Rough rocks – Moon Blazers

A featurette – because I get ADD too.

Here are Moon Blazers from California. And of course, Saturday morning is for cartoons. A teacher becomes a valid preacher after you get your BA (but like Murs spurs, We all got a place, and we all got a purpose, Now I’m not taking y’all to sunday service). Lyrically challenging your milk-and-cereal habits, these guys have a purpose. I assume it isn’t only to get signed, but also to convey what they’ve been through to young adults. Might be a step up for you to give them a listen.

Isn’t It Strange mp3

Our Hearts (Moon Beam) mp3

Pusherman Tago-Mago

Remixing is raised to art status when you give new life to music, any type of music. To see potential in a boring cut, to push the envelope all the way to different galaxies, to let your mind wander where the originary intention left off, all this presumes passion and marquees lighting up over your head as opposed to a mere lightbulb.

A writer, most of the cases, is a passionate reader and afterwards a remixer of words. Tago-Mago does that with music. I may not like each and every track but that would be a strange and new feeling anyway. Rarely have I heard a reinvention of music I was, or thought I was, familiar with, in such unexpected ways. His major influence is Can, and the mixes are inspired by a variety of hip hop and electronica artists.

tago-mago – touch upon touch (marvin gaye and cocteau twins) mp3

tago-mago and the aliquot part – love and war (space lightning mix) mp3

[Remixes 1 zip file]

In Romanian after the jump

RJD2 goes all Neoplatonist

On the music liberation front, RJD2 is swinging those freedom-fightin’ bazookas like no other. He’s inviting you, and you and you to premix audio from his upcoming release, The Third Hand (March 6th). The bits of sound you get are stripped of production, to help fans return to the innocence and wonder of an uncluttered mind ready to be creative on its own terms.

when you do these remix things, you also are working with the original song in the back of your head. cause youve already heard the song. the only way around this would be if the song hadnt been released yet…..

so this was the thought process i was going through, and realized….well, my records not out yet, and ive got a few songs that are already 90% broken down to hits/stabs. it seemed like a good opportunity to see what happens when you give people access to the sounds that made up a song, BEFORE they every heard the song. so, here it is. there’s another 6 or 7 weeks before the record is released. go nuts. make whatever you want with it.

Here’s the IMEEM community. I already have aaaah! couple of favourite premixes.

Ali Love

I was tempted to spice up the title with some exclamation marks, three seems to be the norm in this case. Sobriety caught up with me, even though this guy deserves at least one for each of his personalities.

Musically, multiple personalities are good news for Ali Love. The 25-year old Londoner is currently playing hop-scotch with the genres thing, and giving me a headache, if I were the type of person who got headaches. Because I can’t describe this music without getting all sub-genrey, which I can’t stand. Which takes nothing from its quality.
There’s this electronic streak on a glam-pop background travelling one song, then minor keys and a sparse, electricity-filled acoustic earscape on the next. Naturally, he writes, plays and produces all his songs.

We’ll accept nothing else since the bar’s been raised on what I might call faux-indie (the music people like to tag as indie on last.fm just because it’s not exactly mainstream pop-rock; not good enough people). Anyway, this is indie, since Ali’s records are released on his own label, I Love Records.
May I present you with the mighty catchy Rock N Roll Control.

Ali Love – Rock N Roll Control mp3

But don’t think you’ve got Ali Love tagged just by that. You might want to listen to this too, where he gets all nostalgic the postmodern-folk way:

Ali Love – Post Modern Blues mp3*

To listen to more, go to Ali’s MySpace page.

*I used a new file host here, mooloader. If you have any problems let me know

Aaron Schroeder – So you wanna be a bard?

The only reason I haven’t listened to all of Aaron Schroeder’s LP, Southern Heart in Western Skin, is because I knew it would take too long for it to arrive here in Romania, and then all my original epiphanies while hearing this kid out would have faded, as well as his status on my to-blog list (quite a bulging one at that).
Aaron Schroeder’s debut LP is not what I usually go for. It’s got all the makings of something I would steer clear of really. Folk, Americana (is there a scarier word in my musical vocabulary?). But a true talent mixes up influences into something unrecognizable.