Wednesday, June 30, 2010

MP3 blog 2010/06/30

blog 2010/06/30 - and here's where the gushing becomes a trickle.

I warned you, didn't I?  Oh I told you good!
Things are slowing down for the summer because I have some ish to take care of.
I hope you've been saving up the updates, like a tree full of delicious acorns.  Tucking them away for when you need them most?
No?  Well lucky you all of the old updates are still online, and you can always dive back in to the 2009 ones you might not have heard yet either.

I WILL NOT LET YOU STARVE THIS SUMMER.  But you have to learn to help yourself.



Be Your Own Pet - We Will Vacation, You Can Be My Parasol:  Totally addictive rock, and pretty much the best song title ever.

Beth Orton - Comfort of Strangers (with M Ward):  This is one of my favourite dynamic folk exchanges.  Not since Scout Niblett got Will Oldham on the track Kiss has the differences in timbres been so damn enthralling.  I just wish M Ward got more mic time.

Bob Sinclar - Love You No More ft Shabba Ranks (Chuckie Remix):  You'll instantly recognize that guitar pluck from Manu Chao, and your suspions are concerned bat the French singing/speaking.  Toss in some SHABBA shouts?  Sure, ok!  OK OK, total bigroom cheese, but it's got charm.

Clark - Outside Plume:  From 2009's album "Totems Flare", and this is probably my favourite of the bunch.  At first you think it's going to be another entry in to the post-dubstep world, with that slight steppiness and solid bass slam.  But it doesn't stay content with it builds towards the 3 minute mark and unleashes a flurry of classic IDM headfuck business.  Incredible!

Clogs - Last Song ft Matt Berninger
Clogs - The Owl of Love ft Shara Worden
Clogs - To Hugo:   What kind of insular orgy is abound here?  There is a galaxy of planets swirling around the likes of The National and Sufjan Stephens, and they are all colliding and spitting out brilliant balls of unfounded earth.
The Clogs new album "The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton" was birthed from that too-bright-to-look scene and the mass has formed in to something entirely new and promising.  There are recognizeable elements that point to where it came from, but this album is more challenging than it's predecessors, and it might ultimately prove more rewarding.
Sometimes the universe creates things that seem divine, even though we know it's just worlds colliding.

Deadmau5 - I Remember (Caspa Remix):  Yes yes Deadmau5 is cheese incarnate, but this is Caspa on the reins we're talking about.  He can take a cliched ravey vox and whip it in to a respectable downbeat stormer.

I Blame Coco ft Robyn - Caesar (Diplo Remix):  If anyone gets Roby and Diplo to guest on their track, I will drool all over it.  Guaranteed.

Isan - 64 Fire Damage
Isan - Catgot:  NEW ISAN!  Yaaaaay!  "Glow In The Dark Safari Set" is fresh for 2010 and has some incredible songs.
If you are a fan of Isan, Morr Music and the like, it's a must-have.  For me it's like the new Lali Puna.  6 really good songs, and a bit of filler.  But really, just buy the whole thing and delete the tracks you don't like.

Kanye West - Power:  I have to admit, I kind of really like this.  After M.I.A. ressurected Suicide for her new single, Kanye drops in some old garage rock as a quick drop.  Loving the fuzzed out chant beat.

Michael Morph ft Yo Majesty - Do What You Want:  After Club Action, it took me a while to find more Yo Majesty I was super digging, and this one fits that bill.  Bouncin'!

Pretty Lights - Sunday School:  The intro sounds like a depitched take on the sample RJD2 used on the track Rain, which of course makes me smile a bit.  But it doesn't hinge on that at all, quicky blasting off in to a Glitch Mob-styled heavy breakbeat blowout.  Toss in some Notorious, shake, and done.

School of Seven Bells - Babelonia:  New track out!!!!  I can't wait for the new album.  "Disconnect From Desire" is out soon, keep an ear out for it.

The Grates - Burn Bridges:  I imagine this group as wearing marching band costumes.

