Ivy League Records is thrilled to release Live At The Forum, the incredible new live album from The Teskey Brothers – available on double blue vinyl, CD & all digital services! In the tradition of some of history’s greatest live records (James Brown, Woodstock, Donny Hathaway, The Who), the band undertook the arduous task of recording to analogue tape, during their sold-out four-night stand at the beloved Melbourne venue last November.
To coincide with the release, the band have unveiled a behind-the-scenes documentary of the live album recording experience. The 16-minute video includes performances from the night, musings from the band members and a glimpse into the ambitious (and triumphant!) recording process.
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Australian producer and DJ Torren Foot reveals a new tech-house remix of Yung Bae’s hit single ‘Bad Boy’ out today via Sony/Artista. Listen HERE.
Torren Foot spins the original funk track into a club ready tech-house heater with minimal dub elements and intricate house rhythms. Torren Foot is no stranger to lending his talents to developing club anthems, with his recent track ‘More Life’ (over 2 million streams) spending 5 weeks at #1 on Beatport and was the most played single on triple j. The Torren Foot remix follows a piano house edit from UK producer Low Steppa and a disco remix from SMLE.
Torren’s previous works have scored him an ARIA nomination for best dance release in 2017 of collaborative single ‘Be Randy’ alongside Dom Dolla, with other successful club tracks ‘Hot Sauce’ & remix for Tiga’s ‘Bugatti’ via Diplo’s label Mad Decent (over half-a-million streams). Torren Foot has been supported by key tastemakers including Adam Beyer, Claptone, Anna Lunoe, Wax Motif & Destructo to name a few. Most recently, Torren Foot debuted a brand new livestream set for Untitled’s Virtual Day Party alongside Dom Dolla, Willaris K and more.
Torren Foot’s remix of Yung Bae’s ‘Bad Boy’ is available on all streaming platforms now.
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Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn stepped out of 2019 with a UK Top Ten album under their belt, Eton Alive, their biggest sold out tour to date and the swagger of a band that have never been more relevant, topically challenging and downright entertaining. Sleaford Mods continue their onslaught into 2020 with the release of All That Glue out today via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records.
All That Glue is a collection of songs spanning the last seven years of the bands career; an array of crowd pleasers, B sides, unheard tracks and rarities for fans and the curious. It includes the previously unreleased live favourite ‘Jobseeker’ and latest single ‘Second’, which comes with a Robin Lee-directed video featuring Kate Dickie (Game of Thrones) and Emma Stansfield (Skins, The Tudors) – WATCH HERE.
Over the past few years, the Nottingham-based duo have become one of the most intractable British pop stories. One of its best. Their music is drawn at a flawless fault-line of anger, tenderness and humour, a triumvirate of raw energy which frequently jostles in the space of a cadence for supremacy. On record you can hear their sinews, live you can touch their veins.
All That Glue follows Sleaford Mods sold-out debut Australian tour in March, which included standout performances at Golden Plains Festival, WOMADadelaide, Farmer & The Owl and more.
This Saturday 16 May, join Jason and Andrew on the red couch as they guest program Rage on ABC TV – tune in from 11AM – midday, and again from 12:15AM onwards.
Stream / Purchase Sleaford Mods – All That Glue: https://sleafordmods.ffm.to/
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“Inspired by Tracy Morgan, Vic Fontaine and true events in The City That Never Sleeps” – 1010 Benja SL
Today 1010 Benja SL releases a new single ‘Woodrow’ via Young Turks / Remote Control. Following last month’s release of the ingressing minimal r&b song ‘Dobby,’ 1010 calls ‘Woodrow’: “…nostalgia Jazz music for listening to while watching Starlink satellites,” harking at “the therapeutic madness that becomes available to a person who is truly lost and alone.”
Recorded with his father (a gospel pianist and minister from Flint, Michigan), ‘Woodrow’ blends together an uncomfortable conflict of spiritual emotions, non-sequitur stress points and snapshots of mental un-health which Benja calls: “the sound of living under the city.”
Having seemingly come out of nowhere with his release of the generatively perplexing song ‘Boofiness’ in 2017, 1010 Benja SL immediately earned whispered curiosity and intrigue from some of the biggest voices in music. Followed by the emotional 2018 single ‘Wind Up Space’ and the six-track Two Houses EP, 1010 Benja SL continues to develop his emotionally direct yet cognitively nebulous style with ‘Woodrow.’
The first single off of the first installment of Michael C. Duguay’s four-part “Tragicalia EP’ series, Caesura was recorded by Michael and Owen Davies in Michael’s home in east-central Ontario in mid-February, 2020, with a small group of friends and collaborators.
