[BPR01] Dumbo Gets Mad – Elephants At The Door LP
We’re thrilled and proud to announce the debut LP by Dumbo Gets Mad (follow them on facebook) and our first physical release!
The digital release of Elephants At The Door is available just spreading the word with your friends. You will be asked to login to Facebook or Twitter, edit the proposed tweet/wall message – and click the download button. Simple. We invite you to download the mp3s (or click the artwork cover!), print the artwork, burn the cd-r, spread the word, share it with everyone you know and support the artist as you can (buy the vinyl if you love it!).
(if you don’t have a Twitter or Facebook account, please get in touch at badpandarecords at gmail dot com)
BUY ELEPHANTS AT THE DOOR (12” Gatefold Jacket, Limited Edition)
For all booking enquiries email : dumbogetsmad at gmail dot com
Press pack available: [archive.org]
We like mp3 but vinyl is our first love. Thus some very limited 12” vinyls with gatefold jackets are now available. Let’s hope it’ll be a collector’s item before too long. You can order them on BigCartel for 12€ + shipping costs (if you are in Rome, Italia or Berkeley, California and want to save on shipping costs get in touch).
01. Limbo’s Village [soundcloud] [youtube]
02. Plumy Tale [soundcloud] [youtube]
03. Marmelade Kids [soundcloud] [youtube]
04. Sleeping Over [soundcloud] [youtube]
05. Harmony [soundcloud] [youtube]
06. Why Try? [soundcloud] [youtube]
07. Eclectic Prawn [soundcloud] [youtube]
08. Self-esteem [soundcloud] [youtube]
09. Raymond Play [soundcloud] [youtube]
10. You Make You Feel [soundcloud] [youtube]
The separate stems [download] for the track You Make You Feel are now available for a contest remix. All the remixes will be licensed as CC-BY-NC-SA and the lucky winner will receive: 1 Elephants At The Door LP + 1 Bad Panda T-Shirt + your remix released on a Bad Panda monday.Submit your entry to our “Dumbo Gets Mad Remix Competition” Group Dropbox on SoundCloud before the deadline. Contest ends April 23th, 2011… look forward to hearing your remix! [Read more here]
DUMBO GETS MAD:
Dumbo Gets Mad emerged in the summer of 2010 in Northern Italy and has now migrated to Los Angeles. His initial aim was to lay down some marvelous music in an organic manner, open to whatever direction the tunes took during the recording session. The first published track was Plumy Tale, which received positive reviews from a number of music blogs. Dumbo then decided to work on a debut album with an express goal and spirit in mind: “No matter what it sounded like, it had to be psychedelic!”
The result, Elephants At The Door, drops today. The album was recorded sans fancy technology, using old-fashioned equipment like analog synthetizers and tape machines—and lots of good vibes. (from Dossier Journal)
Reviews:
- The Needle Drop [8/10] : “Think of it as Flying Lotus’s Cosmogramma from a psych rock perspective.”
- SlantMagazine [4/5] : “Elephants at the Door is an inspiring victory of DIY determination”
- Coke Machine Glow – Marmelade Kids track review: “This is probably the most potent free psychedelia you can have without growing your own peyote.”
- LoudVision [9/10]: “You can call it post-Loveless shoegaze, lo-fi or dreampop. We simply define it wonder.”
- Joe Tangari (Pitchfork) : “Great psych band from Italy – Plumy Tale made my Pitchfork top 50 last year”.
- Redefine Magazine: “The ability to change pace and still sound coherent is what makes the album so satisfying.” (Erik Burg)
- NPR Song of the Day: Dumbo Gets Mad – Marmelade Kids
Beat Culture – Tokyo Dreamer
Sunik Kim is a seventeen year-old Korean living in Hong Kong who makes brilliant music under the moniker Beat Culture.
Midori anticipated his new album Tokyo Dreamer, that is now available on free download on his bandcamp.
Get more BEAT CULTURE on facebook | soundcloud | bandcamp | twitter | tumblr .
