Well this Sunday is sunny over here! Which is why I won’t be losing any unnecessary words over this – here’s your dish of sun-drenched tracks full of happy beats for happy hearts.
Have the best day.

XOXO,
Pony.

Newly-signed to Modular People and dishing up a first single full of a sophisticated use of tropical-feeling percussion, MOVEMENT are a hot candidate on our one’s to watch list for 2013. The three-piece based out of Sydney is made up of Jesse James Ward, Lewis Wade and Sean Walker, dude friends that have been creating music together for two years before officially releasing their debut single. Feel Real is due out digitally on May 24 via Modular, with a remix EP on its way and set for release in late June.

SO – enough of the facts. If you’re up for the weekend in a HELL-YESS-ish way like I am, you just found your track of the day. Carefree and ready for a meaty barbecue tonight.

Newly-formed producer collective Clientèle out of Helsinki has just released their first song off whatever there is to come – sure thing is: I can’t wait to hear it. With heavy beats, raw hip hop vocals and sleek synths, Clientèle‘s debut Genny evolves around a vibe that’s reminiscent of that overly epic Jim-E Stack Bootleg of A$AP Rocky‘s Purple Swag. And I can’t find a single bad thing about that. Scandinavia, you’re the best thing that ever happened to us. E-VER.

Call it futurebass, call it chillwave, call it post-dubstep, call it ambient, call it what you will. Fact is, ambiance is what the Re:Antarctica EP creates, and it lingers all around you even when it’s over. So you hit play again. Glitch-heavy and full of slick beats, the tracks are wrapped around gentle melodies and vocal snippets that create a bright beachy feel, just right for a mellow summer evening.

Tiger Tsunami is the electronic project of London-based producer Christian Parker, who – having heard some nice words about his music by a couple of big names on the internetz world of music, he decided to release a free download EP, featuring remixes by upcoming electronic artists Nuages, Koloto and Fxxxyblnt.

The Santiago-based duo, consisting of Ives Sepúlveda and Manuel Parra, made their debut in 2011 with a self-released LP, after which they were quickly picked up by Brooklyn-based label Sacred Bones. Below you can listen to Noctuary, their first LP for Sacred Bones, which was released earlier on this year. So not exactly recent, but it’s never too late for good music now is it?

It had never gotten really quiet around Barbarossa ever since his start-offs Chemical Campfires and Sea Like Blood on Fence Records back in the lates Naughties. Having left that smoochy acoustic phase behind for a sound more made of drum machines and slight synths, James Mathé suddenly makes us go all excited about his upcoming 10-track LP Bloodlines, due out August 5 via Memphis Industries.

While the first teaser track The Load sports a somewhat indie-poppier, more classically singer-songwriter sound, Turbine, the second release off Bloodlines is out today and just the drum-heavy kind of jam that wakes up your mid-week numbness. Stream both tracks below and head over to the man’s website if you dig it – Turbine is available for free download in exchange for your e-mail data.

Having delivered the vocals to Disclosure’s epic (and my favourite to date) banger Latch, Sam Smith scored a hit in our inbox again last night with this acoustic version of Latch. All stripped-down, backed by piano and cello, it’s a dish of drama for your Dienstag.

But that was not it, no – no. In contrast, Mac Demarco instantly changed the energy level on stage onto happy destruction. I seriously have never seen such a happy, careless band, where the bassist was bouncing up and down like a rubber ball and the guitar riffs still felt so in your face that  goosebumps were crawling all over your body. They covered Rammstein, rapped, stage-dived and in the end Mac sang a lovesong to his girl in the audience and mouth-kissed her for seconds that seemed like hours. What’s left to say you’ll ask? If you EVER get the chance to see either of the above musicians live, you should not miss it. Because this might just be one of the best rock shows you have ever seen.

Yep it is that time of the week again. And we would like to enhance your Sunday with a collection of tunes as we always do. On that small compilation you’ll find that Ms Mr Remix by Chvrches, who by the way will play this upcoming Wednesday at the Berlin Introducing Show. And yes, they are pretty internet famous, so we will check out if them electro poppers are worth the hype, hailing all the way from Glasgow, Scotland and hitting a massive world tour with their Recover EP. On top you’ll find them babies of Teams on our mix, who are actually just one guy, namely Los Angeles, Miami-born producer Sean Bowie. They say about his new album “One World” that “slow meets fast, and rhythm and blues gets dropped into the year 2030″. So hold on dear friends, and let this mixtape take you higher and possibly into the future yo!

Friends, free Vodka and free tunes, what more can your heart wish for? This past Wednesday, we were invited by our friends of Nordic By Nature to see Halasan Bazar, a psych pop band formed in Copenhagen, Denmark. But actually they are from Denmark, the UK, Australia and Norway. If you don’t know these guys yet, there is to say that “Halazan” is actually a Yoga practice, where you have to bent your knees amongst other things.You pretty much have to love them because they call themselves names like Cptn. Habi Halasan, The Mysterious Mr. Bazar, Henry The Rabbit, Dr. Grobble, Fangdelu und Monsieur Monitor. And they release their stuff on a TAPE label called Crash Symbols. 

So no wonder Halasan Bazars Rollingstone-esque vibes captured us from the first minute on that mid-week day, whilst we were sipping at Our Berlin Vodka spiced up ginger mule cocktails and letting the summery breeze blow carelessly through our hair. Feel the love, enjoy some impressions from a jolly night out and be happy it is almost the weekend!