Dream Panther - Birds of Paradise

Last week I got an email from these cool dudes Dream Panther from Los Angeles, California. They make sounds you'd hear in a jungle or at least a big reverberating human environment with jungle projections on a wall. "Birds of Paradise" was just released on cassette but is also online for free download. The album just reaches the 3o minute mark and worth the experience to hear it from start to end."Birds of Paradise" is characterized by reverse sounds, bird chirps, reverb, and far away melodies. Ideal for a meditative mood, background calmness, or full blown mind expansion.

myspace/dreampanther

download/birdsofparadise

Evenings

Evenings is an electronic project of this guy Nathan from Virgina. He makes some really nice laid back melodic insturmental pop. His first release North Dorm EP is dropping July 20th, there's already two songs lingering around "Still Young" and "Friends" and both are really really good.

Once the EP is released, Nathan's going to work his setup and start doing some shows. Hopefully we can bring him to Florida by 2011.





myspace/evenings
bandcamp/evenings

Many Mansions

Rooted in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, Shane Donnelly is Many Mansions. With a musical and lyrical theme of consciousness, frequency, and onessness, his album "Return to Source" is a mystical electroacoustic adventure into oneself. Sometimes there is a presence of layers of chanting voices and drums and other times more ambient waves of reverberating sounds.

Many Mansions - Big White House
Many Mansions - Oneness

We got some footage of Many Mansions at Total Bummer in Gainesville.


He has also released a split with Truman Peyote titled "Peaced Together"

myspace/manymansions

Viva Le Vox

Viva Le Vox is a rockabilly group based in Lake Worth, Florida. I say rockabilly, but I'm not sure if that's exactly right, it's also got some haunt and mystery to it, you'll have to hear for yourself. The group has been around longer than I can remember, playing what seemed like 2 to 4 shows each week for extended periods of time. If any South Florida group deserves the attention, it's these guys, with all the work and dedication to music they've shown through these past years. They have just released their second album, "Wayward Ones", the other night at a release show at Respectables in West Palm.

Their live show is engaging, with Anthony going crazy on a minimalist drum set up, breaking at least a pair of brushes each show. Scarecrow wraps his fingers in ductape because of how hard he plucks his upright bass.



They made an appearance at Total Bummer festival last March, and are about to embark on one of two tours spanning from now until September hitting a bunch of cities on the east coast. Unfortunetly, Viva Le Vox doesn't appear to have any free tunes online, but you can preview a bunch of songs on their myspace or buy their album on Cd Baby.

myspace/vivalevox
buy/vivalevox

railcars remixes

railcars has just released a free download of a bunch of remixes of the songs "Castles" and "Cathedral with No Eyes". But these remixes are by none other than No Age, Xiu Xiu, Lucky Dragons, White Rainbow, Truman Peyote, and Jean Wilder's Day Off.

railcars - castles (lucky dragons remix)

myspace/railcars
download/railcarsremixes

The Band In Heaven

I got an email today from muffled fuzz enthusiasts The Band In Heaven, a relatively new band from West Palm Beach, Florida. It seems as though they adorn their recordings with similar lofi production methods of Beach House or Ariel Pink, but are more guided by the melodies of 80s and 90s Indie Rock, which is confirmed with a cover of a song by The Cranberries.

A Tunnel Into Your Dreams - The Band In Heaven
Dreams (Cranberries Cover) - The Band In Heaven

Since these come from a collection titled "demos" on their bandcamp page, they may have a full-length brewing.

myspace/thebandinheaven
download/thebandinheaven

Tumbleweave

Monsters' Ben Mendelewicz has been keeping busy with a new project Tumbleweave. It could be thought of as the hypercompressed-lofi-chip tune-bit crushed-obsessed-attention defecit disorder-little brother of Yip Yip, upon first listen. But there's definitely more than that, and with 2 out of the 3 songs on Tumbleweave's free EP under a minute long, it's gonna take a few listens to form your own idea.


Tumbleweave - Mystery Lynch
Tumbleweave - Pornstars Built The Pyramids


"Mystery Lynch" sort of brings me back to the days of Thunderbirds Are Now! , whereas "Pornstars Built the Pyramids" remind of fighting Bowser in Mario games or the egyptian levels.

myspace/tumbleweave
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