Toro Y Moi’s “Empty Nesters” is the first single from What For?, out April 7 on Carpark Records.

Chaz brings back the joyous times from the 60s and 70s for our first taste of the new LP.

The new duo Inventions(members of Explosions In The Sky and Eluvium) tapped the shoulder of The Field for a remix and the end product is this perfect 9 minute piece.

Galcher Lustwerk released Edits today which a collection of… edits that he’s been doing over the years. You can listen to them all here.

When you visit All We Are’s soundcloud they describe themselves as “Bee Gee’s on diazepam” which is pretty spot on. CFCF massages this out in his natural spacious style, the 2nd half is where the magic happens and vox really opens up and layers over the CFCF treatment nicely.

‘Keep Me Alive’, the supple, dreamily captivating single from Liverpool’s All We Are has been remixed by a crew of talented peers – UK producer Lxury (Greco-Roman), Los Angeles-based dream rock band Warpaint, and Montreal electronic composer CFCF. This 4-track bundle, featuring the original version plus the 3 remixes, is available today digitally on Double Six / Domino.

STREAM HERE
BUY HERE

Tycho hits the road this March, the first of a handful of posters just went up on the shop, you can grab yours here.

US/CAN SPRING 2015 TOUR
MAR 15 | Eugene, OR | McDonald Theatre
MAR 17 | Vancouver, BC | The Commodore Ballroom
MAR 18 | Seattle, WA | Showbox Sodo
MAR 19 | Boise, ID | Knitting Factory [Boise]
MAR 20 | Denver, CO | The Ogden Theatre
MAR 21 | Lawrence, KS | The Granada Theater
MAR 22 | Minneapolis, MN | First Avenue & 7th St Entry (First Avenue)
MAR 23 | Madison, WI | Majestic Madison
MAR 25 | St. Louis, MO | The Ready Room
MAR 27 | Royal Oak, MI | Royal Oak Music Theatre
MAR 28 | Toronto, ON | The Danforth Music Hall
MAR 29 | Indianapolis, IN | The Vogue Theatre
MAR 31 | Columbus, OH | Newport Music Hall
APR 01 | Cleveland, OH | State Theatre at PlayhouseSquare #
APR 02 | Pittsburgh, PA | Benedum Center #
APR 03 | Raleigh, NC | Red Hat Amphitheater #
APR 04 | Atlanta, GA | Chastain Park Amphitheatre #
APR 05 | Birmingham, AL | WorkPlay
APR 06 | Nashville, TN | Grand Ole Opry #
APR 08 | Oklahoma City, OK | Chevy Bricktown Events Center #
APR 11 | Indio, CA | Coachella
APR 17 | Berkeley, CA | Greek Theatre #
APR 18 | Indio, CA | Coachella
MAY 21-24 | Bradley, CA | Lightning in a Bottle
JUN 11-14 | Manchester, TN | Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival
JUN 18-21 | Dover, DE | Firefly Music Festival
# – w/ Alt-J

I recently had the opportunity to design some album art for Artisan Loyalist on the upcoming full-length album, Lonely Ghost, and the recently released teaser, The Ace EP. Initially, the artwork for The Ace EP was derived from pieces of the Lonely Ghost design: the gem-like cluster started in Illustrator as basic flat shapes that I had worked into 3D, and then overtop, layered a large number of photos I had taken to get the various textures.

This is the premiere streaming release of the the track Light Trail. Lonely Ghost is set to release on Tuesday, February 24th 2015 on Sky Council Recordings, and you can pre-order now on iTunes and Amazon.

Slowly all the summer pool jams are being accumulated, this one from Studio’s Dan Lissvik is without a doubt an automatic on the daytime playlists of 2015.

via LISSVIK

A big room boy just popped up this morning, George Fitzgerald reworks a favorite from Jon Hopkins. The results are a heavy and deep cut that is our first glimpse of this years summer jams.

Tycho just came back from their tour in Asia / Australia, during that time Scott was able to string a few dates together to knock out some images for some of the dates.

Will be posting photos from the tour tomorrow.

Looking forward to renting this on Vimeo, even though its a tad bit long for a tour feature, i’m excited to see such a young label take on a doc this early in their creation.

In June 2012, four core acts from the house music label 100% Silk embarked on a lengthy group tour through Europe, UK and beyond. SILK is a chronicle of that experience with highly visual dance sequences featuring the L.A. Contemporary Dance Company.

via 100%Silk Doc

Tony Zhou’s Every Frame a Painting is a video series dedicated to the ‘analysis of film form’. His episode on Nicolas Winding Refn’s use of the quadrant system in Drive was the first video that drew me in. Each episode does a great job breaking down and explaining the little details that are sometimes overlooked. It reminds me of the first time I discovered the hidden arrow and spoon within the FedEx logo. When you finally realize it’s there, you appreciate the art behind what we see in front of us that much more.

Other videos that grabbed my attention were David Fincher’s “not what I do, but what I don’t do” approach to filmmaking and the different ways text messaging and the internet are represented on screen.

But it was an episode on Japanese film director and animator Satoshi Kon that got me really stoked. This was my first introduction to the world of Kon and his signature editing style. Inspired by George Roy’s Slaughterhouse-Five, Kon’s use of matching scene transitions has also inspired other filmmakers and their films – Inception and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World are two examples that immediately come to mind.

Before passing in 2010, Kon left us with one last gem – Ohayo. His final piece covers something we deal with every day; the dreaded morning wake up routine – illustrated in the most beautiful of ways.

You can follow the Every Frame a Painting series on Youtube and dive into the world of Satoshi Kon through the eyes of fans on Tumblr.

– Chad Kamenshine