Tag Archives: Lo-Fi

Mark Ge : Your Blues Are Rough [NS044]

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“Mark Ge is a musician and writer from the North-Eastern United States. His first EP includes a collection of lo-fi bedroom recordings and one studio recording. Most of Your Blues Are Rough is just Mark Ge singing and playing guitar. The lo-fi quality really brings the listener and these tracks to a more intimate setting. ‘Brother’ and ‘The Other Side’ share a similar aural joy found in early tape recordings from the Mountain Goats. ‘Stephanie’ on the other hand is eerily similar to Casiotone For The Painfully Alone with drum machine and simple synth melodies. ‘The Road’, the only studio recording on this release, sees a more polished sound and additional instrumentation from Mark. Additional production on tracks 1-3,5-6 by Tim Dwyer.”

Release page here
Direct download (MP3) here

Format: 6 x File, EP, MP3, 320 kbps
Released: January 2012
Style: Lo-Fi, Folk, Indie

NICOLAS FALCON // Nicolas Falcon [aaahh011]

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“Somewhere in Milan lives a man, who likes The Beatles. Big fucking surprise. He has also taken a shine to The Velvet Underground, Portishead, The Pixies and Tom Waits. You may, in fact, have heard of more exciting stuff. However, there are reasons for the popularity of the acts mentioned above. For one, a generally recognised high quality of their creations. Now, when a young musician like Nicolas Falcon draws inspiration from these people, it is cocksurely not exactly exotic news; it is however a fertile soil for a widespread, easy accessibility to Nicolas’ music.”

Release page here (with various formats to download)

Format: 9 x File, Various Formats, EP
Released: 25 Feb 2011
Style: Indie, Lo-Fi