FADER/Southern Comfort 7-inch Series #10: Wavves and Windsurf

Two killer exclusive tracks grace each side of the newest installment of the FADER/Southern
Comfort 7-inch series. We’ve got a bit of an aquatic theme between Mario Hugo’s psychedelic water swirl layout and the liquidity of Wavves and Windsurf. As Wavves, San Diegan Nathan Williams has been busy tearing up 2009 like a half pipe with his noise-drenched bubblegum. He scrawled down his lo-fi anthem “Friends Were Gone” in a couple of hours over broken drums. Windsurf’s track “Vapour Trails” contrasts nicely with a laidback instrumental groove
appropriate for, say, spending the afternoon on your boat. Though what
really pushes this track straight into full-on lounge is the island boogie percussion.

Free (!) copies of the split are available until supplies run out.
Email us with your name and address to get some vinyl action. Or, you know, just download the mp3s for free below. Those aren’t limited to 500.

FADER/Southern Comfort 7-inch Series #9: Little Boots and Wild Yaks

For her contribution to FADER’s 7-inch series, current cover star Little Boots gives us one of her shiniest tracks (and one of her first to be officially released). The sound of 8PM and everyone’s first drink of the night, “Magical” glistens with young prospects. It’s a cool, clean song that throbs just enough to suggest a little mischievousness.

Wild Yaks’ “I’m A Fool”, a live nugget from the Brooklyn party band, sounds like 5AM Sunday morning when you’re still trying to go hard even though you know you better go home. Singer Rob Bryn might be barely hanging onto his mic, like he wants to give it up, but he definitely can’t let go. Maybe that’s why he can’t stop wailing “I’m A Fool” over and over.

Peep the Maya Wild cover art, too. Download both tracks by clicking the link below and email contests@thefader.com with “Little Yaks” in the subject line to win a copy of the vinyl.

FADER/Southern Comfort 7-inch Series #8: 77Klash

Beginning with the newest entry in our FADER/Southern Comfort 7-inch series, we will have the songs from each side available for free download. Yesterday we had the A-side, an exclusive track by Telepathe named “Heat.” Today we’ll have 77Klash’s exclusive track, “Caroline.” Later this week, we’ll have an interview with 7-inch cover artist Dash Shaw. We also have physical copies of the record available (for free!). Email us at contests@thefader.com with your name and address for a copy until we run out.

“Caroline’s more of a dance tune,” Gize of 77Klash says about the track, “which is very different from my usual tunes.” And he’s right: when “Caroline” opens, it seems to have more in common with house than hip-hop; then 77Klash aggressively spits quickly over the squeaky, distant synthesizers and thumping beat and we’re left with nothing less than a wild hybrid of sounds.

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FADER/Southern Comfort 7-inch Series #8: Telepathe

Beginning with the newest entry in our FADER/Southern Comfort 7-inch series, we will have the songs from each side available for free download. Today we have the A-side, an exclusive track by Telepathe named “Heat.” Tomorrow we’ll have 77Klash’s exclusive track, “Caroline.” Later this week, we’ll have an interview with 7-inch cover artist Dash Shaw. We also have physical copies of the record available (for free!). Email us at contests@thefader.com with your name and address for a copy until we run out.

With “Heat,” a live staple, Telepathe mess around in some really murky drone, but their sharp synthesizers, heavy drum beats, and danceable strangeness bring their sounds harmoniously in sync. “Heat” has the group reaching even deeper into the clubby darkness, bringing a strong beat to the forefront of their chilly sound.

FADER/Southern Comfort 7-inch Series #7: Get ‘Em Mamis & Hood Headlinaz

According to Baltimore’s Get ‘Em Mamis, “They Jockin,’” the Darkroom Productions produced track they laid for the seventh edition of our FADER/Southern Comfort 7-inch series, will get the elderly “doing the Yung Joc in their wheelchairs,” and our guess is that it might also spark use of the ridiculous superlative “terrawesome” (”somewhere between terrific and awesome”). Over on the record’s A-side, the whole Hood Headlinaz crew (Mata, Mali Boi, Dawgy Baggz, Jhi Ali and Gunt, as well as Wu-affiliate guest Rubbabandz) got together for their track “Tip Down.” When we asked Paper Route Recordz CEO Dawgy Baggz to explain “tipping down” to us northerners, because we though it had something to do with cars (thanks for nothing, urbandictionary.com), he said it means simply “going bananas.” Fair enough. And to wrap up this little present from us to you, artist Michael Genovese threw down some “tienda style lettering with a local Baptist church influence” on a wall in the Chicago Cultural Center and gave the two groups a little free advertising for the record’s cover. E-mail contests@thefader.com with your name and address for a copy until we run out.

FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ Series #6: BLK JKS & Esau Mwamwaya

The 6th edition of the highly-coveted, always banging FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ Series is now in the office, and maybe it’s the smog, but we are tripping heavily on both the cover and songs within. For this one we got our dudes BLK JKS to tear up “Umbzabalazo”, given the Super Freq mix by Greg Mann, and Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit sent us a snazzy version of the epic “Chilombo.” Not to be outdone, quiltmaker extraordinaire Ian Hundley sent us a gigantic pattern which we then shrunk to fit.

All of this can be yours for the mere price of nothing by emailing contests@thefader.com with “quilts” in the subject line.

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FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ Series #5: Rubik’s Cube

We’ve been staring at Matt Furie’s cover art for hours trying to pick our favorite crazy looking monster thing. Right now we are stuck on the melted marshmallow ghost but ask us again in a minute and it might be the Rubix Cube robot in the bottom left. We don’t have to wonder about which song on this FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ we like the most, because both are ill. Side A is a Dirty Projectors edit of their own cover of Black Flag’s “Police Story,” going down compelling and uneasy, while Side B holds “Blue Steel,” a warm and relatively low key White Williams piano jam full of hidden layers and an 8-bit undercurrent that will keep us listening breathlessly until the next record.

We have a handful of copies to give away, so email your mailing address to contests@thefader.com with the subject heading “Seven.”

FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ Series #4: Full Metal Ninja

Artwork by Tomoe Hayama

For the fourth edition of the FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ series, we asked ourselves, “What would it sound like to get your butt sliced off by a ninja robot in the year 3076?” The answer (clearly) was Parisian party animal

Busy P on one side and B’more blockslayer DJ Blaqstarr on the other. And then we got Tomoe Hayama to design that ninja’s adverthrowingstar for the cover. Watch out!

FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ Series #3: Magnificent Seven

Artwork by Andrew Jeffrey Wright

It’s that time again: team FADER got with Southern Comfort to color your world with a new limited edition FADER/Southern Comfort 7″. ATL faves Black Lips stunned us with their Twilite Zoned intro to “Wild Man” on side a, and P-town fave YACHT succinctly spelled out his “No Favors Policy” on the b-side (think grunge, folks!). Philly artist Andrew Jeffrey Wright designed a wavy gravy illustration to bring it all home. Sensory overload—and more proof that we love you! We have a handful to give away to lucky blog readers, just email contests@thefader.com, put “seven” in the subject line somewhere, and we’ll select winners at random.

FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ Series #2: Second Seventh Sign

The second volume of our FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ series has arrived. For this limited-edition vinyl, we asked London’s Jack Duplock to handle cover art duty, and got Mavado and Busy Signal to give us fresh heatrocks, produced by Daseca and Black Chiney Soundsystem, respectively. This slab of goodness is not available in stores, but we do have copies for our loyal blog readers (that’s you). Email us at contests@thefader.com and tell us your favorite Busy Signal and/or Mavado chune, and we’ll send five of you a copy. For free! Get at us.

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