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“Caligula” Limited Edition 12-inch Now Available

WonderSound Crew — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:45:10 +0000

You can now order your own copy of MNDR’s single “Caligula” on 12-inch vinyl from the Rough Trade online store! This is a super-limited (138) edition release from What The…? Records and is hand numbered.

MNDR music video debut in “Bang Bang Bang”

WonderSound Crew — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:35:05 +0000

MNDR’s Amanda Warner is making her music video debut in Mark Ronson’s first single “Bang Bang Bang”. The video was directed by Warren Fu and also features Q-Tip along with some intergalactic breakdancers and other party-goers.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR59nCDWaDY

Pitchfork proclaims MNDR “Best New Music”

WonderSound — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:25:19 +0000

MNDR was given Pitchforks’s “Best New Music” stamp in their review of “I Go Away” from her debut EP.

Brooklyn’s Amanda Warner makes dynamic electro-pop under the moniker MNDR, and she’s been building buzz with her project while also working with folks like Mark Ronson. “I Go Away”, a major highlight from the her debut EP, E.P.E., is filled with distinctive synths that melt all over a spare, echoing drum beat like a candy house left out in the hot sun. It’s a serious slow-dance pop confection, but Warner keeps a clear head lyrically. “I Go Away” initially sounds like a post-relationship-fallout slow burner, as she asks, “How did I get here/ Without feeling anything”. Soon, though, you realize that she isn’t calming down– she’s getting pumped up. “This is my anthem/ I know it like I know everything”, Warner softly declares, as if she’s getting ready to step out in front of the curtain, before letting out titular squeaks during a chorus that favorably evokes Santigold as the track builds to its cathartic peak.

Take a listen for yourself here.

Mark Ronson talks about “Bang Bang Bang” ft. MNDR on Vice TV

WonderSound Crew — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:18:57 +0000

VBS.tv (Vice magazine’s online video haven) just posted a great segment on Mark Ronson as part of their Creator’s Project series with Intel. In the clip Mark talks about his career as a DJ and producer and how his new single “Bang Bang Bang”, featuring MNDR and Q-Tip, came together. Watch out for some great live shots of MNDR at about 3:30. Mark Ronson Creator’s Project

Look out for MNDR playing alongside Mark Ronson at the Creator’s Project on June 25th/26th in NYC.

MNDR, NME, F2B, FREE

WonderSound Crew — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:26:44 +0000

NME has selected MNDR’s “Fade to Black” for the latest installment of it’s Radar Mixtape series. NME’s Radar Mixtape Volume 3 is stocked with some great other “breakthrough” artists such as Funeral Party, Twin Sister, and MNDR stage-sharer, Class Actress. The mixtape is available as a free download, so get it while it’s hot!

Mark Ronson features MNDR and Q-Tip on his latest single

WonderSound Crew — Wed, 26 May 2010 22:27:29 +0000

“Bang Bang Bang (feat. MNDR and Q-Tip)” is the first single from Mark Ronson’s forthcoming album Record Collection. The song debuted May 25th on Zane Lowe’s BBC Radio 1 show. “Bang Bang Bang” written by Mark, Amanda, Peter Wade, Nick Hodgson, Homer Steinweiss, Alex Greenwald and Q-Tip features additional MNDR style synths provided by Wade and Warner. Record Collection is due out this fall, but you can hear the premiere of “Bang Bang Bang” here!

MNDR gets the royal treatment from King of the Gigabitches

WonderSound Crew — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:50:18 +0000

Music blog King of the Gigabitches wrote another great review of MNDR’s show at Bowery Ballroom last night. Not gonna paraphrase, just check it out:

How did I just find out about you last night? I can’t really say much about what was going on stage because I was too busy texting my friends in DC about you. I’d like you to teach a course to every other New York “dance” artist out there on how to work a stage. How to use Ableton to sequence your set to that each tracks flows to the next. How to use visuals. Basically, just how to “be.” Get them out. Get them out of music venues and get them into raves. Teach them how people fucking dance…

You did all of this with a 102-degree fever? Fuck. Just. Fuck. I am almost angry that I had never seen you before.

Read the whole review here.

VIllage Voice rocks out with MNDR

WonderSound Crew — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:10:35 +0000

MNDR played a great show with V.V. Brown and Class Actress at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC last night and The Village Voice was on hand to soak it all in. They really loved her projections, calling it a “a hell of a mind-bending spectacle going behind her, a mixture of Atari-style blocky stuff and digital Spirograph fantasias synced up to respond to both her voice and, ideally, ours.” Though of course that’s nothing without “her muscular, blaring gearhead-techno anthems, with startlingly gooey pop centers, are rousing enough; the mighty ‘Fade to Black’ especially.”

As a physical presence, too, Warner is fascinating, with her blocky white glasses and slightly regal, slightly nerdy air, gripping her mic stand with authority and vogue-ing with aplomb. She casually mentions that she was in the ER last night with a fever of 102; her set actually climaxes between songs, where she tests the whole voice-activated light show thing, wherein we all scream and the screen behind her slowly turns solid white. “Now we’re all connected, like string theory,” she announces, satisfied. “Even though string theory is kinda fake.”

Read the whole article on the Village Voice’s website.

MNDR’s E.P.E. available on iTunes

WonderSound Crew — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:40:20 +0000

For those of you who didn’t get a chance to pick up your copy of MNDR’s E.P.E. release on recent tours with Yacht and These Are Powers, you can now download it from iTunes! It’s MNDR’s first official release and features four songs we’ve been listening too quite a bit lately here at WonderSound. Get your copy here!

New MNDR split 7-inch released by The Fader and Southern Comfort

WonderSound Crew — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:55:55 +0000

MNDR has a new split 7-inch out with Angolan kuduro stars Os Mais Potentes. MNDR’s side features an exclusive extended mix of “Jump In” and Os Mais Potentes bring the kuduro hard with their “Yoyo”. It’s part of a series of split 7-inches The Fader and Southern Comfort have been releasing featuring a wide variety of artists from Wavves to Little Boots to M. Ward and Jim James. To get your copy, leave a comment (make sure to use your real email) on Fader’s website. They’ve only got a limited supply so get on that quick!