz from Cali. I'm having troublems not listening to it over and over again, its so fucking good.

The Cherry Smash – West Coast Rip-Off 7" [1995/1996]

via icoulddie

Raps

2010-07-15T22:13:00.005-05:00

To really prove that we can run with the big blogs that get down to serious buzziness, we are gonna post some raps. Do you like Raps? They give you swagger when you walk. They give you attitude when you're talking to your boss because YOU WILL FEEL LIKE A BOSS. Believe. Lately, been feelin this dude, Drake. He's sentimental, he's nostalgic, he's a bro like you and me. We'll also mention the Teflon Don, the Rickster. Maybach and Aston Martin, your choice for how you'd like to keep it real in your Volvos/Jettas/certified Alt-car. Gucci supports your alt-ness, your need to be abnormal because he has unabashed sex with his money. Don't fuck wit him/he too normal, baby.

Drake – Unforgettable (featuring Young Jeezy)

Rick Ross – Aston Martin Music Feat. Drake, Chrisette Michele (Official Extended Mix)

Gucci Mane – Makin Love To The Money

The Dream – Yamaha

Tomboy

2010-07-12T09:18:00.002-05:00

It's cool when you'll be thinking of someone and then they walk around the next corner up ahead of you on the street. That's sort of how I feel about this new 7" from Panda Bear. Was much needed in this time and so it appeared. More psyched on Tomboy but Slow Motion makes perfect sense conceptually in terms of the whole forthcoming package. How do you guys/gals feel about Pandy Bear? Want for more Comfy in Nautica? Want for more MPP?

Panda Bear - Tomboy 7" [2010]

The Beach Bum Mix

2010-07-08T00:56:00.003-05:00

For your unemployed days sunning yourselves I have created a new mix. It's no party, just something to put on while you lean against a tree watching the heat waves blur and disappear off the distant pavement.

SNUZZ CONTROL Presents:

The Beach Bum Mix [64 mins]

Download Here

Sorry, no tracklist at the moment. Post in comments if you really need a track ID to name drop at a party.

Love Is Love, Kenya dig it?

2010-07-06T18:23:00.005-05:00

Baked macaroni in more than one way, its scorching our fortunes out in cracked desert lips these sunny bunned days. Land ho! The excellent steel guitar picking of S.E. Rogers and others round out this LP of African Highlife, R&B, and guitar-based melodies from Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia, Nairobi and Tanzania from 1955-1972.

Various Artists - Love Is Love

Ariel Pink with Added Pizzaz

2010-06-21T18:24:00.003-05:00

Let's give them something to talk about...how about Pizzaz or whatever that means exactly. Below is the first track of a 5 track EP debut from a motley of musicians (Ariel Pink on vocals) produced by Vas Deferens Org. coming out July 9th. Take it to the pool with you.

ARIEL PINK WITH ADDED PIZZAZZ - In The Heat Of The Night

More info about the release at Free Dope And Fucking In The Streets.

Quel Dommage

2010-06-19T12:48:00.002-05:00

Crackling goth/post punk 7". Really like how the drums fire up 1/3 through the title track.

Quel Dommage - Bright Lights 7"

Coconut

2010-06-19T12:39:00.001-05:00

Posting scarce cuz I haven't figured out how to post from my grown-up job yet.

Great cover of George Quartz's - Coconut.

George Quartz - Coconut from The Sibyl on Vimeo.

Post Acid

2010-06-09T11:34:00.003-05:00

I totally just saw 4 tapes/releases with similar collage + all caps helvetica covers. The aesthetic language of our post-blogged down world, reaching for the DIY signals like they're slipping into the desert sand forever. Wavves is no exception to these semiotics, although I think the alien was supposed to be holding a J. New single Post Acid is being released by Mt. Dew (the dude totally gets it!).

Wavves - Post Acid

Dude from Black Dice releases solo 7".

Eric Copeland - Fun Dink Death

Altar Eagle

2010-06-05T22:16:00.004-05:00

Awesome, beautiful tape-only release from Altar Eagle. Just enough noise layered over strawberry vocals and psyched electronics. Cold Cave vibes.

