Nueva Forma – Social Club: Volume 1

Nueva Forma – Social Club: Volume 1

Nueva Forma – Social Club: Volume 1

Yeah, cassette tapes are cool and charming and nostalgic and all that, but here at Nueva Forma, we’re all about the future. So we’re releasing a limited edition walnut wood-block USB compilation with a lose-proof matching magnetic cap and laser engraved logo.

Featuring artists such as: The Bear and The Sea, A Gap Between, IG88, Gouseion, Little Star Dweller, Dead Astronauts, Cars and Trains, The Great Mundane, Datahowler, Pinscape, Recue, and more, these babies not only look good, they sound even better.

Tags: 57 Shadows, a gap between, Cars and Trains, chillwave, Colorcubic, datahowler, Dead Astronauts, Decibel Festival, EDM, Electronic Music, glo-fi, Gouseion, HIP HOP, iameb 57, IDM, IG88, Italo Disco, lapse, little star dweller, Masmod, Miroi, Night Heat, Nueva Forma, Péninsolar, Pinscape, recue, Social Club, the bear and the sea, The Cowardly Lion, The Great Mundane, Thoughtcloud, Volume 1, Witch-House, wndfrm

This entry was posted on Monday, October 29th, 2012 at 6:11 pm and is filed under Artists, Music, Releases. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Gouseion promotional video spot

Gouseion promotional video spot

Gouseion promotional video spot

So we’ve got some pretty exciting news to announce. Quite a lot of it, actually. Ultimately, for the remainder of this week, and next week, we’ll be unraveling the news for you all. For today, let’s start with the promotional video spot for the soon-to-be released album by our very own Gouseion, titled: Puisne. Produced by Colorcubic. Yay!

Tags: Adobe After Effects, AFX, C4D, Cellphone, Cinema 4D, Colorcubic, EDM, Electronic Music, Gouseion, IDM, Maxon, Motion Graphics, Nueva Forma, Puisne

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 11th, 2012 at 8:41 am and is filed under Artists, Music, Videos. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Del Dot - You Can Play These Songs With Cords

If you permit Del Dot to reel you in, you’ll come ear to ear with a limitless world of interplanetary racket and neon whimsy. Dippy spirit reigns in the quick, 6-track You Can Play These Songs With Cords, where pliant, happy beats shimmy, clack, thump, and twine with the first-string noise of right where you sit.

In the doozie Shedd View, Del Dot leaves the TV on during an electrical storm, and lets the characters of his voltaic opera clap it out. There are times you’ll be totally zoned out on the pacifying racket, and suddenly everything will gather force and you’ll be moving, with wired purpose, to a song you like. You won’t know whether you’re listening to a cosmic change in the weather or if you’ve stomped head first into a party you’ll never leave.

When Del Dot says goodbye with Won’t C U Again, your heart falls a little bit. It’s like you’ve backslid into the last scene of a heart-bending film, unwitting. The beauty bumps up against that tender spot where all emotion swells and fades out of your attention with a parting twinkle, the loose glitter and amorphous gurgle of a gasping baby star, until he finally says his last goodbye with a wink and a nod. To assure you that nothing is too serious or more important than the bobbing of one’s head.

Tags: bandcamp, Debut Album, del dot, EDM, Electronic Music, IDM, Nueva Forma, You Can Play These Songs With Cords

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 at 6:43 am and is filed under Artists, Music, Releases. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Del Dot (Anuj Girdhar)

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Last month, Anuj Girdhar of Del Dot was interviewed by WZBC 90.3 FM out of Boston College. In this hour-long program, he shares a handful of new cuts from his forthcoming EP You Can Play These Songs With Cords as well as various production techniques. Stream it all right here or download it.

Tags: anuj girdhar, boston college, del dot, electronic, fm, IDM, interview, Music, process, production, radio, wzbc

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 8th, 2011 at 6:46 pm and is filed under Artists, Music, News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Monthly podcast: Nueva Forma Listening Pleasures

It’s been a little while since the last Listening Pleasures as we’ve been gearing up for our second volume of our label compilation, Nueva Forma Social Club. This episode of listening pleasures is definitely an ode to our love of hip hop, grime, heavy beats, warm bass, and a nostalgic backdrop that’s a perfect soundtrack to the remainder of this beautiful summer. And with some wonderfully bucolic and nostalgic beats from The Bear & The Sea, A Gap Between, and Masmöd, along with some beautiful gems from Datahowler, Galapagoose, Big Spider’s Back, and a plethora of others, you’re sure to enjoy the hell outta this episode. So cue up your stereo, and bump some Listening Pleasures from here to the coast.

