These days they are working on a full-colour magazine called Wasted. And here is a mixtape they made for us that takes us back a few years.

Compiled by Rob Miller of Khaki Shorts and the mighty Wasted mag.

This tape was actually intended for Wasted#4, then re-sheduled for Wasted#5 release date. That was weeks ago. Better late than never.

Enjoy.

Mixtape VIII: Curated by WASTED Magazine by Halleluwah_Hits

Wasted Mixtape

While were on DM – heres a vid from the EP launch we forgot to post way back at the release. Home movie courtesy of our friend Marina @  StyleScanner.

This Saturday sees the boys return to Glasgow for the Stag & Dagger event @ The Art School. So if you are in town, get on it or do your absolute best catch one of these:

20 May // CAMP w/ Neon Indian // London, UK

21 May // Stag and Dagger // London, UK

03 July // Sixty Million Postcards w/ PLAID // Bournemouth, UK

10 July // Lounge on the Farm // Kent, GB

17 July // Kraken Wakes w/ PLAID // Portsmouth, GB

18 July // Creepy Teepee Festival // Kutna Hora, CZ

24 July // Delicatessen @ Matter w/ SMD, JOAKIM, CARIBOU, GOLD PANDA + MORE // London, GB

29 Aug // Zomerparkfeest // Venlo, NL, NL

- First stop was Glasgow School of Art. Direct admittance to the screenprinting room.
BOOM!

The original idea was to screenprint the full colour artwork Tom had in mind for a while. However, after the first two colours went down, the prints resembled a nuclear haze.
We stuck with it, rather than add any more colour.
Simplicity wins again.

Once all 300 prints were dry, we headed over to Dam Mantle HQ where Tom began numbering each screenprint. Normal process for general screenprints.
Arguably something rarely seen on a vinyl record.

It never occurred to us about the beautiful symmetry of these when placed together.
Good idea for a DM poster design.

Tom’s screenprinting marathon ended in the final hours, just in time to be packed and shipped off to records stores right across the UK and beyond.

A damn fine last few days was had and reminded us exactly why were doing this.

Time to celebrate

Halleluwah!

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FOX GUT DAATA [ LIVE ]

Cry Parrot [DJ Set]

Halleluwah Hits [DJ Set]

Friday 2nd April
GLASGOW SCOCIAL CENTRE
9PM till Late
£5

This is all coming to you ears through some heavy duty speakers supplied by the mighty, Bass Warrior Sound System!

This is part one of a two piece mixtape. The other half featured on Little Rock Records in a weeks time. Weve heard it and its worth the journey to go load it on your tune machine. Dark, tech-disco gems.

Its opens with a brand new track from the man himself. Its about to be released to the masses, so right now this is only for your ears here. Enjoy

Mixtape VI (part one) mixed by The Niallist by Halleluwah_Hits

Here’s the official press release that’s flying around:

DAM MANTLE: ‘Grey’ EP released 5th April

“Grey”, The Debut EP from Glasgow based DAM MANTLE is a fusion of various elements, exploring the theatrical and the ethnic while holding on to Electronic music for dear life.
Dam Mantle is as much Machine as it is Animal. it often finds itself stuck in a loop where various points in time and various cultures meet and refract each other, this forms a regurgitation of ‘now’.
Remixing duties are in heavy demand, with upcoming reworks of Gold Panda, Au Revoir Simone and Gonjasufi, with more in the pipeline. The four track EP is released on the 5th of April 2010 by Halleluwah Hits, Glasgow’s new label for cutting-edge pop music. Limited to 300 records.

