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Heart Of The City

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

LOTS of emails – mostly shite – but sometimes a wee gem pops up…. like this mash-up. Simple yet effective.

Listen ♫: Jay-Z Vs. Sleigh Bells – Rill Heart Of The City

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Born Ginger

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

As you can probably tell from the picture on the right I am a….whisper it….jaunge*. Yes, I’d probably have a bullet in my arse now if I was in M.I.A.‘s new 9-min banned video for ‘Born Free‘. At least I’m not this guy though!

All of the following tracks are excellent!

The Suicide-sampling crack-racket that is ‘Born Free’, Kele from Bloc Party‘s new electro-dancefloor killer ‘Tenderoni’, the first taste of Aeroplane‘s new material with the reggae-esque ‘We Can’t Fly’, the Rawer-than-Iggy-&-The-Stooges blitzkrieg of Sleigh Bells‘ ‘Tell ‘Em’, the magnificent re-styling of Chilly Gonzales by up and coming Scottish talent Polymath and finally (just for fun) a clever mash-up of Rihanna and Crystal Castles by my favourite mash-up kings The Hood Internet. PHEW!

Listen ♫: M.I.A. – Born Free♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Kele Okereke – Tenderoni (Radio Rip)♥♥
Listen ♫: Aeroplane – We Can’t Fly (Live From Circus Liverpool)♥♥
Listen ♫: Sleigh Bells – Tell ‘Em♥♥
Listen ♫: Chilly Gonzales – Never Stop (Polymath Remix)♥♥
Listen ♫: Rihanna Vs. Crystal Castles – Rude Baptism (The Hood Internet Mash-Up)

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*actually I’m more of a strawberry blonde hahahaha!

Kill/Buzz/Kill

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Saw Phoenix at the Glasgow Arches on Sunday just there. Sounded awesome live, but the crowd really didn’t seem up for it. It was quite disappointing actually. I went with my bro and an altbro, expecting it to be really jumpy – but it wasn’t. I dunno if it was because it was a Sunday and people didn’t want to go wild because they had work in the morning or what, but it was a total fucking buzzkill. Worse, it was like the crowd had never heard of ‘Too Young‘ (my fave Phoenix song) or any tunes pre-Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix for that matter.

phoenix - glasgow arches
Phoenix @ Arches, Glasgow

Enough of the rant FFS eh! Ok back to la choonage. Heard Sleigh Bells for the first time the other day and was kinda blown away – especially by this song. Sleigh Bells are a boy-girl duo who make a fucking glorious racket and I could see them going down a storm live – plus the singer is FIIIIT! Next is Juiceboxxx who apparently recorded this in one take. Anything with Javelin attached will at some point be posted by me – cos I’m obsessed. Slinky blue-eyed soul from Mayer Hawthorne puts a smile on my faces.

Listen: Sleigh Bells – Crown On The Ground ←♥♥♥
Listen: Juiceboxxx – Runnin’ (Produced By Javelin)
Listen: Mayer Hawthorne – Your Easy Lovin’ Ain’t Pleasin’ Nothin’
MP3: Sleigh Bells – Crown On The Ground
MP3: Juiceboxxx – Runnin’ (Produced By Javelin)
MP3: Mayer Hawthorne – Your Easy Lovin’ Ain’t Pleasin’ Nothin’

phoenix - glasgow arches - sad merch guy

Caught this over at PMA and couldn’t resist a repost. Another fantastic Seven remix. I think Fever Ray sent each remixer a strongly worded email telling them to NOT. FUCK. THIS. UP. The Twelves didn’t. In fact, they made the best one yet. Lifelike sprinkled his Falke-dust over Barcelona and out popped this remix. Harvard Bass is fast becoming a staple of my morning wake-up audioporn. Harvard Bass = The Sex.

Listen: Fever Ray – Seven (The Twelves Remix) ←♥♥♥
Listen: Plastiscines – Barcelona (Lifelike Remix) ←
Listen: Beni – Maximus (Harvard Bass Remix) ←♥♥
MP3: Fever Ray – Seven (The Twelves Remix)
MP3: Plastiscines – Barcelona (Lifelike Remix)
MP3: Beni – Maximus (Harvard Bass Remix)