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Video: Purity Ring - Push / Pull
Purity Ring premiere the first video from their forthcoming 'Another Eternity' album.. We were awash with Purity Ring fever in December last year, when the Canadian duo released their first music in two years (since their 2012 album Shrines) with dreamy single Push / Pull, a track that, along with subsequent release Begin Again, demonstrated Purity Ring ability to make killer music is as strong as ever, and that has us hanging out for their sophomore release, Another Eternity, which is due out next month. A couple months on, Megan James and Corrin Roddick have just given us the visuals to accompany the track. The surreal video is directed by Renata Kaksha, and begins with Megan’s face enshrouded in darkness, before she tumbles through a cosmic ocean of purple and pink, in a visual echo of the track's lyrics: "A fever billowed with the wind / And I obeyed the sky therein." Dressed in a pink ostrich feathery-like dress, James weaves in and out of her own hair, before light begins to radi
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Video: Ego - Between Dreams Mixtape
Audio/Visual maestro Ego releases the full version of his funky mixtape.. After teasing us with a visual edit of Kanye & Jay’s Bound 2 and a Where The Wild Things Are edition of Electric Mantis’ Flips & Flops, Drips & Drops, earlier last year (which also appears in this show), Australian DJ Ego has dropped his full Audio Visual (A/V) live show, Between Dreams, online. Described as a “rip through the ether - a flight through fantasies, fables, fiction, imaginings, visions, wishes, washed-out memories, would-be’s and could-be’s, soundtracked by future beat, bass and house”, Between Friends boasts an attractive lineup of tunes, including ODESZA, Caribou and Basenji (full tracklist below), accompanied by some pretty stellar and psychedelic takes of moments in film, pop culture, '80s advertising and vintage erotica. TRACKLIST:  1. Sweater Beats - Rain Dance 2. Odesza - Say My Name (Atticus Beats Remix) 3. Giraffage - Tell Me 4. Spank Rock - Gully 5. Caribou - Our Love 6. Sophie - Nothing M
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Video: Peter Bibby - Stinkin' Rich [Pilerats Live Recording]
An acoustic version of one the standout tracks from Bibby's Hates My Boozin' album.. "When somebody mentions this 'Australia Sound' thing I don't think of the instrumental hip hop or chillwave that they're generally referring to, I think of people like Paul Kelly, Will Wagner & The Smith Street Band... and Peter Bibby. It's not just because they're singin' songs with our accent, it's the stories and on-stage banter that mostly defines that Aussie identity in music for me. Having been brought up in Perth's eastern suburbs, worked as a plasterer and busking for a little bit, he's seen enough of the real suburban Australia to project us a little more genuinely to the world than theatrics like Croc Dundee - and coming from the same circles of talent as world beating Perth bands like Tame Impala and Pond, I can't help but feel the number on Peter's ticket out of here is about to be called." The above is an excerpt from our beloved magazine in regards to an article about Peter Bibby, and lik
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