DOWNLOAD: Beko / La Station Radar Compilation

Beko / La Station Radar Compilation
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Tracklist:

a_side

a1_ Ela Orleans - Black and White Flight
a2_ Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier - I Panema
a3_ Archers By the Sea - Leather Jacket Dance
a4_ Terror Bird - Can't Tell What's Real
a5_ Jeans Wilder - Be OK
a6_ Holy Strays  Phrenesia

b_side
b1_ Skitter - Stutter
b2_ Yves/Son/Ace - My Confusion Your Delusion
b3_ Gremlinz - I Have To Be Leaving
b4_ Dirty Beaches - Night City
b5_ Wet Hair - The Garden Room

After releasing a massive witch housey/distorto-pop double disc with AmDiscs at the end of 2010, French digital singles label Beko have teamed up with La Station Radar to bring you an eleven track psychedelic folk/drone compilation to start the year off.  The line-up on this is as incredible as the AmDiscs split, featuring names like Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier and his luminous reverie; Terror Bird's lush plucked folk;  the angelic hypnotic trance of Gremlynz; the hypnagogic neon fog of Holy Strays; yowling skiffle/skuffle shuffle of Dirty Beaches; the bubbling sweetness of Wet Hair. It reads as a list of several of the names that might rise up out of the underground over the next twelve months, a primer for the coming months, and also, for the moment, will warm you up and shine a light into the cold January darkness.  Great range of sounds across the bands in this release, proving further Beko's awesome ear for addictive and interesting artists - a label of relentless high quality.


On top of the music, La Radar affiliated band Ela Orleans have produced a video to accompany their song, the opening track; Black and White Flight.

Gremlynz - I Have To Be Leaving / Crystal Hexes

Two new preview tracks from upcoming releases of the Gremlynz incarnation of Pink Priest.  The first is I Have To Be Leaving due to come out as a Beko / La Station Radar label collaboration (coming up next).   The second is an excerpt from the track Crystal Hexes - a 32 minute tape to be released on Family Time which he describes as"if previous Gremlynz sound was "being dropped into 10,000 gallons of water," Crystal Hexes is more like
"getting caught in a heavy downpour while walking down the street.""  It's quite an apt description, which can be romanticised further if you imagine it in black and white so the distorting contrast blurs your vision even further, shapes shifting about the enveloping liquid static. 

There's a lengthy, detailed description of all he's been getting up to and what's in store for his three or four (or three) projects over on his God of Blues blog.