1) The Girls - Calvin Harris 2) Hurricane Jane (The Twelves Remix) - Black Kids 3) Fancy Footwork (KOLT13 Murdaphunk Remix) - Chromeo 4) Rich Girls (Hemingway Remix) - The Virgins 5) Still Sound - Toro y Moi 6) Play A Slow Jam - Javelin 7) Cottonmouth - Sam Sparro 8) Leonard pt. 6 - Javelin 9) Bad Day (Javelin Remix) - Darwin Deez 10) In Heat (Javelin Remix) - HEALTH 11) Let Me Go - Heaven 17 12) Policy of Truth - Depeche Mode
I have been getting into Darwin Deez in a BIG way lately. Just got his self-titled album, and regardless of the mixed reviews, I can't help but love it. He makes lo-fi indie pop that's right up my alley: original but catchy melodies, poppy chord progressions but with regular detours into epic harmonic territory...check his shit out, dude!
Yeah, I now this is "in" right now, don't kill me. But the beat is fuckin great, and Donald Glover is a damn good rapper even if he's being more clever than anything else (Drake comparisons abound). But such gems as "I'm runnin this bitch/you are just a dog walker?" and "Took the 'g' out your waffle/all you got left is your ego?" certainly deserve props. Download Childish Gambino's EP for free HERE.
...yeah, this is pt. 2 of a series entitled, "Our Blog Posts EXACTLY What You Expect It To." Say what you will about OFWGKTA and Tyler (musically or ethically) but they're blowing up in a big way...a kid at my school suggested they might be "the Sex Pistols of our generation," and this song sort of hits that particular nail on the head. Plus, it's got all the upper-middle-class white kids (myself included) chanting "KILL PEOPLE, BURN SHIT, FUCK SCHOOL," a sight I'm still trying to wrap my head around.
This track was pretty divisive when it came out. All the EDM purists started calling Wolfgang a sell-out, which is kind of understandable, because fuck Will.I.Am. But then you listen to the track in question: it's accessible but well-made, it's still got that signature Gartner sound (obviously scaled down a bit for pop purposes), and Will.I.Am actually doesn't ruin it! But if you're just not into pop/electro house crossovers, feel free to ignore this one. I just think it deserves mention that someone cooler than David Guetta is getting big names on his shit.
For those of you who hated the above track, this is for you: a healthy serving of some straight up, un-poppy, nasty-ass electro for all the heads out there. Got this from Daftwho?, who post heavy shit like this (plus lots of dirty dubstep jams if that's also yo thang) on the regular. ((WARNING: play this in your car IF AND ONLY IF you are driving in a zone where going 60+ mph is LEGAL))
And this one should please both crowds, except for that particular brand of EDM purists who just refuse to enjoy anything that sounds too much like "brostep." But fuck those guys. Genre aside, good music is good music. Also, it's influencing the mainstream in ways you can't even imagine... Anyways, this is actually one of my favorite Flux Pavilion productions: he and the Doctor just OWN that (crucial) balance between awesome, catchy chords and fucked-up, bassy noise. Pop dubstep/brostep at its best.
Hope y'all enjoy! Sorry for the long descriptions, obviously the tracks come first in case you don't want to read my wordvomit. I just like writin and shit.
Lobster out!
BONUS JELLY: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima - Krzysztof Penderecki
Penderecki can sound-paint catastrophe, fear, and horror like no other. Tonality's overrated anyways. This one's for the classical heads (I took a Musical Style/History course this past semester, deal), though you might recognize this from "The Shining" and "Children of Men."
Hailing from the same isolated central Ohio college town as yours truly, The Young Crooks are three of the chillest dudes I've had the pleasure of meeting, and they make some badass pop music to boot. Their sound on the recently-released Phone EP could be described as a cocktail of Sublime's rap/reggae fusion, the Strokes' melodic sensibilities, and Darwin Deez's overall (lo-fi) aesthetic, but they're hardly just the sum of their influences. They have quite an original voice in their own right, thanks in no small part to Win Dunham's songwriting, which covers such themes as youth, ennui, loneliness, and lots and lots of hedonism (by way of alcohol, weed, ritalin, and acid, though the list certainly doesn't end there) with an impressively nimble sense of wit and lyricism.
