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12.24.2009

Deeper Faster Further Warmer (a holiday greeting) // The Presets

Enough of Christmas. Enough of insanely unhealthy pastry. Enough of crammed packed shopping malls with Santas and Elves on minimum wage. Enough of soulless mass text messaging.

Enough of frantic longing.

I just want to take all of you out and have a good time. Anywhere.


The Presets - Anywhere


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12.14.2009

Videorama // Vitalic

Track taken from the album Flashmob. 
Built around the cover's picture of Vitalic's album Flashmob, this video clip is an oniric and contemplative journey of a man recreating the 19th century experience of Etienne-Jules Marey on fluid dynamics. 
Smoke lines represent the notion of stability, the triangle goes for the disturbance and incidentally for the V of Vitalic. The concept of a flashmob is illustrated here as a result of an intruder perturbating a stable environment. 
Directed by //DIY & Brillantine
DP by ART10


Vitalic - See The Sea (Red)


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12.08.2009

Videorama // These New Puritans

Born Again Christian wants *desperately needs* that mask-hat-thorn thing for Christmas. Via Menina Limão minus the links to Rihanna's sex tape. (file under "and nothing of importance was lost") Check their website to get a preview of the upcoming album Hidden.

Amen.


These New Puritans - We Want War

Aoki lovage

Starring:

  • Bloody Beetroots feat. Steve Aoki - Warp 7.7
  • Steve Aoki feat. Zuper Blahq - I'm in the House
  • NASA - Gifted (Steve Aoki remix) 
  • Bloody Beetroots feat. Steve Aoki - Warp 1.9

Steve Aoki @ The Metro Theater
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Dim Mak

I'll tell you about punk rock:

punk rock is a word used by dillitantes and ah... and ah... heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies and the bodies and the hearts and the souls and the time and the minds of young men who give what they have to it and give everything they have to it and it's a... it's a term that's based on contempt, it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism and everything that's rotten about rock'n'roll. I don't know Johnny Rotten but I'm sure... I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did. You see, what sounds to you like a big load of trashy old noise is in fact the brilliant music of a genius, myself . And that music is so powerful that it's quite beyond my control and ah... when I'm in the grips of it I don't feel pleasure and I don't feel pain, either physically or emotionally. Do you understand what I'm talking about? Have you ever felt like that? When you just couldn't feel anything and you didn't want to either. You know? Like that? Do you understand what I'm saying sir?

Mogwai - Punk Rock:
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Matador Records (US) // Chemikal Underground (UK)

12.06.2009

Videorama // The Sound of Arrows + Little Big Adventure

Hard and cold times are upon us. To help keep the freezing temperatures away, two heartfelt gems - one brimming with hope the other not so much - from the land of feel-good ultra empowering synth pop, Sweden. Oh, the irony... (don't forget to click the freebie links below to download these tracks from their label, Labrador)

First off, The Sound of Arrows with a *gorgeous* video for their most recent single Into the clouds: A fantasy dreamscape, reminiscent of Never Ending Story and other fantasy movies from the 80s. I miss those blurry colours. No lucky dragon as well, guess that would have made it too obvious.


The Sound of Arrows - Into the Clouds
freebie Into the clouds
web thesoundofarrows.com
emospace thesoundofarrows
label Labrador

Aaaaand, for some extra punch plus extra Pet Shop Boys flair... a remix!


The Sound of Arrows - Into the Clouds (Fear of Tigers remix)


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As previously stated, Magnus Sätterström's life is... humm... complicated. However, like his song goes, one must soldier on: "You two should settle down/And have the happiest time Of your lives/And I will try to keep myself alive". Harsh...


Little Big Adventure - Happiest Times
freebie Happiest times
buy The Hateful Eye (CD) / The Hateful Eye EP (MP3)
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label Labrador

A murderous tale // The Cat Piano with Nick Cave

Via AstroBoy™. Check his blog for more details.



The Cat Piano from PRA on Vimeo.




