If I could choose a song to take with me? Into Eternity!

No need for blogging today. Just this song.

Jens Lekman - Into Eternity (zshare)
Jens Lekman - Into Eternity (ysi)

Question of the week, week 20-21

Results of week 19-20:

Ed Banger Records - Yo Wow or Low Now?

Yo Wow 14 (56%)
Low Now 11 (44%)

Total votes: 25

I think we can judge by this result that the world has been divided in two camps regarding opinions on Ed Banger Records. Those who hate and those who love the label. I think it might be as simple as that, I mean, what other label than Ed Banger would you expect that split but even opinions from? I'm being reasonable as always so I'd say I'll position myself in the middle. On the other hand I did vote Low Now, which I think the label is right now. The label has a lot to prove - and so has their flagship and, if you ask me, only lifeline, Justice - in the future. An upcoming Uffie debut album won't do it either...

Going on in my pulse-checking spirit I wonder what's your opinion on remix competitions? Alternative rock bands Radiohead and Foals are both having remix contests up right now. Nude and Electric Bloom, two rather gloomy and dark tracks (it's Radiohead, no duh) and guess which one has received most remixes and attention? The Nude contest ends June 1 and the Electric Bloom one is lacking a lot of info and hype I'd like to hear and read. Yea, I know! See what the big rock bands made the blogging nerd do?! Are they just manipumarketing their ways into our heads? Or is this remix heaven where you can revel in cheesy three-minute tracks made in 3 seconds as well as interesting intriguing alterations?

Remix contests are...?

Manipumarketing mumbo-jumbo humbug gabba-gabba-hey trix

Remix heavens where you can revel in crappy three-minute tracks made in three seconds as well as interesting intriguing alterations

The poll closes next Sunday at 12:00.

SebastiAn - Dog (zshare)
SebastiAn - Dog (ysi)

Radiohead - Nude (Hipster Runoff Remix) (zshare)
Radiohead - Nude (Hipster Runoff Remix) (ysi)

Foals - Electric Bloom (Michael Lye Remix) (zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (Michael Lye Remix) (ysi)

Broken Records

Hailing from Edinburgh, Scotland, Broken Records is a _piece band (clue: check out the picture for the correct amount) who has caught my attention the last few weeks. With a relatively large number of members and multi-instrumental capacities, the band is able to deliver energetic, tense and passioned compositions housing the traditions of both the modern Scottish alternative music scene and the European folk style. Using guitars, bass, violin, cello, accordion, mandolin, piano, trumpet, glockenspiel and drums they avoid being unnecessarily chaotic when using each to form a consistent whole that is intriguing as well as striking. I think lead singer Jamie sounds like the impossible child of Brandon Flowers (The Killers) and Justin Hawkins (The Darkness) and perhaps if Thom Yorke (Radiohead) was in on a corner of a threesome. Anyways, they sold their debut EP at live gigs in the beginning of August 2007. Their debut single If The News Makes You Sad, Don't Watch It was released in the UK April 14 through Young Turks this year. The band is still unsigned but has established a solid foothold in the blogosphere, and hence, I'm the next to wish and predict a bright future for this band. I'm really looking forward to see a debut album dropping in a not too far future.

The band, or more accurately three guys from the band, was chosen as the first to take part in the blog Song, By Toad's Toad Sessions series which are "live acoustic sessions with my favourite local bands, with interviews, movies a podcast and downloadable session tracks". Below you can find two videos of them playing the great songs Wolves and Out On The Water and two videos with interviews and performances. There's also four mp3s from the sessions and one huge direct-linked mp3 containing the entire sessions under the name Toadcast #26. Bonuses are a whole bunch of other tracks I threw in as well because I really like this band. I also recommend checking out an interview with Jamie over at The Pop Cop.

