No Pain In Pop

Swinging Jaw: Ducktails

Sun jammer extraordinaire Matthew Mondanile glides solo as Ducktails and with a pack of childhood friends in the more song-bound efforts of Real Estate. He’s not from the beach but his songs are about the beach. He told us about his love for the beach, staring out the window and Pacific City.

Read the jabber in full at the Viceland music blog



MP3: Ducktails - Point Pleasant Beach/Pizza Time

Tags: ducktails, matthew mondanile, pacific city, real estate, vice

NPIP + FACT = WKND

…And it’s heavy. But no standing there with licked finger to the air trying to catch our drift. Go see the magi collective over at FACT magazine for a download link, tracklist after ‘the jump’.

Enormous thanks to the gentleman Jah Pat for a mix that hulks and struts and swells and rattles and bounces and baulks the best. Thanks too to FACT for asking after us.

Enjoy your weekends’.



MP3: Jah Pat - FACT Mix 36: No Pain In Pop

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Tags: 2000f & j kamata, burial, el-b, fact, fantastic mr fox & rich reason, flowdan, guido, ikonika, jah pat, joker, juiceman, killa p, kode9, loefah, mala, mount kimbie, pangaea, rustie, scuba, sunni-geini, the bug, these new puritans, zomby

Water Fight Dusk

I’ve been hunting for this track for the best part of a year now, after hearing it first during Bradford’s solo set at Primavera Sound ‘08. Seems anyone else that heard ‘Dovers Jam’ and had internet access was searching for it too, calls last week eventually pointing me in the right direction. Recorded live on New Year’s Eve in Atlanta, Georgia, the track samples The Dovers’ untarnishable ‘What Am I Gonna Do?’ and is the sound of suburban summer caught like fresh sweat steam in a jar then supped by just drunk youngers between the willows by Carbon Lake, as immaculate as the lawns it’ll forever reach out across in the provinces of my mind.

(via Southern Shelter)



MP3: Atlas Sound - Dovers Jam (live at The Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta, Georgia, US; 31/12/08

Tags: atlas sound, bradford cox, the dovers

Einstuerzende

Video by Anupa Madawela.

Tags: a grave with no name

Live: The Horrors

Live review of The Horrors‘ show at The Rich Mix, Bethnal Green, London; 23/03/09.

Originally published at DrownedinSound.

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Tags: primary colours, sea within a sea, the horrors

Swinging Jaw: Joker

“Recently there’s a certain key that I’m stuck in that I’ll make tunes with. It’s that sound that just sounds purple.”

Joker feature; Dazed&Confused Vol. 2; 72. Just below a No Pain In Pop portrait.

Bristol’s Purple Prince returns to his Kapsize stable after a brief stint away with ‘Digidesign’. KAP003 (ft. ‘Do It’ and ‘Psychedelic Runway’), out April 6.



MP3: Joker - KAP003 (Demo)

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Tags: joker, kapsize