The Tragicalia EP series features an ongoing song-cycle that explores Michael’s return to work as a professional musician and artist after a lengthy time away, during which he struggled with mental illness and addiction resulting from PTSD, institutionalization, and homelessness. Serving as both a cathartic writing practice, as well an effort to shift his work which deals with this experience and themes into one body of recorded material, each EP in the four-part series offers one lyrical piece which digs deeper into these experiences, his recovery from them, and how they continue to influence and intersect with his artistic practice, accompanied by an ambient instrumental piece which draws its musical themes from the lyrial single, and offers a meditative, reflective obbligato.
Caesura is a song about song-writing. Returning to his career in music in 2018, after nearly a decade away, Michael returned to a drastically different professional landscape. Digital streaming services and social media had surfaced as the most prominent marketing and sales tools and, with them, a new and distinct emphasis on personal brand. Adapting to these new technologies, Michael experienced disconnect and apprehension about how to best present work that is deeply personal and confessional through the lens of scrolling culture. Caesura is a song which explores this disconnect, tackles the catharsis of song-writing, and asks how to remain honest in an age of insincerity, if it’s even worth doing at all.
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“Ben Harper has put in some work. He has had a long and substantive career releasing one quality album after another. Old fans love it and his work gathers new fans into the fold at every turn. Why? Because quality and honesty are hard to find. Sincerity and vision are a scarcity in a musical landscape littered with the benign and ordinary.” – American Blues Scene
‘Don’t Let Me Disappear’ is about the fine line between loneliness, isolation and invisibility, to where you can’t seem to find a way not to be hiding in plain sight,” Multi-GRAMMY award winning artist Ben Harper said of his new single.
Directed by Kristin Sudeikis and Gabriel Judet-Weinshel, the black and white video for the song features two modern dancers intertwining fluid and fragmented movements while Harper performs the song on acoustic guitar. Watch “Don’t Let Me Disappear” HERE.
Last summer Harper released the single “Uneven Days”, a track that also dealt with difficult emotions. “‘Uneven Days’ attempts to explore the depths of how dependent we can become on other people for our own sense of wholeness and stability,” Harper explained. Directed by Scott Keenan and Kristin Sudeikis and choreographed by Sudeikis, watch the video for “Uneven Days” HERE .
Harper has also recently produced music for many of his ANTI- label mates including Christopher Paul Stelling’s 2020 album Best of Luck, Hey, King!’s debut single “Don’t Let Me Get Away” and in 2019 he both produced and wrote We Get By, the 12th studio album by living legend Mavis Staples.
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Today the enigmatic Lewis Coleman, a striking new voice in Australian music, releases his immersive new single & video, ‘Going Your Way’.
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“new and exotic electro pop” – Purple Sneakers
“one of Melbourne’s most underrated smash-smiths” – Project U
Melbourne singer-songwriter Evangeline has returned with her latest dark-pop offering, the moody anti-party anthem ‘Bad Parties’ featuring Los Angeles-based rapper Julius.
Stream ‘Bad Parties’ ft. Julius here.
Creating an impression of otherness from the opening line ‘You say to eat these vitamins, I’d have more fun if I try to fit in’, Evangeline evokes a sense of powerlessness that everyone has felt at some point, when displaced in an environment that doesn’t feel authentic to their self. Combining her equally hypnotic and haunting vocals, the chorus amplifies Evangeline’s ‘them versus us’ outsider attitude, ‘Bad parties, filled by people with perfect teeth. We’re just at the bad parties, distract ourselves with nicotine.’
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Starting June 2nd, Stereo is launching 4 albums with 20 new remixes each pack with the most relevant tracks of their history.
Steve Lawler, Hector Couto, Matthias Tanzmann, D-Formation, Andrea Oliva, Dosem, Matador, Roger Sanchez, David Herrero, Mark Knight, Rafa Barrios, Gorge, Oscar L, Joeski, De La Swing, Carlo Lio, Fer BR, Nick Curly, Ramiro Lopez, Matt Sassari, Mendo o Siege are just some of the artists that have participated in this milestone for the label.
Two decades of music, 20 years of Iberican Sound. The pioneering Spanish label founded in Madrid by Chus & Ceballos in late 1999 has established itself as one of the most successful and stable platforms in the electronic music industry. Its success and permanence in the international market confirm that. Among its great achievements are having exported a 100% own and recognizable sound, having achieved an enviable level of implantation in the American market, having discovered and promoted dozens of talented artists and having held events of its own across the world. It’s time to celebrate this vast musical legacy in the form of remixes with the STEREO2020 REMIXED series.
