The New LoFi

Goldfish is a genre-defying duo out of Cape Town, South Africa (pictured above with the late Nelson Mandela). They have a sound that can go from poolside to party. It ranges from samba to electronic but always gets your foot tapping.

The two lads have been endorsed by Pete Tong, they’ve cracked the top 10 on the US iTunes Dance chart, and secured a residency at Pacha in Ibiza.

Their new album “Three Second Memory” was just released last month and it’s a killer compilation of beer and beach bangers that teases into a dance party. Give the boys some love on Facebook and pick up their album on iTunes.

Check out one of their older tracks here

Some Friday Randomness… this video from Breach. Grab the single on iTunes

Breach – Jack

The New LoFi podcast sums up all the music posted to the blog each month. You can right click to download the podcast below and click on the album artwork while you are listening to learn more about each artist.

This month we had so much quality music that we had to break the podcast into two one-hour mixes. Happy December!

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TNLF 2013 November Podcast (Part 1)

• The Skywalkers – My Chapel In The Sky
• The Skywalkers – You Don’t Even Know Me
• Only Real – Get It On
• Panama – Destroyer
• Japanese Wallpaper – Breathe In (ft. Wafia)
• The Landing – Anxieties
• Jungle – Platoon
• The Paper Kites – Young
• Raleigh – Inside Lines
• Junip – Walking Lightly
• Kevin Morby – Slow Train (Featuring Cate Le Bon)
• Message To Bears – Moonlight
• Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Life Is Hard (Teendaze remix)

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TNLF 2013 November Podcast (Part 2)

• Ellie Goulding – High For This (Kygo Remix)
• Cut Copy – Free Your Mind
• Mayer Hawthorne – Her Favorite Song (Oliver Remix)
• Bastille – Pompeii (Monsieur Adi Remix)
• Niki & The Dove – Mother’s Protect (Goldroom Remix)
• Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime (Gigamesh Remix)
• Luxury – J.A.W.S
• CHVRCHES – Lies (Tourist remix)
• Kaasi – Where We Started (ft. Jessica Sophie)
• Theatre Of Delays – Black Ballet
• Booka Shade – Love Inc
• Move On – Garden City Movement
• Lana Del Rey x Congi – Young and Beautiful (Libations and Oscillations Cocktail remix)
• A La Sole – Been Swank (Prod. Hames)

A week of long nights and days of work lay ahead of me, tis the season of work for anyone in hospitality. My feet lay strewn on the coffee table as I scroll across soundcloud, I attempt to put my rare time at ease to use. I shall assume that everyone has heard “What does the Fox say – Ylvis” If you haven’t click away. It might be the next Psy song. It is catchy yet annoying but the after the first listen you know all the words. It is the epitome of what I dislike but love; it’s hooky and simplistic.

For the better version of catchy and unique I offer three amazing artists for you. Sound Remedy, Otto Knows and the M Machine. The trio have a permanent home on my phone and laptop, with funky chords to just a stylistic groove that they have they are there to stay. The grooves of the tunes are fantastic, there are millions of artists out there but this week you’re in for a treat. While I’m in for a hell of a week.
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M Machine has a variety of songs but the one i shall not forget is Million Faces (Click Here). It brings back the thought of DJing with a good friend of mine (his alias would be Atwood) to an empty club. He and I would sit for literally half a day playing with new tunes he had downoladed before strolling calgary at night. Where the cold air bit through our jackets but the Tim Hortons warmed the conversation. To you people that don’t know what Tim Hortons is, it is a gift for Canadians for the hellish winters. But onto the world of music here is the recent “A King Alone” (Click Here) by none other than M Machine

Otto Knows is among the few artists i can garuntee you dont know but should. His famous punch is “Million faces” (Click Here). I can not count the amount of times its been used in a BBC essential mix since it was released but to say it has been played a few times would be an understatement. To keep you keeners up to date here is his remix of Lies – Burns Click Here).

Sound Remedy, ah Sound Remedy, how you make my eyes slowly close and put me into a silent trance it blows my mind. With music you liberate my heart “Liberation” (Click Here) one of your first singles. With the deep methodical approach to sound they make it awakens something inside of you; almost like a remedy of some sort. you come just when I need you. I can tell when I need you; my heart lets me know. That clarity in the vocals with remixes like “Walk on By” (Click Here) With that I bid you adieu as I have a little bit of work ahead of me. Enjoy the last few days that aren’t surrounded by joy and Christmas cheer and the dreaded Christmas time songs. I for one am not one for the holidays.
- Clever Pots
 

I was a stereotypical suburban white teenager. My jeans were low and I was heavy into hip-hop, albeit largely the alternative and underground. One of my favorite groups growing up was Hieroglyphics, comprised of Del, the Souls of Mischief, Pep Love, Casual, and a few others. Back when 50 Cent’s ‘Candy Shop’ was number one on the American Top 40, I was deep into the intellectual sub-culture of space rap, trip hop, and anything that strayed from the cultural norm of binge drinking and dancefloor intercourse. Unfortunately, a couple weeks back I missed the opportunity to see Souls of Mischief play their epic ’93 to Infinity album; I hadn’t even heard of the show until I was already at work that same evening, but I’ve had the underground on my mind ever since.

Admittedly, I don’t know much about A La $ole other than the fact that he’s part of a group called ‘Pro Era’, headlined by Brooklyn’s own Joey Badass. But if his latest single is any indication of his solo work to come, everyone is going to take notice very soon. The underground hip-hop movement is gaining ground once more, and I haven’t heard anything this good since.. well.. Hiero.

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A La $ole -Been Swank (Prod. Hames)

DJ Butcher put this sick little mix together to back the new Sofles video. Most epic graph I’ve ever seen put up at one time

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DJ Butcher – Minimix
1. Get Busy Pt. 2;
2. Cocaine;
3. All in check.

