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Tonight : Carbs play at MILK's 4th birthday bash. Flat 0/1, Glasgow, 9pm, £4

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Having a great time remixing @miaouxmiaoux

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Pretty weird to be in the room where ~75% of the radio I listen to comes from. My session for Tom Robinson is now up on the iplayer.

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Happy Valentine's / Judgement Day xxx

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Clammy.

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I'm only human and thus I am utterly beguiled by this song.

Ben knows.

Everybody knows.

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While we currently live in a world obsessed by celebrities and full of music and media specifically honed to our ever decreasing attention spans it’s notable that so many of the faces being pushed to the front of our online feeds lack any real personality, with it becoming one of those things deemed unnecessary by growing teams of social media experts and ideas sourced by committees. This definitely cannot be said of the music created by one Jonnie Common. The Glasgow-based producer has built up a back catalogue of stunning music as part of Inspector Tapehead, as Down the Tiny Steps and in his JC guise, the most recent of which being the jaw-droppingly good "Trapped In Amber" album for Song, By Toad. While it’s hard to put your finger on exactly what makes this moustachio’d geniuses music so special and impossible to squeeze into any journalist friendly pigeonhole, all I can recommend is getting your ears around it. Think King Creosote meets Four Tet without sounding like either of them. Jonnie’s also kindly put us together a guest mix and it’s a cracking wee glimpse into the mind of the man and comes with a pretty flawless tracklisting (shown fully below) taking in the likes of Globules, Joe Howe, The Beta Band, Money Mark, Machinedrum, Redinho and much much more. Tracklist: (00.00) Timmy Thomas - Why Can’t We Live Together? (01.24) Globules - Tropical P(h)easants (03.38) Joe Howe - Groove Script (04.56) B. Tikhomirov - Musical Sketches, Suite 4 – Competition (05.18) Teebs - Just The Yellow Bits (07.27) Hermigervill - Nasty Boy (10.39) Jonnie Common - Better Man (alt mix) (16.42) Daisuke Tanabe - Rest (17.38) Jay Rolex - Slow Burner (18.36) Ametsub - Snowy Lava (20.26) The Beta Band - Sequinsizer (20.33) cLOUDDEAD - Jimmy Breeze (Peel session) (22.33) Money Mark - Bossa Nova (23.42) Radiohead / Dave Brubeck - Five Step (25.58) Architeq - Fox Tails (28.06) The Creators - The Aftermath (28.40) Caribou - Pelican Narrows (28.42) Javelin - Susie Cues (30.23) Mesak - Mekkala (33.26) Loops Haunt - Joplin (35.22) ARP101 - Flush (38.18) Redinho - Boy Racer (39.15) Prefuse 73 ft The Books - Pagina Dos (40.59) Ichi - ひなたびと (44.35) Bambooman - Frosted (46.06) Shigeto - Huron River Drive (Evenings rmx) (49.06) Chrome Sparks - Marijuana (51.00) Machinedrum - Overcome (54.38) Flying Lotus ft. Mapei - Ideas (58.04) MC Almond Milk - How 2 Do Biz in 2k14 (prod. Jonnie Common)

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While we currently live in a world obsessed by celebrities and full of music and media specifically honed to our ever decreasing attention spans it's notable that so many of the faces being pushed to

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We’re excited to be able to support a release from Scottish indie Song, by Toad, seeing as the label grew out of one of the longest-running music blogs on our site.

Podcart calls Jonnie Common “one of Scotland’s musical elite, creating some of the most innovative and bold electronic music I’ve experienced.” Listen to Trapped in Amber on Hype Machine this week. 

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The second single from the new Jonnie Common album ‘Trapped in Amber’ which is out on Halloween 2014 on Song, by Toad Records - vinyl and CD.

Buy one here: http://songbytoadrecords.com/jonnie-common/trapped-in-amber/

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NEW JONNIE COMMON SINGLE! From ‘Trapped in Amber’, the new Jonnie Common album out on 31st October 2014 on vinyl, CD and download. www.jonniecommon.com/ songbytoadrecords.com/artists/jonnie-common/ On previous album Master of None: “I love this record’ - Lauren Laverne (6 Music) “Skewed-pop amble … a lo-fi electro-folk wonder” - The List “understated cooing over the minutiae of every day life … transformed into bouncing astral straddling ditties” - Drowned In Sound Jonnie Common makes some of the strangest noises ever to be combined into such catchy, digestible pop songs. His first album Master of None came out on the awesome Manchester-based imprint Red Deer Club in 2011, and its combination of pathos, humour and charm made it a firm favourite, particularly amongst the Scottish underground music scene. I suppose you’d have to call this stuff electronic pop, and while a lot of the music he makes has some very strange elements, the end result tends to be eminently listenable, infectious music. Trapped in Amber, his new album, out on Song, by Toad Records on Halloween 2014, is perhaps less of a collection of breezy pop tunes than its predecessor, but I think it ends up actually feeling like a better overall album. It holds together more as a single, coherent piece of work, and with the more experimental stuff coming to the fore the sparkling pop moments actually end up standing out more this time around. For a meticulous crafstman like Jonnie I am always amazed at how loose and relaxed his music sounds, and for someone who peppers his lyrics with wit and fun, it’s amazing how heartbreaking he can be, often when you least expect it. Try contrasting the lightness of Shark and Crumbs with the horrible sadness of So and So and the melancholic regret of Figurehead, for example. It makes for music which sounds light and fun, but actually has far more depth than that, meaning that even once you get past the simple enjoyment of the hummable stuff, there is still a hell of a lot more here to enjoy.

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Jonnie Common - Trapped in Amber

New album - out on Halloween 2014. 

Pre-order here: http://songbytoadrecords.com/jonnie-common/trapped-in-amber/

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next Save As night.

May the 17th be with you.

UP NEXT!

may 17th. globules headline show and ep launch.

event page.

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First real footage of Carbs. Proof that we exist, if proof be need be.

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Tonight’s gig is only the second outing for Carbs, but their constituent members’ prior onstage experience…