- hupendi muziki: Exclusive : Digitalism - TVTV
"If Franz Ferdinand made rock music that girls could dance to, then Digitalism makes electronic music that everyone can rock out to." [Premier of non-album track] - SOaP - WMC 2007 Run Down
Back from Miami ready to collect thoughts on this years conference... - The Field - Interview - Stylus Magazine
Stylus catches the Swedish techno wunderkind for a Q&A... - The Modern Age » Jack White’s Detroit House Sells for $590,000
The AP reports that 1731 Seminole, the former Detroit, Michigan home of Jack White has finally sold to a retired couple from Maryland for $590,000. [Crazy photos of his red & white laundry room] - Pitchfork: Hot Chip's Taylor Talks DJ-Kicks, New Album
"It's a dance record for the most part...there's no room for things like Willie Nelson on there." - Status Ain't Hood: Live: Hot Chip's Robo-Soul Delirium
Hot Chip; Webster Hall; April 20, 2007 - stereogum: Gym Class Heroes Deliver Worst Beach Boys Cover Of All Time
Good Vibrations Ohhhhh! - Vice magazine: INTERVIEW - RATATAT
Ratatat are two guys from New York who play laptop-programmed music with a million layers of guitars and synths. It sounds like sleazy, robotic, oom-pah chamber music and makes girls like Kelly Osbourne go weak at the knees. - BangGang Podcast - DJ Mehdi Special Guest Podcast!!!
To celebrate our BangGang party in May with DJ Mehdi here is a lil mix he did early this year....
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4.26.2007
LINKS FOR 2007-04-25
In class today, as part of a presentation today about music, war, and torture, someone played all of "Killing in the Name Of." Not even joking. I'm telling you, this is big, people.
12.01.2006
MIX: I GO HARD I GO HOME
I've got a new mix up available for download. Just head over to rad fellow Minneapolis blog Still-Listen to hear it and get a copy.
Tracklist:
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus (Boys Noize rework)Let me know what you think.
Peaches - Boys Wanna Be Her (TS Brooklyn Fire re-touch)
Klaxons - Gravity's Rainbow (Van She remix)
The Presets - I Go Hard, I Go Home
Guns'n'Bombs - Nothing is Getting Us Anywhere
The Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control (Soulwax Nite Version)
Fox n' Wolf - In Yr Underwear (Jesper Dahlback mix)
Justice - Let There Be Light (demo)
DJ Mehdi feat. Chromeo - I Am Somebody
Justin Timberlake - My Love (Linus Loves remix)
Brazilian Girls - Jique (MSTRKRFT remix)
Spektrum - Don't Be Shy
The Rapture - Whoo! Alright - Yeah... Uh Huh (Simian Mobile Disco remix) / (original version)
11.28.2006
CAUSE I AM. SOME-BO-DY. SOME-BO-DY. SOME-BO-DY.
Yesterday had me pretty much instantly eating my words on hip-hop vs. dance music. Actually, not exactly. I understand the influence electro had on hip-hop, and I understand similarities between, say, Daft Punk and Afrika Bambaataa, or something. My main problem is DJ sets that instantly go from 135 BPM to like 90 BPM by shoving hard house beats next to gangsta rap. Sometimes makes for awkwardness on the dance floor.
Anyways, about me eating my words: for some reason I did not pick up on Lucky Boy, the new album from DJ Mehdi, which is puzzling since it's the first LP to be released by Ed Banger. It really illuminates the crossover appeal between dance and hip-hop which, according to his interview with Fader, was Mehdi's intention.
It is an extremely fly album, and I can hear a lot of my favorite Daft Punk song, "Aerodynamic", in here. For now, I'm going to have to agree with the Pitchfork review when it says, "His pre-club electro beats and glossy synth-funk are ideal for that sort of non-dancing dancing that you do while you're doing something else, which may be the intent since Mehdi's website shows him lounging around just the kind of airy Paris loft that you might wish you were in when you listen to this album." It strikes that kind of in-between space that makes for a good hang out album.
The highlight for me is definitely single "I Am Somebody" [zshare] [YSI], featuring the dudes of Chromeo. It's my new jam. It sounds like another world where Pharrell hadn't come out with any of his damning original material and just dropped a really fucking cool single on us. Also check the video, featuring dance moves, Busy P, and those Ed Banger illustrations we all know and love (thanks to the heads up from Fader).
Anyways, about me eating my words: for some reason I did not pick up on Lucky Boy, the new album from DJ Mehdi, which is puzzling since it's the first LP to be released by Ed Banger. It really illuminates the crossover appeal between dance and hip-hop which, according to his interview with Fader, was Mehdi's intention.
It is an extremely fly album, and I can hear a lot of my favorite Daft Punk song, "Aerodynamic", in here. For now, I'm going to have to agree with the Pitchfork review when it says, "His pre-club electro beats and glossy synth-funk are ideal for that sort of non-dancing dancing that you do while you're doing something else, which may be the intent since Mehdi's website shows him lounging around just the kind of airy Paris loft that you might wish you were in when you listen to this album." It strikes that kind of in-between space that makes for a good hang out album.
The highlight for me is definitely single "I Am Somebody" [zshare] [YSI], featuring the dudes of Chromeo. It's my new jam. It sounds like another world where Pharrell hadn't come out with any of his damning original material and just dropped a really fucking cool single on us. Also check the video, featuring dance moves, Busy P, and those Ed Banger illustrations we all know and love (thanks to the heads up from Fader).
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