Sea Cycles

Sea Cycles describe themselves as a "Jacksonville based psych-wave experiment".



Released earlier this summer, What We Came For is a five track first listen into the band.

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Akashic Broadcast

Stay tuned for another broadcast on 12.12.12.

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Euglossine - Floridian Abstract

Ever since I met Tristian Whitehill he has been engulfed by music. He is an important part of the Gainesville music community, always collaborating with musicians -- and artists like The Church of Holy Colors -- and is frequently organizing or attending shows around town, supporting and building the scene.While currently lending his creativity and time to Gainesville bands Levek and MSNRA, he has continued to release a steady flow of music under Euglossine. In March he released Jewel Hunter Geomancy on Rotifer.



Euglossine has most recently released a cassette with Housecraft entitled Floridian Abstract. Both releases expand upon quickly evolving structures with an emphasis on sonic detail found with his efforts for Orchal & Vir's Elestial Sound release. The familarness may be do to the fact that Floridian Abstract is snippets of unreleased material from the past two years. I anxiously anticipate what will come next with Euglossine.

Young Adult

Young Adult is a five piece band from Tallahassee. I got a chance to see them perform last weekend at the Outlet Benefest. Their live set was great, very together, and their seven-track release Aporia is worth obtaining. Spirit Cat collective's James Martin, whom you may know from Oh Fortuna or Aircraft, interviewed members of Young Adults recently.



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Sea Camp

Sea Camp is a new project by Chelsey Bomar. Chelsey has made music under the name Swan Spells for years. As I understand it, Swan Spells is expanding to be a full band, and Sea Camp will be a place for solo experimentation.


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Off Balance Atlas - Vivid Transformation

Off Balance Atlas has just released Vivid Transformation. Thanks to Tiny Waves for the tip on this, read Steve Head's words on the album over there.




Forrest (Off Balance Atlas) use to be a part of the Tallahassee scene but months ago moved to New Orleans and has started the uploading photos to his Pyramid Prisim Tumblr.

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New Praything EP

Today Ju Kovacevich, the mastermind behind the band Praything, has released Her Skin Caught the Glow EP; it is Praything's first official release since 2010's Born EP.



While a few songs on Born had percussion, the new EP is far more beat driven. Ju also drops the use of guitar on Her Skin Caught the Glow completely, other than a textural guitar riff by Ghost Fields' JP Wright on "A Million Lives". Amongst JP and the rest of the crew who aided Ju in this release include singer Sam Moss from Hundred Waters.

You can download Her Skin Caught the Glow EP for free on Bandcamp, but for all the work that went into it, I'm sure Ju would gladly accept a buck or two.

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Kate Like Katie

Kate like Katie is a project from Jane Jane Pollock member Courtney Asztalos. Michael Arcos also from the group and Courtney released a collection of songs recorded on a 4-track simply titled Kate like Katie through their own Flea Ridden Kitten label.

Below is a previously unreleased track, possibly to an upcoming album.

Kate Like Katie - Helen

The photograph at the top was taken by Courtney. Daniel Dorsa at Tiny Waves posted it along with more of Courtney's photos on PORTALS.

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Animal Collective - Today's Supernatural

Last night Panda Bear released the first single from Centipede Hz, "Today's Supernatural", on the Animal Collective Radio. Centipede Hz comes out on Domino September 3rd.




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Safehouse

Safehouse is a duo from West Palm Beach. Their Florida tour started last night:

07/20- Lake Worth, FL @ Mother Earth w/Hooverville.
07/21- Miami, FL @ Literary Cafe w/ Hooverville, Royal Atlantic and Telescope Thieves.
07/24- Gainesville, FL @ The Laboratory w/ Peace Arrow, God Boat and Kathleen Kennedy.
07/26- Orlando, FL @ Stardust w/ Daymoths.
07/27- Jacksonville, FL @ Burro Bar w/ Daymoths.



Download their album Equinox for free.


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Braden J McKenna

Braden J McKenna, whom you may know from Inner Islands

label, Kaliska, or WYLD WYZRDZ, has just released the debut track from his upcoming album Surfs Down Smiles Up.

Surfs Down Smiles Up is due later this year on Moondial.

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New God Boat & Terraform

Yesterday God Boat released Fishing Times.



Terraform is Cody Selman and Jiovanni Nadal from Brooklyn. They recently relocated there having moved from Gainesville. Last May Terraform released 9977.



Both releases are available to download for a donation or free.

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Bayatas - On Your Clothing

Gabriel Berrios, whom you may recognize as Tree Hopping, begun Bayatas a few months ago as he temporarily relocated from Gainesville to Miami and then permanetly to New York for school. He has been releasing what appears could end up being a full length of material two or three songs at a time on Bandcamp for free/donation. In April, NPR caught on, and included Bayatas on a playlist of theirs. Later Bayatas ranked in NPR's best albums of 2012 thus far. Reportedly Gabriel is one in only a few on the list who haven't had a physical release. In a time where it is becoming increasingly easier to make music in a bedroom, an oversaturation of media can be an ocean too vast to swim through and wash up anywhere significant. When an artist emerges without having toured or hired a publicist, the rare occurance should motivate you to atleast give them a try.



