After a sold out show at The Luminaire in January, MEMORY TAPES is back to play at Cargo. A one man band based in New Jersey, he’s been dropping bombs (as memory cassette and weird tapes) on Gorilla vs Bear through 2008 to huge acclaim and massive blog proliferation. His sound is nostalgic both aesthetically and emotionally – so there is little surprise when comparisons drift to outfits such as Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, New Order and Boards of Canada. More established pop references come through as well with echoes of classic Motown and girl groups. After the great reception that greeted his debut album, the ever prolific, MEMORY TAPES intends to make two albums a year, promising that the next one will a psychedelic girl group record.

VISIONS OF TREES is Sara Atalar and Joni Juden, two London musicians who became friends over the summer of 2009 and began recording together in a local Dalston basement shortly afterwards. Their sound is a disembodying reconfiguration of tribal-electronica, awash in echoing techno-ambience with vocals that range between cavernous and soothing. Good for meditation, catharsis, transcendance, epiphany, celebratory dance or any number of things that won’t easily let you split your attention

‘a brilliant two-piece from London who make hazy tropical pop music that shares a similar woozy electronic mood to Teengirl Fantasy, only swamped in Liz Fraser-esque vocals’ Vice Magazine

‘If I could soundtrack my nocturnal nature trail then Visions Of Trees would be first on the playlist. The London duo’s swirling, ethereal seductojams make me think, Woah, nature is cool and that is as close as I will get to zahelu’ The Fader

‘The London based duo have been together less than six months, but their silky future dance music has quickly percolated across the pond’ Impose Magazine

GLASSER is LA resident Cameron Mesirow, who has been described as something like Kate Bush using the rhythmic influence of Arthur Russell and the emotional inflections of Karen Dalton. Her debut EP, Apply, is charmingly amateur in its Garageband production, but the heavily layered arrangements and child-like vocals have a dream-like quality.

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HIGH PRAISE FROM THE PRESS FOR MEMORY TAPES

“one of the great albums of 2009” Sunday Times. 4/5 Album of the Week

“Just lovely…chanty, dancey, and quite irresistible” – Guardian Guide, SOTW

“Breath-taking” – Pitchfork 8.3 Best New Music http://tiny.cc/2fZUq

“Inspired Alchemy of Disco Euphoria and hazy Dream Pop” Q 4/5

“It’s lovely and unsettling at the same time, like The Police’s “Wrapped Around Your Finger” sung by a choir of ghosts”. ROLLING STONE http://tiny.cc/2fZUq

“(A) sun-bleached selection of 80s highlights” – OBSERVER MUSIC MONTHLY OMM 4/5,

“A creamy, nostalgic trip that is one gently euphoric whoosh beyond pastiche.” – NME 8/10

“Sheer brilliance” – STOOL PIGEON

“Gleaming Synth Rock” UNCUT 4/5

“We play it to everyone we meet. You will too” – DAZED & CONFUSED

“Seek Magic is probably my favourite album of the year” DrownedInSound 9/10

“Sweet Hooks and catchy choruses” VICE

“If you like dreamy, intelligent, epic pop, seek out the magic of Memory Tapes today.” – DAZED & CONFUSED

“We want to listen to this 24 more times in a row. Unnnggghhh it’s so good!” – Fader http://tiny.cc/fQMQ9

“Dreamy…excellent..perfect” – Gorilla vs Bear

“…like The Knife producing Neil Young” TheLineOfBestFit

“Bicycle’s spry New Orderisms will have you spinning blissfully around the room while simultaneously evoking an overwhelming melancholic nostalgia for summers lost” – NME 10 Tracks http://tiny.cc/GOUeS

“Victory is assured” NME 10 Tracks again http://tiny.cc/GftAR

“if i dream up the best combination of vocals and instrument i can muster in my tiny brain then its the sound of Memory Tapes that comes out’ RoB DaBank Radio1

“the album of the year” BBC Music

“gliding synth funk resembling Talking Heads via New Order” The Independent

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Rough Trade’s new signing is PANTHA DU PRINCE, the electronic musician and producer fusing house, techno, shoegazy electronica and psychedelic electro-acoustic soundscapes into music that is at once both beautiful and bewitching.

Previous releases have been bittersweet takes on techno, which appealed to both dancefloors and living rooms alike, and led to him becoming an in-demand remixer doing tracks for Depeche Mode, Animal Collective, Bloc Party, Phantom/Ghost, The Long Blondes and many others. On his new album, Pantha du Prince claims: music slumbers in all matter; any sound, even silence, is already music. The mission, then, must be to render audible what is unheard and unheard of: ‘Black Noise’, a frequency that is inaudible to man. ‘Black noise’ often presages natural disasters, earthquakes or floods; only some animals perceive this calm before the storm. ‘black noise’ is something archaic and earthy. His music balances precariously on the slippery threshold between art and nature, between techno and folklore, which lends it a certain spectral and intangible aspect..

WALLS is the amazing new Kompakt signing and collaboration between Sam Willis (Allez Allez) and Allesio (Banjo Or Freakout). Kompakt continue to embrace fusion of the rock / dance divide paved on the label by the likes of THE FIELD with one of the most exciting new
bands to emerge in the past year – WALLS. Having met in 2009 while ALLEZ-ALLEZ were remixing BANJO OR FREAKOUT’s “Mr. No”, they quickly realized that the natural combination of Alessio’s  and guitar play and haunting vocals (dubbed by Kompakt’s Michael Mayer as being “drugged out rodents”) together with Willis’ emotive synth lines and
sample manipulation magic was a match made in heaven. An immediately natural pairing, the duo started swapping sound files, and very quickly with very little effort beautiful songs started to emerge. Destined to be one of Kompakt’s most unparalleled releases in their history, WALLS has a lack of concern for the boundaries of genre distinction, but easily fit uniquely between the classic “sound of Kompakt” and the bliss of Pop Ambient.
 
Taking influence from their now world renowned sessions, Black Cab Sessions DJs show their diverse musical influences on the decks, but add a party vibe to make things sweaty! Having DJd across Europe and America, they now bring their mix of soul, cumbia, hip hop, latin, house and everything else to satisfy another Saturday night crowd in London.

Free before 11pm
Queue-jumping entry available to the first 50 people to RSVP to Eat Your Own Ears via [email protected] with the subject heading “Pantha”

Please arrive early to avoid disappointment.

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