Swim & Sleep (Like A Shark)

Unknown Mortal Orchestra are one of SIART's favorite indie rock acts. Their debut album pulled me in with it's sinewy guitars and bumping beats, blending smoky psychedelia and soulful grooves. The band has just signed with Jagjaguwar to release it's new album in 2013. They have just released a teaser called Swim & Sleep (Like A Shark) which picks up where the album left off. Nice beats and a tasty ass guitar riff. Enjoy!

TOY

Time To Face The Day

The Time & Space Machine aka Richard Norris is set to put out a second single from his Taste The Lazer album. The album is definitely SIART approved - a delightful blend of psychedelic rock, spacy synths and the summery likes of Good Morning. If you've enjoyed Norris' remix work as half of Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve it is likely that you will enjoy The Time & Space Machine. He takes that remix ethos and applies it to an album full of originals and it is very entertaining. The single is out July 23rd and comes with three lovely remixes by Leftside Wobble, Saint Etienne and Coyote. The track also has a cool Pete Fowler and Oscar Granse animated video worth checking out.

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Sex Mix/Portishead Video

18 songs I like with the word sex in the title...


Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine, Pt. 1 - James Brown
No Sex For Ben - The Rapture
Sex Shooter 12" - Apollonia 6
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll - Ian Dury & the Blockheads
Sexy Back - Justin Timberlake
Adolescent Sex - Japan
Sex Crime - 1984 (Extended Remix) - Eurythmics
Sex Beat - Two Lone Swordsmen
Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine - The Flying Lizards
Sex (I'm A) - Lovage
Sex, War, And Robots - Super Furry Animals
Jeep Sex - Akufen
Sex Without Stress - Au Pairs
Music Is My Hot Hot Sex - Cansei de Ser Sexy
My Sex - Ultravox
Sex City - Van She
Sex Beat - The Gun Club
Sex Dwarf (The Grid Remix) - Soft Cell
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Portishead - Chase The Tear
A new song to benefit Amnesty International

Viva La Red Track Suit! - V2.0

SIART Is Spinning...

Caribou Vibration Ensemble - Skunks
_________PHD holding Canadian mathematician Dan Snaith is Caribou. He began releasing records in 2000 as IDM'er Manitoba until he was legally forced to change his name to Caribou a few years ago. Over the last few albums he has augmented the laptops with an increasing array of organic instruments. I am a big fan. He recently put together the 16-person Caribou Vibration Ensemble for the NY installment of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival. The group featured very special guest Marshall Allen of the Sun Ra Arkestra. It included every musician who has ever been a part of a Caribou live performance, including John Schmersal (Enon, Brainiac) Kieran Hebden (Four Tet, Fridge), Koushik (Stones Throw Records), Kathryn Bint (One Little Plane), Ahmed Gallab (Sinkane) and Jeremy Greenspan (Junior Boys) on vocals and modular synthesizer. The ensemble included four drummers, a 5-piece horn section and a choir to bring every thunder and peak of Caribou's music to life. Now I've seen the regular touring edition of Caribou and they made a mighty racket with just 4 or 5 guys on stage, so you can imagine how BIG this band sounds! The good people over at the Free Music Archive have made 4 tracks from the performance available to download. It is fantastic stuff - from deeply psychedelic space rock to skronkin' free jazz to a bit of laptop glitchery, it's an adventurous musical feast. There is a possibility that a record of the show may come out, but in the meantime enjoy a few selections!
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Depeche Mode - Hole To Feed

A lot of face licking going on here...
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SIART is spinning these lately...

David Sylvian - Manafon
David Sylvian is stripped to the bone - a friend described it as "a study in what happens when you strip the song out of a song" and he's spot on.
Dirty French Psychedelics compilation
Noisettes - Wild Young Hearts
Noisettes' rock and dance and pop is addictively good.
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
BLK JKS - After Robots
The BLK JKS are blistering my brain.
Beatles Beatles Beatles!
The Beatles reissues are stellar.
Basement Jaxx - Scars
Santigold and Sam Sparro shine with the Jaxx.
Madonna - Celebration
Listening to the remastered oldies on Madge's double disc hits set makes me want remastered reissues of those first few albums...
Harmonia 76 & Eno - Tracks And Traces
Harmonia & Eno remastered is dreamy.
Soulsavers - Broken
Soulsavers makes me say "we love you Mark Lanegan!"
Rain Machine - Rain Machine
Rain Machine is TV on the Radio's Kyp Malone on the solo tip, and it sounds like his band in lo-fi mode.
Q-Tip - Kamaal The Abstract
Q-Tip, the record company was clueless to not release this record all those years ago.
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Fountain
Meshell Ndegeocello - Devil's Halo
The Warp20 stuff...
Editors - In This Light And On This Evening
Editors have ditched Interpol for Depeche Mode and I'm not sure what to think.
Broadcast & The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age

Small Metal Gods

David Sylvian "Small Metal Gods"
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Listen to David Sylvian's Manafon

Random Video Fun

How about a couple of entertaining videos to get your Friday off to a good start?


I'll Teach Your Grandmother To Suck Eggs!


Gang of Four Two - Damaged Goods
Andy & Jon have a new rhythm section.
They still sound pretty damn good.

Black And Blue Animal

Anyone I work with will tell you how much I love Miike Snow. Their self titled debut album has been in steady rotation in the 5 disc player for some 5 or 6 months now. I am amazed at how much I dig the record. It has sharp hooks and grownup pop smarts - definitely not a teenybopper record. On a related side note tho' - my kids (5 & 9) love it. The label sent a couple of remixes and a video to share. The Mark Ronson remix in particular is a real gem, stripping the tune down and turning it into a old school reggae-fied lovers rock jam.



Miike Snow - Black and Blue (Savage Skulls Remix)
Miike Snow - Animal (Mark Ronson Remix)
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I Can Be A Frog

Flaming Lips + Karen O. = Yowsah!
FYI -that is not Karen O. in the bikini - she is making all of the crazy noises in the song.

Street Corner Symphony

Street Corner Symphony - Street Corner Symphony
The Very Best Of Street Corner Symphony
Buy it!
Glen Gunner's Street Corner Symphony were part of a wave of British house music producers from the early ’90s who were more inspired by New York and its disco past than Chicago house. This ace compilation of early 90s London deep house also includes three previously unreleased tunes, including the mythic original version of Street Corner Symphony.

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Viva La Red Track Suit!

Datarock - True Stories