Jonti
Multi-instrumentalist, arranger, producer, and vocalist, Jonti, began assembling music after his departure from South Africa to Australia. Spending countless hours studying records like they were books, processing each song, this became Jonti's music school, testing his theories on a 4-track recorder. Jonti has now recorded with Mark Ronson, Santigold, Sean Lennon and the Dap-Kings, as well as producer John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Kurt Vile). For Jonti
Small Black
Small Black is an emerging band from Brooklyn, New York. Their self-titled full length album will be out this fall. They describe their music on their myspace as "Acousmatic / Tape music / Concrete / Pop." Their blog is here: www.myspace.com/smallblacksounds
Mountain Range
Mountain Range is London based Ambient/ Electronic Producer Stuart Thomas, mixing together elements of Ambient, Post-rock and Electronic music. Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/mountain-range Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mountain.range
Mornings
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Mornings - Joe Bergeron Mornings arose as a project of Massachusetts native Joe Bergeron, after having written chipmusic for years, wanting to switch to more modern styles of music. Having experience in classical musicianship, playing violin since age three, his music is a far cry from anything near that genre.
Klangkarussell
The two young and ambitious artists Tobias Rieser and Adrian Held from Salzburg in Austria, achieved to bring sunshine within a short time to numerous people around the globe with their unique compositions. The single “Sonnentanz” reached over 15 million plays on YouTube and SoundCloud after one month only gaining them several thousand fans. This success story goes on and the appeals for the upcoming mindblowing release are getting louder every day.
Trust
Trust is a name of at least seven acts: 1) A Toronto, ON, Canada synthpop duo of Robert Alfons and Maya Postepski, formed in 2009. Their releases include, singles: "Candy Walls" (Mar 2011, Sacred Bones) and "Bulbform" (Sep 2011, Sacred Bones) LPs: "TRST" (Feb. 28, 2012, Arts & Crafts). Sites: Discogs and MySpace 2) A French hard rock band, formed in 1977 by Bernie Bonvoisin and Norbert Krief. The band disbanded in 1984, but have often reformed for one off shows and have been more steadily active since 1996.
Shinamo Moki
www.facebook.com/shinamomoki Departing from bedroom project Murdermostfoul, Auryn Tate Waring joined with his fellow art colleague and friend Felix Treadwell and began recording a series of songs influenced by the likes of Shlohmo, Washed Out, Metronomy, Steve Reich, Four Tet, Bibio and Neon Indian.
Hooray For Earth
These are anxious times. From unemployment and embattled governments to mysterious mass deaths of birds and fish, it's easy to wonder if 2012's apocalypse won't come a year early. It's heady fare for an indie rock record, but somehow the dense soundscapes from New York City's Hooray for Earth's True Loves find a way to float on thin air. "The record is really aggressive sounding, but soft in attitude," band leader Noel Heroux says. "It's a friendly record.
Blue Hawaii
Blue Hawaii tells the story of a lush paradise. The way begins ambient and uncertain, but beautiful white shell beaches and carefree sunshine parties await and nourish those travelers with love in their hearts; their peace thus raised above the arguments found along the rocky road. The duo consists of Raph (Braids) and Agor; they use voice, guitars, synths, drum machines, and other electronics to create a kind of tropical-pop with love ache melodies and experimental club rhythms.