Toad Sessions: Broken Records, Part 1


Toad Sessions: Broken Records, Part 2


Broken Records - Wolves (Toad Sessions)


Broken Records - Out On The Water (Toad Sessions)


Broken Records - If The News Makes You Sad, Don't Watch It (Toad Sessions) (zshare)
Broken Records - If The News Makes You Sad, Don't Watch It (Toad Sessions) (ysi)

Broken Records - And They All Fell Into The Sea (Toad Sessions) (zshare)
Broken Records - And They All Fell Into The Sea (Toad Sessions) (ysi)

Broken Records - Wolves (Toad Sessions) (zshare)
Broken Records - Wolves (Toad Sessions) (ysi)

Broken Records - Out On The Water (Toad Sessions) (zshare)
Broken Records - Out On The Water (Toad Sessions) (ysi)

Broken Records - Toadcast #26: Broken Records Toad Sessions

Toadcast #26 Playlist:
01. Broken Records - If the News Makes You Sad, Don’t Watch It (03.34)
02. Broken Records - A Good Reason (07.27)
03. Micah P. Hinson & the Gospel Of Progress - Don’t You Forget (14.33)
04. John Cale - Paris 1919 (24.32)
05. The Moulettes - The Cannibal Song (29.40)
06. Yann Tiersen - Comptine D’un Autre Ete - L’apres-Midi (39.07)
07. Broken Records - And They All Fell Into the Sea (40.21)
08. Beirut - Elephant Gun (45.24)
09. The Waterboys - Sweet Thing (52.11)
10. Broken Records - Wolves (63.23)
11. My Latest Novel - When We Were Wolves (66.34)
12. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Love Letter (72.39)
13. Broken Records - Out On the Water (83.16)

Broken Records - Toadcast #26: Broken Records Toad Sessions (directlink)

Broken Records - If Eilert Lovborg Wrote A Song, It Would Sound Like This (zshare)
Broken Records - If Eilert Lovborg Wrote A Song, It Would Sound Like This (ysi)

Broken Records - Slow Parade (zshare)
Broken Records - Slow Parade (ysi)

Broken Records - Lessons Never Learnt (zshare)
Broken Records - Lessons Never Learnt (ysi)

Broken Records - Lies (zshare)
Broken Records - Lies (ysi)

Broken Records - Nearly Home (zshare)
Broken Records - Nearly Home (ysi)

Broken Records - A Good Reason (zshare)
Broken Records - A Good Reason (ysi)

Raffertie

Raffertie is a dancetastic, beattastic, basstastic, BPMtastic up and coming British DJ/producer who has been renowned lately. He was asked by my fellow bloggers over at Noise Porn as the fourth act to make a five minute minimix for their Have You Got 5 Minutes? project. He has also been one of the many No Love Lost Records (NLLR) mixers. Check out his original tracks, remixes and mixes below!

Raffertie - Stomping Grounds (zshare)
Raffertie - Stomping Grounds (ysi)

Britney Spears - Break The Ice (Raffertie's Ice Ice Baby Remix) (zshare)
Britney Spears - Break The Ice (Raffertie's Ice Ice Baby Remix) (ysi)

Chaka Kahn - Ain't Nobody (Raffertie Remix) (zshare)
Chaka Kahn - Ain't Nobody (Raffertie Remix) (ysi)

Faithless - Insomnia (Raffertie's !WRONG! Bass Dub) (zshare)
Faithless - Insomnia (Raffertie's !WRONG! Bass Dub) (ysi)

Raffertie - Noise Porn Have You Got 5 Minutes? Mix #4

Tracklist

1. Raffertie - Intro
2. DJ Q & MC Bones - You Wot?
3. Blend! - Wuts Dat (Kanji Kinetic Remix)
4. AC Slater - Party Like Us (Raffertie’s Ladies Remix)
5. Young Star - True VIP
6. Raffertie - Stomping Grounds
7. Bok Bok & DJ Venom - OMG 3.0
8. Delinquent - Chalace Man
9. DJ Luck & MC Neat - Little Bit Of Luck (2008 Dub Melitia Remix)
10. Raffertie - Do That
11. Bok Bok - What The?
12. Bok Bok - What The? (Raffertie’s Fucked Up Bootleg)
13. Kanji Kinetic - Shock Tactics
14. Rusko - William H Tonkers

Raffertie - Noise Porn Have You Got 5 Minutes? Mix #4 (zshare)
Raffertie - Noise Porn Have You Got 5 Minutes? Mix #4 (ysi)



Raffertie - NLLR Mixtape (zshare)
Raffertie - NLLR Mixtape (ysi)

Raffertie - Baaaaaaaaassline Mix (zshare)
Raffertie - Baaaaaaaaassline Mix (ysi)

Here's what it looks like when he's doing his thaaang:

Raffertie @ 333 23rd of Feb '08


Raffertie @ 333 23rd of Feb '08 (2)

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Foals only need two songs to prove that they have already made the best indie poprock this year. These two songs make up an absolutely brilliant opening for an album. This is the coolest, most catchy, captivating and intricate indie poprock I've ever heard.

