{"id":35883,"date":"2021-03-17T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=35883"},"modified":"2021-03-11T20:14:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T01:14:26","slug":"black-light-smoke-shares-single-video-for-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=35883","title":{"rendered":"Black Light Smoke shares single + video for \u2018North Korea\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Black Light Smoke has shared the second single from Jordan Lieb&#8217;s upcoming LP&nbsp;\u2018The Early Years\u2019&nbsp;out&nbsp;03.26.21&nbsp;via Cut Mistake Music. <em>North Korea <\/em>is available to stream and comes with a performance video that provides a peek into how Black Light Smoke builds this dark and brooding darkwave \/ industrial burner from minimal equipment. Check out the <em>North Korea<\/em> video via YouTube below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/olQ9q_PUUK0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>More about \u2018The Early Years<\/strong>\u2019&nbsp;<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018The Early Years\u2019 is a retrospective of Black Light Smoke\u2019s formative beginnings. Written mostly in 2010, before Black Light Smoke was a dance music name. These songs reflect a period of unfiltered creativity and adventure in the artist\u2019s development. Not bound to any genre, this album begs for repeated listens to uncover the aural mysteries of disparate worlds.&nbsp;The production of \u2018The Early Years\u2019 involved trashy guitar amps, obscure pedals, unconventional recording techniques, and the warm hiss and warble from 4 track cassette recording. The tracks <em>123456789<\/em> and <em>Celeste<\/em> feature heavily overdubbed guitars and vocals, clearly My Bloody Valentine inspired. <em>The Figure<\/em> is an eerie piano and vocal ballad describing the last moments of someone\u2019s life. The track that comes closest to dance music is <em>Black Light Smoke<\/em>, (which actually inspired the artist&#8217;s name), featuring the wobbly synth line of a Juno106. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, this record is a dive into the artist&#8217;s deep mind and emotions, expressed in beautiful noise and overlapping melodies.&nbsp;Black Light Smoke first teamed up with Cut Mistake Music in 2012 to release his album \u2018Thriller\u2019 under the alias John Hughes Daydream. Together again to release \u2018The Early Years,\u2019 the artist and label owner Connor Whiriskey completed mixes for the album in Nashville during the 2017 solar eclipse. Having gathered dust for nearly 10 years, the songs on this album tell a story of the artist\u2019s past, as well the story of coming full circle to completion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Black Light Smoke is the electronic music moniker of Jordan Lieb &#8211; producer, songwriter, and Daytime Emmy Award winning film and tv composer. A Chicago native and child of 90s house music, Jordan transplanted to New York City in 2001, where his career as a multi-disciplined musician has taken flight in many forms. Black Light Smoke\u2019s sound draws on house, techno, new wave and post-punk. His work has featured on Andrew Weatherall\u2019s seminal Masterpiece mix series, and in Ana Lily Amirpour\u2019s 2016 indie cult film \u2018The Bad Batch\u2019. Black Light Smoke has performed his unique live set around the globe.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FD754291-14DD-4A3F-AEA4-4CC8BA5A1F3B.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"586\" height=\"586\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FD754291-14DD-4A3F-AEA4-4CC8BA5A1F3B.jpeg?resize=586%2C586\" alt=\"Black Light Smoke The Early Years cove4 artwork\" class=\"wp-image-35892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FD754291-14DD-4A3F-AEA4-4CC8BA5A1F3B.jpeg?w=586&amp;ssl=1 586w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FD754291-14DD-4A3F-AEA4-4CC8BA5A1F3B.jpeg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FD754291-14DD-4A3F-AEA4-4CC8BA5A1F3B.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018The Early Years\u2019 track listing<\/strong><br>&nbsp;1. Up Up And Away&nbsp;<br>2. Springtime For Rioters&nbsp;<br>3.&nbsp;123456789<br>4. Black Light Smoke&nbsp;<br>5.&nbsp;Burn&nbsp;<br>6.&nbsp;North Korea&nbsp;<br>7. The Figure&nbsp;<br>8. Celeste&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Produced and mixed by Jordan Lieb &amp; Connor Whiriskey during a full solar eclipse in Nashville on Aug. 21, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Black Light Smoke has shared the second single from Jordan Lieb&#8217;s upcoming LP&nbsp;\u2018The Early Years\u2019&nbsp;out&nbsp;03.26.21&nbsp;via Cut Mistake Music. North Korea is available to stream and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=35883\" title=\"Black Light Smoke shares single + video for \u2018North Korea\u2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[13,23,28,29,30],"tags":[9887,9886,2958],"class_list":["post-35883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electronic-music","category-indie","category-music","category-music-video","category-new-release","tag-black-light-smoke","tag-north-korea","tag-the-early-years"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/47A53522-7B91-44D2-979F-9A707C45E475.jpeg?fit=598%2C396&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-9kL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36072,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=36072","url_meta":{"origin":35883,"position":0},"title":"Black Light Smoke share video for \u2018Figure\u2019","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"March 29, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Black\u00a0Light\u00a0Smoke have shared their haunting video for\u00a0Figure directed by Sina Taherkhani. 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