[BadPanda112] Ricky Eat Acid – A Smoothie Robot For My Moon Mansion
Baltimore’s Sam Ray is the man behind hauntingly beautiful ambient psych-pop project Ricky Eat Acid.
“Sam is a mastermind in creating soundwaves of fragile and water-like type, almost like a dandelion cutting through the dry earth, gracefully opening its bud towards the blood-red sky.”
Check out the interview to Sam Ray after the jump and taste & download his new track.
Ricky Eat Acid – A Smoothie Robot For My Moon Mansion [mp3]
Artwork by Colleen Wynn
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[BadPanda111] Silver Wren – Fall Sky / Winter’s Hum
Ross Campbell hails from Gainesville, Florida and is the brain behind the psych-folk Silver Wren.
The 20 years old musician is releasing a full-length for free download via the net-label Housewarming Records this month so keep your eyes open for new sprawling and unwinding textures of fragile sounds.
Silver Wren – Fall Sky / Winter’s Hum
01 Fall Sky
02 Winter’s Hum
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Kodak To Graph – Remix Contest
This year is our 2 year anniversary and we wanted to do something special, something that involves the fans directly, inviting you all to participate in the Kodak To Graph (check out Visio’l EP) Remix Contest for his track “He / Basement”.
All the remixes will be licensed as CC-BY-NC-SA and the lucky winner will see his remix + one of his own track remixed by Kodak To Graph released on a Bad Panda monday.
The contest ends February 13th, 2012. Please submit your entry here.
BPM: 120.
Look forward to hearing your remix!
[BadPanda110] Running In The Fog – Know When To Run
Running in the Fog is the “space goth synth pop” project by San Francisco-based Amanda Harper.
Influences reach back trip-hop with its slow burning drum machine beat, the subtle synth pads and an overall restrained instrumentation, leaving the listener alone with Harper’s beautiful voice that’s almost entirely hidden behind a thick layer of mist.
Find Running In The Fog on facebook | bandcamp | soundcloud | tumblr | twitter
Running In The Fog – Know When To Run [mp3]
[BadPanda109] Beat Culture – Midori
Sunik Kim is a seventeen year-old Korean living in Hong Kong who makes brilliant music under the moniker Beat Culture.
Be ready for dense, rich in atmospheric vibes inspired by Star Slinger, Shlohmo, Jamie xx, Gold Panda and many more (read Burial, James Blake, Animal Collective, Hudson Mohawke, etc).
Midori is the third track off his upcoming album Tokyo Dreamer, which will be released on January 15 and it come with an awesome-as-always video by Synesthesiæ Films.
Get more BEAT CULTURE on facebook | soundcloud | bandcamp | twitter | tumblr and read the interview to Sunik after the jump.
Beat Culture – Midori [mp3] [mp3 via archive]
video by SYNESTHESIAE FILMS on facebook | twitter | vimeo | youtube
[BadPanda108] Anon – Bite The Hand
Anon is a London-based up-and-comer music producer.
Having grown on an unhealthy diet of Brit-pop as were the times, it was on listening to John Peel’s shows on Radio 1 that he began to discover a broader spectrum of music. On moving to Scotland in 2000, it was in Edinburgh that he really started to discover electronic music, from techno through to bleak electronica. The melancholy of local artists such as Boards of Canada, Christ and the darker side of club music such as Surgeon and others always chimed with the landscape.
Whilst referencing music mostly designed for a dancefloor the current focus of the project is on songs in their own right and melodies. Download the debut single here and read the interview with him below.
Anon – Bite The Hand [mp3]
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[BadPanda107] Plastic Heart – The Day Is Done
Think hip-hoppers approaching harmony pop. Plastic Heart is the result, an experimental and hybrid swiss project created by Joel Muhl and Les Braun, suspended between Toro Y Moi and Madlib that can recall Stones Throw’s Jonti.
The Day Is Done is their first single, while the debut EP will drop on the 11th on bandcamp. Enjoy and read below the interview to Joel and Les.
Plastic Heart – The Day Is Done [mp3] [ogg]
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