I love this video. Fur in my cap, fur fur in my cap. The end is horrible, though.
Rob Roy has zero talent, which is evident if you listen to any of his other stuff. But like an idiot savant, by sheer accident he struck gold on the hook.
I want to hear a fidget house remix of this. BADLY.
The genre is called “chillwave”. Yes, we can make fun of it. The term will probably be forgotten about in six months. I’m already months late by blogging about it now. Think lo-fi meets surf pop meets electronica and you’re getting close. Or maybe not. Listening to it, you’ll hear its sound immediately.
I guess this is permissible music for hipsters to listen to when they get high.
Neon Indian – Terminally Chill
Washed Out – Feel It All Around
KANYE MAY TYPE IN ALL CAPS BUT THIS MOTHERFUCKER LIVES IT.
CAN’T WAIT TO SEE HIM IN MARCH.
THESE SONGS WILL PUMP YOU UP.
Disco Villains – We Just Came to Get the Party Started (LAZRtag Remix)
Disco Villains – We Just Came to Get the Party Started (Night Drugs Remix)
Drake feat. Kanye West, Lil' Wayne & Eminem – Forever (Travis Barker Remix)
Ludacris – Stand Up (Valerna “Hell Yeah” Remix)
Mr. Oizo – Gay Dentists (JFK Edit)
AC/DC – Thunderstruck (Crookers Remix)
by Tomaz Salamun
translated by Michael Biggins
Awe-inspiring cliff, white desire.
Water springing forth from blood.
Let my form narrow, let it crush my body,
so that everything is one: slag and skeletons, fistful of earth.
You drink me as though draining off the color of my soul.
You lap me up, a little fly in a tiny boat.
My head is smeared, I sense how
mountains were made, how stars have been born.
You've removed your apex from me, there I stand.
Look, in the air. Within you, drained, all
mine. Golden roofs bend up beneath us.
small pagoda leaves. I am in silken candies,
gentle and tenacious. I funnel the fog into your
breath, and your breath into the godhead in my garden, the deer
via plowshares
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Look at the cans on that guy.
I’m not keen about most of the stuff this German disco house mainstay produces, but these two remixes hit hard.
Missy Elliott – Work It (Justin Faust Remix)
Nightriders – Take My Hand (Just Faust Deep Mix)
image via lookbook
Autumn is coming to an end in the Northern hemisphere.
I’ve always thought of autumn not as the saddest season, but as the season when sadness is the most appropriate.
Sometimes I listen to music just to think about what’s depressing in my life. “Autumnal” music provides a safe outlet for these thoughts.
I remember when Tiësto was DJ Tiësto, and he made “uplifting, epic” trance like this:
Goldenscan – Sunrise (DJ Tiësto Remix)
That Goldenscan remix was in 2003. Time flies.
I was big into trance at the time, and yes, I remember it all pretty well. Tiësto, Ferry Corsten, and Armin van Buuren were the fucking Gods of Trance. The closest thing to a Trance supergroup was probably Gouryella, which if you’ve forgotten, was the alias for a collaboration between Tiësto and Corsten. When you consider that an Armin van Buuren “Rising Star Mix” of Gouryella’s Walhalla existed, there was definitely a time period when all the stars aligned and trance nirvana came to this earth.
Tiësto was not scared by those 10 minute plus, super epic tracks with two huge builds and one teaser. This 2001 remix was massive….
Delerium – Silence (DJ Tiësto Remix)
Now he’s still popular, only by doing what Oakenfold did 7 years ago – making 4 minute “songs” and collaborating with mainstream artists. His album Kaleidoscope was released recently, not that anyone should care.
Paul Oakenfold – Starry Eyed Surprise
Oakenfold made serious money leaving the underground trance scene, and presumably Tiësto will too, although in my opinion nothing in his new album has very much pop potential.
There has been a great remix of the second single, “Escape Me.” The original sucks, but LA Riots turns it into a party starter by upgrading the percussion and putting in a crunchy electro synth that makes the vocals surprisingly catchy.
Tiësto – Escape Me (LA Riots Remix) ♥♥♥
Yesterday The Hood Internet released their fourth mixtape.
At the tail end of 2009, it’s easy not to get excited. Mashups are the high-fructose corn syrup of the music blog world. They’re ubiquitous, easy to make, and embarrassingly addictive.
