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Ok, this track just floored me the first time i heard it (actually, i saw it / heard it since it was a music video on LOGO). Anyway, Logan Lynn is from PORTLAND, Oregon and has a great emotronic sound to his music. This particular track is taken from his last ep titled, “Feed Me To The Wolves EP”

bio from last.fm:

If the Land of Misfit Toys elected a team of cultural ambassadors, Logan Lynn would be its poet laureate. In Portland’s pulsating music scene, he occupies a singular position- an emo prophet with a penchant for electronic beats, preaching the Good Word to drug-damaged crybabies.

For the past decade, Logan has been writing and recording his own music. In 2000, he released his debut album, Glee, a blissful, sex-drenched romp through some emotionally treacherous territory. Produced by Pfog, heavy themes of religion, sexuality and identity played out alongside upbeat grooves and smiley-face rhythms. One critic said it “put the ‘disco’ back in discomfort.” That blend of spleen-venting lyrics and “Let’s dance!” optimism owes a lot to Logan’s unique, mildly scary upbringing.

Homeschooled in a fundamentalist Christian household, he was completely isolated from popular music. (Let’s just say the tagline “I Want My MTV” had especial resonance for this 80s baby.) Escape came in the form of the mid-90s underground rave scene, deejaying for tweaked-out teenagers in the Midwest, and later moving to the West Coast to pursue a degree in art school. All this helps to account for the leitmotifs threaded through much of his music: sex, drugs and Jesus.

His self-titled sophomore effort came out in 2006, using his earlier work as a springboard for exploring fresh sonic territory. He collaborated with several Portland artists on some truly radical music videos- Think the backroom of a bathhouse as reenacted by Ken dolls. The album release coincided with a much-praised performance at San Francisco’s all-leather Folsom Street Fair. To retool a phrase from the aforementioned music critic, he puts the ‘mo back in emo.

Logan Lynn - Feed Me To The Wolves

Here’s the video for Feed Me To The Wolves:

This track is taken from Unkle’s latest release, “End Titles… Stories for Film”, which was released July 7th in the UK.

myspace info:

End Titles… Stories For Film

This summer sees the return of UNKLE, as they release ‘End Titles… Stories for Film’, a collection of eclectic recordings from UNKLE and various collaborators that were inspired by the moving image in the last two years since War Stories.

For this release, UNKLE have teamed up with Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), Black Mountain, Gavin Clark, Joel Cadbury (South), James Petralli from White Denim, War Stories producer Chris Goss, Dave Bateman and James Griffith, Mike Lowry and Matt Pierce (from UNKLE’s touring band).

Highlights on this new release include ‘Heaven’ and ‘Blade in the Back’ which was featured on Spike Jonze’s skate video ‘Fully Flared’, as well as being the opening and closing tracks from ‘Odyssey in Rome’, a documentary on director Abel Ferrara which UNKLE wrote the entire score for. The release also features the highly anticipated ‘Trouble in Paradise’, a full length version of UNKLE’s track from the BMW commercial that aired in the UK.

‘End Titles… Stories for Film’ will be released on 7th July in the UK and Europe. The North America summer release date will be announced soon.

Track Listing for new LP

End Titles… Stories for Film

1. End Titles
2. Cut Me Loose (feat. Gavin Clark)
3. Ghosts
4. Ghosts (String Reprise)
5. Kaned and Abel
6. Blade in the Back (feat. Gavin Clark)
7. Synthetic Water
8. Chemical (feat. Josh Homme)
9. Nocturnal (feat. Chriss Goss, James Petralli and Robbie Furze)
10. Cut Me Loose (String Reprise)
11. Against the Grain (feat. Gavin Clark)
12. Even Balance
13. Trouble in Paradise (Variation on a Theme)
14. Can’t Hurt (feat. Gavin Clark and Joel Cadbury)
15. 24 Frams
16. In a Broken Dream
17. Clouds (feat. Black Mountain)
18. Black Mass
19. Open Up Your Eyes (feat. Abel Ferrara)
20. Romeo Void
21. Heaven (feat. Gavin Clark)
22. The Piano Echoes