This release features over 80 new remixes divided into four albums grouped according to their genre. To beat the drum in such an iconic celebration, the guys have invited artists who have been a direct or indirect part of the label’s history. DJs and producers such as Steve Lawler, Hector Couto, Matthias Tanzmann, D-Formation, Andrea Oliva, Dosem, Matador, Roger Sanchez, David Herrero, Mark Knight, Rafa Barrios, Gorge, Oscar L, Josh Butler, Dennis Cruz, Joeski, Carlo Lio, De la Swing, Hector Vatos Locos, Danny Serrano, Junior Sanchez, Ramiro Lopez, Nick Curly, Mendo, Dee Montero, Fer BR, Dario D’attis, Matt Sassari, Miane, Senzala, Siege, Tini Gessler, Hoten, Lexa Hill, FNX Omar, Javi Bora, D-Unity, Sparrow & Barbosa, Andrew Meller, Piem, Loco & Jam, German Brigante, Drunken Kong, Tini Garcia, Marco Lys, Vidaloca, PEZNT, Simone Liberali, Paolo Martini, Collective Machine, Daniel Lera o Harry Romero among many others.
STEREO2020 REMIXED includes great classics from Stereo’s catalog such as ‘That Feeling‘, ‘Afrika‘, ‘Strong Rhythm‘, ‘In Stereo‘, ‘El Amor‘, ‘Iberican Sound‘, ‘Echoes from Doruma‘, ‘The Sun‘, ‘All I Want‘, ‘Lost In Music‘, ‘We Play House‘, ‘Black Rock City‘, ‘Senja In Bali‘, ‘Abisinia‘ or ‘Now or Never‘ to name but a few.
STEREO2020 REMIXED will be released one album a week: the 2nd, 9th, 16th, and 23rd of June 2020.
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“Hypnotically blissed-out”
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“The electronic producer uses her equipment’s store-bought settings as a means to explore our melancholic modern world. Turns out she’s speaking in a language we all know by default”
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New York born, Berlin based musician and film maker JJ Weihl is set to release her debut solo record as Discovery Zone having previously played bass and sang in acclaimed experimental pop band Fenster. Remote Control is out via cult Berlin label Mansions and Millions on June 5th. Discovery Zone announced her debut album with trippy video Blissful Morning Dream Melody which received praise from the likes of Loud & Quiet, Gorilla Vs Bear and NPR.
Today, Discovery Zone shares lead single ‘Dance II’. On the single, Weihl says “I remember finding this beat on an old Yamaha keyboard and playing the chords on the guitar in my studio. I was absolutely elated. I was dancing around the room. In the beginning stages of writing the songs that ended up on this record, I lacked a lot of confidence. I’ve been making music and touring for the past several years with my band Fenster, but this project is the first time I ever tried to write and record music on my own.”
“At a lot of moments throughout the process, I really had to trick myself to keep going, to not give up out of frustration or fear of failure. I think the lyrics of this song really capture the struggle and ongoing conversation I was having with myself at that time” she continues. “Dance II deals with inner conflict, paradoxes, and the endless digital archiving of reality. Some funny thing I’m trying to find and capture in myself and in the world and save but can’t quite. The thing I’m chasing. A feeling. A song. Myself. Whatever it is. It’s a Dance, too!”
Her album Remote Control, with its palette of chimes, chirps and shimmers, is a glowing meditation on our contradictory moment in history. In her hands, the limitations of the default setting form a territory of unbounded experimentation, from the system-notification synth funk of “Dance II” to the trance incantations of “Blissful Morning Dream Interpretation Melody.” There are bits of sound collage and a lot of operatic robot choirs woven through tight emotional electronic pop.
Live visuals and music videos are a big part of Discovery Zone. Presenting a wild curation of green screen, found footage, and original material, the visual palette is one of digital bricolage – weaving narratives out of youtube videos, personal beach vacation footage, television commercials, early computer animations, and 3d renderings. Utilizing sci-fi and lo-fi aesthetics in the deep web, the sonic and lyrical themes of nostalgia, paradox, love, physics and philosophy are further explored and enhanced by visual journeys through second life and the funhouse mirror of the internet.
The accompanying music video for Dance II is a split screen of images in the background that are in conversation with each other either visually or conceptually with Weihl in the foreground in relation to those images. Compiled by Fenster bandmate Lucas Chantre, the video is compiled of mobile phone clips, little moments we see and shoot on our own.