Altar Eagle - Vintage Cats

Stuck in a hole, Dont you just know

2010-06-03T12:24:00.004-05:00

Context and time. These things matter. 2 minute songs feel pretty good right about now, echoing the urgency that surrounds every warm night.

Contextually caught up with this Clorox Girls S/T from a couple years back. I can't seem to avoid Portland bands.

Clorox Girls - Stuck In A Hole

Vocals on this Flame Fortune (btw, crazy 80s babe) track kind of remind me of YACHT. Negativ Magick on the edit, also check out their recent Dark Pool Mix of post punk gems.

Flame Fortune - Jungle Boy (Negativ Magick Edit)

Negativ Magick - Dark Pool Mix [Tracklist]

Digging the NY percussion on this Weave track. They have keen influences, check them out.

Weave! - Weave Say Leave

HIGH TIDE June

2010-06-02T15:47:00.002-05:00

What are you doing next Monday? Do you wanna like chill on a patio and drink some tasty, cool bevs? Wanna hear some rad tunes bumpin in your earlobes while hanging with your buds? See you at the Tide, dingus. This month, these dudes will be seasoning the night:

Jeremy Nutzman (Spyder Baby Raw Dawg, Bight Club)
Playing Trillwave

Paul Hirte (http://morecowbell.net/)
Playing Schools Out!

Dave Wrobleski (Monarchy, the DJ formerly known as Gary Slam)
Playing Dad Rock

Me! (Snuzz Control, http://snuzzcontrol.blogspot.com/)
Playing Hot, Exotic, and Below the Equator Pop

Jonathan Ackerman
Playing a little bit of everything

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Going total Quetzalcoatl

2010-05-30T17:39:00.004-05:00

Candy is one of a few great tracks to be released on the Finnish label Kalevala, which is rad because the label was invented by Bill Drummond and Mark Manning to release a series of 7" singles inspired by their novel Bad Wisdom. Failing to find any real Lapp punk or Arctic soul acts like the ones they described in the book, Bill & Z invented the acts and hired musicians and singers in Helsinki to record the songs [discogs].

Draculas Daughter - Candy

Garbo's Daughter - Nice Girls Don't Explode [Garbo's Daughter on Myspace, Buy Party Platter]

We'll definitely whistle this Woom track all the way to the docks.

Woom - Quetzalcoatl's Ship

The magic force of Konk will shake and bake you. Been playing out anything with bongos, congas, wood blocks, rattles, and screeching horns lately.

Konk - Konk Party

Nerve City

2010-05-26T20:09:00.002-05:00

Nerve City's Sleepwalker EP is a plate of nachos and cold beer at the sunstroke of noon.

Nerve City - Sleepwalker EP

Hangin Ten

2010-05-26T16:16:00.004-05:00

Completely spectral sky shows over these tracks. From the excellent land of the preposterous; A major stone out, man.

Roy Montgomery - Ill At Home

Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 1 For Electric Guitar

From the Joy Surf Division of Savage Republic.

Savage Republic - Andelusia

Indian Jewelry

2010-05-21T17:06:00.003-05:00

Been bumpin Tommyboy's Texas Love Triangle mix excessively the last 3 weeks. Do get that. Do investigate, unearth, explore the bands in that. Took me back to Indian Jewelry which are a superb band that I was lucky to catch at the Turf Club last year. Honestly, I walked in the place by chance and when I heard what was happening I had to ask who the hell was playing because they were jamming out a serious aura. Then I knew, Indian Jewelry and freaked out. So here's a comp of some of their stuff (most importantly Same Mistake Man, as featured in the aforementioned mix).

Indian Jewelry - Sangles Redux [2008]

Faust

2010-05-16T21:08:00.003-05:00

With all these krauty memes and another revival of smoke induced appreciation for the german experimental music of the 70s, here comes some new Faust. Babylon sounds like a chopped up Metallica, diced shouting over stainless steel and raw iron drumming, then blasts of overprocessed white noise washes over. Dolls And Brawls has some insane percussion rattling off inside of a tense canister of subtle noise. Steinbrand is probably the most obviously progressive Kraut track on the album, but that's of course what Faust is so good at. Totally cruisin' under our beaks! [Order Here]

Faust - Dolls And Brawls

Faust - Steinbrand

...and 90s Weasel is an icon of pre-chillwave alt-comedy. OW OW!

