The Record Machine

Interstates played last week to packed out home crowd at the 930 Listening Room in Louisville last week. Our friend Sean from Buzzgrinder.com was there and he snapped a few pics for us.

Interstates Photo by: Bobby Giles

Both Interstates and Max Justus have been getting some great responses from their MP3’s of the Month.

Interstates released their remix of Brooke Waggoneer Eyes O’ Eyes last month and we got this response:

I’m going to get lost today. I’m going to stare into her eyes again and never come out – I can feel it. I know it’s going to happen, my senses are tingling inside me, like pins-and-needles in my limbs, like a heart attack, or falling upside down. She will be home soon, she will walk through the front door and she will want me to look at her. God, I have to do this everyday and every time it’s more dangerous! It feels like I’ve lost myself, her grey/blue eyes just pull me in – a world inside a world, deep and loved.

Full Review: Ear Garden

Interstates also played a show with Wovenhand and did a Podcast with Sojourn Music.

Max Justus Photo by: Scuddr

We have been getting the word out on Max Justus first off we sent out Ctrl_Alt_Dance video and MP3’s earlier this month. The folks at Idolator really loved it:

He revels in just making beats and bleeps and throwing them out there, and there’s always a hint of softness and beauty behind the retro goodies. It’s rare that this kind of thing strikes me as emotionally generous and fun.

Stuart Bury directed a video for Justus’ “Ctrl_Alt_Dance” that also has a simple warmth to it, matching the glassy beauty of the track. It’s little more than animated drawings of cute robots dancing. Sometimes the robots get a little nasty, but that’s about it. And I love it.

Full Review: Idolator.com

Ear Garden Picked up the on first single Seven from Five Leaping Leopards:

I’m trapped inside an old arcade-machine with clouds, quarters and a warm neon sky. I’m fighting evil with a special kind of super-power called a ’sweet, sweet love-axe’. I’m not singing, just dancing, waving, dying to the sounds of quiet machines and tiny pixel monsters with big bad smiles

Full Review: The Ear Garden

Earlier this week we sent out his latest single from Five Leaping Leopards called Altered Beast which you can hear on his myspace:

Darker, richer, and much more in the realm of dubstep, the track Altered Beast is a side of Max Justus you didn’t hear in our previous post.

Full Review: Above the Fold

And lastly we couldn’t agree more with The Culture of Me

This kid has something genius inside of himself that he wants to share and for fuck’s sakes, you all better listen up.  Do not miss out on this kid.

Full Review: The Culture of Me

Over the years we have gotten to work with really great creative people. After doing this for five years we want to give you guys some more insight on who has helped be a part of this label and make it what it is today. First off we have an interview with Danny Gibson of DJG Design. Danny has always been behind the scenes at TRM. He has helped create almost all of our logos and helped us with a lot of art direction and design since the begining. He also designed our very first release for Jame Dean Trio.

Danny and his wife Millie with one of their kitties

- Introduction:

I was at the historic first official meeting of The Record Machine held at McCoy’s in West Port of Kansas City, MO over half a decade ago. My say didn’t amount to much. I think my mouth was full as I was mostly positioned to eat free cheeseburgers.

- How have you been spending your days?

My days are spent. Creeping on the Crow’s Feet I find that time is more easily measured in flap jack format than ever before. Something big has always been beaming and beating and I find myself blind peeping to see how far back the dogs with prickly sticks in their mouths yip, kick and nip for my heels. I do beat the crickets up at 5 am Monday thru Saturday in order to pinch a bit back. Evenings and weekends find me down slide sliver squeezes as well. I engage in making things and find some peace through all the pieces with my maker in the act of doing so. The handful of women I share space with enlightenment my walk as well…kitties and wife. Walks are good too and Fall time is the best for comfortable living in Kansas City.

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This month not only do you get a download but you also a music video for the song. Max Justus might look like a new artist but by age 20 he has released several independent records before signing with The Record Machine. His newest record Five Leaping Leopards includes some of the most danceable, catchy, and hard hitting material of his career.October’s song of the month CTRL + ALT + Dance shows a different side of Max’s abilities. Just like the video the song is lighter and airier in comparison to the newer material that he has been producing.

 

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