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Nat Vazer revels in the comfort of her own company and thoughts in new iso-inspired film clip for latest single ‘For A Moment’
“Her understated but infectious indie melodies, coupled with her smooth vocals mean Vazer’s tracks radiate with a humble indie buzz; and ‘For a Moment’ is another shining example of this.” – Get In Her Ears, UK
Rising Melbourne artist Nat Vazer is gearing up to release her anticipated debut record Is This Offensive And Loud? at the end of the month, and is kicking off the celebrations with a brand new video for her latest single ‘For A Moment’.
Celebrating the simplicity of a slowing lifestyle and the comfort of imagination, memory and deep rumination, the new video exemplifies the track’s dreamy nostalgia through the intimate lens of Vazer’s partner and photographer, Benjamin Joel. A collection of humble moments lost in time, the ‘For A Moment’ video captures the immense weight of wanting something forbidden and the overwhelming feeling of longing for someone you can’t really be with
“The video clip was filmed when stage 3 isolation began so our options became really limited as to what we could do. We could no longer film at the beach which is initially where we planned to film. So Benny and I started brainstorming together – we wanted the film clip to convey the intimacy, warmth and playfulness of the song. So we chose simple sets that would convey that: in my bedroom because it feels like a private, intimate space; in the car and the shower where it feels personal but a little bit silly. With the shower scene – we drew inspiration from famous shower scenes like ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’, the Decore shampoo TV ads from the 80s and 90s. Singing in the shower is the best, everyone knows that.” – Nat Vazer
“When you’re limited with what you can work with, I think being open to experimentation and playing with the few things that you do have is the key. It can help you find what works in the process, rather than heading into a project with a set goal in mind. In this case, we tried a lot of different things with camera angles and lighting positioning, and we were just open to experimenting on the set. We could afford to do that too as we had so much time in lockdown.” – Benjamin Joel
Birthed from frustration and confusion at the state of the world and her place within it, Nat Vazer’s debut album Is This Offensive And Loud? was recorded in 2019 in a room above a guitar shop in Collingwood, Melbourne. Vazer’s intricate and eloquent songwriting navigates social justice, empowerment, relationships and more with a stream-of-consciousness
A captivating live performer, Nat Vazer has toured with Lime Cordiale and supported the likes of Last Dinosaurs, #1 Dads, Carla Geneve and The Magic Numbers (UK). Her fast-growing reputation as an intimate songwriter and powerful live force has also landed her on the festival line ups of St Kilda Festival, Kyneton Music Festival, Changes, Not Fest and more. Her anticipated debut album, scheduled for release through beloved indie Melbourne label Hotel Motel Records on Friday 29 May, is sure to propel this intriguing singer songwriter from a beguiling one-to-watch, to an undeniable leading force of Melbourne’s thriving indie rock scene. Not long now until Is This Offensive And Loud? drops!
‘For A Moment’ single out now on
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Is This Offensive And Loud? LP is out Friday 29 May
Limited edition vinyl pre-order now available through Hotel Motel Records
Where are you currently based?
I have recently relocated to Melbourne, AUS
How did you first start playing music?
My skills began back when I was around 12 years old. While learning to edit videos In spare time… I became obsessed with music production.
How has your COVID19 experience been to date?
Weirdly good. I’ve been able to work intensely on myself outside of the music. Being able to read, learn and practise more skills and ideas has been great. Wishing it were better circumstances but where there is a crisis there is an opportunity.
Your Sophmore album is dropping on the 29th of May 2020, you’ve just released the single ‘Level With Me’ what influenced the sound and songwriting for this track?
I wanted to make some more upbeat and fun to counteract the weird times that are happening around the globe. The idea behind it came from the majority of the world being put in the same position.
How did you go about writing Level With Me?
Started like most of my songs with me writing some chords and putting sounds together. Just after that, the body started to take place. I Wrote the lyrics then had to sit back and take another look.
I ended up making a new beat behind and kept the lyrics and melodies.
Where and when did you record/produce and who with?
I produced this record in 2019 by myself in my apartment. Production, Lyrics Mix and master.
What programs/instruments did you use?
I produce my music in Ableton Live
What did you find most rewarding/challenging during the process of creating Level With Me?
Trying to figure out the correct way to structure and build the record. I actually had to call an Aria award-winning buddy of mine ‘Illy’ to get a second opinion.
Where can we listen?
Spotify, Apple, Tidal, Youtube and Soundcloud.
Who are you listening to at the moment?
Im diving deep into the electronic scapes of Max Cooper and Floating Points.
What do you like to do away from music?
I like to read, study and practice psychology specifically in the mental health field.
What’s planned for 2020?
MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC.
Favourite food and place to hangout?
Get me with them burgers! Youll catch me hanging at a cafe probably drinking coffee.