Ren Sanchez

Ren Sanchez is a dude I know. He does shoegaze-influenced electronic stuff, which is pretty awesome. This is a collection of tracks he composed over the last year or so. Reminds me of Atlas Sound and Mogwai and Grouper and other stuff. Kinda depends on the song. The last two are full-band songs, under a different name: Sun Shower. The first is a pretty standard post-rock tune, but the second puts an organ alongside the guitar, transforming the groove into a dark drive down a rural road. He's writing some pretty ridiculous epic dubstep-ish music right now, which I'm really psyched about. I'll probably post it when he's got enough material.


Soundtrack

Toro Y Moi

I haven't been able to get enough of this album lately -- just listen to the track "Blessa" on his Myspace if you haven't heard it already. I love watching this whole chillwave thing culminate into something with actual songwriting chops instead of just "okay, pop nostalgia, whatever." Kind of like Neon Indian and Memory Tapes, but -- just between you and me -- I wouldn't think less of you for being reminded of Passion Pit at times, and I wouldn't think you're crazy if there's a few parts where you feel like Flying Lotus had some influence.


Causers Of This

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M. Pyres (Pt. 2)

Yay, finally got around to posting this! You may recall M. Pyres from the post I made about Cast Off / Cold Months. Pretty awesome ambient/post-rock album. The following albums stray far from that -- but not too far. All three are totes srsly recommended. Apart The Echo is kinda like Meneguar and Wavves or No Age or some other lo-fi punk/noise band but really into 90's indie rock and still with the ambient ideas floating around. & New Past Tense, which hasn't been released yet, is like a cross between Apart The Echo and Cast Off / Cold Months, integrating the post-rock ideas into the noisier punk songs. Consider Me, Ghost is a collection of their early demos, but almost all of it is as good as the newer stuff. Get into it, dudes.


Apart The Echo -- Buy it!


& New Past Tense


Consider Me, Ghost (demos)

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Stella Luna

Stella Luna : Stargazing EP

My friend asked if I had heard Stella Luna's new EP and i freaked out a little bit (read: a lot a bit). after all, as far as i know, this is their only release and it was all the way back in 2002. But apparently, there is some solo artist who goes by Stellaluna.

Forget him. He is not very good. This is the Stella Luna people should be listening to.

They only have 4 songs in the entire world. They were supposed to release an album 7 years ago, and i waited and waited and waited... tragic, right? Claire Records' message board has a post from a few months back saying Stella Luna still exists, so hopefully they're still making music somewhere out there...

Surfer Blood

Astro Coast
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These guys are super fun indie/surf rock from Florida. Saw them play with a bunch of hardcore bands, which was odd, but they were well received. I encourage you guys to get this album when it is re-released in January on Kanine. This is their self-produced cut.

William Basinski

William Basinski - 92982 (2009)


William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops I (2002)


William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops II (2003)


William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops III (2003)


William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops IV (2003)

This last guy has always intrigued me so much, whenever I listen he keeps my mind racing. His stuff is really good. Such nice loops and perfect ambient mood. Don't really know what else to say. Get lost in this stuff!

Loscil

Loscil - Submers (2002)


Loscil - First Narrows (2004)


Loscil - Plume (2006)

I got into this dude real quick, his music was really inspiring for me. Real good to listen to in class and stuff haha but once again you can listen to it wherever you want to. Pretty ambient with nice light kinda percussive stuff layered on top. He's got a real nice selection of music. One of his albums is even up for download for free on his last.fm so i'll give you a link for that: http://www.last.fm/music/Loscil/Stases

Porn Sword Tobacco

Alright i got some droney stuff for you guys, I just took a few artists I've been listening to lately, that all kinda had something similar in their music (or i guess in my mind at least).


Porn Sword Tobacco - Everything is Music to the Ear (2009)

So yeah, this first dude i kinda picked up on i guess in the beginning of the summer. I burned this and one of his other albums to a cd and drove around to it for a couple weeks. So it really just reminds me of good driving music, but you can really listen to it wherever i guess. Anyway it's pretty mellow electronic ambient kinda stuff, some pretty interesting loops and what not.