XLR8R News and Features: Listen to Barker & Baumecker's New Remix of The Field

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1. Listen to Barker & Baumecker's New Remix of The Field
2. Moog's Upcoming Sub37 Synth Detailed in New 20-Minute Video
3. Preview Fort Romeau's Forthcoming 'Her Dream' EP
4. Video Premiere: Presk "Saluki"
5. Or:la "Reach My Soul (Embryo New York Mix)"
6. Mano Le Tough Announces New EP
7. M-Audio Unveils Trigger Finger Pro
8. Computer Jay "Binary Fix (Eprom Remix)"
9. Com Truise Shares New Track, Announces North American Tour
10. Tom Demac Readies New EP for Aus
11. Chorus
12. Mia Dora "Button"
13. SnowSkull & Jauge "DreamLess (Instrumental)"

Listen to Barker & Baumecker's New Remix of The Field Posted: 23 Jan 2014 12:31 PM PST With this week's release of the vinyl-only remix EP for "Cupid's Head," the title track from the latest LP by The Field (pictured above), issuing label Kompakt has given us the premiere of Berlin techno duo Barker & Baumecker's version of the lush cut. read more

Best New Tracks - Pitchfork: Mac DeMarco: "Passing Out Pieces"

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1. Mac DeMarco: "Passing Out Pieces"
2. Holly Herndon: "Chorus"
3. Sevendeaths: "All Night Graves"

Mac DeMarco: "Passing Out Pieces" Posted: 21 Jan 2014 01:47 PM PST It's obviously a figure of speech, but my first reaction to learning that Mac DeMarco titled his new album Salad Days was wondering when he last came in contact with lettuce or any vegetable for that matter. For all of his off-the-record geniality and approachability, there's something seriously unhealthy about the world he inhabits as a songwriter, and even on his breakthrough 2, the eerie, trebly production and deadpan vocals on "My Kind of Woman" and "Ode To Viceroy" suggested a guy who showered up only to lounge in his filthy apartment; it wasn't dirty as in "vulgar", just unclean. "Passing Out Pieces" sounds like DeMarco finally acknowledging his predilection for the wrong crowd, contrasting a bit of self-reckoning with that omnipresent, gap-tooted smile: "Passing out pieces of me/ You know nothing comes free...What ma don't know is starting to take its toll." These are lines that sound unusually plaintive for DeMarco, and yet refuse to reveal what's really going on in express terms. It's a guy who sounds like he's about to share his darkest secrets and then orders another round of shots. Meanwhile, the sneaky melody and chintzy synths evoke Harry Nilsson in his bathrobe, another classicist tunesmith who couldn't shake his natural inclination towards entropy. Mac DeMarco: "Passing Out Pieces" on SoundCloud.