An accumulated music set

[drwex]

Sitting around waiting to see if I'm going to get a call back from New Not-Boss, so perhaps I can put together a music post while I wait...

http://leedm101audiolego.blogspot.com/
http://soundcloud.com/leedm101/leedm101-roxannes-tainted-fly-the-police-soft-cell-miley-cyrus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OjkiuCp0bU

I first picked up on LeeDM101 on one of the Bootie Top N posts and went to check out his page, the first link there. Like any massive compilation it's got high and low points. The Soundcloud set-up is very nice since it gives you a one-button play option or you can skip tracks you don't like. I thought I'd pick out two tracks that struck me as particularly different and interesting.

The first is "Roxanne's Tainted Fly" which you can see from the URL mixes up the classic rock Police track "Roxanne" with Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" and lays them over the beats of Miley Cyrus's 2008 hit "Fly on the Wall". Cyrus is one of those whose lyrics make me want to slap them, so it's great not to be subjected to that, and Lee manages to pull really the best parts out of the other two tracks.

The second one is a "Tubular Bells" remix, something I haven't heard in several years. Putting it up against the very mod "Girls on Film" from Duran Duran makes an great combination. The video by Instamatic is also a great accompaniment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaAhtWyZKFs&feature=related
East & Young (http://www.myspace.com/eastandyoung) turn in one really moving prog-house track. This is another genre that isn't to everyone's liking, I know, but a good progressive house tune is sweeping and lush and gives you the musical sense of being lifted up and carried along. I got this one off a DJ Steveboy mix, and am looking forward to investigating more of Ivo de Jong's and Marc Vano's work.

http://audioporncentral.com/2010/09/gravitonas-religious.html
Swedish singer Andreas Öhrn (hot!) leads the duo Gravitonas (http://www.gravitonas.net/) in a track that APC calls pop, but I think is much closer to the prog-house sound, though with more vocals and more stripped down vocals. But when they bring in all the instrumentals and the backing vocals to fill around the solo piano... well, listen for yourself. I can't help thinking about Faithless "God is a DJ" - there's a mash-up waiting to happen.

http://www.myspace.com/music/10223893/songs/73310077/
Lest you think I'm going all soft, I'll leave you with this one. Rad Bad, another Bootie find turns in a wild thing 10-minute megamix that has hundreds of samples, all bangin'. They flow and mix in interesting ways, while keeping the thing moving. It doesn't have the tight precision of some mega-mixes but it's fun to listen to the stream go by and try to see how many samples you can identify.