Rapido - Can't stop my brain from thinking

So once again I am posting after quite a long hiatus, but oh the things I have to say! I've been surrounded by so much sound, art and creation lately it's been hard to even put it into blog posts, but I will attempt to cover all the important bits here. Hold on to your hats kids...we're diving in fast.

First things first - I've started up a little label/artist collective with two of my favorite people (The Great Red Shark & Sareen) called Inky Owl.


Isn't he cute? Yeeeeaa... Well you can friend us on Myspace and Facebook to make sure you keep up to date with all of our releases - which I'm actually going to clue you in on now...

On December 20th Inky Owl threw a raging awesome party/show at The Glasslands in Brooklyn for the release of Sareen's first two 7"s. Sareen, The Great Red Shark, Bad Nancy and Beacon performed and there were art installations by Shawna Pino. Check out some photos of the night by Jessica Russell. If you're interested in picking up a 7" or 2 check out below:

IO0001 & IO00002: S A R EE N

Details:

S A R EE N

VINYL 1:
A1: Lonely Horseman (4:08)
A2. The Blanks Filled In (2:31)

VINYL 2:
A1. Slept In The Bomb Shelter (3:45)
A2. Pen Pal (3:37)

Sareen 7" Vinyls

Double Vinyl Pack (includes downloads) $8.00Lonely Horseman / The Blanks Filled In vinyl (includes download) $5.00Slept In The Bomb Shelter / Pen Pal vinyl (includes download) $5.00

Yay Sareen! The tracks are off the hook and both vinyls come with a download card for mp3 versions of the songs. It's the jam so pick 'em up if you haven't already. You can preview all of the songs on Sareen's Soundcloud.

On to the next!

The Great Red Shark has had a busy January already, with more to come. His song "Rockaway" was released on Lazy Roar's CA Discovery Mix Cassette. I have to say, this mix is brilliant. There is SO MUCH unknown talent on this tape - I can't even get stress how important it is that you know about these artists now. So get it... More info below:

You can pick up a copy at Lazy Roar, and you can also stream from Last.fm.

TGRS has another track, "Still Alive" on the newly released Stone Cold Busted 1 mix by Vitamin D. You can pick up your copy of the compilation digitally from Beatport or physically (CD) from Amazon. The album is full of quality chill out tracks and you should definitely grab it.


Dun dun dunnnn!! So as you can see, we've been busy. Stay tuned for a more normal Toy post as I'm currently working on a mix of sorts, but for now - check out the artists and releases and become acquainted with Inky Owl.