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Oxblood is Cape Town producer Robin Brink. He as put together a mix of his unreleased demo tracks as well as produced a slick, projection based video for his track Subequator Loop, which showcases his work with the Lightworks collective. Glitch and breaks, as well as playful melodies are the foundation on which this music is built. Straddling the line between instrumental hip hop and electronic music, Oxblood is definitely one to watch in 2012. We here at electrotrash are really looking forward to what this talented producer has on offer. For a short bio check out his artist page here.

Unreleased Demos [Mix] by Oxblood

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So I heard about this band once upon a time, and far far away my head was at that time. Time. Time, just keeps going, keeps ticking, spinning into twine and then…I heard The Frown. All of these neglected images, feelings and non feelings seem to bubble out of this infinite repeat… of The Frown. The sound, how can I describe. A wild, wild wind blowing through the streets of delicately crafted purple flowers. Wind in hair. A prayer, we never have the courage to say in front of anyone else than our mid night despair, our gentle triggers and angry tigers. A tingle of the painful feathers our souls pluck from youth. Do I think it a revolution in South African Music? Yes.

A sound that expresses all the emotion we fail to find important. The rock star, the Robyn, the muse and the true god in all of us. It embraces the dark side that we neglect to have and it reflects the magic that can be found in all this complexity we so much dwell on, but struggle to create from.

Tim Apter from Double Adapter has crafted this epic pixie tale vibe, fused with Max Lehr’s phat  beats that mimics the sound of a woken heart, that sound that truly makes your heart sink a little, deeper. The man truly knows how to hit things. And just when you think you are drowning in ink, you get picked up with poppers that are delicately composed with piano, violin, bells and all the other intoxicating things that rush up your spine. The rub up, epic! To say the least. It makes you want to lift your arms and conduct a thunder storm. It not only sounds incredible, but feels magical.

The first thing I thought when I heard Eve Rakow’s voice was Coco Rosi meshed in a Burton & Lynch film. She has this mystical essence in her performance; dark, honest and powerful. Her harmonizing fades in like an ominous lover’s hand on a bare neck. Oh and she knows it, like this muse, she creates a world of maya around her and plays in it like a goddess dancing around a fire.

As I journeyed through the album, in the car. Naturally, to forget about traffic I started creating images of what their videos would look like. Surrounded by the odd beggar, Jesus in a Mercedes and a few taxi’s, nothing interesting came to mind… Yet when I saw the music video (Before the Sun Sets by Red Team Go – Watch it below!) for the first time I was quite surprised. It has this rawness to it that I hadn’t notice in the album, because of the ill pimped production. The music video reflects a real story, or just real people with a story, standing on top of a building opening their art to the city. Its vulnerable yet tough. This rawness carries with it a beautiful balance between feminine/masculine; urban/jungle; mystical/real; dark/white all meshed into a poem, a poem with attitude. The sort of ATTITUDE South African music hungers for!

The album art done by Niall Bingham also resembles the anti-art fag pretentious bullshit people ask us to like on Facebook. I would not give it a thumbs up; I would give it a fuck yeah. Love the hand-made rough printed typo-look, flowy-edgy etching trees expanding into a cross layout. Nicely complementing the name of the album; ä’-men.

With its dark romance appeal, the sound also has epic little pieces of classical instruments: cello (Caroline Leisegang) and trumpet (Twyla Spiller) which adds to create a med-evil twist.  If you allow their magic to captivate you then you might find a little darkness quite aMUSE-ing.

Watch the “ä’-men album teaser“:

Watch the video “Before The Sun Sets“:

Grab the album from Howl Records here!

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Control is one of my favourite tracks off of Spoek Mathambo’s album Mshini Wam. The bass is deep, as are the vocals, which gives it a feeling of good 90s deep house. The drums programming on the other hand is very afro-tech and the contrast really works. Richard the Third takes full advantage of this contrast, building on the tracks minimal structure and bringing a remix that is large and ready for the dance floor. With jacked up bass and drums and added synths, this remix is another solid production from Richard the Third. Grab it below!

November 2011 sees the release of the first part of the brand new YESTERDAY’S PUPIL album for FREE DOWNLOAD. Three years since the release of his debut album in 2008, Peach van Pletzen (also from Bittereinder, Tumi Molekane, Joseph Clark and Oorlog Frankenstein) is back with music which not only undoubtedly reflects the change and growth in his sound, but also portrays his maturation as producer and artist.

Part 1 is entitled SINGULARITY and features two singles, namely Too Tired To Disco and Goodbye. The album will be released in five different parts with two month intervals between each part – every part for FREE DOWNLOAD. Each individual part will consist of two brand new original tracks accompanied by an artwork for each track as well as the lyrics and artist notes.

“Music is free in one way or another. I would prefer for the people to rather get the music directly from me, the source, in a high quality rather than some shitty torrent download somewhere. It is also important for me to have as many people as possible hear my music. I am releasing it in parts because of the fact that is free instead of giving it all away at once. I have worked long and hard on this album and doing it this way just feels right – I want to give each song it’s worth.”

Too Tired To Disco

Too Tired To Disco is the first single from the new album as well as the first music video. The song was written in four hours, and the mixing was done over a period of fourteen months. Too Tired To Disco is perhaps the most poppy song YESTERDAY’S PUPIL has ever written – a catchy tune which is in high contrast when compared to his older material.

“I like when bands and artists evolve in their sound. It has to happen naturally though and this was the next step for me as an artist.”

Read about and watch the official music video for Too Tired To Disco here: Too Tired To Disco!

If you would like to download the web version of the music video of the single, you can do so free of charge at this link: http://bit.ly/upTryU

Goodbye

On Goodbye, YESTERDAY’S PUPIL worked with Marko Benini from Isochronous. Marko brought the song to the table and Peach wrote the melody and lyrics to it.

“This song is definitely a personal favorite of mine. I spent a few days mixing it and doing minor changes to the structure before concluding that I shouldn’t do much more to it. I didn’t want to lose its simplicity.”

The separates for Goodbye is available for free to anyone who wants to do a remix of the song. If you would like to remix Goodbye, please email tootiredtodisco@gmail.com and the download link for the separate tracks will be sent to you.

Download SINGULARITY for FREE on the new YESTERDAY’S PUPIL website here:
http://www.yesterdayspupil.com/

The second part of the album will be released early 2012.

YESTERDAY’S PUPIL on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/yesterdayspupil

YESTERDAY’S PUPIL on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/YesterdaysPupil

^5!

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The OFFICIAL Music Video for the first Single from Yesterday’s Pupil’s brand new Album. The song is titled “Too tired to Disco”. The album will be released for free in sequential parts. The first part will be available online for download from 1 NOV 2011. Part 1 is titled “Singularity”.

Video Directed by Louis Minnaar

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New music video for The Wild Eyes – Vampire Radio! Enjoy!

Directed by Jenna Bass
Shot by Caleb Heymann
Edited by Jacques de Villiers
Timelapse Footage by www.openfootage.net

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