I know very little about the music of Sibylle Baier, but it seems that nobody really did. She only ever recorded one album, back in 1973, which only found release in 2006. How? After giving up music after one album, those recordings fell into the hands of the lead singer of Dinosaur Jr thirty years later, who passed them on to Orange Twin Records. The songs are sparse, mostly just Sibylle and her guitar. The listener should be grateful for this intimate acoustic treat, for she never expected anyone to hear these songs, especially not nearly forty years later.

LISTEN: Sibylle Baier – Tonight

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listen: airplanes by b.o.b. ft hayley williams and eminem

art: chloe earley

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This scare has helped me towards accomplishing some life goals of going back to college starting Monday, moving to a new city in the Fall and most importantly, learning to take care of myself to become healthier than ever. Thank you with all my heart to those that left such kind comments, emails, wishes and support – it truly meant the world to me and gave me strength at a time when I really felt so alone.

LISTEN: MIA – Born Free (2010)

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The first refeatured artist since Thoughts for Tonight began is going to be… Organ Morgan. I reviewed his brilliant Avalanches-esque debut, the Cocaine Afternoon E.P. last year. This weekend he was kind enough to tweet about his new mixtape. I’ve been in a bit of a mixtape frenzy of late, having spent numerous hours streaming Mr. Scruff’s various five to eight hour sets from his Soundcloud, so the chance to see Matthew Mayes’ first under the Organ Morgan guise was met with much approval.

While DJing electronic music obviously requires considerable talent – knowing when to drop a certain tune, reading the crowd, and the technical knowledge to seamlessly mix hours in front of a club – it still doesn’t show off a record collection in the ways that other DJs can. Organ Morgan’s Garden Party Mixtape takes you on a four hour tour into the musical mind of Matthew Mayes. Loosely this mixtape does what it says on a tin, and if this was being played to you at a casual, sun soaked Garden Party you’d be thrilled, but there’s an eclecticism in play that pushes past the mixtape’s name. The result is euphoric and melancholic, happy and sad, drunk and sober, dancey and relaxed, up and down, and all mixed together subtlety with perfect timing.

From the electronic jitterings of Nathan Fake and Four Tet, to the sample-laden inspirational Avalanches, the chilled out nostalgia of Royksopp to the folk of Yeasayer, the girlpop Shangri-Las to the soulful smoothings of Tina Britt. The mixtape is relaxed, it’s calm, but it’s fused with an energy, and a commendable balance and pace that, unlike so many other mixtapes of this length, keeps you listening throughout.

The song selection will be familiar to many, certainly not all of it, but for the most part the likes of The XX, Gold Panda, Passion Pit, and The Go! Team will be recognisable. This is not to say it is not without its surprises; mid-way through I hear the psych-fuelled “What’s In It For Me?” by Avi Buffalo, and an hour later the afrobeat Amadou & Mariam segues into the chirpy pop of The Go! Team perfectly. I discovered a lot of good new (and old) music that I didn’t know or remember before, mixed together with three more hours of music I loved.

The Garden Party mixtape avoids the temptations to flood the listener with hours worth of rare and unheard of soul and jazz records; wonderful no doubt, but you’re always left dying to hear something you know as well. Instead it opts to educate and please, and where it educates it does so within the boundaries of what you will almost certainly like and love.

This mixtape reiterates that Matthew Mayes has got brilliant taste. His producer releases gets to chop and sample thirty songs to four minutes, but this mix allows for an expansion that is perfectly welcomed as well. Organ Morgan impresses again.

Download the Garden Party Mixtape (link via sendspace)

Click “Read More” to see the full tracklisting for the mix.

Full tracklist:
James Blake – CMYK
Four Tet – Sing
Nathan Fake – Herm2
Mathew Mayes – Morning Walk
Gold Panda – Quitters Raga (With samples from Vampire Weekend – Giving Up The Gun)
The XX – Islands
Brotherjunkierat – Hold It Together
Toro Y Moi – Talamak
I Monster – Daydream In Blue
Royksopp – So Easy
Organ Morgan – Forgetting You
Florence & The Machine – Hurricane Drunk (The Horrors Mix)
The Avalanches – Since I Let You
Organ Morgan – Broken Heart
Billy Stewart – Cross My Heart
Jay Electronica – Exhibit C (Instrumental)
Jay Electronica – Exhibit C
Das Racist – You Oughta Know
Gwen McRae – 90% Of Me Is You
Dr Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band – Sunshower
Organ Morgan – Scent Of Rainy Pavements
Todd Rundgren – Tic Tic Tic, It Wears Off
White Williams – Violator
The Avalanches – Two Hearts In 3-4 Time
The Free Design – Bubbles
Avi Buffalo – What’s In It For Me?
Isaac Parnell – Shipping Forecast
Kevin Ayers – Song For Insane Times
The Strange Boys – Be Brave
The Left Banke – Dark Is The Bark
The Carpenters – Nowaday’s Clancy Can’t Even Sing
Organ Morgan – People Watching
Milton Nascimento – Clube Da Esquina No2 (Organ Morgan Mix)
Amadou & Mariam – Ce N’est Pas Bon
The Go! Team & Babongo Tribe – Templates From Home
Santo Pena – Navidad Sin Mi Madre
Organ Morgan – We Done Good
Lord Kitchener – Kitch You So Sweet
George Guzman – Marilu
Ralfi Pagan – I Never Thought You’d Leave Me (Organ Morgan Mix)
Joe Bataan – It’s A Good Feeling (Riot!)
Sandra Phillips – You Succeeded
Tina Britt – The Real Thing
The Shangri-las – Bull Dog
The Go! Team – Ladyflash
Organ Morgan – Cocaine Afternoon
Toro Y Moi – Cold Shoulder
Darwin Deez – Radar Detector
Breakbot – Baby I’m Yours feat. Irfane
Kavinsky – Nightcall (Breakbot Mix)
Entrepreneur – Bubblegunk (Organ Morgan Mix)
Basement Jaxx Vs The Clash – Magnificent Romeo
Martika – Cross My Heart
Rene & Angela – I Still Need Your Love
Yeasayer – O.N.E
Noze – Remember Love
Ratatat Vs Passion Pit – Sleepy Mirando
Memory Tapes – Bicycle (Little Loud Mix)
Groove Armada – Paper Romance
Caribou – Kaili
Flying Lotus – Do The Astral Plain
Eddy Grant Vs Gorillaz – Stylo Warp
Hot Chip – I Feel Better
Demon Vs Heartbreaker – You Are My High
Bel Amour – Bel Amour (Vocal Mix)
Two Door Cinema Club – Something Good Can Work (The Twelves Mix)
Avalon – How Does It Feel?
Avalon – Never Gonna Give You Up
Organ Morgan – Discolicious
Sleigh Bells – Tell Em

