curiouser et curiouser: June 2007

Friday, June 29, 2007

1+1=2

So I was bored. So I love Sleep Deprivation by SMD. So I also love New Jack by Justice.

The rest flows naturally.

Sleep Jack (or New Deprivation) - SMD vs. Justice (Tom Adams Mix)

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Mix

Hot damn.

For those of you who cannot be bothered to listen to individual tracks- fuckers- I present a mix of roughly the past four posts on this humble blog as spliced by yours truly.

Mix 01

Tracklisting:

Feist-1234 (Van She Mix)

Alan Braxe- In Love With You

Tiga- You Gonna Want Me (Van She Mix)

Benjamin Theves- Texas (SebastiAn Remix)

Simian Mobile Disco- Sleep Deprivation

1, 2, 3, 4

Feist has been getting a lot of love from, well just about everyone recently so she hardly needs my help, but what the hell it's damn m

y blog and I'm going to do what I want with it . She recently released her second solo album- The Reminder on Interscope to almost universal critical acclaim. The second single to be taken from The Reminder (after the seductive PJ Harveyesque My Moon, My Man) 1, 2, 3, 4 is innocent, concise but confused. It's instrumentation is saccharine sweet but the vocal takes us deeper to reveal the destructive truth of teenage love.

"One Two Three Four

Tell me that you love me more

Sleepless, long nights

That was what my youth was for

Oh teenage hopes are lying at your door

Left you with nothing

But they want some more

Oh, oh, oh

You're changing your heart

Oh, oh, oh

You know who you are"

The piece builds from beginnings of humble, restrained instrumentation to what I consider a slightly overblown horn festooned climax (whats wrong with subtlety dammit), my only gripe about an otherwise fantastic track.

Talking of subtlety- my friends and yours Van She Tech took 1, 2 , 3 , 4 hit it over th

e head with a great big fucking electro sledgehammer and managed to make the results nearly as beautiful as the original. It all starts pretty innocently but mutates gradually into something a million miles removed from the original, whilst retaining the subtlety of Feist's lead vocal, never burying it in the mix. Honestly I don't know how they do it, but when I figure it out I will be unstoppable rather like banana man after eating bananas.

1, 2, 3, 4 (Van She Tech Remix)

More Van She Tech goodness to feed the habit:

Dragonette- I Get Around (Van She Tech Remix)- I love the build on this one- to be honest the track is at its best before 1:30 but what you gonna do?

Tiga- You Gonna Want Me (Van She Tech Remix)- This one is absolutely fucking huge. It demands to be heard on the best speakers money can buy.

Klaxons- Gravitys Rainbow (Van She Tech Remix)- The First slice of Van She Tech I got my hands on. Hot, but its brilliance has now been eclipsed.

Monday, June 25, 2007

Music (Yes I know that's all I post about but this is special)

This is the first time I have ever actually bothered uploading a track onto the net rather than simply stealing other peoples links so you had best believe this is special.

Parisian Alan Braxe is one third of Stardust ("ooh baby..."), one half of Alan Braxe and Fred Faulk (surprisingly) and also an entity in and of himself. "In Love With You", which featured on his 2005 release "The Upper Cuts" (which I will be damned if I can find anywhere), is life affirming to the point ridiculousness. The beautifully spaced intro, building piano take us through the first half a minute, and when that beat hits, when that beat hits (purposeful repetition- I am not just tired), nothing else matters. The elements of the song merge hypnotically into one to make for a truly astounding piece of music. If pure ecstasy is impossible to capture perfectly in art, which it may be, then in my opinion this comes pretty damn close.

In Love With You

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Steak- A Threesome to Remember

SebastiAn

Sebastien Tellier

Mr Oizo

Possibly the hottest soundtrack of the summer

The film Steak is playing on limited release in France as we speak. The soundtrack- out on Ed Banger (of course) hits the US and UK soon.

A taster- Chivers as a Female

An introduction to these three artists for those of you who know nothing about anything:

SebastiAn- The hottest remixer on the Paris scene right now- Testarossa Autodrive Remix.

Sebastien Tellier- A French soloist who has opened for Air, the Magic Numbers, Moby and Royksöpp. His album Politics, dropped way back in 2004, but sometimes (most of the time) I’m a little behind hence this being my first post about the man. La Ritournelle

Mr Oizo- Two words- Flat Beat. Two more words (well one is actually a number- but I could write it as a word so fuck y'all) Patrick 122