Underwater Peoples

DOLPHINS INTO THE FUTURE SINGS CANTO ARQUIPÉLAGO OUT MARCH 6TH

R.E. — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:32:08 +0000

We’re very pleased to announce Canto Arquipélago, by Dolphins into the Future.

In Fact Magazine’s announcement, Lievan explains the record’s inspiration:

the Azores [islands], a remarkably beautiful volcanic archipelago that lacks very little by way of inspiration. Once an island gets born, it’s a continuous struggle, a continuous dialogue, a learning, a BATTLE and cooperation of influences. The sea starts bashing on it’s shores. Erosion starts the complete demolition of the island. But at the same time, sun and sea give birth and food… Archipelagos have a heavy rhythm.

FACT Magazine

Simon Reynolds says of Lievan:

Martens has fastened on one rivulet in the torrent of ex-Skaters output and developed it into a distinct and more fully realized sound-stream. Dolphins Into the Future is a significantly more electronic proposition, touching on just about every decade of its history, from early Dutch operators like Dick Raaijmakers, through the Seventies analogue synth gods and their New Age-y Eighties offshoot “space music” (Martens gives props to Windham Hill sub-label Private Music, artists like Michael Stearns and Emerald Web, and America’s long-runningHearts of Space radio show), up to Nineties electronica heads like The Orb.

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For the whole story on Lievan, and inspirational super group the Skaters, invest some time in Simon Reynolds vast intranet.

Pre-Order available now, released internationally on March 6th.

LA BIG VIC PREMIERES BODY GOD DIRECTED MUSIC VIDEO

Sawyer — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:28:26 +0000

Let the Body God walk you through a glossy technicolor metropolis in La Big Vic’s new music video for “Everybody Needs Jah (FAO Dub).”

When you and the Body God reach your destination, calmly let go of his hand and consider owning a piece of this experience forever.

Peep The Fader for a glorious description from Duncan Cooper.

NEW TWERPS VIDEO + US TOUR WITH REAL ESTATE!

Sawyer — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:57:51 +0000

Let this video wet your whistle for the Twerps, their music and their faces… AND, if you live in the United States those kind eyed, porcelain wrapped heads could be coming to your home town! They’re going across the US with another group of sweet souls, the boys of Real Estate.

Peep the dates after the jump.

2/8 Melbourne – Corner Hotel #
3/2 Melbourne, AUS – Phoenix Public House
3/9 Sydney, AUS – The Standard *
3/12 Melbourne, AUS – Corner Hotel *
3/13-18 Austin, TX – SXSW
3/27 New Haven, CT – Cafe Nine
3/29 Brooklyn, NY – 285 Kent Ave ^
3/30 New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
4/03 – Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church *
4/04 – Baltimore, MD – Ottobar *
4/05 – Richmond, VA – Strange Matter *
4/06 – Raleigh, NC – Hopscotch Presents at Lincoln Theatre *
4/07 – Athens, GA – 40 Watt Club *
4/08 – Oxford, MS – Cats Purring Dude Ranch *
4/09 – Little Rock, AR – Rev Room *
4/10 – Dallas, TX – Club Dada *
4/11 – Austin, TX – The Mohawk *
4/23 – Santa Cruz, CA – Catalyst Atrium *
4/24 – San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall *
4/25 Reno, NV – Holland Project *
4/26 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge *
4/27 – Englewood, CO – Gothic Theatre *
4/28 – Lawrence, KS – Bottleneck *
4/29 – St. Louis, MO – Plush *
4/30 – Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall *
5/01 – Harrisburg, PA – Appalachian Brewing Co *

# = w/ Girls
* = w/ Real Estate
^ = w/ Ducktails

La Big Vic – Dub the World!: Actually RevisitedPRE-ORDERUPLP008.5

Web Wizard — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:47:09 +0000

Release Date: Feb. 21st, 2012

In the Press Release for La Big Vic’s debut LP, Actually, the music was defined by merely describing its creators. There was Peter, an industrious analog synth tinkerer, Emilie, an extrospective songwriting violinist, and Toshio, a foreign and mysterious cornucopia of inspirations. Together, they created what critics called “cosmopolitan” music, a hybrid of synth-pop, krautrock, psych-rock, dub music, and world influences explicit and obscure, “a strand of experimental music that is as wide-spanning in feeling as it is in sound.” (Martin Douglas, Pitchfork).

Actually is an ornate entity, sweeping and grand, yet easy to listen to for days on end. This stems from the general calm an open mind derives from successful diversity. While a Cosmopolitan city may seem outwardly frenetic, it is the fluidity and synthesis of its components which define it so. Such disparate parts thriving so mechanically canillicit complacent wonder within the minds of gazing tourists.

With Dub The World!: Actually Revisited, a conceptual sequel to LBV’s debut, Underwater Peoples would like to invite you underneath the great city of Actually. Down here, things may sound familiar to you, but certainly not the same. Reverberations cast long, evolving shadows across the tunnel walls. Flickers of light are extinguished by sirens.

Dubbed and Re-imagined at Aki Road Studios by LBV’s own Toshio Masuda, Dub The World! contorts, subverts, and expands upon La Big Vic’s debut.

