Resistor celebrates springtime with a lush new single, "Everyone I Know."
This hook-laden dance-pop number is seasoned with Resistor's cynical charm, pondering whether originality can exist if a person is merely a product of his environment. Of course, the existentialism lurks beneath many layers of burbling synths, glitchy drum machines, and boy-girl harmonies.
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posted by ludwig_van
on Apr 17, 2013 -
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The ethereal with the ethical and ironic - that sums this sum up at the superficial plane, but there is so much more depth to this Ummagma track. Definitely one of the more Cocteau Twins inspired deliveries, this song is laced with a pulsation more rooted in Pink Floyd. Another track in the style of early 4AD. Whirrrrrllll..
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posted by Brodyaga
on Apr 9, 2013 -
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For some of the best things in life, intensity builds as anticipation kicks in. That is what this Ummagma track is for me - with layer on layer, building a sort of icicle/sand castle that never melts or washes away. It just builds and then takes flight. I hope you will feel the same.
Of course, there is that The Smiths thing happening - happy music, depressing lyrics. Rightly so. Spot on - have a read.
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posted by Brodyaga
on Apr 8, 2013 -
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Reminiscent of the Peter Gabriel and Deep Forest contribution to the film "Strange Days", this Ummagma track offers an eclectic earful of modernity meets tradition, complete with Carpathian whistle and balanced out with successive male and female vocals.
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posted by Brodyaga
on Apr 4, 2013 -
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A while back, Ian Baird (A*Star, Spring Clock Wonder) did an awesome remix of Telling You (T.Y. Ian Baird Remix) by SPC ECO, Dean Garcia's main musical project since leaving Curve. Fortunately, he would eventually remix our song "Lama" by our duo Ummagma. Hope you enjoy this upbeat track.
posted by Brodyaga
on Apr 2, 2013 -
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A love for the golden 4AD era, Pink Floyd and the likes of David Sylvian have all been woven into the thread of this music. "Lama" was both inspired by these bands and reflects their contribution to a new generation of musicmakers. Looking forward, but knowing where our roots lie… I sincerely hope you will all enjoy this Ummagma track.
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posted by Brodyaga
on Mar 28, 2013 -
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It's funny how sometimes it takes all but a few minutes to write a song, while the development of another song can really stretch out. This was one of those stretches - "Risky" was a song that was written "in chunks" - the basic instrumental bit was written in Kyiv, Ukraine before a big move to western Ukraine and then to Canada, where the rest was written & recorded before finally being dragged back to Ukraine, where it was properly mixed and mastered. The time span from start to finish: 5 years. All that moving around was us, by the way, not just the tracks bouncing around in cyber space. Thus is the history of this track. I'm posting the lyrics too if anyone wants to have a go at them or "sing along" …. yeah, right… any feedback is welcome. Peace.
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posted by Brodyaga
on Mar 26, 2013 -
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Another bit of synthpop metacommentary in the form of the funny-cause-it's-sad-cause-it's-true inner monologue of a cynical artist.
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posted by ludwig_van
on Feb 1, 2013 -
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The 11th entry in the monthly series of homemade synthpop singles from Resistor, "Narcissist" does what it says on the tin.
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posted by ludwig_van
on Nov 27, 2012 -
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This one is a sparkly nugget of synthpop about the bitter, self-sabotaging adolescent lurking within all of us. Or at least within me. It's classic Resistor.
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posted by ludwig_van
on Jul 26, 2012 -
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A homemade synthpop tune about the myth of the meritocracy and the pain of being an artist without an audience, like something Stephin Merritt could've come up with on a dreary evening in an alternate universe where The Magnetic Fields never got popular.
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posted by ludwig_van
on Jun 13, 2012 -
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This is an electro version of the theme song to the children's show "The World of David the Gnome," which aired in the US on Nickelodeon from 1987 to 1995.
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posted by ludwig_van
on May 28, 2012 -
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This song is a portrayal of identity crisis — yet not just in the expected expression through lyrics. A snarling electro beat attempts to warp itself around jazz-inspired harmonies and progressions as the speaker explains his own crisis.
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posted by dacre
on Jul 13, 2010 -
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This is a cover of that Creed song from 2002 in a style somewhat evocative of Owl City or The Postal Service.
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posted by dacre
on Jun 11, 2010 -
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An electropop song I made over the last couple days using FL Studio 8, a Minimoog plugin, and Koblo Studio for the final mixdown.
posted by dunkadunc
on Jun 19, 2009 -
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A song that, like almost EVERY song I write, is about running away to an exotic locale and, once there, dancing.
posted by clcapps
on Jan 7, 2009 -
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December isn't just about the holidays--a few of us finished up degrees this semester! This cheesy little ditty is dedicated to my fellow peeps who walked this month.
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posted by txsebastien
on Dec 29, 2008 -
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A song about how humans fool pests to kill them, from the pest's point of view. Made today in 2 hours.
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posted by onehalfjunco
on Dec 28, 2008 -
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This is an old song and a personal song. Its basic premise fits quite nicely with my life, thus making it relatively personal. Marginally complex vocals around an easy-to-follow framework, written while afraid of the leaving of an ex of four years past.
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posted by The Great Big Mulp
on Oct 3, 2007 -
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In the late '90s, I was the main guy behind an electronic art-pop band called
Science Park. After suffering a nervous breakdown in the winter of 2000, I disbanded the group and retreated from the music industry for six arduous years. Now thirty, I've just issued a
15-year retrospective of my life in sound and have
re-committed myself to my life's work with a raft of new projects. "Ascension Island" was first issued on a Japanese 7" single on Motorway Records in 2000, and later on my album
Disinformation (Obscure-Disk). A tale of love, espionage, and violence always just out of sight, it features my trademark drifting electronics, shortwave radio interceptions, and cool, clean singing. Enjoy.
posted by mykescipark
on Mar 7, 2007 -
8 comments
A dancey synthpop song about the romances of hipsters.
posted by clcapps
on Aug 24, 2006 -
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A synth-y, dancey, bedroom-pop song.
posted by clcapps
on Jul 21, 2006 -
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This is the first song of at least 6 that I will release on my first, self-released EP in the near future. I'm currently figuring out how to arrange a live set with my music as everything was played and/or arranged by myself.
I now release my music under the moniker mixedtape. The Freudian Slipper was my old name :)
posted by freudianslipper
on Jul 12, 2006 -
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