Joker - Tron

Everyone is writing about this track, but with good reason so we make no apologies for joining in the immense occasion of it all.

It's been a long time coming, but now his own Kapsize label has released Joker's massive Tron. A producer who has consistently thrown out tracks that are vastly greater than the sum of their genre parts - wobble/wonky/soul-step/dubstep/techno - The 20 year old from Bristol eats up all those and spits them out into instrumentals that sing - from Digidesign, Purple City, Snake Eater, Psychedelic Runway and now Tron. This is the sleeper hit that hasn’t really been sleeping, as a feature in his sets for the last couple of years it’s been gaining momentum until now when it is about to drop in fully formed 12" format.

And speaking of drops - get ready to be overwhelmed by a load of 'em:

VIDEO: Yoga - Encante

I have been trying to find a video for Fourth Eye, but it doesn't exist - you can stream the full track on Last.fm but that ain't he same as me posting it here. No matter, every track of Yoga's Megafauna album is incredible in its own way - Black Metal like you never heard it before; Chillwave to give you chills - GrimWave. The lack of clarity and focus, that half-lit, hypnagogic state is the same but its coming up from the earth instead of down from the clouds. When they gave it Record Of The Week Aquarius Records described it as "Tim Hecker or Philip Jeck, filtered through a grim black bedroom black metal aesthetic."

We simply describe it as ESSENTIAL.

Links:

MySpace: www.myspace.com/yoga666
Last.fm: www.last.fm/music/Yoga

Peaking Lights Video on Vice TV

Vice TV/VBS' new SOUND BUILDER series started last week with a video following Peaking Lights around on their tour. Amazing scenes from the band that made Imaginary Falcons, one of our Top 5 albums of 2009.

Visit the site over HERE, or just watch it here (but I did leave a nice and insightful response to a misguided commenter, which you'll obviously want to go and read):



Here's the Vice intro:

"We travel to Madison, Wisconsin to visit Peaking Lights, a married musical duo famed for their pulsating looped-rhythm tracks composed on re-purposed scraps, stereos, and lo-fi gear. We watch as husband and wife prepare for tour by paring their studio down to the bare essentials needed to produce Peaking Lights’ distinctive sound.
While we were hanging out, we got a peek into Aron’s completely untechnical, yet highly rigorous process of Frankensteining long forgotten consumer electronics. Using the most unassuming hunks of wood, metal, and plastic, Peaking Lights produce surprising and highly personal results."