Tag: Blue Hawaii
MP3: Braids – Amends
Braids have embraced the darkness! A lovely single from the Montreal band who basically now sound like a dead ringer for Raphaelle’s other project Blue Hawaii. But that’s a good thing, wethinks. Braids are releasing this track as part of a 12″ on Arbutus.
Remix: Blue Hawaii x Wildarms
Wild Arms – Twice (Blue Hawaii Agoracid Remix)
Blue Hawaii with a nice and deep remix of Brooklyn’s Wild Arms. Premiered on Dummy.
Pile of Best Albums: Blue Hawaii – Untogether
Blue Hawaii – In Two
OF COURSE we love this. Two amazing records from Arbutus in a month? They’re fucking KILLING it. Much has been written about Blue Hawaii over the past few months, so we won’t add to the chorus (blah blah Braids, blah blah, an actual couple). What we will say is that their debut album is amazing, and completely in keeping with what we expected from them. It’s the perfect futuristic Sunday morning hangover record.
Remix: Waterfront Property x Blue Hawaii
Blue Hawaii – In Two
Adam Wilcox aka Waterfront Property (and half of Coxkarnn) takes on one of the year’s best songs, Blue Hawaii‘s “In Two”. It eliminates the clean groove of the original and it makes into atmospheric night-driving dark pop.
Blue Hawaii repped Waterfront Property in last week’s Silent Shoutout interview, you can check out the rest of their picks here.
Silent Shoutouts: Blue Hawaii
Every so often we have one of our favourite artists come in and do a guest post talking about their favourite music of the past year. This time we’ve got AGOR, one half of Blue Hawaii, telling us about his favourites from Montreal and beyond. Blue Hawaii’s “In Two” was one of our top 25 songs of last year, and “Try to Be” is easily one of the best songs of this year so far. The entire world is anticipating their new album Untogether, which is out March 4 and is available for pre-order from Arbutus.
Blue Hawaii are performing on Friday in Toronto at a Silent Shout co-presentation with the legendary Wavelength at their annual festival. The incredible line-up also includes Doldrums, Cadence Weapon, Blonde Elvis and Thighs. Tickets are available here.
Flow Child used to play in a group called Pop Winds with Devon from Majical Cloudz. Highly recommended, uplighting electronic/vocal. A product of pure creativity, isolation, true warmth and depth. You can download it here.
And there’s Morgan Greenwood from Calgary: you must download this collected songs/works of his off the Bandcamp. Incredible, tundra/Aphex Twin inspired tracks. Ranging from ambient to driving music. He’s on tour with Baths right now.
Moonbahn is making really cool acid techno and is playing around town a bunch. Doldrums and us are trying to get him to DJ our launch party.
This is Cloudface from Vancouver. Acid…very pleasant listening and evening music. Being released on Mood Hut, a cool new label out of Vancouver.
Adam Wilcox aka Waterfront Property has been a Montreal staple for DJing and recently, a go-to keyboard guy. His solo tracks are incredible, showcasing guitar and vocals, but this guy is deeply rooted in many genres, not the least of which being hard ass techno and house. CHECK IT OUT
This girl Ramzi makes insane soundscapes, sings, plays a lot of great parties. She’s very cool — her sounds feel like they are on the brink of bubbling over, but are held together like magnetic fields.
Blue Hawaii are on Facebook and Twitter, and AGOR is on Soundcloud and Twitter. Follow them.
Mix: Best Songs of January 2013
1. Galaxius Mons – Cup My Aching Mind (Crazy Epitaph)
2. Great Marble – In the Air
3. Ken Park – He Says I’m an Island
4. Blue Hawaii – Try to Be
5. Petra Glynt – Sour Paradise
6. Jake Finne – Black Panthers
7. Negative Beach – Vacant Home (Demo)
8. Violence – Façades
9. Vierance – Beaches
10. Doldrums – Anomaly
11. Crowns – HLYLND
12. Bliss Club – Breeze Punk 2
13. Potpourri of Pearls – James and the Cold Gun (Kate Bush cover)
14. Rakam – Le Jazz Dans la Rue
15. Coxkarnn – Blud for a Sec
16. Jeremy Greenspan – Sirius Shake
Remix: No Big Deal x Blue Hawaii
Blue Hawaii – Try To Be (No Big Deal Remix)Excellent bootleg here from Toronto’s No Big Deal of the best song of 2013 so far.
MP3: Blue Hawaii – Try to Be
Haven’t heard anything quite like this before. Incredibly beautiful. Blue Hawaii‘s Untogether is out March 4 on Arbutus. Be sure to catch them when we co-present them at the Wavelength Festival in Toronto! Feb 15 at the Great Hall.
Remix: Blue Hawaii x Majical Cloudz
Majical Cloudz – Turns Turns Turns (Blue Hawaii Flüchtig Mix)
A quite pretty atmospheric remix of Majical Cloudz by Arbutus labelmates Blue Hawaii.
Top 25 Songs of 2012
2012 has been the strongest year in memory for Canadian electronic pop. Established artists started new electronic projects, amazing new talents appeared seemingly out of nowhere, and one of our shining stars became a superstar recognized the world over. Canada is clearly at the epicenter of the zeitgeist – it’s a testament to the unbelievable talent in this country that we have 100 songs to present to you as the best of the year, and STILL had to exclude so many excellent tracks.
Montreal and Toronto may still have the most representatives of any Canadian city, but dark electro is thriving everywhere, from Halifax to Calgary, Ottawa to Vancouver, and exciting new hotbeds appearing in London, Ontario, and Grande Prairie, Alberta. We’re not too exclusively nationalist here at Silent Shout, so border states (minus NYC) appear too, with artists from Minneapolis, Seattle, and Brattleboro, Vermont making our list.
A huge thank you to all our readers, the folks who attend our events, and the bands that make brilliant music across this land for making 2012 an unforgettable year for us. Here’s to an even bigger 2013 for Canadian electronic music.
Top 100 Songs: 100-76 /// 75-51 /// 50-26 /// 25-1
25. Holy Family – My Kayfabe Babe
24. Essaie Pas – Carcajou
23. Pat Jordache – Steps (Damaged Goods)
22. Blue Hawaii – In Two
21. Mac DeMarco – She’s Really All I Need
20. Prince Innocence – Girls
19. Cabaal – Out of Body
18. You’ll Never Get To Heaven – It’s All Over
17. Triple Gangers – Molly
16. Dresden Dresses – Fallen Angel
15. Prince Nifty – Vox News Double Double Dose
14. How Sad (formerly Goose Hut) – MACEE
13. Yacht Club – Tropicana
12. Jay Arner – Broken Glass
11. Purity Ring – Obedear
10. Silkken Laumann – House Of Common Problems
9. Renny Wilson – Feel Like a Child
8. Mozart’s Sister – Chained Together
7. Kontravoid – Silent Visions
5. Homo Duplex – On or On and On
4. Brusque Twins – Speaking In Colour
2. Doldrums – She Is The Wave
1. Yacht Club – Flash (Single Edit)
Top 100 Songs: 100-76 /// 75-51 /// 50-26 /// 25-1
Previously: Top 20 Albums /// Top 20 Videos /// Top 15 Remixes /// Top 10 EPs
