May 11, 2013

ODESZA

ODESZA is a production duo made up of Harrison Mills (Catacombkid) and Clayton Knight (BeachesBeaches) based out of the Pacific North West, United States. They met their senior year of college and decided to spend the summer as recent graduates collaborating on an album. On September 5th, 2012 they self-released a free LP entitled “Summer’s Gone”, creating a delicate balance between dreamy sun trickled melodies, glitched out vocals, crunchy drums and large sweeping basslines.

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IG88

THE BEAR AND THE SEA

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Listening Pleasures Bonuscast No. 1
February 25th, 2013 by Nueva Forma™

Nueva Forma Listening Pleasures Bonuscast No. 1

Recently, The Bear And The Sea made an 8tracks mix (now featured on the home page of the 8tracks!) called Retronautilus, described as “[a] mix of refined pleasures [i]nspired by the moonlit, foggy coastline along Highway 101 and beamed straight into the tape deck of your 1981 Ferrari 308.” In response to its warm reception, The Bear decided to expand the mix with additional tracks and samples and turn it into what we’ve coined a Bonuscast — an additional mix thrown in alongside our monthly Listening Pleasures. We hope you dig it. (And be on the lookout for episode 24 curated by IG88 later this week!)

No. Track Title Artist
01 Mongoloid Nueva Forma
02 Siren of the Sea Johanna D’Armagnac
03 Gradient Hues STARFORCE
04 Daughter Nueva Forma
05 Daybreak Mitch Murder
06 Exception Andreas Lonardoni
07 Pickles Nueva Forma
08 Olympus One Francis Rimbert
09 The Great Escape Tommy
10 Conundrum Astral Sounds
11 Deep Nueva Forma
12 Olympia 2011 Groundislava
13 Fat Cats Andy Clark
14 Zero Nueva Forma
15 On The Beach 813
16 The Driver’s Anthem Catacombkid
17 Theoretically Nueva Forma
18 Love On A Real Train (Betamaxx Remix) Tangerine Dream
19 Emotion Stellar Dreams
20 Soft Lights Phil Davies
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The Bear & The Sea – Trees Like You
February 15th, 2013 by Nueva Forma™
The Bear & The Sea - Trees Like You

The Bear & The Sea – Trees Like You

Trees Like You, clocking in at a sharpened and stirring 12 tracks, is The Bear and the Sea‘s debut full-length album. If you’re a start from the top kind of listener, you’ll join in at “My Fire Burns The Same”, a chirping, wind chime of an introduction into an earthy, blustering soundscape of pneumatic yet skintight gratification.

“Crystal Swords” will only surprise you a little bit with its pop and lock gusto, its sway/sway tap tap tap, because even in the whisper quiet spots, the Bear has you in motion.

These tracks are titled like the Galápagos Islands under the Northern Lights at a virtual reality party where hours later, you still find grains of sand between your toes. “Human Loop” hits an exotic yet square place in your gut that’ll have your freewheeling head doing figure 8s, and “Pink Route” warps itself around a guttural heartbeat while clacking away at something you want to hear again and again.

And just like that, in a mournful yet ritualistically tidal fashion, it’s over. While tricky to place in context, Trees Like You is a lot like its title, the leafy and fleshy stuff of our very existence – you need it in your lives.

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Untitled #01, 1999 – Rarities and Unreleased

“Without further ado – One of many, many tracks I’ve made from long ago when I first started creating. This one was made sometime around 1999 – 2001, recorded using nothing but hardware – my MC505 Groovebox being the main sequencer at the heart of it all with various synths and a sampler in the mix.

If it goes over well enough and you all enjoy hearing this stuff I’ll keep posting them from time to time. It’s good to go back every so often and see how far you’ve come sonically. Enjoy peeps!”

- The Bear and The Sea

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Out Feb. 5th: The Bear and The Sea – Trees Like You
January 25th, 2013 by Nueva Forma™

Trees Like You

Mark your calendars: on February 5th, The Bear and The Sea debuts his full-length album, Trees Like You. It will be available via Bandcamp, iTunes, Spotify, Rdio, Rhapsody, Amazon MP3, Deezer, and XBOX Music. In the meantime, stream a few tracks from the release!

About the release:

Trees Like You, clocking in at a sharpened and stirring 12 tracks, is The Bear and the Sea’s debut full-length album. If you’re a start from the top kind of listener, you’ll join in at My Fire Burns The Same, a chirping, wind chime of an introduction into an earthy, blustering soundscape of pneumatic yet skintight gratification.

Crystal Swords will only surprise you a little bit with its pop and lock gusto, its sway/sway tap tap tap, because even in the whisper quiet spots, the Bear has you in motion.