Foals - The French Open (zshare)
Foals - The French Open (ysi)

Foals - Cassius (zshare)
Foals - Cassius (ysi)

Foals remix competition, part 2

This is the second Foals remix competition post. A whole bunch of new remixes has been added since my last post. Enjoy and find yourselves a favourite!

Foals - Electric Bloom (Aphrodysium's Ambient Remix) (zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (Aphrodysium's Ambient Remix) (ysi)

Foals - Electric Bloom (Blame This Tape Remix) (zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (Blame This Tape Remix) (ysi)

Foals - Electric Bloom (Earthly Frames and Special Names Remix(zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (Earthly Frames and Special Names Remix) (ysi)

Foals - Electric Bloom (Foster James Remix) (zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (Foster James Remix) (ysi)

Foals - Electric Bloom (Holik Remix) (zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (Holik Remix) (ysi)

Foals - Electric Bloom (I KILL PXLS Remix) (zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (I KILL PXLS Remix) (ysi)

Foals - Electric Bloom (Jumping Jack Flash Remix) (zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (Jumping Jack Flash Remix) (ysi)

Foals - Electric Bloom (Knobjockey Electroslut Remix) (zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (Knobjockey Electroslut Remix) (ysi)

Foals - Electric Bloom (Michael Lye Remix) (zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (Michael Lye Remix) (ysi)

Foals - Electric Bloom (Monsieur Adi Remix) (zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (Monsieur Adi Remix) (ysi)

Foals - Electric Bloom (Mute Fight Remix) (zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (Mute Fight Remix) (ysi)

Foals - Electric Bloom (Necroanal's Eclectic Bloomers Remix) (zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (Necroanal's Eclectic Bloomers Remix) (ysi)

Foals - Electric Bloom (Octa Remix) (zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (Octa Remix) (ysi)

Foals - Electric Bloom (Peterb's _ity Remix) (zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (Peterb's _ity Remix) (ysi)

Foals - Electric Bloom (Post War Years Gatefold Banjo Remix) (zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (Post War Years Gatefold Banjo Remix) (ysi)

Foals - Electric Bloom (Sex Club Reject Remix) (zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (Sex Club Reject Remix) (ysi)

Foals - Electric Bloom (Shibuya Syndicate Remix) (zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (Shibuya Syndicate Remix) (ysi)

Foals - Electric Bloom (The Illuminoid's Electric Doom Remix) (zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (The Illuminoid's Electric Doom Remix) (ysi)

Foals - Electric Bloom (The Peach Tree's Vampire's Lament Remix) (zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (The Peach Tree's Vampire's Lament Remix) (ysi)

Foals - Electric Bloom (TORSO.X Remix) (zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (TORSO.X Remix) (ysi)

Foals - Electric Bloom (TT4P Remix) (zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (TT4P Remix) (ysi)

Foals - Electric Bloom (White Heat Remix) (zshare)
Foals - Electric Bloom (White Heat Remix) (ysi)

Changes...

I've been thinking the past few days abouyt the days of the week. I've come to a point in my blogging where more and more e-mails comes dropping in my box - it's almost become like that crazy owl chaos scene from the first Harry Potter film - and so has school assignments and other miscellaneous dos and don'ts in life. Therefore I find no more reasons to stress me and you by having certain themed days: Video Wednesdays, Youtube Sundays, Remix Thursdays and Swedish Mondays. It's mostly because of me since I, the last few months, haven't had time for things I've wanted to blog about certain days and postponed them. This has lead to unnecessarily long delays. So instead of Video Wednesdays and Youtube Sundays I just re-label these posts with Videos, Thursday Remixes becomes Remixes and Swedish Mondays becomes Swedish. Cyanide and Happiness Fridays will still be here, though, don't despair! These changes will lead to more freedom for both you and me, while still keeping the opportunity for you to search under a certain label, you will find even fresher content in this blog and perhaps an even wider variety. I hope you don't dislike these small changes. I think it's for the better for all of us ^^ ! I'm just afraid I'll forget what day of the week it is IRL... I think the blog helps me keep focus and check on such things as well...

