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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

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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Max Justus has some new press from Culture of Me. The writer breaks it down into 3 different points for us:

One, he makes some of the more beautiful, often instrumental only laptop electronica we’ve heard in 5 years or so. Two, Justus has offered up his first two records, Ophelia and Talk To Strangers, for free to download off his MySpace page and he’s dropping his third record, Five Leaping Leopards, later this year.  And three, anyone who seriously remixes C&C Music Factory’s “Everybody Dance Now” so well that we actually want to post it is worth their weight in gold.

Full Review: Here

Limmerick Ox that wrote about Max earlier this week covered Interstates:

If anything, their hypnotic, spacey, synth-loving grooves will help soothe the aggravations which accompany long-range car travel these days.

Full Review: Here

We have been getting some reviews of State Bird’s new single and MP3 of the month. We are going to be releasing the entire 4 New Songs ep on Monday August 18th from our website.

From Tuneage

“I Don’t Love U Anymore” comes off their upcoming EP 4 New Songs and does a great job of showcasing what the band does well. Plus, for a title that implies downtrodden subject matter, the song is surprisingly bouncy, and I think it’s a great song for the pre-Friday blues.

Full Review: Here

From Mixtape Maestro:

Sampling musical textures from the Caribbean, South Africa and other sources of exotic noise, “Anymore” makes the always-awkward confessional ring with a jangly, effervescent glee.

Full Review: Here

Interstates debut record Run Run was reviewed by our French friends Beehave.fr

In French:

Run Run illuminera votre été de moments forts dans n’importe quel contexte, et il y a fort à parier que vous deviendrez vite accros aux souvenirs qu’évoqueront pour vous les géniales mélodies de cet album.

Translation:

Run Run will illuminate your summer(s) with powerfull moments whatever you go through, whatever you’re up to, and wherever you are. And you can bet you’ll get hooked to all the memories those marvelous tunes will print into you.

Full Review: French / English Translation

Our newest artist Max Justus got a review of his first single called Seven. A Limmerick Ox called it:

With backbeats steadier than the Rock of Gibraltar, synth pads glowing like sharp, glittering neon, and keystrikes coming at you like laser beams, it’s your smooth, sunglasses-at-night theme for whenever it’s just you against the naked city.

Full Review: Here

So this weekend we threw a last minute dance party at Max Justus’ studio. Pretty much a few text’s messages and a twitter or two and we had about 70 people come out on last minute notice. Our friend John Bersuch snapped a few pictures so I thought I would post them for your delight.