The Cat Piano by Eddie White

Long ago my city’s luminous heart, beat with the song of four thousand cats.
Crooners who shone in the moonlight mimicry of the spotlight.
Jazz singers. Hip cats that went ‘Scat!’
Buskers with open-mouthed hats hungry for a feed.
Parlours paraded purring glamorous songstresses.
Smoky hookahs and smoking hookers.
Strays strummed string and sung a cocktail of cat’s tails.
A decadent party of meowing sound.
A bohemian behemoth, post-midnight soiree.

Amongst the chorale ‘o tuneful ones was one fair queen who drew me from o’er the way.
Her fur, an amorous white and a voice that made all the angels of eternity sound tone deaf.
Blind with love at first sight, touched by the taste of her sound,
I longed to be the microphone she cradled near her breast.

‘Twas our Shang-ri-la of sound,
A paradise found where nothin’ could stop us.
Or so it seemed.

Singers began to vanish like sailors lost at sea.
Snatched from stage alley way
Shanghai’d from behind scarlet curtain.
Into thin air they disappeared without a single cry.
Police study the clues.
Foot-prints from human shoes.

So you’ve heard of every instrument but?
Torn from your history books is this pianola,
This harpsichord of harm.
The cruellest instrument to spawn from man’s grey cerebral soup.
The Cat Piano.

Confined were the cats in a row of cages.
With each note struck upon it’s ivory tusks,
A sharpened nail would pierce each cat’s tail,
Forcing a note from each pitch on the scale.

I ran my cursed writer’s run to tell her beware.
She wasn’t there.
My soul capsized.
Like a fish, paralysed.
On a chopping board, its spinal cord ripped forth from its body,
Her vocals the last the thief had needed,
A rare celestial pitch that would complete his collection.

The city in unrest.
Fights broke out in its sleep.
I couldn’t dream anymore.
There was a hole in my heart and everything fell out of it.
All music forbidden.
Keep your lullabies hidden.
And your A and E minors off the street after dark.

My town grew cold and bitter.
In icy hibernation was the once thumping heart.
Now seizing up.
Freezing up.

Katzenklavier.
The torturous worm of sound burrowed deep into my ears.
Le Piano du chat
I thought of Van Gogh.
Neko Piano.
I’d put an end to this incessant, inescapable drone.
Mao Gang Qin

I enlisted an army of the brave and I their general declared war.
Poised with tooth and fire in paw.
We would finally settle this musical score.
Eyes with fierce intent that glowed.
Through tempestuous waters we rowed.
Storming the shores,
Swarming in scores,
Scaling its walls with well-sharpened claws,
We invaded the tower through all its doors.

Up the winding stairs,
To meet him with blinding stares.
There he sat.
The organ grinder.

He turned, we pounced, we scratched and bit.
He stumbled.
Fell through the window.
Screaming into the indigo waters below.

We freed the chain gang from their jail.
Cremated the piano.
And for home we set sail.

The city had reclaimed its vestal muse.
It would live again.
Beat again.
Cats would sing in the street again.
And I in anonymity as I had been long before this soliloquy,
Could sit and listen from afar.
The Cat Piano, now a healed over wound.
And this ode its fading scar.

12.05.2009

No-Rain Dance is a go-go! (murder is also on the menu)

Totally psyched to go see Kap Bambino later on. So much so that checking out brand new soft la-la-la luminaries Beach House or lets-do-a-side-project-that-sounds-just-like-the-main-one Little Joy seems schizophrenic, so might skip that. Plan B involves check them out and getting hammered by the time that Caroline and Orion hit the stage.

Oh, and did I mention that the show is going to be in an underground club in a parking lot? How very befitting indeed. I sense a shit-storm of Crystal Castles proportions brewing.


