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Wanted to post this Friday but couldn't get a solid connection to LJ so here you get it on Monday. This set is full of things I would normally claim I don't like, except when I do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov8uT8DTvlw&feature=player_embedded
Once in a while I still listen to fairly standard rock&roll. Most of it doesn't catch my attention for long. This track by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals (http://www.gracepotter.com/) caught my ear. It's got a great drum line and Potter's voice is fantastic - she can hit and hold the high notes and has a decent range. She also plays a bit of keyboards and some mean guitar. Most of her solo stuff is country and she sounds good doing it but it lacks the beat, what can I say?
http://www.b-i-m-a.net/
I'm not at all sure what to make of this, but here you go: someone has made an entire Bon Iver mashup album. If you're like most people and going "who the heck is Bon Iver?" you probably want to start with their site (http://boniver.org/). They're sort of indie-folk and they have won one Grammy so far. How that ends up with them being mashed against everyone from Men at Work to Sia is... um, well... because modern music.
It's not bad as mashup-theme albums go. It keeps a lot of the mellow reflective atmospherics that Bon Iver are known for, but manages to sound like the matched artists much of the time, too. If you like them, this is good. And if you're new to Bon Iver I hope this encourages you to check them out as well.
http://audioporncentral.com/2013/05/martin-brodin-ft-mikael-surdi-dont-stop-the-dance-world-premiere.html
There's certainly nu disco in the air these days, but there's also some old-fashioned, straight-up disco disco. Usually I'm not a fan of the latter, but here we get some of the best disco grooves applied by Martin Brodin to a remake of Bryan Ferry's classic "Don't Stop the Dance". Phil Retrospector turns in a fantasic gay/trans-themed dance video supporting the track that is definitely worth the watching.
https://soundcloud.com/builderbeats/the-who-my-generation-builder-triphop-remix
A while ago MizA sent me on a musical search (release the kraken!) that wandered through triphop and I came across this track from someone calling themselves Builder (http://www.last.fm/search?q=Builder&type=track I believe) that is a weirdly electro-funky triphop remix of The Who's "My Generation". If you like those things you may be as taken with this track as I was. If not, that's OK too.
https://soundcloud.com/nickraymondg/nick-thayer-worlds-collide
Also as a side effect of that wander I came across this dub-glitchy track from Nick Thayer (https://facebook.com/nickthayer) called "Worlds Collide". It's off Thayer's EP that came out earlier this month. I'm normally not a fan of wub or glitch, but this track is driven by a strong clean bass line that I can't stop dancing to.
BONUS!
While I was writing this entry, Chloe Howl dropped the official video for her "No Strings". I love you all, so I share: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7zg-M0rZM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov8uT8DTvlw&feature=player_embedded
Once in a while I still listen to fairly standard rock&roll. Most of it doesn't catch my attention for long. This track by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals (http://www.gracepotter.com/) caught my ear. It's got a great drum line and Potter's voice is fantastic - she can hit and hold the high notes and has a decent range. She also plays a bit of keyboards and some mean guitar. Most of her solo stuff is country and she sounds good doing it but it lacks the beat, what can I say?
http://www.b-i-m-a.net/
I'm not at all sure what to make of this, but here you go: someone has made an entire Bon Iver mashup album. If you're like most people and going "who the heck is Bon Iver?" you probably want to start with their site (http://boniver.org/). They're sort of indie-folk and they have won one Grammy so far. How that ends up with them being mashed against everyone from Men at Work to Sia is... um, well... because modern music.
It's not bad as mashup-theme albums go. It keeps a lot of the mellow reflective atmospherics that Bon Iver are known for, but manages to sound like the matched artists much of the time, too. If you like them, this is good. And if you're new to Bon Iver I hope this encourages you to check them out as well.
http://audioporncentral.com/2013/05/martin-brodin-ft-mikael-surdi-dont-stop-the-dance-world-premiere.html
There's certainly nu disco in the air these days, but there's also some old-fashioned, straight-up disco disco. Usually I'm not a fan of the latter, but here we get some of the best disco grooves applied by Martin Brodin to a remake of Bryan Ferry's classic "Don't Stop the Dance". Phil Retrospector turns in a fantasic gay/trans-themed dance video supporting the track that is definitely worth the watching.
https://soundcloud.com/builderbeats/the-who-my-generation-builder-triphop-remix
A while ago MizA sent me on a musical search (release the kraken!) that wandered through triphop and I came across this track from someone calling themselves Builder (http://www.last.fm/search?q=Builder&type=track I believe) that is a weirdly electro-funky triphop remix of The Who's "My Generation". If you like those things you may be as taken with this track as I was. If not, that's OK too.
https://soundcloud.com/nickraymondg/nick-thayer-worlds-collide
Also as a side effect of that wander I came across this dub-glitchy track from Nick Thayer (https://facebook.com/nickthayer) called "Worlds Collide". It's off Thayer's EP that came out earlier this month. I'm normally not a fan of wub or glitch, but this track is driven by a strong clean bass line that I can't stop dancing to.
BONUS!
While I was writing this entry, Chloe Howl dropped the official video for her "No Strings". I love you all, so I share: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7zg-M0rZM