Xploding Plastix - Pretend You Owe Me Nothing
Xploding Plastix - Rattlechaser:  Back with some new material for 2010!  This "Devious Dan EP" is far better than their previous outing, but we are all waiting for a true return to form that was 2001's Amateur Girlfriends Go Pro-Skirt Agents.  The top tracks on the EP come close to evoking the drama and tension that we know they are capable of.  So in the meantime, just enjoy these dark, slinky numbers.  It's songs like this that make me wish I smoked.  It'd be more dramatic, y'know?  Just lounge back with a Parisian long brimmed circular hat on, lace glove clutching my cigarette holder, my either hand on a pearl-handled revolver.



THIS WEEK'S TRACKS

Be Your Own Pet - We Will Vacation, You Can Be My Parasol
Beth Orton - Comfort of Strangers (with M Ward)
Bob Sinclar - Love You No More ft Shabba Ranks (Chuckie Remix)
Clark - Outside Plume
Clogs - Last Song ft Matt Berninger
Clogs - The Owl of Love ft Shara Worden
Clogs - To Hugo
Deadmau5 - I Remember (Caspa Remix)
I Blame Coco ft Robyn - Caesar (Diplo Remix)
Isan - 64 Fire Damage
Isan - Catgot
Kanye West - Power
Michael Morph ft Yo Majesty - Do What You Want
Pretty Lights - Sunday School
School of Seven Bells - Babelonia
The Grates - Burn Bridges
Xploding Plastix - Pretend You Owe Me Nothing
Xploding Plastix - Rattlechaser


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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

MP3 blog 2010/06/22

blog 2010/06/22 - OK so I've been thinking a lot about hard cover books lately.


First a word of warning!  The M3U file included might not work so well this update, what with all our wacky punctuation in names.
So listener, be warned when dragging and dropping!

But we have some serious dubby beats going down in this post!  Crank the bass and let's slide in to it...


2562 - Lost:  From last year's album "Unbalance", the sub-bass on this just kills, but you seriously have to have a good system for the full effect.  Loving the trippy vocals, loving the chilled groove.

Alva Noto - Argonaut (Version)
Alva Noto - Garment:  "For 2" is the brand new Alva Noto, and dang-nabbit, it's the best damn thing I've heard from Alva Noto since the trio of albums he did with Ryuichi Sakamoto.
A far cry from his Xerrox series, and yes I know those albums have fans, and I even liked Xerrox 2, but how often do we listen to those???  HMMMM?
Instead, it's Vrioon and Insen that dominate our systems.  And on "For 2", Alva Noto unleashes what he has learned through years of that collaboration via the tools he knows best:  sine waves, pianos, and tightly edited blips.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Breakage - Higher
Breakage ft Burial - Vial:  From the LP "Foundation", I had to get this on hear just because the old school intro of Higher just melts a part of my ice-cold heart.
All in all, it ends up being one of the best dubstep producer albums out there.  Some good variety too, with the whispy darkness of the Burial collab, to even some old school jungle steppin'.

Foals - Hummer:  I've dropped 2 other Foals tracks on this blog before, but this would be the first time where it isn't a remix.
His voice has this great snotty Britsh accent, and the whole band drives forward like Bloc Party or The Rapture.

Jack Penate - Pull My Heart Away (Jamie xx Remix):   Oh man, that's good.  That beat is something super fresh.
It's got that detuned sound of my favourite tracks by "The Knife", but nestles it in a synth-funk framework.
Oooo.
oooo yeah.
That's good.

Local Natives - Airplanes:  Such a great little pop number.

Naono - Tender Telescope:  I've been loving the new album "Sleepy Pebbles".  It's not a far jaunt from the staples of the genre of "relaxing synths and relaxing beats", but it sure isn't a slacker in that category either.
Very much recommended for fans of Flica, Ulrich Schnauss and Verbose.

