Number Line RecordsNumber Line Records | Number Line Records http://numberlinerecords.com Thu, 03 May 2012 11:49:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Third World Summer, “Displaced Voices” / Love in Athens, “Old Houses” (Split) http://numberlinerecords.com/new-release/third-world-summer-displaced-voices-love-in-athens-old-houses-split-2 http://numberlinerecords.com/new-release/third-world-summer-displaced-voices-love-in-athens-old-houses-split-2#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 09:09:40 +0000 numberline http://numberlinerecords.com/?p=1014 Third World Summer / Love in AthensThe split single, “Displaced Voices / Old Houses,” is the debut Number Line Records release from Third World Summer and Love in Athens. While these two artists take different approaches to electronic music, both tracks on this release traffic in a sense of movement, switching from uptempo beats that evoke dense city environments to dreamlike images of the past, the coast, and urban escapes.

“Displaced Voices” introduces Third World Summer, the brand new project of Seattle’s Allan Lumba (Multo). Combining layered vocals with quick beats that recall travels in and out of the city, the track takes Lumba’s favoured themes of distance, melancholy, and nostalgia and works them into a hazy summer track that demands repeat listening.

Originally conceptualized as a post-rock project, Love in Athens (Francis Maria Regalado) has been experimenting with a new synthpop sound. Some of the results can be seen in “Old Houses,” a track that merges shimmering synths and strong base frequencies to represent what Regalado describes as “a human pulse in the middle of a heartless urban setting.” “Old Houses” also gives a sense of things to come from Love in Athens, who will be releasing a single, “Pinnacles,” and an EP, Half-awake in the Morning, later this summer.

Download via Mediafire.

]]> http://numberlinerecords.com/new-release/third-world-summer-displaced-voices-love-in-athens-old-houses-split-2/feed 0 Third World Summer, “Displaced Voices” / Love in Athens, “Old Houses” (Split) http://numberlinerecords.com/releases/third-world-summer-displaced-voices-love-in-athens-old-houses-split http://numberlinerecords.com/releases/third-world-summer-displaced-voices-love-in-athens-old-houses-split#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 09:07:25 +0000 numberline http://numberlinerecords.com/?p=997 Third World Summer / Love in AthensThe split single, “Displaced Voices / Old Houses,” is the debut Number Line Records release from Third World Summer and Love in Athens. While these two artists take different approaches to electronic music, both tracks on this release traffic in a sense of movement, switching from uptempo beats that evoke dense city environments to dreamlike images of the past, the coast, and urban escapes.

“Displaced Voices” introduces Third World Summer, the brand new project of Seattle’s Allan Lumba (Multo). Combining layered vocals with quick beats that recall travels in and out of the city, the track takes Lumba’s favoured themes of distance, melancholy, and nostalgia and works them into a hazy summer track that demands repeat listening.

Originally conceptualized as a post-rock project, Love in Athens (Francis Maria Regalado) has been experimenting with a new synthpop sound. Some of the results can be seen in “Old Houses,” a track that merges shimmering synths and strong base frequencies to represent what Regalado describes as “a human pulse in the middle of a heartless urban setting.” “Old Houses” also gives a sense of things to come from Love in Athens, who will be releasing a single, “Pinnacles,” and an EP, Half-awake in the Morning, later this summer.

Download via Mediafire.

]]> http://numberlinerecords.com/releases/third-world-summer-displaced-voices-love-in-athens-old-houses-split/feed 4 Third World Summer, “Displaced Voices” (Preview) http://numberlinerecords.com/videos/third-world-summer-displaced-voices-preview-2 http://numberlinerecords.com/videos/third-world-summer-displaced-voices-preview-2#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:09:32 +0000 numberline http://numberlinerecords.com/?p=978

A preview video for Third World Summer, the new electronic project from Allan Lumba.

Video by Marty Mellway.
Edited for Number Line Records by Bobby B.

