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As a practice of habit, on his new full-length album Mux Mool tickles my ear drums in ways I never thought possible. Mux Mool is one of many brilliant up and comers on Ann Arbor, MI’s own Ghostly International record label with a habit of pushing the boundaries of what you thought electronic music was, what it should be, and exactly what it could be. All you fist pump hungry electro-ites don’t get too excited though, it’s not that type of electronic music; Mux transcends your brash and shallow need for a banging beat catchy voice sample to take your imagination where you didn’t know it could go.
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This new group Jamaica has been making circles around the web for a few days now I felt I had no choice but to share this awesome song with everyone. Initially I was a little confused and intrigued, with a name like ‘Jamaica’ I think that’s only natural. Jamaica is a two-person group formerly known as PONEY PONEY. Now a duo, Antoine Hilaire and Flo Lyonnet doing their own thing as they work on a soon to be released album.
I was also shocked to hear they’re signed to Ed Banger Records as well. Further adding to their electronic rep. (even though their music isn’t electronic?) is the fact that Xavier de Rosnay of Justice produced their first single “I Think I like U 2″ along with Peter J. Franco. Add another layer of hipster appeal when you factor in their recent T-Shirts and apparel done in conjunction with French fashion blog/label Cool Cats over at their “Le Coolcat Blog” which frequently deals with fellow Ed Banger artists like DJ Medhi among some Kistune artists like Autokratz. You put all the pieces together and these kids have the potential to be more hipster than $100 flannel shirts and Phoenix pre- 2008; stopping power.
This song is soooo fresh, and the video even fresher. Check it out along with their Myspace.
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[edit: after some back and fort tweeting w/ Bassnectar, I do concede that as he put it:
"Here We Go, Bass Head r 2 of the physically loudest, densest, heaviest songs ive ever made thats in terms of physical weight (mastering, etc). they are SLAMMED. and 'blast off' is next level dubstep"
And as such some of the tracks are most definitely worthy of that bass/dub "punch" technically. I am just writing my humble opinion on what it feels like, but thought I'd properly present the facts!
Thank You,
MGMT]
It’s here, the ghost-face beat killer himself has made his return. I’m talking of course about that long haired, darkly, beat slayer Bassnectar. I’ll be honest about two things: I don’t really like dubstep that much, and before last summer’s Lollapalooza closing set I didn’t know who Bassnectar was. But he did do the closing set for last years Lolla in an unreal performance in the heart of Chicago with the skyline hugging the stage that made it pretty damn magical, and damn did he rocked the SHIT out of the crowd ( I was front row, of course)! Ok, now that that is out in the open and (hopefully) you’re still reading, let me share his newest EP pursuit with you Timestretch.
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LA’s DJ brain collective The Glitch Mob has been busy in the lab for their new album Drink The Sea set to release May 25th. The Glitch Mob has long been one of my favorite DJ sets and one of the most underappreciated and underrated electronic music pioneers. The Glitch Mob is edIT, Boreta, and Ooah as they come together with each’s own specialty, much like those annoying kids from Captain Planet, to form one super DJ group (sort of like Birdy Nam Nam also…). Traditionally their tracks come off up-tempo, kind of dark and edgy, but still 100% in the mix and ready to party. I saw these three at Lollapalooza this summer in a ridiculous DJ set at the “Rave In The Round” stage, and let me tell you these kids killed it–they had me sweatin’ through my shorts and girls taking their shirts off, hype shit. Their newest single “Drive It Like You Stole It” shows that potential through a remix or two, but the original is much more epic than any 3 minute in-the-ear-out-the-ear dance groove and fist-pump tune.
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A few weeks ago I broke the news that legendary hip-hop producer Ski Beatz was to release a mixtape/album reading as a ‘who’s who’ of hip-hop. The sad news was, well, it wasn’t going to drop on March 30th. But that’s not going to stop me from getting my hands on a full length track (no ’snippets’ here). Thus, I bring you Mos Def’s joint from the mixtape aptly titled “24 Hour Karate School”. Lovely hip-hop song. Check it out now.
