Wednesday, April 29, 2009
louderbach
floating points - love me like this
Sunday, April 26, 2009
load up on guns, bring your friends
Friday, April 24, 2009
black rio 2
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
malaria!
more synth-goth Neue Deutsche Welle shadows from Berlin - an all-women quintet from the early 80s, Malaria was founded by Gudrun Gut, an early member of Einsturzende Neubaten. Their song Kaltes, Klares Wasser was covered by Chicks on Speed in 2001.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
desire - under your spell
Sunday, April 19, 2009
dirty projectors - stillness is the move
Stillness Is The Move (Lucky Dragons Remix) - Dirty Projectors
want a one-night stand? carcinoma.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
grauzone
grauzone - eisbaer
"ich moechte ein eisbaer sein... / eisbaere muessen nie weinen." (I'd like to be a polar bear..polar bears must never cry.")
1. Moskau
2. Ein Tanz Mit Dem Tod
3. Ich Lieb Sie
4. Film 1
5. Film 2
6. Schlachtet!
7. Hinter Den Bergen
8. Maikäfer Flieg
9. Marmelade Und Himbeeries
10. Marmelade Und Himbeeries (Part Two)
11. Wütendes Glas (LP Version)
12. Kälte Kriecht
13. Kunstgewerbe
14. Der Weg Zu Zweit
15. In Der Nacht
16. Eisbär
17. Raum
18. Träume Mit Mir
19. Wütendes Glas (Single Version)
Tracks 1-4 taken from Moskau EP recorded November and December 1981
Tracks 5-15 taken from Grauzone LP recorded July & August 1981
Tracks 16-17 taken from Eisbär single recorded 1981
Tracks 18-19 taken from Träume Mit Mir single recorded 1982
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
a mountain of one - sky is folding
yeah yeah yeahs - zero (animal collective remix)
Saturday, April 11, 2009
sebastien and the morning-after mansion
Thursday, April 9, 2009
dr. buzzard - sunshower
Sunday, April 5, 2009
grooveshark / goodbye horses
Roth showed me this. neither of us understand how it works. Grooveshark is like a web-based itunes. Somehow it has every song, and you can access them all instantly, with a nice little menu set-up, no frills. It's like imeem except way easier to use. I have no idea if it's just finding the songs online and playing them, or if they're stored somewhere or what. You should use it, it's nuts. Then you can make a widget and bother people with it.
As an example here are several synth-pop gems that have enjoyed deep repeat status with me lately, the choice cut being here "goodbye horses" by q. lazzarus, a one-off jewel recorded for the silence of the lambs movie but inexplicably not on the soundtrack. Super-catchy and haunting, it bears that characteristic lovelorn passion that inflects the best of mopey 80s dance jams, the sort that seem to surface in early April, when the 'cruellest month' first casts traces of its melancholic spirit like pollen in the air. While the vocal may sound like a male, Q. Lazzarus is actually a husky-voiced woman, giving the track an interesting gender-bender quality that parallels its role in the movie, when it serves as the signature tune for trannie killer Buffalo Bill's mangina dance. Included on the playlist are other songs you probably know already but it'd be nice to hear them once more, wouldn't it? Especially "West End Girls." On that note, here's the Lambs clip, as well as one of my favorite Flight of the Conchords clip, their brilliant homage to "West End Girls" entitled "Inner City Pressure."