Octoberman - Thirty Reasons:  OK we have the plinket-plink, the dual-channel "ahh ahhhh"s and even a FINGER SNAP breakdown.  Folk doesn't get any more precious that this.

Ólafur Arnalds - Þau Hafa Sloppið Undanþunga Myrkursins
Ólafur Arnalds - Tunglið:  Take a deep breath and read the album title "...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness".  Thank goodness it's at least pronounceable!
Iceland, I apologize on behalf of the rest of the world, but WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE YOUR VOLCANO.  But at least you make fabulous music.
The whole album pretty much sounds like these two tracks, so if gorgeous strings with delicate piano and weeping production is your thing, you are going to love this.
Highly recommended for fans of Johann Johannsson, Eluvium and Mum.

Radio Slave - N.I.N.A.:  Not 6 months goes by without something amazing coming down the pipe from Radio Slave.
Electronic producers are now on the Beatport economy and constantly releasing new singles, and sure, there are plenty o flops, this one is all smiles.

Röyksopp - Happy Up Here:  This song is basically a single Parliament loop all spiffed up with some fluff lyrics, but YOU CAN'T FOOL ME I CAN TELL YOU LIKE IT.
Want to make it better?  Wait for it...
Röyksopp - Happy Up Here (Marching Band Version):  OH THAT'S RIGHT THERE'S A FUCKING MARCHING BAND VERSION OUT THERE.  *head asplode*

Starkey - New Cities ft Kiki Hitomi:  I was all over Starkey productions 2 years ago, but then there came a glut of productions that just didn't groove me right.  This is from the new album "Ear Drums And Black Holes", and while I kind of lament a number of directions that album demarcates, this number is jazzy enough to overcome my cynicism.

Your Infamous Harp - Ferret-Step
Your Infamous Harp - Fish Out of Water:  How long have you been on this blog?  Do you remember how even much more ramshackle and disorganized it was... BACK IN 2007??
Oh yes, if you were there you might remember that Your Infamous Harp had one of the best albums of the year.  The equation was marvelous:  cute + breakbeat + wacky = Caitlyn love!
In the interim, there hasn't been anyone else that could fill the Your Infamous Harp shaped hole in my heart.
How many breakbeat love-songs about sandwiches have come out since then???  NOT ENOUGH!
Anyways, the new album, which I think actually flew under my radar last year, is "Escapes From the Cage" and from the title of "Ferret Step" alone you can tell there is goodness to be found.
I wasn't as blown away by the whole affair as the prior album, but I highly encourage everyone to get this album and snuggle on the dancefloor.   OK OK, get high in the corner.



THIS WEEK'S TRACKS

2562 - Lost
Alva Noto - Argonaut (Version)
Alva Noto - Garment
Breakage - Higher
Breakage ft Burial - Vial
Foals - Hummer
Jack Penate - Pull My Heart Away (Jamie xx Remix)
Local Natives - Airplanes
Naono - Tender Telescope
Octoberman - Thirty Reasons
Ólafur Arnalds - Þau Hafa Sloppið Undanþunga Myrkursins
Ólafur Arnalds - Tunglið
Radio Slave - N.I.N.A.
Röyksopp - Happy Up Here
Röyksopp - Happy Up Here (Marching Band Version)
Starkey - New Cities ft Kiki Hitomi
Your Infamous Harp - Ferret-Step
Your Infamous Harp - Fish Out of Water


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~CPI

Thursday, June 17, 2010

MP3 blog 2010/06/17

blog 2010/06/17 - Nothing quite comes close to this

Guess who is going to laze around all weekend????   ME!  good guess.
Big thanks to Mike who was kind enough to order me an amazing book.  It's very rare that someone notices that "buy me books" link at the end of these posts, but to the one person per year that sends me an art book, thank you so much!  Because of people like Mike, I keep doing what I'm doing.  :)
He sent me Cindy Sherman's Complete Untitled Film Stills book, which is just brilliant.


