Local Support 060: Got party beatz?

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Local Support 060: Got party beatz?

POSTED: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 8:11 PM

Filed Under: Music Local Support

It's time for yet another Local Support transmission courtesy of fearless leader and MP3 fiend Jon Solomon. We've got some hip-hop, some punk rock, some ambient noise, some true oddities that defy description of any kind, etc. Boot up your Podcast Player 3000, kick back and please enjoy.

Audible

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Audible's "Dust From a Broom" kicks us off with a fresh leak/world debut from their forthcoming full-length, brimming with chopped up samples, circular riffs spoken through four and six strings, and some pretty boy-girl harominzinin'. Carl Franke's "Berks County Bike Ride" is a slab of funky synth jazz that sure sounds like the most fucked-up, awesome bike ride of all time. Expo & Screwtape get "Ohh So High" with their fresh "(Radio Edit)," safe-proofed for your virginal minds (err, sort of). Gianmarco Cilli makes use of those pretty slide guitars that sound right out off of I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, but with some almost Beach Boys-ian ahh-ahh backups to put some sand between the folk's toes. Meanwhile, B Mulvey takes us mountain climbing with the acrid leads and head-banging retro-metal riffs of "Super Himalaya."

With a track running around the minute mark, Von Hayes recalls a more raucous version of Guided By Voices' lo-fi glory days, which makes sense — even Bob Pollard would be impressed that this is their second full-length in two months. Bells Bells Bells provide a haunting Halloween anthem for your August, while Writtenhouse & Eshon Burgundy's "Way To Go" brings back the early '90s hip-hop vibe, allowing you to choose between a head-bobbing lounge session or some smoothed out grinding. Pilot Cloud's "Map" gets its Seam on with an atmospheric guitar/bass/drums jam that builds into cascading rockouts with whispered vox, and the Situation serves up a vintage Dandy Warhols pop jam with some funk guitar that doesn't play around. Is that Axl Rose wailing in the background every now and then?

Dwizz

myspace.com/gotpartybeat

BC Camplight has a kind of Belle & Sebastian/Los Campesinos! vibe about their wistful orch pop, and while the DVD Ensemble certainly hates the living shit out of Blu-Ray, they sure do love hypnotizing ambient noise jams, if "Intellectual Sight" tells no lies. Recently reunited CBGB's favorites Neighbors & Allies make a rallying cry for punks with "Punks" — that being of the punk rock, not the Wawa-loitering potheads — and Dwizz does some kind of weird, mindfucking, chopped/screwed MIA thing, and you're just going to have to listen to it — I won't even try.

Beat Frequency continue the trend, but now with guitars and random-stream-of-consciousness lyrics about dead dollar bill man on "President's Day." Finally, Stuntmen see us off with some of that punk rock edge that Neighbors & Allies were begging for a few tracks prior. It's been fun, kids — see you in two.

Audible - "Dust From A Broom" - In Simple Intervals
Carl Franke - "Berks County Bike Ride" - First Berries After Hibernation
Expo & Screwtape - "Ohh So High (Radio Edit)" - mp3
Gianmarco Cilli - "Let's Promise To Be More True (To Us)" - Homely Joys
B Mulvey - "Super Himalaya" - Cascades

Von Hayes - "Boo Hoo" - Evident Eyelid
Bells Bells Bells - Carolina In A Cornfield" - Throw Down Your Anchor
Writtenhouse & Eshon Burgundy - "Way To Go" - mp3
Pilot Cloud - "Map" - Cdr
The Situation - "Cherry" - mp3
BC Camplight - "Soy Tonto" - Rock The Net: Musicians For Network Neutrality (c)
The DVD Ensemble - "Intellectual Sight" - Road Closed
Neighbors & Allies - "Punks" - Separate Ways
Dwizz - "Salt, Pepper, Ketchup & Hot Sauce" - Party Music
Beat Frequency - "President's Day" - This Is Harrisburg, Not Topeka (c)

Stuntmen - "Snake Oil" - Small Time

Duration: 01:18:45

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