Recently I feel hit by a wave of good sounds. Last year was mostly mediocre for me, but 2008 is laying it down! Right so this should be a review or rather a preview, the Quiet Village album hits stores May 12th.
You better get ready, put your party hats on, feast on this, then re-evaluate the electronic genre. I can’t use too many words, or I’ll drown the goodness.
Quiet Village Pacific Rhythm mp3
Silent movie - microsite listen to tracks, retail links and stuff
Gav’s excellent blog Just Like Music has settled down in a finer location. Choc full of elitist sound patterns. Check it chumps!
Portishead have linked up with Current TV for an exclusive 40-minute broadcast performance. The show includes eight songs from their new album, Third, and will air multiple times on the television channel (see showtimes below) over the following week.
— Note: GMT=EST+4. Right? Right?
Don’t argue with me, just go download the new single, Hrs:Mins:Secs for free. Counting them till I see the dude live, make a note peeps in Bucharest.
image courtesy of music like dirt
București - Rokolectiv, 13 aprilie
Isn‘t English the omenous language.
Jesse Futerman - that’s what’s up.
Whilst obsessively listening to Jesse’s music, it seemed so apparent that this was not in-your-face type of a beat, more like a silent rumble waiting to turn into an earthquake.
There’s this flow - too fucking cool and collected for a 16-year-old. Jesse’s remixes float somewhere in the outer stretch of the known remix universe, like a bionic rainbow ready to set you on fire. It‘s a different kind of fire. You’ll wanna poke at it. Don‘t be afraid of the fire, cause this 16-year-old ninja beat-tamer is the wild card for hip hop.. not to mention music at large. Just not officially until he’s done with highschool.
His myspace icon depicting a computer-headed boy. The irony, the irony - dude’s music is so human you almost feel it reaching it out for you.
Interview and mp3s after the break.
Generally I wouldn’t post previews, but this is a good one. It’s from Camille’s new album. Sounds as quirky as ever, slightly more mainstream. Who knows, she might pull a Feist with this one.
On the eashfa shopping list: Jamie Lidell is beckoning us to his one-man funk storm, which basically means a new album, JIM, a video, and promo image from said video of him dining with a horse-lady.
if you can’t wait for the album or single then grab a new unreleased track for free by signing up to Jamie’s mailing list.
reads the newsletter. Now, Jamie videos are sure easy to come by, not so in the case of Leila Arab. I tell you I did not want to see this. Not even a video per se. 
Leila just got herself signed to Warp Records, she tames the IDM/trip hop vibes like no other, and with no official LP outing in a decade, all those pent up creative juices must be waiting to burst out. You can burst on me, Leila. A 10-inch is out April 21→, followed by the album, Blood, Looms and Blooms in June. The album includes a Martina Topley-Bird collaboration, oh how you do tease. To think this is from 10 years ago:
Eliot was wrong, I think it’s March that is the cruellest month. Had they released the album a couple of days later, then I wouldn’t question a great poet. Actually, you’re better off reading a couple lines of modern verse, as it’s heavily anchored in rhythm, which I can’t say about the Guillemots’ new album, Red.
Most of it is heresy, and this isn’t about selling out. Pop is good, but not if the first chords of a choice song remind me of a certain Mika. There’s pop, and there’s pop-that-back-where-it-came-from. What else is there to be found? Who knows, my head’s spinning from this over-produced thing. Fluctuating wildly, looking for a Top 40 slot, with soul stripped of its soul, electronica that’s half-baked and clumsy. This is madness, and not the kind of musical madness that dislocates and enhances your inner world- actually I want to either hide from fear or pull a Van Gogh. Some remnants of the jazzy experimentations are there, but in quite unsatisfying shape, and reverting to more formulaic sounds.
Makes you shed a tear for the past glory of those wondrous EPs, “From The Cliffs” and “Of The Night”. Alright folks, we do have a couple of good songs on this big red yarn of heterogenous. But here I am, wondering, are they good only because the rest is quite awful? Or maybe they just remind me of what they used to be. Call me a reactionary.
Compare and contrast,
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Cyanide Valentine have got an album out that is not emo as their name suggests, and as they themselves suggest to de-suggest. So no emo I suppose. Though they do have a fallback plan in that.It’s a good album, it’s free so it can’t hurt to download and check out. The vocals do seem amiss at times, and set me contrary, but on Sugar Coma they silently smithereen you away. All in all, a mish-mash of guitar pop and electronica. And, no, not emo I dare say. I smell a trail of potential.download The Three Sides of the Cyanide Valentine (zip)couple i like:
Sugar Coma
The Reprise
Yesterday the wind blew in my face like a merry-go-round and I found myself wondering Uh what happened to them Mystery Jets? Voted the next band to make it in 2007 chez BBC I think, they didn’t exactly make it, except in Albion, and with a niche appeal.
I always liked their carnivale-like sound-matter, and here they are with a new album produced by Erol Alkan and mixed by Nick Launay who’s past preoccupations lay with PiL and Nick Cave. There’s a video for Young Love and I also have an mp3 that’s more dreary-Siberian-winter than field-bouncing spring, but won’t throw you directly into April is the cruellest month…
guest girl Laura Marling brings her own icing to the cake there, nice job I reckon.