Donate what you wish for the above songs and more on Bayatas' Bandcamp.

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VIDEO: Dark Sea of Awareness

Read Tiny Waves' post over at PORTALS for the concept behind the video.



Steve was put on the spot to when handed a guitar at FMLY Fest and performend an improvisational set with Ralph Giunta, Vacation Dad, and Cameron Rath chiming in on the drums near the end.



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FMLY Fest 2012 Compilation

New York's FMLY Fest 2012 took place last weekend from Thursday, June 21st to Saturday, June 23rd. The festival was curated by the FMLY's own Noah Klein and Emily Reo. FMLY Fest features bands from all over country including Truman Peyote, Bayatas, Mutual Benefit, Chiffon, Alligator Indian, Lands & Peoples, Surfin Serf, Michael Parallax, Birthdays, Yohuna, Little Spoon, Megafortress and many more. If you couldn't make it this year, Ralph Giunta has a detailed account of his journey from Orlando to Brooklyn to witness the festival on Tiny Waves.



The compilation is for free/donation on Bandcamp.

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Water Brother

Water Brother is the solo project of James Folker from Tallahassee. If you are familiar with the Florida scene, you probably know James from the bands Oh Fortuna or Aircraft; he is also a part of the Spirit Cat collective and intimately involved in organizing the annual Total Bummer festivals.

Yesterday, Water Brother released the song "External Circumstances" on Soundcloud.




All four of Water Brother's songs are available for free download.

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Henry Krinkle

West Palm Beach's Henry Krinkle is Edwin Jantunen's new project after having stepped away from The Get. Edwin has been making electronic music, remixes, and DJing for years; Edwin is also an occasional live member for Sumsun.

A few hours ago he released the song "Stay" for free download on Soundcloud.



Among a steady flow of material, he has released remixes for Gold Panda, Julia Holter, Four Tet, and more on Bandcamp under the name The Lush Haus Remixes, which grew out of a weekly night of DJing and one band performing at Propaganda and various venues around South Florida.



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Travis Johnson

Travis Johnson is an experimental musician currently residing in St Augustine, Florida. He runs the label Ilse, which has a catalog of over 30 releases and growing. On Ilse web page, Travis Johnson is described as "[the] director/curator of Ilse, plays improvised electroacoustic music using using radios, electromagnetic coils, speaker cones, found objects, electronic circuits, balloons and - occasionally - string instruments... While collaborative improvisation is his main interest, he sometimes enjoys composing at the computer."


Below is a a performane at Hal McGee's apartment in Gainesville, which he describes as "a series of shows featuring performances of minimalist free improvisation, held in a highly intimate setting in my small apartment in Gainesville, on Saturday afternoons".



Travis Johnson has some of his material released through Ilse; you can find some free releases through Control Valve.

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Ben Varian

Ben Varian is a musician from Tallahasee, Florida. He is a part of the collective Werepossum, which began as a band and evolved into a website and a grouping of musicians that often collaborate and contribute to each others' projects.
I had heard 2010's Keeping Track of Time months ago and had been anticipating new material. In February of this year Ben put out his first full length, Potassium. Ben had this to say about the album:

 "I decided to group together the EPs I've released along with some new songs to make one cohesive album.

I admit this is headphone music, USB microphone, soft-focus music. The music asks you to listen to it a few times so that you can find the little blips and blops and secrets that I've hidden in there, but doesn't insist because it recognizes that you've got things to do and you've got your own thoughts to wrangle with. The music insinuates and gyrates and talks around the subject because the subject isn't something that can be talked about directly. There are plenty of mentions of "it" on this album, and "it" is something, but it's scientifically impossible for me to tell you what it is, exactly. All I can do is approximate the sensation of "it" and layer sounds upon sounds with ever-decreasing fidelity and hope that you have a moment to dig through them and unearth my goofy impressions of holy moments."

Ben gives his music away for free, so make sure you grab both releases. He has been steadily releasing music since February, so make sure to be checking back on his Bandcamp.

For more info, Travis over at Too Many Carpets did an interview with Ben Varian.
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Levek Announces Debut Album

David Levesque, the mastermind behind Levek, has announced the release of his debut album, Look a Little Closer, due September 25th on Lefse. For everyone who hasn't had the chance to catch Levek's new configuration (featuring members of Maximino, Lighthouse Music, Euglossine, Ghost Fields, and more) performing the new songs, "Black Mold Grow" is the first glimpse of the album.



Pre-order Look a Little Closer now on  vinyl or CD through Lefse.

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