Kap Bambino - Hey! (unofficial vid by polkovnikpolka)

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Kap Bambino - Batcaves

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Because Music // Alt-Delete Records // Wwilko

11.29.2009

Yeasayer vid for Ambling Alp + #rmxmonday entry

Just below, proof that running around buck-naked through the wilderness is not a pleasure known only to the Icelandic. Free (and legal) download of Ambling Alp through Secretly Canadian's website. Alternatively, you can get it through Yeasayer's own website and look at a bunch of naked people while doing so. All demonstrations of human creativity that involve nudity are vastly approved. C'mon, you know you want to...

Yeasayer - Ambling Alp

Lastly, and considering that it is monday, your remix treat. Casio infused happiness by way of Memory Tapes' remix of Ambling Alp. Listen to it here or get it from stereogum, also for free and completely legal. (Seek Magic by the Memory Tapes is pure gold and, quite possibly, the best album of 2009 but that will be another post for another time!!!)


Yeasayer - Ambling Alp (Memory Tapes Remix)

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We Are Free // Secretly Canadian

11.24.2009

The Presets, big disco beat style courtesy of Lifelike, with Jeff Stryker to boot. Gayer than gay.

YOU'RE WELCOME!!!


The Presets - This Boy's In Love (Lifelike remix)

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HollandDirector

Humm... 8-bitcovertuesday??? // The gameboy Magnetic Fields cover

Ok, so I just remembered this song a couple of minutes ago. While taking a shower.

(wait, in gets weirder... but not *that* kind of weird)

I first crossed paths with Tom Milson aka hexacordal a couple of months back via gaZpar, who on it's turn met Tom via... Trent Reznor. Yes, the now muscle ripped dude from Nine Inch Nail. So, what have we got here? We have a emo and barely legal looking hipster kid covering The Magnetics Fields. Electronic version. On a gameboy.

I mean, what is there *not* to love?

If multi-instrumentalist ukelele inclined young overachievers is your thing, be sure to checkout his second album, Painfully Mainstream.

PS: The name of his first album was even more awesome Awkward Ballads For The Easily-Pleased

PPS: Now why oh why did I remembered this while taking a shower? Seriously, I worry... about myself.


The Magnetic Fields - All My Little Words (Tom Milson cover)

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Tom Milson @ Big Cartel
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tommilson
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tomandhisuke
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DFTBA

Late entry for #rmxmonday // Aeroplane galore

01. Music Go Music : "Warm in The Shadow" (Villa Remix)
02. Gossip : "Heavy Cross" (Siriusmo Dub)
03. Emjae : "Discoplex"
04. Two Door Cinema Club : "I Can Talk" (Golden Bug remix)
05. Palermo Disko Machine : "Vesuvia"
06. Joakim : "Spiders" (Extended Dance Mix)
07. Don Diablo : "I am Not From France" (Cagedbaby's Rollerdisco Lcross Campaign Mix)
08. Detachments : "Circles" (Mighty Mouse remix
09. The XX : "Crystalised" (Rory Phillips Remix)
10. Bot'ox : "Bearded lady Motorcycle Show"
Aeroplane "Chart Mix" November 2009 by Aeroplane

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Eskimo Recordings

11.17.2009

Star power, by the truckload // Martin Solveig

Fedde Le Grand, Laiback Luke, Felix Da Housecat, The Bloody Beetroots, Popof, Bart B More, Tepr, Mason, Tiger Stripes, Deepside Deejays, Mowgli, Mark Mendes, Bingo Players, John Paradox, Kolumbo & Compuphonic.

Some party, huh? You can listen to the full album on Martin's website.


