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Jun 10
Featured Music: Backlights, ‘Chase Scenes’
Backlights serve up some moody vocals and swirling synthesizer chords on this single from their soon to be released EP. ‘Chase Scenes’ has a sweet and melancholy feel to it. I can almost hear the rain tapping suggestively in the streets. This track gets at a deeper more layered sound, seeming both heavy and light, wound up but unforced. Backlights have been creating quite a buzz lately. We can’t wait to hear some more from the NYC four piece.
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May 10
Featured Music: Dilian, ‘Basement’
Dilian is a Brooklyn musician with an amazing sound, somehow managing to be clear and chaotic, naive and clever, moody and upbeat, all at the same time. We’ve been listening to Dilian’s ‘Basement’ all week. I think you’ll agree there really is a certain magic on this track, a folksy, inventive song with a sort of moody exuberance. Dilian has some new material on the way so keep your ears open.
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May 10
Dilian
DILIAN writes and plays music in many ways, so it turns out in a variety of shapes and sounds that can be enjoyed by people of all sizes. Sounds come from 40‘s and 60‘s blues and psych, 70‘s Kraut and 90‘s lo-fi mixed with modern digital dance noise. He also produces and writes music for different projects including other solo or group artists (currently two of them), feature and short film, art installations and space explorations. Live shows tend to be always different, including great collaborators on different sound making devices and mathematical equations. So please stop by whenever he’s playing and visit his site diliandilian.com to check out regularly updated fresh cuts and styles, some downloadable for free to be used or abused by everybody. Viva DILIAN!
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May 10
Featured Music: The Above, ‘Bollywood Woman’
The Above, Brooklyn rockers extraordinaire, have seen fit to instruct us on the wonders and delights of a “Bollywood Woman.” Underneath 60’s harmonies and inventive background vocals, the band has a great live feel, really cranking it up in the studio. This single off their debut release is too enticing to resist. The Above’s new self titled record is out now. some recent reviews.
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May 10
The Above, ‘The Above’
THE ABOVE are a mod-ish four piece that mixes the british invasion sound of the early sixties, with a pinch of english freakbeat, a spoonful of classic Motown soul, bits of garage-punk here and there and make the whole thing perfect by decorating it with some of the finest ingredients of stellar 60’s pop. The result is their awesome selftitled debut-album that comes in a stylish digipack and it includes some of the most amazing examples of pure garage-beat/pop brilliance we’ve heard in a pretty long time, such as ‘Bollywood woman’ and ‘Find somebody new’. A true must have for all you INSOMNIACS, CREATION, PRIMORDIALS and SORROWS devotees out there! -soundflat mailorder store:
AMAZING slab of of an updated homage to mid 60s Nuggets/Freakbeat styled garage, done with passion, energy and with a collection of 12 consistently excellent, well written songs! Brooklyn`s newest ambassadors of garage, R&B, and freakbeat unveil their formidable debut record. Catchy hooks, rich vocal harmonies, and movement inducing rhythms are rampant in this 12 song gem. The Above specialize in 60s garage rock so meticulously you can almost smell the sweat. “These cats rock a 60s London R&B sound that recalls The Kinks, The Yardbirds and The Pretty Things and even some early Hollies(listen to track #3 below). But they are no mere copycaters, The Above are amazing players and write even better songs.” – WFMU.
Refreshingly, The Above are able to take a multitude of elements and inspirations and craft something distinctive, exciting and new. The band strides across the music spectrum with a reach and boldness that most bands not dare take on for fear of dealing with the obvious reference criers. Fear not: The Above deliver and have delivered one of the more exciting debuts of 2010 and beyond. One of my personal faves of the first four months of the year and Hugely Recommended with two big `ole thumbs up! -Not Lame Recording Co.








