Contest: Win a YACHT New Era x FADER Hat
- story THE FADER
Continuing their beloved themes of triangles and all things nautical, DFA home electronics-loving beat punks YACHT designed a poop deck-ready, crisp black and white cap with a giant anchor for our New Era hat series. We’ve got a number of these super limited hats to give away to oceanic dance lovers. All you have to do is leave a comment with your favorite body of water and why, your hat size (they’re fitted!) and register with your real email so we know how to find you.
Remix YACHT’s New Album
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
Presumably the idea behind releasing these YACHT instrumentals is to give enterprising young boys and girls the basic tools for success in the lucrative and promising music industry. We’re already there, so we’re just jumping around the office yelling fun stuff and doing air kicks. So do what you will with these songs: go blend heavy and try to become the next Dangermouse, create a literal YACHT rock album (that one’s for free) or blow out all the little nuances hidden in See Mystery Lights. The options are limitless.
Download: YACHT’s See Mystery Lights instrumentals (via MBV)
Video: YACHT, “Psychic City (Voodoo City)”
- story Peter Macia
Our people Jona Bechtolt and Claire Evans bka YACHT sure have stepped it up a giant metaphysical notch with their new video. According to the accompanying blog post on YACHT’s website, the duo were inspired by a strange event in the Lone Star State:
Two years ago, while traveling through the West Texas desert on tour, we experienced firsthand a paranormal phenomenon called the Marfa “Mystery Lights.” This experience was a catalyst, and we soon moved to Marfa, Texas, to work and develop our already-acute interest in religion, ritual, and mystery.
This is not all that odd as travelers in West Texas often experience strange visions and internal reordering after eating the BBQ and beans at Rudy’s outside of San Antonio—tends to kick in about an hour later. Still, this Judah Switzer-directed clip is beyond the beyond and we congratulate them on a triumphant realization. Definitely make sure to catch YACHT on tour right now wherever and snag the new album See Mystery Lights either at the show or from DFA.
Audio: YACHT, “Waste of Time” (Fabulous Stains cover)
- story THE FADER
We are kind of, how you say, obsessed with the movie Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains, which chronicled an all-girl teen punk band trying to do something authentic and worthwhile. We saw it on late night TV when we were wee and it stuck with us as we drowned ourselves in Bikini Kill 7″s and proto-blog fanzines. When it got reissued on DVD last year we wrote about it in our magazine, we have posters of the star, a Nina Hagen’d-out Diane Lane, hanging all over our office. We also love YACHT, the mystical Cascadian duo whose new record comes out this July on DFA, and we extra extra love them for covering this Fabulous Stains track so apathetically and therefore perfectly. It’s from their “Don’t Put Out” 7″, which is a reference to the film’s most memorable line, a diatribe Lane delivers from the stage: “I’m perfect, but nobody in this shithole gets me cause I don’t put out!”
Audio: YACHT, “Waste of Time”
Exclusive Freeload: Glasser, “Learn” (YACHT Remix) + More Glasser
- story THE FADER
Glasser is a young Californian who has been able to record via Garage Band for a year before now releasing her first 12-inch of bluesy dream pop on True Panther. “Apply” is a gritty number peppered with taught-skinned hand drums overlaid with her mystic coo. “Glad” is more sultry, woozy strings and stuttered maraca. And “Learn,” remixed by YACHT (and here exclusively) lifts Glasser’s lithe voice and sets it simple over a shoulder-shaking bass line. She’s a shapeshifter and a thoroughbred.
Download: Glasser, “Learn” (YACHT Remix)
Download: “Glasser, “Apply”
Download: Glasser, “Glad”
Flame War: Dan Really Likes Tapeheads
- story THE FADER
An intensely informative response from reader Dan to our posting of the new YACHT video:
Are you fucking kidding me? A Gus Van Sant-like shot for shot remake of the scene from Tapeheads where eager-to-please Jon Cusack and Tim Robbins shoot a video “on spec” for Don Cornelius of Soul Train (as music mogul Mo Fuzz)? The song in the original was a ridiculous piece of new wave by Devo called “Baby Doll,” performed by Duran Duranish band called “Cube Squared.”
