Ride Confirm New Album 'Weather Diaries', Air "Charm Assault" Music Video

British shoegaze pioneers Ride have have officially announced 'Weather Diaries', their first album in over 20 years.

Produced by legendary DJ, producer and remixer Erol Alkan, ‘Weather Diaries’, will be released on on June 16th via Wichita Recordings, and is packed with all the classic elements that made Ride one of the defining bands of the early ‘90s.

It also brings the band back together with mixer Alan Moulder (Arctic Monkeys, Smashing Pumpkins, The Killers) who mixed their seminal 1990 album ‘Nowhere’ and produced it’s follow up ‘Going Blank Again’. Pre-order your copy here.

Tracklist:
01. Lannoy Point
02. Charm Assault
03. All I Want
04. Home Is a Feeling
05. Weather Diaries
06. Rocket Silver Symphony
07. Lateral Alice
08. Cali
09. Integration Tape
10. Impermanence
11. White Sands

The band have also aired the video for their latest single "Charm Assault", watch it below.

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New Entry: Ride Premiere New Single "Home Is A Feeling"

24 hours after you heard the first new material from Ride  in over twenty years, here's their hypnotic new song "Home Is A Feeling".

The song is taken from their forthcoming new album, due to be released Summer 2017 on Wichita Recordings. 

About the track, Mark Gardener says: "‘Home Is A Feeling’ to me is like a slow, wide-screen, sonically, layered, slowed motion warm wash. Like returning home as dawn rises totally exhausted and spangled after a long ..long ...big, great night out’"

Andy Bell says: “Out of all the new songs ‘Home Is A Feeling’ comes closest to the early Ride sound. We felt comfortable going vintage on this tune because the album we are making has a pretty broad sonic scope. It’s a short and sweet, melodic tune, with stacked harmonies, reverbed-out guitars, slowed down drums, and a huge distorted bass sound. Erol put his sage-scented electronic wizards hat on to sample up some of our harmonies and make them into a synthesiser preset, which we ended up using on this and some of the other tunes too. We wanted this song to sound jet lagged, so everything on it was recorded with varispeed, either faster or slower than real time. It’s like 1966 Beatles meets 1988 MBV… in other words, Ride.”

Stream the track below.

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New Entry: Ride Return With "Charm Assault", Their First New Song in 20 Years

British shoegaze pioneers Ride have released their excellent new single "Charm Assault", their first new music in 20 years.

The song is taken from Ride's forthcoming album, produced by Erol Alkan and mixed by the band's longtime collaborator, Alan Moulder, and due to be released Summer 2017 on Wichita Recordings. 

UPDATE 27/02: "Charm Assault" is our new Single of the Week!

About the track, Andy Bell says: "Charm Assault is a pretty straightforward expression of frustration and disgust at the people who currently run our country. The tour in 2015 was a good way of reminding us what we were good at in the first place and Charm Assault feels like a natural continuation from our peak. When we started writing together again we tried to imagine we'd kept on making music all this time, and this was just the latest one."

The band's last full-length record was 'Tarantula', released back in March 1996. The band broke up later that year. After a brief reconciliation in 2001 for a live televised performance, Ride officially reunited in 2014.

Stream the track below.

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New Entry: Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Air New Single "Diagram Girl"

Beyond The Wizards Sleeve, the psych/dance duo of producer/DJ Erol Alkan and Richard Norris (The Grid), have aired their brand new single "Diagram Girl".

The song glides into view on the wings of Hannah Peel's reflective, androgynous vocal, glacial synthesis and a haze of woozy electronic beats, as if its willing spring into existence. 

It will be out on April 8th via Phantasy Sound and is taken from a forthcoming album. Pre order the limited edition vinyl here, and stream Diagram Girl below.

Tracklist:
01. Diagram Girl (Original Mix)
02. Diagram Girl (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Re-Animation)
03. Diagram Girl (Shock Machine Remix)

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Temples Announce Remix Album 'Sun Restructured'

On November 10th, British psych-prog band Temples will release 'Sun Restructured', a "re-animation" of their much-acclaimed debut album, Sun Structures, by Beyond the Wizards Sleeve (Erol Alkan & Richard Norris).

Beyond the Wizards Sleeve have created an epic 42-minute re-working of Sun Structures, using five re-interpreted tracks (Sand Dance, Shelter Song, A Question Isn’t Answered, Golden Throne & Move With The Season) from the original album to form the spine of the record.

Describing the record, Erol Alkan said: “Being asked to re-animate a whole album’s worth of material is an honour. We (in return) wanted to create something special. A record which could be listened to in one go, from start to finish, a listening experience that is becoming increasingly rare. So as well as a host of full Beyond The Wizards Sleeve re-animations here, there are interludes, ambience, ebb and flow…each section flowing into a bigger piece. We tried many things along the way: spoken word sections, days out collecting field recordings, yet ended up letting the original songs and their beautiful arrangements and melodies guide us. There is so much happening under the surface of Sun Structures, and deep within each track, it was a pleasure to dive in and see what we could find. it inspired us to pick up our guitars, plug in our synthesisers and add some wizardry on top. Enjoy this trip. And it is a trip.”

Sun Restructured will be available as part of a deluxe CD and download re-issue package with the original album.

The Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve re-animation of 'Move With Season' is online now. Have a listen below.

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Watch: Ghost Culture Shares Music Video For "Giudecca"

London based electronic musician James Greenwood aka Ghost Culture has shared the video for his latest single "Giudecca".

The song, "an aching love song for a mechanical heart: hypnotic, addictive and enthralling," is part of our current playlist and comes backed with "Half Open", which follows on from where previous release 'Red Smoke' left off with a piece of dusty, modern techno set from inside the strobe light. 

Both tunes were co-produced and mixed with Erol Alkan at The Phantasy Sound studios. You can buy a copy here.

The video was directed by Lewis LLoyd. Watch it below.

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