Good weekend to you my friends, and welcome to the Fuzz! I’ve returned after a hiatus of a few weeks to bring you some absolutely stellar tunes that have been on rotation this past month. “Hiatus?” you contest, “.. but dear Fresno, you are simply a figment of the internet and you are not an actual being! How can you be on hiatus?” Well, my good sir or sirette, I assure you that I am in fact a real human individual with operational organs and thoughts. Although I may appear to be a collection of characters on a blog you read once in a while, in the real world (or IRL as you might prefer) I’ve been neck deep in school and volunteer work. Not to mention neck deep in snow. Currently, i’m putting together a six-page content analysis regarding references to drugs and alcohol in Top 40 music, as well as spending my spare hours volunteering at the local college radio station CJSW. So my dear friend or friendette, lets curtail the personal deets and settle into the swath of soothing serenades i’ve selected specifically for this snowy Saturday.

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Japanese Wallpaper – Breathe In (ft. Wafia)

Japanese Wallpaper is 16 year-old Gab Strum from down under. Australia is no stranger to young talented artists, and the radiowaves have been snatching these kids straight out of the kangaroo pouch. When I first heard “Breathe In” about a month ago I was immediately struck with Gab’s modest brilliance. I fired him an email and asked if he heard the new Oliver Tank song, and coincidentally he was on his way to see Active Child and the aforementioned Tank that very same evening. I was awash with jealously, but that’s one of the perks of being in an epicenter of new music. You can currently catch him on instagram uploading incredible photos mid-Eurotrip, and I imagine he’ll be making a bigger splash on the music scene in the years to come.

Consider this: he was born in 1997. Now don’t you feel old?

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Junip – Walking Lightly

I first blogged about Junip sometime back in February around the release of their single “Line of Fire”. To be completely frank, they faded off my radar until a few days ago when I heard the song ‘Walking Lightly’. I was completely obsessed. I spent the next 24 hours repeating the chorus under my breath, and there’s something absolutely bacterial infectious about the track. They’ve been tinkering with music for fifteen years, and just released their self-titled back in April. It’s absolute indie-psychedelia bliss.

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Kevin Morby – Slow Train (Featuring Cate Le Bon)

Ah, Slow train. A truly ‘Cass McCombs-ian’ effort from this newcomer. Morby is a member of The Babies as well as Woods, two bands I admittedly have never heard of, but Morby sheds his compatriots for his first solo album ‘Harlem River’. Everything about this jam is heaven, from the sleepy guitar strumming to Cate Le Bon’s late accented vocals. Not only is it similar to Cass McCombs in sound and style, the dude even sorta looks like a young Cass (oh god sorry Cass I love you)

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The Landing – Anxieties

‘Anxieties’ is a star-spangled jammer from an artist crafting spacey pop tracks out of his apartment in Brooklyn, NY. It’s pretty easy to get lost in this beat, the keys just send you soaring. The choir vocals only add to the enchantment, and the result is absolute magic.

The Landing’s songwriting blends an elegant falsetto with a sense of wonder and a talent for orchestration. Overtop an artful mix of electronic and acoustic ear candy features softly sung themes of ambition, discovery and the human condition. A student of astronomy with a taste for the theatrical, The Landing seeks to turn a personal struggle of finding ones place in the Universe into an anthem for the optimistic.

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Message To Bears – Moonlight

Jerome Alexander’s single ‘Moonlight’ is beautiful meritage of acoustic and synth, a layered dream, and the second track on his new album ‘Maps’, on sale for a bargain at bandcamp. It’s lonely music, appealing to the introspective intellectual, but there’s a certain optimism in Jerome’s words ‘We’ll be there some day‘. Throw this Englishman some coin for his sublime work.

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Move On – Garden City Movement

Speaking of dreams, the Isreali three-piece Garden City Movement has the early favorite for my song of the year. The breakdown before the chorus leaves me with goosebumps, and the song absolute drips with moisture. It’s a rain-trodden waking dream, a torrential wave of sensuality and beauty. ‘Move On’ could very easily be a song by Parisian Dream Koala, however the ocean-deep vocals set Garden City Movement apart. Put this one on repeat

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Panama – Destroyer

I could make a very lofty mixtape of synth-heavy 80′s-inspired music, and Panama’s ‘Destroyer’ would be the first track on the list. I was born right in ’89, right on the fringe of the next decade, yet in those short sixteen days I caught a fever. And the only prescription has been more synth. There’s something inexplicably John Hughes about ‘Destroyer’, if he ever managed to make a flick with Molly Ringwald in outer space, I imagine she’d dance to this song. Images of neo-futuristic Japan are also conjured, and i’m not entirely sure why. It’s a perplexing song for me mentally, however I can be certain i’ll be sharing ‘Destroyer’ with everyone I can. Grab the ‘Always’ EP over at bandcamp

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Only Real – Get It On

‘Backseat Kissers’ has been a perennial favorite of mine for exactly one year; back in 2012 I heard Only Real’s unique bratty-brit-hop for the first time and I was hooked. The sound was completely unique, and expect to hear a lot more in the near future since he just signed a major record deal with Virgin yesterday. ‘Get it On’ is a slap-happy romp, a true song for the weekend, and the point at which we’ll end the Fuzz.

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Thanks for tuning in once again! Look forward to more frequent updates as the Fuzz invades your weekday with “Fuzzworthy”, coming soon!

I know little to nothing about Jungle but I thought that I would post it up anyway because they rock. And this fucking video they made for their single “Platoon” fucking rocks. This little kid can fucking rip it up. Hot Damn!

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Jungle – Platoon

Jungle – The Heat

PS: Check out their video for “The Heat” also