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Last week i posted about the amazing new cassette from Clive Tanaka titled Jet Set Siempre 1°. The first side is titled “Side A: For Dance”, while the second is zenly “Side B: For Romance”. I posted two songs last week from Side A, and figured it’s worthwhile to prove that the mysterious Mr. Tanaka knows how to do downtempo just as good.
Speaking of mystery, through a lot of scouring the internet, i’ve come to find that there isn’t much to find about Clive Tanaka other than his brief website, and label. I’m not sure if these are original tracks (i am fairly certain they are) and even though the cassette was delivered with a return address of Chicago, there were Japanese stamps all over the small box, and the cassette cover itself references to his “orquesta”…so who knows what’s up. All i know is this is good stuff, and worth plopping down $6 and digging out your old cassette player/stereo for.
All of the songs are great on both sides, but my favorite “romance” track would have to be the ethereally chill finale “Lonely For the High Scrapers” (the guitar line in the beginning even vaguely reminds me of Beach House for some reason). Unfortunetly i haven’t gotten the ok to offer up an MP3 of this song yet, but you can stream it below.
Clive Tanaka – Lonely For The High Scrapers:
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Update: just got the ok to offer up the awesome opening track “All Night, All Right”, which is the best modern day hat-tip to Giorgio Moroder i’ve heard yet. check it out:
Clive Tanaka – All Night, All Right (MP3)
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Last week there were some videos of score music daft punk put together for the new Tron 2 movie floating around the inter-webs. Now PMA brings this 10 minute “montage” of new Daft Punk tracks to our attention. Can. Not. Wait.
tour? pretty please?
Also – in case you missed it, check out the new trailer:
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We previously wrote about Junip, Jose Gonzalez’s on-again band, when they released their teaser EP Rope and Summit for free back in may. Since then it’s gotten many replays with anticipation of their full length, which is supposed to come out sometime in the coming months.
Now the first single from that full-length album, “Always” is available to stream over at their myspace page, and it’s just as good as the EP or anything else Jose Gonzalez has put out. Really chill. I can see this being a pretty perfect album for the fall.
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Suuns are being described as influenced by Joy Division and Can, not a bad mix of influences in my opinion. But as always you ned to listen to these bands before you can actually vouch for that kind of praise. I was pleasantly surprised when I started listening to this EP (although not sure I hear the JD), which you can download for the price of an email over on the Suuns site.
It has a drk post-rock rock feel to it, with some great experimental qualities to the album. A light voice threads over it all, similar to what HEALTH vocals sound like at their lightest.
Suuuns ‘Optimist’
Suuuns ‘Nnnnnnn’
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