Like Walking Through An Album Cover

Tycho is an artist that's been on my list for a while. My friend introduced me to Sunrise Projector a number of years back and I've enjoyed the following two albums from Tycho immensely, even listing his 2011 album Dive as one of my favorite albums of the year. If you haven't heard of Tycho and/or are unfamiliar with his music, here's a great description I read on youtube: "its like Boards of Canada got high and went surfing," pretty amusing, but I get it. For me it's great morning music. I can picture getting out there on the waves in the morning with the sun coming up and this matching perfectly. Now, releasing a video for an album that dropped seemingly two years ago might seem silly, but Scott Hansen puts a lot of work into his music and it could be a while before we see another album from him. He's also busy with a pretty successful music/concept/all sorts of things blog over at ISO50. Tycho is on the label Ghostly International, which boasts a stellar lineup including the likes of Heathered Pearls, Com Truise, Gold Panda, Dauwd, Phantogram, Shigeto, and many more. Anyway, without further blabbering (I know most of you are just here for the music) here's the "new" Tycho: 'Ascension' from Dive.

Tycho (Facebook - Official - Soundcloud - ISO50 - Ghostly International)

Memory Waves: A Turntable.fm Music Festival

(All artist names link to their facebook.)

Today I was lucky enough to catch word of a "Music Festival" taking place on turntable.fm, a site in which typically, users take turns playing music for each other. Today however, turntable saw several famous artists take to the site to put on quite the show. Huge names like Ulrich Schnauss, Tycho, Com Truise, Polish Ambassador, and Shigeto took the stage as well as many others. A number of the musicians who played I already knew, but a number of them I didn't, and now I have a ton of music I need to check out and artists/djs/bands that I need to delve into more.

Some of the best music from people I hadn't heard of before came from Heathered Pearls, Solar Fields, Shortcircles, Chrome Sparks, and Noble Oak. Other bands who played were Bluetech, Slugabed, Desert Dwellers, KiloWatts, Krusseldorf, Jacob 2-2,  Selva Oscura, Corduroi, Nocow, Vaun, Ghosts, Ghostchant, Hypha, Spectrum Vision, and still others.

Turntable.fm has been around for quite a while now, and I've never seen anything like this being held on the site. It's quite possibly the first "Festival" of it's kind. The attendance was amazing as well. I've been using the site for a couple of years now, and I've never seen so many people in a room before... I don't think until today I'd seen over 200 people in the same room. But the "Chill or Be Chilled" room the festival was held in broke over 1100 users at times. I'm sure a lot of musicians made new fans, and a lot of fans got to hear a ton of great music. Really excited to see if this could become a new fad. It would certainly help out my wallet... "Real" Festivals are expensive!

Visit:
The Festival's Facebook Event Page
Turntable.fm
Chill or Be Chilled