The Monitors
Keeping track of new music, media
and industry news - 05-02-12-11.36am
Loading ...
A little late to the table on this one it seems. Ah well, catch up time. Teen Daze, an ambient electronic project from a yet anonymous Vancouver based producer who is riding the wave of lo-fi, dreamy acid washed sounds.
Yup, think Neon Indian, Animal Collective et cetera. Anyway, rising about the masses pitchfork seem to think highly of the chap, he has apparently appeared 5 times in their forkast section…
Anyway, he started giving his tunes away on his tumblr site back in April and it just spun out from there, a phenomena I find thoroughly encouraging. An individual artist still has the capacity to develop his own hype and profile based not on the depth of his pocket rather the quality of his music. He even fits the image of a guy in his bedroom with a laptop using Reason and Garageband
Teen Daze released his first ep digitally, on vinyl and on cassette tape (ltd to 100 units, nice!)…. Its called 4 more Years and you can buy it here
Combining deep 60s psychedelic grooves with the minimal looping work recently found within work by the likes of Walls and Caribou, Django Django come along and add a hint of spice to the sound. The glazed expression of the music perfectly fits the Beta Band electronic feel their going for; from the Beach Boys influenced ‘Life’s A Beach’ and ‘Silver [..]
Read More
New disco does Stargate, Star Trek, Star Wars! Anything which touches the sky has touched the inspiration behind the latest video from this funky dance collective. The multiple universe theory goes hay-wire and the world turns into a massive disco stage.
Heineken have just launched the ‘Serenade your Date’ Facebook app which helps you record a song in order to ask the lady/gentleman of your Facebook dreams on a date. apps.facebook.com
May 04, 2012 Koko
The Camden Crawl is back an bigger and better than ever this year, and to celebrate they’re kicking things off this year with a special Friday event at the legendary Koko venue, headlined by Death in Vegas. Long time member Richard Fearless had this to say about [..]
Read More