These tracks are titled like the Galápagos Islands under the Northern Lights at a virtual reality party where hours later, you still find grains of sand between your toes. Human Loop hits an exotic yet square place in your gut that’ll have your freewheeling head doing figure 8s, and Pink Route warps itself around a guttural heartbeat while clacking away at something you want to hear again and again.

And just like that, in a mournful yet ritualistically tidal fashion, it’s over. While tricky to place in context, Trees Like You is a lot like its title, the leafy and fleshy stuff of our very existence – you need it in your lives.

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Listening Pleasures Episode 22
November 29th, 2012 by Nueva Forma™
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Monthly podcast: Nueva Forma Listening Pleasures

With the winter holidays upon us, and our priorities filling up fast, it’s times like these when a dose of Listening Pleasures hits the spot just right. Reigning in at episode #22, curated by our very own A Gap Between, this episode of Listening Pleasures is sure to act as a wonderful companion when trudging the dregs of the perpetuated holiday mayhem. So whether you’re looking forward to a family gathering of mormon-sized proportions, or you’re spending it alone with your favorite feline fluff-paw, we’re certain you’ll appreciate all the work put into this episode. So sit back, relax, and take in what’s left of this year with ease, accompanied by a soundtrack garnered to make you sweat in any winter wonderland.

No. Track Title Artist
01 Brought to you by Nueva Forma Nueva Forma
02 Fashion Show (Mitch Murder cover) Mr. T
03 It Was Never Meant To Be This Way (Games remix) CFCF
04 Post Physical (Little Star Dweller remix) Pictureplane
05 The Girl’s Got Angel Wings (Chromatic Dream remix) The Bear & The Sea
06 Cruel Summer Nightheat
07 Secret Diary (Elektro-Boy VHS remix) College
08 Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See (Datahowler mashup) Busta Rhymes
09 Deep Into The Night Nueva Forma
10 Love Is Cézaire
11 Break Inside Ford & Lopatin
12 Sensual Seduction (A Gap Between remix) Snoop Dogg (Snoop Lion)
13 FLYTE Dreams
14 Moonlit Car Chase NZCA
15 Come Alive In Me (Chromatic Dream remix) Playground
16 Laser to Laser Oneohtrix Point Never
17 Say Goodbye Nueva Forma
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The Bear and The Sea – The Girl’s Got Angel Wings
November 28th, 2012 by Nueva Forma™

The Bear and The Sea – The Girl’s Got Angel Wings

It’s bleary. The air’s thick as soup and every breath is heavier than the last; more ghostly than gusty, yet still the very stuff of life.

The Bear and the Sea’s debut single with Nueva Forma, The Girl’s Got Angel Wings, is the compressed soundtrack to taking a preternatural drive through Twin Peaks, Washington on any given night in history – you’re destined for trouble and the temper of the atmosphere is almost too right to bear.

It’s all romance and piano keys, overspreading fog and red roses in glass vases. In this moment, you realize that the Earth could stop bearing and sustaining your every need. It’s exhilarating. And then you’re just fumes, a tiny speck of familiar yellow in the distance. Until you hit repeat.

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Nueva Forma Social Club Volume 1
October 29th, 2012 by Nueva Forma™
Nueva Forma - Social Club: Volume 1

Nueva Forma – Social Club: Volume 1

Nueva Forma - Social Club: Volume 1

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.

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Listening Pleasures Episode 21
June 29th, 2012 by Nueva Forma™

Monthly podcast: Nueva Forma Listening Pleasures

After a longer-than-anticipated hiatus, we’re back with episode #21 curated by Wolfe+585. This is a summer soundtrack, a vindication of love, an expression of heartbreak. Despite the description, it’s still a poppy, upbeat mix featuring artists such as Cant, Keep Shelly in Athens, Class Actress, Selebrities, The Bear and The Sea, and more.

No. Track Title Artist
01 What About Love Nueva Forma
02 Our Own Dream (Blackbird Blackbird Remix) Keep Shelly in Athens
03 Fleeting Romance DannielRadall
04 Simple Minds Summer Heart
05 Limousine Class Actress
06 Forgotten (Teeel Remix) Selebrities
07 Brooklyn Sunburn (Brothertiger Remix) Teen Daze
08 A Gift Nueva Forma
09 Omamori Elite Gymnastics
10 Believe Cant
11 The Pull High Places
12 Like Water Brothertiger
13 Sandblonde The Bear and The Sea
14 Lemondrop (Teen Daze Remix) André Obin
15 No Love Nueva Forma
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Podcast: Download (61.1 MB) 48:03

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