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I'm sitting around waiting for the guy who is only in the office today to follow through on his email saying we should meet. This is Important, and I started it, so I'm going to wait. And meanwhile I'm going to talk about music. I realize I've blogged a lot of musical things lately but I'm off for a bit starting tomorrow and I've had some amazing stuff cross my path recently. I care, so I share. Two excellent mashes, two good covers, and something new from a name I haven't mentioned in a long time.
http://www.mashup-germany.com/2013/therockharmony/
First, up (courtesy of DJ Purple) a fantastic metal-meets-metal-meets-metal mashup from Mashup Germany. Oh, yeah, theres's some Robyn and Blink 182 in there, but if you don't start grinning hugely around 2:40 then I'll be surprised. It's a brilliant cut.
https://soundcloud.com/house-bootlegs/zedd-vs-u2-vs-qulinez-new
http://housebootlegs.com/djs-from-mars-bootzilla-album/
Speaking of brilliant, DJs from Mars are BACK! The first is a Soundcloud lift of one of the tracks you can get at the second link. It's the DJs doing Zedd vs U2. The build through the first minute of the track is outstanding. On first listen I thought they were doing a transition, but when I re-listened with headphones I realize the tracks are all laid in from the start, and it's building up slowly enough at first you don't realize what's coming until BAM there it is.
And then you can go to the second link and get an entire new album, Bootzilla, with the DJs and a lot of talented friends. I'll probably have more to say about that after I've had time to listen.
http://audioporncentral.com/2013/07/the-xx-sunset-jamie-xx-edit-the-video.html
This is an edit by Jamie xx (http://jamiexx.com/) of the band's tune "Sunset" (nice live version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2JrAhmZmpM). To call The xx spare, haunting, and eerily melodic is sort of definitional and this track captures all of that. The edit is a little more drum-heavy and plays down the electronics and guitars a bit. It also has some extra pauses added, which I guess are for a purpose but I don't think they enhance the base track.
http://audioporncentral.com/2013/07/royksopp-ice-machine-ewan-pearson-disco-dub-mix.html
Royksopp covers the Depeche Mode b-side "Ice Machine". I've read the track was popular in Europe but its minor-key electronica never caught on much in America. The original has some odd harmonies, too. Royksopp updates all of this, giving the track a dark throbbing Euro-underground feel and lots of extra instrumental bits as well as cleaning up and strengthening the vocals. It's still recognizably the D.M. tune, but it's also very much its own thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTSxJcH7h7c&feature=youtu.be
Finally, if you're tired of all that modern electronica, take a trip back in time to a steampunked Victorian era with Abney Park. This is the first single, "The Circus At The End Of The World", off their new production. They've teamed up with a talented set of circus performers from the Wanderlust Circus (http://www.wanderlustcircus.com/) to create an atmosphere and show I would love to see.
I was not that enthralled with Abney Park's previous sea shanty-themed creation. This, however, seems to be a return to their roots and a leveling up of what they do best. The album (same name as the single) will be on sale first week of September.
http://www.mashup-germany.com/2013/therockharmony/
First, up (courtesy of DJ Purple) a fantastic metal-meets-metal-meets-metal mashup from Mashup Germany. Oh, yeah, theres's some Robyn and Blink 182 in there, but if you don't start grinning hugely around 2:40 then I'll be surprised. It's a brilliant cut.
https://soundcloud.com/house-bootlegs/zedd-vs-u2-vs-qulinez-new
http://housebootlegs.com/djs-from-mars-bootzilla-album/
Speaking of brilliant, DJs from Mars are BACK! The first is a Soundcloud lift of one of the tracks you can get at the second link. It's the DJs doing Zedd vs U2. The build through the first minute of the track is outstanding. On first listen I thought they were doing a transition, but when I re-listened with headphones I realize the tracks are all laid in from the start, and it's building up slowly enough at first you don't realize what's coming until BAM there it is.
And then you can go to the second link and get an entire new album, Bootzilla, with the DJs and a lot of talented friends. I'll probably have more to say about that after I've had time to listen.
http://audioporncentral.com/2013/07/the-xx-sunset-jamie-xx-edit-the-video.html
This is an edit by Jamie xx (http://jamiexx.com/) of the band's tune "Sunset" (nice live version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2JrAhmZmpM). To call The xx spare, haunting, and eerily melodic is sort of definitional and this track captures all of that. The edit is a little more drum-heavy and plays down the electronics and guitars a bit. It also has some extra pauses added, which I guess are for a purpose but I don't think they enhance the base track.
http://audioporncentral.com/2013/07/royksopp-ice-machine-ewan-pearson-disco-dub-mix.html
Royksopp covers the Depeche Mode b-side "Ice Machine". I've read the track was popular in Europe but its minor-key electronica never caught on much in America. The original has some odd harmonies, too. Royksopp updates all of this, giving the track a dark throbbing Euro-underground feel and lots of extra instrumental bits as well as cleaning up and strengthening the vocals. It's still recognizably the D.M. tune, but it's also very much its own thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTSxJcH7h7c&feature=youtu.be
Finally, if you're tired of all that modern electronica, take a trip back in time to a steampunked Victorian era with Abney Park. This is the first single, "The Circus At The End Of The World", off their new production. They've teamed up with a talented set of circus performers from the Wanderlust Circus (http://www.wanderlustcircus.com/) to create an atmosphere and show I would love to see.
I was not that enthralled with Abney Park's previous sea shanty-themed creation. This, however, seems to be a return to their roots and a leveling up of what they do best. The album (same name as the single) will be on sale first week of September.
