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Harping On
Wasn't it great the way Hercules & Love Affair transformed Antony from hammy, maudlin balladeer to hammy, maudlin disco diva? Now that Joanna Newsom is making the gossip pages we think it's high time she too was transformed into a k-fueled club freak. Imagine it: a harp and silver hotpants. That is a world-beating combination. Anyway, it seems her reinvention is already underway. Pocketknife set the ball rolling with a suitably dreamy makeover for the very excellent Tambourine Dream EP and and now dubstep dude Clouds has drowned her in bass. Right on!
Clouds - Shallow [mp3] [Buy]
Joanna Newsom - The Book Of Right On (Pocketknife's Scowling Owl Remix) [mp3] [Buy]
Posted by: Scott 31/03/08
New Romance
Sometimes it feels like the world is overrun by electro troubadours. Those camp dudes and their laptops are everywhere. Then we heard the awesomely droll toytown pop of Esser’s new vinyl-only single and saw people throwing raw bacon at him in the video and realised, of course, that these dudes rule and we need more of them.
Esser - I Love You [mp3] [Buy]
Posted by: Scott 29/03/08
Björn Again
Hey Peter (of Bjorn & John fame), we know how you feel. Talking to people sucks. And thanks, not for your literate Paul Simon acousticness, but for providing our second melodic George Michael reference in two days. We're calling this a revival and have already started sculpting our stubble.
Peter Morén - Social Competence [mp3] [Buy]
Posted by: Scott 27/03/08
Wham Jam
We love rap music in 2008. It’s like somebody has dropped it on its head and the resulting brain injuries have led to bizarre and inspired decision making. Here Diplo flips the new kings of 90s sampledelia back a decade and reveals the hitherto unknown menace within Careless Whisper. A full LP of this stuff is forthcoming on Mad Decent and the good dudes at Gorilla vs Bear have a sampler.
PRGz - Bama Gettin Money (Diplo Remix) [mp3]
Posted by: Scott 26/03/08
Night Hawks
Ladyhawke - Back Of The Van
In which Modular's new pop queen channels Bonnie Tyler for the latest (and hopefully last) chapter of faux-retro sexual seduction.
Incidentally: Ladyhawke, Ladyhawk and Adeyhawke... is this the future of band names? Multiple variations on the same word? Remember you read this on Pinglewood.com. Not Pinglewoode.com or Pingelwood.com.
Posted by: Scott 25/03/08
Love In The Afternoon
It's the Easter holidays and we are full of joie de vivre. Probably because we're listening to the Mystery Jets new album 21, a record so exuberant it could make Chris Partlow smile. Here le dudes from The Shoes give Young Love a subtle synthesizing.
Mystery Jets - Young Love (Shoes Mix) [mp3] [Buy]
Posted by: Scott 21/03/08
Hit Factory
We wrote about Striken City recently because their demos are amazing and their singer's surname is Raa which sounds like a roar if you say it right. We're simple folk and things like that please us. Now we have their new Factory Sessions EP and dudes have more than paid off on their early promise. Will McGillivray from Adventures Close To Home and Andy Chatterly have shined them up and given them a grand, melancholic edge while Raa doesn't so much roar as purr loudly. The EP will be out soon on ACTH Recordings whose output is every bit as awesome as their parties.
Stricken City - Tak o Tak [mp3] [Buy]
Stricken City - Bardou [mp3] [Buy]
Posted by: Scott 20/03/08
River Dance
Chromatics - Killing Spree
In which Johnny Chromatic films Ruth Chromatic swimming with a wolf while the sun dances on the water in glorious monochrome. This is hypnotically beautiful. If you're feeling a little worse for wear today, watch this 20 times in a row and feel soothed. It's working for us.
Posted by: Scott 19/03/08
Party Over Here
DJ Pants
We rarely leave the Tower Of Pinglewood. We're not agoraphobic, just effort haters. But our pals Alex Chase and Charles II have coaxed us out to miscue records at their Roll Call party tomorrow night. We'll be joining actual DJs like Floss Daily and Stones Throw's resident ladies man, James Pants. Peanut Butter Wolf will be there too, guarding our rider. So come and join us! It's free and we are all good looking.
ROLL CALL with
Peanut Butter Wolf [Stones Throw]
James Pants [Stones Throw]
Floss Daily [Tomorrow's World]
Pinglewood
and the residents...
