STREAM: Bradley & Geofrey: MR STEVEN'S PRIVATE SERVICE (White Rainbow & Bradford Cox jam)

Two things today that the world probably should experience for different reasons.  This first one, because it was supposed to stay unheard the second we'll get to shortly.  How this has managed to stay under everyone's radar for two weeks is a mystery considering who it involves on vocals. I posted a collab track between Adam Forkner's White Rainbow and Stag Hare last week and today I am posting this; White Rainbow with Bradford Cox - of Deerhunter/Atlas Sound infamy, as well you already know - doubling up in what sounds like a really really blitzed late night jam session, singing in a dreamy, languid drawl that drifts into some kind of reggae style skanking lope trailing off with commentary and observational ad-libs. "Next track Forkner, this ones done".  Any chance of a teaming up with Amanda Brown's LA Vampires Bradford?

Forkner keeps up his sincere trancey ebb and flow despite the ridiculousness, which works really well given that a lot of ambience could do with being injected with a shot of humour.  Well hidden inside Forkner's Soundcloud account, it can hardly stay that way for long, even if only as a curious exhibit.  Awesome genre tag too. Ha.

Deerhunter – Helicopter (Diplo & Lunice mix)

You've probably already heard this by now, but I've been without pc for days - weeks really, because I've had nothing at home and I've been using only the werk pc for ages, which should explain the recent infrequent blogging.  Anyway. Just got the chance to Soundcloud this, and it's amazingly beautiful. A remix from the only song off Halcyon Digest that I've heard because I've been saving myself to buy the album - I have a very good feeling about this and I wanted to make the moment special.

Sink into this pillow of bliss:

Deerhunter - Helicopter (Diplo & Lunice mix) by maddecent

Winter Drones

Winter Drones is the other band from Leon Dufficy of Hush Arbors. They formed around 2006, so they're not new and this video is a couple of years old, but it;s all we have to preview their new cassette Blood in the Coffin out now on SexBeat Records. Bongs Dream Pt.2 was also featured on the Menagerie compilation on Blackest Rainbow Records - another one of our favourite labels. All good company.

The languid kraut groove of Neu, with a bit of Wooden Shjips style bluesy drugginess. The sound features a lot of gently controlled feedback to give it the ethereal dream/drone pop air of Deerhunter. All that, then there's the graven shadow of Stiff Wizard, featured on the SexBeat 002 compilation - it's a stomping fuzzed up monster of a track that roars out of the speakers with no small amount of malice in it's stride. If you never got that comp you can get a taster of it on the MySpace page. But for the here and now you can have Scene Through, a far more sedate affair that still flows really deep.

Now melt into this: