Paul 11:41 PM on January 21, 2012
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Nuggets 93 – Morning Voices

“..and don’t send me any of that wimpy stuff.” So I didn’t.

I get lost on Bandcamp and here is what I found…

Cover ~~and tunes~~ on the way.

First up Motopony from Seattle, a one man band that recently got bigger and now make hard-soul/glitch-folk indie-rock. Great video and love the song. No so sure about the rabbit (?) fur jacket.

Little Scout practice dreampop from Melbourne.

Buy Yung Life from his bandcamp page, or download it for free. His bedroom experimental music comes to you from Knoxville, Tennessee.

Acid Flashback have no existence apart from the playlist on their Myspace page.

Neat Beats can be found on Bandcamp where they peddle their wonky trip-hop. They hail from San Diego. Buy their music in bits and bytes or in vinyl.

Korea in the Space, yeah, naff name and very unhelpful team photo. From Pittsburgh. This track and others free on bandcamp if you like their twitchy lofi.

Klaus Von Barrel, aka Die Jungen – hails from Southampton. This does little to explain the name, or the photo below… Wistful. Free from bandcamp.

Shimmering Stars make spare yet beaty musak. From Vancouver. Music here on bandcamp.

Teen Suicide, not sure where they are from, probably not the London band of the same name. This track from their album, Bad Vibes For Ever – glum.. Free on bandcamp.

Deamdate – Anna Hillburg (bass, vocals) and Yea-Ming Chen (guitar, vocals) from Oakland, California. Less wistful, tuneful.

The Handsome Family – serious about their music, or even just serious.

Steffalo – from LA, has recorded with Blackbird blackbird. Buy her tunes here.

J. Irvín Dally – Californian artist. Too talented for his own good. Visit bandcamp for more.

Youth Lagoon – ditto.

Paul 8:19 PM on October 21, 2011
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Nuggets 100 – Chullwave (redux)

Last time I approached a mixtape anniversary (the 100th), I decided to make a series of mixes with different themes highlighting what I had come to love over the previous 99.

This is mix remains one of my favourites, the first 7 tracks in particular; dreamy voices lost in the mix. I liken them to electronic versions of Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound.

Why chullwave? Well, at the time I made this mix the music wags had yet to decide on a name for the keyboardy electronic sound with processed voices that was becoming popular. Chillwave, or better chullwave as one Scottish blogger termed it, is / was a term bandied about for this sound.