An opera about Charles Darwin? Of course The Knife would be invovled. The Knife teamed up with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock for this bold project. Check out “Colouring Of Pigeons” an 11 min opus that has a danceable Balinese Gamelan sound with beautiful strings.
Ali Love’s next single is “Love Harder” that that summons the likes of Vangelis, Prince, Jan Hammer and Depeche Mode. A dark love tune that evokes the images of neon lights reflecting on a wet pavement city street. The chorus reminds me of the Giorgio Moroder produced Freddie Mercury tune “Love Kills”. Bravo once again Mr. Dubka & co.
In case you don’t know for NYE in LA people here go HARD. 2010 was brought in with a bang courtesy of Destructo, DJ Mehdi, A-Trak, and Boys Noize at the Hollywood Palladium. Here is a sneak peak of the epic confetti and champagne that went down. Backstage was a whole other story – full of drunken antics, hummus (courtesy of A-Trak), and fruit platters (courtesy of Boys Noize), but that is all I can say for now.
Some new smooth electro pop goodness from Allure feat the singer of Fancy Toys, Mickaël Téo. I especially like the guitar part in the tune.
[audio:http://diestruktur.com/asianmandan/music/Jan%202010/Allure%20-%20On%20The%20Moon%20(feat%20Mickaël%20Téo).mp3] Allure – On The Moon (feat Mickaël Téo)
SebastiAn strikes back with “Threndoy” off of a limited Xmas present from the Ed Banger family. SebastiAn channels his Schoenberg, Stockhausen and of course Krzysztof Penderecki with this sample of his “Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima” with an 11 min intro of just rising tones and disjointed cacophany that is a huge fuck you to everyone. Finally it kicks into a usual SebastiAN banger moment for only 2 mins or so but it is oh so good.
[audio:http://diestruktur.com/asianmandan/music/Jan%202010/06%20Threnody%201.mp3] SebastiAn – Threnody
Twenty-Ten is here and here is some exciting new music from one of my favorite labels of all time, Warp Records. These are some tracks off a new compilation entitled “2010 From Warp Records” – Nice Nice is a Portland, Oregon based duo band and Gonjasufi is a California artist who has gotten a little help from a fellow Californian producer, Flying Lotus. Check out and download these tracks below and head over to warp.net another new track by The Hundred In The Hands
Buy the new compilation on bleep.com to hear some new tracks by Flying Lotus, Pivot, and Hudson Mohawke.
Tis a new year and time for new music. I hope all your NYE were nuts – I was at Hard Fest in LA where DJ Mehdi, A-Trak and Boys Noize killed it. Be on the lookout for vids and photos on mediacontender.com that EIKNARF and I took.
DJ Daruma from the ROC STAR crew in Tokyo sent me this new track and video by the DEXPISTOLS. He ended the email with this – “We think next is the Asians turn in the electronic/dance music scene.” I totally agree 🙂
Here are my obligatory end of 2009 lists, a very strong and exciting year for music. Of course Phoenix, Miike Snow, Bibio, Classixx, and Joy Orbison dominate my lists. Too much good music this year hence the more than 10 tracks. Twenty-ten! Year of the tiger!
Best Albums of 2009
Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
Miike Snow – Miike Snow
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
Simian Mobile Disco – Temporary Pleasure
Tiga – Ciao!
Bat for Lashes – Two Suns
Mayer Hawthorne – A Strange Arrangement
Passion Pit – Manners
The xx – The xx
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