]]> http://numberlinerecords.com/videos/third-world-summer-displaced-voices-preview-2/feed 0 Third World Summer, “Displaced Voices” (Preview) http://numberlinerecords.com/new-video/third-world-summer-displaced-voices-preview http://numberlinerecords.com/new-video/third-world-summer-displaced-voices-preview#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:03:21 +0000 numberline http://numberlinerecords.com/?p=973

A preview video for Third World Summer, the new electronic project from Allan Lumba.

Video by Marty Mellway.
Edited for Number Line Records by Bobby B.

]]> http://numberlinerecords.com/new-video/third-world-summer-displaced-voices-preview/feed 0 Third World Summer http://numberlinerecords.com/new-artist/third-world-summer-2 http://numberlinerecords.com/new-artist/third-world-summer-2#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:52:38 +0000 numberline http://numberlinerecords.com/?p=970 Third World SummerThird World Summer is the new electronic project of Seattle-based artist, Allan Lumba. Created during a year spent in Manila, Third World Summer emerged out of Lumba’s renewed interest in electronic dance music, particularly in the use of repetition in records such as Caribou’s Swim and Four Tet’s There Is Love in You. The resulting project, like the very name Third World Summer, evokes contradictions, combining an oceanic sense of haziness and melancholic distance with uptempo beats that recall the frenetic pace of life in a megacity.

Themes such as displacement and nostalgia serve as a bridge between Third World Summer and Lumba’s other persona, the retro-pop inspired Multo, a project he describes as being about writing “concise, stripped-down pop songs.” Under the new moniker, Lumba is able to experiment with less bookended forms of songwriting and, in the process, to explore the more textural aspects of electronic music. As Lumba puts it, quoting a friend paraphrasing Duke Ellington, Third World Summer is about “making songs that end like a new song is about to begin.”

Though Third World Summer is designed as a more open-ended project, it also retains Lumba’s unmistakable pop sensibility. This becomes apparent in his first Third World Summer release, “Displaced Voices,” a track that manages to be both infectious and atmospheric and which demands repeat listening.

“Displaced Voices” will be released as part of a split single with Love in Athens. It will be available as a free download in May 2012. UPDATE: Single is now available here.

 

Videos

 

]]> http://numberlinerecords.com/new-artist/third-world-summer-2/feed 0 Third World Summer http://numberlinerecords.com/artists/third-world-summer http://numberlinerecords.com/artists/third-world-summer#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:46:55 +0000 numberline http://numberlinerecords.com/?p=956 Third World SummerThird World Summer is the new electronic project of Seattle-based artist, Allan Lumba. Created during a year spent in Manila, Third World Summer emerged out of Lumba’s renewed interest in electronic dance music, particularly in the use of repetition in records such as Caribou’s Swim and Four Tet’s There Is Love in You. The resulting project, like the very name Third World Summer, evokes contradictions, combining an oceanic sense of haziness and melancholic distance with uptempo beats that recall the frenetic pace of life in a megacity.

Themes such as displacement and nostalgia serve as a bridge between Third World Summer and Lumba’s other persona, the retro-pop inspired Multo, a project he describes as being about writing “concise, stripped-down pop songs.” Under the new moniker, Lumba is able to experiment with less bookended forms of songwriting and, in the process, to explore the more textural aspects of electronic music. As Lumba puts it, quoting a friend paraphrasing Duke Ellington, Third World Summer is about “making songs that end like a new song is about to begin.”

Though Third World Summer is designed as a more open-ended project, it also retains Lumba’s unmistakable pop sensibility. This becomes apparent in his first Third World Summer release, “Displaced Voices,” a track that manages to be both infectious and atmospheric and which demands repeat listening.

 

Releases

 

Displaced Voices / Old Houses (Split Single)Displaced Voices / Old Houses (Split)
(released May 3, 2012)

 
Videos

 

]]> http://numberlinerecords.com/artists/third-world-summer/feed 1 Modulogeek, Pipes and Palindromes (EP) http://numberlinerecords.com/new-release/modulogeek-pipes-and-palindromes-ep-2 http://numberlinerecords.com/new-release/modulogeek-pipes-and-palindromes-ep-2#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:27:29 +0000 numberline http://numberlinerecords.com/?p=912 Pipes and PalindromesFollowing his remix of Outerhope’s “The Man with the Pipes,” monome artist Joon Guillen—aka Modulogeek—wrote five other tracks around it, each shifting in mood and key. The result is Pipes and Palindromes, a conceptual EP loosely structured to flow like the score of a musical, with reprises and recurring themes. The EP both builds on and departs from Modulogeek’s previous work. It contains standout tracks such as “Do Undo,” where Guillen introduces a heavier, dancier version of Modulogeek, as well as more familiar songs such as “3.14,” which showcases Guillen’s skill in creating machinic soundscapes that are simultaneously whimsical and melancholic.

