Great Bays - Numb
Bobby Champs - All Night
Solar Bears - Alpha People
Dark Mother - Glass Cast
Clark - Com Touch
Amateur Best - Be Happy
Sinkane - Jeeper Creeper
Decks - Ghost Girl
Swiss Alps - Riptide Lore
Flights - Taller
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Huddle up and keep warm, or simply dance off the chill,
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DIY Radio: Into The Blogosphere (16th January 2012) by Diy on Mixcloud
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This week’s Into the Blogosphere was completely spoilt for choice. Several hundred tracks appeared in our inboxes and on the web over the past two weeks; it was just my job to pick each individual ‘real gem’ out of the fountain of fool’s gold. Not only were we given astounding returning efforts from Grimes and Frankie Rise, La Sera and John Talabot, but we also had a fresh array of new talent lining up to impress us. Fun Adults, Granit, Swiss Alps are all essential listens if you’re planning on keeping tabs on emerging acts for 2012.
Don’t forget, if you’ve got a new track coming out in the next couple of weeks, email jamie[at]thisisfakediy.co.uk or mfmicblog[at]gmail.com and show us what you’ve got!
With special thanks to the following blogs for helping us compile the tracklist this week: Hearing Gold, No Modest Bear, disco naivete, Yvynyl, Risin’ Sound.
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Last night (and mid-afternoon, today), I was aired live to the nation, playing a selection of songs, all dug up within the past two weeks, for that is the concept behind my show on DIY Radio.
In what might be the last flurried collection of tracks before ‘Into the Blogosphere’ begins to compile its best of the year, we’ve gone and picked the strongest selection possible, ignoring all Lana Del Ray remixes and exposing you to some brilliant new music. The freshest of our picks comes from Manchester’s Inkships, with his inventive slant on analog pop but there’s more to revel in with Du Nord, Tech Coast, Dreampeter and Zoos of Berlin, all fresh acts who we hope will be new to you.
All this, obviously, couldn’t have been done without scouring the very best music blogs out there.
Tracklist:
Escort - Makeover
Arc Lights - Driggs
Factory Floor - Two Different Ways
Keepaway - Cake
Inkships - Cassettes
Bleeding Heart Narrative - Shoals
White Denim - No Real Reason
Chains Of Love - In Between
Zoos of Berlin - Haven’t Eyes
Porcelain Raft - Put Me To Sleep
Korallreven - As Young As Yesterday
Korallreven - Sa Sa Samoa
Dauwd - Whats There
Du Nord - The Sunset
Fear of Men - Doldrums
Veronica Falls - Back Page
Trailer Trash Tracys - Candy Girl
Confetti Dreams - Tablespoon
Halls - I Am Not Who You Want
Kwes - Get Up
Lindstrom - De Javu
Essay & Stumbleine - Rhiannon
Oliver Tank - What Have I Become (Flash Forest Remix)
Tech Coast - Tough Lately
Girls - Lawrence
Noble Oak - No Bloke
Coo La - Vanity Place
Dreampeter - Mason Jar
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DIY Radio: Into The Blogosphere (7th November 2011) by Diy on Mixcloud
This is the part where Music Fan’s Mic scampers off into the frightening depths of (very) amateur radio every two weeks, producing a show made entirely of brand sparkling new songs. All in the name of DIY Radio.
We’ve a suitably spooky feel to this week’s ‘Into the Blogosphere’, what with many artists cannily releasing Halloween-related tracks in the past two weeks. Glass Candy lead the way with their superb preview of a forthcoming return album, but the more remarkable of the past fortnight’s material comes from the more upbeat and ravishing arrivals of Field Music, Crystal Stilts and GRMLN.
In amongst a lovely balance between the creepy and the ragged garage rock are a few incredible efforts from Keep Shelly In Athens, Rostam and Vinyl Williams. If you’re into skipping through these DIY shows – note: this is generally regarded as a sin – make sure you earmark those tracks. And our album of the fortnight comes in the form of BLOUSE’s debut; a terrific work of nostalgic indulgence, all enveloped in a striking, dated style of production. Enjoy these next two hours because you’re bound to find at least a few gems suited to your taste. Tracklist is below, followed by a few highlights in nifty little soundcloud players.
