Friday

One more time...


Should this be a video blog, vis-a-vis, a non-vlog? we'll see...

Blah, Blah..

I get it, I know.  I'm just being lazy until I can think of something to write.  No, that's not true.  There are plenty of things I need to write about.  Like, all this mess that is going around in the new music/social/internet-o-sphere. We'll get there.  Most likely, however, we won't.  Ah, conundrums.  Thus is life.

Saturday

I know, I know.

Friday

Monday

Gnucci Banana

There's a nice interview on First Up about her.  Any more than that, and you're asking too much.  Shes an up and coming Swedish rapper.  She is married to the ever popular and charming South African electro specialist, Spoek Mathambo.  The story of their meeting goes something like he was running late for a show in NYC and they split a cab.  Boring and unromantic, I know.

Well, short post today. She released a single Saturday produced by Germany's own Schlachthofbronx which is a playful tune about, well, the name says it all.  And the cover art is a picture of the 'ol gal with her brother.  Thats not adorable.  It's ridiculous.  A video is expected soon.

Saturday

No, it's not hipster Jesus. Well... maybe.

Breakbot is just another French electronic artist signed to Ed Banger Records (Ed Rec)  that you may not have heard of just yet.  `Breakbot has also released on labels Because Music and Moshi Moshi Records.


Write up from Moshi Moshi:
'Emerging electro wunderkid Breakbot crafts party tunes. Big ones. Following in the footsteps of French electro duo Justice. ParisianThibaut Berland a.k.a. Breakbot has mastered the art of melting together all the best elements of dance, electro and hip hop with skill and precision. And a laptop.

Born in 1981, Thibaut was immersed in the sights and sounds of the subsequent decade, and remained appropriately pulled between his love of animation graphics/comics, and music. He chose neither one clear path, nor another. Possessing a degree in computer graphics, and having created his first animation short film co-directed with two friends, Thibaut now makes music videos, commercials and such. By day. By night however, he cooks up choice cut electronic music, experimenting with beats, layers, keyboards, vocals, and Daft Punk-esque get-yo-funk-on basslines.'






Friday

The Tables are Round and my, how they have turned.

Round Table Knights, a DJ-duo hailing from Bern, Switzerland, are signed to Jesse Rose's hit-producing label: Made To Play (Also signed are friends Zombie Disco SquadOliver $Claude VonStroke and Idiotproof). Jazz, Carioca Funk and House influences combine for a heavy, bass driven melodies under fluid, brassy leads.  The end product is a DJ-friendly beat full of melodic repetitive interludes reminiscent of 
those found in salsa and samba. Think Brazilian Jazz (Tropicalia) meets House music.

A short excerpt from their Facebook biography drops some knowledge:

“We fell in love with House Music because it’s a very wide and open kind of music, you can put whatever influences in there. If you do it with your own style and with taste it’s a very good thing"

Wednesday

Riddims

I can't remember how I came across this "dude", but it seemingly happened.  That happens often when I am indiscriminately surfing the webs. (I feel like someday soon that phrase "surfing the web" will become extinct.  Its already endangered.  Google is damaging our fabricated internet vocabulary environment/economy. Maybe not?) Nonetheless, I find myself frustrated, sweaty and exhausted, having blacked-out for the last thirty minutes with nothing to show for my time, except two half-read articles on The Economist, half a liter of undigested milk, apparently, waging a battle in my upper intestines and some strange hipster/electronic artist staring at me as if he is about to hunt and eat me like a tiger from out of my browser screen.

Either way, somehow, I came across dj/producer Myd.
Straight from French label Club Cheval's website:

"Myd is a fresh young Dj and producer based in Lille, France. Discovered by the Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team, Myd is playlisted by the biggest names in the techno/electro field. Mixing African rhythms and techno melodies, Myd is producing some high quality and funny tracks. So far Myd has been remixing bands like Dakunt, Maskinen or We Are Enfant Terrible. Myd’s tracks are recognized as top dancefloor tunes by numerous Djs such as Brodinski, Sinden, Radioclit or even Solo. Myd is currently working on new tunes and he will certainly conquer your heart and your feet."


Draw on facial hair at your own risk.

80's Disco-Elevator Montage

Treasure Fingers Remix of Clasixx's 2009 hit, I'll get you.


If you like this jam as much as I do, check out this unofficial video of the original after the break.
  I'll Get You (Treasure Fingers Holy Shit Bassline Remix) by skorsz

Treasure Fingers has done great work for years.  I am aware that this song has made the rounds in the blog-o-sphere, but it's just brilliant and deserves a second look.  Like that great book you read in high school and still re-read every couple of years.  Or like the disco from next door.  See what I did there, eh? Like girl next door?  But it's an 80's disco.  Eh?!?  Or maybe elevator music, where the elevator is a montage of a roller disco movie.  And everyone is sporting an afro.  And there's that girl from accounting next to you that you never had just the right opportunity to talk to.  And then the elevator gets stuck and you just remembered that you have no reception and there's no phone in the elevator, but you brought an extra sandwich if she would like one and you also unexpectedly left Yahtzee in your backpack from that trip you took across town to Sarah and Michelle's last weekend and would she like to play, oh, of course?  She loves Yahtzee, too!

Kind of like that. Like a great day.

Better'd just put it on repeat.  And then you can forget that your work-space is located in remodeled one-story garage and that every girl in accounting is married and looks like an aging Hillary Clinton who shops at Lane Bryant, that you hate Yahtzee and you never have enough time in the morning to make your lunch.  And that you have never looked good 'sporting an afro.'  It's a cruel, cruel world we live in.


Sunday

From out of the Ashes

As you may have heard, Teki Latex's label, Institubes, is no longer. After producing albums for electro celebrities Bobmo, Para One, Surkin and Midnight Juggernauts over the past seven years, they are closing up shop.

Enter Marble Players. Their new website gives a sneak peak into their origins:

"As you probably heard recently, Marble is a new dance label launched by Para One, Surkin and Bobmo. We already told you these three have began sharing recording space less than a year ago, and soon spent some time jamming and producing together. Surkin and Bobmo already had their High Powered Boys project, but this new unit, christened Marble Players, is a bit more hardware-oriented, and involves multiple analog/digital mutations ; a typical day in the studio would be Bobmo coming up with a vocal digital sample, then Para replaying it on his SP12, then giving it back to Surkin so he can add his own Reason-based beats – you get the picture. Generally, there’s a just a strong taste for manipulating sound as a physical thing in the way Marble Players play."


Happy America, America!

This is a great song for this weekend and Crystal Fighters just posted a great video of this song anywho. Almost as fitting as Mungo Jerry's 'Summertime'. Almost. And, pretty sure that song was sexist, anyways.

Catch more Crystal Fighters here.