Hey Monkeys! What's up? Sorry I lag on getting fresh goods up on here for you to peel and listen to, but that's what happens sometimes. In deference to all one of you that still reads this, I will put up THREE different pieces of music today that you will really lurve (or at least like, or maybe just listen to for 20 seconds and delete.)
Numero Uno is the first song I have ever really loved that could be considered true "8-bit" noise. While a big fan of electronic music, I have tended to fling my poop at things that sound too much like a Nintendo video game. There is something vaguely annoying about random bloops and beeps put around some cheesy and often monotonous computerized beats. It makes me want to say, "Look you stoner, that was probably sounded great to you on your computer at 3am in your dorm room freshman year, but to actually record and release an entire song of that shit? Bitch Please!" So I was pretty excited when I heard Matt & Kim. They are trendy little hipster kids from over in Brooklyn, and their live show has a reputation as a sweaty dancefest of the highest variety. Go download their lovely little tune called "Yea Yeah". It starts out pure Nintendo, you might as well be on level 3 in Commando for all the simplicity of the tune. But there's another level added - actual vocal harmonies! It's got a catchy little singalong that ain't original, but fun. A good summer time tune, something you could put on at a BBQ and people would sing along and shuffle around in their flip flops and get drunker more quickly than they would have otherwise.
Hot Chip came out with a new one, I believe it will be on the new DJ Kicks series that they produced. That album comes out today in fact. The tune is called "My Piano". Maybe it's just me, but I really loved the 2004/2005 Hot Chip stuff compared with this offering and most of The Warning. "Shiny Escalade" is still my favorite...I think because it does tempo shift in such an interesting and original way. This is also why "Over and Over" is such a standout from the LP and such a burner live for them. Don't get me wrong, the Chip is still top banana in terms of making me dance and scream and shout. "My Piano" is a perfectly acceptable expression of their art. I just want to get back that feeling I had all those many months ago when I first heard them and thought world peace was just around the corner (or whatever will happen when the perfect pop song is heard by all nations and we put down our guns and everyone goes to McDonalds for a McFlurry together).
Last but not least, I have a mystery song I need to share. I downloaded it back in April, but never played it. I finally got around to listening to it last week, and I love it! However, this is quite a kerfuffle, as I:
A) have no idea who it is by
B) have no idea what website I grabbed it from
I have checked through the archives of my usual suspects, and can't seem to find it anywhere. Maybe someday I'll know when I hear it burning up the dance floor in a club and can go ask the DJ. You can download it here, my song of the day, "SS". A sweeeeet arse electro gem that I only wish I could name!
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