Let's Dance , Autokratz , Andy Stott , Aidan Baker , Morgan Geist , Belong , TodaysArt , Mikosa , Foam , Rocknrolla , Jeff Metz

After some deserved holidays from work and blog , Audiopleasures is back on the post zone .
In two weeks time , were celebrating the first year of existence , planning a super nice post with some awesome essentials records and a special Let's Dance edition , also two gests on My Indie Soul .

All the Mp3 Files are for free download during a short period of time , the main purpose of all this work is for promotion of the artist , if you find something you like , please buy their records , T-shirts , Pins , go to the concerts or just send them a warm support message.

Im very excited with opportunity to watch some of my favorites in the next couple of month , only to name a few , Ben Frost , M83 , Flying Lotus , Tindersticks , Blood Red Shoes and the supreme Drum n' Bass masters Black Sun Empire are coming back to Haarlem.

Last night was on the Patronaat , but I'm still thinking who would have the unfortunate idea of putting Apparat before Dave Clark , its incredible , two sounds completely different , and to make it even worst , Apparat sound was a complete blunder , it was like being at home listening from my television a complete disaster.

I really hope that everybody enjoys Audiopleasures suggestion and thank you for all the support , i don't need to say how happy it makes me to see so many people visiting this blog , it makes all the work really really worth it .

Tiago

and now ...


Mp3 | The Bloody Beetroots - Rotten Pick
Mp3 | The Faint - The Geeks Were Right [ Does It Offend You mix ]
Mp3 | Cut Copy - Lights & Music [ Boys Noize Happy Birthday mix ]
Mp3 | Digitalism - I Want I Want [ LAZRtag mix ]
Mp3 | Bloc Party - Mercury [ Cansei de Ser Sexy mix ]
Mp3 | Tiga and Zyntherius - Sunglasses At Night [ DIM mix ]
Mp3 | The Knife - Marble House [ Booka Shade Remix ]
Mp3 | Modeselektor - Silikon [ Siriusmo mix ]
Mp3 | The Rice Twins - The Signifier
Mp3 | Black Strobe - Shining Bright Star [ Phones Industrial Version radio edit ]

Download full Let's Dance.Rar


" Down & Out in Paris & London " - Kitsune - 2008
Electro / Indie

To celebrate the release of Autokratz new mini-album Down & Out in Paris & London, RA & Parisian label Kitsuné have teamed up to give you free downloads of singles from the release, the chance to win a special Kitsuné prize pack, and an exclusive interview with the duo.

2008 has seen the duo garner significant radio play and chart success for their dance floor bombs, many of which you can download over the next month on RA for free. Each week we’ll exclusively host two singles from the mini-album for you to download straight onto your iPod and get your dose of French-tinged, British indie electro flavour. Resident Advisor

Mp3 | Autokratz - Reaktor
Mp3 | Autokratz - Stay the Same

Autokratz (UK, live), Fake Blood (UK), @ Bitterzoet Amsterdam - 23/10


" Unknown Exception (Selected Tracks Vol. 1 2004-2008) " - Modern Love - 2008
Techno / Dub / Dubstep

Andy Stott has developed a unique sound since his debut for the Modern Love label back in 2005. His first demos were heavily influenced by the square-bassline techno variations of Claro Intelecto, a longtime friend, mentor and eventually labelmate and collaborator.
His restless shift from traditional Techno blueprints through to the bottom-heavy signatures of dubstep and the steppers arrangements of garage have also placed him at the forefront of the dubstepXtechno hybrid sounds that have started to dominate the electronic music scene in 2008 alongside the likes of Martyn, Peverelist and T++. This compilation brings together selected tracks dating back to Andy Stott's debut back in 2005 and reaching all the way to his most recent material in 2008. Boomkat

Mp3 | Andy Stott - Replace
Mp3 | Andy Stott - Handle With Care


" I Will Always and Forever Hold You In My Heart and Mind " - Small Doses - 2008
Experimental / Drone

Aidan Baker is a canadian musician + writer currently based in toronto. he performs as a solo artist + with the groups nadja + arc. a classically trained multi-instrumentalist, his primary instrument is the electric guitar w/ which he creates music ranging from experimental/drone to ambient post-rock to contemporary classical. he has released numerous albums on labels from around the world + has authored several books of prose/poetry.

" I Will Always and Forever Hold You In My Heart and Mind " is a 51 minute work of shimmering, pulsating drone broken into twelve parts (one for each word of the title) that come together to form a seemless, wordless narrative. Small Doses

Mp3 | Aidan Baker - I
Mp3 | Aidan Baker - Will


" Double Night Time " - Environ - 2008
Electronic / Funk

Metro Area's Morgan Geist will release his second solo album in September on Environ.

