Turnstile are excited to release Bento#9, curated by Dam Mantle.
Dam Mantle talks about the tracks on his bento -
1. Becoming Real’s “Jen’s Clock”, is due to out on Ramp recordings very soon. A soundtrack to someone lost and alone in an arctic landscape, this will no doubt move dancefloors in 2010, if not physically then emotionally.
2. Young Montana, who has recently got the attention he deserves from the likes of Mary Anne Hobbs will no doubt show us that he has a lot to offer in times ahead. Magnificent production from a young Coventry-based producer.
3.’Waters filthy Love’ is an absolute gem of a track from Glasgow based ‘Fox Gut Daata’.
4. Rebong is a track from my first EP, harps, synths, vocal chords and god knows what else.
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Category: Bento Series Posted by: turnstile on 18/05/10 Comments: 2 Comments
Turnstile are excited to release Bento #8, curated by Jo Bartlett, founder and curator of the brilliant Green Man Festival
Here’s what Jo Green Man had to say about her Bento…..
“From it’s birth in 2003 through to this Summer’s 8th festival, the Green Man has grown from 300 people to 10,000 last year. Over three nights and days, we have music across five stages, a cinema tent with live sound tracks and djs, comedy, literature and much more. All in the crazy, beautiful Welsh mountains. The huge communal campfire burns all night, the Green Man himself is set on fire on the Sunday at midnight. Here are a few acts who will be joining this year’s headliners Joanna Newsom, Doves and The Flaming Lips -
Sleepy Sun - Sandstorm Woman
Sleepy Sun is a California band from many Californias. They hail from the rolling oak and sage hills of Sierra Gold Country, The San Francisco Peninsula, where Kesey raged and the Dead were once Warlocks, and the forever-sunshine climes of the Southland. They came together-young and garage strutting in the coastal Northern California crucible of Santa Cruz. And there they birthed the Sleepy sound-dead blues shaken alive, razor sharp and ramblin’, soul, sonic science and dead-on pop surgery. Wooden, earthy, stratospheric, and swinging…California music of beautiful contrasts for conflicted times.
Lone Wolf - 15 Letters
Lone Wolf began life in 2009 in various dusty rooms and tape studios around Sweden, songs and ideas slowly coming together through the eyes of singer and guitarist Paul Marshall and the ears of Kristofer Jonson from Jeniferever. After a month of various field recordings, sneaking into concert halls late at night to use the piano, setting up their gear in small village churches, and other places they could find, the basic album tracks were done. Paul brought all the recordings back home to England in September and together with James from Duels, started on the final stages of mixing the album.
Silver Columns - Cavalier
Their roots lie in post-rock, folk and electronica. But this synth pop duo’s warm, fuzzy sound gives Hot Chip a run for their money. Silver Columns are none other than Adem Ilhan and Johnny Lynch. The former plays bass in post-rock/electronica outfit Fridge alongside Kieran “Four Tet” Hebden while the latter is a folky singer-songwriter who trades under the name the Pictish Trail and is a key player in Scotland’s Fence Collective.
Memory Tapes - Bicycle
The work of one man, New Jersey-based Dayve Hawke, Memory Tapes’ sound is immediately accessible but entirely capable of haunting your thoughts when it’s not filling your ears. Already the recipient of ‘net-wide blog praise, Hawke’s modus operandi is comparable to those of M83 and Cut Copy - this is shape-shifting synth-pop, big on beats but almost counteractively woozy of atmosphere. It’s effortlessly, achingly cool, but also clever enough never to rest on its laurels, as arrangements flitter in and out of focus, vocals drift without ever settling, and sleek synth lines dance rings around basslines borrowed from a library of 70s funk albums, as played by Hooky himself.
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Category: Bento Series Posted by: turnstile on 13/04/10 Comments: No Comments
Turnstile are excited to release Bento #7 curated by the brilliant True Panther Sounds from New York.
Here’s what True Panther Sounds had to say about their Bento …
“True Panther Sounds is a label with a body located in New York and a heart left in San Francisco. Once a punk label, putting out limited edition singles by from local groups, the scale has expanded a bit but love for fearless, ambitious and honest music remains the same. We thought we’d like to share some of our favorite (non-current TPS) tunes from our two favorite cities.
Sonny & The Sunsets are a project led by San Francisco’s Sonny Smith. They have a limited edition LP available on Soft Abuse but this track comes from a recent SF-based compilation on Secret Seven Records.
Broken Strings were one of the first ever True Panther releases. The lp pressing of this album is totally sold out, but mp3s are still available on Amie Street. Adam Croce is currently playing in Rainbow Bridge
Light Asylum are one of our favorite new bands from New York. Their compositions somehow manage to be both minimal and totally epic, anchored by the ebullient and mind-blowing vocals of Shannon Funhess.
Water Borders are a brand-new SF based band featuring former members of New Thrill Parade. Eerie and claustrophobic but with wonderful melodies bubbling just under the surface.
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Category: Bento Series, Turnstile Posted by: turnstile on 17/02/10 Comments: 1 Comment
TURNSTILE BENTO #6 by ISLET
This is the first release by Islet.