Although we’ve seen every iteration of the formula -- from marathon mash sessions by Girl Talk clones E-603, Super Mash Bros, and Easter Egg to the current hot A+B mashers The White Panda, and everything in between -- a fun mashup can still get your head bobbing, or at the very least, dominate the charts on Hype Machine.
While The Hood Internet comprises of both ABX and DJ STV SLV, ABX is my favorite of the two.
He’s sampled successfully from indie rock favorites…
…electro bangers…
…not to mention whatever latest indie sensation Pitchfork is pimping…
ABX – Feel It On the South Side
Earnest, beautiful contemporary chamber music is hard to come by.
Morten Lauridsen fits this bill. While not quite as serious of a composer as, say, Arvo Pärt, at times, admittedly, he is more enjoyable.
Sure, there is something a little cheesy about Lauridsen's work. There is also something sacred. This sacredness is what distinguishes the best of his work.
Morten Lauridsen - O Nata Lux
Morten Lauridsen - O Magnum Mysterium
Most people think of Ringo as the worst Beatle. He was goofy. He was the last to join. He "couldn't do a roll to save his life," according to George Martin.
When asked if Ringo was the best drummer in the world, Lennon half-jokingly replied that Ringo wasn't the best drummer in the Beatles!
So I might be in the minority here when I say, George was the worst Beatle.
Don't get me wrong. I'm all for East meets West. I can dig it, man:
Shakti - La Danse Du Bonheur
But George was no John McLaughlin. He didn't have the chops, and he was a hell of a lot cheesier.
All of the "Indian" experiments bombed. "Within You Without You" is an absolute disgrace, especially compared to the rest of the album! "Love You To"--bleh! Don't even get me started with "The Inner Light".
It wasn't just that. I don't like resorting to personal attacks, but Harrison really was the band bitch. McCartney bossed him around like an older brother. Neither Lennon or McCartney wanted to put his songs on the albums until Revolver. Why was that? They started smoking weed everyday. "Hey man, let George have a song!"
That being said, I do like "Something". "I Me Mine" is one of the better songs on Let It Be.
And Jim James of My Morning Jacket did a nice cover of All Things Shall Pass:
Yim Yames - All Things Shall Pass
Look at these guys.
They're the French rap group TTC, and I'm going to be honest with you, they seem like douchebags to me.We don't make rap for people who don't like rap. We make rap for people who love rap more than anything else in the world, and who fucking love many other things too.
Have they made anything since 2006? Is TTC dead and gone? I will say, Para One, who helps with production, isn't bad.
Tahiti Boy the Palmtree Family - 1973 (Para One Remix)
I also like this one song on the Modeselektor album:
Modeselektor - 2000007 (Feat. TTC)
But forget about these guys.
When it comes to European male rappers rapping over electro blips and beats, this remix is the winner:
Marcus Price - Surf (Hedmark Remix) ♥♥♥
According to Wikipedian lore, at age 18 Vashti Bunyan listened to The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan and decided to become a musician.
Thankfully, it wasn't Dylan's activism that inspired her (ahem... Joan Baez!). It wasn't his gravelly voice or Rimbaud-esque surrealism, either.
While Dylan used an old form to express contemporary feelings in poetic language, Vashti sounded just plain old-fashioned. Perhaps because of this, her career in the 60s never climbed out of obscurity, and eventually she stopped making music, presumably to slip into the domestic countryside her music evoked.
Here are some examples of her material from the 60s:
Vashti Bunyan - Find My Heart Again
Vashti Bunyan - Hebridean Sun
Vashti Bunyan - Iris Song (Part 2)
Flash forward to 2005. Vashti releases a new CD with Max Richter as producer. She collaborates with Animal Collective for the Prospective Hummer EP. She's performing with Devendra Banhart. For her small but devoted group of fans, it's as if Nick Drake crawled out of the grave to release new material.
Vashti Bunyan - Brother
Why the comeback? The truth is, Vashti has a beautiful voice. She is best when she soothes, and in this sense listening to her returns us to the comforts of childhood. We all want to be tucked in bed again. Although the young intellectual folk-singer smitten with Dylan is present in some of her material (I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind), it is this maternal quality which bridges the several decades of absence in her singing career.
