These guys, from LA, are pretty much their own genre. Describing Nguzunguzu's sound is about as easy as saying their name (its not). Suffice to say it is clubby, hot, tropical, heavy electro. Its very odd in many ways and you need to be in the mood for it.. but they are fascinating. Watch out for them for SURE (along with Canblaster).
Walking With A Ghost (Tegan And Sara Cover) - The White Stripes (Removed)
Now that they broke up we have to celebrate them!
Avantcore - Busdriver (Removed)
This is mostly here for El Langosta, because we both love indie rap. Busdriver is a member of the Nobody/Nocando cadre. that means its awesome. i mean, the track in this is essentially a piano jig with clever and light lyrics on top. loveeeeeeee
i'm so proud it even warranted new album artwork. anyway, i made this mix with my new (as of new years eve) MIDI controller that has been excessively mapped to my preferences. i hope you like the results - i tried to make a mix of just electro bangers, so the first 30 mins are just that. but i couldn't not drop whats in the last few minutes, if you know what i mean (COUGH 1983). enjoy and spread! go forth and prosper!
(Moar) Ghosts N Stuff (Feat. Rob Swire) - Deadmau5
Drugs (Nguzunguzu Remix) - Ratatat
1983 - Flying Lotus
Make Our Day (VIP Mix) - Funtcase
Animale (Datsik Remix) - Don Diablo Feat. Dragonette
Dancehall Queen (Original Mix) - Robyn & Diplo
*if you are looking for any of these tracks, you can find almost all of them at Apes With Barrels. Because they are awesome. the bloggers i mean. but the tracks too. ~patkins
ps album-a-day has been pushed back, double review tomorrow. i just didn't have time for it today..
So I'm getting a little tired of taking in so much music and not being able to get it out fast enough. Because of this I have decided to write a MASSIVE post with tons of stuff in it so i can stay away for a while. There are three categories: Indie, Beats, and Mixes. Look for folders at the end of each section to download everything.
INDIE Postcards From Italy (Beirut Cover) - Florence and the Machine Self explanatory. I love florence. Like The Wheel - Tallest Man On Earth King Of Spain - Tallest Man On Earth This guy has literally become one of my favorite artists of all time. These songs have so much soul, so much spirit, so much beauty... The Blues Run The Game (Jackson C. Frank Cover) - Laura Marling Another great folk song.. Laura Marling rules. Cold House - Teen Daze Chillwave meets the beat scene - lovely, delicate arpeggiated synths and atmosphere. perfect homework music... Minequest Try 03 - Deadmau5 This is a lot like the above, except its Deadmau5. Essentially a re-edit of Everything You Are, i wish this could go on forever... Scandal At The Parkade - Owen Pallett Classic Owen Pallett.. sounds like a string quartet sensibilities meet indie lyrics and vox. So good. Travel Broadens the Mind - Deerhoof Very interesting Deerhoof. Based on Congolese street music, this song reminds me of some of the beat music we post - complicated rhythm meets deerhoof's bass heavy/high lyrics sound. loovveeeee Down By The Water - The Decemberists This is going to come out on the Decemberists' forthcoming album in January.. they have this out for free for the price of my email. Enjoy. Good Night - Ellul I don't know anything about this because i found it in a mixtape. However, this is like Owen Pallett + Shitgeto + Teen Daze + awesome. Worth the listen. South Carolina - Tennis Okay, i DO know about these guys. Tennis is a husband-wife duo-turned-trio from colorado. They produce really warm, happy, vintage pop-inspired songs that make you just want to dance around with someone you love. Here is a collection of a few of their songs: Tennis.zip Their album, Cape Dory, comes out January 18. Gold Panda - Parents For El Langosta, because he likes Gold Panda.
Swimming - Mike Bigga This is another FlyLo produced rap song.. but, do you know that track from anywhere? OH YEAH, THATS CAMERA DAY FROM Pattern + Grid World. What a concept!