Here's a treat for you: one of my favourite tracks from Santogold's debut album.

Santogold - You'll Find A Way (zshare)
Santogold - You'll Find A Way (ysi)

Glück & Cyanide

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

More Lykke Li remixes!!! ...and some new MSTRKRFT shiz as well...

Here's two great new Lykke Li remixes I found at Electrorash, thanks! Oh, and some new MSTRKRFT remix as well...

Lykke Li - I'm Good I'm Gone (Fred Falke Vocal Remix) (zshare)
Lykke Li - I'm Good I'm Gone (Fred Falke Vocal Remix) (ysi)

Lykke Li - I'm Good I'm Gone (Black Kids Remix) (zshare)
Lykke Li - I'm Good I'm Gone (Black Kids Remix) (ysi)

Usher - Love In This Club (MSTRKRFT Remix) (Kinda low quality, sounds like as if a myspace-rip) (zshare)
Usher - Love In This Club (MSTRKRFT Remix) (Kinda low quality sounds like as if a myspace-rip) (ysi)

Some more remixes

I enjoyed MR GASPAR's remix of The Cardigans' Lovefool but now he has edited it. It's longer, more well-made and more club-friendly. Check it out!

The Cardigans - Lovefool (MR GASPAR Remix) (zshare)
The Cardigans - Lovefool (MR GASPAR Remix) (ysi)

Nora from La Blogotheque tips all Buffetlibre.net visitors off with a nice, pre-summer hype Tegan & Sara remix.

Tegan & Sara - Back In Your Head (Tyler Fedchuk's ½ALIVE Disco Remix) (zshare)
Tegan & Sara - Back In Your Head (Tyler Fedchuk's ½ALIVE Disco Remix) (ysi)

The Brooklyn duo is far from the greatness of their original work or the Wanderlust remix but Ratatat is always Ratatat, even when they touch extremely holy ground for me as The Knife's We Share Our Mothers' Health.

The Knife - We Share Our Mothers' Health (Ratatat Remix) (zshare)
The Knife - We Share Our Mothers' Health (Ratatat Remix) (ysi)

Björk - Wanderlust (Ratatat Remix) (zshare)
Björk - Wanderlust (Ratatat Remix) (ysi)

Switch's and Sinden's dope remix of You'll Find A Way was apparently suitable for Santogold's debut album. This is the dopest club track you can get right now!

Santogold - You'll Find A Way (Switch and Sinden Remix) (zshare)
Santogold - You'll Find A Way (Switch and Sinden Remix) (ysi)

And here's another remix from one of the most up and coming acts right now: MMMatthias!

Santogold - My Superman (MMMatthias Remix) (zshare)
Santogold - My Superman (MMMatthias Remix) (ysi)

Videos I've watched lately, part 2

Hot Chip - One Pure Thought

+ The colourful, childish video is excellent for the merry sides of the song. It looks like a collage of the next generation of gif-files.
+ The goofy humour, especially the "play-guitar-on your-leg-with-a-concentrated facial-expression" gag ^^

- Might have been even better if some sort of plot was developed too

Hot Chip - One Pure Thought


Björk - Wanderlust

+ This is music video history! Who could have expected that Björk's Wanderlust would turn out to become the new Thriller? Björk continues her development from the Medúlla videos and proves that she has the best music videos in the entire world. Amazing graphics and stereoscopic 3D has made it into a spellbinding visual pleasure that you can almost touch. Wanderlust benefits incredibly from this video.

- Nothing!

Björk - Wanderlust


Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes

+ The video is well-made and adds an arty approach and different deep to the song.
+ The moods and atmospheres are significantly enforced with the dramatic script which is staged with lots of suggestive smoke and bright colours.