Unkle - Can’t Hurt (ft Gavin Clark)

Great indie rock from these boys (aka Longwave) from New York, who have a special ability of making very emotionally charged indie rock.  Reminds me at times of Death Cab for Cutie.

last.fm bio:

Since 1999, Longwave has been one of the New York City’s leading exports. After the success of Endsongs , their 2000 independent release, the band signed with RCA Records and began work with producer Dave Fridmann, known for his efforts with the Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev. The resulting album, The Strangest Things, led to critical raves and tours across all parts of this earth with the likes of The Strokes and The Vines. Longwave followed up on the success of The Strangest Things by entering the studio in 2004 with famed producer John Leckie, whose work with Radiohead and Pink Floyd endeared him to the critical taste of the band, and There’s a Fire was released in 2005. With a return to the studio planned for late 2007, Longwave finds itself on the list of indispensable listening for the first part of this millennium. Expect them to stay there.

Longwave - Sirens in the Deep

Fans of Crowded House and Bishop Allen will surely fall for “Sunny Day Sets Fire”, with their brand of indie psychedelic pop.

myspace bio:

Sunny Day Sets Fire have five members, hailing from four countries with three singles under their belt in the past two years; all leading up to one very anticipated debut album.

Multi-instrumentalists Mauro and Onyee met while working as ushers at a London repertoire cinema. The two shared a vision of theatre, art and music and when Mauro began writing a collection of ambitious sunshine psych songs, mutual friend Max was asked to join the group. The founding members of Sunny Day Sets Fire (the name came simply from an internet band name generator) began experimenting with every possible trick to realise the impossible task of performing music written for a small orchestra. Over the next two years, the original members released a succession of singles across Europe, the US and Australia and saw the incremental additions of Ed (bass) and Matthew (drums). Collectively hailing from Italy, Hong Kong, Sardinia, England and Canada; Sunny Day Sets Fire built a nest in East London and began working on their debut album, Summer Palace, throughout 2007.

The band will be touring throughout Europe and the US in 2008, supporting the release of Summer Palace, as well as the upcoming Stranger remix EP featuring remixes by the likes of CSS, Diplo and the Cool Kids. It’s enough to make you burn your passport and declare yourself a converted citizen of the world.

Sunny Day Sets Fire - Wilderness

Great track from the latest release from Depth Affect , kinda in the vein of Crystal Castles, the chip tune /

emotronic genre, and some M83 mixed in for good measure.

Last.fm bio

Depth Affect’s long-lived eclecticism makes their production one of the strangest at the moment, putting together Prefuse 73’s breakbeats, ISAN’s electronic lullabies and Fennesz’ sound treatments. Depth Affect is creating a relevant, intelligent and dancing (in a wobbly way) work of art.

Depth Affect - Junior International

Depth Affect Scopitone Live

Wait for the acid lead line that kicks in around the 6 minute mark to get the full effect from this latest offering from Josh Wink.

from wiki:

Josh Wink (born Joshua Winkelman in 1970) is an electronic music DJ, label owner, producer, remixer, and artist. He is a native of Philadelphia, United States. A pioneering DJ in the American rave scene during the early 1990s, Wink was the most prominent exponent of the tribal forms of techno and house in the U.S. In 1995, he released several hits, including “Don’t Laugh,” “I’m Ready” (which hit number one on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart) and “Higher State of Consciousness,” which topped the dance charts in Europe. He has had many recent club hits such as “How’s Your Evening So Far?” (with Lil Louis) and “Superfreak (Freak)” and has also gained a lot of attention for his remixes of FC Kahuna, Paul Oakenfold, Moby, Towa Tei, Ladytron and Depeche Mode, among others.

Josh Wink - Stay Out All Night (Organ Mix)

Minimal electronic pulses and beats, which also has a kinda  Junior Boys feel to the track.

International Pony are DJ Koze, Cosmic DJ and Erobique.

International Pony - Solid Gold