1. Everybody Needs Jah (FAO Dub)
2. Mr. Broken Bird Dub
3. LYNY Dub
4. Heyo Dub
5. Chinese Wedding (New Green Bo)
6. Musica Pt. 2

**Download coupon available with LP – good for TWO downloads!!**

LA BIG VIC ANNOUNCES FOLLOW UP TO “ACTUALLY”

mimwan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:27:34 +0000

La Big Vic and Underwater Peoples are excited to bring you this limited edition 12″ dub remix LP of La Big Vic’s debut Actually. Take a look at the announcement on IMPOSE, including an interview with La Big Vic’s Toshio Masuda, and listen to the debut of “Mr. Broken Bird Dub”.

You can pre-order the record in the UP Store now, it will ship on or before February 21st.

With Dub The World!: Actually Revisited, A conceptual sequel to La Big Vic’s debut, Underwater Peoples would like to invite you beneath the great cit of Actually. Down here, things may sound familiar to you, but certainly not the same. Reverberations cast long, evolving shadows, across the tunnel walls. Flickers of light are extinguished by sirens.

Dubbed and re-imagined at Aki Road Studios by Toshio Masuda, Dub The World! contorts, subverts, and expands upon La Big Vic’s debut.

Support Ad Hoc!

Sawyer — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:41:20 +0000

Much of my young career has been spent pondering the current state of critique and its effect on popular music. I’m starting to come to a rather crass conclusion – Our generation has no excuse for its tastes. In the past, large corporations held sway, dictating what the masses listened to like the woman at your office who brought the boombox. The fickle corporate boss lady picked the stations, picked the songs and adversely, picked our tastes. Rebellious and curious individuals had to resort to making their own magazines, dubbing their own tapes and crafting their own mail order communities.

The Internet killed that woman and her boom box, replacing her with headphones for the whole office. After a period of rejoice, the responsibility sank in. I don’t think we fully realized how much of our collective identity is tied to the art we imbibe. Public Policy is not a government issue, it is dictated by box office hits, New York Times Best Sellers and the Billboard Top 200. Don’t you agree that Adele, “The Help” and “Underworld: Awakening” tell us more about who we are as a people than Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich?

Anyway, the corporations have fumbled the all valuable public policy ball. The ball is now perilously bobbling around on the ground, waiting for some clever linebacker to just flop on it. I believe that Ad Hoc could be one of those linebackers.

“Ad Hoc is a daily destination for MP3s, videos, mixes, interviews, artist’s writings, and cultural commentary– curated for quality, and with an emphasis on emerging artists and musical movements that best exemplify the new grassroots, Internet-fueled DIY.”

Underwater Peoples is excited and deeply honored to be apart of the Ad Hoc launch. Jump over to the Kickstarter and lend a hand, we’ve donated some records and a 3D Washington Hat. Today, the civically minded individual must pick his leaders everywhere. It’s a hassle, but its better than corporate shills force feeding you shit and turning you into an idiot!

Dolphines Into the Future

Web Wizard — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:42:49 +0000

No bio.

The Memories

Web Wizard — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:39:21 +0000

No bio.

STREAM BOTH LIAM THE YOUNGER LPs ON PREFIX

mimwan — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:46:30 +0000

Stream ALL of both LPs we’ve remastered for Liam the Younger on PrefixMag.com, or listen to After the Graveyard and Clear Skies Over Black River below.

Both vinyl full-lengths are available for pre-order in the UP Store right now and will ship on February 7th. Purchase both in the “special deals” section and save $4.

Here is what Prefix had to say about Liam:

If you’ve spent significant time with Titus Andronicus, you can likely make a pretty good guess what one of its founding members’ solo projects would sound like. Liam the Younger has played guitar on each of Titus’ records, but he took time off from the band’s relentless touring to focus on his schooling. From the sounds of it, that was time well-spent. After distributing them only as CD-R’s and cassettes to his friends, Liam’s first two albums, After the Graveyard and Clear Skies Over Black River, are finally getting their proper releases from Underwater Peoples and A Learning Computer (both are available for pre-order from Underwater Peoples here).

While Titus cling tightly to Bruce Springsteen‘s hopeful ballads of life and labor in a run-down industrial town, Liam takes greater influence from the grainy, patriotic protest songs that begot not only the rock ‘n’ roll, but also the American ways of life and labor that the Boss was responding to. The songs are barren and honest like any other album recorded in a bedroom over the past ten or twenty years, so it says a lot that someone like Woody Guthrie should be his most immediately identifiable point of reference. But while he extends himself to jump from the wide-eyed retrospections of a Youth Lagoon to the powerful balladry of aTallest Man On Earth, his most direct lineage is laid bare on After the Graveyard‘s “Ode to Then.” And if you’ve followed the melodramatic and historically inclined story of Titus Andronicus, then it should be no surprise that the second-biggest influence on the recordings is the reclusive, Anne Frank-chronicling Neutral Milk Hotel frontman Jeff Mangum.

NEW FAMILY PORTRAIT VIDEO IS FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

Sawyer — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:00:45 +0000

Check out Family Portrait’s video for Never Should’ve Been There, by Alice Goldsmith and Blair Waters. It’s a good time Roller Skating, cake and juice party.

Special thanks to the The Jackson Skating Center, Inc and the rink’s Junior Skate Team.