Bell Orchestre - Air Lines, Land Lines (Live at La Tulipe)
Bell Orchestre - Dark Lights (Live at La Tulipe):  While I wasnt' crazy about their recent output, the live setting seems to be the perfect medium for showcasing this band's true talents.
Maybe it didn't come through in the production?  Who knows, but these recordings bleed genius.

Bïa - Caminhar:  Ahhh, not understanding a language means that the song really has to stand on the structure and melody, and oh this one does.  Those smooth and sexy horns!!!

Cassette Kids - Meant To Be (Leo Nevilo Remix):  Pop that comes like a cross between Dragonette and The Gossip, with a synth-pulse remix throbbing all over it.


Database + French Horn Rebellion - Beaches and Friends (The Twelves Remix):  Like the Go-Team meets The Rapture meets disco house.   niiiiice.

Entertainment For The Braindead - Dry Wood
Entertainment For The Braindead - Relapse
Entertainment For The Braindead - Wastelands:  Released under the increasingly-awesome Creative Commons license, the new album "Roadkill" is a surprising thing of beauty.
Stunning folk music, and very well produced.  Highly recommended for fans of Joanna Newsom, Alela Diane and In The Pines.

Janelle Monáe - Many Moons:  Oh my my my you'll be hearing so much of this woman this year!  So I thought I'd start off by diving back to her 2007 EP "Metropolis: the Chase Suite".
And yes, she is riffing off Sesame Street's "The Pinball Song".  and that's awesome.
Janelle Monáe Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase)

Robyn - Cry When You Get Older
Robyn - Dancing On My Own
Robyn - Don't Fucking Tell Me What To Do:  New Robyn!!!! Fucking FINALLY!  She dropped an amazing album in 2006, which got rejigged and re-released 2 years later, and we've had it on repeat for years.
The new record is "Body Talk Part 1", and yeah, it's short, but hell there might be 3 of them this year.  (Someone hint that along to Joanna Newsom!)
Super slick pop for the dancefloor snobs.

Sing Leaf - The Watch:  An adorable little electro-clap soundscape is the perfect place to nestle in vocals like this.   Yay!

Sleigh Bells - Tell 'Em:  It's like the School Of Seven Bells, if they put down their laptops and bought machine guns instead.

The Qemists ft Wiley - Dem Na Like Me (King Cannibal Remix):  There's lot of great remixes of this track out there, but bass pulsing and the random running snares really make this one for me.

The Sounds - Noswia (La Dolce Vita Remix):  I was recently reminded of their album "Crossing The Rubicon" and damn, people really slept on it. 
You can just hear the joy in her voice!  This is like happy hardcore for big kids.



THIS WEEK'S TRACKS

Bell Orchestre - Air Lines, Land Lines (Live at La Tulipe)
Bell Orchestre - Dark Lights (Live at La Tulipe)
Bïa - Caminhar
Cassette Kids - Meant To Be (Leo Nevilo Remix)
Database + French Horn Rebellion - Beaches and Friends (The Twelves Remix)
Entertainment For The Braindead - Dry Wood
Entertainment For The Braindead - Relapse
Entertainment For The Braindead - Wastelands
Janelle Monáe - Many Moons
Robyn - Cry When You Get Older
Robyn - Dancing On My Own
Robyn - Don't Fucking Tell Me What To Do
Sing Leaf - The Watch
Sleigh Bells - Tell 'Em
The Qemists ft Wiley - Dem Na Like Me (King Cannibal Remix)
The Sounds - Noswia (La Dolce Vita Remix)


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Sunday, June 13, 2010

MP3 blog 2010/06/13

blog 2010/06/13 - things will tumble tumble tumble and I always land on a pillow

CALLmeKAT - Do Your Trick
CALLmeKAT - Flower In The Night:  Jazzy pop can be a hard field to distinguish oneself in, simultaneously avoiding the 90s triphop trap and the adult contemporary crooner snoozebox.
The lively-yet-muted instrumentals here add something new to the ouvre, and allow them to stake some slightly new sonic territory, thus allowing your hipster-defenses to lower long enough to get into the groove.