War is hell; that much I know from watching HBO’s newest series The Pacific. The series which was produced and conceived by many of the same industry giants as its cousin series Band of Brothers yet the season premiere episode has proven the show to undeniably set itself apart from previous WWII cinematic ventures. The Pacific becomes a show more about the impromptu nature of war and in particular the pacific theatre than about anything else. As such, HBO has created a scarily intimate view of war which at once becomes both haunting and inspirational.
Our introduction to the U.S. marines and command assigned to Guadalcanal: “merry Christmas, happy 1942”. Part 1 of The Pacific starts off with minimal introduction, and to be quite honest, minimal bullshit. Unfortunately, since the show in both its conception and thematic considerations is so similar to Band of Brother I will inevitably fall prey to using at as the ‘Procrustean bed’ to which I will measure The Pacific in some regards. With that disclaimer in place, I point to the introduction of the series’ main characters and setting and although the series doesn’t start off with much background on either, but the little bit it does proves my point exactly as it turns out to be little more than mushy-bunk-filler.
To be honest, I don’t quite know the reason behind this move towards conciseness, whether or not HBO figured that their viewership would undoubtedly already be familiar with the show’s cousin Brothers or whether they felt it, like myself, a crucial way to incorporate the viewer-as-participant within the action. The Pacific’s three focus characters are Eugene Sledge (Joseph Mazzello), Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale) and Jon Basilone (James Seda). Basilone and Sledge, however, are the only two whom we meet who already have a previous relationship, something we’re given via a brief glimpse at the last Christmas supper at the Basilone residence while Sledge joins as a guest. The scene is jovial and oh so very brief, an appropriate foreshadow of events to come. Our introduction to Leckie is equally brief with a mere minute or two dialogue between himself and his best friend, whom has a heart murmur and can not join the effort as he passes along his good wishes and disappointment that he too can not join his friend Robert in battle.
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David Guetta may not be the most modest guy in the word, but indeed he’s been making some bangers the past year or so. As the one responsible for that Akon song “Sexy Bitch” I both love and hate him, but with his latest pursuit “World Goes Round” featuring Bruno Mars (think that really good B.o.B. song “Nothing on You”) I’m starting lean more towards loving him even if his moniker is “Fuck Me I’m Famous”… If he continues to make great upbeat house music with chilling vocals like Bruno Mars’ over the tracks I’ll definitely continue to listen; 2010 just may be the year of Bruno Mars…
This video is absolutely hypnotizing (and for all the right reasons) as Sebastien Tellier’s track “Look” gets a nice moving visual touch. Sebastien Tellier is a French artists, writer, and producer extraordinaire and has collaborated with many of the rest of fellow French electro pioneers like on his third studio album Sexuality which was produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk.
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When it comes to electro-house the French are second to none and no one proves that more than Kavinsky. Kavinsky has toured along side everyone from Justice to Daft Punk completing the Holy French Trinity of electronic music. Kavinsky’s production style is very visceral and reminiscent of video game music and film soundtracks of the 1980s, similar to fellow French artist Danger; if you ever remember seeing the “All Your Base Are Belong To Us” Youtube video from the 1991 game Zero Wing, there will be something haunting familiar about it when you hear the robotic voice command. You can imagine my delight then to hear his new EP NightCall.
I’ve been pretty backlogged this week as work has caught up to me and as such have neglected some seriously awesome album releases/tracks which have dropped. I have been meaning to post on up and coming indietronic group Pretty Good Dance Moves who just released their actual EP (instead of their 2007 ‘EEP’) self-titled Pretty Good Dance Moves which dropped this past Tuesday, March 9th. Yet, considering I was just forwarded this awesome Hood Internet track with them in it, I figured I’d showcase that first while I get a proper listen of their entire EP for a write-up.
Mux Mool- The Ballad of Gloria Featherbottom
