Miami Horror feat. OH MAN KIMBRA

Kimbra.

Miami Horror?

Disco?


KIMBRAKIMBRAKIMBRA

Benn Jordan, i.e. The Flashbulb

Insomniatic drill'n'bass from a bipolar Englishman.

The "drill" being the incredibly tight snare rolls in the drum programming. I don't know how much is real and how much is edited afterwards. I think that's why I like it.


It is good music to listen to while making progress, I guess.
This is a really good song.

Ferry Corsten, working off of Fun Fun

Fun Fun.
Italo Disco.
1983.



Dead guys being danced around by a suited man while two italian ladies (one of them out-of-time-period attractive, actually [guess which one!]) in sweatshirts dance listlessly.

I am, of course, enamored.

More importantly, Ferry Corsten asked them if he could use the musical theme but in a more modern vein.

And more importantly still, he made a video that appeals directly to my highly refined tastes of spacey european progressive trance and HOT DANCING GIRLS IN SHINY METALLIC BIKINIS.

Slathered in icecream? Check.
Stripping on a copier? Check.

Blasting through space and/or in an 80's workout and/or playing keytar?


CHECK

Also, I actually really like asymmetrical eye makeup.

Rusko?

Rusko!



Neat sortof!

Calvin Harris and Stuart Price

These two are currently confusing me. The songs aren't, I'm not ready to call them GOOD yet (or even say I like them), but I can't seem to listen to them only once.





Whatever that means.

Edit: Aaaand now it's ruined forever for me. You win this time, Youtube. He does look like Andrew Ryan.

Shook, remixing Jupiter

Slow! Ponderous! Funky electro remix of french nu disco! Oh those Netherlanders.

Asheru & Blue Black

Breaktime from electro. Rest assured, I have a lot of electro under the belt now.

But this reminds me of Nujabes, so we'll listen to it for now.

Specimen A and Pyramid

EXPECT A LOT MORE OF THIS SHIT A LOT MORE FREQUENTLY FROM NOW ON, FUCKERS

The Bird And The Bee

Yes eventually yes I will find the remix.

Edit: This also deserves honorable mention.

Janelle Monae feat. Herownselfthistime

Full album. Weird album.

Still can't stop listening to this song.

The Roots

The Roots' new album is one of those you listen to and don't like, but find yourself stuck on and forced to relisten until you like it.

So it's very good, as usual.

Numbernin6 remixing The Prodigy

Dubstep.

You have to really want to listen to dubstep.
Also, the people who like it are usually snobby idiots - a terrible combination.

Air

Old music. Ooooooooold music. Entering high school music.

Air turned out to be awesome. I need to get this album again.

Broke One! Third Time!

Eat a dick, I love this guy.



More electrooooo for eeeeveryyooooooone.

New Black Keys

OH GOD NEW BLACK KEYS

Klass, remixing DJ Antonie

MOAR ELECTRO WELL DONE



Look! Youtube provided a link this time!

The Prodigy?

Searching the youtubes....So you don't have to!



Fucking code! Why! What does it mean! Links have no value!

PENDULUM

Okay okay youtube is being cunty and wont load the embed html.

Who fucking cares. Click this link or fucking die.

Actually, click this link and fucking die.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zMGOtt--1ec

It's the last 4 minutes of a 9 minute song in two parts.

FOUR MINUTES of RAMPING UP.
Not building up, it isn't apprehension, that was the past 5 minutes. It gets more insane over time. Continually. Exponentially.


AHHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAH

The Clash?

Not actually a fan of The Clash (because punk sucks. deal with it), but it deserves posting only for the first 40 seconds.

Yes, that bassline is amazing.
Yes, this was in Iron Man 2. (Also, hurr durr get it Robot Rock?)

God I hate punk.

Prefuse 73!

A song by this guy just showed up on my computer a while back.
Turns out he's fucking amazing.
Pretty Lights level obscurity with RJD2 themed aural auroras.
What does that even mean.
It means listen to him warp your ears. Get this album

Snow Patrol

Revisiting high school music. Good shit mate. I listened to a lot more anthemic crap back then.

Note: Had no idea they were Irish.

Pendulum

New album next month! I am excited!