D/S/Miller
- Blowing Out A Match:  A great little nugget of ambient glitch, from the new split with Hunted Creatures.

Fat Acid - Jacqueline:  It starts innocently enough, but this track is a jazz stormer with a fabulous subbass that you need to crank to appreciate.

James Blake - CMYK:  Funky mutant breakbeat, the way it should be!  What does a girl have to do to get more future funk like this in a post-dubstep world where everyeone else is abusing distortion plug-ins?

Japandroids - Press Corps:  A throwback to the 2007 "All Lies EP", which I dug out while pining for the new Japandroids releases later this year.

Mark Feldman And Sylvie Courvoisier - Double Windsor:  When I was a wee one, I stumbled on the marvelous world of Tzadik through a well-curated used CD bin.  This of course meant that all of the first releases I ever heard were the most difficult and least fun of the batch.  That prepped me for years of compulsively tracking down this imprint, and it's Japanese predecessor Avant.
The relatively new Key series has proven to be filled with winners, and this new album "Oblivia" is no exception.  The improvisations for piano and violin are totally captivating and refuse to give you scronk when further detail would suffice.
And hey, you might even remember Mark Feldman as the famous violinist who recorded the eternal string tracks of They Might Be Giant's ISTANBUL, as well as popping up as a studio musician on other TMBG albums and projects.

MF Doom & Clutchy Hopkins - Impending Doom:  This ducks back to 2006, with The Life Of Clutchy Hopkins, and him dropping some breaks over the high-water-mark rhymes of MF Doom.

Oval - Ah!:  Muddy "look at me I bought Max/MSP" Oval of last decade is gone.  Here is a fantastic new and shiny Oval, merging a lifetime of IDM sensibilities with some SEXY-ASS late-90s style Tortoise instrumentation and tension play.
Fuck yes.  The new album is simply "O", and I really hope it's all this blissfully good.

School Of Seven Bells - Chain (Seefeel Extraction)
School Of Seven Bells - My Cabal:  Another temporal digression!   These are from last year's "My Cabal" EP.  First off, fucking SEEFEEL!  I love love love Seefeel, as some of my mixes might reveal.  I can't think of anyone better to take this loopy psych vocal goop and work it over.
And "My Cabal"...   OK, I always pronounced it CAH-BAHL.  Not Cay-bull.  You know, like the video game with the circle you'd roll?  CAH-BAL.
Oh, how can I argue with you?  You're too cute!

Steven Page - What A Good Boy (Live at the Winnipeg Folk Festival):  So Mr. Page apparnetly did some candy up the nose and woah whine whine the Canadian press got all uppity and he split ways with the Barenaked Ladies.
Apparently, the split seems to have worked out amicably for both parties.  I guess they each get to do the classics?
But really, who else but Page could do the vox on a classic like THIS?

Surfer Blood - Swim (Allen Bickle of Baroness Remix):  Awww yeah, this is what I was waiting for.  I nice mildy-tweaked remix of Surfer Blood to make it that much more digestible.  It worked for Women, it worked for Panda Bear, and it can work here too.  Believe in it!

The Gertrudes - River:  It's like the Be Good Tanyas, except with a guy doing the lead!  Nice.

The Joy Formidable - The Last Drop:  I dropped 2 tracks from them on a prior blog release, but shit, how could I let this one sit around?  Damn amzing rock and or roll.

The Knocks - Blackout:  The world needs more songs about people getting far too intoxicated to remember relationship-altering heavy conversations.  OK OK I kid, but one more certainly doesn't hurt...
Or... does???? ooooooo

Title Fight - Symmetry
Title Fight - Youreyeah:  Yeah yeah yeah, I know I don't post a lot of stuff like this, but it's the rare release that really catches my ear.
Don't count me out entirely!  I grew up on Propagandhi and Crass and Cap'N Jazz and Fugazi just like you did!
From last year's album "The Last Thing You Forget".



