Moving

Photo taken by yours truly in Prague.

So I'm trying to get everything tied up in Prague so I'll be ready to go back to Texas next weekend. I just finished writing a 20 page research paper, so I'm coasting now. I've been listening to like 18 assloads of music lately though. I will bestow some of it upon you and transfer the rest to your face as links for you to click on.

Digitalism - Apollo Gize (Fred Falke Remix)

Some of you may have noticed that the Hands On Idealism EP by Digitalism came out a few months ago. That was about the time when I started listening to them (per the advice of some Swiss folks who knew that I liked me some Simian Mobile Disco). This EP has some great remixes, and the one that stood out to me was the "Apollo Gize" edit by French Touch legend Fred Falke. As usual, he turns it into a sprawling spaced-out disco house monster. French as hell.

Burial - Archangel (Nomad In The Dark Re-Edit)

Who out there listens to Burial? If you said yes, you have a twisted mind. It took me a full year before I finally decided that dubstep is the shit, and this transition was aided very much by Burial, Kode9 + The Spaceape, Distance, and Skream. Those of you who were super into last year's Untrue already know the song "Archangel" - the demented dubstep/soul track that sounds like it was recorded in a cave. This remix (by the elusive Nomad...or is it Nomad In The Dark?) makes it far more danceable and 5 minutes longer without losing any of the late at night in a dark abandoned city feel of the original.

Ajello - I Wanna Be Italian Too (Luke Solomon's BBAB's Main Space Vocal)

At about 28 o'clock in the morning the other day I came across this Italian tech house group Ajello. They have a really solid 12" out called I Wanna Be Italian To, which doesn't persuade me to want to be Italian as much as it makes me want to be "an expert gardener and prune a yellow rose." Quite right. This song is serious. This is the sort of thing that I'd listen to if I was driving my Lamborghini around Tuscany and drinking bottles of wine for breakfast. Except then I guess I'd already be Italian.

Katy Perry - Hot 'N' Cold (LMFAO Remix)

Before you say anything, shut the hell up. This song is so great it's close to unreal. LMFAO remix the pants of the song in a manner that turns it into the greatest electro song I heard since I last checked the amazing THREE ONE OH! blog. Don't let your pride stop you from downloading that track - believe me when I say it won't disappoint. (By the by, that's a link not to the MP3 but to the post.)

Emiliana Torrini - Jungle Drum (Hannulelauri Remix)

This sounds dumb the first time you listen to it for about 2 minutes. Then you start trying to sing like a robot. Hannulelauri remix this song into a one-of-a-kind banger. Much like the above track, this is from a different blog. Top Billin is run by badass Finns - I swear everybody in that country is cooler than I am. I know this because they stared at me when I walked around Helsinki bundled up like an Eskimo in the middle of the fall. Plus, I saw a shirt with a giant print of Tintin shirts like this being sold in the city center. If I had had 40 Euros to burn, you best believe I would have bought one of those.

Want some links? Here are a few cool sites I've been going to:

mnml - Guess what kind of music they have here? Click on the "Netlabel" link for a messageboard where the only posts are free album downloads.

TMB - Kind of an annoying layout (plus everything is on DepositFiles), but I've found some gems on here the last few days. The tags on the right side of the page are helpful.

●●● - This site is the ultimate. Just go there and drool over all the albums.

That's all for now.

Interesting...

That^ is a picture of Saint-Malo that I took when I was there for La Route Du Rock back in August.

Hey friends. Were you wondering what it would sound like if T-Pain was doing folk music and was actually Bon Iver?

Bon Iver - Woods

This is from the forthcoming Blood Bank EP. I only just started listening to Bon Iver (apparently For Emma, Forever Ago is like the best thing since milk). I'm feeling this song for sure.

ALSO - this. It's the comp that LA Riots did for Scion last year. Oh and also it's fucking unbelievable. I can't pick a standout track, so have all 12.

Scion CD Sampler V. 20 - Mixed By LA Riots

Waaa.

Back Like Influenza

Them shits ^ are from a church in Olomouc. I am from a whiskey still in Dallas. ANYWAY I just got back from an incredible trip to Zürich. I'd always though it was cool just because of the lack of garbage and huge numbers of immaculately dressed Swiss people walking in perfectly straight lines, but it turns out they have themselves a pretty fun city there. The nightlife is great, but costs about as much as open heart surgery. Mmmm so what do you want music?

