Blog: Disco Nap.

The new Little Boots song is properly the most amazing dance song we've heard all year

Jun 30, 2009, 8:14pm Disco Nap.

...and we've been meaning to talk about it for a while, but we've been really, really, really busy and on top of that having some sort of Existential Pop Crisis about What It All Means and Why Are We Here and We Can't Tell Any Of The Pussycat Dolls Apart, etc, etc, etc ETFUCKINGCETERA. Maybe we'll be back. Maybe we won't. We haven't decided. This track is absolutely 6,000% Amazing, though.

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Something...

Apr 15, 2009, 1:01am Disco Nap.

Will happen soon.

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PLEASE DO NOT ADJUST YOUR YOUTUBE

Feb 18, 2009, 9:36pm Disco Nap.

Chairlift are just "datamoshing". Yes, "datamoshing"--the newfangled video treatment in which images are manipulated to purposefully look like you're streaming video is totally fucked in the ass. Charming! The first time we saw OG datamoshing was in the absolutely fantastic video for "Are You the One?" by the Presets , and we thought it was kind of confusing but immensely cool. Obvi, the video for "Evident Utensil" by Disconap Best Album of 2008 Laureates Chairlift could have been recorded in five minutes on a FlipCam and we still would have been all "OMG [...]

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Once Again, Sébastien Tellier Demonstrates His Bottomless Sense of Humility

Jan 29, 2009, 1:47pm Disco Nap.

At first we thought hirsute French crooner Sébastien Tellier was a little bit naft, but luckily we've realized that we're totally wrong and that he is the future of music (he's not the future of music, but Sexuality is am amazing record, etc). But we will say, we've can't recall anyone ever releasing TRAILER for their new video (in this case, the amazing intergalactic slow-jam "Roche"). Not only that, but it would seem that the video heavily features Sébastien riding a horse up a giant woman's bottom. FEAR. This is the teaser. [...]

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We Just May Be Totally Obsessed With The Golden Filter

Jan 28, 2009, 4:32pm Disco Nap.

Yes, things have been slow around here, but we're gradually getting it together, between trying to find bands we're into and viewings of BBC America's How Clean Is Your House? . We're going to do a massive redesign, but for now here's "Hide Me" by The Golden Filter. It is good. That is all. Also we love the bit where they jump on the couch and it flips over.

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The Katy Perry Remix To End All Katy Perry Remixes

Dec 28, 2008, 5:04am Disco Nap.

We randomly came across this remix of "Hot N Cold" by someone named Daddy Nino (or Niño, perhaps? It's hard to tell WHEN PEOPLE USE ALL CAPS ALL THE TIME), while looking for new and inventive ways of making Katy Perry listenable. Holy mother of Christ, this remix is fucking amazing. We basically sat in front of the computer making more and more confused faces until it ended and we started it again. If Katy Perry sounded like this all the time she would have easily been our breakout artist for 2008*. Instead, it takes some kid making YouTube remixes [...]

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Had You Told Us That The New Lily Allen Single Would Make Us Like Pop Music Again We Would Have Laughed In Your Face

Dec 5, 2008, 11:30am Disco Nap.

100% Amazing.

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Everything with You

Dec 3, 2008, 4:46pm Disco Nap.

I think that I must be living under a rock because all that I've been listening to of late are albums that I've had in the collection for a while. What's going on 2008? With the exception of School of Seven Bells' Alpinisms and Cut Copy's Ghost Colours -- it might as well be 2001 for me. I'm hoping for something big to WOW me in 2009. One album that everyone should take a listen to this coming February is the full-length debut album by the Pains of Being Pure at Heart . [...]

• The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Everything With You

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Artist:	The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Title:	Everything With You
Link Text:	Pains of Being Pure at Heart
File Name:	everything-with-you.mp3
Bitrate:	231 kbps
Year:	2009

The Saturdays and Vince Clarke Save Music

Nov 29, 2008, 1:13pm Disco Nap.

The date is November 29th, 2008. It's a Saturday (COINCIDENCE??? I THINK NOT) and we were going about our normal weekend schedule--making a hearty breakfast, idly channel surfing, perhaps daydreaming a little about Daniel Craig and how we haven't seen Quantum of Solace yet, and of course reading a week's worth of posts on our favorite pop blog, Popjustice.com. It's when stumbling upon a post about The Saturdays, a rather, to be frank, hit-or-miss girl group currently making a name for themselves across the pond. We were about to scroll down the page in with our usual sigh of "OH [...]

• The Saturdays - Issues (Vince Clarke Radio Edit)

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Artist:	The Saturdays
Title:	Issues (Vince Clarke Radio Edit)
Link Text:	The Saturdays - Issues (Vince Clarke Radio Edit)
File Name:	05 Issues _Vince Clarke Radio Edit_.mp3
Bitrate:	212 kbps
Year:	2008

We'd like for you to assist at the death of our credibility

Nov 8, 2008, 12:10am Disco Nap.

( What credibility?--World ) We don't know if it's these hard American times, the economy, the lack of health care, the war, and all the national strife that is beginning to seriously impair our mental health, but after last week's misguided confession of our love for the song "Human" by serial musical offenders The Killers, we'd like to present our DN reader(s) with our newest earworm: Forgive us Father, for we have sinned. Don't get it twisted: this is not in any way, shape or form an acceptance of the [...]

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Stick A Fork In Us, We're Done

Oct 23, 2008, 11:38am Disco Nap.

In all our days on this Earth we have only found there to be two universal truths: everyone dies someday, and the Killers are shit. Like, really, really shit. Ever since their faux-'80s stylings of 2003, we've often wished someone would take it upon themselves to eradicate the Killers from this planet like the musical plague that they are, and each day we got closer and closer to taking on the task ourselves. After all, as the saying goes, if you want an immensely overrated and annoying band destroyed right, you have to do it yourself. It's our [...]

