Since their last album dropped in October, San Francisco’s resident track doctors and improv electronic music innovators have been taking time out of their busy touring schedule to hit the studio.  Hard.  They’ve been sharpening their arsenal of dirty, tripnodic beats for an upcoming opus-of-an-album slated for release in late summer.  Luckily three tracks demanded to get out, so we are presenting the Saddle Up EP.  The release features a bassy mid-tempo title track, fused with funky synth lines and a driving groove laced with samples that declare western motifs like: “Have gun, will travel.”  The EP also features a remix of a classic Skulls track The Dope Trade by two up-and-coming-producers.  The first is remixed by one of the premier cutting-edge guitarist/producers on the West Coast, Curtis Sloane of BLVD.  He takes The Dope Trade and refits the grooves with that buttery BLVD flavor.  The second remix is by Asheville producer Brad Bitt and is sure to get your trigger finger itchy with it’s hyper edits and crunked-out distorted leads lines!  Hopefully these three distinct tracks can hold you over
until the LP drops!
Cover art by visionary SF painter Ian Hill.

Check out “You and I Both Know” ~ Premiere from Alex B’s MOMENTS

CLICK HERE

Anticipation has been running high for the release of Alex B’s debut full-length album Moments. Years of focused time in the studio and relentless touring all over the world have earned Alex his due recognition, with hype surrounding the rising producer growing daily.

The wait is almost over.  Moments is set to hit the streets April 6th on his own Elm&Oak imprint and 1320 Records.

The tracks on Moments are intricately crafted with painstaking care and attention to detail — a careful mix of analog and digital sounds elevated by imaginative samples and the insight of a classically trained musician.  The result is a blend of timeless warmth and future beats that is as easily adaptable to introspective time with one’s headphones as it is to group mania on a mobbed dance floor.  Check back with www.Alexbeats.com and 1320records.com for more updates.

The marriage between hip hop and electronic beats has been inevitable since the respective rises of each genre a few decades ago. As it culminates, there’s a lot of abstract expression on the airwaves. Countless attempts have emerged, many with more focus on the gimmick than in musical substance. Elevating the style with more technical prowess than ever before seen, Super Galactic Expansive is what hip hop fanboys and glitch nerds alike have been waiting to hear. MC Amagine’s philosophical content is delivered in impeccably assembled multisyllable rhyme schemes. KiloWatts synthetic yet organic production style forms to complement the vocals, merging the long standing beat/rhyme dichotomy into a single resonating voice. Citing any number of influences can’t paint an accurate picture of this product. Supersensible science is a story, as personal as it is cosmically conscious in its narrative. Headphone lessons aside, it’ll take no more than two bars of the first beat for your pulse to automatically synchronize with it.

By Abdullah Saeed

1320 RECORDS AND ArtNowSF
PRESENT
1320.SF ~ A 1320 RECORDS SHOWCASE
APRIL 1ST at TEMPLE, SF

DAVID MURPHY AND DAVID PHIPPS OF STS9, NALEPA DUB ORCHESTRA,THE FLYING SKULLS,
VIRTUAL BOY, & SAVAGE HENRY

Thursday, April 1st @ 9 PM (Doors 830 PM)
Temple
540 Howard Street, San Francisco
Ages 21+ Welcome
Click HERE to purchase tickets

San Francisco, CA ~ 1320 Records & ArtNowSF are pleased to debut the first ever 1320 Records showcase, 1320.SF. This inaugural event will take place Thursday, April 1st at Temple in San Francisco and will feature 1320 artists including (members of) STS9, Nalepa Dub Orchestra, The Flying Skulls, Virtual Boy & Savage Henry as well as visuals by Kevlar. In addition to seasoned veterans STS9, these local 1320 artists represent the crème de la crème of the up-and-coming electronic music scene.

The intention of the 1320 Showcase is to celebrate music, bring to light local talent, and build an ever-expanding community; a musical support system. Look for more 1320 Showcases around the country in 2010.

Super Galactic Expansive

The marriage between hip hop and electronic beats has been inevitable since the respective rises of each genre a few decades ago. As it culminates, there’s a lot of abstract expression on the airwaves. Countless attempts have emerged, many with more focus on the gimmick than in musical substance. Elevating the style with more technical prowess than ever before seen, Super Galactic Expansive is what hip hop fanboys and glitch nerds alike have been waiting to hear. MC Amagine’s philosophical content is delivered in impeccably assembled multisyllable rhyme schemes. KiloWatts synthetic yet organic production style forms to complement the vocals, merging the long standing beat/rhyme dichotomy into a single resonating voice. Citing any number of influences can’t paint an accurate picture of this product. Supersensible science is a story, as personal as it is cosmically conscious in its narrative. Headphone lessons aside, it’ll take no more than two bars of the first beat for your pulse to automatically synchronize with it.
Supersensible Science will be released for FREE on 1320 Records Tuesday, March 23rd.

Nalepa Dub Orchestra
Live At The WIltern
2/12/2010

LA-based electronic musician, multimedia artist, music tech professor
and mad scientist collector Steve Nalepa combines deep dub bass,
glitchy beats, bioacoustic atmospheres and beautiful rhodes melodies
to create his patented brand of ambient glitch dub. Nalepa has
produced tracks with such legends as Bill Laswell and Pharoah Sanders,
performed with the LA Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall, and
shared the stage with some of the most revered electronic musicians
and video artists in the world. Here he is joined by an all-star
ensemble of his former students to perform electro-symphonic
audiovisual versions of his compositions as the Nalepa Dub Orchestra.

Nalepa Dub Orchestra:
Rhodes, Dub Bass, Lasers – Nalepa
Cello – Esther Yim
Viola – Jarrett Threadgill
Violin – Maria Myrick
Saxophone – Collin McClanahan
Oboe, Tambourine – Morgan Hughes Beckett
Guitar – Henry Allen (Virtual Boy)
Synth, Vocoder, Handclaps – Preston Walker (Virtual Boy)
Beats, Bleeps – David Streit (FuzZ)
Drums – Andrew Swanson (St Andrew)