Tracklisting:
A Statue that is Perpetually Unveiled
Rebong
Grey
Yoghourt

Dam Mantle live dates:

FEBRUARY

18 // LONDON // Klub Motorik @ Barden’s Boudoir
20 // LONDON // Eat Your Own Ears @ Cargo w/Pantha Du Prince – stagetime 8pm
20 // LONDON // Old Money @ The Stag’s Head – stagetime 9.30pm

MARCH

12// LONDON// DJ Set: Dont Die Wondering @ Lock Tavern, Campden

APRIL

04// GLASGOW// venue tbc / Halleluwah Hits: Dam Mantle Grey Ep launch
10// GLASGOW // The Playground @ 93 Feet East
13 // SHEFFIELD // Bungalows & Bears w/Gold Panda

14 // GLASGOW // Stereo w/Gold Panda
15 // NEWCASTLE // venue tbc w/Gold Panda
16// NOTTINGHAM // Spanky van Dykes w/Gold Panda
17// BRISTOL // Start The Bus w/Gold Panda

MAY

6 // GLASGOW // Nice ‘n’ Sleazy’s w/High Places

Halleluwah Hits Mixtape V – Mixed by Louts by Halleluwah_Hits

Peace love & Halleluwah

its all quiet here lately, but some special content up here very soon, so come back later friends….

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* Limited edition vinyl cuts, hand picked by us, for you. The calibre of records you want to keep in the sleeve and occasionally bring out for a sneaky sniff of the new

* Scanning brand-spanking underground releases from London, Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Montreal and anywhere else we smell the fresh baking.

* Swapping the best music in Glasgow with our friend’s record stores in London, Paris, Barcelona, Berlin and beyond. We take their local talent and promote it over here, and vice versa.

* Monthly mix tapes created by us and some of our friends.

* Bringing in some very talented human beings who make and sell beautiful items for other human beings to use and enjoy.

* Halleluwah Hits events will include some real special, first -class merriment, bringing some of the best up and coming live artists to our favorite venues in Glasgow.
And Finally…

Without stating the obvious, Halleluwah Hits is also the name of our record label, based in our east-end studio.

Still building it up, but in 2010 we will be boosting the talent that surrounds us by creating a place for them to thrive and build strong foundations to progress. As we are surrounded by strong musical talent, we may want to sell your albums or even offer you a promo launch in-store…

The Shop Email is: tunes AT checamille DOT com

The Label email is Halleluwah DOT hits AT gmail DOT com

Adam, Craig, Ryan and Syd

Halleluwah 4 presented by Dam Mantle by Halleluwah_Hits

Peace Love Halleluwah and Video X

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Dan Deacon ======== Build Voice
Louts ======== Two Tuvans
St Vincent ======== Actor out of work
Swell Maps ======== Midget Submarines
Fuck Buttons ======== Surf Solar
The Doors ======== Peace Frog
Mother and the addicts ======== All in the mind
Chocolate Watchband ======== I’m not like everybody else
Neu! ======== Super (with some help from waking life)

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Halleluwah3 by Halleluwah_Hits

ok, so for the past couple o’ months providing the audio backdrop to Camille’s monthly fashion launches and so it is, the time has come again.

tomorrow: lots of tweed, beautiful girls and free booze.

get on up and beast into the goods that await.

visit www.checamille.com for details

…and dont leave without taking a mixtpe up the road. some gold in there.

peace love & halleluwah

We were in yesterday getting some new vinyl priced up, and put in their safety blankets but our whole area was up in arms, crawling with photographers and loads of slammed up HipHoppers pulling shapes behind our decks. It appears the MoBo’s are in town and they came to visit Che Camille. Rumor on the mill is that LaToya Jackson is coming in today……?

We also thought we would give you wee list of what we’ve been listening to over the past week or so

here it is, in no particular order

Love, peace & Halleluwah!

Gold Panda
Home EP

Various has expanded its remit to become a “proper” label, now releasing the work of other artists in addition to Various Production themselves, and this process begins with a great EP from a new artist called Gold Panda, from whom big things are expected as well as being noted as one of the top ten most exciting electronic artists of 2009 in Nylon Guys Magazine. He intuitively mixes lop-sided, chopped up hip hop style beats with a gorgeous refined melodic techno sensibility creating a fresh cross-genre sound that’s distinct and accomplished. The music on this EP is influenced by a year spent living in Japan, as well as B movies on VHS video, minimal techno and hip hop, and all these influences bleed into his sound. The three tracks here were mostly made after returning back to his hometown Chelmsford after living in Japan, as the title and bittersweet mood of first song ‘Back Home’ suggests. ‘Mayuri’ is named after Gold Panda’s techno DJ friend who he lived with in Japan – it’s the most outright ‘techno’ of the three tracks and was started in Japan while Mayuri was DJing in the background and later finished in the UK. ‘Long Vacation’ is a dubstep tempo track that was made using some sound fx from a SNES game, mixed with big MPC stabs, recalling time spent in Japanese arcades trying to beat the pros at ‘Street Fighter’.