- What it does not catch as good, however, is the rawer, punkier aesthetics of the song and Santogold's overall sound. Think the cover of the album and you'll get an idea of what I have in mind.
- Colours and fake and/or symbolical objects used in a playgroundish way is not all too original. It seems to fit Hot Chip more than Santogold.

Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes


Hot Chip - One Pure Thought (zshare)
Hot Chip - One Pure Thought (ysi)

Björk - Wanderlust (zshare)
Björk - Wanderlust (ysi)

Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes (zshare)
Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes (ysi)

Album of the week, week 20: Hadouken! - Music For An Accelerated Culture

Tracklist
1. Get Smashed Gate Crash (3:19)
2. That Boy That Girl (3:32)
3. Game Over (3:35)
4. Declaration Of War (3:11)
5. Mister Misfortune (3:16)
6. Crank It Up (3:00)
7. What She Did (3:17)
8. Driving Nowhere (3:47)
9. Liquid Lives (2:51)
10. Spend Your Life (3:12)
11. Wait For You (3:59)

I'll keep myself short now. Grown-ups' nightmare band Hadouken! leaves no time for deeper reflections or contemplation. Heads up: as furious sprouts of the speedy infotechnical generation they mix rave, nu-rave, grime, indie rock (grime+indie rock=grindie), dance-punk, techno, trance, big beat, pop and everything else they enjoy in one big shit mixer til the yucky-looking goo sprays in cascades all over the place. They are the first band to truly embody The Lemur Blog's own phrase "fierce piercing music" - something quite remarkable. Although largely in debt to 90s rave culture which was fronted by The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy, Hadouken! adds a refreshing ! to rave when revitalizing it in a confusingly parodic way, straight into the accelerated music culture of today. What is even more than the frenetic energy is the frenzied pop handicraft. The next song being punchier and catchier than the other, MSC FR N CCLRTD CLTR turns out into an overwhelming whole that is thr@sh tr@sh m@sh b@sh at its finest. WARNING: Volume levels will be raised to ravetastic levels. If you experience soreness in ears or a slight headache, please contact your closest friend for musical transmitting immediately. Despite a poppy production and an eager reserve of ideas, some sensitive or sensible listeners may find it a bit too monotonous or tediously raving. If so, I recommend jumping up and down following the tempo of the music and flap your arms and sing along until any doubting has left your heads. Music For An Accelerated Culture is Music For The Jilted Generation version 2.0 released in 2008. Period. Over and out.

Hadouken! - Game Over (ysi)

Question of the week, week 19-20

I know, I know. Today is Tuesday and the polls usually comes on Sundays. But Blogger were experiencing some problems all Sunday and yesterday (Monday) I went hiking, for a change. That's why I post this today and make it look like it was posted Sunday. Don't be confused now!

Results of week 18-19:

Which was the definite rave era?

The Kraftwerkian totally psyched out robot dance socializations in the late 70s 3 (8%)

The synthpop slanting-bangs orgies of the early 80s 2 (5%)

The earliest techno raves of the late 80s 4 (11%)

The drug-soaked foul popular youth culture techno/house raves of the early 90s 17 (50%)

The converging trance sound club parties of the late 90s and early 2000s 2 (5%)

The commercially acknowledged electrohouse of the late 2000s? 4 (11%)

Kraak & Smaak's righteous popularity of the 2010s? 2 (5%)

Total votes: 34

It looks like I've got myself a ravey reader crowd here and half of them seem to have been active in "The drug-soaked foul popular youth culture techno/house raves of the early 90s". I'd been hoping for more Kraftwerkians and Kraak&Smaakians. I'm too young to remember most of these eras but I thank you for your shared knowledge and opinions and in this blog it has been confirmed that the years 90-95 was the DEFINITE ABSOLUTE rave era. Cool.

For some of the nu-ravers around, I reviewed Ed Rec Vol. 3 last week and stated that the once so shiningly creddy label has drowsed off and that it was rather disappointing. I stand by my opinion but now I'd like to know what you think of the world's most hugged and squeezed hipster label.

Ed Banger Records - Yo Wow or Low Now?

Yo Wow

Low Now

The poll closes next Sunday at 12:00.

So Me - Decalcomania (zshare)
So Me - Decalcomania (ysi)