D.H.S. - House Of God (Martin Landsky Remix)

Whoa what whoa. Easy there, song. I've listened to this so many times over the last week that I don't even have to put it on to hear it any more. So here's the scoop - in 1990, the House Of God 12" by DHS was released. In 2008 (holy shit that's the year I'm doing now!) the House Of God (The Poker Flat Mixes) 12" came out. I'd like to make a Long Bet that in 2026 the House Of God (We Are From The Future Of 2026 And Make Remixes Mixes) 12" gets released. So this shit is serious. I'm always looking for new ways to find music, and recently that inspired me to look to the Kompakt site for clues. What I found was quite good. If you go to the MP3 section, they have charts showing what's good over in Köln. I went through all of the songs that were charting about a week ago and realized that it's also a pretty good indicator of exactly what I should be listening to. That's what led me to this little gem of a remixxx. Anybody who spends more than 5 minutes a day with me has heard this already, and they're all chanting "I am excited! For the house of god."

Sam Taylor-Wood & Pet Shop Boys - I'm In Love With A German Film Star (Gui Boratto Mix)

So I'm pretty new to Pet Shop Boys. When I saw the video to "Inner City Pressure" a few weeks ago (from Flight Of The Conchords, another awesome thing that I slept on) I realized that "East End Girls" surely wasn't the Boys only good song. After all, they are the most successful pop duo in British history(!). I came across this one on the Kompakt charts as well. They got together with Sam Taylor-Wood and produced this number here. And since think he shits gold and sunshine, this is the Gui Boratto remix. Since it's the Pet Shop Boys, it's pop. Since it's Gui Boratto, it's atmospheric minimal. Yessss.

This song (and the whole BLVD ST blog) is massive. The beat to this and B.o.B's "Generation Lost" seem to be cut from the same cloth. I guess I need to find one more 'forst I can call it a trend though.

Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Epic Last Song (Lifelike Remix) EDIT: The fun-loving party boys at the RIAA have requested that I delete this. So I did.

Oh yeah, I just remembered that this is the best song ever. I say that a lot, but I guess there are just a lot of best songs ever. And this is one. It's not particularly new (I think I got this remix over the summer or a few months ago or something), but the charts on Last.fm reminded me that I love Does It Offend You, Yeah?. Especially this remix from the unsurprisingly French Lifelike. Go kiss on girls and listen to this and do what you do. My girlfriend actually informed me that this song is about breaking up. If that's your interpretation, then go stop kissing on girls and go break up with them and stuff. But then go dance really hard.

Treasure Fingers - Cross The Dancefloor

I could be Mr. Cool Neat and put up one of the countless remixes of this joint, but I think I'll just stick with what obviously works and give you the original. This song is so good I even listen to the acapella. Every time I hear the words "let me see you move it shake it cross the dancefloor" I immediately sashay over the nearest large flat surface. I got hit by a tram doing this on the street yesterday.

Here's the video for Busta Rhymes's's's's "Arab Money". Nobody has the ability to piss me off (autotune) while picking me up (also autotune) like Ron Browz. You best believe I've been listening to "Pop Champagne" so much that I talk like a robot now. Highlight of the video (in my humble opinion) - Arafat's ghost playing cards with Busta Rhymes.


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The last few days I've been real into this sort of thing.

Zomby - Need Ur Lovin'

Zomby's debut album, Where Were U In '92, recently leaked or was released or something. That whole thing is fuckin crazy. It's a total departure from the dubstep he's been putting out, but he does it well. I don't listen to much rave/oldskool techno mainly because I don't know anything about it. Apparently Zomby does though. This whole album is some sort of crazy, and I'm loving it. Except the mediocre "Pillz" remix he does right after this track. In any case - it's enough to convince me to keep my eye on Zomby.

Oh yeah also here's this. I wish I had a way to download this track.

This one is available for download on Fairtilizer.

Also this one here is oh so boss. Anything produced by Bangladesh is guaranteed to be worth my time.

Here's some great balearic.

Fear And Loathing In Hunts Vegas

Jesus christ finally. I've only been waiting for 10 months now. Those of you who have read the StylesForDays inaugural post know that Paper Route Recordz occupies a very special place in my heart that is reserved for...rappers and producers. I haven't even been listening to much hip-hop lately, but I'm listening to the shit out of this. It's hosted by Diplo and Benzi (although nobody seems to know how Benzi was actually involved). A lot of the tracks are remixes of things that have been online for about 2 years now ("Wood Grain", "Rollin'", "Bama Gettin' Money"), but that makes it exactly just as boss as it would be if all the tracks were new. "Bama Gettin' Money" and "Grind Baby" are still linked in my first post (not sure if the links are active though), so I'm going to give you some of the other standouts. It's difficult. The "Rollin'" remix samples Orbital, so that's tempting. The intro may be even cooler though - how often do you hear Underworld samples in rap songs? The answer is not very often.

