Comprised of members Nick Waterhouse and Dave Schneider, niceFingers is passionate about bringing lovable, amazing, uplifting, bumpin and straight dirty music to your eardrums.
With their physical bodies currently residing on different continents, these two musicians jumped at the chance to explore the realms of intercontinental beat making. Each having extensive music backgrounds, niceFingers first became an entity after the need arose to liven the Midwest DJ scene with their special yet similar tastes in bass music and live-production style performance.
It is no surprise that niceFingers has morphed into a composition/production duo determined to blend and bend the bass genre into something all their own. Delivering only the freshest tracks to satisfy your musical hunger, sit back and enjoy as the niceFinger vision continues to mature and evolve.
British Nu-folk troubadour Luke De-Sciscio has just released a FREE download of new a song on Soundcloud. The track is Luke De-Sciscio’s first release of 2012 and it looks to set him further down the path of success that late 2011 saw him settle upon.
Luke De-Sciscio’s sound is as ethereal as it is engaging. He combines passion, poetry and honesty to create songs that are not only heartfelt but viscerally beautiful. ‘The tremble in his voice reflects an anguish he has yet to overcome.’ A perfect track for V-day.
PacificUV releases the new Weekends LP tomorrow (January 31st) off Mazarine Records. The album mixes ethereal shoegaze sounds with electropop and features guest appearances from members of Montreal and The Olivia Tremor Control. I’m digging the single entitled “Funny Girl,” which houses a unique surreal vibe that really captures the album’s essence.
From the people who brought you Suede Ape, comes Modus Pony, the new instrumental solo project from Matt Ackerman. The self titled, debut album is a collection of experimental ideas, born during countless hours of bedroom daydreaming, presented and served to you as a traditional collection of typically succinct pop-songs. The album is a buffet of bite sized, experimental pieces that can be listened to casually, or examined and picked apart meticulously as an extended piece of audio-art. The album is currently available via bandcamp, with two free tracks available for download if you’re looking for something odd yet catchy, while cerebral in a “I-see-what-he-did-there” kind of way….
We love the label Holographic People, and they are very proud to present their fifth release to date, Shelby Grey’s groundbreaking debut album, The Music Is On His Side. The LP is available for streaming on Soundcloud and there’s a limited free 100 downloads of “April’s legacy”. Shelby Grey’s brand of rich, evocative electro-pop is built upon some of the warmest, most textured synthetics I can recall hearing, and the result is a multi-layered masterpiece. Should you find yourself in Barcelona this October, don’t miss the label showcase & album release party with Shelby Grey and Cavaliers of Fun @ Razzmatazz, Barcelona, 15 October….
It’s Saturday night and you go to bed at 11 pm. You set your alarm clock for 5 am in the morning. You wake up, have a couple beers for breakfast, and then you’re ready for the floor. You arrive at Bergain, Panorama bar, Berlin at 6 am. Most likely you show up to find Johanna Knutsson at the DJ booth. Johanna is the latest star on the more mellow techno scene within Berlin- the scene that peaks at 7 am when the party starts over again.
This is the latest single from This Is Head, now in one exclusive remix. We’re proud to present De Trop (Johanna Knutsson Cosmic Support Remix).
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Mirror People’s new Reaction 12″ is out now! The release marks a turning point in electronic ambient beats from Portugal’s own Rui Maia. With delicious breaks, soothing dips, and classical piano interludes, Maia rediscovers a bit of his own musical past while recreating a brand new contemporary selection in the process. The album is released courtesy of Hands of Time Records.
Having already made his point in several remixes (one being the devastatingly good mix of Neon Indian – find it here), Mirror People are making themselves a force in the industry with their own unique originals. Catch much, much more online at mirrorpeople.net.
Empty Space Orchestra certainly knows how to fill a room. The Bend, OR quintet of impeccable musicians crafts a symphonic, melodic sound that seamlessly weaves together elements of space rock, prog-metal, noir jazz, post-rock and afro-punk all in one massive blast of energy. Having built up a substantial following in the Pacific Northwest, the band has released their self-titled debut album May 10th and brought their genre-defying sound nationwide.
