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04.05.10Lenn9o9n – Relining CoffinsLenn9o9n - Relining Graves download: [download#56#nohits] Listen to Alli: [audio:http://www.daydreamgeneration.com/MP3/Lenn9o9n-Alli.mp3] From the first time I heard Lenn9o9n cover The Beatles' 'Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey' I knew I was listening to something quite extraordinary. Everybody knows that the synthesizer maimed popular music in the 1980s, but here was somebody who might actually make you rethink electronic pop music completely. Not from choice, but necessity (think a 26 year old American travelling the globe with a keyboard strapped to his back, currently alighting in Italy), with the exception of impassioned vocals drenched in precision effects, electronic beats and synthetic melodies are ...
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01.29.10Syd Lane & Chansons De GesteI know what you're thinking. You're thinking that this was all over. Well a couple of months ago it was. I felt like The Daydream Generation and Quixodelic Records had been blown up as big as they could go without bursting, and it was time to allow them to drift off into the digital aether as a failed experiment, or a lot of fun that had turned into too much hard work. download: [download#46#nohits] Then from out of nowhere, CHANSONS DE GESTE's "It Begins In Beauty" landed in my crowded in-box. My initial reaction was 'Oh well, if I'm really done, then ...
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11.02.08Daydream Generation 6WHAT? DG6 - as you might deduce from it's title - is our 6th compilation that we've put together since March 2007. Many times I've found myself saying "whatever the fuck it is we're doing", but I think I might have finally figured it out. On a very basic level what we're doing is stumbling around trying to find great new music, and in turn provide a platform for mostly unsigned bands to be heard. Most of these will not be household names or the product of fashion, many will be self-recorded or essentially lo-fi by nature, and some will have ...