Featuring vocals from Jeremy Greenspan of Junior Boys, Double Night Time will undoubtedly have a poppier bent than its 1997 predecessor The Driving Memoirs. And the press release accompanying the album promises as much, claiming that the album indulges his "own early influences and guilty pleasures: techno-pop, prog rock and pure electronic music." Prog rock? We'll just have to wait and see what that means.

Judging by his latest solo work—and the recent boogie turn of Metro Area—we're expecting fully orchestrated epics that should work just as well in the home as they will in the club. With Greenspan listed as a co-writer of 'City of Smoke and Flame', we'll place our bets on that one as the inevitable pre-album single. Resident Advisor

Mp3 | Morgan Geist - Palace Kife
Mp3 | Morgan Geist - The Shore


" Same Places " - Table of The Elements - 2008
Experimental / Drone

With Same Places (Slow Version), Belong evinces a slow-motion transformation plate tectonics, wired for sound. Aural mountains melt into seas; yet icy barrens yield to breathing jungles of detail. The single, sprawling track may evoke decay, dissolution and destruction, but underfoot are tendrils of inexplicable joy. Belong sings a lullaby of obliteration, and the paradox it embodies would make both Kevin Shields and Tony Conrad proud: crushing melancholia and shuddering euphoria, inexorably intertwined. Insound

Mp3 | Belong - Same Places (Slow Version)



TodaysArt is the annual international festival for adventurous creativity in the city centre of The Hague, The Netherlands. Expect unique productions and performances in music, dance and art from 200+ artists from all over the world! Artists include !!! (CHK CHK CHK), God Is An Astronaut, Aquanauts (UR), Lindstrøm, Ben Frost, Deadbeat, Claro Intelecto, Andy Stott, Byetone (Raster Noton), Pier Bucci, Chunky Move, Pictoplasma, Pablo Valbuena and many others.

Date: 26th & 27th of September 2008
Place: The Hague (NL), 20+ venues (in- & outdoor), route Central Station/Spui/Grote Markt (city centre).
Presale: starts 1st of August at TodaysArt
Early Birds: available until the 1st of August in limited quantity at www.todaysart.nl – Early Bird Passé-partout all-weekend: € 18,- (ex. Fee)



Six international renowned artists and participants of different Mikosa Issues painted a more than 300m2 big mural at the Baarsjesweg 200 in Amsterdam in July 2008. You can see the 10-day-long collaboration of Zedz, Lordh, Morcky, The Boghe, Wayne Horse and The London Police through the beautiful video above, done by NINE878 and musically arranged by Plastic Joy.



Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam presents ‘The Hyena & Other Men’, an exhibition by South African photographer Pieter Hugo (b. 1976, Johannesburg). In March 2008, Hugo was selected by an international jury as winner of the annual KLM Paul Huf Award. Part of this prize for young international photographers is an exhibition at Foam.

Pieter Hugo travelled twice to Nigeria (in 2005 and 2007) to follow a legendary group of itinerant street artists known as the Hyena Men. These men earn their money by performing on the streets with hyenas, pythons and baboons, and by selling traditional medicines.



Black Strobe I'm a Man cover is on the new Guy Richie movie "Rocknrolla" soundtrack and trailer.

When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London's criminal underworld pursue their share of the fortune. Various shady characters, including Mr One-Two, Stella the accountant, and Johnny Quid, a druggie rock-star, try to claim their slice

Watch | Rocknrolla



Every year TENT, an art space in Rotterdam, presents the TENT. Academy Awards. This is a competition between the best graduation videos, films, shorts and animation from the Dutch art academies. This year the winner of the Public's Choice Award was Edward Cook with his short documentary on a hotdog stand. Yael Assaf won the Jury's Prize with his experimental film Everyone has to get over his biography. Both justifiable winners, but we would like to give credit to one of the other nominees: Jeff Metz with his untitled animation about a man who escapes his boring life.

Watch | Jeff Metz’s “Final”

Let's Dance, Pluxus, Wire, Lali Puna, Burning Star Core, Suicide, Mikosa, Mari Inukai, Synchronator, Camera Lucida, Dour Festival

Mp3 | Ascii Disko - Seven Angels
Mp3 | Vitalic - Bells feat. Linda Lamb
Mp3 | Shadow Dancer - Cowbois
Mp3 | Boys Noise Feat. I-Robots - Frau [ PUZIQUe mix ]
Mp3 | Senario Rock - Skitzo Dancer [ Justice mix ]
Mp3 | Foals - Red Socks Pugie [ Henrik Schwarz mix ]
Mp3 | The Wombats - Kill The Director [ Cansei de ser Sexy mix ]
Mp3 | Cazals - Somebody, Somewhere [ blamma somebody stop me mix ]


" Solid State " - Kompakt - 2008
Electronic / IDM / Indie

Canny Swedes Pluxus have quietly been plying their highly accomplished, woozy, electronic take on guitar based pop for over twelve years to relative indifference. However, their excellent 2006 effort Solid State’s reissue by minimal techno powerhouse Kompakt may finally start slowly pulling fingers from arseholes and getting people to start paying attention. Seriously, Solid State makes Hot Chip’s flatulently disappointing Made In The Dark sound like the Eastenders theme tune next to a lavishly crafted Popol Vuh score.

