http://saucer.cc/ en-us Saucer.cc Music Selections by @saucer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License Tue, 4 Mar 2014 00:15:01 PST Tue, 4 Mar 2014 00:15:01 PST New entries to the Saucer.cc music picks website http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#WhenNaldaBecamePunk_IndiePopOrWhatever http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#WhenNaldaBecamePunk_IndiePopOrWhatever Saucer.cc Tue, 4 Mar 2014 00:00:01 PST Pop • Spain
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Pure pop at the critical nexus of naïveté and wisdom… Elena Sestelo & her band deliver brilliant songcraft on this four-track follow-up to last year’s A Farewell To Youth. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#FuturePunx_999 http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#FuturePunx_999 Saucer.cc Mon, 3 Mar 2014 23:55:01 PST Neue Deutsche Welle • USA (New York)
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Future Punx channel The Feelies, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, and X-Mal Deutschland, fabricating fresh synth/dance rock. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#NicolasBernier_FrequenciesAFragments http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#NicolasBernier_FrequenciesAFragments Saucer.cc Mon, 3 Mar 2014 23:50:01 PST Experimental • Canada (Québec)
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A mostly overcast morning on Ganymede as a distant sun fails to move the mercury, skyships drift by, and robotic miners do their doings. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#VoxPopuli_FunkOff http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#VoxPopuli_FunkOff Saucer.cc Mon, 3 Mar 2014 23:45:01 PST Industrial/Goth • France
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Darkness disco in this retrospective collection of underground ’80s tracks. See also Joy Division, Bauhaus, Skinny Puppy, Throbbing Gristle. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#KateTempest_LonelyDaze http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#KateTempest_LonelyDaze Saucer.cc Mon, 3 Mar 2014 23:40:01 PST Hip-hop • UK (England)
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Ageless poetry, ageless beats. First single from Tempest’s solo debut album slated for late May. She was previously in Sound Of Rum. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#BethIsrael_DentalDenial http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#BethIsrael_DentalDenial Saucer.cc Mon, 3 Mar 2014 23:35:01 PST Dada Pop • USA (Texas)
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Trippy, wispy, Dadaist pop, so delicately structured and yet in beautifully… flawed… perfection, more corporeal than music with ten times as many notes. Don’t miss 2013’s self-titled debut. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#Various_DetectiveThemes http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#Various_DetectiveThemes Saucer.cc Mon, 3 Mar 2014 23:30:01 PST Soundtrack • Worldwide
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Instrumental music written for spy movies and cold war television, expertly curated for your auditory pleasure. Utterly brilliant. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#KoenraadEcker_IllFaresTheLand http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#KoenraadEcker_IllFaresTheLand Saucer.cc Sun, 21 Feb 2014 21:00:01 PST Acoustic/Electronic • Belgium
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Cellos, acoustic percussion, and computers contribute to this dark, abstract masterpiece. Belgian renaissance musician Ecker plays in/as Stray Dogs, Eject The No, muteBoy, Lumisokea, Nieuw Ensemble, Bansuri Collectif, Nagg, and Audio Damage. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#KarenGwyer_NewRoof http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#KarenGwyer_NewRoof Saucer.cc Sun, 21 Feb 2014 21:00:01 PST Electronic • US (Michigan)
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Filmic, layered electronica… sometimes beats, sometimes flows, sometimes the two together. 3-track EP follow-up to Gwyer’s Saucer.cc 2013 best-of winner, Kiki The Wormhole. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#KevinDrumm_ShutIn http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#KevinDrumm_ShutIn Saucer.cc Sun, 21 Feb 2014 21:00:01 PST Drone • US (Illinois)
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Beauty in minimalism. Fathoms of fascination in harmonic manipulation and difference-frequency beating. Mind stopping. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#Younghusband_LeftOfTheRocks http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#Younghusband_LeftOfTheRocks Saucer.cc Sun, 20 Feb 2014 21:00:01 PST Rock • UK (England)
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Lush psychedelic rock. New studio track "Gun" plus a fantastic live version of the title track. Side A was on 2013 debut Dromes. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#SleafordMods_ChubbedUp http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#SleafordMods_ChubbedUp Saucer.cc Sun, 16 Feb 2014 16:50:01 PST Punk/Hip-Hop • UK (England)
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Harsh street punk poetry rants over high-energy, minimalist beats. Compelling. See also: Ian Dury, John Cooper Clarke, Arab Strap, The Fall. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#StefanJaworzyn_DrainedOfConnotation http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#StefanJaworzyn_DrainedOfConnotation Saucer.cc Fri, 14 Feb 2014 23:15:01 PST Noise/Industrial • UK (England)
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Meditative, primitive intensity. Freshly surfaced first release of 1982 treasure from a member of Whitehouse and Skullflower. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#OrphanFairytale_MyFavoriteFairytale http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#OrphanFairytale_MyFavoriteFairytale Saucer.cc Sun, 14 Feb 2014 19:50:01 PST Drone/Psychedelic • Belgium
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Lo-fi, nursery rhyme dreamscapes or impossible glimpses through the cosmic membrane. OF is Belgian solo artist Eva Van Deuren who plays homemade & toy instruments. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#Current93_IAmTheLast http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#Current93_IAmTheLast Saucer.cc Wed, 12 Feb 2014 23:00:01 PST Prog/Folk • Ireland via UK (England)
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An epic, timeless folk-prog opera featuring David Michael Tibet's impassioned words and voice with an all-star cast (James Blackshaw, Nick Cave, Andrew Liles, John Zorn, many more). ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#DPI_08DD15 http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#DPI_08DD15 Saucer.cc Mon, 11 Feb 2014 14:05:01 PST Glitch/Psychedelic • US (California)
