Favorite Albums of 2014

It’s been a long time coming(nearly a year by my count) since we’ve done a favorite album of the year list. Upon looking back on the year I’m pretty astounded by how many great records came out. When I first started thinking about it, I was struggling to remember more than a handful of albums. […]

Jakob Skott :: Taurus Rising

Way back in March of this year, amongst one of the coldest and harshest Midwestern winters in recent memory I happened across this guy named Jakob Skott. He’s the co-founder and drummer of the Danish psych band Causa Sui. Not only that, but he’s the co-founder of El Paraiso Records, the record company that puts […]

Jakob Skott’s ‘Taurus Rising’ coming in December

I haven’t made it a secret that I am a huge fan of Danish drummer Jakob Skott. His work with Causa Sui is essential in making those psych rockers what they are. He adds a jazz fusion flair to the psychedelic atmospherics they create. Imagine Tony Williams playing with Hawkwind, or NEU! and you’ll get […]

Z :: Visions of Dune

I have not made it a secret that I love analog synth music. Those warm, bubbling tones that permeate the air in visual greens and blues get me every time. The desolation they put my headspace in takes me to my childhood and those late nights staying up watching something I shouldn’t that I’d rented […]

Causa Sui : Pewt’r Sessions 3

If you’re not familiar with Causa Sui, then you really need to get familiar with these Danish musical space pilots. They make psychedelic music for those of us who left the hallucinogenics at home. The music that these four musicians create IS the hallucinogen. When you settle in with an album by Causa Sui you […]

Evening Spin: Jakob Skott’s ‘Doppler’

El Paraiso Records in Denmark pretty much own me. Yeah, I’ll admit it. 2014 has been the year of El Paraiso for me, musically speaking. First it started with a curious listen of Causa Sui’s ‘Summer Sessions 1-3’ which led me to Papir, Psicomagia, Jonas Munk’s Pan, then finally Jakob Skott. Munk and Skott are […]

Causa Sui :: Live at Freak Valley

Causa Sui have been putting out true psychedelic rock for almost ten years. In those ten years they’ve transcended the genre into something completely their own. Starting out with a more fuzzed-out stoner rock vibe on their first two records the Denmark natives switched gears on 2008s Summer Sessions, Vol 1-3 by creating more mind-expanding […]

Jakob Skott :: Amor Fati

Hello. It’s good to be back from my mission to the fourth realm of Garzan. It was a rough flight, flying through the Araucaria Fire, just past the Eastman Oyster and landing near the Omega Oscillator. The native Garzanians call their home planet an “Earth of No Horizon”, which means if you look out […]

Vinyl is the Monday Cure

Nothing quite like getting home and seeing not one, but two cardboard squares sitting on the front stoop. That’s how I call Monday a winner, folks. Sitting on the front step was a package from Denmark and Brooklyn, New York. El Paraiso dropped off the new Jakob Skott album Amor Fati and Domino Records left […]

El Paraiso

It seems that Denmark is much cooler than I ever thought possible. The reason for this newfound revelation? El Paraiso Records. El Paraiso is a Danish record company run by Jonas Munk and Jakob Skott. These two fellows are in the incredible band Causa Sui, as well as putting out stellar records under their own […]