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LISTEN

Original: Cold War Kids – Hospital Beds
Cover: Florence & the Machine – Hospital Beds

“Hospital Beds’ is a story of a couple older men that don’t know each other, stuck in a hospital room together. They find connections. They’re maybe going to die, but that’s not totally important, what’s important is that they find something where they thought there was nothing. ‘Put out the fire, boys’ is a way of saying hose me down, all this pain and ugliness, get rid of it, it’s on us.” – Source: Daytrotter

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Swedish singer Robyn is creating a three piece album project called “Body Talk”, and the first part is scheduled to be released June 7th, 2010 featuring collaborations with Diplo, Röyksopp, Kleerup and Klas Åhlund. Dubbed as the sequel to “With Every Heartbeat”, the third track off Robyn’s upcoming album is the debut single, that’s properly named Dancing On My Own.

I’m in the corner
Watching you kiss her

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The Good Natured a.k.a. Sarah McIntosh is just about to have a remix of one of her electropop songs featured on the latest Kitsune Maison Compilation. Over the Easter holidays she uploaded a Cure cover to her Myspace for fans, just a bedroom demo, but alluring nonetheless. We caught up with her for a quick Q+A.

It’s been just over a year since The Guardian named you their New Band of the Day, how have things come along for you, since February last year? 
After I was named Guardian New Band of the Day, I had to take a break from music to focus on my A levels, as getting good grades was really important to me. After that I picked it up again. I am still doing much the same, gigging and writing lots, but I have had time to develop my sound and find my own direction, which I am really pleased about.

What’s your recording process at the moment; equipment, software, etc?
It depends who I am working with. My demos are all done on Cubase which I have at home, but when I work with producers its usually Logic or Protools

Your electro-pop has prompted allusions to the likes of Kate Nash, Bat For Lashes, Lady Gaga, and Lily Allen. How do you feel about these links? 
I really like Bat For Lashes and Lady Gaga is an amazing writer and performer. To be honest I don’t really think much about comparisons; I just do my own thing.

The music press has a tendency to immediately correlate female artists with one another on the basis of sex, what are your thoughts on this?
Yeah there is, I actually think every female artist out there at the moment is very different and unique in their own way, it is shallow to group them all together because of gender.

Am I right in understanding you’re also at University? What are you studying?
No, I differed my studies in order to put maximum time into my own music, hoping it will pay off!

How did the Zebra and Snake Remix come about, and what’s it like to have one of your songs remixed? Is there anyone you’d like to work with, in terms of remixes, in the future?
Dan, my PR guy, also does press for Zebra and Snake, so it came about through him. Its great to have one of your songs remixed and really interesting to see which elements remixers pick up on in the song. Not really sure about who I would like to remix me in the future – I haven’t thought about it too much!

How do you feel about being being on the new Kitsuné Maison compilation?
Its really great, it will be great to get the exposure from it , they are a brilliant label.

Why the choice of Lovesong as a Cure cover?
Ha, I don’t really know. I did that cover on Easter Day whilst eating lots of chocolate, its not very good quality but it was a bit of fun and I am really glad people like it. I think its a beautiful song, so I guess thats why I chose it.

Finally, what are you most looking forward to in 2010?
Playing festivals in the summer, as I have never done that before, so I am really excited about it. Most of all though, I am excited about releasing “Your Body Is A Machine” as my single and showing people the video.

Thanks to The Good Natured for the track and Q+A.

Lovesong (Cure Cover)

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At the Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles,
artist Joshua Petker presents his solo show
“Between Butterflies” from April 17 to May 5, 2010.

Check out LA Weekly’s Feature

MP3: Crystal Castles – Celestica (Crystal Castles, 2010)

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things change, what more can i say

listen

jamelia – caribou

(swim, 2010)

silver soul – beach house

(teen dream, 2009)

the high road – broken bells

(broken bells, 2010)

heavens on fire – the radio dept

(clinging to a scheme, 2010)

world sick – broken social scene

(forgiveness rock record, 2010)

table tennis (f. laura darlington) – flying lotus

(cosmogramma, 2010)

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photo: awake on a train

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Last night (April 15th) at the Fox Theatre in Oakland, CA, Thom Yorke and his super-group Atoms For Peace including Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist Flea, producer Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco, surprised their audience with a cover of Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart. Enjoy!

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