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The Blow seemed to be a full-fledged duo with the release of Paper Television last year, but Jona Bechtolt is taking more of a traditional producer's role to Khaela Maricich's bona fide indie pop star persona. Bechtolt won't join Maricich on her previously reported tour, though the possibility for future collaboration in the studio still exists.

Fans of Bechtolt's lo-fi Neptunes approach to beatmaking need not worry, however, as he will release two albums in the coming months under his main moniker, YACHT.

The first YACHT album is a remix record on States Rights Records titled Our Friends in Hell. It comes out April 10 and features remixes of Architecture in Helsinki, Mirah, Lucky Dragons, Tussle, and the Blow, among others. This makes us happy just looking at it: Mirah: "Jerusalem (Chopped and Screwed Remix)".

The second album is a new full-length called I Believe in You. Your Magic Is Real. Marriage Records will release the album on May 8, and Bechtolt will celebrate its release May 5 in Portland with "the most epic CD release party of all time on an actual yacht," according to a press release.

YACHT will tour the U.S. in April and Japan in July. His first date is in Brooklyn on April 14.

I Believe in You. Your Magic is Real. tracklist:

01 So Post All 'Em
02 See a Penny (Pick It Up)
03 We're Always Waiting
04 Platinum [ft. Bobby Birdman]
05 It's All the Same Price [ft. Eats Tapes]
06 The Magic Beat
07 Drawing in the Dark
08 It's Coming to Get You
09 If Music Could Cure All That Ails You
10 I Believe in You
11 Your Magic Is Real
12 Women of the World

Our Friends in Hell tracklist:

01 Architecture in Helsinki: "Nevereverdid (Cave Rave Remix)"
02 YACHT: "See a Penny (Premix)"
03 Lucky Dragons: "Leaf Shells (Elephant Dance Remix)"
04 The Blow: "Hock It (We Two Remix)"
05 Copy: "Copy on Me (F**k the Law Remix)"
06 Mirah: "Make It Hot (Over Remix)"
07 Bobby Birdman: "I Will Come Again (And Again Remix)"
08 Tussle: "Second Guessing (Nether Plane Remix)"
09 The World Court: "Animal Oracle (Premix)"
10 Architecture in Helsinki: "Do the Whirlwind (Remix)"
11 White Rainbow: "New Overdubs (Soft NRG Remix)"
12 Bobby Birdman: "And Then It Begins (RIL Remix)"
13 Mirah: "Jerusalem (Chopped and Screwed Remix)"

Dates:

04-14 Brooklyn, NY - Cinders Gallery *
04-15 Annadale-on-Hudson, NY - Bard College #
04-16 New York, NY - Hiro Ballroom ^
04-17 Chicago, IL - Schubas
04-19 Chicago, IL - Version Fest 2007
04-21 Big Sur, CA - Fernwood Resort (Spring Festival 2007)
04-26 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
07-02 Tokyo, Japan - O-Nest
07-03 Yokohama, Japan - Club24
07-04 Nagoya, Japan - KD Japon
07-05 Kobe, Japan - Triton Cafe
07-06 Okayama, Japan - TBA
07-07 Kyoto, Japan - Urbanguild
07-08 Kanazawa, Japan - Socila

* with Telepathe
# with Pash, High Places
^ with Gang Gang Dance