I Heard Wonders

2010-05-14T17:15:00.003-05:00

I've been slackin, too much wheezin the ju-ice and sleepin during these cloudy days. So today I was supposed to get up and let a repairdude into my apartment but I slept through my alarm and this dude had to bust in and wake up the L O S E R that I am. Great start, WIN WIN.

Psychobuildings erect their monument to NY post-punk, new EP titled Birds of Prey/Paradise can be scarfed here for a 5 $pot.

Psychobuildings - Portrait

Should have seen these Pitchfork 8.something bros when they came to the Turf. Solid record from Male Bonding. Par exemple: this track guests the Vivian Girls, good friends uniting.

Male Bonding (Featuring the Vivian Girls) - Worse To Come

This track snuck in on the Disco2 remix EP for HEALTH. Feelin it.

HEALTH - USA Boys

Back in my NC days, I went to see this band Art Lord & The Self Portraits a lot, they even played the Halloween Party at my college. Little did I know they'd go on to become Future Islands. This song weighs heavy.

Future Islands - Inch Of Dust

Elite Gymnasts

2010-05-04T20:01:00.004-05:00

There's an assortment of colored juices, TB fire sauce packets, small remnants of bud, and two sleep deprived dudes in my apartment. What does that ultimately equal? It's the clubhouse of psychedelic surf. It's the first [and FREE] EP from Minneapolis' waveriders, Elite Gymnastics. I can vouch that James [who once posted on this blog] and Josh [Tom Cruz] are two people that truly care about music. Go grab their EP and take a look at some dope art in the PDF they included with it.

Elite Gymnastics - Real Friends EP [Right Click, Save As]

Pyschedelic Surf Club

Factory Floor

2010-05-02T21:20:00.003-05:00

I wrote about Factory Floor a ways back when I got their track, Lying. They've just released that track along with 3 others on a mini album out on Blast First Petite. You know, it's full of more of their pipe slamming industrial driven insanity that we're burning candles for. KLANG!

Factory Floor - A Wooden Box

Synths on a speed boat by Tyrell out on Clone Recs.

The Tyrell Corpoation - Alone Together

Warm Slime

2010-05-01T18:33:00.004-05:00

I really liked last year's Dog Poison. The thing about Thee Oh Sees is that their records sound wildly ALIVE, like someone's foot is stomping right next to yours in the dark. To actually see them live, as the video below shows, is even better. Highly Recommended...

Thee Oh Sees - Warm Slime [2010]

Thee Oh Sees perform "Block Of Ice" at 21st Street Co-Op in Austin, TX. This was the same spot where kids were scaling up railings and getting their gauged ears torn and bloody. Way to go xcore, bros!

High Tide May

2010-04-29T23:27:00.003-05:00

Everything sarcasm. Even wealth, even beauty. We've got enough milk. We're in agreement with dischord. Our flag is an alien with smiley faces for eyes, smoking a joint on a surfboard. What is real if that isn't? Sincerity and Seriousness are bloated, hilarious caricature portraits from a mall kiosk. The tide has come in again...

This month we welcome the music of:

Kiera Coonan (Velveteens/Tropical Ambrosia Salad/God Damn Doo Wop Band)
Playing 50s/60s girl groups/garage

Ryan Olson aka Arson Only (GAYNGS)
Playing violently German

Jared Maire
Playing Beach Jams/Downtown 81/Heavy Spiritual

Jonathan Ackerman (Moongoons)
Playing Chillwave

21+/FREE/ Facebook Event

Optimogeddon

2010-04-28T17:12:00.004-05:00

Optimo, one of the greatest club nights ever to exist, has ended. The range of music played is what makes the night extraordinary. The motto of Optimo, which I think all DJs should try to uphold, is VARIETY; "If it sounds good and makes people dance, play it." Especially if its the 1812 Overture.

