Circlesquare

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Fight sounds part 1 05:20 Tools
Hey You Guys 00:00 Tools
7 Minutes 00:00 Tools
Dancers 00:00 Tools
Music For Satellites 00:00 Tools
Timely 00:00 Tools
Ten To One 00:00 Tools
All Live But The Ending 00:00 Tools
Stop Taking (So Many) 00:00 Tools
Bombs Away, Away 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
Non-Revival Alarm 00:00 Tools
Trancenation 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds, Part 3 00:00 Tools
97 and 02 00:00 Tools
All Sleepers 00:00 Tools
7 Minutes (Patrick Wolf Remix) 00:00 Tools
Dancers (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
You Missed the Fireworks 00:00 Tools
Fight sounds part 2B 00:00 Tools
Fight sounds part 2A 00:00 Tools
Roomtone 00:00 Tools
Fight sounds part 2C 00:00 Tools
Our Faultline 00:00 Tools
fight sounds part 2D 00:00 Tools
Dancers (Russ Chimes vs Anoraak Remix) 00:00 Tools
Asthmatic 00:00 Tools
The Theme For Tonight 00:00 Tools
Dancers - Anoraak vs Russ Chimes Remix 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds Part 1 <Mustang> 00:00 Tools
Dancers (Konrad Black remix) 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds 00:00 Tools
Fight Sound Part 1 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys - The Juan MacLean Remix (Edit) 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds Pt. 2a 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds Pt. 2b 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds Pt. 2c 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds Pt. 2d 00:00 Tools
distance (after) 00:00 Tools
Untitled (For Christmas) 00:00 Tools
Dancers (Anoraak vs Russ Chimes Remix) 00:00 Tools
Dancers (Russ Chimes vs. Anoraak Remix) 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds, Part 1 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys (The Juan Maclean Remix) 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds, Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
Ten to One (Matias Aguayo Remix) 00:00 Tools
Ten To One - Matias Aguayo Remix 00:00 Tools
Sub Reminisce 00:00 Tools
Music for Satellites (Mathew Jonson's KH-13 Remix) 00:00 Tools
filtering blue 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds, Part 2b 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys (Mickey Moonlight Remix) 00:00 Tools
Dancers (Taras3000 Remix) 00:00 Tools
Dancers (Edit) 00:00 Tools
97 and 2 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds, Part 2c 00:00 Tools
Dancers (Anoraak & Russ Chimes Remix) 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys - Mickey Moonlight Remix 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds, Part 2d 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds Pt 1 00:00 Tools
Ten to One (Matias Aguayo Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds (Part 1) 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds Part 2 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds, Pt. 2A 00:00 Tools
Ten To One - Matias Aguayo Instrumental 00:00 Tools
7 Minutes - Patrick Wolf Remix 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds - Part 1 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds Part 1 (OST "NFS Undercover") 00:00 Tools
Dancers (Lowfish's People In The Dark Mix) 00:00 Tools
Flavour Mix 3 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys (The Juan MacLean Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Dancers (Lowfish's "People In The Dark" Mix) 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys - The Juan Maclean Remix 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys (Audiofetish Remix) 00:00 Tools
Dark Matter(s) 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds, Part 2 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys (The Juan MacLean Remix (Edit)) 00:00 Tools
Flight sounds part 1 00:00 Tools
Dancers (Anoraak vs. Russ Chimes Remix) 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys - Kentaman Remix 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys - Audiofetish Remix 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds - Part 2A 00:00 Tools
Non Revival Alarm 00:00 Tools
Non-Revival Alarm - Gaiser / mfnstmp 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys (Kentaman Remix) 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys (The Juan MacLean Remix) (Edit) 00:00 Tools
Dancers - Lowfish's "People In The Dark" Mix 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys - The Juan Maclean Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys (Hrdvsion Remix Take 666) 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys (Original Version) 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys (The Juan MacLean Edit) 00:00 Tools