THIS WEEK'S TRACKS

CALLmeKAT - Do Your Trick
CALLmeKAT - Flower In The Night
DSMiller - Blowing Out A Match
Fat Acid - Jacqueline
James Blake - CMYK
Japandroids - Press Corps
Mark Feldman And Sylvie Courvoisier - Double Windsor
MF Doom & Clutchy Hopkins - Impending Doom
Oval - Ah!
School Of Seven Bells - Chain (Seefeel Extraction)
School Of Seven Bells - My Cabal
Steven Page - What A Good Boy (Live at the Winnipeg Folk Festival)
Surfer Blood - Swim (Allen Bickle of Baroness Remix)
The Gertrudes - River
The Joy Formidable - The Last Drop
The Knocks - Blackout
Title Fight - Symmetry
Title Fight - Youreyeah


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~CPI

Friday, June 11, 2010

MP3 blog 2010/06/10

blog 2010/06/10 - things slow down and there's pulses and meaning and you smile.

Not sure how it happened, but there's a lot of great chill going on here.  Fabulous indie-rock folktronica beats, downtempo reworks, gushing instrumentals, hand-jiving micro house....  Enjoy!


Fink - Move On Me
Peter Broderick - And It's Alright
The Cinematic Orchestra - Child Song:  These 3 beautiful numbers are culled from a comp titled "Audiovisual Couture" and thankfully, the songs are available on their own, as they shine so strong alone.

Black Mold - Metal Spider Webs
Black Mold - Tetra Pack Heads:  The album is "Snow Blindness Is Crystal Antz" and WTF does that mean and omg why are these tracks melting my brain?

Club 8 - Western Hospitality (Pallers Remix):  God bless the folktronica chanter numbers!

D. Lissvik - Practice:  Pulses, clapping, chimes, and smoooooth guitar?  Oh yes!

Epsilon Project - Inspiration:  Some feel-good beats and rhymes, off the 2010 Audacity EP.

Forest City Lovers - Light You Up:  I haven't heard the new album "Carriage", but I love this great bit of pop folk.

Hard Mix - Drama Drama:  I'm loving the trend of taking 80s R&B-style pop and slapping on a modern funk crawler beat on it.

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Spottie:  Hypnotic!  And brassy!  And an ensemble of them!  Truer band titles were never spoken.  Fabulous organic breakbeat funk.

Lali Puna - Move On
Lali Puna - Remember:   New Lali Puna!  The new album "Our Inventions" will not dissapoint any Lali Puna fans, and they are reliably working the same sounds as ever before.  They find a good comfy space between The Notwist and Stereolab.  Like all of their other albums, the whole thing isn't perfect, but the joys of the stellar tracks are worth it for sure.

Levek - Remade Horizon (Dirty Projectors cover):  Ha, yes more people should cover The Dirty Projectors!!!  Especially acapella covers.  Fuck yes.

Patrick Chardronnet - Take A New Ride:  A funkier companion to the Lissvik track above!  All the hot guitar, but with some glitchy microfunk beneath.

Sleigh Bells vs Rye Rye - Tell Em Rye Rye Said Bang! (Mover Shaker Mix):  The Sleigh Bells stuff is often just too abrasive for me to enjoy normally (oh distortion, how'd you get so cliche?) but mashing in so Rye Rye makes it kinda sorta perfect.

Slow Six - The Night You Left New York:   The new album is Tomorrow Becomes You and yeah, it kind of sounds like The Dirty Three, except... ummm..  there's six of them?  No no no wait, it's true!!!
But Fffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!  So good! 

Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint III. Fast (Röyksopp True To Original Edit):  OK, this makes me so happy.  I first heard Electric Counterpoint when I was like 15 years old and slinking in record-store basements and sneaking in to late-night radio shows.  I am so happy it's been flipped up again for our grooving pleasure.  While certainly one of the most poppiest pieces Reich did, it'll always have a place in my heart.