Blaqstarr - Stuntastic (Featuring Jhi-Ali)

Ah yes that's nice. Next up - "Soul Glo". They've had this up on their MySpace for a few years (but seemingly nowhere else, much to my chagrin) and now it's finally been pressed. Not sure what the sample is (probably a Soul Glow commercial) but my my my does it make people sing along. I'll go way out on a limb here (sarcasm) and assume that it's yet another bonkers Block Beataz beat.

Paper Route Gangstaz - Soul Glo (Featuring Mata, Mali Boi, Lil' St. Lois & Money Addict)

NEXT

Holy shit that's a scary Chinese/dubstep beat. Man oh man. I think one of my favorite PRGz tricks is the whole randomly screwing & chopping verses or short phrases in the middle of songs. It adds a whole new dimension of scary to the whole business. This track was the standout from the sampler in my humble opinion. If you only want one song for whatever reason THIS SONG IS THE FUCKING SONG. KICK MUCH ASS.

Untamed - Shotz (Featuring Dawgy Baggz)

Hot damn.

The song "Alabama" is also some insanely hot shit. I'll put it up tomorrow I reckon. Otis Redding sample holla.

Unrelated:

Hell yes it's Secret Machines and hell yes it's "Atomic Heels".

Feelin Good Feelin Great, Feelin Great Feelin Good How Are Youuuuuu

I took this ^^^^^ bad boy here. That's Riga, for those who like atlaseseses.


I mentioned a boss new album from Gouseion a little while ago. He's the man behind the incredible song "Stunt Lounge". I used to be really into IDM, but it got to be too much work for my head. These days I only listen to it if it has this ridiculous crunk sound.

These two tracks come one after the other on Nijikon.

Gouseion - Ganguro Girl

This sounds like a song by Eiffel 65 if you sent it through a fax machine to Mario.

Gouseion - Hot Glue

This one is like Autechre if they ever made anything danceable. What the hell is that beat? It's like somebody chopping through aluminum foil with a boss sword then played backwards or some shit.

Yeah Well So's Your Mother

Another picture from yours truly. That there ^^^^ is Chantilly in France.

So you know how sometimes you'll be trying to figure out the name of a song or what movie a quote is from and then you finally find out several years later? It feels even better than sneezing. I just realized that a hazy group of bands with a sound that I've been really into actually has a name. Balearic! The stuff I've been listening to is fairly new, so it's not quite as drippy and Ibiza-trashy and even as electronic as the Wikipedia page makes it sound. I've been listening a lot to Studio, Todd Terje, Prins Thomas, Lindstrøm, Air France (Scandinavians seem to have it on lock), Hatchback, Windsurf, Daniel Wang (same with Californians), Beyond The Wizards Sleeve, and Low Motion Disco lately. Lots of spacey guitars and percussion, but extremely danceable and very good for studying. Yes, both of those things at the same time. It's nice to have one word to describe what I've been listening to. A lot of it sounds a to me like The Avalanches vs Girl Talk vs Jens Lekman vs Kraftwerk vs Glass Candy, etc., etc. Here are some of my favorite songs of the last couple days.

Love Is All - Busy Doing Nothing (An Optimo |Espacio| Mix)

Low Motion Disco - Love Love Love (Original Mix)

Dølle Jølle - Balearic Incarnation (Todd Terje's Extra Døll Mix)

Beyond The Wizards Sleeve - Path Through The Forest

Hatchback - Nesso

Dutch Rhythm Combo - Bonaire (Al Usher 12" Remix)

Rubies - I Feel Electric (Featuring Feist) (TieDye Remix)

Air France - Collapsing At Your Doorstep

Each of the respective albums/12s that go with these songs is worth getting.

Good News

So I finally got sick of trying to find a reliable and simple free file hosting site.

The Good News: I opened an account on CacheFly, which means all the songs will be available for one-click download. Just right click and do save as. All posts from now on will be like this, and I will probably keep the links active for the first 6 or 7 archived posts.

The Bad News: I lost a sock this morning, so now I have an odd number of socks.

Furthermore - a few posts ago, I said that it would take me a couple of weeks to digest all of Minus's Sounds From Can Elles. I have done so, and I now give to you the best song off the compilation. I have no idea what the title is supposed to mean, but whatever it is I'm with it.

Jobody - Spades For Hands (Original Mix)