Podcast: Download (53.1 MB) 43:56

Tags: a gap between, Ambient, Big Spider's Back, breakcore, cosmic sound, dance, datahowler, downtempo, drum & bass, dubstep, Electronica, Futuristic, Galapagoose, HIP HOP, IDM, J-Dilla, listening pleasures, Masmod, mount kimbie, Nueva Forma, pop, Sepalcure, Slum Village, Slumvillage, Solderboy, stephen farris, techno, the bear and the sea

This entry was posted on Friday, August 12th, 2011 at 12:41 am and is filed under Artists, Music, Podcasts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

iameb 57 - Delicate Glitch (EP)

A glitch at its most basic is an intrusion into expectation. Such is the world of iameb 57’s sophomore release for Nueva Forma, Delicate Glitch. At once hard and biting, soft and lush, dark and impenetrable, bucolic and bright, the five-track EP is as intricate as its name suggests. These are the stylings of Jimmy Batista, who works brilliantly in the world of contrast. At the core of each track is a head-bobbing mid-tempo dance pulse perfect for late night summer mixes; the pads are luscious, the bass tones warm and inviting. Built on this is a precise balance of urban static, post-digital glitch, and minimalist melody that holds a cracked mirror up to the cuts he produces.

As we expected from his music after the release of Tipsy Hax last August, iameb 57 has become an intriguing writer of melodies. His skeletal leads leave much to the imagination, a fair accomplishment considering the ability of digital artists to become omnipotent over-writers. Check out the emotive sparsity of the strings on “Thelpwe” to hear how much he can say with so little.

Batista in general has a more concise approach to style in this offering. Where Tipsy Hax was more sprawling as he explored every color and option of the IDM idiom, he is here dialing into a recipe of composing that suits him well. He has distilled himself into an intimidating potency on Delicate Glitch, and this twenty minutes of bliss bodes well for his followers.

You can purchase the album exclusively on Nueva Forma’s Bandcamp.

Tags: Album, bandcamp, Colorcubic, delicate glitch, electronic, Electronica, ep, glitch, iameb 57, IDM, jimmy batista, Music, Nueva Forma, Release, tipsy hax

This entry was posted on Monday, July 11th, 2011 at 9:58 pm and is filed under Artists, Music, News, Releases. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Monthly podcast: Nueva Forma Listening Pleasures

Listening Pleasures Episode 16 has finally arrived. Curated by our very own iameb 57, episode 16 promises to be a very energetic and glitchy party mix. And with summer just around the bend, we thought that it would be appropriate to really get the party started. So dial up that Meyer sound system, and blast your neighbors ’til kingdom come. The party starts now.

Podcast: Download (68.3 MB) 58:30

Tags: Abreaktor, Access to Arasaka, Ambient, Autemu, Creta, del dot, Electronic Music, glitch, Himuro, HIP HOP, iameb 57, IDM, Krakenti, Kritical Audio, lapse, listening pleasures, Masmod, Mormo, Nueva Forma, nukua, Ralp, Remixes, Ysik

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 at 1:02 am and is filed under Artists, Music, Podcasts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Monthly podcast: Nueva Forma Listening Pleasures

Episode 14 is curated by the ever-eccentric Creta. About his mix, in his own words:

After The Bear and the Sea killed it with his latest podcast, I knew I had to up my game. I pulled some gems out of the past and mixed them with a few newer tracks I’ve been digging and came up with this nice little podcast. From the minimal techno of Zofa to old-school IDM from Planet Boelex, the digital beauty of MHV and the organic ambience of Paq, this mix is a journey into possibilities.

Podcast: Download (65 MB) 55:18

Tags: 440notfound, Creta, enabl.ed, iameb 57, IDM, jonas the plugexpert, kearly, listening pleasures, Masmod, MHV, mix, Nueva Forma, o'daniel, paq, planet boelex, Podcasts, sk'p, techno, zofa

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 8th, 2011 at 2:31 pm and is filed under Artists, Music, Podcasts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Creta - Closing the Doors of Perception

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We’re kicking off the New Year with a new album by Creta entitled Closing the Doors of Perception. Formerly known as White Car, Creta was the first artist signed to Nueva Forma. We therefore find it only fitting to start the year at the beginning. As an album, the hour-long offering has nine of the sweetest glitched-out, source-material-pulverizing, groove-minded, crooning tracks we’ve heard in a long time. With samplings as divergent as a Langston Hughes poem and an internet pop-up ad, it’s no wonder how Creta got his reputation for being notoriously restless. We love it because we never know what to expect. You love it because no matter what it is, it’s always on point. Forget what you know or how you perceive him. Grab the album on shopnuevaforma.com for the new gestalt.

Tags: 2011, Album, closing the doors of perception, Creta, electronic, glitch, IDM, Nueva Forma, Release, samples, White Car

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 13th, 2011 at 9:36 am and is filed under Artists, Music, News, Releases. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.