Oscillations - Is Our Children Dancing?

sure, Woolfy's good. but i want to focus my shout out on Deerhunter's Microcastle (and the Weird Era Cont. bonus disc that absolutely stands on its own). i am one of those assholes who downloaded the album a gazillion blog years ago (which in real life is like six months). however, i only did so after seeing them live. they were kinda horrible compared to the first time, but in their defense i must mention that the leading man, bradford cox, was very ill that night. anyways, i didn't want the element of surprise to be ruined, see? afterwards i proceeded to downloading and wore it out, but now, several months later we musn't forget that the record has an actual release date. which is... TODAY! yeah! awesome!

they call it ghost rock and why the hell not? this may not be mistaken for scary, it's rather haunting than frightening. have a listen to one of my favourite tracks on the album:

Deerhunter - Never Stops

Twilight at Carbon Lake, as featured on the second Oscillations mixdisc, is another favourite. you know, you can look at it as being ridiculous or superawesome that a song from an album yet-to-be released at that point, is already on a compilation altogether. i, for one, would like to welcome people to the digital age with a superawesome attitude because i sincerely believe in the networking possibilities of the internet. if it's good, (written) word will spread and your market expands vastly. maybe the percentage of people buying it will decrease, but there will be a mighty surge in the sheer number of listeners, which ofcourse never hurts for the touring aspect either. it's all good.

I think I just got my favourite album of 2008 delivered this week. It's called The Astral Projections Of Starlight and it's made by Simon James and Dan Hastie, under the name of Woolfy vs Projections. The two teamed up around the changing of the millenium and they've already made a few records together. I got introduced to the first one through Sixsixsixties. Try to look up the A-side, Oh missy is amazing poppy house (I couldn't find any better, but the description covers it quite well, when I come to think of it), made to please everybody. The second one was a teaser for the magnificent album, with The Return Of Starlight on the A-side, and this gem on the flip:



Simon James is originally hailing from London, but the boy moves to sunny LA in the early nineties & gets dragged into the club scene through nights as Flammable Liquid and Harvey's Sessions. A few years later he meets DJ Spun of Rong Music fame & subsequently makes an amazing 12" for them. In 2007 he signs for the 10th edition of Mindless Boogie, the ghent-based label, with an amazing edit of Wings' Band On The Run. Check their myspace, it's there.



Little over one year ago, he signs on the Munich-based Permanent Vacation label and makes the aforementioned album teaser & the recent long player. On the full-length album, mr. James and the Projections make you surf through spaced out disco, psychedelic soul and tropical beard rock. If you're up for it, you can still buy the album and the Mindless Boogie here if you're living in Belgium. It's cheap & very reliable!

As a lil' teaser, here's a pain killer for all your hangovers.

music, but it's just good for a quick laugh. i found this at lolporn. lol indeed!



she should've been listening to starlight's psych-pop mix. my personal fave is wimple winch's lollipop minds. so lovely insane.

While waiting for the next Oscillations party, here's something for your ear-ly pleasure.


For the first edition of Compillations I've made a small selection of blistering psyche-pop, mainly from the late sixties & early seventies, with a couple of contemporary tunes (that sound quite old anyways). No disco, no rave, no party, just ordinary & simple music for homelistening purposes on sunday afternoons.
Enjoy!


Tracklist:

Intro: Jersey boyz
Hippie shake
My house
A spaced odyssey
Suck it
Le temps est un bateau, la terre est un gateau
Christian gospel
Won't you shine?
Federal d*ck
Twice as nice
Fuzzy Mary
Moaning & groaning
Witchcraft
Out & over
Clap your hands, stamp your feet
O, muse
The great emptyness...

Download it here.

Size: 149mb
total time: 65 min.
compiled & unexpertedly mixed by cpt. starlight

xo

hi!
stupid rain couldn't mess with us, baby, nuh-uh. we enjoyed Borat and JD's sets so so so so so much and apparently we weren't the only ones. i think this picture represents the vibe quite accurately:


i bet we'll see those cats again in the future. speaking of which, are you psyched for Zeigeist's live show or what?!



Nightmoves (of Kitsuné and general remixing fame) is our main guest disc jockey and we've taken the liberty to invite TomTomTom from the Los Ninos and Dolly parties, yezzur!