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) ♥♥♥