Janelle Monae feat. Big Boi

Janelle Monae. Weird thing is, we've heard her before, she was on two songs on Idlewild.
How rad is this video. Like Gnarls Barkley's Going On but with tuxedos!

Also dance magic and voodoo eyes.

(Also I like the song?)

The Black Keys, covering Junior Kimbrough

This is all I want to listen to for the rest of my life.

Alan Wilkis

Like Chromeo, but less sardonic! I first heard this guy do remixes, but someone gave him a vocoder!

I....Uh.....La....dy...Ga...ga? Special Guest Pomplamoose Again?

I didn't actually think this would ever happen, but the latest Lady Gaga...songfilmfixthing....is good?
I mean, I always had a respect for Gaga in the same vein as, say, my respect for Voldemort. But Telephoooooooooone is actually a good song.

HEAR ME OUT.

Ignore the fucking video, okay?
(Actually, watch the 10 minute video. It's worth it for the "Lets Make A Sandwich!" and the flamboyant latino with the whisks. You heard me.)

With this song, Lady Gaga has finally accomplished what she set out to do. She has become Madonna 2, while Madonna is still technically alive.
This is signified by the fact that Beyonce doesn't actually sound very good on this track by comparison - it means Gaga has ascended to a point that other pop artists cant automatically copy. In the video it's equally apparent - Gaga fits into Gagaland better than Beyonce does.

In short, she's finally put enough electromash into her mix for me to like her.
The frolicking whores are just icing on the cake.

The rest of the cake, sans icing, is this:

This is really good. Those darn guys. They get so much darn cuter and better every goddamn video. (Also that wah goddamn man)

David Guetta feat Kid Cudi

You know what? This is clever. I'll admit that. Good work both of you.


Edit: I'm gonna throw this one in as a bonus material. Stick with it. It grows on you once you realize he's fucking with you.

Gorillaz!

NEW GORILLAZ


Chilled out. Possibly even tired. So many guest artists, it's just a collage of Gorillaz all around town.

Reminds me a lot of Handsome Boy Modeling School.

Them Crooked Vultures?!

SO GOOD

Chris Thile

Of Montreal!

I want to show you all, I want to tell you lies, I want to write you books

The Books feat. José González covering Nick Drake?

From the Dark Was The Night AIDS benefit LP that is actually pretty dang good what with the real artists and the real tunes and whatnot. Plus okay it is pretty apparent that I love cello and I love José.



covering

M.I.A.

M M I I A A M I A Who doesn't like her, honestly.

Most of the time. You just have to be in a certain mindset, and that mindset involves a lot of cheap 808 drum noises and the ability to describe things using the adjective "bangin'".

I like this song cause she mumbles.

Tom Caruana mixing Wu-Tang Clan and The Beatles

Do you like The Beatles? Of course you do!
Do you like the Wu-Tang Clan? Of course you probably don't at all! However, you can't dismiss them as they are pretty goddamn integral to the entire core of hip hop, and have produced some of the most iconic beats of the 90's.

More importantly. Do you like both of them at once?

State Of Mind

New Zealand Drum and Bass duo State of Mind are responsible for the song "Sun King", which is one of the staple foods of the DnB circuit.

And it starts with this

Which is apparently a a Bulgarian folk song performed by the Pazardjik Folk Ensemble

GOD it is FASCINATING to see how they build these goddamn things



Also it is fascinating to slowly let your brain turn into a slurry by listening to this.

Handsome Boy Modeling School feat. Casual

Casual, from the Hieroglyphics coalition meets Handsome Boy Modeling School, from Being Rad As Hell.



(I think A. he's silly and B. that beat is straight butter)

Beef Wellington feat. Swamburger

This is out there, and by that I mean obscure, and by that I mean through the roof level underground.

I don't know if it's good or not yet, but I can't stop listening to it.

Reminds me of Digable Planets words over Neosonic Production-esque beats.


The weird thing is I have absolutely no comprehension of what he's saying, not because it's hard to hear but because the words are arranged underneath the beat as just another element of the song.
They aren't sentences, it's just words. Maybe it's a palindrome, who cares, just let it wash over you.

Daft Punk, Gorillaz?

0:07 - "Joe and Teresa went on for an hour"

Hear it?