Amazing tribute to an overlooked film that included cameos by Doug E. Fresh, Jello Biafra, Weird Al, Sam Moore (of Sam & Dave), Junior Walker and Fishbone. Also, I think it was produced by Mike Nesmith of the Monkees. Go 80’s!
Dan
Thanks Dan!
Video: YACHT, “Summer Song”
- story THE FADER
It’s officially official: FADER faves YACHT, aka the electro twerky dude and dudette most likely to jump on your couch during a live performance, have teamed up with DFA for this interminable new disco single featuring cowbell, handclaps, and a fairly bananas electronic drum fill that lasts about thirty-two and a half seconds. Furthermore, the video includes wily dancing, paint and a special surprise ending. It is also a subtle topography of YACHT’s hometown of Portland, OR. Shot, we believe, in the infamous Oak Street Warehouse, where Jona Bechtolt once lived, it features Marriage Records’ president Curtis Knapp (as the teary eyed executive) and K. Mikey Merrill (as the moustachio’d pitcher), a Portland business luminary who created the community Urban Honking and um, hosts a certain FADER executive editor’s personal blog. No, Claire YACHT did not borrow our jumpsuit for costuming, but if we ever see her in the street we are going to ask her if we can borrow-slash-have it. Additionally, Jona looks remarkably like “Naive Melody”-era David Byrne. This video encompasses everything we love about YACHT’s music: endless energy, unremitting rhythms, subtle quirky humor, unintelligible lyrics (jk!), shouting and, of course, antics.
Freeload: YACHT Remixes Stereolab And Ratatat
- story THE FADER
You know what sucks about blogs? They don’t let you post yourself to another place. Take Jona Bechtolt aka YACHT, for instance. He is probably the most visionary blogger we know (dude was jamming out Flickr videos before we’d discovered you could mute a YouTube player) and keeps us constantly updated on he and Claire’s whereabouts and shenanigans, but he has yet to figure out how to meet us for coffee every morning like we want him to. And we tried to upload ourselves to Oregon where Jona is putting on the Catch That Beat Micro-festival tomorrow but ended up just getting a firewire lodged uncomfortably somewhere that we don’t want to talk about. So what to do? Just Keep Livin’, we guess. And that livin’ will be much easier since Jona sent us these brand new remixes of the ‘Tat’s “Mirando” and Stereolab’s “Self-Portrait With ‘Electric Brain’”, two great songs that he has now made better. Also according to Jona, YACHT has “a special announcement and release coming in a little bit (08/18/08), and some UK club and festival dates we’re doing at the end of the month. England. More here.” So, whether in Oregon or England, enjoy your face time with YACHT. We will sit here and vlog our loneliness.
Download: Stereolab, “Self-Portrait With ‘Electric Mind’ (YACHT Remix)”
Download: Ratatat, “Mirando (YACHT Remix)”
Rooftops: YACHT Jammed One
- story THE FADER
Last night we hung on the Maritime Hotel roof and ate lamb right off the bone and shrimp right off the stick. We were the first people to try Bud Light Lime, and we totally tried it (responsibly) while we jammed it out with Holy Ghost!, Drop The Lime, and YACHT. Dudes, we were on a roof in New York in the spring eating food and drinking a new beer and hanging with some awesome music guys. How could we go wrong? YACHT went on to Studio B afterward but we did not. Feel free to tell us how it went because normally we would do something like that.
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posted on Apr 17, 2008 in MUSIC NEWS tags Drop The Lime, electronic/dance, hip hop, Holy Ghost!, rock, YACHT
NYC: Two Yachts, One Bud
- story THE FADER
TONIGHT! Portland party-poppers Yacht, who used to be one dude but binary-fissioned into one dude and one girl, is playing TONIGHT at Studio B with Parts + Labor. But earlier, we were talking to our Beer, and it told us the conjoined duo was actually playing a secret show RIGHT NOW on the west side, and that if you wanted to go see them (and DJs Holy Ghost and Drop the Lime), you could email contests@thefader.com ASAP, because it is happening RIGHT NOW, and Yacht don’t take no shorts.
