April 2011
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thx, thefortressofsteezhood:
Toro Y Moi mixtape....
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WatchAt our next Panda monthly party, on May 05th we’re hosting the NY album release party for Mile Jones. The Toronto MC will be performing with DJ Yale Fox. Jones has a new album out now, Runaway Jones. This is the single, “Time Machine.”
More info on Miles Jones here.
Info on Panda here.
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Dirty Projectors’ Nat Baldwin doing a cover...
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New cheeky electro single “Répétez Le...
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WatchStream of Computers and Blues, reportedly, the fifth and final album from The Streets (Mike Skinner), on 679 Records. Released Feb 7, 2011.
Skinner, apparently bored with The Streets, is playing a final stateside gig at Terminal 5 with El-P. Tickets go on sale this Friday. More info via The Brooklyn Vegan.
I remember his first time here, there was a meet and greet and some place in...
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More pretty electronics, this time from UK cat...
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WatchLest this become an obituary column, let’s get back to some fierce, living divas. Behold, Tracey Thorn’s latest EP, You Are a Lover, taken from last years album, Love and Its Opposite. Here is a remix by Clock Opera. The EP was released on limited edition 10” green vinyl for Record Store Day 2011 (Sat April 16). It’s available today through her website or via download from...
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WatchIntroducing, the Airpiano. Via Laughing Squid. Like a theremin, it’s played by making hand gestures above the instrument. More info: http://www.airpiano.de/
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Watch“Banana Ripple,” the first single from the forthcoming Junior Boys album ‘It’s All True’ out on Domino Records June 13th in UK & Europe & 14th in the US.
“Banana Ripple” will also be available on 12” backed with a remix by The Field, available exclusively on Domino Mart from May 31st:http://www.dominorecordco.com/mart/
- via Soundcloud
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“She’s On Fire”
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Watch“Regresa,” new single from Canta Lechuza, the upcoming album by Helado Negro, aka Roberto Carlos Lange, a man of many musical personas, connecting electronic and folk music with a Latino and Hip Hop twist. NPR has the whole album streaming now at First Listen.
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WatchThe Beastie Boys first album in eight years, Hot Sauce Committee Pt. Two is all over the webs, as it should be. Here is the Soundcloud stream.The album features Nas and Santigold; and of note to house-heads, it was mixed by French electronic wizard, Philippe Zdar, (Cassius, Motorbass, La Funk Mob). The album drops May 03 on Capitol records.
From Soundcloud:
Hot Sauce Committee Part Two was...
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Royskopp remixes Depeche Mode’s 1981 single...
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WatchSampler for the new Amon Tobin CD ISAM. It got pushed up and dropped yesterday after it leaked early. Out on Ninja Tune now. The UK based Brazilian somehow turned field records into “playable instruments” and uses his own vocals this time around, “synthesized and gender modified.”
Amon Tobin - ISAM - 23 May 2011 - more info at ninjatune.net | amontobin.com
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Yeah, I dig these guys and their organic techno...
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WatchSpeaking of Prefuse 73, his new album The Only She Chapters drops April 26 on Warp. Take the sampler for a spin.
Via Warp: “The vocals of a number of renowned female musicians have been woven into the album’s fabric, including Zola Jesus, Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond and the late Trish Keenan of Broadcast amongst others.”
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WatchTeaser clip of Prefuse 73’s collaboration with Flaming Lips on acetate.
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WatchBrian Eno gets electrofunky on “Glitch,” the new track from his upcoming book/CD Drums Between the Bells, out July 5 on Warp. Words by Rick Holland.
Via Soundcloud:
DRUMS BETWEEN THE BELLS http://brian-eno.net
New album forthcoming on Warp Records. CD, 12″ Double Vinyl, Hardback 2CD Edition, Download
http://enoshop.co.uk http://bleep.com/brian-eno
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Watch“0007” by Swedish quartet, This is Head; as remixed by Korallreven (writer Marcus Joons and The Radio Dept’s Daniel Tjäder). It’s like Fresca for your earholes. Crisp and fresh as Pacific Coast surf spray at dawn after a 3-day rave you can’t remember. Via Rcrdlbl.com.
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Watchlaughingsquid:
Christina’s Farm by Antony and the Johnsons
“This video is dedicated to all of those who have encountered social injustice. It was inspired in part by the Serbian anti-gay riots on Oct 10th, 2010 and the numerous LGBTQ youth in the US, who took their own lives after experiencing harassment.”
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WatchGerard Smith, bassist for Brooklyn breakout band TV On the Radio passed away today from lung cancer. He was 36. We weren’t the biggest fans, but we remember them knocking around Williamsburg at the turn of the century, as it were. It was good to see them go big and remain interesting. Here’s “Will Do” from their latest album Nine Types of Light. More: here.
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WatchEl Perro Del Mar’s achingly bittersweet guest vocals get a major techno makeover in a manic Hi-NRG remix of Pacific!’s “Unspoken” by Moonlight Matters (Sebastiaan Vandevoorde). Pacific! are signed to Alan Braxe’s Vulture label. This is so over the top, it must be the beginning of some Eurodisco renaissance we just can’t understand yet. Or something. There’s a...
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From Marianne Faithfull’s 23rd album, Horses...
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WatchCheeky, Euro-sexy podcast from Chaim, who clearly loves Chicago jack house and ’80s synth-pop. Good thing he’s Ellen Allien’s Berlin juggernaut, BPitch Control. Via Mixcloud.
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Watch“We need a new breed — Leaders, Stand Up, Organize Don’t let your children watch television until they know how to read Or else all they’ll know how to do is cuss, fight and breed No child is bad from the beginning… they only imitate their atmosphere If they’re in the company of tourists, alcohol and US history What’s to be expected is 3 minus 3…...
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WatchIn a word, Smitten. In 4 words: Grown Folk Electro Rock. Copenhagen’s WhoMadeWho’s new single, “Every Minute Alone” from the upcoming album Knee Deep, dropping April 26, on Germany’s Kompakt. Via XLR8R. Video up at Pitchfork. Grab a free mp3 from their blog.
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WatchFun with tones. Click a square to make some music.
seawitchery:
I started out clicking strategically… and by the end was just wildly clicking and dancing in my chair.
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WatchNew video for the single “Rush (Nile Delta Remix)” from Mobroder, electro rapper Spank Rock’s Italo disco project with NYC’s Blu Jemz and LA’s DJ Hoff. Named after Giorgio Moroder, it’s inspired by Cerrone’s Love in C Minor. Deep fried in ’80s Miami sheen, the “Black Moroder” super group stars in a showdown between late disco and early...
