This maybe be blasphemy to remix/cover The Beatles but somehow Glasgow’s Sei A makes it work and does it quite tastefully. His remixes of Tiga’s “Overtime” and Jori Hulkkonen are dark and deep techno tracks but for this Beatles cover he takes a simpler very Burial-esque route. Very hypnotic and it just turns up the melancholic nature of the original tune proving that The Beatles could touch every emotion on the emotional spectrum.
[audio:http://diestruktur.com/asianmandan/music/March%202010/Sei%20A%20-%20A%20Day%20in%20the%20Life.mp3] Sei A – A Day in The Life
Kitsuné is probably one of my favorite labels around today. Always quality stuff especially with their Maison Compilations, here is their 9th installment which I think is my favorite to date. New Tracks from Holy Ghost!, Jamaica (Produced by Dustin N’Guyen*Xavier De Rosnay*),Australia’s own Gypsy & The Cat, Penguin Prison, and Feldberg. Over the top quality pop is something you can always expect from Kitsuné.
Minimix Tracklist:
1. Two Door Cinema Club – Something Good Can Work (The Twelves remix)
2. Holy Ghost! – Say My Name
3. Hurts – Wonderful Life (Arthur Baker remix Kitsune edit)
4. Gamble & Burke – Lets Go Together
5. Jupiter – Vox Populi (Lifelike treatment)
6. Feldberg – Dreamin’
8. Washed Out – Belong
9. Your Nature – Forward Motion
10. Jamaica – Short And Entertaining
11. Silver Columns – Brow Beaten
12. Logo – La Vie Moderne
13. Yuksek – Supermenz (Were Not)
Definitely a throwback to Holy Fuck’s original vibe and sound. Not as epic and triumphant as “Lovely Allen” but a nice hypnotic/shoegazey feel towards the end. Can’t wait to see them live again. That is a spectacle that all should witness. Live music at its best. Their new album Latin is out 5.11.2010 on Young Turks/XL Reocordings.
Hazy, dreamy, melancholic, the sound of a lost night, a fleeting feeling – the feelings we once felt and knew. Exactly the refreshing electronic music I have been search of for the past few months.
Koreless is an 18 year old producer from Glasgow, home of such new and refreshing acts as Hudson Mohawke and Rustie. Koreless channels a very simple, hypnotic and effective production style that reminds me of Floating Points and Four Tet with more of a 2-step dancefloor friendly vibe. Introspective bass music is what I need and Koreless is giving it to me. “Up Down Up Down” with its twinkling synth line and hypnotic drum patterns and “Maria” with a heavily manipulated female vocal part and simple piano chords all provide for a very transcendental/chilled out musical journey.
Villa has put together a fantastic disco mix that digs deep into some older cuts into some newer favs by Azari & III and their upcoming remix of Para One’s side project with San Serac, Slice & Soda.
I unfortunately missed the Toronto weird-haus duo Azari & III when they made their NYC debut. But they return with this remix of HEALTH. A weird big sounding space house disco production. Nothing to say but it is big and weird and that I love it.
[audio:http://diestruktur.com/asianmandan/music/March%202010/WE%20ARE%20WATER%20(AZARI%20&%20III%20REMIX).mp3]
HEALTH – We Are Water (Azari & III Remix)
Electrodrone turned me onto French Fries from Paris (Young Gunz). Who brings us a dancefloor killer of a track “Senta”. Big kick, tribal UK funky style drums mixed with a Baile Funk vibe, definitely something I can hear Crookers or Diplo dropping. This touches the part of my banger soul that I cannot resist. Buy the Arma EP on Beatport with remixes from the Night Slugs captain, Bok Bok and BeatauCue
Finally MGMT, Blogonomics staple is back to fuel the Hypemachine. This track sounds like a a cat surfing on an 8-bit sega wave. Oh wait. A super 60s psychedelic pop surfer vibe. I definitely hear some early Pink Floyd circa Syd Barret. Definitely structurely the tune is about being more of a sonic journey than a track with hooks – proof on what you can do in a 4 min song. This is a return to their hippie/liberal arts New England roots.
This album I feel will have very little to do with Electric Feel, Time to Pretend, and Kids – instead will be about a complete journey within the dying medium, an album. A nostalgic experience when listening to a piece of music in one sitting was a privilege. I feel that MGMT is going to alienate their old fans and just win over a new fans since it will be so hard to replicate the greatness and success that was “Oracular Spectacular”.
Kavinsky strikes back this March with his Nightcall EP with quite a star-studded electro cast. His Zombie-self with production duties held by the one and only Guy-Man Homem-Christo and mixing duties by SebastiAn. Also featuring vox from CSS’ Lovefoxxx. Then throw in a mysterious Asian remixer, Dustin Nguyen, the famed actor from 21 Jump Street as well as a 9 min epic remix from the one and only Jackson of Jackson & His Computer Band as well as a smooth night burner of a remix by Breakbot and then BAM – an epic comeback for one of the French Electro royalty. Nothing too banger or absurd – just quality electronic music made by a few Frenchies. Check out the track “Pacific Coast Highway” on Soundcloud.
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-/- or Blank Spaces could be music that someone found on a lost cassette from the 80s. Everything about the vibe and aesthetic just feels like it is a demo tape of some lost 80s UK band. “The Great Shark Hunt” totally reminds me of Human League and Yazoo meets New Order, with its sequenced synth line and the chorus FX on the bass that comes in during the chorus and the little solo at the end.
A few words from Blank Spaces about “The Great Shark Hunt”:
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