Autumnal Harvest Post

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.


INDIE FOLDER

BEATS
Mmmm. Beats. This is a mostly Flying Lotus-centered post, but there are some others in here too.

KeepItGoing (feat UGod) - Blu
Flying Lotus produced this track, and it shows. Again, beat producers getting back to their rap track roots... mmm.

Do The Astral Plane (Them Jeans House Remix) - Flying Lotus
THIS IS AWESOME! very well crafted!

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!

Rip - Dorian Concept
..speaking of concepts, here is an awesome tease that got ripped off of dorian concept's myspace. smack in the face, those synths are.
Love Lockdown (Flying Lotus Remix) - Kanye West
Old Flying Lotus. Beat + Autotune + reverb = awesome

PieFace (My Dry Wet Mess Remix) - Flying Lotus
Notable and interesting.

HARVEST BEATS FOLDER

MIXES
Mixes? WHAT? Well, theres one of mine and one that belongs to the Second Coming of Christ. yes, wolfgang gartner.


Wolfgang Gartner Essential Mix at Salacious Sound

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!

w/love

///patkins///

OWEN PALLETT @ the Horn Gallery, 9/22/10

So while we're talking about live music, I got to see Owen Pallett the other night at the Horn Gallery, which is undeniably the most happenin' musical venue out here in middle-of-nowhere Gambier, Ohio (COLLEGE). It's this intimate little room, I think the performer's setup takes up about a third of the room while the audience occupies the other two thirds. Which was perfect for this show, and here's why:



Owen Pallett, formerly known as Final Fantasy, is a whiz kid violinist, composer (with a degree from the University of Toronto), and arranger, and his live show is just him, his violin, a bunch of loop pedals, and sometimes a keyboard and/or a backup guitarist/drummer. And as you can tell from the video, it's AWESOME to be able to watch from seven feet away. I didn't get to stay for the whole show (goddamn acapella rehearsal) but I caught 45 minutes, and they were BEAUTIFUL. His voice is AWESOME live; on the records it can be a bit frail or underproduced, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but live it's so much more HIS show.

He's probably known most for the string orchestrations he did for Arcade Fire's first two albums, Funeral and Neon Bible. But since I just got Funeral today (having never put any effort into listening to Arcade Fire for some reason), I always just knew this guy as the dude with the violin and the loop pedal with serious indie cred.

Then last week I got his most recent album, Heartland, which is this brilliantly orchestrated, lyrically deep indie/chamber-pop record about a farmer named Lewis, residing in the fictional land of Spectrum, which is ruled over by a deity named Owen Pallett. Awesome. Lewis starts out doing Owen's bidding, then rebels against him and kills him. Which I think is fucking awesome. Here's the song where he plays the upstart, probably the most accessible on the album:

Lewis Takes Off His Shirt - Owen Pallett


It's really not the kind of record you really "get" on the first listen, or at least that's not how it went for me. But after trial 1, give it another go with the lyrics in hand, it really pays off. There's a bit of mythological context that his 2008 Spectrum, 14th Century EP helps to establish, but it's not impossibly dense. That said, the dude is a master of detail both lyrically and musically, and thus the record took me a couple tries before I really fell in love with it. MORE MUSIC:

Keep The Dog Quiet - Owen Pallett

Also from Heartland. Love this song. He utterly killed this live.

The Butcher - Final Fantasy

From the Spectrum, 14th Century EP. This song is a monologue by Owen Pallett, aka the deity who rules over Spectrum. Also it's awesome.

This is the Dream (Of Win and Regine) - Final Fantasy

From the first Final Fantasy album, Has A Good Home. Much less well-produced than the stuff on Heartland, but still a fantastic song. It's what he's playing in the video above.

Song Song Song - Final Fantasy

From Final Fantasy's second album, the exceptionally-titled He Poos Clouds. Apparently it's a concept album about the eight schools of magic in Dungeons & Dragons, which gains him instant points in my book. This song is supposedly about the school of evocation, hence lyrics like "fill my stomach with your singing." Also it's awesome.

SUPPORT THIS MOTHAFUCKA. It's all on iTunes, I know you all know what that is.. If you hear something you like, buy the album it's from! Or go see him live, that's not an act to be missed!! The dude deserves money, don't be a dick and just go pirate all the albums after being teased by these free samples. Just because a party host serves nifty hors d'ourves doesn't mean you should go rob the restaurant that made them. Or some other fitting metaphor telling you to be conscious about downloading free music.

Lobster out. I like how this last rapport of posts has given patkins a chance to post more beat stuff and let me have a little indie interlude. Refreshing, isn't it? See, we really are two crustaceans of diverse tastes.