Biggles choose the tunes... Diligently dealing in "lo fi wistful pop music", the Conor Deasy -led Biggles Flys Again released the slow burning golden ember that is Remember Saturday last weekend and is now taking the twelve-track bag of three-minute melodic nuggets on an official tour with Cork's The Roundy tonight's destination. Let "oh-he-of-the-syrupy-voice" i.e. Conor himself, walk you through the playlist he recently compiled especially for www.thegmanworld.com ahead of his Castle Street début. Not for one second [...]
Lord Huron - Strangers (The Kinks) I went through my 'Kinks stage' when I was 17 after watching Wes Anderson's Life Aquatic, and Strangers was (and still is) my favorite of all their tracks. Lord Huron who recently released his first album, Lonesome Dreams (2012) often covers ... Continue reading
Tweet My name's Aidan. I run a small bedroom label called Long Lost Records, and make music as Soil Creep and with my band Celibacy Club . Here's my International Tapes mix. I wanted to make something fun and interesting that was a reflection of stuff I've been listening to lately. Suggested listening situations: dancing to a funeral, watching X-files on mute, waiting for a Counter Strike match to start, having just opened a window 20 degrees open. Enjoy. http://longlostrecords.com/ [...]
It's St. Patrick's Day! Time to go all Kermit on you and name our Top 10 Green Songs. The post Top 10 Green Songs appeared first on Fusion 45 .
I received a message from Stuarto requesting I cover his show in the late afternoon hours of Friday, March 8. After a minute or two to think about it, I agreed. In all the times I've covered for his show over the past year and a half, I have never done a show that gives a nod to his show, which often features more mainstream music including a handful of tunes from the 60s and 70s. For March 8, I decided this needed to change. I pieced together quite the show for the first two [...]
Cet épisode 04 de notre série de mixtapes invite le DJ & Producteur Jimmy Maheras, Directeur Artistique de Culprit LA (Hot Natured, Shonky, Subb-An, Adriatique, Climbers, etc) ayant fait une entrée remarquable dans le monde de la production avec un premier EP sorti chez le 'petit-frère' de Crosstown Rebels... le label Rebellion. Jimmy a pu [...]
All Gone Pete Tong & Skream Miami 2013 “Pete Tong and Skream might seem like an unlikely combination at first, but consider Tong’s undeniably expansive love of quality electronic music and Skream’s recent divergence into more house and garage-focussed territories and the pieces begin to fall into place. All Gone Pete Tong & Skream Miami 2013 delivers on every level, rendering itself as a rich, unrestricted musical soundscape from two of the scene’s true greats.” In other words you’d be mental not to get your hands on a [...]
As a fanatic of the music of the '60's and a also big fan of collecting beautiful, exotic European picture sleeves (which I hold as pure works of art), I especially enjoy these two Kinks videos that show how the day in the life of a '60's pop group tied in to several aspects of vintage media. While a Klip of The Kinks lip syncing may not be as exciting as the ones from the era when the group is playing live, it's kool nonetheless to see the group at work in a French TV studio mugging for [...]
Alexander Robotnick's " Problèmes D'Amour " is without questions one of my all time top tunes. Can't imagine and time and place where this song wouldn't be effective, which is rather remarkable considering Robotnick (aka Maurizio Dami) released said tune in the early '80s. Anywho…while Alexander Robotnick new February mix doesn't feature that particular song, the hour long set is packed from begging to end with a bunch of quality tunes. The mix kicks off at 118 BPM and ends around 128 BPM. Tracklisting: Renato Ratier "Soul Machine" [...]
Stuck on Repeat simply collects together a load of tracks over an un-specified amount of time that we consider essential listening. As always with these types of things there maybe certain tracks you’ve already heard, tracks we’ve missed or accidentally overlooked, so please feel free to hit up the comments with anything you think is indispensable. In no particular order....... Apparat - A Violent Sky Citizen - Everything (Love Fever Records) Midland - Trace (Aus Music) Romanthony - Bring U Up (PBR [...]