Here are all 5 mind-melting parts to the final Optimo experience.

Optimogeddon: The Chain from Mike on Vimeo.

Living in America

2010-04-28T13:44:00.003-05:00

Always think of Bermuda as a negative place, a Leonard Nemoy narrated time vacuum. If that's true then Kisses just pushed us into the portal and we're suddenly partying on a catamaran with Kenny Loggins. Active Child remix is a party as well.

Kisses - Bermuda

This is what the new MGMT album should have sounded like.

Dom - Living In America [Dom on Myspace]

It's a modest time. It's spring time. I'm creepy.

Al Cool and the Stranger Wines - Celine [Al Cool on Myspace]

In 1977, William M. Lastomirsky, a high school music teacher, put together a group of his students to record some songs he had written. Real life Mr. Holland in an epic way, cue horns! Via WFMU.

Twilight Nuages - Life Goes On Love Goes On

Desert Life/Dessert Knife

2010-04-28T12:50:00.005-05:00

I just got back from the desert. Deserts are boring. There's just a bunch of stuff that can kill you and once you're over that everything else is just hot, dry, and lame. Naturally, I have like buttloads of music that the loquacious genie of the blogosphere has shat into reality.

New M.I.A. track that tools up Suicide, something not borrowed from the jungle this time. Refreshingly flipped.

M.I.A. - Born Free

There is your midwest sort of juggalo, naive dubstep and then there is the masterful James Blake. Truly.

James Blake - CMYK [James Blake on Myspace]

Great tune, wait for those drums...

Cat C Trance - Shake The Mind

Colourbox - Baby I Love You So

~Happy 420~

2010-04-20T15:23:00.002-05:00

Chief big bong is on the warpath.

U Roy - Chalice In The Palace

Emeralds - Geode

Javelin - Intervales Theme

See you at the Triple Rock tonight [deets]

New Vivian

2010-04-16T15:17:00.004-05:00

New single from the increasingly popular Vivian Girls.

Vivian Girls - My Love Will Follow Me

Also, new Kurt Vile from his EP "Square Shells"

Kurt Vile - Invisibility Nonexistent

Bonus TGIF blowout from Run DMT

Run DMT - Richard

Grimes

2010-04-15T03:47:00.005-05:00

No dizzee rascaling. MTL's Grimes has some siren vocals, fuckin calling out in the forest like a wolf mother vocals; eerie and beautiful mingle throughout Geidi Primes. The pounding layers are pretty epic on tracks like Feyd Rautha Dark Heart and Grisgirs. Oh you know, just some awesome Kate Bush stuff going on in there, no biggie.

Grimes - Geidi Primes

The Promised Land

2010-04-14T05:31:00.003-05:00

The awesome rabbit hole of Youtube leads us through the mayhem of post punk France, a frail finger summoning us to ride the coldest of waves into the fog and drizzle.

Bunker Strasse - Mirror

Mary Goes Round - The Promised Land

Poésie Noire - Pity For The Self

Acid Tape

2010-04-13T17:20:00.003-05:00

Newish tape from shitgayz heroes Psychedelic Horseshit. Watch out for that chill sax mix, its a real blunt sparker. HIGHLY recommended.

Psychedelic Horseshit - Acid Tape

Anima Latina

2010-04-13T14:38:00.002-05:00

Sort of on the Before Today tip is Anima Latina by Lucio Battisti. Its sort of prog, but really just playful smooth pop. Dude over at Zamboni was freaking out about it with just cause.

Lucio Battisti- Anima Latina [1974]

Butt House Blondies

2010-04-13T14:02:00.004-05:00

Pulling any track out of the forthcoming AP album is complete insanity. Every one of them is essential. But I extracted two to encourage you to buy this album so you can play it for your parents and have one of those "we're not so far apart as we think we are" moments that TV show's like Roseanne [side ?: Was Darlene a hot grunge chick?] and Home Improvement loved to end with. The blog police will probably pull these but whatever, you don't come here for Best Of lists, do you?

