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Boards of Canada – “Prophecy At 1420 MHz” Fever Ray – “I’m Not Done (Therapy Session)” ear – “Real Life” The post Visual Velcro 53 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

NESYA – PUT THE FRIES IN THE BAG. The intention of an artist like NESYA is not to create pure pop music. The daughter of a Nebraskan preacher and subjected to religious and sexual trauma, her aesthetic is wholeheartedly goth, punk, and a little vampiric–she even has a video that borrows liberally from that famous scene in Blade that I love so much. But even though her vibe is dark, I can’t help but get the same thrill from this song as I would from stuck-in-your-hair bubblegum pop. It’s catchy…

Special Request – “Uncanny Valley” (gyrofield Remix) O’Flynn & Swordman Kitala – “Sekete” VHOOR – “Assombrado” The post New Hots Hots 19 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Jacana People & Vraell – Paper Thin A pristine slice of organic electronica from UK duo Jacana People, with vocals and guitar by Vraell (Alessio Scozzaro). This is sunshine on a cold spring morning, melting the frost, and turning dew to vapor. I’ve also included their previous single–bouncier but still pillowey and soft around the edges–it lands more as a modern take on what might have been a B-side of an off-album Orbital 12″. Both songs are from Jacana People’s upcoming EP, Breaker, out June…

Alex Zhang Hungtai – Mother These two pieces from Alex Zhang Hungtai (of Dirty Beaches, among other projects) are alchemical. From his upcoming double album Orion/Mother, Zhang describes the music as “like something that was dormant is starting to awaken.” True to its title, the second disc’s second track indeed feels as if it is being wrenched from the primordial soup, Zhang’s trumpet sounding sustained, exhausted birth calls over halting percussive clatter, as if marking the last stretch of…

Kalani – “Lumin” E.VAX – “When I’m gone” Hektor and Teether – “Lickatung” The post New Hots Hots 18 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

PUR100 – Nobody Can Ice-cold and club-ready cut from Parisian producer PUR100 (Florian Jozefowicz). This is one of those tracks that could work just as well as a transition tool as it could as a peak time roller. Falling somewhere between midtempo throwback UK hardcore and breakbeat-driven electro, this has all the puzzle pieces in their right place: sharp drums, gritty reese, minor-key synth melodies, and nicely detached vocal sample. Big choon here. PUR100 was kind enough to offer this up…

Valfi – elsi.Hasht More micro-tonal perfection from Berlin’s Valfi, who describes his music as crafted for three settings: on the metro, in the club, or while ignoring texts. Built around darbuka drums, Arabic maqamat, and samples from pre-revolutionary Iranian commercials, my impression of this brilliant new one is that it might well work in any of the three aforementioned settings. As crisp as the drums are here, though, it would probably take a special club night to lend itself well to the…

Lene 3000 – “Body Language” Lorn – “Memory Management” Elskavon – “Dreymir Aftur (Fragments)” The post Visual Velcro 52 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn’t produce anything but more longing. – Sophie Kerr Remix Sunday 174 Zipped Up. (75mb zip) pw: palmsout Coolio – “Gangsta’s Paradise” (Hyalyte Bandido Baile) Bad Gyal – “Chulo pt. 2” (Bianca Maieli Tethered Edit) Amina vs. Furacão 2000 – “El Hantour x Tire a Camisa” (DJ Sudi Edit) Cardi B & Megan vs. VHOOR – “Rap da UFFÉ x Bongos” (Ballads Blend) Ice Spice – “Actin a Smoochie” ( GOJII RMX) Dora – “дорадура” (orbly Edit) Mikos Da Gawd – “The Whole…

Casha Mour – Toluca I wrote about London’s Casha Mour (real name Daniel Alan Smith) a couple of years ago. The song I featured then had this wonderful, drunken, meandering quality to it; I remarked at the time that under that comforting tilt seemed to be lurking something sorrowful. In the time since, getting to know Casha Mour’s music, that sorrow rises to the surface. The first of these two new singles he sent over a few weeks ago, “Toluca” reminds less of the pleasant warmth of the first…

Aphex Twin – “Korg Funk 5” Kassie Krut – “Racing Man” Kelela – “idea 1” The post Visual Velcro 51 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Zach from sales – Party next door After a long day at the office synergizing and level-setting, I need to leverage some low-hanging fruit: house music. Per my last post about him, Zach from sales and I are always on the same page. He’s motivated; he always gets the ball rolling, never forgets to circle back, and his music always moves the needle. I don’t have the bandwidth for a bigger brain dump on this, so I’ll put a pin in it there. You can grab this on bandcamp or find it for streaming. You…

