First single from Elephant & Castle’s forthcoming debut album feat. Merrill Garbus

20 January 2012

Elephant & Castle - Transitions

Elephant & Castle is firstly a London neighbourhood. After living in London, San Francisco based electronic producer David Vincent Reep adopted Elephant & Castle as his moniker.

His debut album Transitions drops on March 13th via Plug Research.
“With this project, I chose music that resonated with me because I’ve found that if I get a strong emotional reaction from something, chances are other people will feel it too.” says Elephant & Castle.

‘En Memoria’ is the first taste from Transitons and it features a vocal collaboration from tUnE-yArDs ‘ Merril Garbus.
Enjoy it below.

Clark teases new album Iradelphic with free new lead single ‘Com Touch’

20 January 2012

clark-iradelphic

Last time we heard from Clark,  he released Totem Flare. That was back in 2009.

For the last three years he’s been travelling and recording his  sixth full-length album entitled Iradelphic.
The forthcoming album was recorded in Australia, Berlin, Wales, Brussels, Cornwall, Norway and London.

“I don’t think I’ve ever recorded in so many diverse locations; there was a lot of field recording going on in Snape, Sussex, harpsichords and orchestral drums. All recorded with a variety of tools. From £8k Cold War microphones, bling studio set ups, to laptop microphones, crumbling cassettes, Dictaphones. It all got used.” says Clark about his adventures that led to the album. The electronic genius describes Iradelphic as “looming, ambiguous, radiant, glowing, whole, invincible, complete”.

The album includes collaborations with Bibio and Martina Topley Bird who sings in two tracks featured in Iradelphic.

Iradelphic is due out on April 2nd in the UK and a day later in the US via Warp.

Clark unveiled the lead single ‘Com Touch’. Listen to it below and download it free here.

Lime Headed Dog drop Dalmation Bitch in February

20 January 2012

Lime Headed Dog - Dalmation Bitch

Lime Headed Dog are a London based creative experimentalist outfit led by former Good Shoes bass player Joel Cox.

Their fourth album Dalmation Bitch drops on February 1st.

You can watch a teaser of the album below and other album previews on limeheadeddog.com.

Dalmation Bitch is the follow up to Necks Of The Woods released last year (June 15th 2011).

Necks of The Woods was selected by ATP as one the the best albums of 2011.
The album was “genuinely unlike anything I’ve heard before – it won’t get anywhere near your chart but check it out anyway” said Tom Davis of ATP.

Lime Headed Dog teased today remixes from I Ching and Tom Vek. We can’t wait to hear these.

Whilst we wait for new tracks from Dalmation Bitch and new remixes, check out out below the fourth teaser for Dalmation Bitch and Tom Vek‘s ‘Aroused’ remixed by Lime Headed Dog.

Django Django unveil new video for ‘Default’

19 January 2012

Last month Django Django announced the release of their self-titled debut album. Django Django drops on January 30th via Because Music.
First single ‘Default’  hits stores this Monday 23rd January and includes remixes from Walls, JD Twitch and Tom Fudge.

The quartet unveiled today the video that accompanies the single. The video was directed by Dan Brereton and drummer David Maclean who added paint to over 4000 printed frames of the group performing.

Watch the video below, thanks to Nowness.

New album by Henny Moan free to download

19 January 2012

Henny Moan - The Coming Thaw

Henny Moan is the moniker used by a London based mysterious avant-garde electronic producer who used to be part of new wave synth trio Hounds of Hate.

A couple of days ago Henny Moan dropped his new album The Coming Thaw. The 12-track album is available as a free download, grab it here.

Here’s a couple of tracks from The Coming Thaw, ‘Residue’ and ‘a bullet sang over their heads’.
Sit back and enjoy.

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[audio:https://castthedice.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/9.-a-bullet-sang-over-their-heads.mp3|titles=9. a bullet sang over their heads]

Pevin Kinel done and dusted with new album due out in Spring and offers new single

19 January 2012

Pevin Kinel - Dusty

Last time we heard from one man orchestra Pevin Kinel, he dropped the album Of Week Constitution as a free download (June 15th 2010).
We have seriously been craving for more since.

The Normandy born, London based self-taught multi-instrumentalist announced today the release of a new album entitled Syntactic Sugars due out this Spring. Details are yet to be confirmed and we’ll keep an eye out.

The first taste from his forthcoming album is the uplifting and all around awesome single ‘Dusty’.
Pevin Kinel describes it like this:

“Dusty is an instrumental I recorded last year. The rhythm section is a short sample from a very famous song by a very famous band (I’ll just say they’re the bee’s knees) mixed with an array of pans and various kitchen utensils. The song tells the story of a bass, a guitar and a synthesiser who wish they had a ping pong table (they get one at the end).”

Stream it below and grab it free here.