Happy music

Been a while since I found a selection of tunes this fun.

http://www.theglitchmob.com/
Email this morning announced a new free track from The Glitch Mob for We Can Make The World Stop their latest album. You can stream three tracks at their site now and buy the album in various configurations at various pricepoints. I think the title track "We Can Make The World Stop" is not as good as "Warrior Concerto" but I loves me some big thumpy electronic bombast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGhz4DvcqTY&feature=related
This is the SFW version of Handsome Furs' "What About Us". If you search you can easily find the NSFW version (NS for male and female frontal nudity and sex acts). OK with that out of the way, what about the music? The Furs (http://www.myspace.com/handsomefurs) are a Canadian indie duo who have been around for a few years. Their sound is rich and melodic and reminds me a little of Bryan Ferry but with more drums.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqnffeNWgXU
This is the Villa Remix of Slice & Soda's "Year of the Dragon" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqX1BQYJ2q0&feature=related). In my opinion the remix is a huge improvement on the original. S&S (http://www.myspace.com/sliceandsoda) have a neat Bowie-esque vocal (US-based San Serac) and synth/piano thing (French DJ/producer Para One) going but the original track feels choppy and disjointed. What Villa (http://www.myspace.com/villanese) does is speed things up, tone down the random piano bits, and lay it all over a fast dance synth that really gets me moving. Villa has a bunch of other remixes up that are on my listening list now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SvQ_qdVKTg&feature=player_detailpage
I'm still not a huge dubstep fan, but this track wins by using dubstep rather than being overwhelmed by it. Which is to say there's some dep wub and some oontz going on for sure, but rather than leaving the space in between empty, Nero has mixed in the vocal loop and the Dizzy rapping bits from The Streets' "In The Middle" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWnT82gwyEs).

http://www.divideandkreate.com/mp3/divide_and_kreate_-_crazy_in_the_deep.mp3
Divide and Kreate bring together the popular Adele "Rolling in the Deep" with Gnarls Barkley. I haven't visited Divide & Kreate's page for a year and he's been busy. I'll probably blog more off of him, too.

http://soundcloud.com/celebrity-murder-party/gat-decor-passion-celebrity-murder-party-remix
This is an older track from Celebrity Murder Party (http://www.celebritymurderparty.co.uk/) in which they do a straight-up techno house remix of "Passion" by Gat Decor, an early 90s house tune that has been remixed about a million times. This CMP version is a nice updating of an old classic.

http://soundcloud.com/get-people/flaws-get-people-rmx-bastille
Get People (http://www.myspace.com/getpeople) just released a new EP and I've been seriously grooving on this track. It's definitely a techno base, but with major ambient and trance influences that form a very different sort of techno sound from, say, the CMP track. The vocals are spacey and the overall feel is much more like a solo night groove than a dance club track.

Another experiment in processing dark photos

An A/B pair this time. Maybe more clear than the stair picture...
( We cut because we care )

Thoughts and comments always welcome.