Keep Shelly In Athens - DIY
Svengali - Siriul Killa
Victories At Sea - Future Gold
Your Favorite Color - Spooky Song
Cool Angels - r u real
Each Other - Looking Lapsed
Crystal Stilts - Dark Eyes
Magic City - Your Eyes
His Clancyness - Carry A Perch
Field Music - I Keep Thinking
Cloud Nothings - No Future/ No Past
Milagres - Glowing Mouth
BLOUSE - Videotapes
BLOUSE - Controller
Flashing Red Lights - Weekdays
Glass Candy - Halloween
Korallreven - Sa Sa Samoa
Wondr - Rough Start
Oneohtrix Point Never - Nassau
Rostam - Don’t Let It Get To You
Long Weekends - Shame On You
Lil Daggers - Dada Brown
Sea Lions - Grown Up
GRMLN - Relax Yourself (Dolphin Cry)
The National - Twenty Miles to NH Part 2
St Lucia - We Got It Wrong
Washed Out - Call It Off
Estasy - Wild Wants
The Black Tambourines - The Flaming Groovies
Slow Magic - Feel Flows
Vinyl Williams – Higher Worlds
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Some of the highlights:
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This time round on MFM’s new music podcast, you have to hear me say the word “sexual”, really early on in the podcast. Once you’ve got over that harrowing and uncomfortable experience, the rest of this 21st podcast pans out wonderfully, with some grizzly, punk songs (Lyonnais) blended in with light and lovely dream-pop (Young Again) and sweet, glistening electronica (Shells). It’s a wild ride, this one. Lots of variety and not much time for pause. That’s why it’s our best ‘cast yet. Believe.
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TRACKLIST:
1 - GOLD ZEBRA - Back In the Dust - [Taken from the Visage Musique: Volume 1 Compilation]
2 - LUST - Dark Water - [Taken from the Dark Water EP]
3 - Glass Vaults - Gold Star - [Taken from the Into Clear EP - out with JUKBOXR]
4 - Young Again - Host - [Taken from the I Woke Up Smiling EP]
5 - Wax Idols - Gold Sneakers - [Taken from the No Future album - out with Hozac]
6 - Lyonnais - The Fatalist - [Taken from the Want For Wish For Nowhere album, out on Hoss Records]
7 - Shells - Spiders - [Taken from the Arctic/Spiders single - Soundcloud]
8 - Pressed And - Raid - [Taken from the Imbue Up album]
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It’s been a week since our first update and six days since a collection from the following day - and don’t forget that in between then and now, we’ve had one of our regular new music podcasts, as well as sharing with you one of our most exciting discoveries in months, Gladius The Fertile. But let’s press on, with some tracks from here and there (well, just the vast amount of talent on soundcloud), assembled over the week.
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Video make frantic, fast-paced pop music that needn’t rely on nostalgia, cheap tricks or gimmicks. Like many emerging acts with a similar ethos - Outfit in particular - every inch of the song teeters on the brink of tasteless tack but somehow, as if out of charm, you’re always won over. ‘Choose Life’ was the first to affirm as much.
Choose Life by videovideovideo
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You might have seen this one swinging back and forth from one blog to another already this week: The Sounds of Sweet Nothing are bringing out an EP in November from Au/Palais - again here, we’re talking about opinion-dividing pop, though the sheer magnitude and style of a song like ‘Tender Mercy’ (the self-titled track from said EP), is difficult to turn you head away from.
Au Palais - Tender Mercy by Sound Injections
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Now for something of a new discovery: Jordan Busson bucked the trend of me receiving countless, useless e-mails of unmitigated junk from hip-hop PR firms, by sending me news of his Swords EP. ‘Paperlight’ is ambient music in the strictest sense, though it’s difficult not to get lured in by the distant piano chimes, sounding as if they’re coming from another room, and the subtle, sorrowful bass.
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And Newcastle’s Waskerley Way has just put out one of the finer EP releases of recent weeks. ‘La Magie Rouge’ is strange in that unlike many albums/EPs, it’s far from top-heavy - more bottom-heavy, in fact. The Nigella Lawson of EPs. Case in point: ‘Greem’. Expect one of the EP’s tracks to appear on the next MFM Podcast.
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