Artwork FTLOL (Group Exhibit "Wake Up Inspired" Nov. 2012)

Clash Contrast: Twice A Tricycle EP To Be Released in Spring 2013

                                   

                         www.myspace.com/clashcontrast

           New EP to be released soon: Spring 2013

                                         Twice A Tricycle EP

Recordings in the works at this time, wait for the B-Sides and other remixes to follow on MySpace.com/clashcontrast and Soundcloud.com/clashcontrast

Come With me on an Adventure of Curiosity!

Hava Java Art Exhibit

tristin_n_g photography May 7th-May 27th 2013

Fine Art Exhibit from Rock and Roll 2009 (St. John's)

For more info.

https://www.facebook.com/havajava

https://www.facebook.com/havajava/photos_stream

Directions Have Changed (RPM Challenge 2013) Clash Contrast

Directions Have Changed

Find out more at:

http://keycontrast.blogspot.ca

Clash at:

clashcontrast@live.com

New album expected from Clash Contrast in Spring 2013: 

                 

 Twice a Tricycle

Best Music of 2012 on Key Contrast 93.5 FM

Clash at CHMR 93.5 FM Tuesdays 7-9pm www.chmr.ca

Attention!
Brand New Music Blog from Key Contrast in 2013
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Bonobo - Black Sands Remixed / Ninja Tune


Ninja Tune electronica and break beat remixes from Black Sands (release from 2010). Four different versions of Eyesdown with composer Simon Green and vox. from Andreya Triani. Ambient and cinematic effects inherent in every track. Nothing quite like the two Green additions (2012) to the original 2010 album track list. Beautiful value-filled musical experience.

Skrillex - Bangarang / Atlantic

A hit song. An unbelievably catchy tune. A banger. These songs are catchy hits, and therein, bangers. They are dense material covering the gamut of hit, catchy, banger, basic dance electronica. enjoyable grinds, rolls, rises, and sampledelica. Seven tracks. According the online dictionary of urban slang (www.urbandictionary.com), it also refers to:

1. Battle cry of the Lost Boys in the movie Hook.

2. Jamaican slang defined as a hubbub, uproar, disorder, or disturbance.

3. General exclamation meant to signify approval or amazement.

This album is bangarang. A terrific extended play that moves the dance floor or the day's excess. Loud, brash and intense. Sonny Moore's (former post-hardcore vocalist) fourth consecutive EP, former post-hardcore vocalist now dubstep producer.

Cat Power - Sun / Matador

A beautiful album. New and original material displaying her vocal prowess. An accomplished and terrific direction for Cat Power's lyrical content, and emotive use of electronic sound. Very listenable, and exciting.

Wax Tailor - Dusty Rainbow from the Dark / Lab'Oratoire

A follow-through of trip-hop beats, vox. and sampledelica. Good fun, and a 2012 retrospective of by-gone sounds. Quality listening pleasure. Raps, melody, breaks. All-around righteousness.

Trust - Trst / Arts and Crafts

A Canadian release. Full-length electronic foray into synthesized electronica and dark wave. Slow and assured, it takes its time. It is worth the quiet listen, or the full-blown. Quite an astonishing release. Sombre and fulfilled. Danceable and inviting to the experienced ear.

Dub Pistols - Worshipping the Dollar / Sunday Best Recordings

A various artists must to listen to today, from track one to track eleven. Grimy raps on most tracks entice and move. Beats are reggae and skank, and fully delightful!

Polica - Give me the Ghost / Totally Gross National Product

Mesmerizing lyrics and vocals. Momentous and scintillating. Fills the darkest caverns of kinetic winter and blooms still in the auric spring.

Kid Koala - 12 Bit Blues / Ninja Tune

Surprise! Happy 2012!

A Tribe Called Red - A Tribe Called Red / Self-Released

A Canadian release. The local dream. Well-thought and planned, and long-awaited. Personal and dynamic. A tread in the red! The DJ's are Aboriginal Canadian, and combine PowWow music with electronic dance beats. Download your copy of the album at: http://www.electricpowwow.com/ and New Trapline EP available for download immediately! They are making waves across North-America.

Shigeto - Lineage / Ghostly International

Defined and intent. Deliberate and calculated. Zach Saginaw's experimental, IDM and abstract hip hop are captivating and a geometric listen. Appreciative work on electronic sound and composition.

For more information, try the published review on:

http://earshot-online.com


Special Mentions also in 2012:  Serj Tankian, Baroness, Rodriguez, Bloc Party, Jamie Woon, and so many others!

Thank you for making 2012 and formidable year from independent music!

 Clash- host of Key Contrast on Chmr.ca 93.5 FM in ST. John's, NL

New Music for Fall 2011 at CHMR 93.5 FM

M83, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. 2011

disc 1-Track Sounds

1.Intro - Amazing intro, sounds too good to be true!
2.Midnight City - Beautiful mellow vocals, "(...)The city is my church.
It wraps me in its blinding twilight (...)" Gorgeous new-wave electronica for the
imaginative, melancholic masses. A little retro 80's inspired.
9.This Bright Flash -"I killed all the rainbows and the species".

disc 2-Track Sounds

1.My Tears are Becoming a Sea - Orchestral and Epic! This is addictive beauty!
2.New Map - Easy listening and thoroughly enjoyable.
4.Another Wave From You - Similar to Sigur Ros from Iceland.

Feist, Metals - Really lovely new take on her classic sound.

Justice - Recorded in Paris 2010-2011 by Xavier and Gaspard
Favourites: Civilization, On'n'on, New Lands

Mount Wittenburg Orca Dirty Projectors+Bjork
-In the beginning there was an interest, and then it evolved into a
continuous dream.

Graffitti 6-Free EP
Soulful, throaty and with a contemporary Motown sound. Easy groove and
hip. Favourite track #7 Foxes

Roots Manuva-Wrong Tom, Toddla T and 4Everevolution in 2011 alone
-8 albums in. Not counting his remixes and collabs. Huge heavy entrance,
a new sorted beauty. Smooth and eloquent raps. New sounds for the field of
musical samples Roots Manuva prepares us for. Kudos!

1977-So is the Sea EP (Songs from Seaforth - Julie Kendall / 2011)
Canadian Content. Nice, twinkling introduction to her sound artistry. A bit
reminiscent of girl-a-go-go surf-rock.
Track 2 - You Got A Way. Terrific; melodic and sunny!
Track 4 - Sunshine. And Milk and Honey.
"Keep your head up, when you're fed up, things ain't going to change,
time ain't going to wait, open up your mind and wave good-bye,
to the stars"

Mates of State - Mountaintops / Barsuk Records
The duo has a new, and again very captivating, memorable fun album. Cool
electro-beats and good lyrics.
Track 4 - Unless I'm led. Good fun electro-pop. Stark lyrics a bit.
Track 9 - Change. "There's a blue light special in the red light district.
It's amazing, how sentimental we get."

My Brightest Diamond. All things will unwind.
Track 3 - In the Beginning - Hallelujah! Her voices is like a pan flute,
unexpected and heartfelt. 11-tracks

Bjork - Biophilia 2011 / Nonesuch Records
Track 1 - Moon An exciting entrance into the new album's feel and direction.
Track 3 - Crystalline Beautiful lyrics, and well sung.
Track 9 - Mutual Core Delightful, gorgeous composition.
Track 13 - Nattura Electro-beats on this extra track, and what a surprise!
 It's a compliment to the entire album.