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We'd like to declare October 14th, 2008 National "Womanizer" Day

Oct 14, 2008, 8:49pm Disco Nap.

We will confess, under oath, that when we first heard "Womanizer" we were a bit underwhelmed. After the amazing run that Blackout had (and by "amazing" we mean "Gimme More"), it all seemed too much, too soon--new album, new single, supposed mental stability. "Womanizer" was a little bit of fluff on the end of a year that saw Britney plunge to the deepest depths (VMAs, anyone?), and score some of the musical highlights of her career. Interesting stuff, right? Yeah. Well, surprise, turns out that "Womanizer" is the best Britney single since "Slave 4 U". HOW'S THAT FOR A [...]

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Oh look...

Sep 28, 2008, 6:39pm Disco Nap.

...we've logged into Blogger for the first time in a month because it's the weekend and it's raining, to bring you "news" about an artist everyone has heard already. Is DN "dead" (or was it indeed ever alive?) Leave your verdict in the comment section. And by "Leave your verdict in the comment section", we mean don't. ... IS ANYONE THERE??!?!? This is Ladyhawke (we told you), and approx. two weeks ago we got her debut album (we think it's called "Ladyhawke" but we LITERALLY can't be [...]

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This is Manda Rin...

Sep 10, 2008, 9:48pm Disco Nap.

...from criminally underrated '90s indie pop band bis (we're fairly sure "bis" is meant to be spelled sans capitalization. We're OCD like that). We basically had a little bit of a pee in our pants when we realized that Manda was coming out with her first solo album, as bis were basically the best band in the whole world, ever. Actually, Manda's new single "My DNA" makes us kind of indescribably sad, because while it's 101% Fucking Amazing, it would be 1001% Fucking Amazing if it were a new bis single. Where are you, Sci-Fi Steven and Disco [...]

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That said

Aug 27, 2008, 2:28am Disco Nap.

We just got the debut Friendly Fires album, and we like it, so here's to that. The album is called Friendly Fires (originality--you're doing it wrong), and it features a not-as-good-as-the-demo version of "Photobooth" BUT also contains their pants-pissingly AMAZING new single "Jump in the Pool", which obviously should have been the title of the album. Obviously.

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We just don't know anymore

Aug 26, 2008, 10:10pm Disco Nap.

This is an old picture of international contemporary R&B diva Rihanna. We chose and old picture because it reminded us of a time where not only music was good, but it fucking made sense when you listened to it, and you enjoyed yourself. But alas readers, those days are over. It;s now with heavy fingertips that we update this blog because, for fucking real, WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON. Today we opened up our Google Reader to find several blogs referring to a new T.I. song, "Live You Life", [...]

• T.I. - Live Your Live (Feat. Rihanna)

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Artist:	T.I.
Title:	Live Your Live (Feat. Rihanna)
Link Text:	T.I. featuring Rihanna - Live Your Life
File Name:	t.i. - live your live feat. rihanna.mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps
Year:	2008

Kylie Minogue rights every wrong perpetrated by the marketing behind "X"

Aug 11, 2008, 9:01pm Disco Nap.

In a perfect world, one devoid of war, crime, and misery, Kylie Minogue would have released the Freemasons edit of her new single "The One" instead of "2 Hearts" as the leasd single off of "X" and would have destroyed everyone else in her path. Unfortunately, the world is super fucked up and she's only getting to it now. Better late than never we suppose. Well done, Kylie/the people that market her. That said, we could do without the Euro-dance vocal edits near the 2:30 mark, but that's just us.

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There's a new Keane single on the horizon

Jul 31, 2008, 8:46pm Disco Nap.

...and we're pleased. Keane have finally gone and designed artwork that looks the way their music sounds: RETARDED AND AMAZING AT THE SAME TIME. Keane are one of those bands that have accomplished the astonishing yet financially and comemrically unviable feat of being really, really good yet fooling everyone into thinking they're shit so they can basically fuck off and do whatever they want musically with no expectations or pressure. They're frankly the best Adult Contemporary band out there (with Tigercity coming in at a close second) and if you'd [...]

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Meet Dannyhott, your new favorite thing ever

Jul 31, 2008, 4:35pm Disco Nap.

This is Dannyhott. That was Dannyhott, and 11-year-old boy with a YouTube channel, a hope and a dream, performing a daring "Damaged"/"Feedback" medley in the comfort of his bedroom. We'll bet anything that his bedroom is in Florida but we digress. While we're wary of the Walt Disney Company being basically a government-fronted cultural infiltration op (not kidding), why they're not knocking on Dannyhott's front door this very instant we have no idea. Obviously, this child has more going for him than Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers combined. We can barely [...]

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Welcome to the last blog on Earth to post about Juvelen*

Jul 29, 2008, 11:09pm Disco Nap.

This is Juvelen. He is on the right. Are you looking at his nipple or at the kitty? This picture might as well be titled "What Kind Of Gay Are You?". We came across Juvelen when two blogs we respect and admire, Popjustice and Electroqueer raved, almost simultaneously, about "Don't Mess", and we were, briefly, intrigued. We must say, it's quite amazing, even though at the moment the jury is still out on whether Juvelen sounds more like Prince or Mika (we're kind of going with Mika, which says more [...]

• Juvelen - Don't Mess (Krazy Fiesta Remix)

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Artist:	Juvelen
Title:	Don't Mess (Krazy Fiesta Remix)
Link Text:	(zShare)
File Name:	dont mess krazy fiesta remix.mp3
Bitrate:	320 kbps
Year:	2008