Their 9-song, 50-minute self-titled debut album is a hook-laden marriage of heft and harmony that veers far away from the navel-gazing jamming often associated with music of such explorative origins. Elements of The Mars Volta’s most frenetic moments merge with soaring post-rock of Russian Circles, as well as hints of Deftones, Dub Trio and lilting chamber pop all colliding in brilliant synergy from one song to the next.
The group of classically-trained musicians is anchored by the stunning power and precision of drummer Lindsey Elias — clearly a musician soon to hold rank amongst her most celebrated male counterparts. Guitarist Shane Thomas and bassist Patrick Pearsall provide a balance of head-bobbing riffs interspersed with tasteful and inventive lines that weave like musical narrative throughout. Meanwhile, multi-instrumentalists Keith O’Dell (keyboards, piano, lap steel) and Graham Jacobs (saxophone, flute, synths) add myriad melodic layers and cinematic moods that often deftly counterbalance heavy riffs with glissando piano melodies and swaggering horns.
The disc was recorded at the popular The Hanger Studios in Sacramento, CA with engineer Robert Cheek (RX Bandits, Deftones, Tera Melos) and mixed by Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Pearl Jam, ISIS) at Red Room Studios in Seattle, WA. Since the band’s inception in late 2007, ESO has built a devoted and rapidly growing fan base in the Northwest exclusively on the weight of their highly memorable live performances. While the album perfectly showcases the band’s musical precision, it must be noted that ESO is an extremely loud band — quite possibly the loudest band you will ever see with a saxophone on stage.
“I was spending a lot of time thinking about what Miles Davis used to say; ‘It’s not about the space you play, but the space you leave,’” explains Thomas. “That’s where the ‘Empty Space’ came from… ironically we don’t leave much space in our music.” Nonetheless, the sum of Empty Space Orchestra’s myriad parts never seem bloated, overblown or obtrusive.
Empty Space Orchestra’s self-titled debut album will be available everywhere on CD/Digital May 10th.
EMPTY SPACE ORCHESTRA LIVE:
04/20 Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern
04/21 Bellingham, WA @ Jinx Art Space
04/22 Portland, OR @ Portland State University campus (free)
04/22 Portland, OR @ Ash Street Saloon
05/11 Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios (album release show)
Part Two of Mighty Mouse’s Mixtape ‘Remixes Edits and Originals’ has just landed Aerials! And from first glance of their tracklisting then this May’s Mousecast 04 sets up to be one of their finest showcases yet. Initial listens tell me that there are some beautiful surprises to savour, so with a delightful euphoric opening that transcends into a sublime bit of audio wizardary.. a’la zero-pots-n-pans DJ mixing.. then the merry month of May 2011 is shaping up to be a cracker for M.M!
To make things even more exciting for Mighty Mouse, ‘Between The Pavement And The Stars’ is their first track to be released in 2011 from their new concept as a live band, and with a brilliant selection of remixes forthcoming from Cosmonauts, Edwin Van Cleef, Blamma! Blamma!, Tronik Youth and Mario Basanov, ‘Between The Pavement And The Stars’ is setting up to be a very well rounded release.
In the meantime, ‘Between The Pavement And The Stars’ provides us with an outlook into their new found style as a live band, and as the track in question floats off into a radio friendly grace with sprinkles of rolling drum riffs and aromas of studio-album Basement Jaxx sprinkles, the sharply squeezed keys and electronica stabs will become all too familiar after the third or fourth listen. Guaranteed.
Not to outdo the true art of surprise, there will also be even more tricks up Mighty Mouse’s sleeves for later on this year and an EP of theirs will drop vigorously in July 2011 too.
If you’re in the UK and you want to catch M.M. live, then they will be performing @ 93ft East in London on Friday 13th May 2011.
When the cat’s away the Mighty Mouse’s will sure indeed play…
+ don’t forget.. just like always, all Mousecast’s are available to download for free.
