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Environ Hosts PS1 Warm Up in NYC

SATURDAY, August 16, 2008. Kelley Polar Live, with strings. Metro Area DJ, with records. Summer. Outside. NYC. Information here.

It’s Called Vinyl

Here is Paul Gold cutting the new Morgan Geist single in Brooklyn, NY. For the nerds, “LPI” means “lines per inch.” The cutting computer determines how many grooves per inch to cut based on the content (for example, during a break with no kick drums or bass, it cuts them closer together, meaning more lines […]

Awesome

We love Mantler. Watch and listen.

Intern wanted!

That’s right, our wonderful Environ intern has at last graduated from business school and is departing for the world of full-time.  We’re looking for a responsible, smart, Web-savvy person to help out here at Environ. It’s a non-paying position but we can work with your school to provide credit…plus free Environ stuff including all new releases, […]

We’ll Miss You, Barry.

UPDATE: A Web site has been put up by Barry’s family at discobarry.com. Barry Lederer (pictured above with Melba Moore) was found dead in his NYC apartment this past weekend. I hadn’t spoken to Barry in a while and only emailed him last week after seeing a friend of his on the street. Barry was […]

Kelley Polar Entropy Reigns Single

    “Entropy Reigns” is the first single from Kelley Polar’s album I Need You to Hold On While the Sky Is Falling. Called “one of the best of the year so far” by Pitchfork and downloaded over 100,000 times during its week as a free Discovery Download on iTunes, we knew “Entropy Reigns” needed […]

Environ Bar Mitzvah Photos

    Knishes from Knish Knosh in Queens? Check. Inflatable synthesizers? Check. Jewish maracas? Check. As promised, we have a bunch of photos from the Environ Bar Mitzvah on March 1. You can find some more here from our man at moodmat.com, Matt MacQueen. For those of you who don’t speak New York City, a […]

Metro Area Mix on AOL

A new Metro Area disco mix is up on AOL’s Spinner site. Check it out here. It’s pretty short, but hey.

Kelley Polar CD Released Today!

I Need You to Hold On While the Sky Is Falling is available today in North America and most of Europe! The CD is packaged in a beautiful, reverse-stock digipak – designed by Nove Studio, the design firm responsible for the gorgeous video for “Chrysanthemum” – and Mr. Polar claims there are “secret messages” embedded […]

New Kelley Polar Album on iTunes Now

    I Need You to Hold On While the Sky Is Falling is available exclusively as a pre-release on iTunes. The CD (packaged in a beautiful reverse-stock digipack cover designed by Nove Studio) is out at the start of March. Kelley Polar’s brand-new track “Entropy Reigns (in the Celestial City)” will be featured as […]