Premier Rand
Les Corps Humides 12″

A mysterious French artist IDIB discovered through myspace, PREMIER RANG makes minimal German synth flavored dance music. It sounds like nothing else out there. Minimal and dark, yet with a hint of pop melodies. Hints of Grauzone and New Order come through as well.

hyperdub
5.1 ep

October 2009 heralds the release of ‘5’, a double CD marking Hyperdub’s five years of life as a record label. Honouring past, present and future in equal measure, ‘5’ is comprised of one disc of prior highlights, and one of freshly-composed material contributed by Hyperdub artists and close friends. A series of five 12-inch EPs featuring a selection of the new tunes will be issued, one per week, leading up to the release of ‘5’.

Zomby
Spliff (Rustie remix)

Both Zomby and the on-fire Glaswegian producer Rustie have built up a dedicated following based on a string of off-key productions, with the ferric-oxide-like one hailed in a recent post on Dubstep Forum as “Autechre fighting Four Tet while grime and dubstep make bets in the background”. Their first Hyperdub outing is headlined by Zomby’s epic bleep symphony ‘Mu5h’ (yes, with a 5), a dramatic and melodic 8bit stepper, while the new retooling of ‘Spliff Dub’ – one of the scene’s biggest tracks in the last 12 months – claims equal honours on the flip. Where Zomby’s original followed on from the classic 1980s ‘Sleng Teng’ school of digital dancehall, Rustie’s glitched version scuttles along with wonky denatured percussion, jiggy groove, speaker busting bass, blaring synths and a chopped-up vocal instructing you how to “keep the evil away”.

Sleep Whale
Little Brite

The six songs on Little Brite conjure a universe whose ancient forbears include Steve Reich, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Eno’s looping ambiences, Brit-folk guitarist Bert Jansch, gamelan ensembles and Hindustani hand percussion, however, the wall-to-wall beauty of the proceedings is anything but reverential ear candy. Engaging, melodically rewarding, and sophisto-whimsical, Sleep Whale’s cerebrally atmospheric marriage of the luddite and techno worlds makes for essential listening. 

Here We Go Magic
Here we Go magic

The album opens with the trance-inducing polyrhythms and gorgeous multi-layered vocals of “Only Pieces.” What follows is an album oozing with sounds maternal and subconscious…like floating in amniotic fluid, ripe, hiccup-y and desperate to emerge.  Many of the songs pulse with infectious afro-beat and kraut-rock influenced grooves, calling to mind classic albums like Remain in the Light and Graceland. In contrast, the instrumental tracks conjure mystical introspective landscapes reminiscent of Popol Vuh’s unforgettable ambience. Despite the album’s murky aquatic underpinnings it’s hard to resist shakin what you got to ebullient blissed-out tracks like “Fangala” and “Tunnelvision.” The album closes with “Everything’s Big”, a bleak commentary on weakness and fear birthed of opulence and gluttony. Luke’s fragile tenor delivers this absurd carnival waltz with the fervor and abandon of a teetotaler under the influence, never breaking the spell of the album’s mood of rejuvenation and release. *Vinyl version includes an exclusive bonus track “Your Eyes Spit”