Dancers - Taras3000 Remix 00:00 Tools
Dancers (!K7) 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds - Part 2B 00:00 Tools
Non Revival Alarm / Mfnstmp 00:00 Tools
Dark Matter(s) [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
Fight Sound 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds Part 1 (OST 'NFS Undercover') 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys (The Juan Maclean Remix - Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
CIRCLESQUARE - Hey You Guys 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys (The Juan Maclean Remix - Radio Edit) 320kbps 00:00 Tools
Super Late Night Music For People In The Dark 00:00 Tools
Non-Revival Alarm / Gaiser – mfnstmp 00:00 Tools
Dark Matter(s) (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys - Hrdvsion Remix Take 666 00:00 Tools
Dancers (Anoraak Remix) 00:00 Tools
Merry Christmas 00:00 Tools
i roll by 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds Part 1 (OST Патруль) 00:00 Tools
Non - revival Alarm 00:00 Tools
and deeper 00:00 Tools
Seven Minutes 00:00 Tools
Circlesquare - Non Revival Alarm 00:00 Tools
Music For Satellites (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds pt1 00:00 Tools
CIRCLESQUARE - Fight Sounds Pt 1 00:00 Tools
In Trans/It Forms 00:00 Tools
Fightsounds 00:00 Tools
slowly 00:00 Tools
The Difference Engine 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds Pt.1 00:00 Tools
Sub Reminisce (Deeper) 00:00 Tools
CIRCLESQUARE - 7 Minutes Patrick Wolf Remix 00:00 Tools
encased 00:00 Tools
XLR8R Presents Circlesquare 00:00 Tools
sound of snow 00:00 Tools
Album, Fight Sounds Part 1 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds 1 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys (The Juan Maclean Remix - Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds Part 1 (ost End of watch) 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds, Part 1-OST Need For Speed Undercover 00:00 Tools
Dancers (Anoraak vs Russ Chimes Remix) [Electronic 2009] 00:00 Tools
Colorado 00:00 Tools
In Your Pants For The Year 2000 00:00 Tools
Blank : Expanded 00:00 Tools
Album, 7 Minutes 00:00 Tools
Strangers In The Night 00:00 Tools
Circlesquare_Flavour Mix 01/2009 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys (The Juan MacLean Remix Edit) 00:00 Tools
CircleSquare - FightSounds Part1 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys (Lipelis Remix) 00:00 Tools
Circlesquare-7 Minutes (Patrick Wolf Remix) 00:00 Tools
Trance Nation 00:00 Tools
Our Faultline - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys (Juan MacLean Remix) 00:00 Tools
Circlesquare - 7 Minutes 00:00 Tools
7 Minutes (Patrick wolf rmx) 00:00 Tools
Circlesquare's Super Late Night Music For People In The Dark 2008 00:00 Tools
You Missed The Fireworks - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Roomtone - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
365th blue 00:00 Tools
Dancers (Anoraak vs Russ Chimes Remix) [!K7248EP] 00:00 Tools
7 Minutes (Patrick Wolf Mix) 00:00 Tools
untitled depart 00:00 Tools
Fireworks 00:00 Tools
Fight sounds part 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds Part 1 (NFS Undercover) EA Trax 00:00 Tools
ไล้บอย 00:00 Tools
365th Blu 00:00 Tools
Non-Revival Alarm/Mfnstmp 00:00 Tools
Dancers - Anoraak & Russ Chimes Remix 00:00 Tools
Dancers (Lowfish's "People In The Dark" Mix ) 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds (part 2A) 00:00 Tools
Hey You Guys (The Juan Mclean Remix Edit) 00:00 Tools
02 circlesqare -- dancers 00:00 Tools
06 circlesqare -- bombs away, away 00:00 Tools
the pattern dome 00:00 Tools
CIRCLESQUARE - 7 Minutes 2 00:00 Tools
Shift - Circlesquare Remix 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds (OST NFS Undercover) 00:00 Tools
05 circlesqare -- ten to one 00:00 Tools
Fight Sounds Part 1 (OST NFS:Undercover) 00:00 Tools
7 Minutes Patrick Wolf Remix 00:00 Tools
7 Minutes - Circlesquare 00:00 Tools
Dancers (Russ Chimes Vs Anoraak Re-Edit!) 00:00 Tools
Dancers (Anoraak vs Russ Chime 00:00 Tools
7 Minutes [Patrick Wolf Remix][#] 00:00 Tools
Что такое плохо 00:00 Tools
Circlesquare - Non-Revival Alarm 00:00 Tools
Dancers [Russ Chimes VS Anoraak Remix] 00:00 Tools
Asthnatic 00:00 Tools
