drwex | Must rescue my Firefox (Reply)

In part by closing out more music tabs. But in general, all these players and such seem to blow out Firefox's memory footprint something terrible. MySpace is the worst by far but all of them take a toll. Feh.
Anyway, herewith a bunch of tracks that I've been listening to these past couple weeks, plus two long sets for when you don't want to keep clicking around.

http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Wolfmother/track/New_Moon_Rising_Fontn_Version
I'm thinking that I've mentioned Wolfmother, an Australian act, before, but darned if I can find the back-link. Anyway, they've got a new sound (four new band members will do that) and put out a new album in October of last year. Their basic stuff is pretty standard rock-and-roll, but it's being remixed in some interesting ways. Fontän (http://www.myspace.com/fntn) a Swedish DJ with an unpronounceable a-umlaut has taken their popular "New Moon Rising" and given it a slightly electronica/dance edge while holding onto the Deep Purple-ish feel of the original.

http://audioporncentral.com/2010/01/acid-washed-snake.html
Acid house is a style I don't hear much anymore, and acid funk is even rarer in the streams I sample. This one is an excellent acid-funk track by Acid Washed (http://www.myspace.com/weareacidwashed).

http://audioporncentral.com/2010/01/zenit-incompatible-stolen-beats.html
If you can draw your eyes away from that extremely distracting image there to click the play button you'll get treated to a really nice R&B-style scratch mix by Zenit Incompatible (http://zenitincompatible.tumblr.com/). I used to love P.E. and it's been a long time since I heard them used in a mash-up. This one works so well I think you'll be surprised, and it reminds us how much of early rap was rooted in Motown and the R&B artists who preceded them.

http://www.mashup-industries.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=253&Itemid=36
DJ Schmolli does his best work when he's bouncing off something metal and here he works his magic by putting Beyonce's pop-vocal "Halo" up against the thrashing cymbals and drums of Paramore's "Brick By Boring Brick" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A63VwWz1ij0), which has a very good female vocal to begin with - give it a listen.

http://www.mashuptown.com/2010/01/dj-maggie-mash-halfway-earthquake-black-eyed-peas-vs-little-boots.html
Hey, look! Mashuptown discovered DJ Maggie Mash. About time, guys. This time she's taking on the ever-popular Black-Eyed Peas and Little Boots and doing a bang-up job with it.

And now some larger mixes for your long-listening pleasure:
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/JDH__Dave_P/track/Fixed_RCRD_LBL_Winter_Mix
http://djsteveboy.com/groovelectric.html

The first of these is Fixed's (http://www.myspace.com/fixednyc) set featuring many of the most popular RCRD_LBL offerings of 2009. You need to download and play it - the site doesn't stream it properly - but it's worthwhile. I recognized several of the stand-out pieces I've blogged in past months, and he stays away from the overdone artists of the past year.

DJ Steveboy is (finally!) back with a new mix called "Summiting". I've been disappointed by his last few efforts so I haven't linked to them, but this one goes back to the new/old funk roots that drew me to his stuff in the first place. He's mixed it in with a bit more energetic dancefloor stuff that works well to energize the whole thing.