Pains of Being pure at Heart
Pains of Being pure at Heart LP

For Fans Of: My Bloody Valentine, The Smiths, The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Vivian Girls, C86. Meet The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, a four-piece from the same New York scene as The Vivian Girls and Crystal Stilts who play dreamy, noisy POP with boy/girl vocals, blissful melodies and blistering drums. Original members Peggy, Kip and Alex came together through a shared love of The Pastels, The Ramones, American indie noisepop legends Black Tambourine and “Sunny Sundae Smile”-era My Bloody Valentine. Now joined by drummer Kurt, The Pains proudly bring you their self-titled debut album and the most infectious slice of pop perfection you will hear all year, a distillation of all the great noise-pop precedents – early MBV, House of Love, JAMC – but with the incredible exuberance and energy that the Pains bring to every song, the excitement of youth just rushing forth and sweeping the listener along. Over ten tracks The Pains demonstrate an absolute mastery of noise/jangle pop, their songs being a perfect distillation of classic pop melody and thrilling, rushing guitar noise that have taste-making blogs across the planet tripping over themselves in search of superlatives. Like their American peers Black Kids and Vampire Weekend, The Pains have a happy knack of taking the classic sounds of the past and at once making them invigorating and fresh, a knack sure to propel them to an audience beyond the blogs and away from the scenester crowd that made their UK tour dates crushed, sweaty and sold-out through word-of-mouth alone. Fantastic press for this has run since Feb this year, see them on tour in June.

Love is All
A hundred things keep me up at night

After their lighning-paced sold out pop debut, hey soon got snapped up by a major, released a string of great, great pop singles, toured-a-plenty, garnered pages of press and some severe Pitchfork patronage (they covered a Pastels song for a 7″ only release….on Polydor…amazing) and even better, they are from Sweden, the land of cool pop. Anywaay, the new album, is out in the UK on What’s Your Rupture?, From seemingly out of nowhere, Love is All turned up everywhere after their release of Nine Times That Same Song and then, impossibly, disappeared to the fate of hype, broken promises and seething expectations. A full three years later, the fanciful-anachrocharm of Love Is All has matured with the marriage of several members, kids and a true appreciate that love is all. The new album harnesses the same raw energy and music which captured our hearts, but this time magnifi es it through the complex emotions and experiences the band has struggled with. The recording of A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night reveals the unsatisfying realities of success. Years in the works, A Hundred Things is a record about excitement, frustration, regret, disappointment and figuring out what’s important in finding the relief of the morning’s light at the end of a bad nights sleep.

Jacuzzi Boys
Island Ave 7″

Featured on the Wooden Shjips Comp CD, Miami’s JACUZZI BOYS have captured the heart of a nation w/ their mystically jangling, gypsy-tinged haunting songs that stick w/ you right on contact. W/ a stellar debut on Floridas Dying & a recent tour w/ King Khan & The Shrines almost wrapped up, these 3 off-center souls drift back & forth between contagious melodic anthems of delirium, & bonafide modern classics destined to entertain generations of weirdos for years to come.

Woods
Songs of Shame LP

Fourth full length rips deeper with both 90 second & 10 minute forays into skeletal psychedelia. This is not to say the idiosyncratic songwriting style vocalizing of Jeremy Earl is not present in spades but expanded, colored, & twisted into a tie-dye of soundscapes. Having toured incessantly over the last 12 months as a four piece (Jarvis Taveniere, G. Lucas Crane & Kevin Morby round out the band), many of the songs on “Shame” benefit from having been road worn, windblown, & deeply grooved.

Peace, love & Halleluwah X

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Gold Panda ************* Everything Up
Rustie ************* Inside Pikachu’s Cunt
Television Personalities ************* Silly Girl
Love is all ************* Last Chance
Summer Cats ************* Fulton Girls
Wooden Shjips ************* Motorbike
Zomby ************* mu5h
Iggy pop and James williamson ************* Consolation prizes
Yoko Ono & Jason Pierce ************* walkin on thin ice

ENDS*************

Halleluwah Hits Mix Tape 2 by Halleluwah_Hits

Mix tape #2 on our minds
Bringing back some nice Fraunch vinyl

Business as usual in one week.

Till then.

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Boards of Canada ============= I saw Drones
Brian Eno ============= Needles in the Camel’s eye
Here we go Magic ============= Tunnel Vision
Animal Collective ============= Who could win a Rabbit
Faust ============= The Sad Skinhead
Philamore Lincoln ============= The North Wind blew South
David Bowie ============= Weeping Wall
The Field ============= Everyday
Toro y Moi ============= Talamak
Best Coast ============= Sun Was High (So Was I)
The Monkees ============= Porpoise SOng

ENDS ====================================================

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