Tom Bioly and Benjamin Fröhlich—the enterprising pair behind one of our favorite independent record labels, Permanent Vacation—lent their mixing skills and fine taste to London-based Clash magazine this week for a downloadable DJ podcast. The Perm Vac guys eschewed pulling from their own roster of talent in favor of what they’re listening to now—a testament to their genuine musical interests—for a playlist that includes Bonobo, …
Since first writing about them on CH in 2010, LA’s Superhumanoids seem to only get better every time we check in with the trio of multi-facted musicians. With a show on the horizon at NYC’s Mercury Lounge next week, their latest single “Geri” has been on constant office rotation, keeping us fueled with their dreamy roller coaster of sound that goes from baritone to soprano …
The Underachievers: Gold Soul Theory We’ve been fans of Brooklyn duo The Underachievers since catching them at Boiler Room’s Flying Lotus Takeover in NYC last September, which was shortly after they released “Gold Soul Theory,” a jaw-dropping follow up to the first track off their theoretically-charged mixtape Indigoism. In a thoughtful riff on Plato’s five regimes, the track is charged with unbelievably smooth flows about …