3:55 - EH? Eh?

Another musical sleuthing expedition successful.

Zero 7 feat. José González

I LIKE ZERO 7
I LIKE JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ.
I LIKE THIS SONG.


José is Argentinian! From Sweden.

He mostly does covers of other songs redone with just him and his guitar.

I really like this cover. There is an animated music video I guess but that is not the point.

Jack White!

I really love Jack White. I think he's a fantastic guitarist (and drummer and pianist god damn) and a great band leader and an innovative yet simple musician. The White Stripes are required reading. It's simple and driving and awesome. The Raconteurs are equally awesome but the cool part is it's in a noticeably different way. His newest group, The Dead Weather, are just as awesome only they're fronted by a great woman singer (I want to spend a grimy week in Wyoming with her, oh my god)and it changes the tone entirely.

Each one of White's bands sounds better when you make them relative to the others.
I'm loathe to offer a single song from each group because Jack White's albums are laid out to be listened to in their entirety.

The White Stripes are him getting started out, him and Meg, young and fun and brilliant and driving and infectious and everyone went "man who the hell is Jack White FACE MELTING SOLOOOOOOO"


These are the infant years.

The Raconteurs are, then, the teenage years.

I say this because if I had had access to Consolers of the Lonely when I was, say, sixteen, I would have been much more prone to rebellion, denim jackets, and trying to play Smoke on the Water on my dads guitar.

He started to work with other commendable musicians. Formed a band, not just a traveling exhibition of his amazing skill. Sometimes he plays drums. Sometimes he plays piano. Sometimes Brendan sings the whole song. You can hear the blues, god damn it.

The Dead Weather, then, is college and I say that because I'm in college now and I'm listening to The Dead Weather.

The Dead Weather sounds tired. Sounds angry

That's a Bob Dylan cover.
If The Raconteurs are the young and eager teens walking to a fight, The Dead Weather is the side that lost, walking home. And the side that won.
It's grimy, it's covered in dust and its lip is bleeding a little and it is still unbearably sexy and right now what it really wants is a cigarette and an icepack in that order please.
Man I want to be Jack White almost as much as I want to be Johnny Depp.

Thank god I didn't have this album in high school.

The Beatles?

Everyone should have to listen to The Beatles as a cultural experience, so they can understand what the past was like.
Even if you don't like their sound, you need to hear it.
Also, because they are such an integral part of personality determination.
Which of the four is your favorite?
(Author's Note: Paul)
Which of the albums is your favorite?
(Authors note: Ah. This is so incredibly tricky.)

Tie. Between Rubber Soul, their 1965 album, and Revolver, their 1966 album. Each one is literally one of the greatest albums in rock history but together they almost fully encompass the essence of what made The Beatles great. This is them in their prime.

Which songs are your favorite?
Oh fuck off. Nobody can answer that. Or rather, anyone who can answer that in less than twenty songs is either unexposed or way too exposed. Keep a level medium.

Here are two.

Metric!

Metric has been my go-to Canadian indie rock band for many a year, but their newest album is pretty fuckin' sweet.
Also now that I have been indoctrinated to Rock Band I believe their entire discography would be fun as hell to play.

NUH NUH NUH NUH NUH ETC

Kings of Convenience

What a damn good song.

Lalah Hathaway!

Holy shit.

Look, shut up.
I'm really white, okay. And I listen to black music.
Now listen to this track. This is RnB.
That is specific. Not soul, not funk, not hip hop.
RHYTHM. and BLUES I guess but mainly RHYTHM.

Lalah Hathaway - (Donny Hathaway's daughter!)

Earth Wind & Fire

Start the new year with.
some.
funk.

But not the grinding smooshy funk of later in the year when you've been disappointed.

The uplifting, soul RnB funk of

Earth Wind & Fire covering The Beatles

Iron & Wine

I really like this "new" album of his. Words. Words words words.

Black Eyed Peas...?

I laughed off the latest album with that stupid "lets get drunk, mazel tov!" video that everyone kept playing.
Turns out will.i.am took some cues from the electrohouse movement, and then cooked a tasty pastry crust of bootsy collins all over the top.
Put that ham sandwich in your pipe and blow it.

YOU SEE THESE SHOOOOOES?