THIS WEEK'S TRACKS

Black Mold - Metal Spider Webs
Black Mold - Tetra Pack Heads
Club 8 - Western Hospitality (Pallers Remix)
D. Lissvik - Practice
Epsilon Project - Inspiration
Fink - Move On Me
Forest City Lovers - Light You Up
Hard Mix - Drama Drama
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Spottie
Lali Puna - Move On
Lali Puna - Remember
Levek - Remade Horizon (Dirty Projectors cover)
Patrick Chardronnet - Take A New Ride
Peter Broderick - And It's Alright
Sleigh Bells vs Rye Rye - Tell Em Rye Rye Said Bang! (Mover Shaker Mix)
Slow Six - The Night You Left New York
Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint III. Fast (Röyksopp True To Original Edit)
The Cinematic Orchestra - Child Song


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~CPI

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

marking a line in the sand, making a line in the palm

Thanks to all who came and worked it.
Philadelphia is one helluva city.

It is going to be an eventful summer.  Of that you can be sure.
But I might not be around for a some of it, and I apologize in advance.

In the meantime, here's a crib sheet, in case you were sweepy.
Here are 30 fabulous things that were released in 2010 that you should buy.
alphabetically, I give you:

CPI's picks of 2010 so far....

Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate - Ali & Toumani
B. Dolan - Fallen House Sunken City
Basia Bulat - Heart Of My Own
Beach House - Teen Dream
Bobby Mcferrin - Vocabularies
Bonobo - Black Sands
Chiddy Bang - Air Swell Mixtape
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
DZ - The Proliferation Sequence
Ellie Goulding - Lights
Eraldo Bernocchi & Blackfilm - Along The Corridors
Fang Island - Fang Island
Four Tet - There Is Love In You
Frightened Rabbit - The Winter Of Mixed Drinks
Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
Gogol Bordello - Trans-Continental Hustle
Hot Chip - One Life Stand
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
John Zorn - Book Of Angels, Volume 13, Mycale
Jónsi - Go
Justin Martin - Five Years Of Dirtybird mixtape
Lisa Bozikovic - Lost August
The National - High Violet
Omar Souleyman - Jazeera Nights
Owen Pallett - Heartland
Richard Skelton - Landings
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - I Learned The Hard Way
Sunn O))) & Earth - Angel Coma EP
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Yeasayer - Odd Blood

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

MP3 blog 2010/06/01

blog 2010/06/01 - Off again to the magical land of duty-free booze.

See you suckers!  I'm off to Philthydelphia for hotel party shenanigans.
Back next week, most like, but I thought I should get on top of things and drop this extra update of hotness before we hit the road.

Moskitoo - Xime
Orla Wren - 33 Fainting Spells:  As has been my habit, I'm starting with a compilation.  "88 Tapes" is a sexy little slab of electronic ambrosia.  And I say this as a person who goes through a lot of comps, and hates comps, because the quality is usually so very uneven.  But these two tracks exemplify all the rightness in this comp:  That perfect fusion of electronics, folk sensibilities and spring-morning ambience.  An absolute must for fans of Isan, the Morr Music Label, Chihei Hatakeyama, and the most relaxing of School Of Seven Bells

A.C. Newman - Take On Me (A-Ha Cover):  Another cover?  Sick of them yet?  No, of course not!  A classic.  So many people try and take on this monster and fail, but Mr. Newman rides it respectfully.

Aloe Blacc - A Dedication
Aloe Blacc - If I:  The Aloe Black EP, and the sequl The Aloe Black EP 2 (clever!) came out in 2004, but I slept on them until now.  A few dope bits of boom-bap in there, for sure.  A Dedication does what is almost impossible:  A children chorus that doesn't suck.  And "If I" drops some acapella soul that foreshadowed this year's Gil Scott Heron release, even.

Brothers O'Hair - Tonight (Live on KVDU):  So many gems get slipped down through radio station live sessions, which kind of gives a good argument for the longevity of (some) radio stations.  I love this guy's exasperated voice.