The record’s greatest strength lies in its ability to successfully weave and craft its myriad reference points into an exciting and wholly idiosyncratic whole. Far from sounding like a chucked-together attempt at a fourth record Solid State reeks of considered craft and carefully wrought edifice. Its overall sense of creative unity is not far from the gooey, happy feeling that hearing the dying seconds of a completely listened to Autechre album evoke. James Knight - Drowned in Sound

Mp3 | Pluxus - Bootstrap
Mp3 | Pluxus - Forth


" Object 47 " - Pink Flag - 2008
Post - Punk / Alternative

Wire is proud to announce that it has completed work on its 11th studio album, continuing the momentum that began with the band's 2006 reactivation and Read & Burn 03. Dubbed 'Object 47' - 47 representing its position as the 47th release in the Wire discography - the album finds Wire utilising the core writing partnership responsible for Pink Flag, Colin Newman and Graham Lewis. The latest release is described by the band as having "tunes with zoom", and this is best illustrated by the melodic and textural development already suggested by elements of last year's Read & Burn 03. Brainwashed

Mp3 | Wire - Circumspect
Mp3 | Wire - One of us


" I Thought I Was Over That " - Morr - 2005
Rare, Remixed and B-sides / Electronic / Indie

Lali Puna - "I thought I was over that" is the playful offspring of a band finally confident enough to re-visit their most daring, misfitting, individually conceived moments to date. it's also an opportunity to look at those artists who have inspired them in one way or another over the years, pressing them to develop through remixes, collaborations and cover versions where their ideas blossomed from raw material provided by other artists - and vice versa. the list of luminaries is impressive.

These songs shy away from tales of girly broken hearts and bubblegum storyboards, instead exposing a world-weariness - an "ageing out of time" that's often at odds with the adrenaline the band ignite musically. Its on the experimentations, collaborations, deviations and remixes found on this album, however, that this mood is offset against its most startling backdrop - allowing the band to get lost in different sounds, ideas and interventions...and still find their way home.Boomkat

Mp3 | Lali Puna - Micronomic [ Boom Bip mix ]
Mp3 | Lali Luna - Nin-Com-Pop [ Two Lone Swordsmen mix ]

Watch | Lali Puna & Bomb The Bass - Clear Cut


" Challenger " - Hospital Productions - 2008
Drone / Noise / Post-Rock / Electronic / Experimental

"Burning Star Core began in 1993 in Cincinnati, OH where it currently resides with primary member C. Spencer Yeh. It is considered a project and not a pseudonym. While the Burning Star Core project has included much wider ensembles, Challenger is a direct solo composition of C. Spencer Yeh. This recording is perhaps Yeh's most revealing, unguarded work. Challenger is a composed work, not an improvisation, with each piece revolving around a central melodic theme, featuring field recordings, which serve as an audio diary. The sounds range from pure tonal mood to huge electronic crescendos. But what's most remarkable is the use of space, where parts come in then drop out to build up the emotion. When the piano sound crashes in 'Mysteries of the Organ,' it reflects a frustration with paradise, a rejection of perfection, a jolt of inexplicable throes of life. In contrast is the quiet, haunting 'Hopelessly Devoted,' which sounds like a love letter written to outer space. These make for an album that is both dynamic yet consistent as a full statement." Force de xposure

Mp3 | Burning Star Core - Beauty Hunter
Mp3 | Burning Star Core - Challenger



" Suicide " - The Grey Area - 1977
re-released - Mute - 2002
Post - Punk / New Wave

This remarkable debut album, released a full seven years after the group had formed, was still way ahead of its time back in 1978. Suicide--Alan Vega on vocals and Martin Rev on keyboards and drum machine--are one of the most original acts in the history of popular music. They're often called the first synthpop act; synth-punk is closer to the truth--their music was far more edgy and menacing than that of any of their followers, with the notable exception of Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, et al. Suicide drew on the right protopunk influence (Nuggets-type stuff, Velvets, Stooges) and came out of the same Mercer Arts scene that bred the New York Dolls. Their guitar-bass-and-"real"-drummer-deprived setup outraged audiences; on the superb bonus disc you can hear a European crowd rioting in the background while their apocalyptic nursery rhymes sound away. Tough guy Vega croons like an evil Elvis bred on garage rock and performance art; the stoic Rev lays churning, repetitive, and oddly melodic lines down on his beat-up Farfisa, and the ancient drum machine--it actually sounds steam-driven--propels the music toward a ratty, Blade Runner future. "Dream Baby Dream," "Che," "Ghost Rider"--these eerie, sturdy, steam-punk anthems rank among the most visionary, melodic experiments the rock realm has yet produced. This reissue is bright and clear-sounding, and with the full disc of live performances (a 1977 CBGB's soundboard tape plus the legendary "23 Minutes Over Brussels" performance) this is an essential purchase. Mike McGonigal -Amazon

