OLIVER TANK released his stunning debut ep dreams out through yes please yesterday. do yourself a favour and buy it. mad good ambient electronic sounds from the sydneysider. flip cover art by andrew creelman too.

“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
- JD Salinger 'A girl i knew'

“Look...Reality is greater than the sum of its parts, also a damn sight holier. And the lives of such stuff as dreams are made of may be rounded with a sleep but they are not tied neatly with a red bow. Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train, though time may run on truth. And the Scenes Gone By and the Scenes to Come flow blending together in the sea-green deep while Now spreads in circles on the surface. So don't sweat it. For focus simply move a few inches back or forward. And once more...look.”
-Ken Kesey, Sometimes A Great Notion

"You can make a mark across the night with the tip of an embered stick, and you can actually see it fixed in its finity. You can be absolutely certain of its treacherous impermanence. Hank knew . . . "
-Ken Kesey, Sometimes A Great Notion

a great book. a truly overwhelmingly beautiful piece of writing. i've heard some people say that they find i hard to read, with the techniques he's used. but that's the beauty of it. you're getting these first-person perspectives from multiple people all at once and he creates this depth of character. and each scene in the book just has this added weight because of it. it's a beautiful thing. a truly beautiful thing.

youth lagoon is the best thing that's happened to me today.

WUGAZI

Cigarettes and Chocolate by Chet Faker

ZOO KID.

Have you ever seen someone peacefully dozing in the morning light? The sun is rising and the birds are singing and they look so wonderfully serene. In that moment you can believe in a higher being, you can believe in love and fairy tales and innocence and peace. In that moment everything is achievable and everything is real, and the tooth fairy doesn’t seem so far-fetched. And then they start to wake, almost always with a smile, almost never in a rush, almost perfect, these moments are. Have you seen the sunset? The fragmented blues and reds and purples, and the warmth that courses through you, and now suddenly the dread, you see that magnificent luminous ball, see it dip and hurry beneath the horizon. How beautiful the scene. How nice to you. How nice to me. Have you witnessed this splendour? And when you witnessed it did you seek answers? Or did you find them? I believe in the absolute wonder of the every day. I believe that knowledge has saved and ruined us. I understand the need for an explanation and I question the value of a scientific one. I want for everything and I know that that means I really want for nothing. I believe that ignorance is bliss, and that bliss ignorance is an ideal condition, because nobody wants to know the truth about everything. I believe that truth is relative and that lies are sometimes more honest than facts. I believe in magic and deception and I believe that one day a lie will be told that is so profound it will bring the whole world to tears. I believe in a higher truth, I believe that nothing is real and everything is imagined and that the ultimate honesty lies in our mistakes. I believe in opening your eyes, to see. See the mountains and valleys of virtuous nature, and the perfect grandeur of an uninterrupted skyline, see snow falling through windows and the sun set over the ocean, see fog veil the early morning light. See you. See me. See the furious glory of a shared yearning, a yearning to be free, free of plans and goals and rules and structures, limitations all, limitations of the mind and spirit. Have you felt that harsh grip of the shackles that bind us? That blind us?

penny and the quarters - you and me.mp3

james vincent mcmorrow - we don't eat.mp3

perfume genius - mr. petersen.mp3

EMA - the grey ship.mp3

i'm moving to sydney next week to start a new university course. so ima be busy sorting myself out here and there over the next few weeks and thus there won't be much posting going on. here are some words and songs and moving pictures to keep you sated.

progressive house track from german marcin sleziona aka homeboi finally gets an official release through anchor factory records. the ep dropped february 10th. you can get it at juno, beatport, and dj download.

Homeboi - Shrimps EP by anchorfactory

GROUPLOVE: from london, l.a., and new york via crete. kindred spirits hannah hooper and christian zucconi met in manhattan before hooking up with sean gadd, andrew wessen and ryan rabin in crete to form what is now grouplove. their debut ep was released in 2010, filled with zucconi's raw vocals, broken melodies and a shared passion for their music. it's seriously good. check out the video for colours too. its sweet.

MOUNT KIMBIE: uk duo with a penchant for field recordings. they make small scale dubstep that succeeds on a much larger scale, minimal, ambient dubstep textured with loops and samples. their debut album 'crooks & lovers' is up there with the best of 2010's releases. it is a seriously great album in every sense. if you dug gold panda's 'lucky shiner' then go out and get 'crooks & lovers' now. they're playing barsoma on the 11th of march with another favourite 'seekae'. ticket details soon.

ORCA! STRAIGHT AHEAD!: sydney boys john and dane make epic experimental rock/electronic tunes.

new track from FOSTER THE PEOPLE 'helena beat' which will be available on their 'pumped up kicks' EP due on itunes later this month. posted their first single 'pumped up kicks' over at BVD last march, if you haven't heard it yet you should get on that.