Concentration Mix - DJmus* (dedicated to our friend Mariel) This is supposed to be something you can play in the background while you are working on something important... mostly beats but also some various indie selections. Track List:
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi - Radiohead Everything In Its Right Place - Radiohead Mouthwash - Kate Nash Moon Hits the Mirrorball - Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs In Heat (Javelin Remix) - Health Comeandgetme - Steveandi Mirrorage - Glsr Gravel - Juj Tokyo to LA Steez - Hashim B. Nemo - Gobble Gobble Light #1 (Take Remix) - Nosaj Thing 7am (Devonwho Remix) - Shlohmo Trilingual Dance Sexperience - Dorian Concept Adrift (Shigeto's Adrift Adream Remix) - Tycho And We Gonna (Samiyam Chopsticks Remix) - Shigeto Bestdream - Etherea Wayward (Gobble Gobble Remix) - The Joe Sounds of Symmetry - Dntel
....and thats about all the cool stuff i have at the moment. Hopefully i will be able to leave you with this for a while and let El Langosta put something up. But for now, i hope you enjoy all this stuff!
I posted a couple Dorian Concept tracks a while ago. Yeah. That was before I listened to THIS entire EP. THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME SHIT. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PLANETS EXPLODE, I GUESS. Dorian Concept is a young beatmaker from Austria... and i love him. His sensibilities extend deep into his music and he makes prrretttty complicated stuff. Take the first track for example, Clap Beep Boom - he fucks with time but keeps the 16th note constant... first switching from sixteenths to triplets to pentuplets to sextuplets... but that one pulse stays the same. The rest of the ep continues this very clever use of Dorian's musical resources. Give this a good good listen. (Check the image for a link).
Even after laying all that good shit on you last night, i still have more for you! The music scene never stops moving forward, so why should we? Most of this post is a bunch of indie beat-type stuff, including the up and comer Dorian Concept (see photo). He is actually currently touring with Flying Lotus (aka instant respect), and is much more than a pad-mashing producer. He dabbles in Jazz and in other projects, showing that he has the perspective on his music that i ascribed to Teebs as well. Besides Dorian, though, i have some more Baths and Teebs for you... and some Mau5. We stick to the favorites here, you know. If you want all the files, just head over to their folder (not a zip) here.
This reminds me a lot of eLan + Flying Lotus. Basically, a sweet sawtooth synth line thats had the shit syncopated out of it, with a catchy beat underneath it that is fun to dance to. Pretty cool. Then, at the second iteration of the theme, he adds a rumbling, heavy bass on the bottom to make the room vibrate as you dance.
I've never heard this song before in my life, but it really makes me wish that ALL mass-produced rap could sound this way. considering that the Beat movement essentially birthed itself from rap tracks, now what makes a rap remix awesome is that a beat producer redid the track.
Oh look, its the trio thats touring RIGHT NOW! all in ONE TRACK! Anyway, I wanted to post this with the stuff from Ardour (here), but thought that might be a BIT too much Teebs. I like this track, its very simple but still has Teebs' masterful counterpoint of lilt and thump that attract me to him.
Baths put this out today, and Langosta linked me to it... Mr. Wisenfeld dismissed it as a sketchy thing he threw together in his apartment, but its still definitely Baths and therefore worth having. Its very relaxed, and somewhat reminds me of Nordic Laurel and some of his other projects (Post-Foetus and Geotic).
I have no idea who Fol Chen is, but he released this Baths remix for free with his In Ruins EP. Its essentially Baths + echo-y, romantic lyrics. Again, Baths, therefore worth having and enjoying.
BONUS:
This is extremely entertaining for anyone that loves Deamau5 or knows his music well. AKA everyone here at this blog, don't know about you guys... also, really hoping he didn't mix this live. I would be impressed beyond belief.
WHAT? ELECTRO WITH LYRICS? well, okay usually it winds up being rap. and yes, there are many instances of electro with lyrics. i just wanted to find some sort of theme to bind this post together and give me an excuse to post this stuff. so here you go.
Forever (Nero Remix) - Drake Another rap/pop dubstep track, but with the production quality you would expect from Nero. Fat ass bass, a good one to drop in a live set.
Oh yeah. That's right. No drums, no percussion, nothing but pure unadulterated chord and modular synth heaven. Makes me respect the man more than I already did, because as far as dance producers go, he's by far one of my favorites. He has a reputation for being an enormous tool, and I can see why, but I still respect him because: a) he makes awesome music, b) he actually makes a clear effort to interact with his fans even though he's one of the most popular producers out there, and c) he got his start as an honest-to-god technology geek writing software and introducing recording studios to computers, and I feel like this humbles him somewhat more than the guys who just learned ableton on their laptops and got lucky (though that applies to plenty of producers, good and bad). You can see it in interviews, and in his work, quite honestly; he's all about the music, notsomuch the fame and douchiness that accompanies it.
