MITCH GENTLY MURDERS.

Somehow we came across Mitch Murder a while back, but his name and music slid through the cracks, as frequently happens with the simply overwhelming amount of amazing music out there these days!

First off, he's just posted a track recently titled, "Snow Crash", and some of us have just finished reading the book, Snow Crash, by the amazing Neil Stephenson, so that's first up...



Well, thanks to a couple of friends in far away places, his being and sounds have come back into our consciousness, and none too soon! We over here at The Hero are just obsessed with the 80's retro grooves, so being without smooth jams like these is just a travesty!

The smooth as polished glass synths & pads, lazer sharp stabs, simply circut-tastic melodies and diamond cut sound effects...just great. It's "80's" cheese, it's computer generation amazingness, it's just overall retro-tech-goodness.

There is, of course, a back story (we love back stories, Kavinsky coming soon...) :

As the story goes Mitch is an overworked Wall Street I.T. from the 80's who dreams at night other realities for himself. These are the soundtrack to his dreams. The first offering, "The Touch" is the retro-futuristic anthem of a peaceful world that's just uprisen from it's dark chaotic post apocalyptical past. Straddling the line of french touch, 80's soundtrack and robot disco band music it seamlessly carves out it's own sound space. Overwhelmingly emotional and uplifting it has one of the most triumphant guitar synth solos you'll ever hear.

And so prolific...so many releases!

These are the latest couple...the Another Place EP from mid October 2013, and the Descent EP from August of this year.

Of course he's been swooped up by Mad Decent (always known for having their ear to what is poppin off), and his summer EP, The Touch, was released on MD's Jeffree's imprint in July of this year.



This "Original Soundtrack" for the fictional Sega videogame "Sprawl" is equally amazing...if you've ever played 16-bit video games...def check it..



The Television EP from 2010. Yes.



And we can't leave without posting the full length, Current Events album, released on Rosso Corsa records, November 2011...

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WOLVES. A WHOLE BOX OF THEM.

Box of Wolves out of...Canada...some new, some older. Can't remember how we first found his music. It's great.

BOX OF WOLVES:
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MAINE. 207. ENTRICUT. GRAVE STRANGER.

The Hero has a mighty talented Brother, Broverstander, Famborgini Diabro, you know what time it is. Entricut been off the hook for about a few minutes sunnnn!! Been too long since we've hosted the ever so goodness! Get at it.

Looking forward to a show with the Brothers this Christmas in Central Maine...........





This shit is. So. Ill.

And don't miss the Rapture EP, with Entricut, Rajnii, Grave Stranger, Humble, etc...

And speaking of Grave Stranger, holy hell our homie's tracks are peak time banguhs if we've ever heard one...we have...

Peep some of his older stuff, also amazing, and sit tight, because we'll have the newer up here very soooonnnn...

And here's a little piece on Rajnii...A seriously good dude...

PORTRAIT.

Brand new from a close friend/extended family member of the Hero... hailing from San Francisco, comes brand new music from Portrait.

The artist behind the music describes his sound as "R&B and dubstep making love in a chillwave hot tub," the soundscapes presented on the debut album, Symphony of Errors, take the listener on quite a journey. Releasing in early October, the 9 song album is sure to break necks with the (very soft) head nod everwhere...

Find him on Twitter @portraitsounds

"What Love Is" is available for free download...right now!! Srrrrrious Hero fave.



Amazing work.

"Portrait is currently hard at work on a follow-up release and live show...."  Soooo...look out...

GHOSTLY SYNTH DELISH.

New Tycho LP, Dive, available now digitally, and out in all other ways in November...from your friends at Ghostly International of course...

  Hours by Tycho

EREBODY WORKIN FOR IT.

New from their first full length Rappocher, out 10/18 on Carpark Records...Class Actress.

   Class Actress - Weekend


More Carpark...an old fave in Toro Y Moi .. from the new ($11 vinyl) EP Freaking Out.
 
   Toro y Moi - Saturday Love

OSCILLATORS. ARE THE SHIT.

Alan Palomo...does synth stuff. And there's been at least one song every couple of years that have just been the jam. For the Hero anyway.

The newest is Neon Indian... new album... Era Extraña .. what can I say, I'm a sucker for synth.. and this is hell yeeezy on that subject.

Also, if you buy the deluxe pack, it comes with a nice shiny LP, a CD, a T, a P(oster), and a GD mini synth! Fer reelz.


Buuuut, I was hooked @...

...Ghosthustler . . . 2007. Yes. PRE - BLOG SUPERSTARS! Or, maybe at the beginning. Blasting in a 1997 Volvo V70 station wagon, flying through Vancouver rain...that shit had a good system. R.I.P. Greens from the Hell's Angels above New Amsterdam.

Ghosthustler - Someone Else's Ride



VEGA ...



Neon Indian 1.0 ... also blowing synth minds... and supposedly, with Psychic Chasms, defining the genre' of 'chillwave'? Hmmm...ok. The album WAS the shit either way...

SOFTY SWEDES.

jj the band is pretty great. They have a couple albums..we've discussed them before. They blew (up) a year or so ago.

When I first heard this track I was obsessed for like a couple weeks for real.

jj - 5 Minuter Med

Oh, and this one is certainly NOT to be missed...

jj - Ecstasy 

And here's a 'real' song (?) from the duo...dig.

 jj - From Africa To Malaga

TODAY: RAIN x FALL x GLASSER.

I'm feeling these two songs from Glasser's debut LP, Ring, and have now found their earlier Apply EP, and am deciding I'm a fan. The vocalist, Cameron, just uses her voice amazingly and the music is cerebrally the shiiiit!

I just read this on PTST:

From the outset this thing is a winner, sure to guarantee at the very least some fawning reviews from the indie blogosphere (check!) and the dedication of a cross section of love struck indie-boys and indie-girls with high musical standards.

...ok, I kind of agree with all of that, and I guess I probably vaguely, (or blatantly?, nah.) fit into both of those categories.

Who knows, WTF.

Its raining in L.A. after a 110˚+ heat wave over the past couple of weeks...so this album is setting my mind for a minute today.

I love rain sometimes.

Ok, eat some vegetables and hydrate or die. Hopefully not trying...in the U.S. we have that luxury.

Oh and don't be this guy, or anyone who listens to him.

Glasser - Home


You should also get the album so you can hear the track following 'Home', 'Mirrorage', which is stupendous. However, I am just too wary of the ol' DMCA, so I'm not posting it myself, and can't finding a streaming instance of it yet. Also really loving 'T' from the album...

...this, new-to-me track (is in fact NOT) from their first recording, the Apply EP...

Glasser - Let Letter

And wowsers...these two remixes, one of 'Learn' from the EP and this remix of 'Tremel' (Ring) from Jamie of the XX.

Glasser - Tremel (Jamie Xx Remix)


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Glasser - Learn (John Talabot Remix)