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one: css - knife (grizzly bear cover)
-----so this song is just good. as a song. ive heard the original album version, seen a live cut of grizzly bear on the late late show, rocked the girl talk remix, and now a css cover. and they all have their strong points. this is certainly the most subdued ive ever heard css, and it works...knife seems to tame them in a very palatable way. i dig the metronomy-style goofsynths and lovefoxxx's soft vocal work. the song works-even for brazilian electrorockers css.
two: lightspeed champion - galaxy of the lost (bonde do role remix)
-----continuing the brazilian tones here (totally unintentionally), is the bonde do role rework of our lightspeed champion fave. i feel like it has some weird cowboy vibe if that makes any sense. whatever.
three: au revoir simone - fallen snow (age of rockets remix)
-----i swear this sounds like the postal service to me. ethereal synths echoing the finest of sub pop classic 'give up'. and then the hand claps coming in on verse two, followed shortly thereafter with the high hat pulse...mmmmm. this song just oozes with dreamy delectable vibes. au revoir simone also provided fodder for the teenagers, who take this song in a slightly darker but still catchy direction (with lovely teenagers bass work). note to self-look into age of rockets...
four: little boots - stuck on repeat (fake blood remix)
-----fake blood...one mad sick dude. from the opening lines, this is just anticipation, pure unadulterated. and it slowly works its way up to drop one hell of a bomb on you...by the fake blood vox drop at the 1:45 mark youre inundated, literally drowning it floorprancing goodness. also check out fake blood's rework of the black ghosts and anything by little boots you can get your greasy palms on. and for chrissakes somebody sign this asshole.
five: little dragon - the last
-----tell me yukimi nagano's vocals arent just luscious. and little dragon's shit is quirky, and in a good way, not in the this shits weird kinda way. check a video for test to see just where else they can take this quirky goodness (and to see how flatout weird they can apparently be too). how is sweden so chock full of talent?
six: i was a cub scout - our smallest adventures (frankmusik remix)
-----i was a cub scout is good enough without frankmusik, and frankmusik is good enough without i was a cub scout...but damn. i was a cub scout makes pleading, emotional tunes with the rhythmic sensibilities of foals or minus the bear and frankmusik makes fast, crazily synthed yet well written pop songs. pure pop underwritten by electronic sensibilities, me love. frankmusik takes i was a cub scout and brightens it a notch, combining their synth sensibilities into something a little brighter than the original tunesmiths and a little darker than frankmusik's usual. drive to this, and let me know when you find yourself accidentally at 95.
seven: chris knox - it's love
-----never heard of this dude. when i googled him to get his website, i saw the wikipedia snatch and apparently this kiwi is older than my dad. im sure this songs not, but who knows, maybe its older than me. whether it is or isnt, i dont care, its a good fun thing, lifted from that new heineken commercial where everybody graciously passes on a brew to someone they would obviously never meet. its the kinda song i would never hear, and probably if i had heard, wouldnt have thought twice about, but in the right context it tweaked something. like aberfeldy and the diet coke commercial from a while ago.
eight: now, now every children - everyone you know
-----i cant quite put my finger on what this song brings to mind as far as musical influences go...tip of the tongue thing you know. but with regards to feel, a whirlwind of autumn leaves on a clear day, something familiar yet refreshing. and yes im a sucker for straight easy bass lines and delicate female vocals. i havent heard anything else to know, but keep your eyes peeled for now, now every children, i smell underappreciated beauty in the making.
nine: esau mwamwaya - kamphopo
-----this is how it works: esau mwamwaya lives down the street from producer duo radioclit. hes running a second hand shop when one day radioclit buy a bike and strike up a conversation. he comes to a party at their place and by the end of the night theyre making tunes together. here is one of them. this is how it works: radioclit gives him architecture in helsinki's 'heart it races,' which has already seen impressive remixes by yacht, dr. dog, and others. our malawian friend esau proceeds to write uplifting shit in chichewe and sing it on top. presto. its fucking alchemy. read more in the fader's africa issue from a few months ago.
ten: death cab for cutie - cath (live acoustic on bbc)
-----so i dont remember where i got this. i apologize to whoever was so kind as to post it, and odds are theres a link to this blog somewhere in the list to the right, because those are the ones i surf. unless it came via hype... but this is death cab, or at least ben gibbard, maybe walla on the acoustic guitar, dunno, in the beeb several months ago, before they tagged an ellipsis onto the title. ive listened to the lp cut once, and it aint got shit on this. delicate is the word. understated.
and le video: yeasayer - 2080 (live at kexp for ny noise)
-----if you havent seen yeasayer on les concerts à emporter, youre missing out. theyre pretty cool on ny noise too- really dig the echo chorus he makes. and ill bet they were just what the doctor ordered at the cats cradle back in may...too bad i was passed out drunk by 5oclock the day of their show...goddammit. woke up at 945 and theyd already played. yeah, i hate myself too. so here:
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