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Some welcome news in a season that could certainly use some: Circlesquare is back. Circlesquare is Vancouver, British Columbia's Jeremy Shaw, now living in Berlin. Don't be surprised, though, if he doesn't sound like any of his citymates: for the length of his career, Circlesquare has never sounded quite like anyone but Circlesquare. Last heard from over two years ago, Circlesquare set hearts racing with a set of records released between 1999 and 2006 on Trevor Jackson's Output label, home to a diverse roster of electronic outsiders like Black Strobe, DK7, and Colder. His 2003 album Pre-Earthquake Anthem came as a revelation: rather than the fluo-funk of his better known labelmates, or the digitized minimalism of the day, Circlesquare came on like a molasses drip laced with Codeine, roping in such unlikely references as Tones on Tail, Leonard Cohen, Pole, Angelo Badalamenti, and even Cat Stevens. Boomkat called it "dense, considered stuff… mixing up a brooding and pounding melancholy, bass-fuelled sensory exploration, and purest minimal electronic meltdown." 2006's Fight Sounds EP was even stranger. It moved like snails set on fire, dousing steel guitar in acid sequences and warped keyboard riffing, all overlaid with Jeremy's intimate, ominous voice. The records—and just as importantly, an impressive live show—helped Circlesquare establish a rabid following. And then Output went under, and Jeremy went all but AWOL. In 2007, rumors began floating around about demos for a new Circlesquare album, one even fuller and more fully realized than his previous material. The rumors were true: that material would go on to become Songs About Dancing and Drugs, an album that finds Shaw sounding more complex, melancholy, profound, and invigorating than ever before. This is the real deal, the kind of album that comes around once in forever, an album for late nights and long drives and breakups and lovemaking, for cold mornings and matted-velvet comedowns. Oh yes, for comedowns. The title is self-sufficient. "I named the album in the tradition of Leonard Cohen, Talking Heads, Big Black, etc.," says Jeremy. "I always loved the directness of Songs from a Room, Songs of Love and Hate, More Songs About Buildings and Food, Songs About Fucking... Dancing, drugs and science seemed to be the most prevalent themes of the album, as usual, so I went with the first two." But this isn't your usual "dance" music. These are opiated rave-ups, like early bleep techno chopped and screwed, or shoegaze in an electric exoskeleton. Beaten down, scuffed-toe bass meditations wrapped in desert blues and dub delay—ambient music with an anti-pop brain and a rock'n'roll heart. "It's the first time since forever ago that a lot of the recorded versions got played live before the album was completed," says Jeremy, "so they definitely changed with the live show, and what was working out there." Two members of Circlesquare's live band, drummer Dave Butterfield and guitarist Trevor Larson, also pitched into the studio sessions, with their work cut up and recomposed by Jeremy. (Nathan Whitford, the group's fourth member, runs visuals for the live show.) As a result the music feels unusually alive—looser and more dynamic than ever before, with no visible seam where circuitry enters the bloodstream (or vice-versa). For all its tensions and negations, the music is all about balance, with liquid guitars, corroded drums, and Jeremy's inimitable voice circling each other like wary atoms. Unlike bands that wear their singers like decorations, Jeremy's voice, deep and rich, provides the music's center. It never dominates; instead, his whisper-growl, teetering between speech and song, nestles deep inside like a voice inside your head. And unlike singers that toss out words like afterthoughts, Jeremy's lyrics create their own kind of gravity. What sound at first like stray images and passing paranoia come together to create the picture of an unstable world torn by a time-space faultline. "Today could be then or last week," "Everything's moving so fast," "Answers go sideways," "Everything looks like light-speed"… Lasers and satellites pepper a world that feels as frozen as a snow globe, with its dazed subjects dancing and drifting aimlessly in search of something like redemption. These are songs about promises broken and potential squandered, of desperate boredom and revelations of the mundane. It's an album about coming down and staying down, about the age of "bathtub chemistry" where they took "all the love out of the ecstasy/ Where now nothing is strong enough/ But lasers mainlined straight into brain receptors." Yeah, it's dark. But you can sense Jeremy's finger on the laser's switch. You can smell the ozone off the spark. It's right there in the opening song, where hitting bottom cracks open a world of light: This is it, this is ours, here we go Here we go. Text by Philip Sherburne Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.