The group recorded the tracks in this Bento themselves in barns and bedrooms in Wales. One of them, ‘Jasmine’, will be on their forthcoming LP ‘Celebrate This Place’.
Islet have also made ‘The Isness’. ‘The Isness’ is something you can receive in the post and hold in your hands. It is a means of communication. A visual and tactile device, which they run on a free subscription service. A preview version and an invitation to join is included in this Bento.
The group, who are known for their live performances, will be playing on a Huw Stephens curated free entry mini-tour in January, and with Los Campesinos! in February and March.
BENTO #6 Contents:
- Audio tracks: 1: Jasmine, 2 : Sign For Home
- Bento Art
- An Introduction to The Isness
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Category: Bento Series, Turnstile Posted by: turnstile on 18/01/10 Comments: 3 Comments
Bento #5 available from today is curated by Huw Stephens (BBC Radio 1, C2 Radio Cymru, Swn Festival) As Huw poured over his delicious Bento Selection, he stopped to think:
“These songs come from totally different musical places to each other and hopfuly give a tasty Bento experience. Yr Ods are a brilliant indie band from North Wales with sharpness, melodies and a natural flow that can make you blush. They’re top live, and played the Moshi Moshi night at Swn fest 09. I fell a bit in love with Hjaltalin when I saw them at Eurosonic in Groningen, the Netherlands. They’re an Icelandic band, but it feels like a touring troupe somehow. There’s opera, basson, strings and these emotional, heart melting songs. This is new from their second album. Jakwob is a producer, remixer and all round studio genius who can make you rock into a vulnerable position. His remix of Ellie Goulding is so so good, he keeps busy making his own tunes, like this woozy belter. And Gaggle? That a 22- piece choir of strong willed and strong voiced Ladies, and they are Ladies, can gig, tour, record covers and release records to massive acclaim is a wonderful thing. Enjoy the Bento!
Tracklist -
1. Yr Ods - City’s Heart Keeps Burning
2. Hjaltalin - Hooked on Chili
3. Jakwob - Wild Pitch
4. Gaggle - Mowglis Road
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Category: Bento Series Posted by: turnstile on 15/12/09 Comments: No Comments
Turnstile Music are excited to present Bento #4 Curated by NO AGE….
Here’s what NO AGE had to say about their selections -
1. Amps For Christ - Branches
* Henry Barnes from Amps for Christ is a genius. He was in Man Is The
Bastard and made them the noise assault they were by building all the
amps and heads and his guitar.
2. Eric Copeland - Corn On The Cob
* Eric is in Black Dice, this is off one of his solo records. Sit back
and let the vape go to town, cover your brain.
3. Gun Outfit - On The Beach
* A band that knows hot to reference the past in a current way, also
one of my favorites, i am lucky i get to put them out on my label!
4. White Shit - Homeopathic Valtrex
* Hardcore goodness from some heavy hitters. Andy C from Wrangler
Brutes and Monorchid with Jared and Coady from Big Business / Melvins.
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Category: Bento Series, Turnstile, We Like Posted by: turnstile on 14/10/09 Comments: 6 Comments
Turnstile are excited to present Bento #3 Curated by Transparent.…
Transparent explain their Bento -
“Anyone who’s ever had the dubious fortune of chancing upon Transparent will perhaps know that we’re hopeless slaves to ramshackle, rough-edged and romantic pop songs in all their various guises. It made us feel pretty fortunate, therefore, to be able to pull together some of the artists we’re currently most excited about working with/writing about/simply watching blossom in the coming months into this disparate little collection for your digital consumption as part of the excellent Turnstile Bento series.
From the glittering, bedroom-disco camp classic of Emil and Friends’s wonderful “Josephine” to the gorgeous; shimmering dream-wave melancholia of Virginia-dwelling Wild Nothing’s “Confirmation” through the blistering, creepy hot surf of “Hair Piece” by Bee Eyes and Active Child’s singular, surreal gospel slow-burner “Body Heat (So Far Away)”, the collection’s only real unifying thread is a love of pop melody - sometimes damaged, often unusual, occasionally found - yet always genuine, real and fun. We hope you enjoy the tracks and then look for the artists various projects in the coming months.”
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Category: Bento Series, We Like Posted by: turnstile on 29/09/09 Comments: 3 Comments
Bento #2 is curated by Gareth Campesinos! Gareth says of his Bento:
“These are four songs from a dark place. At once utterly vulnerable and completely biting. Zola Jesus and Former Ghosts have released, or are shortly to release my two favourite records of the year, in The Spoils and Fleurs, and Elbows Like Swords and White Ring represent bands I am longing to know more about and desperate for a full length from. Best listened to with the lights off”.
Tracklisting -
Elbows Like Swords - Haunted Mealtimes
Zola Jesus - Smirenye
Former Ghosts - Us And Now
White Ring - Suffocation
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Category: Bento Series, Turnstile, We Like Posted by: turnstile on 26/08/09 Comments: 2 Comments
