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It's Time For More Mica Levi In Your Life
A brief musical history of the discordant Mica Levi.. One of our favourite musicians, 28-year-old Brit Mica Levi (Micachu), was just nominated for a BAFTA for her original soundtrack to Jonathan Glazer's eerie sci-fi independent thriller Under The Skin. Mica's already taken home Best Composer at the European Film Awards, with Oscar nominations approaching, hers is on a short list of original scores Hollywood is buzzing about. The BAFTA's will see Mica in competition with Antonio Sanchez for Birdman, Alexandre Desplate for The Grand Budapest Hotel, Hans Zimmer’s Interstellar, and Jóhann Jóhannsson for The Theory of Everything. It's a well-deserved tip of the hat to Mica, whose recently started to show off her composition chops: up until recently, Mica's mostly known in music circles for the experimental, dismantled pop she makes in her band Micachu And The Shapes, however she's classically trained. Mica generally keeps her career / work pretty low key, and isn't big on hype, so there's
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5 Under 500
Five bands on the come-up we're keeping an eye on.. A lot of acts that you read about on music websites - the hot/upcoming/buzz-worthy articles - come from a press release, with the authors sent a lot of awesome new music and having to sift through for the good stuff. With that in mind we thought we'd go on a little hunt through the online realm to try and find a few acts that haven't broken over the 500-Like mark (because like it or not, the number of FB likes you've accrued can play a role in the amount of online love you'll receive). So we hope 5 UNDER 500 will bring to your attention a few emerging acts, who are under 500 likes on Facebook, and whose sounds we are very much digging. Men Among Boys – Rivers  With a clear influences being Kanye West’s album 808s & Heartbreak the credibility of Men Among Boys wavers until you realize they were able to take a piece of genius and re-appropriate it into something that has its own identity. Rivers appears as a elemental slow-jam with echo
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New Music: Spirit Faces - Cloudplay (Feat. BUOY) (Time Pilot Remix)
Time Pilot turn up the intensity on a track from Sydney's Spirit Faces.. Perth producers Time Pilot had a really industrious 2014; edging their way into the contemporary Australian electronic music map with some promising originals, including a killer number, Vowel Play, on our Pilerats Records RAT PACK #2 Compilation, before ending the year with a big undertaking - a remix for Peking Duk & Safia's Take Me Over, that they very much nailed. Their studio work was matched only with their aptitude on the live circuit; as they tore apart the local stage at CIRCO Festival, and took on live sets at a number of WA club nights, with aplomb. Time Pilot show no signs of slowing down in 2015, in fact they've hit the ground running, putting some work into Cloudplay, a warm, low-key offering from Sydney electronic instrumentalist Spirit Faces (TEEF Recordings), that Spirit Faces shared with us as a premiere on Pilerats last last year. Time Pilot imbue the lilting track with razory atmospherics and b