Martin Solveig - C'Est La Vie remixes

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martinsolveig.com
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martinsolveig
label
Mixture Stereophonic

11.14.2009

Now serving // wearehunted chart #1

Mary Anne Hobbs Presents Wild Angels

01. Mark Pritchard - ?
02. Hudson Mohawke - Spotted (Neve Mix)
03. Mike Slott - Knock Knock
04. Brackles - LHC
05. Gemmy - Rainbow Road
06. Untold - Disipline
07. Tranqill - Payroll (Paul White's Clean Dub)
08. Architeq - Sleeping Bear Lament (Take Remix)
09. Rustie - Zig Zag
10. Mono/Poly - Red And Yellow Toys
11. Hyetal - We Should Light A Fire
12. Starkey - Gutter Music VIP
13. Darkstar - Videotape
14. Floating Points - Esthian III
15. Sunken Foal - Of Low Count And Light Pocket
16. Teebs - WLTA
17. Nosaj Thing - IOIO
18. Legion Of Two - And Now We Wait


Mary Anne Hobbs Presents Wild Angels



Darkstar - Videotape (Radiohead cover)

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cd
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maryannehobbs @ Radio1 BBC
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maryannehobbs
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Planet Mu Records

11.08.2009

Of MIDI samples, sea urchins, cats in space and STDs

New signees for Thrill Jockey. Avenue D much? In fact, it might the girls singing. At least they sound spiteful enough for it. Or is it Casiotone on happy pills? Subdued Crystal Castles/HEARTSREVOLUTION? Check their myspace bag of goodies... seriously awesome stuff!


Javelin - Soda Popinski


Javelin - STD Fury


Javelin - Education

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dollarbinsofthefuture.com
emospace
hotjamzofjavelin
label
Thrill Jockey

10.18.2009

Of solace and salvation

can i come over, i need to restlay down for a while
disconnect
the night was so long
the day even longer
lay down for a while
recollect

Photo by unknown via squidfarm; words by Karin Dreijer Andersson.

10.17.2009

É pre requesito para esta malta Folk uma barba farta. E ninguém me convence o contrário!







freebie Bless This Mess

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Penned by EE Cummings & adapted to music form by...



Ra Ra Riot - Dying Is Fine

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The Rhumb Line (CD) // The Rhumb Line (MP3)
web
rarariot.com
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rarariot
label
V2 Music (UK) // Cooperative Music (EU) // Barsuk Records (US)

Awesome shit that happened recently but went unnoticed because everybody was too busy listening to hard techno


Dead Man's Bones - In The Room Where You Sleep

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Dead Man's Bones (CD) // Dead Man's Bones (MP3)
web
deadmansbones.net
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deadmansbones
label
Anti-

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Noah And The Whale - Blue Skies

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The First Days Of Spring (CD) // The First Days Of Spring (MP3)
web
noahandthewhale.com
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noahandthewhale
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Mercury Records (UK)

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Stranger Than Kindness (Fever Ray cover)

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Fever Ray: Special Edition (CD & DVD)
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feverray
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feverray
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Rabid Records // Cooperative Music

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Kraftwerk - The Catalogue (release promo)

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The Catalogue (Boxset)
web
kraftwerk.com
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kraftwerk
label
Kling Klang // Mute

10.09.2009

Fuck yeah, Nintendo Core! // HORSE the Band

Closely monitored since the release of the Shapeshift single early this year - which featured an excellent remix by Skrillex - HORSE the Band are finally putting it all out there with Desperate Living. At times metal, at times hard core, at times main theme songs for old NES games, but always always free for all fun. Out now via Vagrant.

It's friday, so rock on!

HORSE the Band - Shapeshift


HORSE the Band - Shapeshift VS Skrillex

buy
Desperate Living (CD) // Desperate Living (MP3)
web
asssnake.com
emospace
horsetheband // skrillex
label
Vagrant Records

10.07.2009

Something Old x Something New x Something Borrowed x Something Blue #1

The Fashion - Like Knives

buy The Fashion (CD) // The Fashion (MP3)
web
thefashion.dk
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thefashiondk
label
Sony Music (DK)

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The Bravery - Hatefuck

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thebravery.com
emospace
thebravery
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Universal Music

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Headless Heroes - Just Like Honey

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The Silence of Love (CD) // The Silence of Love (MP3)
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denofheroes
label
Names Records (UK) // Fargo Records (FR)

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Eels - That Look You Give That Guy

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Hombre Lobo (CD) // Hombre Lobo (MP3)
web
eelstheband.com
emospace
eels
label
Vagrant Records (US/FR) // Polydor (UK)

10.05.2009

The exes and the pluses // Florence + XX

Some bands are slanted to turn everything that they touch into pure gold and that seems to be the case for the XX. Either due to some extreme hyping from musical behemoths such NME & Pitchfork or just because, you know, they actually sound good, the XX have been one of this blog's favorites for 2009. Point in case: Florence + The Machine remix, or the bland innocuous garden variety British teen soul songstress flavour of the year 2009 getting turned on it's head and sounding a million times that much more refreshing.

