Music
I barely use this anymore because nobody does anything. Do something! Use the platform to share something cool you do. Write intellectual rants, speak your mind, stop being mindless creatures of habit and reblogging pictures of tattoos and mountains that somebody else put the time into creating.
You could do anything.
We apologise that we have been rather quiet over the past couple of weeks. Unfortunately real life has taken hold of us and diverted our attention for the time being. But don’t you worry, Annie is going to become some sort of super-lawyer and I am falling into the mysterious world of digital marketing. As soon as we find ourselves some free time we shall be throwing as much new music at you as possible. In the meantime we will try and keep our Facebook page active with songs we discover.
We had a fantastic time at The Great Escape Festival in Brighton (although it was so busy we only managed to write about the Thursday), one half went to a rather heavy Circus Records night in London, and we’ve both got MS MR and South West Four coming up in the summer.
We have many ideas that we wish to explore and work on as soon as possible, namely a lot more creative things to go along with ::papercomets::
But you’ll just have to wait for those to appear!
Music that currently will not leave our heads ::
Naughty Boy – La La La ft. Sam Smith (Pále Remix) // http://soundcloud.com/thisispale/la-la-la-remix
Vacant – Second Nature EP // http://vacant.bandcamp.com/
Alt-J – Tessellate // http://soundcloud.com/elliegoulding/tessellate-alt-j-cover
Disclosure – Help Me Lose My Mind (Feat. London Grammar) // (You’ll find it on here)
Is Tropical – Dancing Anymore // https://soundcloud.com/istropical/is-tropical-dancing-anymore
Fatboy Slim – Praise You (Marbiou State remix) // https://soundcloud.com/fatboyslim/fatboy-slim-praise-you-maribou
Chet Faker – Cigarettes and Chocolate // https://soundcloud.com/chet-faker/cigarettes-and-chocolate
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It’s that time of year again when Brighton is swamped with music fanatics and artistic geniuses. Oh hell yeah, it’s The Great Escape Festival! “::papercomets::” will be attending the festival for the first time as the blog! We are raring to go and ready to be inspired.
If you have never attended this festival before or haven’t even heard of it *le gasp*, let us give you a quick summary of what it’s all about…
30 VENUES + 350 ARTISTS + 1 CITY = The UK’s best new music festival!
We’ve been burrowing through the heaps of artists on show, and have found a few gems. Here’s our pick for Thursday:
Cloud Boat
Time: 20:30 Place: Brighthelm Centre
IS TROPICAL
Time: 21:15 Place: Komedia
London Grammar
Time: 21:15 Place: St Bartholomew’s Church
Lewis Watson
Time: 21:45 Place: Unitarian Church
King Krule
Time: 22:00 Place: Coalition
Phosphorescent
Time: 23:30 Place: Dome Studio
Blue Hawaii
Time: 23:30 Place: Brighthelm Centre
No Ceremony///
Time: 00:45 Place: Coalition
Unfortunately a lot of our picks clash, and therefore there will be a last minute scramble to decide which one to see. Tough music life choices </3
Follow us on Twitter @papercomets to keep updated with our happenings at The Great Escape Festival.
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LASERS is a Portuguese beat-maker based in Utrecht,the Netherlands. His sparkling chill tracks just make you want to be walking around looking at the stars at 2am in the morning. Might even see a papercomet…
João Pedro Costa is also a lover of photography and collects analog photographs for his tumblr page - http://fivetwentie.tumblr.com/
We utterly love the fact his tracks from his self-titled EP are all named after a city, with Porto being the highlight. Released on Bad Panda Records around a year ago - http://badpandarecords.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/badpanda131/
However Seed was the track we wanted to show off the most, a distant feel that reminds me of Sun Glitters in it’s own special way.
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This week in the UK, Rudimental’s track Waiting All Night (Feat. Ella Eyre) has been number one, brilliant. However Ella herself has released an acoustic version of the track, featuring some lovely warm rhodes keyboards as well as the acoustic guitar. Lovely late night summer song.
Here is the original video by Rudimental (featuring Kurt Yaeger’s inspiring story)
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Pronounced “forward slash”, fwdslxsh is creating some incredible chilled garage. Based in Leicester, UK, we found him initially through his great track away with some sneaky Rihanna bootleg vocals hiding away. (He knows all lowercase names are the way forward!). However after stumbling through more of his soundcloud we were blown away by how good With You is! All those bleeps and bloops…
However in the last few days fwdslxsh has released I Wanna, and it’s awesome and bassy.
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Female Polish producers seem to be doing pretty well at the moment over there. Annie Starlight and now Chloe Martini, what do they put in the drinking water and can we have some?
We’re not quite sure what this is, Shouldn’t Care contains some jazz, some hip-hop beats, pitched down nu-garage vocals, but some laid back vibes that hit the spot. You can sit back and listen to those sidechains, or get up and have a bit of a dance. It’s up to you, but it’s impressively good by the 20 year old.
This led us to find the awesome label Take Care, who are releasing a 4 track EP by Chloe. All 4 songs on Spare Love are awesome!
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Oh we know…we know. You all just want to check out some cool new music. But we like to be a bit creative ourselves too!
Upon hitting 1,000 views we promised something, this got to 5,000 before we actually got round to doing something. However as we are now nearing 14,000 views and 100 likes we’ve finally finished something. It’s brief, it’s rough, but it’s done (and in full HD!).
Thanks to everyone who has ever checked out ::papercomets::
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At ::papercomets::, we are well aware of the amount of Burial influenced broken beat/garage style tracks, however as many copycats there are out there, just as many stand out as incredible producers, and like VΛCΛNT before him, Orlogin is another that blew us away upon our first listen. Creating this songs from the coastal city of Tel Aviv, Israel. Orlogin is pulling vibes from the growing nightlife there, but throwing them in a sleepy blurred haze.
Our favourite track (at the moment…) is the geographically apt titled track, Dead Sea ::
Be sure to check out the similarly stunning Belong too!
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Gold Falls is an “Experimental Glo-Fi producer from Oxford, England”, and this track is a beautiful ambiant/chillstep track. Full of rich strings, minimal beats and some lovely warm sub-bass.
https://soundcloud.com/goldfalls/dive
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Trap is everywhere, from the Harlem Shake to the next possible viral trap track, Bird Machine by DJ Snake x Alesia. Luckily the scene is overflowing with great young producers, and in the UK we are currently doing very well. First there was Hucci, now there is Sane Beats. Suddenly growing thanks to a trap remix of Jakwob’s stunning track Fade. Here he is with Get Low ::
You can download this track and more off his free EP – Untamed – here :: smarturl.it/UntamedEP
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