Next is this song, which peter failed to include in his 30's/40's music post but it really belongs there, seeing as it was the Andrews Sisters' biggest hit, if I'm not mistaken. I just know it from Bioshock, though, and lord knows I love my Bioshock.
And this is a fantastic electro track, a remix of Kavinsky by American DJs The Chaotic Good. Not only is this a quality dance track of brick-shitting proportions (think intense distorted 8-bit chords + vocoders + fat effin bass), I think their name is a reference to Dungeons & Dragons, which gains them a LOT of points in my book. Also from Apes With Barrels; anybody interested in dance music should read that blog, and take sweet sweet advantage of their archives.
I was talking with a friend at prom last night, and dance music was brought up. She said that she doesn't love techno, although she does like house. It's the vocals, she said, and the lyrics. I'm inclined to agree. House vocals get ripped on a lot, but I think they're the shit. ESPECIALLY Progressive House/Trance vocals. Nothing makes me feel the way I do when listening to an ethereal, layered voice singing absurdly dreamy lyrics while accompanied by the most beautiful, synthesized chords imaginable. So here are some Vocal tracks for y'all, mostly progressive with a bit of Electro House in there for kicks. HUGE shout out to Apes With Barrels, the blog where I got most of this stuff. Those dudes (aka electro house duo Bastille) went to my high school, and their blog is pretty much what got me into EDM (electronic dance music) in the first place. AMAZING archives, they have everything. They also have a post on vocal tracks, and although I tried not to plagarize it completely, I couldn't avoid posting the first two songs here...they exemplify house vocals.
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I Remember (Vocal Mix) - Deadmau5 & Kaskade
Probably one of my favorite tracks ever, such gorgeous vocals. You probably have it, but if you're new to house music/EDM in general then GET IT. Deadmau5 is a god among producers, nailing everything from gorgeous Progressive House to heavy-ass bangers. Go buy Random Album Title if you don't have it already, it's worth it (Beatport//iTunes). Kaskade is a beast too, though I know much less of his work.
Move For Me (Extended Mix) - Kaskade & Deadmau5
Love this one too, such great chords and vocals. And the lyrics, of course ("where do we come from/do I know your name?/doesn't really matter/in this life we're all the same"). Don't ask me why the artist names are switched here. I think it's because the mau5 released "I Remember" on Random Album Title, while Kaskade got to have this track on his album, Strobelight Seduction. (btw the vocals on both these tracks are by Haley Gibbey, who has a collab with Kaskade called Summer of Space.)
Out There (Original Mix) - John Dahlback feat. Basto!
Really weird buildup, not gonna lie, but this track DROPS. Gotta love Dahlback, and those vocals..."I need you in my life/I need you in my life..." I like his tracks a lot, it's hard to pin him down with one genre.
Do It (Ian Carey Mix) - PROM feat. Katherine Ellis
LOVE this song (I love em all, in case you haven't noticed). More Electro House, with GLORIOUS vocals. So raw and soulful, definitely contrasts with the more heavily-produced style of the above tracks. Ian Carey is freakin' awesome, another master of genre flexibility (though it's all House, as a rule), definitely do a search for him on AwB.
Day By Day (Vocal Mix) - Paul Anthony & ZZX
Really neat Prog track...the chords shift quickly and in interesting ways, definitely a cool change from the usual Progressive House fare of four bars Cmaj7, four bars Am9, etc (though it's still tried and true). Great vocals, awesome synths.
I Will Be Here (Wolfgang Gartner Remix) - Tiesto & Sneaky Sound System
A good note to end on. More Progressive vocal goodness. Wolfgang Gartner, aside from being a total fucking G, is another one of those producers capable of making a badass track in pretty much every dance genre (Electro, Electro House, Dutch House, Progressive)...he is indeed, as the good chaps at AwB have been propounding for a while now, the Holy Saviour of dance music. Amen.
1. You Need A Ladder - Deadmau5 2. Won't Go Quietly (TV Rock Remix) - Example 3. Miami To Atlanta - Pryda 4. Hey You (Kolt13 Remix) - Pony Pony Run Run 5. Sick Muse (Adam Freedland Remix) - Metric 6. The Girls - Calvin Harris
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