XX: Believe the hype! Download this track here, listen to it over and over, put it as your ring tone, share it with your friends and say you're doing it because you love them, share it with your enemies and say you're doing it because their musical taste needs an intervention, just pass the word.

Florence + The Machine - You've Got The Love (The XX Remix)

web
florenceandthemachine.net // thexx.info
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florenceandthemachinemusic // thexx
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Island Records // Young Turks

Splitting the atom // Massive Attack

New EP out now via Virgin Records and available in digital format only. (so far) You can preview the album on their official website, here. And yes, that's the guy from Tv On The Radio singing on track #2 which is an excellent song although, in my humble opinion, Martina steals the show on track #3... as per usual.
01. Splitting The Atom (feat. 3D, Daddy G, and Horace Andy)
02. Pray For Rain (feat. Tunde Adebimpe)
03. Psyche (Van Rivers / The Subliminal Kid Remix) (feat. Martina Topley Bird)
04. Bulletproof Love (Christoff Berg Remix) (feat. Guy Garvey)


Massive Attack - Splitting The Atom (feat. 3D, Daddy G, and Horace Andy)

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Splitting The Atom (MP3)
web
massiveattack.com
emospace
massiveattack
label
Virgin Records

Thom Yorke via Modeselektor // #rmxmoday

Well well, we meet again, Mr Yorke. Found while browsing through Burial's new double cd compilation for Hyperdub Records, 5: Five Years of Hyperdub, on Beatport. Don't ask me how these things happen, they just do and it's usually a long and boring story.



buy The Eraser Rmxs (CD)
web
theeraser.net
emospace
thomyorkemusic
label
XL Recordings

A menina dança? #X

Well, I'm back from a small trip up north to check out this party that celebrated social and cultural diversity. (yes, it was a gay bar... seesh)

Kudos to Gazpar for the company and for providing an awesome soundtrack for our road trip!


Kaskade & deadmau5 - Move For Me

web
deadmau5.com
emospace
kaskademusic // deadmau5
label
Ultra Records

9.28.2009

Strange & Stranger: Liars via Crystal Castles // #rmxmonday

Just below, a strange and mesmerizing vid + song followed by a stranger and visceral vid + song.

Freebie remix via Spinner available here.


Liars - It Fit When I Was A Kid


Liars - It Fit When I Was A Kid (Crystal Castles Remix)

buy
CD // MP3
web
liarsliarsliars

9.26.2009

September spawned a monster // Rain Machine

Breaking radio silence to share the debut album of Kyp Malone's (of Tv On The Radio fame, you know, the dude with the big beard) side project, Rain Machine... No official video for the first single Give Blood as of yet, just something totally illegal straight out of Youtube. Full album preview via the Spinner website here.

Released on the 22nd of September via ANTI-Records.

Oh, and at some point I turned 30. Big wank...

Rain Machine - Give Blood

buy
CD // MP3
web N/A
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rainmachinemusic
label
ANTI-

9.15.2009

View Code + Copy paste is... great success // Le Castle Vania

There is more electro goodness here than you can shake a stick at. Personally, the Fukkk Offf remix really does it for me... on a physiological level, ya'know?

Check Le Castle Vania's myspace for some free downloads, seriously good karma, audio hard-ons and psychadelic punk disco banners.










web lecastlevania.com
emospace
lecastlevaniadisco // fukkkofff
label
So Sweet Records // Coco Machete Records