The Wave

3 Aug

Today’s Untz: The Wave (Flight Facilities Mix) / Miike Snow

This song was already featured on my other blog TheTrashJuice last Friday, but it’s too good not to highlight again. If you’re ever looking for some darker elements of electronic music or perhaps the more eclectic side certainly check out that site.

With the mix of indie and untz on here I certainly narrow my focus a little bit which is great because I like sharing the type of music I do on here. This track certainly follows that path.

There’s no need to introduce either Miike Snow or The Flight Facilities. Both of them are well known and rightfully so. This track here is just a great example of two giants joining forces to create an uplifting track that is great on any occasion especially the weekend. Enjoy! #untz/tom

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two for joy

3 Aug

Today’s Indie: One for Sorrow / Jeffrey 

‘we’ll start out with fancy sheets / and wear them down so thin / I’ll get myself a coal black suit I’ll never wear again’

We are knee deep in wedding season, and today marks the beginning of a journey into three weddings within eight days (I am at that age). I will spend this weekend along the sun soaked shores of San Diego before heading up North to my homeland in the Willamette Valley the next to celebrate with my sister. A lot of friends, family, love, and champagne. Accordingly, to carry the season off right, one of my favorite old wedding themed songs by Wisconsin singer songwriter Jeffrey Foucault. Just try to listen and not smile.

we’re gonna have a hundred babies
a little house outside of town
with a wood-stove and a claw-foot tub
when we’re all done traveling around

#indie/tory

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purity ring

1 Aug

Today’s Indie: Fineshrine / Purity Ring

‘get a little closer, let it fold / cut open my sternum and pull / my little ribs around you’

Ah here is a good one. Purity Ring has crafted one of the more strangely romantic tracks I have heard in some time, painting a picture of building a fortress for someone inside of yourself, literarily. I love Meghan Jame’s light, almost childlike vocals, eliciting a Crystal Castles, Sleigh Bells, and Grimes type feel, met with tingling builds and a backdrop chorus of coos. The track is off the Canadian electro-pop duo’s full length debut, Shrines, out last week, and all is worth a listen.

And then it was August. #indie/tory

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these dreams

1 Aug

Today’s Untz: These Dreams / Chris Malinchak

French Express has been pumping out amazing tracks all month. This time it’s Chris Malinchak featuring some sultry vocals from Damon C Scott. He has a knack for producing epically euphoric tunes that really attest to the future of house.

There are some addicting high hats, smooth melodic bass, and tropical inspired synths that would delight even the casual electronic fan. I’ve been wanting to hop on here to post this one since it was released. So good. #untz/tom

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Let Call Me Maybe

30 Jul

Today’s Untz – Let Call Me Maybe (Gui Pacheco Edit) / Grek & Carly Rae Jepsen

Arguably this year’s catchiest and most annoying pop song has been stripped down and made bearable. Disclaimer: These views are my own and not Tory’s. I might get slapped by the other half of this blog.

Giu Pacheco is a DJ from Brazil who does a weekly radio show called  ‘What Happened To Disco.’ He plays mostly sweet melodies, smooth grooves, sexy and fresh music highlighting the best of Nu-Disco and Deep House. On this track he strips the Carly Rae Jepsen vocals down to the basics and essentially creates a vocal edit of an amazing track from Crek called ‘Let You.’

Crek, of Berlin, has some amazing tracks you should check out on his soundcloud page. #untz/tom

Bonus Tracks From Crek:

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blank maps

30 Jul

Today’s Indie: Blank Maps / Cold Specks

‘head for the heart, does it break / words may fall, the body remains’

This weekend has left me light on sleep and feeling a bit wary heading into the week ahead, but the peaceful sound of Cold Specks has come to the rescue, offering comfort against the Monday blues. I first heard of the Canadian-turned Londoner via her single, Winter Solstice, but have become equally bewitched with Blank Maps. Slow rolling piano leads into a gospel-like voice, met with sliding strings. The beginning sound reminds me of a Greg Laswell classic… enjoy both.

Comes and Goes (in Waves) / Greg Laswell

‘come on friends get up now / love is to be made’

#indie/tory

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open

27 Jul

Today’s Untz: Open / Com Truise

I had the pleasure of catching a Com Truise set two weeks ago and it surely did not disappoint. He just released In Decay which is made up of rarities and previously discarded tunes from the Com Truise hard drive.

An admitted synth obsessive, Com Truise is the maker of an experimental and bottom heavy style he calls “mid-fi synth-wave, slow-motion funk”. #untz/tom

 

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tortuga

25 Jul

Today’s Untz: Tortuga / Claes Rosen

Sheesh French Express. You really know how to throw me into a sweaty frenzy at the end of a work day. From the label : “Here is a gift from Sweden. An earlier version of Claes Rosen’s gently crafted ‘Tortuga’ caught our attention in one of his mixtapes a couple months back… since then, we knew with haste nobody but the tropical troubadours could present this track in its full shining glory.”

This is one of those tracks that makes your neck hurt after the first listen and if you have my posture then you’re back too. I’m knee deep in tropical blue water with sand in my toes whilst flopping around like a joyful idiot. Well at least my brain just temporarily tricked me into thinking that. This is tropical music euphoria at its best. SUMMER! #untz/tom

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how to love

25 Jul

Today’s Indie: How to Love / School of Seven Bells (Lil’ Wayne cover)

‘see you had a lot of crooks tryna steal your heart’

Lil’ Wayne showed a softer side with last year’s single, How to Love, even if it was in an auto-tuned, try to serenade a wounded woman between the sheets kind of way.  Now NYC dream pop duo School of the Seven Bells have taken the same track, dressed it down and laced it with beautiful wispy smooth vocals, trickling piano and sincerity. Ah to see the world from a different angle. #indie / tory

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congo bongo

23 Jul

Today’s Untz: Congo Bongo (Marbeya Sound Remix) / F3

You may have noticed a theme around here. It’s summer which puts me in the mood for summer themed dancing. This moody dance floor track has a mystical summer feel to it. It’s no surprise to see her in lineups with the likes of Tensnake.

I’m not entirely familiar with here,but I certainly will be from here on out. She lists her hometown as Mexico City and San Francisco so I’ll have to start roaming the clubs looking for her. #untz/tom

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