Chiddy Bang - Breakfast
Gorillaz - Stylo (Remix ft Chiddy Bang):  Chiddy hits us with the Air Swell Mixtape, and as usual he jacks hot pop fluff, slaps some more snares and bass, and gives us the feel-good party rhymes we need.  Super fun, if only suffering from being so consciously hipster.  I am not in to the Gorillaz album, which is getting rave reviews for I'm not sure why, but at least their name makes it here anyways.

DZ - Killin' em Softly
DZ - Serenity Now:  "The Proliferation Sequence" is DZ's first full length, and it is a monumental achievement.  Almost every dubstep producer album sucks.  It's oh so true.  But he bucks that trend here and goes further, producing a captivating TWO PART ALBUM that is fucking bass sickness all the way through.
He doesn't sit in his dancefloor madness you may know from his singles, but stretches his sounds to cover spacious dubby-dub-dubstep, gets a bit jazzy, gets down to some ragga, and flips it 5 ways to Sunday. 
While not as eclectic and poppy as Bonobo's Black Sands, this one is essential for any beat heads.

Gregory Pepper - Tea Biscuits:  Short, sweet, and with CHIMES!

Kelis - Acapella (Friends Electric Remix)
Kelis - In For The Kill (La Roux Cover):  So what happened?  Checking my DJ crate, Kelis is the gal who brought us Milkshake and Bossy.  Kind of puerile, adolescent jams.   She ditchs her boy Nas, and produces an unquestionably HOT and sexy pop number!   Good job on dumping Nas!  It seems to have been an immense improvement, because this song is pop bliss.  And doing an acoustic cover of La Roux?  Smart smart smart.

Kid Loco - Love Me Sweet (J.C. Concato Remix):  Kid Loco recently dropped a collection simply titled "The Remix Album", and it brought me back to the sweet sweet memories.  Just bliss out to this slice of downtempo perfection.

King Midas Sound - Cool Out
King Midas Sound - Lost:  And as if things were chilled and sexy enough, here's 2 tracks from the 2009 album "Waiting for You".  Grooooove!  Her vocals ride the beat perfectly.

Mountain Man - Soft Skin:  From the new album "Made The Harbor", which I haven't heard yet.  I just like the opening line "I got soft skin" and the response "are you gonna let me in".  That's kind of a creepy-awesome image. 

The Got To Get Got - Burn Yaletown Burn:  Haha, great song title, and great Pavement chops.  And I swear I hear someone playing the triangle (tragically buried deep in the mix), but that's still a world of awesome.

Tobacco - Fresh Hex ft Beck
Tobacco - Sweatmother:  I'm not so much in to Tobacco, but I love these 2 songs, and I'm sure you crazy young'ns will just love their new album "Maniac Meat".

Trentemoller - Sycamore Feeling (Thomas Schumacher Remix):  End things off with a moody little pounder from our favourite un-proper-spellable artist!



THIS WEEK'S TRACKS

A.C. Newman - Take On Me (A-Ha Cover)
Aloe Blacc - A Dedication
Aloe Blacc - If I
Brothers O'Hair - Tonight (Live on KVDU)
Chiddy Bang - Breakfast
DZ - Killin' em Softly
DZ - Serenity Now
Gorillaz - Stylo (Remix ft Chiddy Bang)
Gregory Pepper - Tea Biscuits
Kelis - Acapella (Friends Electric Remix)
Kelis - In For The Kill (La Roux Cover)
Kid Loco - Love Me Sweet (J.C. Concato Remix)
King Midas Sound - Cool Out
King Midas Sound - Lost
Moskitoo - Xime
Mountain Man - Soft Skin
Orla Wren - 33 Fainting Spells
The Got To Get Got - Burn Yaletown Burn
Tobacco - Fresh Hex ft Beck
Tobacco - Sweatmother   
Trentemoller - Sycamore Feeling (Thomas Schumacher Remix)


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