Link Removed. :(

BUY THIS ALBUM!!!!!

Useless Children/Bare Wires/Retainers/Les Deux Magots

2010-04-12T14:27:00.004-05:00

Memory Lanes is back with the free shows. This should be a good one.

[DL] Bare Wires - Let Down

Weatherall, Passions, OMD

2010-04-11T15:13:00.006-05:00

Dude is prolific. Getting tired of the 4x4? Use Weatherall. Need breaks that don't come from Baltimore? Use Weatherall. Need chugging steam punk remixes of the industrial 80s? Yep, Weatherall weathers all. So you're covered.

Manic Street Preachers - Peeled Apples (Andrew Weatherall Remix)

Did this tune come out of nowhere? Such an impressive re-entrance by Passions.

Passions - Endless

Great flip on this OMD track by Greg Wilson, suspenseeeeeee!

Orchestral Manoevres In The Dark - The Messenger ('Messages' Greg Wilson Ruff Re-Edit)

Disco Lagos

2010-04-10T20:46:00.004-05:00

I love compilations, they make it so easy to get into movements. I know a lot of people hate disco or are over disco, and especially boogie. Lagos Disco Inferno is something else though. Whenever the distance exceeds the capacity of a group of musicians to be directly influenced by a type of music you get something else. MFB's Boredom Pain is a house party jam but the kind you'd find behind the hotels, the restaurants, cafes, beyond the city...in the countryjungleside. Put it on, feel good tonight.

~~V/A - Lagos Disco Inferno~~

Buy it here.

Suicide live at Walker Art Center '81

2010-04-08T20:26:00.004-05:00

This would have been particularly mind melting.

Suicide live at the Walker Art Center, Sept. 1981

Light Asylum

2010-04-08T15:56:00.003-05:00

You really have to plunge into Light Asylum. Probably why it has taken us so long to resurface and post their black stallion running on a beach during a lightning storm, Shallow Tears. And with this video from one of Fader's hideout/fort/party apparatuses we are so down with getting weirded on by their live energy.

Light Asylum - Shallow Tears

Light Asylum - Shallow Tears (Teengirl Fantasy Big Room Mix)

Daylight Cravings

2010-04-08T15:36:00.003-05:00

Some solid bros over at Blank Blog sent us a mini-mix to share with you. Not sure what a mini-mix entails but I hope you dig it as much as we dig frosted mini-wheats at 3pm in the afternoon.

daylight cravings mini mix

memoryhouse - foreground (grizzly bear cover)

white hinterland - no logic

grouper - wind & snow

xx - fantasy

little girls - 10 mile stereo (beach house cover)

claps - fold

mode moderne - radio heartbeat

studio - origin

osbidian pond -- sundog sinners

Calling long distance...

2010-04-06T19:18:00.004-05:00

The Ariel Pinky swear of Round and Round has been playing out of car windows, ipods, shitty rental speakers, bars; wherever it can play we've been playing it. Got this live? early demo? version of the song and through the distortion it still holds up as one of the best pop songs we've heard in a long time. So here you go [again]...

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Hold On (I'm Calling)

"I don't like your friends, how can you hang around with them?" I regret missing the German Measles at SXSW, they seem like fun bros that like to party as much as we do. Plus they credit Freddy the Freaker as an influence so that pretty much makes them 1-900-490-Freaks.

The German Measles - I Don't Like Your Friends

Forgot to include this in the last post...more great vibrations from the hidden corners of the lively cult world circuit.

VA - Cabolco De Pena [from Amazonia-Cult Music of Northern Brazil]

NEW/L E F T F I E L D

2010-04-06T14:49:00.004-05:00

No coastal pressure, tons of pine disguise, and a huge Somalian population.

