Part of Philly-based indie label Record Breakin' Music with a debut EP releasing in May.
In anticipation of the album they have released a single - a cover of George Duke's 1974 recording Feel.
Mara Hruby is on to something. Rather than kill yourself creating all original material for your debut FreE.P., select songs that you can identify with and reinterpret making them your own. Creating one successful cover is no easy task and creating seven is close to impossible. Now add in the task of recording, arranging and engineering and you have the last nine months of Mara's life and one hell of an ambitious project. Surprisingly Mara doesn't fail in the least.
I admittedly had never heard of Andy Allo until coming across this silky cover of Bon Iver's and Kanye's "Lost In The World". As soon as quick as I could get done listening to it I found that she has an album titled UnFresh on iTunes. I'm "late" to the party...whatever that really means. None of us know about artists until we do. You can check out the grainy dream fuzzed video for the cover.
http://yesyesyall.org/files/music/Andy_Allo-Lost_In_The_World.mp3
So you've heard James Blake's CMYK release, which was one of the best glitchy, smart, almost unclassifiable releases this year. He's back again with yet another 2010 release, titled Klavierwerke (which simply means "piano work" in German), featuring a lot less sampling and a lot more use of his own voice (which happens to be really good).
"Limit To Your Love" actually isn't on Klavierwerke, but simply a cover he did of an original Feist song from her 2007 album The Reminder. The video is beautiful, and directed by Martin de Thurah.
To give you the full James Blake package, I also uploaded a song that IS off Klavierwerke, titled "I Only Know (What I Know Now)."
James Blake Myspace (I hate linking to MySpace but he has no official site. Developer roll call! Make it happen!)
http://yesyesyall.org/files/music/03_I_Only_Know_What_I_Know_Now.mp3
Brian Gosset, a very talented designer, has posted a series of mixes inspired by heist films and centered around cities. A valiant and concerted effort that people should know about.
The Heist Series
Amsterdam : A David Holmes Mix
Bruges : A Shawn Lee Heist
Ganges River : A Shawn Lee Heist
Lake Como : A Piero Umiliani Heist
Las Vegas : A David Holmes Heist
London : A Collaborative Heist
New York : A David Holmes Heist
Santa Monica : A Chris Joss Heist
Sao Paolo : A Shawn Lee Heist
Sundance : An Ennio Morricone Heist
Toscana : A Piero Umiliani Heist
Venezia : An Ennio Morricone Heist
Additionally – the covers are great – really nice job on em Brian. The main typeface for those who might be curious – is a fav of mine – Estillo.
Grab the mixes here
Fantastic cover – Fantastic album. K-os releases his fourth album entitled Yes! There’s a consistent theme with his albums thus far. They all possess aspects of soul, rock, some dancehall peppered over hip hop foundations.
Conscientious Canadian hip-hop by the son of devout Jehova’s Witnesses- what could go wrong? Well, surprisingly, not much, as it turns out. The latest offering from Kheaven Brereton aka K-Os is far and away his best work to date, a distinctively measured trip through the mind of a hip-hop mad scientist who appears to finally be comfortable in his character and refined scope of focus.
“Brereton is a Trinidad-born, Toronto-bred rapper/singer/songwriter with a panache for introspective, philosophical lyricism and genre-bending neo-soul hip-hop jams. And yes, that’s a lot of fucking hyphens. The alias K-Os (pronounced “chaos”) is an acronym for “Knowledge Of Self” or “Kheaven’s Original Sound,” depending on who you ask.
Like a hippie mix of Wyclef and Mos Def, K-Os’ production skills and artistic versatility have served him well. His lyrics are powerful and from the heart- a positive, conscientious influence for the hip-hop idol seekers out there.”
Review pulled from Crave Online
There is something about this cover. The simplicity is there, colorization is solid and the way we have a nice interaction between the primaries. Aside from what I think is a memoriable cover – the dirty projectors have put out a very solid release.
“The album’s cover features two of the most talented women in the music business, Amber Coffman and Angel Deradoorian, vaunting the importance of the two on this album compared to former works. The pair make the album what it is, their vocals, used exclusively on certain tracks like the first single “Stillness is the Move” or used perfectly in conjunction with Longstreth on “Cannibal Resource” to create a sound that’s uniquely Dirty Projectors.”
This quote pulled from Mindinversion
I’ve been sitting on this for a bit but just realized that my sitting is at times longer than I realize. Prefuse 73 recently came out with a new album entitled Everything she touched turned Ampexian. A collection of short tracks that are more organic than is older work but still contain the blip / glitch he is known for. There are three tracks that I’d love to string together for you – but will only include one of them – he’s done some original segways from track to track – noticably a circular saw.
The wonderful cover seen on the album is done by Dan Mcpharlin. Well worth a long perusal if you have the time. What i love about the cover he’s done for prefuse is it reminds me of those Heavy Metal covers from back in the day – sprinkled with a bit more mystery and finesse.