Vacationer prove their remix mettle by taking on Major Lazer 's "Get Free (Ft. Amber of Dirty Projectors)." No stranger to leisure, the Philly four-piece reinterprets the laid back vibes of the original with an island style of their own, trading "Get Free's" reggae stylings for a hazy, electronic beat. "Nu-hula," if you will. We think this one's a better fit for late night parties on the beach. Stream it below. MP3: Major Lazer - "Get Free (Ft. Amber of Dirty Projectors) (Vacationer Remix)"
Today, the Dirty Projectors release a new 123 single, one where various different producers remix "The Socialites," a song from their 2012 album Swing Lo Magellan . Hot Chip's Joe Goddard contributed one remix , and we already posted that. The great young London electro-soul duo AlunaGeorge also offer their own remix, one that pairs Amber Coffman's sweet, soft vocal with keyboard modulations and Chicago footwork percussion. Listen to it below. Read More...
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After experimenting with three formats for the Monthly Mix - MP3 zip, Spotify playlist, Soundcloud set, etc. - in March we finally came upon a solution that pleased everyone: all of them. And so, for you, here is the month's music, whittled down to its very best, via each of the aforementioned mediums, limited only by its availability on said mediums. This means a 13-track zip, a 12-track Spotify playlist, and a whopping 54-track Soundcloud stream. And somehow, falling through all the cracks and not represented on any is one of the month's finest: The National's straight-to-Youtube " [...]
Mild-mannered French superstars Phoenix have already lined up a serious cast of heavy hitters to remix or rework their new single " Entertainment ": Grizzly Bear , Dinosaur Jr. , Blood Orange . And now the band have commissioned a remix from the Dirty Projectors, who aren't exactly deep in the remixing game. The Dirty Pro remix does, however, sound a lot like a Dirty Projectors song: Echoing vocal yelps, tricky rhythms, hooks that sneak up on you (even if, in this case, they're hooks that were already in the song). Download the remix below. [...]
In the weeks leading up to Phoenix dropping their long-awaited fifth album Bankrupt! , a slew of artists were remixing their songs, primarily "Entertainment" , most recently with Grizzly Bear 's take on the track for Record Store Day . Today it's the turn of Dirty Projectors , twisting the song into a skewered, jittery, hand-clap-filled, vocal-muffling brute of a track. Bankrupt! , which is out [...]
You know when you hit saturation point with that one song? You've heard it so many fucking times over – you know its every lyric and every intricate inflexion thereof; you can reproduce its slick lick round the back of your brain; know, and so too fear the exact second it'll end. That is, or rather was where I was at with Get Free – I foolishly believed I could immaculately reproduce Amber Coffman's elastane vocal; redo her squiggly guitar part, and as such I needed something; anything to rejuvenate the adoration. And one might set about questioning how it [...]
For a new 123 single, Dirty Projectors have lined up a pretty great cast of producers to remix the Swing Lo Magellan track "The Socialites." AlunaGeorge and FaltyDL have both contributed remixes, as has Hot Chip co-leader Joe Goddard. Goddard's take on the track is a fluid, rippling thing, exactly what you might hope from a Dirty Projectors/Hot Chip co-presentation, and it gives me flashbacks to Amber Coffman's vocal on Major Lazer's " Get Free ." Stream the remix below. Read More...
While never quite my favourite from Dirty Projectors' Swing Lo Magellan – which conversely just so happened to feature right up there among our favourite LPs of 2012 – The Socialites proved an intriguing hypothesis on reticence from David Longstreth et al., not least as they at least superficially seem a rather asocial ensemble themselves. Here, Hot Chip kingpin Joe Goddard gives it a reinvigorating spin, and perhaps inevitably readies it for those more explicitly sociable sorts of scenario – grubby dance floors, grimy house parties and the like. Though as [...]
Wildlife Control - Ages Places [mp3] (single) Bi-coastal brothers release new beat-driven indie rock single in support of upcoming SXSW dates. Click here for more info. Download: wildlife-control_ages_places.m p3 [...]