Frankie Francis & Simbad - Farra Danca [from Fiesta Angola]

Sofrito Specials - Christina Lover (Sofrito Edit)

Unknown - Tanki Tanki [Buy Here]

The Soft Moon - Breathe The Fire

Fossilyzed

2010-04-05T03:25:00.005-05:00

Fossil watches do suck, but why? I remember when they opened that shitty store in the Mall of America and my fam totally thought it was just like their competitors so they bought me tons of it for my birthday. I still have the watch, its real chunky. I always see dads rocking Fossil gear. Fossils wearing fossil. Also reminds me of that scene from Jurassic Park where the dude is trying to take a shit and the TRex just smashes that grass hut and eats the dude. Chomp! Grab'n'go this hawaiian punch slurpy...

Beach Fossils - S/T [Beach Fossils on Myspace]

On Patrol

2010-04-05T03:13:00.005-05:00

Shiprocked, you float on your belly upside down listening to the life underwater as the waves break up the sun like sparkling glass on a cracked sidewalk. Hello patrol, don't save me. I'll just lie here for awhile listening to the Sun.

Sun Araw - On Patrol [Sun Araw on Myspace]

Sun Araw performing at The Hideout at SXSW from Denman C Anderson on Vimeo.

Bellicose Minds

2010-03-30T13:43:00.004-05:00

Oh great, another post-punk/darkwave tape dug up from the 80s rubble of some former bullet-riddled piece of the Soviet Union. Or is it? Bellicose Minds actually recorded this demo some time last year!..and they're from Portland. Whoa, just flipped your shit and ripped a hole in time. Better put this on...

Bellicose Minds - The Buzz Of Howl sessions

HIGH TIDE April

2010-03-30T12:40:00.004-05:00

Come prop your feet up and have a drink while listening to cool tune selections by some of your favorite local bands. It's HIGH TIDE y'all. This month we welcome a special Modern Radio showcase.

f e a t u r i n g

Tom Loftus (Modern Radio/ DJ TRL)

playing Drone/Ambient/Chill

Cole (Daughters of the Sun)

playing Experimental/Psych & Folk

Chris Rose (Vampire Hands)

playing 70s rock

+ Jonathan Ackerman

playing everything

++ Travis Stearns

playing New Weird America

More details here.

Emeralds

2010-03-29T18:34:00.004-05:00

new Emeralds for a synthy cruz into the 70s by midweek. Feel the fog.

Emeralds - S/T 2010

1 in the bush

2010-03-25T23:32:00.006-05:00

What if we stopped fucking eachother for a month or two, shook everything out, found a direction? Endless spiral starecasing the joint going on but you don't move anywhere new, just back where you farted.

Fall - Bury Pts 1 & 3 [on forthcoming Our Future Clutter, Buy Here]

Lamps - Salvation Road [Lamps on Myspace]

Ben Raynor & The Pricks - Crankin' To Sonic Youth [from Guv Luv Mixtape Vol 1, here]

Homostupids - The Donovan (chop chop chop) [Homostupids on Myspace, "buy all our fuckin records"]

Teenage Cool Kids - Queer Salutations [TCK on Myspace]

Caverns

2010-03-25T12:30:00.003-05:00

LDNs Nowa Huta kindly sent us a gift. It's dimensional for sure, enclosing yes. We spiral further underground, only hearing the distorted melodies of life above.

Nowa Huta - Cavern Mass

Similarly, the nun that grabbed a drum machine and decided to make synth jams for the Almighty.

Sister Irene O'Connor - Fire

Also, T.O.D. is back on dreamchimney. SICK!

Pre-SXSW snuzz

2010-03-15T19:24:00.005-05:00

Operation snuzz cruise is about to commence in the early (for me) hours tomorrow. Going to get sunned and sonned in the cracked desert of Tejas with my best buds listening to a slizzz load of bands. Some of which have been blogged here, but many more that WILL be blogged here during (if soberness allows) and after. Can't wait to party with you awesome people...Who?

You...

Dum Dum Girls - Yours Alone

Javelin - Beyondce

Best Coast - Something In The Way

No Age - N.G.F.S.

