Get your download on: The kids over at Butterteam came up with a genius plan: Now that Baltimore is (and don’t even try to deny it) a hub of music activity to both dance AND cry to they will be coming up with a sporadic Charm City mix tape for your download pleasure.
The first one is here now:
Whaaaaaa?
Among Wolves provides the perfect Grizzly Beach Boy/House harmonies to start and end your days…OCDJ makes sounds on laptop, guitar, kalimba, euphonium, bangs drums, shakes things, cites Master Blaster as a major influence…Small Sur is instantly familiar fire circle hymns…Thrushes are murky shoeglazed pop masters…Brian Adam Ant is psychedilifolk that doesn’t sound like Neutral Milk Hotel…Shields drops stuttery butter for fans of Prefuse and Madlib…Santa Dads are beatboxing ukelele costume kidz…The Death Set are brilliant noise…Ecstatic Sunshine are superbad instruminimalists…you already know and love the mazzed out Beach House…Cex changes skins regularly around experimental laptop hop…Ponytail will bite your face…The Oranges Band define their sound as “rock” so…Double Dagger will bite your leg…Basshound are a jam band that occasionally covers Daft Punk for the kids at CBGB…everybody thinks it’s crazy…Video Hippos and Dan Deacon are well-known Wham City clan types and Jakuta and Carl are electronic clap clap clap clap.
MP3 up
Among Wolves - Sleep and Dream
Small Sur - Big Sur
Santa Dads - You Don’t Know
Ponytail - Lion Down
Video Hippos - Kool Shades
and for the rest, run, don’t walk to http://www.butterteam.com/
