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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Tags: Album, Ambient, Audiovisual Record Label, Bed Of Stars, branden clarke, breathing suit, Electronic Music, Electronica, IG88, Jenni Potts, michael harris, new releases, Nueva Forma, pop, seattle

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013 at 10:26 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.

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.

Tags: Atomospheric, Audiovisual Record Label, bucolic, Colorcubic, EDM, Electronic Music, HIP HOP, nostalgic, Nueva Forma, Oregon, pdx, portland, the bear and the sea, trees like you

This entry was posted on Friday, February 15th, 2013 at 8:55 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.

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

Tags: 1999, damon sheeley, MC505 Groovebox, Music, rarities, song, soundcloud, the bear and the sea, track, Unreleased

This entry was posted on Saturday, January 26th, 2013 at 3:39 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.

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.

Tags: Album, damon sheeley, Debut Album, record, the bear and the sea, trees like you

This entry was posted on Friday, January 25th, 2013 at 12:16 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.

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.

Tags: Album, chromatic dream, damon sheeley, enjoyed, iameb 57, IG88, mogi grumbles, Nueva Forma, Péninsolar, Release, single, the bear and the sea

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 28th, 2012 at 3:18 am and is filed under Artists, Music, News, Releases, remix. 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 – 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.

Tags: 8-bit, Album, chiptune, Colorcubic, electronic, Electronica, Gouseion, Nueva Forma, Puisne, Release

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 1st, 2012 at 2:22 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.

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.

IG88 - A Loom & Not Me

Sometimes, we want sound — bleeps, burps, squawks, zips, static, clicks –- and sometimes we want the kind of auditory sensation that swells our brain and dead-weds us to the measure. Sometimes we want a damn guitar.

Most of the time, we want it all.

With A Loom and Not Me, IG88′s first release with Nueva Forma, our ears give praise. Collaborator Jenni Potts grabs your hand from the start and grounds the album throughout in a way that only a balletic, weightless voice can. Intentions of a Dart Frog is a projectile, kinetic jam that won’t let you go. Bed of Stars enter just in time with the titular track to tie you up into a ball and bounce you on into the second half of things.

Then there are the brilliant clusters of abounding space in between until Coughing on Syrup Shores clangs around in your jellied head like the guts of an arcade game and spits you back out like a contraband nickel that’s just had the ride of its life. Listen for flux, for soul, for willful racket. Listen for it all.

Tags: A Loom and Not Me, Bed Of Stars, downtempo, Electronic Music, Electronica, IG88, Jenni Potts, Nueva Forma, witchhouse

This entry was posted on Monday, February 20th, 2012 at 3:35 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 - 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.