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Street Volcano by Phondupe TEO-002: Street Volcano Pilerats Premiere: bit.ly/streetvolcano Indie Shuffle: http://ift.tt/1mknNdY FREE DOWNLOAD HERE: http://bit.ly/21wcC1J The second track from "The Ecstasy Of" - a new singles series by Phondupe. Imagery by Robby Bennett (@rbybnt) -- Written, produced and performed by Phondupe. All live tracking recorded in my bedroom and at King Sound Studios, Sydney. Mixed and Mastered by Mark Galup & Erik Thompson at Reel Recording in Nashville, TN.

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Phondupe, whose members are located in both London and Sydney, offer up a very eccentric and captivating concoction of indietronica and experimental electronic on Street Volcano. Playful yet haunting, the song glides and glitches simultaneously, one of the most unique songs I’ve encountered lately. Street Volcano takes on a life of its own, undulating, breathing, swerving, lurching, and tiptoe-ing through an intricate world of enchanting, magical sound. Street Volcano comes from the band’s coming EP, The Ecstasy Of.

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Listen/purchase: Greenhouse EP by Phondupe

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Phondupe - Asena

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Track By Track - Phondupe breakdown their Greenhouse EP

You can keep your happy pop songs. I’ll take my tunes with a splash of dark and sinister which is exactly what you get with Greenhouse, the latest EP from Australian electronic duo Phondupe.  As much as I love the EP, there definitely is a time and place to listen to it. I recommend a bright room in the middle of the day or perhaps a completely secure bunker and definitely not when you’re walking alone down a dark alley in the middle of night. One of the reasons I enjoy more ominous sounding music is based on my completely unfounded opinion that the stories behind these tracks are richer than those behind their boppy counterparts. After speaking to Phondupe about the influences that led to the creation of each of the 4 tracks, my opinion hasn’t changed. The duo, who were in different continents during the making of this EP, were heavily influenced by an eclectic mix of experiences and passions, from their globetrotting adventures to their love of Italian horror movies and their discovery of the dark and muted tones of Chicago-bred footwork music.   Asena: “This one's my ode to Brooklyn 2013. Asena came about while we were both dead broke and trying to find our place in new foreign cities, doing things we really didn't want to, not knowing anyone... Just hustling. The melody hit my dropbox from London and the whole production process was just cathartic venting from that point on. There's glimpses of that dark industrial bass sound that was dominating the NYC club scene at parties like GhE20G0THIK, Full Service & Fade 2 Mind... even stuff I'd hear out my window. There wasn't a morning I wouldn't wake up to the sound of some deep 808 kick coming from a car stereo. Topped it off with a guitar solo (because everyone's scared of guitar solos these days).”

Twofriend: “Oldest track on the EP. We were pretty big into the Triosk/Jan Jelinek record when we wrote it. I think I gave up on Twofriend about 10 times. It started out as a completely different animal, almost Stone Roses-like. We broke it down to its core and rebuilt it a bunch of times but just couldn't crack the code. The secret to this one was really in the mix. There are so many layers, once they all found their place something just clicked. I think that final "fuck, yes" only happened when we heard the master.”

Proxy: “We spent a couple of weeks in the Blue Mountains (NSW) writing, back in 2011. We started vibing off 60's Italian horror films after finding a book dedicated to them in a pawn shop. Real late one night we whipped out two acoustic guitars; that bass riff came first, then that overlaying vamp - we played that over and over and became completely lost in it - next thing I knew it was sunrise and we had a 3 hour recording of two chords on our phones.

I met Justin Dean Thomas (the vocalist) while living in NYC. He knocked out these vocals in about 4 takes and nailed it. The narrative of this track is definitely more influenced by film than music; there isn't a chorus, it just kinda ebbs and flows into each act. If Carter Burwell scored a zombie flick I'd want this song to be played during the credits.”

Fistful of Lizards: “Our first EP had "Hideyoshi's..." as the epic so I guess this is the Greenhouse equivalent. Most electronic musicians really play up to loops but we always wanted our tracks to sound like living, breathing organisms. I think Fistful probably ticks that M.O best, from the field samples to the guitars that have this warped Boards of Canada tone. It was sitting in its current form for a while but missing that special something. When I showed a friend an early demo, he asked me who my footwork influences were. Having no idea what footwork was, he flipped me "Bangs & Works Vol 1". Instantly fell in love and RP Boo, Rashad & Spin helped me find the missing pieces.”

You can buy Greenhouse on Bandcamp or like them on Facebook for a free download.