Tracklisting:
1. Sudha ‘Leche’ (Mighty Mouse Disco Revolution Remix)
2. Bent ‘Swollen’ (Mighty Mouse Vocal Remix)
3. Robbie Williams ‘Last Days of Disco’ (Mighty Mouse Instrumental)
4. Little Boots ‘Earthquake’ (Mighty Mouse Bootiful Vocal Remix)
5. John & Jehn ‘Looking For You’ (Mighty Mouse NYC Sensations Remix)
6. Mighty Mouse ‘Song for Ellen’ (Graz Edit)
7. ABBA ‘Midnight Mouse’ (Mighty Mouse’s Not So Official Edit Type Thingy)
8. Northend ‘Happy Days’ (Mighty Mouse’s Not So Official Edit Type Thingy)
9. Roy Davis Jnr ‘Rock Lights’ (Mighty Mouse Remix)
10. The Glamour ‘Robot Rock’ (Mighty Mouse Remix)
11. Command V ‘Lost On Me’ (Mighty Mouse Remix)
12. Performance ‘The Living’ (Mighty Mouse Remix)
13. Luke Million ‘Italo Journey’ (Mighty Mouse Remix)
14. Mighty Mouse ‘Junglefish’
15. Fenech-Solar ‘Stop and Stare’ (Mighty Mouse Remix)
16. Mighty Mouse ‘The Beast’
17. Shades of Rhythm ‘Sweet Sensation’ (Mighty Mouse Remix)
Good ol’ Fenech Soler is back at it again. This time with a disgustingly good classic and brilliant track entitled Stone Bridge. The guys sent it over as their newest freebie and I couldn’t be happier. Wow, what a track.
I honestly don’t know what else to say. It’s fantastic. You should buy their music through the link below!
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Double the sentiment, double your pleasure, double your fun!
With an aim to make bass heavy dubstep/glitch-hop music that’ll get you dancing (and is not the same old, 3 note transformer-step..), USCS’s History major Christian Bauhofer aka Minnesota takes a bite out of the glorious peaches of Santa Cruz, California and crafts a dual wonderment of Stella Artois refined beverages, with a side order of other miniatures and lagers just incase you don’t like those big n’ chunky Artois’s that are on offer here …
With that said, Minnesota’s re-take of SVD’s XX Booty Mix of ‘Intro,’ originally done by The XX, perfectly enhances Sander Van Doorn’s own inspiration and gives The XX even more creative turns on the dancefloor for future months of longevity. ‘Juicy’ retains that same element also and smashes home The Notorious B.I.G.’s unique skills for all underground and less discerning dancefloors worldwide.
Everett James from 735 Music sends us through a very abstract sounding analogue track which immediately wouldn’t trouble the high end speakers of an old skool Massive Attack party. Featuring the slight delicate whispers of an MC getting warmed up for his next freestyle, ‘Peace’ dips and bobs its head in a dream like state and makes an even more powerful delivery with its constant poignant drums and its fantasy-inspired phasers.
“Peace” as it is here, is another example of how splendid a track can sound like without too many vocal parts added to it.
A simple, but subtle melody bounces its way across the Aerialnoise Inbox and by-jove it stands adrift like an array of brightly coloured Springtime flowers on a hot Saturday morning.
‘So Bad’ was TalkFine’s loud n’ proud previous, however its ‘Glasses’ which go down a soulful and mellow route, but not without adding an electrified unique kick to put it onto a path of a few-things-a’TalkFine different.
Good things come to those who wait, but in some cases, wonderful things happen when you least expect them to. Inspired by the actual birth name of one of Germany’s most famous poets in Friedrich Schiller, the initial production partnership of Mirko von Schlieffen and Christopher von Deylen gave birth to some timeless and most memorable dance floor wonders in the shape of ‘Das Glockenspiel’ throughout 1998 to 2000, and ‘Ruhe’ between 1999 and 2000.