But for all their immature content, Dunham tells these stories with a sort of resigned nostalgia and self-consciousness that manages to steer clear of one-dimensional irony. His writing stays mature and honest throughout, but not without a keen sense of humor: the EP opens with the words, "I used to give a fuck, but/lately I've been givin up/and I gotta say I feel fine/molly and red wine," and you're not quite sure whether he's being entirely sincere when he slyly croons, "we're just dumb kids anyway" in (my personal favorite) "Today."
You can grab the whole EP for free at their Bandcamp, and I would highly suggest you do so. It's fun, catchy, and smart, and you know you love the feeling of downloading free music without that feeling of corrosive guilt eating away at your sense of self-respect.
Geotic is the blissful ambient side-project of Will Wiesenfeld, aka Baths/[Post-foetus], who (if we haven't yet beaten you to death with the fact) has been one of our favorite artists of the past year.
He's been kind enough to post the whole Geotic discography online for free, though if you have any you should throw some ¢a$h at the DONATE button, lord knows this man of all people deserves it.
To celebrate 20,000 (!!!) likes of the Baths facebook page, he posted a new EP, Bless the Self, so you should go get it!
A lovingly curated compilation of laptop-crafted 21st-century jams, leaning towards the electronic/colorful/poppy side of things, this mix should serve as the ideal soundtrack to the neo-pagan post-rave bacchanalia of the future, after the bombs have stopped falling and the human race has re-emerged from hiding to rebuild...and party. Also reflects the ecstatic mood of early summer break. The focus here was more on track selection than super-impressive translations (and at the end I sort of just gave up, as you'll see), but I did my best.
Check our archives/artist labels (on the right side of the page) if you hear something you like and want more. I can safely say I've been listening to every one of these artists WAY too much recently. :D
1) The Upside - LandLord 2) All This Evil - Newman Wolf 3) End of Days - Gobble Gobble 4) Wherever We Are - Human Life 5) Folds In Your Hands - Passion Pit 6) Talamak - Toro y Moi 7) In Heat (Javelin Remix) - HEALTH 8) Cathode Drama - Exeter 9) My Leather, My Fur, My Nails - Stepdad 10) Lawn Knives - Gobble Gobble 11) Over (jonwayne's analog world) - Drake 12) Pillz (jonwayne's drum circle) - Gucci Mane 13) Post Atmosphere (Baths Remix) - Shlohmo 14) Eat Sun, Son - Gobble Gobble
So we can still claim to be a blog that posts at least ONCE a week, here are some jamz for y'all. As to be expected from us, there's something here for everybody...but we really really like electronic music. (patkins is on a classic american folk binge, so hopefully he'll share some of that with us soon if that's more your thing)
If you know the name Avicii, you're probably a fan of ANTHEMIC HOUSE MUSIC. Well, this one's getting a lot of love lately, so I figured it was worth a repost. Nice to see progressive house getting attention, despite its often..."flamboyant" nature. Grabbed this from Crescendo and Drop, go "Like" those guys if you've got facebook, they pump baller music straight to your newsfeed on the daily.
This one's a neck-breaker. Absolutely killer beat from Exeter, found this one over at Unholy Rhythms, who import quality music into your tumblr feed on the semi-daily. See, we've got something for everybody!
Trippy, sonically colorful dubstep in the vein of Skrillex. Interestingly, all of Radiex's album artwork (and his name, in fact) seems pretty similar to Skrillex. But he's a damn good producer, so I'll let it slide.
Gah. Incredible remix. The intro is a bit meh, but that drop just slays you with pure swagger. And lord knows I love me my Gorillaz. Also found this at Crescendo and Drop.
Really neat experimental hip-hop remix of OutKast by Asura. Go grab his FREE album Unreleasables, and then go buy the new EP he released under his own name (Ryan York), Zipperlegs. One of my favorite producers, he just crafts such gorgeous soundscapes.
