Douglas Teike (aka Retic) - Works for Piano and Ambient Guitar

It's a downright gorgeous day down here in Portland visiting with friends and working on projects. Blue sky, a delicate wind blowing through the trees across from my friend's porch - all providing an amazing visual accompaniment to what I'm listening to right now: Douglas Teike's beautiful album Works for Piano and Ambient Guitar.

Perhaps best known as Retic (under which he's made outstanding records and performed inventive & cinematic live PA sets), Doug establishes a mood that gives me the chills. It is not always easy to make music that naturally and effortlessly reaches deep into your soul, but Doug accomplishes this on this record. The mood of Works for Piano and Ambient Guitar is reflective, hopeful, and richly textured with generous flourishes of synth washes and guitar loops, creating a world you want to dive in headfirst. I cannot recommend this enough.

Douglas Teike - Works for Piano and Ambient Guitar

Deepchild Returns to SEATTLE!

This year Decibel Festival brings you the Shameless Showcase starring Dan Bell & Deepchild Thursday September 23rd 2010 @ Chop Suey in Capital Hill. Last March, Deepchild came to Seattle for Menami's Music Madness.

Deepchild niced up the party just right.

Deepchild will be returning for the Shameless Showcase at Decibel 7 this year on September 23rd. He will be joined by techno legend, Dan Bell. Who will be throwing down a DJ set. Also local DJ CTRL_ALT_DLT of Sweatbox will be setting the stage for the evening in the main room.

The Shameless residents will be holding down the back room with local producer 214!

214 just came out with a lovely little dB themed mix > 214 SoundCloud

Also 214's new release was reviewed by RA... check it > RA reviews 214

For more info on Deepchild...check out his website

For more info on this year's Decibel Festival check out their website

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Decibel Festival's SHAMELESS SHOWCASE

Thursday September 23rd - TWO ROOMS!

Doors @ 9pm / 21+

$13 Adv. / $15 at the door / Free with dB Pass
ADVANCE TICKETS LINK

Chop Suey : 1325 E. Madison St.

Photosynthesis Video Recap

Photosynthesis 2010 was a weekend to remember. We're all still reeling from such an amazing festival and will have more to share soon. In the meantime, enjoy this little video recap Cameron made.

Cottage Country Volume 5 out now!!

The mind-blowing classic rock DJ mix series from Toronto's Dougie Boom now has the first new (and 5th) volume in over a year. Picture perfect for any camping and/or road trip, the fictional radio station The Loon plays an expertly mixed series of classic rock tracks and hilarious "station breaks". Get this and all other volumes before heading out to Photosynthesis this weekend!

Here's more from Dougie himself:

THAT'S RIGHT THE LOON IS BACK!
Cottage Country volume 5 is finally up! Picking up from where last year left off and dubbed “After Dark”, this mix has a ‘late night, stare at the fire’ kind of vibe . But fear not it still rocks and gets progressively rocking (especially through the next volumes). Instead, fear bears and poisonous plants.

Dmoney pres. Cottage Country Vol. 5 by Dougie Boom
Tinariwen — "Kyardardem"
David Essex — "Rock On"
Map of Africa — "Freaky Ways"
Heart — "These Dreams"
Payolas — "Eyes Of the Stranger (Full Length Version)"
The Police — "Walking On the Moon"
Mott The Hoople — "All The Young Dudes"
The Jimi Hendrix Experience — "Burning Of the Midnight Lamp"
Mountain — "Theme For An Imaginary Western"
Donovan — "Hurdy Gurdy Man"
Bob Dylan — "Lay Lady Lay"
David Bowie — "Song For Bob Dylan"
The Band — "Up On Cripple Creek"
Chicago — "Feelin' Stronger Every Day"
The Black Crowes — "Remedy"
Aerosmith — "Last Child (Home Sweet Home)"
The Beatles — "Come Together"
David Bowie — "Starman"
The Kinks — "Big Sky"
Deep Purple — "Blind"
The Guess Who — "American Woman"
Andrew Allsgood Experience — "Macho Wizard"
Heart — "Magic Man"
Chilliwack — "Crazy Talk (Diggy & Dougie Edit)"
Led Zeppelin — "All My Love"
Shuggie Otis — "Strawberry Letter 23"
Seals & Croft - "Summer Breeze"
Osanna — "Variazione II (My Mind Flies)"
The Clash — "Straight To Hell"
Brian Eno — "St. Elmo's Fire"
Toto — "Africa"
Rush — "Tom Sawyer"

Expect Volumes 6 & 7 to be released over the next couple of weeks. And if you haven't checked the old Cottage Countrys, they're on this page. http://dougieboom.podomatic.com

Say..................................... What?!

I just found this short video clip taken from April's edition of Say What?! It's only been a couple of months and I'm already missing this extremely HOT, yet short lived monthly. Buffalo Madonna and Trent Moorman saved the day when the DJ was having technical difficulties by keeping the show going with an impromptu freestyle set. The video might be a bit dark, the sound might be a bit crappy, but it was a magical clubbing moment that even the 18+ kids go to enjoy.