Sully – “The Still” Sully – “Lies” Moktar & Saad El Soghayar – “Haraka ‘حركة'” Moktar – “Look” Main Phase – “Terrain Generator” The post New Hots Hots 17 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Tone Ranger – Confluence Tone Ranger (Alex Simon) is an artist from Santa Fe, NM who’s current with a new album, Confluence. My sister lived for years in Taos, and this record does really crystalize many of my experiences out there. As Simon’s pseudonym reflects, it’s absolutely still the Wild West. And it’s not just the landscape; it’s impressively thin in terms of population density, and the stark divide between wealth and poverty reminds me of old Westerns where everyone in town is suffering…

As part of his ongoing Late Bush project, Belgian composer Pierre Dozin recently released this dazzling piece as the second single from his upcoming album Hoarses. The album is based on the idea that baroque music no longer exists—at least not as actual sound—because the experience of hearing it is pure historical relic. Any performance of the music is only a reconstruction, an attempt to envision the music’s form based on historical documentation alone, since all that’s left with us is its…

Olof Dreijer ft. Maman – “Echoed Dafnino” Oneohtrix Point Never – “D.I.S.” Massive Attack & Tom Waits – “Boots on the Ground” The post Visual Velcro 50 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Iguana – “AQUI” Patricia – “Sticky Shed” Piezo & Yushh – “Bloom Nascosta” The post New Hots Hots 16 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Seems like we actually will be blessed with a new album soon, and the decade’s crypitc campaign wasn’t all for naught. Lots of prayer hands emoji happening on my feed today. The post Boards of Canada – Tape 05 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Gryr – Drift Cloudy electronica from Gothenburg-based Gryr (Jonatan Josefsson). The A-side, “Drift,” is music perfect for driving through foggy tundric expanses—it evolves deliberately, cruising steadily in a lilting trance. The B-side, “Sand,” is slightly more propulsive, but no less aerial–tumbing through many of the same lofty space as the first one, but with a […] The post From the Mailbox 52 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

sander777 – life reprise First up today, a pair of tracks from LA’s sander777 (Sander Bryce), both from his recent LP the Real, named for the Lacanian concept of a state of unknowable objective existence, outside the limits of representation and symbolism, separate and distinct from any ontological state of being. It’s hard to imagine […] The post From the Mailbox 51 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Dro Carey & Pinz – Hellish Plasma Sharp-as-nails breakbeat-meets-punk from Sydney’s Dro Carey (Eugene Ward), in collaboration with fellow Sydneysider Pinz (producer and vocalist Andy Lowe). I first became aware of Dro Carey’s work a little over a decade ago via his collaborations with the late genius Napolian (Ian Evans), whose unfairly limited catalog I […] The post From the Mailbox 50 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Departure – Around Me As I lie here continuing to recover from abdominal surgery, it’s no mystery why music like this would be especially appealing to me. This piece of buoyant electronica from Columbia’s Departure (Camilo Toston) is as invigorating as it is therapeutic. It’s a dip in a cool stream on a hot day, […] The post From the Mailbox 49 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Taroug – Najet Spellbinding and hypnotic new work from German-Tunisian composer Taroug. I’m currently recovering after minor abdominal surgery, and this is exactly the kind of thing I need right now: music that feels soulful and intelligent, presenting just enough of a challenge for the listener to keep me alert from under the veil of […] The post From the Mailbox 48 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Taroug -“Cicada” James Holden – “Common Land” Rare DM – “Compliment” The post Visual Velcro 49 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

You’ve got to understand your limitations. It’s your limitations that make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are. – Nick Cave Remix Sunday 173 Zipped Up. (98mb zip) pw: palmsout wev – “watchyaback!” (OSSX Remix) Drake – “Nokia” (SpydaT.E.K Planet Rock Remix) Million Stylez – “Miss Fatty” (VIENCA Edit) Pixies vs. Two Shell (& […] The post Remix sunday 173 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Ivy Lab – “Strange Attractor” Ivy Lab – “Innocence” Courtesy & Erica de Casier – “You’re Not Alone” (Dance Review) Aspen – “Dweller” The post New Hots Hots 15 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Some chic summertime house music to warm up a stubbornly chilly spring evening here. This is from Bay Area-bred and Soulection-associated Mikos Da Gawd (Miles Douglas), who’s better known for his hip-hop production for and with the likes of Anderson .Paak and Mr. Carmack. I usually brace myself when good hiphop producers decide they want […] The post From the Mailbox 47 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Two razor-cut slices of electro from Venture Silk (Ruslan Shyshniak), a Ukrainian ex-pat based in the Netherlands. I will absolutely never tire of well-executed Detroit-style electro. When done well–as is the case here–it’s the ideal vehicle for Roland/vintage synth fetishism. Some may idolize the 909s of 4×4 techno and 303s of acid house (I love […] The post From the Mailbox 46 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Proc Fiskal – “Imagemage” (bc) Micofcourse – “Hi, Bye” (Tre Mission Remix) (bc) Versalife – “Culprit” (bc) The post New Hots Hots 14 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.