Cobra is an ever evolving solo project from Coby Hartzler of State Bird. Each week Coby posts a new song to his blog(www.jacobra.squarespace.com). The blog is a interesting glimpse into a new project as it develops and prepares for full on debut later this year. At times the songs are a bait and switch evolving from simple lo-fi folk and building into full on post-rock. Other times they are the same complex folk songs that you have come to expect from Coby. You might even see some of these songs turn into State Bird songs as is the case with Uh Oh from their 4 New Songs ep. Here is just a sampling of some of our favorites. Go check out the rest of the songs and bookmark for a weekly visits.
We are all very excited about the upcoming Perhapsy record that we are releasing in May. This will be the first release from Derek as Perhapsy but he is a label veteran. You have heard his guitar work on The Winston Jazz Routine and Every Gentle Air records we have released so you should be more the familiar. We have added our favorite track from the record The Bow Song to our player on the right. Also this Month’s Song of The Month is a new demo Derek was nice enough to send over.
Late last year The Record Machine made friends with Sportsday Megaphone. We asked if Max Justus could do a remix of Meet Me In The Middle which is one of the many stand out tracks on the record So Many Colours / So Little Time. Yesterday they released a video and the Max Justus remix and we wanted to make sure you all got your hands on it.
We thought we should start 2009 off with our most adventurous song of the month collection so far. Max Justus remixed 8 tracks from the newest Kanye West record 808s & Heartbreak. Max provides an interesting take that is completely different from what Kanye envisioned.
“What I try to do with electronic music is push it into a pop format and mix in classical ideas,” Spransy says. “I try to throw curveballs in terms of how I arrange songs. A lot of electro guys will come up with a really badass riff, but it never changes, and that kind of irks me.”
We thought we should start 2009 off with our most adventurous song of the month collection so far. Max Justus remixed 8 tracks from the newest Kanye West record 808s & Heartbreak. Max provides an interesting take that is completely different from what Kanye envisioned.
“What I try to do with electronic music is push it into a pop format and mix in classical ideas,” Spransy says. “I try to throw curveballs in terms of how I arrange songs. A lot of electro guys will come up with a really badass riff, but it never changes, and that kind of irks me.”
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