Entries tagged with roisin murphy

I'm starting this on Monday after a week away during which I knew I wasn't going to get time to write up music. I logged 51 hours for work last week, so I'm still kind of zonked and I've got a ton of things I should be doing at work, not least of which is filling out my damned expense reports so I can get, you know PAID BACK for these trips. But I digress. This is about the open tabs, of which only a couple are typical for me. Given the length of time involved this might be a longer post than usual. We'll see when it's done.

https://soundcloud.com/claptone/roisin-murphy-evil-eyes-claptone-remix
The Claptone remix of Roisin (damned if I can do those accent characters) Murphy's "Evil Eyes" is a hot hot bouncy track. Murphy's musical work is hard to characterize since Moloko split up. This track is minor-key and kind of quirky in the original. Claptone turns it into some high-energy dance with her vocals mixed in, but the remix is large his work.

https://soundcloud.com/dj-f-r-1/willst-du-played-a-live-extended-beatshakaz-mix-mashup-germany
From a set played by DJ Purple, a Mashup Germany track I don't recall hearing before. This isn't precisely the edit she played but it's the closest I could find online. I wish there was a track list because I'm not sure what the source material is and since it's in German I'm pretty hopeless on identifying sources. Still, it's a fun mix of energy.

https://soundcloud.com/elohimelohim/elohim-she-talks-too-much-gosh-pith-remix
I confess I first clicked on this track because I misread "gosh-pith" as "goth-pit" then was very surprised at how non-goth this track is. The original (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WlzWbMrbjQ) didn't attract my attention when it came out a few months ago. It's sort of minimalist electronica. Like a lot of remixes, this one takes out the vocal track and general feel of the song and then builds something entirely new around it. It's still electronica, but much more upbeat and happy-bouncy. I quite like it and will be looking for more Gosh Pith listening.

https://soundcloud.com/alexguesta/alex-guesta-remake-seven-nation-pride?in=alexguesta/sets/free-download
This is a wonderful and brilliant combination of two things - a soulful Motown feeling and the striving urgency of Seven Nation Army, one of the best drum anthems of the past couple decades. Alex Guesta handles the mix with a deft touch, keeping the track out of the range of simplistic dance bangers but still leaving me rockin' along.

https://soundcloud.com/raven-ouse/beautiful-heart-ravenouse-mashup
An atypical mash-up for me - a light, dancey, summer mix with lots of electro-woo and simple house rhythms. But Raven#ouse (yes, that's actually how they label themselves) has done a good job of mixing the three source tracks together. I thought I knew what the sources were but Raven#ouse's response to me on Soundcloud proved me wrong. Shows how much I know about pop music I guess.

(And since it's taken me three days to get five tracks minimally written up I'm hitting post on this damned thing lest it drag on forever. There are more tabs, but not for now.)

I'm trying not to overuse adjectives, or you'd find the word "awesome" scattered all over this set of links.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTdeZqyOjjg&feature=youtu.be
DJ Schmolli released the single + video for "Molotov For A Leather Endboss" one of my favorite tracks off his recent Pirate Nation mash-up compilation. It was one of the tracks that particularly caught my ear when I listened to the whole thing but hadn't followed up on individual tracks yet.

This one is a great mash, building strongly on hip-hop and reggae but with nice rock touches (Offspring) and even a strong metal angle (Judas Priest). But there was a voice in there I recognized - Peter Fox - who I first heard doing the cool spoken/rapped/drummed "Alles Neu" in 2009 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdtLCfEcPL4).

Checking the list of components in this mix I didn't see Fox, but sure enough there he is in the video so off we go. First stop is Marteria, whose glitch/rap/electronica homage to video games "End Boss" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWcFHEdhYys&feature=youtube_gdata) is a component of the mash. Marteria (http://www.last.fm/music/Marteria) is a German electronica/rap artist who has had some success in Europe but doesn't seem to be known over here. A shame, really, as he's pretty good. But he's not Peter Fox, so on we go.

Next stop is Seeed (yes, it's really spelled that way) who are a German reggae/dancehall band fronted by, among others, Peter Fox. How did I not know such a thing existed? Three excellent singers, a phat horn section, and a live DJ - what's not to like? As with Marteria, Seeed (http://www.seeed.de/) are pretty well-known in Europe but haven't been heard nearly enough over here. The Seeed track used in this mash is "Molotov / Wonderful Life" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IZsBaToytg) and it really does what it promises, bringing reggae sounds together with both modern electronica dance as well as older style rock and dancehall music.

http://audioporncentral.com/2013/04/world-premiere-flying-white-dots-barracuda-aor-mashup-album.html
Another album-length work of mash-up excellence. If you are a fan of 70s and 80s rock this one is for you, as Flying White Dots (http://soundcloud.com/flyingwhitedots) has put together a 10-track compilation of sounds that I expect everyone is going to recognize but hear in new ways. It starts off with Eagles vs Tears for Fears - which works amazingly well - and goes up from there. One of the things that makes these mashes interesting to me is that there's no effort to force them into dance styles or modern sensibilities. They're tunes matched for feel and aesthetic and the mashes emphasize the similarities of the sources to each other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4RosCKHueu0#!
Spox (https://soundcloud.com/spox) takes the opposite approach in this updated cover of "She Don't Lie". The song is a take on "Cocaine", which is also best-known in cover, as Eric Clapton popularized it though it was written a year earlier by JJ Cale. Spox, a Polish DJ pays homage simultaneously to the Clapton and to the (in)famous cocaine hub that Florida became in the 1980s which gave rise to things like the show Miami Vice which in turn gave us Jan Hammer and popularized New Wave style in the US.

http://audioporncentral.com/2013/04/boris-dlugosch-ft-roisin-murphy-look-around-you.html
Boris Dlugosch (http://www.borisdlugosch.de/) gives us a German take on nu-disco that I wouldn't have blogged except for the featured singer. If you know who Roisin Murphy is without checking, hat tip to you. I knew I'd heard that voice before but I had to go look it up. She was half of Moloko with her boyfriend at the time. Since then she's been doing solo work and now appears to be fronting for Dlugosch. Good for him, and I hope it's good for her; I like her voice and hope we hear more of it.

http://audioporncentral.com/2013/04/tron-major-never-stop-running.html
Tron Major (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tron-Major/401154543333834) is a new sound with promise. I say that because I generally don't like glitch but this track is good glitch. It's complicated and not screechy or jarring. Try it and see if you like it.

http://audioporncentral.com/2013/04/neneh-cherry-afrika-baby-bam-nina-produced-by-four-tet.html
Neneh Cherry is someone I haven't thought about in years but this track absolutely grabbed me. It's a groovy rhythmic spoken-beat near jam between Cherry and Afrika Baby Bam (part of Jungle Brothers). The production is tight and smooth, with a strong hot-jazz feel to it and the two vocalists swap back and forth to create a great duet.

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