endless summer january.

for when summer seems like a million miles away,
here's that long awaited knightlife edit of cut copy's
so haunted. maybe we should also be asking: what
is it that makes us still come back to this track after
almost a year (an eternity in blog time)? and yeah,
it's almost been a year. before there was in ghost
colours, there was the so cosmic mixtape, cut copy's
preview of what was to be their annus mirabilis.
haunted with machines of the past and sounds of
the future, the so cosmic mixtape inhabits the
kind of space in time where trends are irrelevant,
music is about feeling rather than following and
1969 is just as relevant as 2020. somewhere in the
lovely looped piano riff of aphex twin's 'on' giving way
to the swirling sunburst dance rock of 'so haunted'
that started it all off, the ice melted and prismatic
reality set in in 256-bit colour. the rock kids were on
the dancefloor, the mode was maxi, and new order
was transcendental. it was great.

and so with the knightlife end edit on so cosmic,
heartbeast/wolfgang came into existence to chase
endless summers of blue-sky gazing. this is the hand
we hold, kids. so here you go: back to the beginning
as a way of looking forward to another endless
summer. it may be 5 months away, but this might
help it get here a bit quicker.

cut copy - so haunted (knightlife's sun-soaked reprise)

tokyo dreaming.

photo: elise castrodale

let's never stop. no excuses, no looking back.
welcome to the end of 2008. it's coming soon.

02: so haunted

HBWG 02: SO HAUNTED wakes up with a clear mind
and hazy scenery to the ultimate display of being totally
lost and yet still on to something essential. this issue we
let the the ghosts back in, feeling loveless and yet...never
more in love. this is no fantasy, no stupid escape. this is
real life, this is you and me. this is real life honey, just
you wait and see.

download HBWG02: so haunted.

HBWG02: so haunted
heartbeast: these are the dreams of heartbeast.
wolfgang: these are the dreams of wolfgang.
so haunted: things will never be the same again.
october language: spectral transmissions of the season.
too late: there is no going back to the endless summer.
data loss: deleting the months.
3am mix: owen meyers gives us another late night.
tokyo: stories from a dream city.

now available and more present than ever.

neon nights

image: sandra croft

owen meyers releases his 3am mix in conjunction with
HBWG 02: so haunted, and it is a fitting accompaniment
of moody atmospherics and lush textures. taking it late
into the night to form a perfect sonic analogy of the
elasticity of time at 3am, this mix delivers an enticing
phantasmagoria of late night moods and a few surprises
that all come together beautifully to form a diverse
palette of sounds and textures that doesn't sit too
comfortably on either side of the dance-chillout divide.

if you've ever wondered what's between the clubs and
the blogs, this mix imagines those spaces between the
last club-banger and the light of morning, and coalesces
it all into an elusive, dreamy, pre-dawn mood of desire
enmeshed with technology.

you can download it for free here.

1. Gorillaz - Kids With Guns (Quiet Village Remix)
2. Deadmau5 & MC Flipside - Hi Friend (Original Mix)
3. Booka Shade - Charlotte (Dubfire Remix)
4. Bjork - The Dull Flame Of Desire (Modeselektor's Rmx For Girls)
5. The Black Ghosts - Some Way Through This (Plastician & Skream Remix)
6. Guns'N'Bombs - Nothing is Getting Us Anywhere (Acid Girls Remix)
7. Pantha du Prince - Moonstruck
8. Air France - June Evenings
9. Tricky - Slow
10. A-Trak - Say Whoa
11. Kill The Noise - Hey You
12. The Glass - Mad At You (Arveene & Misk Remix)
13. The Proxy - Raven (Erol Alkan Live Set Extract)
14. Plastikman - Spastik (Dubfire Rework)
15. Elektrochemie - Caiti
16. Lulu Rouge ft. Trentemoller - Lulu's Theme
17. Swayzak - Smile & Receive (Apparat Remix)

so haunted

photo: elise castrodale

FINALLY HERE!
HBWG02: SO HAUNTED
out 16/12

tokyo so haunted
october language
too late
dataloss
owen meyers's 3am mix

watch this space.

october language.

photos: sandra croft

the language of october is nothing else but the impressions
and signs that nature itself speaks to us melted into sound.
autumn is a time of waiting and watching time go by, not
for action and loudness. as nature slows down after the
affluence of summer, october language speaks of the decay
of light, of leaves, of the quality of the sunlight and the
paradox of nature being both ephemeral and hauntingly
transient.

so, slowly, roll over and face the end. winter's here, but not
quite. october language whispers in these quiet spaces, and
what makes it such an effective expression of autumn is its
understanding of decay, the type that is always practically
imperceptible, happening over days or weeks or months
until the day you realise it's been happening all along.
grinding through filter overload, heavily processed guitars
and distorted loops that seem to go on forever, the sound
of october is about understanding that all beauty inherently
has an element of decay; behind the sunlight and warmth
there has to lurk an unspeakable melancholy and sadness
that will seep into the listener like the cold air on an autumn
night, slowly and imperceptibly, but surely.

so maybe another way to think about the language of october
is to imagine all the glorious pop music of the summer aging
and eroding before your ears in time-lapsed timelessness,
leaving only microscopic sediments that go on to form the
soul of winter as the heart of summer deteriorates.

belong - october language
belong - who told you this room exists