 

Download via Mediafire.

(Album art by Ian Roxas)

]]> http://numberlinerecords.com/new-release/modulogeek-pipes-and-palindromes-ep-2/feed 1 Modulogeek, Pipes and Palindromes (EP) http://numberlinerecords.com/releases/modulogeek-pipes-and-palindromes-ep http://numberlinerecords.com/releases/modulogeek-pipes-and-palindromes-ep#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:10:45 +0000 numberline http://numberlinerecords.com/?p=907 Pipes and PalindromesFollowing his remix of Outerhope’s “The Man with the Pipes,” monome artist Joon Guillen—aka Modulogeek—wrote five other tracks around it, each shifting in mood and key. The result is Pipes and Palindromes, a conceptual EP loosely structured to flow like the score of a musical, with reprises and recurring themes. The EP both builds on and departs from Modulogeek’s previous work. It contains standout tracks such as “Do Undo,” where Guillen introduces a heavier, dancier version of Modulogeek, as well as more familiar songs such as “3.14,” which showcases Guillen’s skill in creating machinic soundscapes that are simultaneously whimsical and melancholic.

 

Download via Mediafire.

(Album art by Ian Roxas)

]]> http://numberlinerecords.com/releases/modulogeek-pipes-and-palindromes-ep/feed 3 Multo, Upon Returning / Hallelujah and All Those Things http://numberlinerecords.com/new-release/multo-upon-returning-hallelujah-and-all-those-things http://numberlinerecords.com/new-release/multo-upon-returning-hallelujah-and-all-those-things#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:14:16 +0000 numberline http://numberlinerecords.com/?p=905 Upon Returning/Hallelujah and All Those Things“Upon Returning/Hallelujah and All Those Things” is the second release under Number Line Records by Allan Lumba, a.k.a. Multo. While representing a bit of a departure from the stripped-down, guitar-based pop of his earlier work, they are similarly characterized by carefully considered words and beguiling tunes. “There really isn’t anything that ties together these two songs, except maybe they are conceptually two of the more ‘hopeful’ themed songs I’ve made,” says Allan. Both songs are taken from his forthcoming first full-length album Dead Stars, which he predicts will be “More lush, layered, somber, drawn-out, and ultimately more nuanced than [debut EP] Footnote to Youth.”

 


Download via Mediafire.

(Album art by Amalia Aquino)

]]> http://numberlinerecords.com/new-release/multo-upon-returning-hallelujah-and-all-those-things/feed 2 Multo, Upon Returning / Hallelujah and All Those Things (Single) http://numberlinerecords.com/releases/multo-upon-returninghallelujah-and-all-those-things-single http://numberlinerecords.com/releases/multo-upon-returninghallelujah-and-all-those-things-single#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:10:07 +0000 numberline http://numberlinerecords.com/?p=894 Upon Returning/Hallelujah and All Those Things“Upon Returning/Hallelujah and All Those Things” is the second release under Number Line Records by Allan Lumba, a.k.a. Multo. While representing a bit of a departure from the stripped-down, guitar-based pop of his earlier work, they are similarly characterized by carefully considered words and beguiling tunes. “There really isn’t anything that ties together these two songs, except maybe they are conceptually two of the more ‘hopeful’ themed songs I’ve made,” says Allan. Both songs are taken from his forthcoming first full-length album Dead Stars, which he predicts will be “More lush, layered, somber, drawn-out, and ultimately more nuanced than [debut EP] Footnote to Youth.”

 


Download via Mediafire.

(Album art by Amalia Aquino)

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