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Recovering music
May. 29th, 2012 12:35 pmI've somehow managed to go two whole weeks without posting music links. At least half of that was due to an OS install that wiped out my supply of open temporary tabs. Here's what I have for you: some new favorites by known names, a couple great tunes to get you ready for summer, and I'll end with a new-to-me voice that is worth your time, I promise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-NPpaLgJHw
http://beatsantique.bandcamp.com/
Beats Antique's latest is finally public on the YouTubes. They sent out a private link to this on their email list some weeks ago. The new production is a gorgeous, lush 6 minutes of their signature sound: phat horns (buffed to four guys now), crunk rhythms, and slinky dance-influenced melodic trills. The video is also worth watching, as a tribal dance/story bit Zoe Jakes put together that is kind of West Side Story meets Mad Max. The second link will get you a free download of a 12-track remix (though it seems busted just this moment).
http://audioporncentral.com/2012/05/gossip-move-in-the-right-direction.html
Yay! Next Gossip single is out! "Move in the Right Direction" continues the lighter/pop feel of "Perfect World" and yes it's a little Summer-esque disco-style, too. I forgive them. You really should watch the video if only to see Beth Ditto having a great time and goofing with the camera. Her happiness is really infectious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcbjo8dq_PA&feature=youtube_gdata
It's easy to forget that one of rock's true original styles is rockabilly. If you forgot that, go listen to this. Make the Girl Dance (http://www.myspace.com/makethegirldance) an energetic pop-electronica duo blend that twangy guitar and fast-drums sound with modern stylings into this track that just begs to be played in the car with the top down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGghkjpNCQ8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=arARN1U2fCI&NR=1
Calvin Harris's "Feel So Close" is a summer-sweet bit of electronic joy. Its simple piano and voice bits are not the sort of thing you'd expect to get remixed. Thus I was surprised to come across the second link, a Benny Benassi remix from about a year ago. Benassi, as you'd expect, pushes the tune more in the direction of a dance hit but doesn't lose the original vibe, including leaving space for the signature piano/voice combo that gives the original its best flavor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSANu-oAHHQ&feature=relmfu
Ultra Music is the American indie label that is currently home to the aforementioned Make the Girl Dance and Benny Benassi and, to my surprise, Deadmau5. Thus I stumbled across this remix, which is deadmau5 featuring Chris James, doing "The Veldt". This is still Deadmau5's signature style - raw, slightly fuzzed electronica - but it's slowed down and lightened up, with trance-y filler bits. Definitely the kind of thing to be played out in the dark on a summer's eve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U90ds1hifsI
Jessca Hoop (http://www.jescahoop.com/) has apparently been recording for five years and somehow I've failed to hear her. This is my loss and if you don't click that link it'll be yours. She's a hot-voiced, intense folk-rock female (I know, not my typical thing) and this track, "Tulip", shows off both her lyricism and some definite tribal influences, as well as Irish/Celtic musical harmonies (listen around the 3:25-3:30 mark if you don't know what I mean).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-NPpaLgJHw
http://beatsantique.bandcamp.com/
Beats Antique's latest is finally public on the YouTubes. They sent out a private link to this on their email list some weeks ago. The new production is a gorgeous, lush 6 minutes of their signature sound: phat horns (buffed to four guys now), crunk rhythms, and slinky dance-influenced melodic trills. The video is also worth watching, as a tribal dance/story bit Zoe Jakes put together that is kind of West Side Story meets Mad Max. The second link will get you a free download of a 12-track remix (though it seems busted just this moment).
http://audioporncentral.com/2012/05/gossip-move-in-the-right-direction.html
Yay! Next Gossip single is out! "Move in the Right Direction" continues the lighter/pop feel of "Perfect World" and yes it's a little Summer-esque disco-style, too. I forgive them. You really should watch the video if only to see Beth Ditto having a great time and goofing with the camera. Her happiness is really infectious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcbjo8dq_PA&feature=youtube_gdata
It's easy to forget that one of rock's true original styles is rockabilly. If you forgot that, go listen to this. Make the Girl Dance (http://www.myspace.com/makethegirldance) an energetic pop-electronica duo blend that twangy guitar and fast-drums sound with modern stylings into this track that just begs to be played in the car with the top down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGghkjpNCQ8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=arARN1U2fCI&NR=1
Calvin Harris's "Feel So Close" is a summer-sweet bit of electronic joy. Its simple piano and voice bits are not the sort of thing you'd expect to get remixed. Thus I was surprised to come across the second link, a Benny Benassi remix from about a year ago. Benassi, as you'd expect, pushes the tune more in the direction of a dance hit but doesn't lose the original vibe, including leaving space for the signature piano/voice combo that gives the original its best flavor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSANu-oAHHQ&feature=relmfu
Ultra Music is the American indie label that is currently home to the aforementioned Make the Girl Dance and Benny Benassi and, to my surprise, Deadmau5. Thus I stumbled across this remix, which is deadmau5 featuring Chris James, doing "The Veldt". This is still Deadmau5's signature style - raw, slightly fuzzed electronica - but it's slowed down and lightened up, with trance-y filler bits. Definitely the kind of thing to be played out in the dark on a summer's eve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U90ds1hifsI
Jessca Hoop (http://www.jescahoop.com/) has apparently been recording for five years and somehow I've failed to hear her. This is my loss and if you don't click that link it'll be yours. She's a hot-voiced, intense folk-rock female (I know, not my typical thing) and this track, "Tulip", shows off both her lyricism and some definite tribal influences, as well as Irish/Celtic musical harmonies (listen around the 3:25-3:30 mark if you don't know what I mean).
