Flavor of the week #23

Dark Night of the Soul
www.dnots.com
(by Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse & David Lynch.)
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( ;D --> Musical visionary Danger Mouse, iconoclastic filmmaker David Lynch, and celebrated rock recluse Sparklehorse have converged to create Dark Night of the Soul, a project encompassing a new full-length album and limited edition book. As half of the acclaimed duo Gnarls Barkley, Danger Mouse is no stranger to high-stakes collaborations. With the help of Sparklehorse, he has recruited a remarkable cast of contemporary artists to lend their vocals, including the Flaming Lips, Black Francis of the Pixies, Julian Casablancas of the Strokes, James Mercer of the Shins, Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals, Nina Persson of the Cardigans, cryptic Southern songwriter Vic Chesnutt, avant-folk icon Suzanne Vega, punk titan Iggy Pop, and even Lynch himself. To create the images that accompany the music, Danger Mouse chose David Lynch. Known for revealing the gripping horror beneath suburban banality, Lynch crafts eerie beauty from the most irregular of elements. For Dark Night of the Soul, the creator of Twin Peaks, Inland Empire, Blue Velvet, and Eraserhead, delivers a gorgeous, hypnotic series of photographs. This captivating project explores and escapes the reality of the world. The book package includes the full sequence of Lynch's images, a foreword by Danger Mouse, selected lyrics, and an art-printed CD-R, in a run of only 5000 copies, each individually numbered.)
www.dangermousesite.com
( ;D --> Danger Mouse is an eleven-time Grammy Award nominated; two-time Grammy Award winning artist and producer. In a short time, he has created a diverse body of work, including albums with Beck, the Black Keys, Gorillaz, and his own hugely successful band Gnarls Barkley. He was recently named one of Esquire's 75 most influential people of the 21st Century.)
www.sparklehorse.com
www.myspace.com/sparklehorse
( ;D --> Sparklehorse is Mark Linkous, a guitarist, singer, and songwriter from Richmond, Virginia. He has released four acclaimed albums and collaborated with Tom Waits, the Flaming Lips, Thom Yorke of Radiohead, and many others.)
www.davidlynch.com
www.imdb.com/name/nm0000186
( ;D --> David Lynch is a filmmaker and Eagle Scout from Missoula, Montana.)
www.kohngallery.com
( ;D --> A visual interpretation of songs from the album by David Lynch at Kohngallery, L.A.)

Byetone
www.myspace.com/benderbyetone
( ;D --> Germany-based Olaf Bender is one of three founders of the Raster-Noton imprint. He often records under such aliases as Byetone and Lumen for solo projects, and together with Komet and Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto) forms the laptop microsound trio Signal. His output is extremely sparse, with his sole full-length contributions being a disc in the prize-winning 20 to 2000 series and 2003's Feld, released on Raster-affiliated label Binemusic. He handles the administrative and creative duties for Raster-Noton as well as tours frequently.)
Death of a Typographer
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Skullduggery
www.myspace.com/skullduggery
You are Here. [nowhere]
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Iammynewt vs. Skullduggery: Ohaka
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( ;D --> Chris Cozort has been steadily making a name for himself in the digital underground, offering his skills behind the mixing console to such acts as Cyanotic and Pigface, all the whole appearing on compilations and remixes with his own project under the Iammynewt moniker. Now in collaboration with Jayme Bass of Skullduggery, who has also appeared on Glitch Mode Recordings' Hordes of the Elite compilation with Iammynewt, the pair releases Ohaka, a debut album of chilling ambient textures and caustic industrial beats that offers the best of both artists' respective work.)
Iammynewton
www.myspace.com/iammynewt
www.iammynewt.com
Digital Decay
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( ;D --> Trozoc Productions' noisome compilation of post-industrial, glitch-laden instrumental artists at least does its part to present the current crop of underground artists.
Chris Cozort has certainly been doing well for himself in the underground music scene, making his name as a producer and mastering engineer for artists as diverse as Cyanotic, Diverje, Mangadrive, and even the legendary Pigface. Having released several tracks on various compilations under his Iammynewt moniker, he released on his Trozoc Productions label the Ohaka collaboration with Skullduggery, presenting the world with his own inimitable style full of deep synthesized bass lines and edgy glitch-laden rhythms. Now in association with Death Wax Records, Trozoc releases Digital Decay, showcasing as every good compilation does a cross-section of the scene's current rising stars in the world of underground post-industrial.)
Trozoc
www.myspace.com/trozoc
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Emil Lassaria
www.myspace.com/emillassaria
after the sky
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Alexuuu & TDK Otra Cosita (Emil Lassaria Remix)
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Back in plastic
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Compulsive Shopping Disorder
www.myspace.com/compulsiveshoppingdisorder
( ;D --> The wonderfully named Compulsive Shopping Disorder makes edgy, cold and grim synth music that’s lined with noise elements and inventive / surprising edges. In the Cube falls somewhere between EMB, dark and cold synth pop, electronica, dark electronic sound tracking and industrial.)
In the cube
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