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Its end of the year review time and Memory Tapes is one of the newcomers likely to be among those featured in the most influential blogs and websites best-ofs.

The uber-indie project of New Jersey musician and producer Dayve Hawk, who’s been playing with his name -Weird Tapes and Memory Cassette are also monikers he’s released material under – and building up the myth around his mysterious persona through a series of limited edition singles; finally unveiled his first full-length ‘Seek Magic’ to critical acclaim.

His blend of lush, atmospheric shoegaze; hazy psychedelia and DIY electronica, shaped into lovely dream-pop pills, has also turned him into an on-demand remixer (putting a bit of magic in recent works by a wide range of up and coming bands –Yeasayer, Fool’s Gold, Midnight Juggernauts, Major Lazer- and more mainstream stars such as Britney Spears, Phoenix and Gucci Mane. He was even approached to contribute in a future Michael Jackson remix album; followed by rumours of the actual work been rejected.

To coincide with his UK live debut, Memory Tapes is releasing a new single, ‘Graphics’, through Something In Construction on January 18th. You can listen to the track at his MySpace page.

UK Tour dates (more to be confirmed):

Jan 16: The Corner, Manchester
Jan 20: Luminaire, London (Support from Pantha Du Prince and Fitness Club Fiasco)

Roberto Gonzalez Tag Of The Day memory tapes

2010 is beginning to look as the moment of truth for the recent batch of bands coming from Brooklyn. New York’s hippest borough has been the heart of indie music for the last few years and has seen many of its artists -from TV on the Radio to MGMT- going global, while redefining the state of alternative music. Early in the New Year many of those Brooklyn scene-shapers will be releasing new records that may help revalidate their neighbourhood as pop music’s creative epicenter.

Yeasayer are among the first ones delivering new material, after ‘All Hours Cymbals’ just earned them a place within Pitchfork’s much talked-about top 200 albums of the decade. The experimental trio, notorious for bringing hip world music and hippy psychedelic influences to their perfect pop pills, have begun promoting their second work ,’Odd Blood’, with a recent gig at NY’s Guggenheim Museum and is giving away a download of ‘Ambling Alp’, the contagious first single.

The song can also be purchased on several digital and physical bundle formats that include mixes by indie wunderkind Memory Tapes and king of leftfield DJ/Rupture, plus all sorts of merchandise.

“Odd Blood” will be released on February the 9th by Secretly Canadian in North America and Mute around the world. Get “Ambling Alp” Here.

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