It's mid-February now, and we've closed another chapter of the Igloofest chronicle. Almost an extension of the holiday season, the beloved festival serves as a unique mechanism to escape the all too consuming weight of the Montreal Winter. Now that it’s over, thousands of party-goers - upwards of 76,000 to be accurate - must rely on their own devices to persevere towards the effortless joviality of Spring. As always, the celebration exceeded our expectations, leaving only slight and likely superfluous qualms for us to meditate until they are once again wiped from our conscious with [...]
Pete Tong is back this week with his weekly Essential Selection, featuring a flurry of new music that spans the dance music spectrum. We are treated to two world premieres this week; one from Ibiza royalty Solomun , and the other from Hot Natured vocalist/producer Ali Love . Last week’s Essential New Tune , Calrian & Guy Gerber’s remix of “Claire,” was succeeded by Ali Love’s “Emperor," which will be released on underground label Crosstown on April 1st, complete with remixes from Maceo Plex and Waze & Odyssey. Progressive lovers were treated to Tiesto’s remix [...]
Never mind that frontman Julian Casablancas and his blue-blooded comrades met at privileged Manhattan prep academies and elite Swiss boarding schools, The Strokes make music for the working class, man. Spearheads of the early 2000s post-punk revival, on new single "All The Time" these rich kids thankfully graduate from pure Kinks copycats and (somehow) narrowly evade self-parody. "All The Time" centers around Casablancas’ trademark Lou Reed-esque deadpan vocals and imperceptible lyrics, and present are the familiar jangly, power-strummed guitars and bouncy, bubblegum drums, but the track brims with a revived sense of urgency and [...]
A quick scan of the Melvins' career-spanning list of cover songs reveals a rather assorted list of musical interests, ranging from The Cars to Merle Haggard . In April, the band will pay homage to an even more un-plottable list of influences with an entire covers album. Comprised of 13 zany-sounding reworkings, Everybody Loves Sausages includes renditions of David Bowie's "Station To Station" , Queen's "Best Friend" , Throbbing Gristle's "Heathen Earth" , and even the 19th century folk tune "Black Betty". "This record will give people [...]
Find out what Yoel and Joe of 'Songs That Are Good' have to say about Foxygen's second full-length album We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic... Yoel's take : I love this album. This is despite the fact that in many ways it's pretty derivative. "No Destruction" could easily have been on a later Velvet Underground album (maybe Loaded ?). "San Francisco" would not be out of place on the Kinks' classic The Village Green Preservation Society [...]
The Origins Playlist | Prince Club x Frank & Oak Prince Club are a duo of two young DJ/Producers from Montreal. Max and Zach currently reside in both Los Angeles and London, and have a constant hand on the pulse of house music production. They’ve released a number of chart-topping EPs on Snatch! and Made To Play, receiving support from industry heavyweights like Joris Voorn, Claude Von Stroke, Riva Starr, Brodinski, Noir, and many more. TRACKLIST: The End - Chris Minus & Mr. [...]
High on Enon, that is (in case you can't read the print on the capsule) . . . Around the turn of the millennium, the indie band Enon seemed like it just might be in line for a Big Breakthrough. They had a great sound: experimental enough to be fascinating and unpredictable (like Radiohead - not that they sound like them), yet catchy and cool enough to be appealing to a larger audience. Lead singer John Schmersal sometimes sounds like Ray Davies, and in some ways you can hear a Kinks influence, although [...]
Matthew Dear's "Fighting is Futile" is out today with a hefty remix package; critical favorites like Seth Troxler , KiNK, and Benoit & Sergio have all bestowed remixes upon the Brooklyn-based DJ's latest single off his stunning 2012 album Beams. Dear has always done well straddling the gap between house and indie rock, and with many productions indebted to the likes of Talking Heads or Brian Eno, his work on Beams was no different. Troxler takes the already bouncy, drug-addled track and adds enough psychedelia and strangeness to [...]
Damon Albarn lo tenía claro, el debut de Blur no fue lo que el esperaba, quería darle a la banda un giro de 360º que si bien no era necesario, tenía que ser radical.
Memory is a funny thing. It the power to twist over time and become the source of our greatest pride or most painful regret. This week, the list obligatory looks at those songs that are simply about remembering. For many of us, memory is the one of the strongest forces in our [...]
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