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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THE GREAT MUNDANE

IG88

THE BEAR AND THE SEA

Saturday May 11th
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IG88 – Breathing Suit

IG88′s Breathing Suit is for those days when things are too fast and clumsy, or when they’re just right and enough. When the planet is too sick and large to realize, or when the enormous mystery of it all is the most important question you’ve ever contemplated. When they’re all there and no one is here, or when you can acknowledge every last human for what it is he or she wants to do.

The thing is, you always need the good stuff, the stuff to accompany you, and this it. It’s beautiful, it’s crushing, it’s fun. This is an album of anthems cuddled in space; an album that has everything to say.

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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!)

Podcast: Download (120 MB) 49:52

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.

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

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.

Monthly podcast: Nueva Forma Listening Pleasures

A little while ago, we received the nicest message from Little Everyday Pleasures, an online pleasure boutique that had long admired our Listening Pleasures podcast. They charmingly congratulated us on all the magnificent moments our label had given them in their office, and thought it’d be nice if we curated a mix especially for them, and so we did. Episode 23 by Wolfe+585 is indeed about listening pleasures and everyday pleasures, but more specifically, it’s about the pleasures (and agonies) of love, fantasy, and desire. (Note: this mix has been field tested and Nueva Forma approved.)

Use code NUEVAFORMA15 to get 15% your order

As a thank you to the label and our listeners, Little Everyday Pleasures made a discount code especially for us. Use NUEVAFORMA15 to get 15% your entire order with no minimum purchase. This code may be used once per order (but not combined with other codes), and as many times as you wish until the end of February. So order away and enjoy yourselves!

More about Little Everyday Pleasures:

Little Everyday Pleasures is a pleasure boutique interested in revealing and sharing delight in its different forms. Our concept came up back in 2009 and we thought that the scenes covering the topic of “pleasure” didn’t satisfy all the market segments; people interested in this subject had always been very familiar with a particular visual language, rather kitsch, folk and heavy. We sell good design and good quality pleasure objects because “one Little Pleasure Everyday keeps the doctor away!”

Our “I’M ALL EARS” category is a place to showcase our favorite people, mixes or songs resulting in perfect moments to use in your bedroom or dining room dancefloors. The result are sometimes unique and special.

Podcast: Download (65 MB) 54:41

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.

Podcast: Download (44.15 MB) 49:50

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.

Gouseion – Puisne

There exists a crunchy netherworld of whipping hips and closed eyes; there exists a shuddering whirlpool where hard living begs for a badly behaved soundtrack, where aggressive contraptions nag at the frayed edges of nature.

Puisne, Gouseion’s first release with Nueva Forma, doesn’t bother with the scenery of things. Like a noisy companion who likes things a certain way and operates as a remote soldier with one thing in mind, Gouseion comes from a place of inner quiet – but it’s bloody insane on the outside.

Pirony really sets the whole thing off with a windshield wiper powerhouse jam that’s as consistent and metrical as you like it. It all starts with the jagged chomp of the bass and spreads like an infection into the audio context. Three tracks later, Turing Test loosens the screws a bit and knocks it all down a few notches, but doesn’t let go of a thing.

All in all, there are sweet moments of slow recoil and deep breaths of nasty, pulverized darkness in here. Stagger reminds you that your heart’s still beating and that there is a way out, a way back into the fold where the familiar will always remind you that you’re human. Then it’s all popping circuits and touches of brutal melody from there until EOD (II) fades out into a dark and gentle reprieve.

We think Gouseion is trying to tell us that there’s something lesser yet totally scintillating behind the natural world – innocence be damned. Puisne hails weakness, both as a flaw and an openness, and we all need to hear what that sounds like every now and then – however it is we choose to hear it.

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.

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!