Alex Chase [Stones Throw, One-Handed Music]
Charles II [Shhhhh.co.uk/]
Tuesday 18th March, 7-11pm, 3 Blind Mice, 5 Ravey Street, London
James Pants - Ka$h [mp3]
Posted by: Scott 17/03/08
Semi-Detached
Micachu is a 21-year-old wunderkind composer/songwriter/DJ who's pally with Matthew Herbert. Her new mix is full of creepy off-kilter digitronics, manic grime and her own woozy vocals. In her semi-conscious Rotoscoped world filthy friends like Man Like Me, Toddla T, Ghost Poet and Golden Silvers slowly drift in and out of focus. It's not so much a mixtape as an East London fever dream.
Micachu - Filthy Friends : The Mixtape (59:10) [mp3]
Posted by: Scott 13/03/08
Lost Highway
It's 1981 and ESG and John Carpenter have covered Roy Budd's theme from Get Carter, except it's not and they haven't, it's now and Zombie Zombie are scoring amazing horror films that don't exist. Here they provide an end credits soundtrack to the long, dark road down which our hero travels after a movie's worth of undead slaughter. Kurt Russell would be great in this.
Zombie Zombie - A Land For Renegades [mp3] [Buy]
Posted by: Scott 13/03/08
Over The Lazy Dog
We used to think foxes were cool because they’re wily rule breakers with great hair. Then we lived next to a churchyard for a while and found out they wail like strangled babies. Fleet Foxes have wisely kept the cool/great hair part and replaced the creepy moaning with hymnal harmonies. Well played, vulpine dudes.
Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant [mp3] [Buy]
Posted by: Scott 12/03/08
Call Of The Wild
Last week we watched a funny TV show about the poor bastards who work in call centres. The obscene opening soundtrack/rant was provided by Johnny Trunk, the genius behind oddball archive label Trunk Records. Some people really don't like cold callers.
Johnny Trunk - Scooby Don't [mp3] [Buy]
Posted by: Scott 11/03/08
On The Ropes
The Shoes are French and play keyboards so of course they're all over l'internetz. Knock Out! their Rocky-referencing paean to pugilism is out soon and if you like that you'll enjoy their recent dust-ups with Primary 1 , Mystery Jets and Get Cape Wear Cape Fly.
The Shoes - Knock Out! (80Kidz Remix) [mp3] Update- we've replaced the original with the 80kidz remix
Get Cape Wear Cape Fly - Waiting For The Monster To Drown (The Shoes Remix) [mp3]
Posted by: Scott 10/03/08
Boomin' System
We like A1 Bassline because his name makes a promise and the music delivers. In his remixes bassline house, fidget house, rappy rap and speed garage boil and bubble over bone-shakingly low, seismic frequencies.
Cadence Weapon - House Music (A1 Bassline remix) [mp3]
Damaged Goods - Yo Righteous (A1 Bassline remix) [mp3]
A1 vs Daft Punk - HBFS (Been Done A Million Times But Not Like This mix) [mp3]
Posted by: Scott 07/03/08
Portrait Of An Artiste
Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes
In which super Santi sits astride a horse and people murderize each other on the streets of east London using all kinds of amazing special effects. This is star-making stuff.
Posted by: Scott 06/03/08
Beach Party
Tane Mahuta is a giant kauri tree in the Waipoua Forest of Northland Region, New Zealand (Thanks Wikipedia!). This song is a giant totem of fun that's taken permanent root in our brains. It's still winter but the Ruby Suns's new album feels like sand between our toes. We can't wait to listen to this with sunstroke.
The Ruby Suns - Tane Mahuta [mp3] [Buy]
Posted by: Scott 05/03/08
Champion Sound
Buraka Som Sistema (ft. DJ Znobia, M.I.A., Saborosa and Puto Prata) - Sound of Kuduro
In which Buraka Som Sistema and pals declare war on all dancefloors.
Update! BSS are in London next week. Go see!
WEDNESDAY 19 MARCH / LIVE AT HOXTON BAR & KITCHEN
THURSDAY 20 MARCH / DJ MC AT YO YO, NOTTING HILL ARTS CLUB
FRIDAY 21 MARCH / LIVE HEADLINE AT FABRIC LONDON
Posted by: Scott 02/03/08
Blood On The Dancefloor
How To Make An Indie Rock Favourite
Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (Superprince Edit) [mp3]
Posted by: Scott 02/03/08