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Playlist
The Youngsters - Abertura
Nickodemus - Intro
Erykah Badu - The Healer
Shuggie Otis - Aht Uh Mi Hed
The United States Of America - Cloud Song
The Kinks - This Time Tomorrow
The Specials - Ghost Town
Mulatu Astatke - Yègellé Tezeta (My Own Memory)
Junior Murvin - Police and Thieves
Lykke Li - Time Flies
Shankar Jaikishan - Typewriter Tip Tip
The Beatles - Got To Get You Into My Life
OutKast - Call Of Da Wild
Wildchild - Day N The Funk (feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow)
John Holt - I’ll Be Lonely
Massive Attack - Any Love
Serengeti brings forth South Park-like sarcasm and a plethora of characters jiggling their way along this re-release of Dennehy. The album coalesces a big chunk of Chicagoan reality, fictional emo kids, ignored youth, stringing them and their quirky stories together in a vivid representation of the times we call modern.
I haven’t heard the original album, but this one’s got all the good bits like the tracks being in the actual order that Serengeti intended and some previously unreleased ones. Plus a banana sundae. I made that up.
You can stream Dennehy here.
how this song got into my library, I realised, it hadn’t; yet. Very ethereal, and nice, sounds like a soundtrack, like it’s going somewhere.
Funk is where the richness of musical tapestry collides; it’s walking along your local urbanscape with iridescent antique-show rumblings that up and went in that space just above your head. The rhythm and the toot-toot, sparking off the sleek of the office steel and the shit on the sidewalk.
Grab a partner and get down to different shades of funk.
J Rocc - Cold Heat Funk Mix Pt. 1
Ike and Tina - Funkier Than A Mosquito’s Tweeter (m4a)
Jimmy Castor Bunch - It’s Just Begun
+ An essay on the funk.
This is a nice electrofolko nugget to wind you down today, thanks to Ryan of Can Joann!
Collections of Colonies Of Bees - FlocksIII(?) mp3
They‘ve been up and about since 2003 but now they have a new sound and a new album coming out Jan 22. As their previous folk work blossoms into a more mesmerizing direction, I wonder however, why is post rock so homogenic? I don’t know about you lot, but I can’t immediately identify anyone except Sigur Ros, and that is after extensive listening only. Post rock bands’ signature sounds seem to all blend in.
Getting us back to spoken wit and guitar banging for a bit of a beat, here’s Stuart James. This is quite long overdue, and I have some other myspacians for you to check out, so come back, and come back often. Well maybe not that often.
Standout track: City On A Roll remix (mp3)
more on the hype machino
I hear that people going to the cinema these days is revolutionary. It’s like planning a trip to Japan. Do we have the money? Do we have to learn the slang? Are the people weird where we’re going?
That strange species sitting on a chair for a couple of hours without popcorn, while they just.. watch.
Sitting still is great, and this one film drowned out everything else - literally, while I was watching there was nothing else (except badly adjusted Romanian subtitles that frantically ignored laws of space and time). Vier Minuten (Four Minutes) is all about the music. Two women, one replacing human passion with an obsession for music, the other running away from all the bad memories music brought her, but still bound to it. The concept of ‘bound’ is fairly well roasted during the whole film, whether it’s handcuffs or destiny you can’t unlock yourself from (being a falsely-imprisoned piano-playing genius- we can all relate).
As I was sitting there and the main character let an explosion of sound rip through the prison walls, I was waiting for my little revelation. Then I saw blood on the piano keys. Respect.
Over at AOL UK you have 3 tracks up for for free download, to promote their newly-released remix and rarities album, Other World.
Husky Rescue don’t seem to follow any established route or musical recipe, and while the pop specifics are apparent, there is that bit of unclassifiable mystery to their creations. Finland’s musical landscape just seems to get better and better.
Here are the tracks in case the links don’t work over at AOL.
Here’s the new podcast episode, number 13 according to my prime number calculations, getting much higher still!
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Tracklist
Light My Fire (J.Rocc)
The Heliocentrics - Age of the Sun (Out There LP)
A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It
Edan - I See Colours (Beauty and the Beat LP)
Pete Philly & Perquisite feat. Talib Kweli - Hope [DJ Mitsu The Beats Remix] (Excellence LP)
Two Gospel Keys - I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore
Nujabes - Luv (sic.) pt3 (Ft. Shing02) (Modal Soul LP)
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - how do I let a good man down? (Naturally LP)
Secos e Molhados - Amor (After Tropicalia - New Directions In Brazilian Music In the 1970’s)
Manu Chao - Tristeza Maleza (LaRadiolina LP)
I don’t know what I make of Baron Zen. Music is messy, never meant to be clean and tailor-cut to a certain rule. Take At The Mall. Isn’t that a punkish trail of scream I hear? Consistent with the blatantly dispunked beat. The video itself is hilarious, because it follows a cup of drink following girls around.
And that cup of Julius. What is that?
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