Soft Circle - Feel The Light

Young Buffalo - Speak EZ

Neon Blud - Sophomore Blud

Matias Aguayo - Rollerskate (Robolledo Version)

Real Estate - Saturday Morning

Woven Bones - Some Call It A Grave

Washed Out - New Theory

Ty Segall - Caesar

Cult Ritual - Ugly Years

Naked On The Vague - Chitty Chat

March Madness Mix

2010-03-15T02:49:00.004-05:00

Here's a little mix I put together in consideration of the insanity that is March (60 degrees!). It's got fits of dance, some chill vibrators, and a few classics sprinkled in. I did not try to mix it like a pro so bear with some awkwardness.

March Madness Mix

Tracklist:

Eden Ahbez - La Mer

Washed Out - Track 7

Coyote Clean Up - Totally Twilight

oOoOO - Hearts

G A N G - K.K.K. (Dub)

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round and Round

Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (Ashley Beedle Edit)

Draculae - Vamp An Labour

Tanlines - Three Trees

Pilooski - AAA

Jan Turkenburg - In My Spaceship (Breakbot Remix)

Paul Weller - No Tears To Cry (Leo Zero Remix)

??? - Minimal Elvis

A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Nitetime Rainbows

They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - Rabbit Seal Monkey (King Of Town Remix)

KXP - 180 Hours (Of Love) (An Optimo Espacio Mix)

Vicious Pink - Cccan't You See (French Extended Mix)

Prince Language - On The Double

Round and Round

2010-03-12T14:25:00.004-06:00

Smoov groov for a TGIF kinda feel.

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round And Round [Myspace]

The Bitters - Wild Beast [Myspace]

Myelin Sheaths - SPF70 [Myspace]

Lynch

2010-03-09T14:19:00.004-06:00

SHOW! THIS SATURDAY!

Julian Lynch [Myspace]

International Novelty Gamelan [Myspace]

Marlone [TKB Myspace]

Art of This

3506 Nicollet Avenue

Mpls, MN

Doors 8:30 / 5$

Julian Lynch - In New Jersey

Julian Lynch - Nen Vole

Girls In the 80s

2010-03-07T17:34:00.004-06:00

Crack the windows, take a trip. Finally this melting snow can cover its own ass. It owes money all over town right now and spring needs to get sprung somehow. Girls in the Eighties coming with some fantastic lo-fi noise pop to welcome our oncoming tardy sunsets, muddy driveways, and bliss dipped sundae afternoons. Get this...cuz Glory Fades and shit.

Girls In The Eighties - Teenage Royalty

Anatomy of Coincidence

2010-03-07T15:53:00.005-06:00

Anatomy of Coincidence, Obscure comp. tape from 1984 with 10 acts from Indiana. The address states Bloomington so maybe these bands were made of students as Bloomington has one of the best universities of the world. Some great minimal synth stuff on here, particularly digging the Grey Area and Practic stuff.

V/A - Anatomy of Coincidence [1984]

Indexical

2010-03-03T04:25:00.005-06:00

A power trio with more or less equal links to the garage and psychedelic eras, Index enhanced their astral aspirations with an unholy amount of reverb drone. AND WE LIKE REVERB DRONE.

The Index- The Index (1967)

Weekend Bender

2010-02-26T14:37:00.003-06:00

Ah, we live for the weekends here. You get born on Friday and die on Sunday. There is nothing better than planning nothing, going to some parties, ending up at some house where bands are ripping apart a basement like its the last dawn we'll ever see, and following it all up with an NBA Big Box. Try it.

Found this remix when I revisited the Optimo Synth Summer podcast. Endless running, endless lungs, endless tall grass field.

They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - Rabbit Seal Monkey (King of Town Remix)

Shredding ourselves at the other end of the Holland Tunnel Dive...

The Lift Boys - Anarchy Way [The Lift Boys aka Yamatsuka Eye]

Pilooski - AAA [Pilooski on Myspace]

Late Nite Tuff Guy - Eurotrac [Lightspeed Recordings]

Thursday>>>Friday

2010-02-23T17:45:00.005-06:00

The beat seamstress MNDR meets up with the YACHT tour this week in our backyard. You can catch MNDR at this crazy place on Thursday. (BTW follow me on twitter to learn about more shows)

18+

5$ Entry.