Mp3 | Suicide - Che
Mp3 | Suicide - Girl



Mikosa Foundation was founded in Amsterdam in 2005 by an international executive board. Based on our manifesto, we want to spread artists' works, being a the firment for a box of contemporary art, bringing different styles and visual images together, ranging works from graffiti writers to internet designer and from street artists to video artists. All of those people have got one basic thing in common: their black book. This is usually filled up with first handmade ideas and developments, unfinished artworks, rough sketches, the idea we transferred to our first long-term project, called Mikosa Magazine.



Mari Inukai was born in Nagoya, Japan. In 1995, Mari came to the US to pursue her studies in art. She first attended Santa Monica Community College (Mentor program), then Associates in Art, Sherman Oaks, CA and finally California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, where she recieved her BFA in Character Animation in 2004. Her professional works include CartoonNetwork, Burbank, Nickelodeon, New York, Nylon Motion Inc., LA, Oishii Productions, LA, and NGTV, LA. Her short animated film, Blue and Orange, has been an official selection at numerous national and international film festivalss including the Sundance Film Festival 2003, and was the Japanese Grand Prix winner at the Short Shorts Film Festival EXPO 2005. Besides her animation works, Mari regularly exhibits her paintings and drawings, designs clothes, ceramic toy figurines, and other fun products. She lives in Los Angeles with her daughter, Sena.



"The video Synchronator demonstrates the audio modulations of a video signal, which were produced by means of an audio mixer. This work of Bas van Koolwijk and Gert-Jan Prins falls in the category of medium-specific media art. It is reminiscent of the early days of video art, when artists experimented with image and sound. Synchronator came into existence during a residency at Impakt (Utrecht, the Netherlands) in June 2006, and marked the starting point of their cooperation.
Bas van Koolwijk concentrates mainly on digital experiments, while Gert-Jan Prins mostly works with analogue techniques. They both carry out research into the relationship between sound and image, as well as the limits of what is audible and visible."

Watch | Synchronator
Watch | Synchronator Live



Portable Palace - Camera Lucida
Sonoluminescence is an ultrasound within a liquid that cuases micro-bubbles of gas to implode at which point they become as hot as the Sum and emit light in the shape of sound waves

Watch | Camera Lucida



Dour Festival 17 - 19 July Belgium

Tortoise - Efterklang - Neon Neon - Coming Soon - French Cowboy - Shearwater - Dig Up Elvis - Hollywood Porn Stars - Jakob Maersk - Principles of Geometry - Pop Levi - Raxinasky - Saint André - Nestor! - Syd Matters - Two Star Hotel - The Moonshine Playboys - The Chargers - UFO goes UFA - V.O.

Hatebreed - Arkangel - Backfire! - Do Or Die - Kruger - Set The Tone - Lofofora - My Mortality - The Bones - Planey - Spoiler NYC - Ultraphallus

Collie Buddz - Midnite - The Toasters - The Caroloregians - La Kinky Beat - Iration Steppas meets Improvisators Dub - Vibronics + Parvez (Dub Factory) + Echo Ranks + Jah Marnyah + Madu Messenger - Ashanti 3000 - X Makeena

Sinik - Flying Lotus - Black Moon - Beans - Beat Community feat. Hud Mo, Dorian Concept, Infinitskills, SirOJ - Akro with live band - Depotax - Hocus Pocus - Psykick Lyrikah - Lefto dj set - Louis Logic & BluePrint & JJ Brown & P.Dateh - Typhoon

Mr Scruff - The Herbaliser live - Dj Orgasmic - Matt Walsh - Moonbootica - High Contrast & MC Wrec - Murdock - Milanese feat. Ben Sharpa live - Mu-Ziq dj set aka Mike Paradinas - Otto Von Schirach live - Droon - X&TRICK - Ceephax Acid Crew live - Bochum Welt live - Digikid.84 live - diskJokke - Hugo Freegow - Dj Mendi - Mizol-K - D'Giuliann - Jay Mayhem - Grimelock - Shameboy - Slagsmålsklubben - South Central live - Surfing Leons - Yuksek - Waxdolls