We’re huge fans of Ghostly International DJ/producer Matthew Dear, who has just wrapped up a successful tour with Interpol across Europe and the UK. Check out his new track, You Put A Smell On Me (Photocall Remix).
[audio:http://offtheradarmusic.com/audio/05%20You%20Put%20A%20Smell%20On%20Me%20(Photocall%20Remix).mp3]

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Gold Panda’s new album on the Ghostly International label — Lucky Shiner — is a daring blend of glitchy and deep electro, as reflected in this single, Snow and Taxis.

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Danish duo Syntaks‘ remix of Pale Sketcher’s Can I Go Now (Gone Version) employs a ‘double-time rhythm and a cloud of shoegazey guitars to bring the track to new heights’. We think it’s red hot. And it’s off the always hip Ghostly International label.
[audio:http://promo.ghostly.com/mp3/palesketcher-canigonow%28goneversion%29_192_3272.mp3]

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Our favourite electro label, Ghostly International, commemorated 100 releases for both the Ghostly and Spectral labels this year by reviving this 2009 mix for Self-Titled magazine.
GhostlyCast #38: Michna/SV4 – Seeing Colors: Ghostly Influences by ghostly

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Both UK’s Q Magazine and Mojo raved about them (four-star reviews, both) and they subsequently went on to capture a spot on Stereogum’s 40 Best New Bands. Now Ghostly International act Gold Panda is ready to release his ‘stylistically omnivorous’ debut album, Lucky Shiner.

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Our friends at Ghostly International are releasing Matthew Dear’s Black City album as a limited edition ‘totem’. A what? A totem – a limited edition metal bar used to access a private music chamber. Cool!

We liked the idea, and checked in with Ghostly creative mind Will Calcutt to find out what the totems are, what they do, and what’s next. The totem is a black, industrial-style metal bar that unlocks stuff on the web, right? ‘The totem is a sculpture cast in bonded aluminum and it has a code that can be used to download/stream the new Matthew Dear album, Black City.’

How did you come up with this idea for Black City?

‘Album artwork is in a tricky spot these days. For a lot of people, album art is just a small thumbnail image or it’s missing altogether from their MP3 collection. And that’s frustrating from a designer’s point of view. We have gone from the glorious 12″ LP cover to a tiny thumbnail in a couple of decades. Not exactly the progress we intended. Gone is all that visual space in which to create a sense of the album for the listener.

We felt we had to try something different. We wanted to break from the idea that the album had to be some sort of media – be it CD, LP, USB key, etc. We wanted to abstract the album into an object, something physical that you can touch. In our rush for convenience with MP3s we’ve left behind an important part of experiencing music – the physical relationship to the album. The totem is a real object for virtual music.

And we wanted to do it beautifully, so working with Boym Partners was a perfect fit. It was a great collaboration, they really understood that the totem had to look and feel like the album sounded. They captured the atmosphere of the album perfectly in a simple but mysterious sculpture. The design evokes the sense of a building without being a building, and it has elements that evoke a key without being a key. It’s really a beautiful object. And to handle a totem, to feel the weight of the material, feel the scratches in the metal – it just feels right.’

How can we get one?

‘The totems are on sale in The Ghostly Store from August 3rd.’

It’s a very cool idea. We love your Ghostly Discovery iPhone app too. How’s Ghostly Discovery working out for your artists?

‘Ghostly Discovery is a project that is directed at the listener – the core idea is that electronic music is often strange, obscure and impenetrable – it’s very difficult for a first-time listener to make their way through the brambles to find something they like. And all the sub-genre labels don’t help either. Someone who has never heard a dub-step track can’t know to ask for a dub-step track.

So the app plays music based on a person’s mood – they get a playlist of 20 songs that all fit in the mood and tone they selected. We just wanted to create a tool that could ease people into listening to new music, and people have responded by generating huge amounts of playlists. For the artists that means more listeners, and more listeners means more fans.’

You guys are changing the game. What’s next?

‘We have some more projects coming up soon that are definitely different than things a traditional record label would do, you’ll have to keep an eye out on ghostly.com for the latest developments.’

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Prolific electronic music producer Christopher Willits has produced twenty albums in ten years — both solo and in collaboration with artists such as Ryuichi Sakamoto on 2008′s Ocean Fire. Tiger Flower Circle Sun is his second release for Ghostly International and is his most technologically complex album yet, ‘drifting skyward in a swell of ambient hums and subtle polyrhythms’. [Listen to his song Sun Body]
[audio:http://promo.ghostly.com/mp3/christopherwillits-sunbody_192_3784.mp3]

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The Semi Circle EP is Japanese-American producer Shigeto’s (aka Zach Saginaw) first release for Ghostly International. It’s a deep, vividly beautiful suite of electronic music.
[audio:http://static.ghostly.com/media/mp3/full/shigeto-bakersbluntbasics_5619.mp3]

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Toronto-based Solvent’s latest full-length album, Subject to Shift, is out soon on Ghostly International and is another glitchy, robotic masterpiece of pop surrealism, ‘a mix of dystopian, acid-tinged futurism and bittersweet romantic ache’, bowing gently to the beautiful template he set earlier with his radio-friendly hummer, My Radio. Check out the Mitgang Audio Remix of that track below.
[audio:http://mtrec.com/blogshots/02%20My%20Radio%20(The%20Mitgang%20Audio%20Remix).mp3]

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The Danish collective Choir of Young Believers, off the always-adventurous Ghostly International label, crept onto the scene last year with their debut album This Is for the White in Your Eyes. This track, Claustrophobia, is both introspective and outward-looking, both intimate and skyscraper-huge. [Listen to the Choir of Young Believers song Claustrophobia]
[audio:http://static.ghostly.com/media/mp3/full/COYB-Claustrophobia_Peter_Antlers_Remix_8027.mp3]

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The media world is firmly embedded in the twenty-first century digital revolution, so we thought we better keep up with the times. We have the new Michna album, Magic Monday — a wickedly good mesh of sound collage, beats and slippery New York grooves— for sale as a download through our friends at Ghostly International. The whole package is only US$10 and consists of a zip file that contains twelve 320kbps DRM-free mp3s and a jpeg of the cover art. And you can have it all, in your iTunes, in a flash. Now that’s technology for you. Listen to the Michna song Triple Chrome Dipped off the Magic Monday album

[audio:http://fakepennycomics.com/blog/MN_TripleChromeDipped.mp3]

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