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!
The Fader posted a video and reviewed MNDR’s show on February 16th at the Brooklyn Bowl. Take a look!:
When MNDR played our monthly FADER Bowl, we were convinced the crystal necklace she was wearing was going to shoot lasers out of it, or perhaps assist in her animorphing to a unicorn and spiriting away to save a distant land. While that didn’t happen, she did look pretty superhero-like beneath the pink light of the stage, holding court with yet another one of her future mega-hits. And even if she can’t control the universe with her accessories, she clearly has quite a handle over pixel-stars and synth modules, which is good enough for us if she’s gonna keep making songs like this.
Read more at The Fader.
MNDR’s show last Tuesday night with Restless People at the Brooklyn Bowl has gotten tons of coverage all over. The Tastes Like Caramel blog wrote a bit about their “favorite new chick on the block” and The Fader loved MNDR’s show, too. You can check out The Culture of Me for some great live shots of MNDR, herself.
MNDR’s set at the CMJ Levi’s/Fader Fort showcase as seen by the Tastes Like Caramel blog:
MNDR has been building steam over the past couple months through her blog, MySpace, and her frequent party gigs.
Bushwick’s MNDR was a breath of fresh air in the sweaty basement of the ACE Hotel, jumping from keyboards, knob-turning, and moving the crowd with her incredibly fun and tech-no-logic set.
Keep an eye out for MNDR!
Check out the pics from the night.
MNDR rocked this year CMJ Levi’s/FADER Fort.
Bushwick-lamping pop knob-squelcher MNDR only played second in the line-up of our daylong Levi’s®/FADER Fort celebration, but by that time it was already a sweltering sweatbox. No matter: MNDR powered through, peppering her technicolor synths and amazing warble with abstract and angular dance moves that we loved. Check out “Sparrows” in this video—it’s kind of an office favorite, but one in a series of anthems we simply can’t shut off.
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WonderSound artist MNDR featured on Fader TV talking in the studio with producer Peter Wade about her music.
Studio Time with MNDR
Julianne Escobedo ShepherdRight now MNDR is our favorite electronic pop singer/producer and gear head who crafts effervescent jams we simply cannot shake from our brains while posting the deepest, nerdiest, most pocket protectorly posts about synthesizers on her blog. When she’s not performing her “Pon de Floor” remix with Major Lazer at our parties or playing with addictive Oakland mind-gardeners tRIANGLE, she’s recording her debut album in a Chelsea studio with her colleague Peter Wade. We stopped by to hear some amazing new songs and talk to the duo about synths, patches, grindcore and unicorns.
MNDR’s “Fade to Black” reviewed by The Fader. For more about the song’s creation check MNDR’s Blog.
It’s tempting to picture currently-NY-based producer/vocalist MNDR 24-7 surrounded by hotwired gear, Frankensteinian drum machines and patched together pedals, a sort of musical robot extension of her arms—her crystal-clear pop voice and gleaming beat sequences just invokes that shit. “Fade to Black” is a total iPod burner, completely anthemic in a song-of-the-summer style with an outburst chorus that evokes the bigness of “Kids in America” or Pat Benetar’s “Invincible”—which is not to say it’s retro, just that it makes us want to walk down the street with our crew, amassing unrelated passersby until we have like a Puerto Rican Day Parade-sized posse following us down Madison, all singing the chorus of this in unison. So maybe MNDR is secretly Ferris Bueller? Listen to it on her MySpace, along with another epic, the wobbly new “Jump In.”
* Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
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