No Pain In Pop

Vondelpark has a mind’s eye

Something comes into view: behind your buzzing head.



MP3: Vondelpark - Caliornia Analog Dream

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Mix Link: Grievous Angel and John Talabot

Shot by Lizzy King

For you: two cops of beautiful swelter, the first Grievous Angel’s 2-Step Heaven: Volume 2 mix, the second a beguiling, indefatigable melee of Balearic disco and houses both deep and cosmic made by John Talabot for PlayGround.

Sweat out your crimes.

John Talabot’s ‘Summerized’ Mix (SoundCloud)
Grievous Angel’s 2-Step Heaven: Volume 2

Tags: 2-step, balearic, disco, grievous angel, house, john talabot, playground magazine

Hatas Our Motivation

The new Nate EP Planet Mu have compiled neatly tears Nathan Clark’s recent past in two: pairing itchy, hyperactive aggro-display music with softer, more soulful swipes like this that tug the heart strings but do so at around 160bpm.

Which is pretty dangerous, obviously. The 20-year-old Chicagoan’s Hatas Our Motivation EP arrives August 2nd: an album some time beyond that.

MP3: DJ Nate - Make Em Run

Tags: dj nate, footwurk, juke, planet mu

Troubles collide + kill each other

Two birds, no stone for Denver’s Weed Diamond, who can afford to let cares melt in the fever of things left. It may be ludicrous cabriolet, but you know the views - fringe hair on forehead, fingertips on arms, there. And, while our faceless protagonists brush tanned skin happy, it’s warming to me, loitering in what’s left, to hear how “Mint in My Mouth” relaxes the further it speeds from small-town border: chorus opening out into the embrace of something infinitely promising and vast, like the film script you’d write if you’d never seen a film at all and weren’t as jealous of other love.

Found on Carry On + Sweater Kids combo CD, out now through Bridgetown.



MP3: Weed Diamond - Mint in My Mouth

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Trailing light

‘Qiyamah’’s for those who feel like light left-behind, impatient for late-night dramas to come. It’s suggestive of that - an intense yawning want for some kindred soul’s next orbit, waits of love that turn into knotted stays of execution.

There are so many things that could go wrong - but for now it’s all glimmer, no dazzle for Chris D’EON.



MP3: D’EON - Qiyamah

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Goner…

Failed 2 drop, so came up asleep. Spine drank itself away ’til there was nothing left and my body was water for electricity to pass through. Passed throughout - tingling slime and reconditioned bliss bits adrift in sweat ponds and defunct, empty cartilage trays. Boneless, now: the ponds turned into oceans for the blue dot to traverse, its endless, electronic sweep charting new, aqueous surfaces.

“Kev,

Here is this new “super-single.”

It is 3 tracks rolled into one big stretch
a yawn:
a morning drive.
wake up to birds
enter vehicle exit
walk into buildings
past trees
that sing.”

I am blue bolt on the agua; searching for midnight jolts. Scaring you from sleep. The guts that never gave up.

Rx. Ry.

Demons gag for joy.



MP3: RxRy - Hllo Snrys _ Shdw Blsd _ Hly Brds Hym (stage version)

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