Warm Gospel 20: Stewardesses/Tires Split c32

Tires // Stewardesses Split c32

Central Iowa’s Tires and Stewardesses both pull electronic music forward like waves, following a similar straight line but cresting above and crashing below, meeting only in the middle where the ocean is filled with bleeps and bloops and a thin white outline of reverb. When these songs drop, they drop like a Midwest blizzard.

Warm Gospel at the Vaudeville Mews

The Warm Gospel label was created based on the concept of recreating the grand, layered spectrum of gospel music using the contemporary ideas and tools of electronic, noise, and ambient music. The result is something new. Over the past year, Warm Gospel has collected releases from many of Iowa's beat and noise makers, including DJ DJ TANNER, Tires, Olsen Twinns, Juxwl, and others. In combining these artists under a single label, Warm Gospel has established a foundation of rumbling noise, tidal waves of synth, and layers of clouded harmonies in a part of Iowa where, previously, experimental music was never fully realized as an important part of the state's overall music output.

On December 18th, the Vaudeville Mews will showcase nearly every artist on the Warm Gospel label, bringing an entire night of electronic sound exploration to Des Moines.

Vaudeville Mews
December 18th, 2012
8:00 pm
$5

Tires
Is Home Is (Olsen Twinns)
Juxwl
DJ DJ TANNER
Big Digital
Seezureface
Skyscraper

This show is going to be so much fun.

http://www.vaudevillemews.com/events/warm-gospel-showcase/?sId=2307

Warm Gospel 09: Tires - Two EP's (c24)

Tires - Two EP's c24

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Following Tires earlier split with Big Digital, we’ve thrown a couple more EP’s into the mix. Tires makes dance music for the dance floor, a rarity in the past few years where bedroom EDM flooded onto the internet through headphone speakers and the amount of bass was only outdone by the layers of vocal samples played like piano keys. With an actual drummer and krautrock-esque synth melodies, Tires channels all the appeal of Kraftwerk through the energy of teenagers banging out punk rock in their garage.

Warm Gospel 06: Tires/Big Digital Split - The Girl Who Gets a Charge Out (c24)

Tires/Big Digital Split - The Girl Who Gets a Charge Out c24

For me, it’s weird when a jam session manages to impress. In Big Digital’s first (and last?) show, keyboard, vocal loops, and various electronics were folded into the broken, sludge of post-dance music Big Digital channels and tweeks through his own pile of chords and effect pedals. And through all of the murk, beautiful sounds protruded outward from the wall of noise before decaying and crumbling to the ground. Rather than relying on echoes and reverb to project the sounds out into infinity, Digital Bear opts to keep it close, never allowing any sound to stray too far from the haze.

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"Electronic rock band Tires plays primarily instrumental music, with an emphasis on groove and a layered palette (including the occasional electric drill on guitar). The huge sound produced is accomplished by just two people: Phil Young on guitar and electronic sound manipulations, and Jordan Mayland on drums and synthesizers.

The two are in a virtual “who’s who” of Iowa bands, including The Wheelers, The Volcano Boys, The Mantis Pincers, Nuclear Rodeo, and many others. As if that wasn’t enough, they often control their own lighting during performances as well."

-Bryon Dudley (GDMMC - http://www.desmoinesmc.com/)

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