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Unrelenting explosion of convulsive start-stops, thrillingly musical over its 32 hyper minutes. Solo project of Alex Gray (in Sun Araw, Deep Magic, DJ Purple Image, Heat Wave, and Dreamcolour). ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#PyPy_PaganDay http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#PyPy_PaganDay Saucer.cc Sun, 11 Feb 2014 14:05:01 PST Garage • Canada (Québec)
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Brightly-lit psychedelic garage from Montréal in this project from members of CPC Gangbangs, Red Mass, and Duchess Says. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#ShoesThisHigh_StraightToHell http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#ShoesThisHigh_StraightToHell Saucer.cc Sun, 10 Feb 2014 06:15:01 PST Postpunk • New Zealand
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Archival, live New Zealand postpunk, curated and released 34 years on in this wonderful collection. Performed at Billy The Club in Wellington, 22 June 1980. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#HenryBlacker_HungryDogs http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#HenryBlacker_HungryDogs Saucer.cc Sun, 9 Feb 2014 00:00:01 PST Rock • UK (England)
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Dirty ass rock'n'roll (as John Cale used to say) inspired by Steve Albini’s (late ’80s band) Rapeman and Felix Pappalardi’s (early ’70s band) Mountain. Crunch. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#MagicEye_Babylon http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#MagicEye_Babylon Saucer.cc Sun, 9 Feb 2014 00:00:01 PST Shoegaze/Lo-fi • UK (Scotland)
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Trip-hop ballads and ethereal choirs played through thick neon fog in a phosphorescent glass world… and it comes out of the oven as a sort of lo-fi postmodern shoegaze. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#GaborLazar_ILS http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#GaborLazar_ILS Saucer.cc Sun, 9 Feb 2014 00:00:01 PST Electronic • Hungary
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Algorithmic, arhythmic, atonal experiments introspecting one single note over the course of 11 tracks and 40 minutes. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#JanekSchaeffer_LayByLullaby http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#JanekSchaeffer_LayByLullaby Saucer.cc Sun, 9 Feb 2014 00:00:01 PST Ambient • UK (England)
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Soothing and vertigo inducing juxtaposition of freeway noise, spidery electronic scintillations, and the loveliest of ethereal, Kosmische drone. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#Oslash_Konstellaatio http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#Oslash_Konstellaatio Saucer.cc Sun, 9 Feb 2014 00:00:01 PST Electronic • Finland/Germany
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Spectacular space/impressionistic music that fucks with the capabilities of hearing (and challenges any tech between the sound files and your brain). Hypnotic, trippy, alien, sometimes ominous. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#ExEasterIslandHead_LargeElectricEnsemble http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#ExEasterIslandHead_LargeElectricEnsemble Saucer.cc Sun, 9 Feb 2014 00:00:01 PST Drone • UK (England)
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A chorus of chords and percussion in arcs of energy and emotion that extend across the four lovely tracks of this remarkable EP. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#GrandMalX_LifeEP http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#GrandMalX_LifeEP Saucer.cc Sun, 9 Feb 2014 00:00:01 PST Electronic • Sweden
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Minimalist/goth industrial pieces for dead dolls with discerning taste. Disarmingly anachronistic. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#BohrenUndDerClubOfGore_PianoNights http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#BohrenUndDerClubOfGore_PianoNights Saucer.cc Sun, 9 Feb 2014 00:00:01 PST Ambient/Jazz • Germany
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Enormous, glacial, black light landscapes in this hour-long follow-up to 2008’s Delores. Echoes of Popol Vuh. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#CherryGlazerr_HaxelPrincess http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#CherryGlazerr_HaxelPrincess Saucer.cc Sun, 9 Feb 2014 00:00:01 PST Garage • USA (California)
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Pure rock composed with teenage skin and bone, persuasively arguing for guitars over computers. (2013’sPapa Cremp album has different versions of half of these songs.) ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#Indian_FromAllPurity http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#Indian_FromAllPurity Saucer.cc Sun, 9 Feb 2014 00:00:01 PST Metal/Noise • USA (Illinois)
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Crushing, cathartic metal brutality with forays into power noise. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#NMO_DominantAkkord http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#NMO_DominantAkkord Saucer.cc Sun, 9 Feb 2014 00:00:01 PST Martial/Experimental • Norway
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Percussive, pattern-based musical structures in conversation with atonal imaginings. (Limited edition cassette version was released in December 2013.) ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#Elitechnique_IntrusionII http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#Elitechnique_IntrusionII Sun, 9 Feb 2014 00:00:01 PST Electronic/Disco • The Netherlands
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Stylistic nods to early NYC disco, ’80s synthwave, Krautrock, the French duo Air, and Philip Glass… yet all of a piece. Follow-up to the band’s 2012 Intrusion EP. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#TheHiddenCameras_Age http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#TheHiddenCameras_Age Saucer.cc Sun, 9 Feb 2014 00:00:01 PST Pop • Germany via Canada (Ontario)
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A subtly subversive, glorious, wet gift for this dull world. Utterly danceable. First album in five years from the now-Berlin-based Joel Gibb & Co. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#Helm_TheHollowOrgan http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#Helm_TheHollowOrgan Saucer.cc Sun, 9 Feb 2014 00:00:01 PST Electronic/Abstract/Ambient • UK (England)
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Layered and nightmarish cum intricately minimalist and mysterious. Solo project of Luke Younger from the drone duo Birds Of Delay, and owner of the Alter record label. ]]> http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#NegraBranca_NB http://saucer.cc/music/2014/2014.html#NegraBranca_NB Saucer.cc Sun, 9 Feb 2014 00:00:01 PST Electronic/Psychedelic • UK (England)
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Dreamy, hypnagogic, gentle. Expanded, 2014 edition (of the similarly-named March, 2013 release) from Gnod's Marlene Ribeiro. ]]>