More new music

http://djsteveboy.com/groovelectric.html
Sometimes things are new because people (re)discover them. DJ Steveboy has discovered swing, or to be more precise swing-house and has put together a pretty decent mix of swing-house tracks. As you'd expect, his selections lean toward the phat horns and funky grooves that I enjoy, as well as some of the nicer vocal bits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsaLyUTDGTo
Losers (www.myspace.com/losersuk) are a UK DJ/remix duo who got the very odd video for their latest track on boingboing, where I saw it. Their style is a little hard to describe - it's mostly UK whiteboy rap, but with interesting scratch and remixed bits thrown in, and all of it laid over a high-BPM dance layer. It's a shame their page only has samples rather than full tracks.

http://hypem.com/#/track/1057564/NAPT+ft+Louise+Marshall+-+Make+My+Day+Jack+Beats+Remix+
NAPT (http://www.myspace.com/naptuk) are another UK DJ/producer duo with serious funk roots (their label is called Funkatech). Here they've got Louise Marshall (http://www.myspace.com/louiseclaremarshall) an R&B/soul singer doing her thing over some nice dubs and looped electronic beats.

http://hypem.com/#/track/1057980/Vitalic+-+Second+Lives+The+Bloody+Beetroots+Remix+
Vitalic (http://www.vitalic.org/)'s Second Lives gets another life here as an instrumental-only house track remixed by Bloody Beetroots (http://www.myspace.com/thebloodybeetroots). It's got a bit of a high-electronic edge that I wish they had skipped but I still like their grooves. Need to listen to their MySpace stream a bit more.

More new music

http://djsteveboy.com/groovelectric.html
Sometimes things are new because people (re)discover them. DJ Steveboy has discovered swing, or to be more precise swing-house and has put together a pretty decent mix of swing-house tracks. As you'd expect, his selections lean toward the phat horns and funky grooves that I enjoy, as well as some of the nicer vocal bits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsaLyUTDGTo
Losers (www.myspace.com/losersuk) are a UK DJ/remix duo who got the very odd video for their latest track on boingboing, where I saw it. Their style is a little hard to describe - it's mostly UK whiteboy rap, but with interesting scratch and remixed bits thrown in, and all of it laid over a high-BPM dance layer. It's a shame their page only has samples rather than full tracks.

http://hypem.com/#/track/1057564/NAPT+ft+Louise+Marshall+-+Make+My+Day+Jack+Beats+Remix+
NAPT (http://www.myspace.com/naptuk) are another UK DJ/producer duo with serious funk roots (their label is called Funkatech). Here they've got Louise Marshall (http://www.myspace.com/louiseclaremarshall) an R&B/soul singer doing her thing over some nice dubs and looped electronic beats.

http://hypem.com/#/track/1057980/Vitalic+-+Second+Lives+The+Bloody+Beetroots+Remix+
Vitalic (http://www.vitalic.org/)'s Second Lives gets another life here as an instrumental-only house track remixed by Bloody Beetroots (http://www.myspace.com/thebloodybeetroots). It's got a bit of a high-electronic edge that I wish they had skipped but I still like their grooves. Need to listen to their MySpace stream a bit more.

Reasons #2, #3, and #4 why I own a Droid

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/03/15/Joining-Google

Tim Bray puts it better than I have - Apple's vision of how people should behave in their iPhone universe is sanitized, closed, privatized, and tightly controlled. It gives me hives. Google's no saint, but at least for now anyone can put any app they like in the Android store without pre-approval, sell that app anywhere else, and even show people pictures of naughty things on their apps. Anyone can build hardware and run the OS on it. Apple is the new Disney?

(h/t to boingboing for the original pointer)

Reasons #2, #3, and #4 why I own a Droid

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/03/15/Joining-Google

Tim Bray puts it better than I have - Apple's vision of how people should behave in their iPhone universe is sanitized, closed, privatized, and tightly controlled. It gives me hives. Google's no saint, but at least for now anyone can put any app they like in the Android store without pre-approval, sell that app anywhere else, and even show people pictures of naughty things on their apps. Anyone can build hardware and run the OS on it. Apple is the new Disney?

(h/t to boingboing for the original pointer)