7.16.2007

A quickie.



5 tracks for a monday night. Sit back and hold tight the weeks just starting!!!

Anthony Rother - Back home.

Shy Child - Astronaut.

Black Lips - Everybody is Doing it.

Mr Oizo - Nazis (Justice Remix).

Zdar - Don't you want.


This song is a year or so old, but why is it that Depeche Mode is more punk rock than just about any hardcore band these days? Sumbody essplain plz!

Math and stripping.




Another great DJ/remix duo under the moniker Mathematikal. It sounds very similar to what Justice is doing, namely updating michael jackson tracks......but wait... it's an actually Jacko track! Billie jean has never sounded quite so powerful. The bass will rend you from your bum to your sternum. Get into it.

They have some more slamming tunes over at the space:
Mathematikal.





Good news for Zune fans:

Apparently somebody has written a little APP to strip the DRM off any songs you download from the Zune marketplace. This opens up the wifi sharing restriction as well. If you have a Zune I do suggest you look into this.

I'm wondering when companies, intent on owning music, will wake up and realize that the money they sink into developing restrictions on music sharing will always be wasted, as some clever person will always crack/hack/smash it. MS should spend more time making their software functional and giving Zune fans a clock instead of trying to restrict the features that trump the ipod.

More info on the war against MS and DRM.

Windows Media DRM Cracked, Again

7.10.2007

99 red something....

I really love this video. Something about the girls looks really genuine. Frankmusik basically destroys this song and makes it his own. It's a bit better than the original I'm afraid. Enjoy and have a good Thrusday night! :D

7.08.2007

Texture like sun..

This song is amazing. The kick drum is probably the hottest thing I've heard in kick drums in a long, long time. Of course, it's a chop up of a Stranglers track and that's hot right there, but Frankmusik takes it to the next level.

Is it Morrissey at a rave? Is that a curtain string? Idk but I like it.


Frank Musik - When You're Around.



New 50 Cent:

Don't need to say anything about this track... I'm not even a J. T. fan but this is WANT!

Who the fuck is mutemath?


So... I saw transformers. Great movie for what it is. (Though, they should have spent more time developing the Autobots as characters and spent less time on the second rate human actors.) I then heard the soundtrack and I couldn't believe how fucking bad mutemath mangled the theme song. Seriously, Mutemath... whoever you be, you are on notice my son. You made one of the most kick ass songs in the universe whimpster and lame. DNW!

Add them on myspace and make fun of them please!

And now... here is LION to show you how it's done:

7.07.2007

Cut to the point.




More Swedish dark wave for you, this time in the form of Cut City. Hailing from Gothenburg They seem to be the next big "Interpol" band, and on pure songs they have it. They keep it dark enough, but dance enough to keep you engaged and interested with a well mixed/produced bass vocal combo. I always think it's quite an achievement when a band can be very serious while making you want to dance. Kudos to these fellas.

This track: Numb Boys really stuck with me and made it into my latest mix.

Check out their album Exit Decades. (Like Ashes, Like Millions, and Such Verve are highly recommended!)

7.01.2007

Ture northwestern black metal.



Leech is the newest strain of black metal interpretation, or at least Americas ever struggling integration of the genre through out all of our metal subcultures. It's black metal without the NS taint, the worship of odin or satan, and the love of all things green. Crusty hippie evil, if you will.

With bands like
Book of Black Earth
Wolves in the Throne Room
and Fall of the Bastards
It seems that cult metal has found a progressive center on the west coast and stripped out all preconceptions of euro-viking posturing. Something most nations with a love for black metal (Columbia, Greece, and even china) have failed to do.

Or as leech puts it:
"We take no influence from snowy mountain peaks or satanic imagery, but instead from environmental devastation, anti-modernism, and the bleak, monotonous drudgery that is everyday living in a dying world driven by ignorance, corruption, and greed."

That's pretty fucking metal to me.

Streaming myspace tracks

6.30.2007

Cobra la la la la la Dukes.




My friend Natalie thinks this is a good cross between the Talking Heads and Peter Gabriel. And I'd have to agree on that point. Just add some electro. Great band with a single coming out soon.

This track is a Fredo & Thang Remix and really like the spaces and production. It's a bit less frantic than the Knikelife remix.

Cobra Dukes have their own blog.

Leave the Light on (Fredo & Thang Remix)

Preset to wicked.



You might have heard of the Presets by now.
This track is probably my favorite song off their album the Beams.
Seems like they should have something new out by now doesn't it?

Bad up your betterness.

6.29.2007

Strip for me.


I've been meaning to do a blog on strip steve all week... really! Then I saw him on another spot and thought to myself, "I better get to it!" He did a chromeo remix of the song 'fancy footwork' that I've been listening nonstop for the last two weeks. It's rather amazing.

Should have a release coming in the next few weeks.

Myspace tunes.
Strip Steve - Chromeo (Fancy Footw0rk) You and I Remix.