Ghostly Swim

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As they’ve done in the past with indie-hop labels Stones Throw, Chocolate Industries and Definitive Jux, [Adult Swim] — purveyors of fine midnight-hour weirdo programming — have again collaborated with a renowned progressive electronic imprint. This time around it’s paragon of the (self-coined) Avant-Pop, Ghostly International, a label that’s home to such as acts as downtempo bedroom crooner Milosh and popular minimalist house producer Matthew Dear. With Ghostly Swim, the listener spans the far reaches of the noted IDM label’s roster (and beyond, with a few non-GI performers contributing), hitting every dark corner and touching upon a vast multitude of approaches to contemporary electronic dance music.

To close out this brief post I’ll share my two early favorites from the collection, as offered up first by the boom-&-glitch mastery of Cepia, and secondly by School of Seven Bells, whose velvety, modulated vocals and old-school future-shock backdrop on the track “Chain” hearken vaguely to the detached cool of 80s freestyle singers such as Debbie Deb.

Cepia: Ithaca / MP3

School of Seven Bells: Chain / MP3

Smash these here words to beam over to [adult swim]’s page for Ghostly, where you’ll be able to download all of the album’s tracks for free, either one by one or as a single zip bundle.

Now if the guys on Williams Street would only bring back Perfect Hair Forever and churn out those episodes of Venture Bros. with a bit more regularity…

PHOTOS: Dirty Projectors + No Kids at The Echo

Following up a bit on that last post, here are some photos from this past weekend’s Dirty Projectors and No Kids show at The Echo. As is the case with all show photos I take, several more can be found on MySpace. And, as is also the case with all show photos I take, they’re not that great. But I’m getting better! I think.

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+ My two favorite songs from what was, as expected, a terrific set through and through. They sprinkled in a couple of new ones as well — check the set list.

Dirty Projectors: Thirsty and Miserable / MP3

Dirty Projectors: Imagine It / MP3

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“Aquatic peace ballet”

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Homespun visual accompaniment for the song “Perverted Undertone” (from the second — and last, so far — of Scott Herren’s great albums under the Prefuse 73 handle, One Word Extinguisher). Not my favorite Prefuse song by any stretch, but that was easy to overlook, as I enjoy what gentleman BossQuito has done with the video, clipping mostly just the graceful moments from some dreamy, melodramatic, mid-sixties space adventure flick. If you’d be interested in seeing more of his work, head on over to his YouTube to check out the rest of the stuff he has posted.

Prefuse 73: Perverted Undertone / MP3

Foam Blaster: I’ve bought several

Please enjoy what is perhaps the most effective commercial on television today.

Oh man, that kid is such an asshole!

Someone needs to get to work on a documentary in which a camera crew follows around this fictional child all day long, and just records him mocking everyone he comes into contact with, just as he does his poor grandfather who is a dead ringer for Celtic legend Bill Russell.

Like, he’s eating lunch at an Italian restaurant and he’s helped by an acne-riddled young waiter and so when the boy gets his pizza he spreads it all over his own face and yells something at the waiter, or, I don’t know, I’m not good with ideas.