Wonderful remixes from those two tracks in question in no doubt helped DJ Tiësto, Humate, Tom Middleton, Trisco and Sumsonic onto Ministry of Sound’s Data Records path of production-greatness and remix-folklore. But alongside the numerous-own Schiller projects and fertile promotion that these two men worked through, this duo always found time to maintain the attention of Zeitgeist/Island Records who in turn released their debut LP entitled “Zeitgiest.”
The “Weltreise” (Voyage) LP soon followed in 2001 and then the “Leben” (Life) LP in 2003. Somewhere between then, Christopher and Mirko experienced the age old hurdle of creative & artistic differences. And despite being really unfortunate to iron out those divergences naturally, Mirko decided to depart and Christopher picked up the ball to continue in the world we now as Schiller come today.
Without alienating music fans in the mother-language in which Schiller’s LP’s have been published, the continuation of releasing the album’s title’s and track names in German and then into English, remains a constant revealing flow. Throughout the whole of the Noughties, in conjunction with Christopher’s own stadium-like-inner-drive, the Echo & OPUS music awards closely preceded and his collaborations with all several, outstanding female artists soon following in suite.
Thirteen studio-based and concept-branded albums have followed since 2003 (with two more following in 2010 & 2011). But before then, we land on gently towards the 14th Schiller album (or 6th depending on who you talk to), which exuberates monumental, perfect ambience, of the very same entitled name.
The “Breathless” LP has an ongoing heartiness to it which makes the worldly feelings of sluggishness and exhaustion absolutely redundant. After spending a month on the oceanographic research ship known as the Polarstern in Germany, a nineteen track voyage of tender and infinite-whisked melodies were inspired onto the hills of the Schiller fortress once again. The pearls of aural wisdom in which these gates were opened to were among the Princesses and Prince’s known as Lenka, Nadia Ali, Midge Ure (lead man of Ultravox), Mia Bergstrom, Anggun and many more to add to favour.
Within their strength also, they helped glide, traverse and energise “Breathless” into a universe of unmitigated tranquilly and abundant, idyllic peacefulness. Together with “Breathless” (also known as Atemlos) featuring a quintessential number in the form of the song called ‘Try,’ the United States version of this album will be accompanied with the “Sehnsucht” (Desire) LP which originally came out in 2008.
Re-releasing the dazzling reminder of the single called ‘Breathe’ with vocalist September (and further exhibits from Despina Vandi, Kim Sanders, Xavier Naidoo and Jette Von Roth), “Desire” in its equal self retains a crisp bodied finish with an outlook on all things ambient and unanimously spirited.
The roads in which have been made and laid down for Schiller to continue on have not been sought after without a reflection to the past and an identical eye on the future, so with the enthused knowledge of Kraftwerk, Jean-Michel Jarre, and Tangerine Dream to contemplate over, Mike Oldfield fans alike are in no doubt to be content and humbled by that mystical and heart penetrating sound that moves and captures us all from Christopher “Schiller.”
Bookmarking the calendar for his epic nineteen date tour in December later on this year, will indeed hypnotise and spell bound all sorts of fraternities from chill out to trance to ambient to Balearic and back again. So in the words of a true composer, musician and producer.. “My Name Is Christopher Von Deylen… and I am Schiller.”
A rural dweller who combines elements of both hippy and redneck culture. Typical in areas where traditional conservative employment (logging, grazing) has collapsed or been replace by more lucrative alternative agriculture… Part Hipster. Part Redneck. All the way awesome!
The innovative producer who recently won our very own Aerial Noise 2011 Spring Mini Mix competition is back with a new gem to Metric’s Satellite Mind. With a refreshing slowed pace, Hipneck redesigns the backdrop to emphasize Emily Haines vocals and in doing so, creates a compelling mix that kicks the originals ass.
This is a great take from a Canadian producer on a Canadian Indie Rock band. Thanks for sending this in Hipneck. Be sure to check out the winning mix he sent us earlier through the above link.
Comprised of members Nick Waterhouse and Dave Schneider, niceFingers is passionate about bringing lovable, amazing, uplifting, bumpin and straight dirty music to your eardrums.