Any day that goes by without even so much as a transient burst of David Longstreth's Dirty Projectors is one which somehow leaves me feeling strangely unfulfilled. And truth be known, I've thus far this year rather neglected Swing Lo Magellan so it's something of a saving grace that they released this one over the weekend. There's A Fire originally featured as the flipside to a limited white label release of Offspring Are Blank pressed especially to coincide with a show at New York's Carnegie Hall last month, and it's one to really rekindle [...]
Last month, Dirty Projectors played Carnegie Hall, and you want to make sure you've got something special for the merch table when you do a thing like that. So for the occasion, the band made a special 73 single version of the excellent Swing Lo Magellan opener " Offspring Are Blank ," limiting it to 250 hand-numbered copies. The single's B-side was a beautifully skittery and intricate song called "There's A Fire," which they have now graciously allowed the rest of the universe to hear. Listen to it below. Read More...
It's quite unmistakably en vogue to go reworking contemporary R'n'B tracks at the minute and whether that be David Longstreth's Dirty Projectors giving Usher's heady Climax a mildly radical once-over or AlunaGeorge redoing Frank Ocean's Thinkin Bout You, the results can prove somewhat inconclusive. So when 4AD's Montréal duo Purity Ring took to Soulja Boy's Grammy in the wake of the awards of the same name, the jury was bound to take its sweet time about it. Of course elements of hip hop, post-R'n'B , and so forth all factored into the making of Megan James and [...]
2012 was a fantastic year for new music from both up-and-coming bands and veterans of the music scene. I listened to as much as I could get my hands on [...]
Jarri reckons this latest electropop-hemmed hunk from great Danish songstress Mø sounds rather redolent of Purity Ring though if so, it's indubitably more of a Fineshrine than it is Ungirthed; one to enwrap in your dismembered "little ribs" for prized safekeeping. With a thin patina of snow currently lacing the streets, Glass plays off that same belatedly festive feel as did fellow Scandi heartthrob Frida Sundemo's latest, Snow , though that's where the similarities end as Karen Ørsted melts the glistering cascades of scale to its beginning into a more pulsating, and indeed scintillating electroclash-Zero backdrop [...]
My top ten for the year, with a brief explanation/comment. Enjoy & Happy New Year! ...... 1. Grizzly Bear – Shields The guys in Grizzly Bear killing it, once again. This record is almost perfect. The compositions are strange & beautiful, and they complement the haunting singing styles of Ed Droste and Daniel Rossen. If you didn’t get this album – you missed (but there's still time!). Check Out: Yet Again [mp3] [...]
Broke - "Restless Beach" from the Lifestyle Mixtape Self-described 'dark-coloured disco', "Restless Beach" is part of a nine-track mixtape from this Copenhagen-based, electro-rock outfit . Get a free download of the mixtape here . - Dan Deacon - "True Thrush" performed live on Jimmy Kimmel from America [...]
Fresh off the heels of July's acclaimed Swing Lo, Magellan , Dirty Projectors have leaked the track “While You’re Here” from its upcoming About To Die EP. Spanning just over two minutes, the short but sweet track is a string-laden, orchestral tribute to a fallen friend. Dirty Projectors’ frontman Dave Longstreth revealed on Twitter that he wrote the song for Gerard Smith, the late TV On The Radio bassist who died in April 2011 of lung cancer. The song is beautiful and complex, as we’ve come [...]
When I saw the Dirty Projectors live in Brooklyn last summer, what amazed me the most was their ability to synchronize all their voices while they move in every which direction. I would try to comprehend how some of them were, individually, making the sounds they made, but at the same time how the collective sound somehow was forming. Their skill is impeccable. I can't credit Dave Longstreth completely, but it does seem like this band is his brainchild. In this track, Dave sings about TV On The Radio's bassist, Gerard Smith, who passed away from lung cancer in 2011. [...]
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