The Last Mixed Tape’s Spotify playlist The Week #10 features new music from the likes of Flecks, Niamh Regan, the Late David Turpin, Meltybrains? & Gnarkats. Flecks – Samurai Flecks return after some time away with the propellant dark-wave pop of ‘Samurai’, a neon shimmering work of glistening synths, strong beats and distant vocals. Gnarkats –…
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A new playlist feature to the Last Mixed Tape’s The Week #01 features new music from the likes of Kyoto Love Hotel, Bokito, Molly Sterling, Kasms & Meltybrains? Kyoto Love Hotel – Still Awash with atmosphere and alt-pop widescreen production, the far-reaching sound of Kyoto Love Hotel’s debut single ‘Still’ is a transportive one. Bokito – How Dare…
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In this edition of The Last Mixed Tape’s song-of-the-week feature The Mixed-Tape we turn our attention to ‘Horizon’ by Meltybrains?. Screeching, scratching and screaming the new Meltybains? single, ‘Horizon’, is a collage of sound that merges ambient, experimental and noise elements into one working whole. A song made from dramatic gestures, the dynamic highs and lows of…
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The Last Mixed Tape reviews Kiss Yourself, the brand extended play from electronic act Melytrains?. Kiss Yourself is all about atmosphere and colour. Resting on a bedrock of harmonically washing texture, the flourishes of light and dark that Meltybrains? imbue into their latest offering is what makes the music so immersive. The textural depth of songs like ‘Step’…
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In the build-up to Knockanstockan 2016 TLMT has asked acts from this year’s line-up to choose their own festival mixed-tape, and tell us about what they’re looking forward seeing at Blessington in July. This time it’s the turn of Meltybrains? Read below to see what they had to say and check out who the group…
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In the build-up to Knockanstockan 2016 TLMT has asked acts from this year’s line-up to choose their own festival mixed-tape, and tell us about what they’re looking forward seeing at Blessington in July. This time it’s the turn of alternative-pop act Come On Live Long. Read below to see what they had to say and…
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Meltybrains? are back once again with more new music, this time the group’s latest single ‘Lincoln’. With its rumbling beat undercurrent and floating foreground, Meltybrains? ‘Lincoln’ is a song of textural juxtaposition and delight. The easing tension of the track showcases the group’s ability to be utterly indefinable in terms of genre. Ambient, electronic, post-rock……
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The ever-engimatic Meltybrains? have made their return with a brand new single entitled, ‘Heartfelt Hummer’. A fuzzing, gentle buzz-saw of a track, ‘Heartfelt Hummer’ is as off-kilter and quick changing as we’ve come to expect from Meltybrains?. Split into two contrasting sections, the song plays with a myriad of ambient, electronic, avant-garde and hip-hop sounds.…
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The line-up for this year’s Quarter Block Party in Cork has been announced today. Taking place from February 5th to 7th and presented by Makeshift Ensemble and Southern Hospitality Board, Quarter Block Party 2016 is a 3 day music and arts festival on North and South Main Streets in Cork City. Curated by Ruairi O’Donovan, the Quarter…
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As 2015 comes to a close TLMT has compiled a playlist from our song-of-the-week feature the Mixed-Tape. An extremely popular feature on the Last Mixed Tape, the Mixed-Tape has included some of the year’s stand-out singles and album tracks on a weekly basis. Artist who appear as part of the 2015 playlist include: Cave Ghosts, Girl Band, Blooms, Meltybrains?,…
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