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Just out of 3.5 days of solid work meetings and I need some other sounds in my brain. Fortunately I have this lovely set of music tabs to share with you. Also, I feel it necessary to pass on a particular musical milestone. This past weekend I was rockin' out to DJ Steveboy's 10th anniversary Groovelectric mix and got Thing 1 interested enough to listen. And then he downloaded it to his iPod. The torch, it is passed. FUNK4EVAH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sntzSLk05Eo
Bessie Jones also deserves to be remembered forever, and here Enzo Siffredi takes her blues vocal hook from "Sometimes" and uses it in his own take on the track. White Americans like me probably recall this hook best because Moby used it in his very popular tune "Honey" in the late 90s (1998, Wikipedia tells me). The description explicitly credits Scorsese and and Berlin's Underground, which is quite the pair to draw off of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVERjAdaWdg
The All Good Funk ALliance put this out a couple years ago but I just came across it. Keith Mackenzie and DJ Fixx give us a fast-talking breakbeat track with a definite funky vibe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B8W6pe6ReM
Shifting gears into a high-pitched electro-synth vibe, "The Blitz" - from Swanky Tunes & Sunstars - gives us an energetic three minutes. The video is fun to watch as well, a little action-adventure, a little parkour, and a funny ending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b74YehJMEQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GISQcX-C_gQ
I've been playing around with a new station on Pandora that's based on music similar to Pegboard Nerds so a lot of P.N. has shown up and I'll probably link some of it so I can talk about it. The first track is Pegboard Nerds' remix of Elizaveta's "hero". On the one hand, I'm not all that much of a d&b fan and P.N. also use some dubstep tropes that were hot a couple years ago but feel worn now. On the other hand, Elizaveta's vocals make this this track smokin' hot. European vocal trance has brought some operatically trained singers to EDM, which I really like. Elizaveta has that kind of training and although there's a pretty heavy production hand on this track her voice still lifts this track out of the realm of the ordinary. I also like the way it works in unusual tempos and beat changes.

The second link is her original version, which is much more orchestral/choral and more clearly drawn from European folk roots. I can see why P.N. wanted to remix it and I think the pair go well together as two takes on one idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxniucMF2ck
Also out of that same messing around comes Nick Thayer, whom I stumbled over once a few years ago. This track is also a few years old but it has aged well. It's electro, hip-hop, and glitchy. I like that EDM has moved away from the more glitch-filled styles of a few years ago, but it's nice to revisit once in a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iKekphXwQg
One of the things glitchy electro evolved into was glitch-hop, of which this is an example. It's still got many of the wub and fuzz effects from the earlier tracks but now it's integrating new sounds. This one, "Viper" from Howla & WBBL, is obviously a tribute to big band dance tunes from the mid-20th century. This is still not a sound I'm going to listen to a lot, but as I'm putting together a new stream interesting variations pop up and I'll blog things that catch my ears.
drwex: (VNV)
There is some chance that I'm caught up on reading back LJ. If you posted something you wanted me to see and I did not comment on it please note it for me and I shall.

Tomorrow I shall be home from work with children who shall be home from school. Gods willing we will retain power; if not, the basement has a fireplace. Sufficient supplies and medicines are in stock. If I can manage it I'll do a health and mental update - much is brewing there. I am sad that we've made the "mature adult comma dammit" decision to skip the London Grammar show tonight. Driving downtown at 7 might be feasible but driving home at 11 or midnight seems a little crazier than I want to be. The cost of the tickets is a lot less than the cost of even a minor fender-bender if someone skids into me. I'm a little peeved that House of Blues isn't cancelling the show but I guess if you're downtown and can take the T to and fro then it's not a wholly bad move.

Meanwhile, allow me to give you things for when you need help getting moving again.

https://soundcloud.com/featurecast/rockwell-i-need-u-featurecast-wbbl-remix
A little glitchy, a little dance-y, a little bouncy. Featurecast and WBBL remixed Rockwell's "I Need U", a frenetic electro-glitch number that I wasn't very fond of in the original. This remix smooths things out and gives us something you can really move with.

https://soundcloud.com/neash-sddbmusic/portishead-vs-linkin-park-neash-mashup
I have a sort of morbid fascination with mixes that teeter on the edge of trainwrecks but somehow pull through. Honestly, the idea of putting together the intense melancholy of Portishead with the angry energy of Linkin Park is near genius and Neash pulls it together by not overdoing it. It's almost a simple A|B mash, but with subtle timing and tone changes to get the tracks to match up. (Advantages of tagging my music posts - I didn't realize I'd heard anything from Neash before, but there was one thing last year.)

https://soundcloud.com/happy-cat-disco-mashups/0nerepubiic-vs-nora-en-pure-sons-0f-maria-uraguays-love-runs-free-mashup
Happy Cat Disco is the mixer name of an LA-based person who self-describes as a game-sound designer by day. This track takes two versions of one song and mixes them against 0neRepublic (with a zero) or OneRepublic (with an O)'s "Love Runs Out" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-j-n-XJ-Tg). The original is a fun stompy rock-and-roll track that reminds me of the house bands I used to hear in Austin, TX - good vocal harmonies, good piano, and a kick-ass beat. The remix is definitely more dance electronica but it keeps the same fun energy - both are worth your time.

https://soundcloud.com/danihel-offical/zedd-x-victone-heat-spectrum
Danihel gives us another "get up off your ass and move" dance track. There isn't one thing that stands out for me, but the whole thing holds together nicely - vocal bits, drops, builds, beats. It's one of those tunes that I find myself just bouncing along with and wanting to hear again when I need to get myself motivated.

https://soundcloud.com/kill_mr_dj-2/shake-the-scientist-florence-the-machine-vs-coldplay
Following Kill_mr_dj on Soundcloud has produced a number of interesting items. Here he takes a Coldplay track we've all heard a million times and merges it with one of Florence's best. I think it starts off too slowly - the first 1:30 is really just Coldplay slightly modded but once "Shake It Out" kicks in the mash gets more interesting. That may be because I'm way more fond of Florence - you can judge for yourself.

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