Doors @8:30

Dancing encouraged. More info.

w/ DJ sets by Sovietpanda and Solid Gold

MNDR

Elite Gymnastics

MP3s, geez...

MNDR - C.L.U.B.

Baris K - Show You Love

Hexagonal

2010-02-20T16:45:00.006-06:00

Come to this...You know people in other cities go out all sorts of nights of the week.

Wisconsin? Really? Do lakes have beaches? Vacation Dad lights an M80 on the other side of the lake.

Vacation Dad - Hemp Scented Body Lotion

My Teenage Stride - Theme From Teenage Suicide [My Teenage Stride on Myspace]

The Aerosols - China [The Aerosols on Myspace]

Tropical, squeezed vocals getting down in a grass hut. TETINE on Myspace

TETINE - Yr Daughter Lies

Music Without Tears

2010-02-18T02:36:00.006-06:00

Hi this is [Your Name], I'm not here right now but please leave a message..ok...BEEP:

Tell em you're always gonna leave him, Tell em you're always gonna please him, Tell em, Tell em, Tell em right now. This is not a new mix but its something I missed so therefore I feel like maybe you might have too? Yeah? Anyway saw the tracklist and thought of you...ok talk to you later, byeeeee.

Mishka Presents Music Without Tears

A Mix By Passions

Download

Tracklist:

01 - UK Decay - Unexpected Guest 

02 - Micron63 - No Divide 

03 - Joy Division - Means To An End 

04 - Pylon - Danger 

05 - Public Image Limited - Annalisa

 06 - Nitzer Ebb - Join In The Chant 

07 - Nine Inch Nails - Ringfinger 

08 - Passions - Sentiment (Instrumental) 

09 - Death In June - Fields 

10 - Cabaret Voltaire - Landslide 

11 - SPK - A Heart That Breaks (In No Time And Place) 

12 - Ulterior - Weapons (Zlaya Remix) 

13 - New Order - 586 (Peel Sessions Version) 

14 - Death In June - The Calling Mk II 

15 - Black Strobe - Innerstrings (No Shuffle Mix) 

16 - Micron63 - Death Is Colder Than Love 

17 - Huoratron - Corporate Occult (Passions Remix)

18 - Section 25 - Looking From A Hilltop 

19 - Throbbing Gristle - Adrenaline 

20 - Alien Sex Fiend - Get Into It 

21 - New Order - Ecstasy 

22 - Suicide - Mr - Ray 

23 - Sonic Youth - Killin Yr - Idols 

24 - Ipso Facto - Baulderdash 

25 - Damn Arms - The Cormorant 

26 - Wire - On Returning 

27 - Oto - Anyway 

28 - Bauhaus - Dancing 

29 - The Cure - Primary 

30 - Passions - Composure (Instrumental) 

31 - Radiohead - Climbing Up The Walls 

32 - David Bowie - Subterraneans

Purifying the bong water on a sunny day

2010-02-16T13:11:00.006-06:00

G.B. Jones' first band Bunny & The Lakers were an extremely short-lived experimental synth band from Toronto led by songwriter Peter Morgan. They only played live once; fortunately, though, they recorded a fantastic LP, 'Numbers', 500 of which were pressed by Belsize/Caplan/Wymark Records in 1984. Doing my best to track that LP down, but in the meantime...

Bunny & The Lakers - Sandy

The Stupid Set - S.W. (Southwest) Digestion

Throbbing Gristle - Hot On The Heels Of Love (Ratcliffe Remix)

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - A Daisy Chain 4 Satan (Acid & Flowers Mix)

A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Nitetime Rainbows [ASDG on Myspace]

Surplus Stock

2010-02-14T19:02:00.004-06:00

Surplus Stock was founded by Robert Giddens in 1979, after he had produced the first DAF single.

Surplus Stock - Dance Ersatz [1983]

Babe Rainbow Vid

2010-02-13T15:43:00.004-06:00

Babe Rainbow - Shaved video. Really into these HD creepy dense forest concepts, would love to direct something like this some day.

Babe Rainbow - Shaved from Salazar on Vimeo.