So this past weekend included what might be the pinnacle of all Fridays, ever (hence Rebecca^). Namely because my little, middle-of-nowhere Ohio college town was blessed by the presence of three giants: Rich Aucoin, The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt!, and Gobble Gobble. If you've ever seen even one of these bands live, you'll know that all three of them playing on the same night wasn't just cathartic, it was borderline orgasmic.
If you read this blog, you already should know who Gobble Gobble is, and if you don't then would you kindly go and get all of their music for free? Oh yeah. They put it all on mediafire JUST FOR YOU. They are, in fact, that awesome.
On to the other folks:
Rich Aucoin is an electro-pop artist from Canada, and he's got a hell of a live show. It's interactive, energetic, and millennial-friendly: almost every song starts with a remixed or otherwise chopped-and-screwed viral YouTube video (Bed Intruder, Goat Talks Like A Man, etc.). It doesn't hurt that the man utterly SHREDS on that microkorg (and the vocoder!!!). I'm always impressed by live electronica acts that manage to achieve that perfect balance between energetic stage presence, singing, and actual technical skill. Seriously. He can do this vocoder melody, LIVE, fucking PERFECTLY:
Next up was The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt!, who absolutely killed. If Aucoin's set was interactive, theirs was borderline communal: frontman Neil Fridd invited everyone to put on a costume, and the singalongs were beautifully effortless. I didn't see him step out of the crowd once, he was so perfectly engaged the whole time. Left me singing the chorus to this song over and over again for the next three days...
Grab their album on David Byrne's (!!!!) label, Luaka Bop. Costs money but meh. So does food. And you can't live without that shit.
Then Gobble Gobble played, and fucking murdered as usual. But (for the aforementioned reason of posting too much about them on this blog) in their place I'm going to introduce a group that actually played with them on this tour, though at another show:
Stepdad is, to follow the theme we've got going here, a colorful, talented, and EPIC synthpop group with a taste for epilepsy-inducing myspace pages (see Gbl's for comparison, or Terror Pigeon's). They have an EP out called Ordinaire, and it only costs $1, though you can pay more if you like! Their debut album, Wildlife Pop (due out this May), is being produced by Chris Zane (Passion Pit, Les Savy Fav), which gains them automatic awesome points in my book. This is a video for the single "My Leather, My Fur, My Nails:"
Not only is this an incredibly epic video, the song itself is infectiously catchy. Grab it for free, courtesy of the band:
This shit will get stuck in your head. Go get their EP, $1 is fuckin nothing for 8 awesome songs!!
Again: if you get ANY chance to see just ONE of these bands live, DO IT. Most life-changing, incredible live shows I've ever been to (Stepdad excepted, since I've never seen them. but they're probably awesome!)
Of Animal Collective fame. Great solo stuff, from his record Tomboy, which came out recently and has since been in wide circulation (HINT). Psychedelic indie pop goodness.
Holy shit. Toro y Moi remixing Odd Future. Did NOT see that coming. Still, awesome track, good to see that Chaz Bundwick still uses a computer. Though this is (unsurprisingly) WAY darker than his earlier stuff. Check out Toro y Moi's new, slightly-more-acoustic album, Underneath The Pine. And check out Tyler's new video and single HERE. Original track and video HERE.
Old school. It's kinda like post-punk-pop.......ah, fuck it. It's 80's, it rocks, and the refrain is "I might like you better if we slept together." It's awesome.
This is my jam. Really neat lo-fi indie-pop, with some epic fuckin syncopations. I intend to seek out more Darwin Deez, as should you. He has a self-titled album, which I will procure when I have the mean$ to do so, but for now grab this free live session he did for Daytrotter.
BONUS MUSIC VIDEO: Erykah Badu - Gone Baby Don't Be Long
Shit's been stuck in my head for like a month. :D Awesome video by Flying Lotus and Bleeple, who fucking rocks. Check him out.
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