Photo courtesy of Mamby on the Beach
Brooklyn-based producer Jeremy Malvin, who performs as Chrome Sparks, has been on a brief performing hiatus as he works on his latest album."This is the first show I've played in almost a month," Malvin said after a performance at Chicago's Mamby on the Beach music festival. "It feels good to play again and the show went really well. It was fun. It's like riding a bike, but with synthesizers."Earlier this year, Malvin hunkered down in a cabin in the woods of upstate New York to focus on his upcoming album, which he anticipates releasing sometime in 2017. "I spent a month in the woods just to concentrate, came up with some ideas out there, and now it's just a matter of finishing it," he said.For the rest of the summer, Malvin will continue to fine-tune his album and play a series of festival dates before embarking on his latest solo tour. For the latest edition of "The Last Record," Malvin shared his philosophy on record buying and why the latest James Holden and Floating Points collaboration is the, "sickest album ever."
First off, I think, if you're buying a record online or a new record at a store, I don't think you should ever buy less than two of the same record because you should give one to a friend. I think that's a good thing, so I've been trying to do that as much as I can lately, whether it's something you know a homie is really going to enjoy or it's something you want to give to somebody because you think they might like it.I just did that with that Bibio album, Ambivalence Avenue. The full-length has been one of my favorites since I was introduced to it like seven years ago. And I immediately had to get it on vinyl, but of course that had been sold out and wasn't getting repressed. But they just repressed it, so I bought two copies of that one–one for me and one for my friend who introduced me to Bibio seven years ago. And it's so great to listen to … what's that song? It's the number one played in my iTunes … "Lover's Carvings." To listen to that on vinyl has been amazing.
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1. Ambivalence Avenue by Bibio
2. Marhaba by Maalem Mahmoud Guinia with Floating Points and James Holden
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