Deadmau5 throws it down phat

I've been listening to Deadmau5 since I watched this video of him at HARD Haunted Mansion in LA last Halloween:




Deadmau5 - Brazil [mp3]

Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger (Deadmau5 Edit) [mp3]

Since then he's grown massively more popular. Here is him killing it at ETD.Pop in San Francisco:

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Passion Pit, Harlem Shakes, Cale Parks; Bimbos, 365 Club, San Francisco, 5/26/09

Passion Pit [link] 

Harlem Shakes [link] 

Cale Parks [link]





Awesome show and a good crowd with good energy. San Francisco is still my favorite place to see a show. Passion Pit really killed it that night, but on an equal level so did Harlem Shakes, so make sure you check them out too.

all photos by Rich Thach

Starfucker.

Goddamn, I'm caught up on this song German Love by Starfucker. It's been on repeat since I heard it. They've just released a new LP, Jupiter, check it out if you like these two tracks from their other release, The Artic Sausage.

Starfucker - German Love [mp3]

Starfucker -Rawnald Gregory the Second [mp3]

The blog will be on hiatus for a couple of days as I pack my bags and take a trip to hit the beaches, ending with seeing Passion Pit at Bimbos 365 Club in San Francisco. I will report back from that as soon as all the sweet love making is over. Peace!

Black Moth Super Rainbow put drugs in the sunshine

Sup lovers, here to tell you about something beautiful I stumbled over the other day called Black Moth Super Rainbow, a psychedelic electronica band that makes all their music in complete seclusion in the forests near Pittsburgh. The result is the kind of music that makes you want to sink into a grassy lawn, cloudspot, and just let your ego melt. No laptops either: it's got analog synths, vocoded vocals, real drums & real people - yup, 100% organic, locally grown, electronica indica. Their new LP, Eating Us, is coming out next week (but can be streamed for free on their myspace).  So until then, lay down, light up, and vibe this shit.

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Born On A Day The Sun Didn't Rise [mp3]

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Twin of Myself [mp3]

Remix After All Rules The Nation

Daft Punk - Human After All (Disco Villians Remix) [mp3]

Check out this Daft Punk remix album put together by some of the top electro blogs (10 blogs, 10 tracks, one track each) - Remix After All. Kind of like Daft Punk's own hard-as-fuck retooling of their stuff in their legendary live set Alive: 2007, this album modernizes the most recent (and least accessible) Daft Punk release, 2004's Human After All.

1. Human After All (The Disco Villains Remix) // Disco Demons
2. The Prime Time Of Your Life (Tits & Clits Remix) // Data Sapiens
3. Robot Rock (Immuzikation Remix) // The Cold Cut
4. Steam Machine (The Company Kang Remix) // Cream Team
5. Make Love (Chew Fu and Substantial Small Room Sax Fix) //Sheena Beaston
6. The Brainwasher (Melee Beats Remix) // Danger! Danger!
7. On/Off (The Noizy Kidz Daft Zapping Remix) // The Lemur Blog
8. Television Rules The Nation (Dirty Disco Youth Remix) // Noise Porn
9. Technologic (Kids At The Bar Remix) // Pretty Much Amazing
10. Emotion (Werewolf By Night Remix) // Binary

read: this album owns. download it now and reprogram to the frequency of our electronic overlords

Download Remix After All [rar]

If Passion Pit wasn't this good, they'd be kinda creepy

Passion Pit, the prize pony of Brooklyn-based Frenchkiss Records and the latest electropop hype sensation to come out of The Internet, USA, had their much pre-cummed about first album Manners drop today. The album, which has nobly survived an early web leak, is being hailed early on by other bloggers/critics/lovers as one the year's best. And yeah, it's good. Really good. Maybe not that good. But pretty damn good.

Passion Pit - Sleepyhead [mp3]

I first heard the Passion Pit song Sleepyhead (off their EP, Chunk of Change) when a friend showed it to me last October, who himself had got the track from his friend who called Sleepyhead the "new Electric Feel." I didn't really buy it, but I dug the song a lot, weird falsetto and all. Eight months later, and having run the playcount on Sleepyhead and Cuddle Fuddle into digital oblivion, the prophecy has been fulfilled and Passion Pit has matured into the summer buzz band of MGMT-ish proportions.

Passion Pit - Eyes As Candles [mp3]

And rightly so, because what Passion Pit has done with Manners is shed some of the synthetic skin from their more palpably electronic EP and gone for something more organic, more accessible - without losing any of the endearing whimsy stuff. In fact, lead singer Michael Angelakos's falsetto may have regressed in age even further to the point where he sounds like the most adorable little robotic choirboy. The differences between Chunk of Change and Manners makes the disc scratch at the beginning of Sleepyhead so appropiate - without it, the huge kick drum and whirring electronics would feel out of place on this much more ambitious, deeper album.

What they've crafted here is a 10-track injection of childish euphoria straight to the mainline vein. Optimistic, upbeat, its an album that is at best as epicly hopeful as an Obama speech, and at worse as cheesy as the narration in a bad French romance. But even at its omelet du fromage cheesiest, you can't help but like it the same way your girlfriend liked your poetry in middle school.

Passion Pit - Little Secrets [mp3]

All in all, its nothing solid enough to call a classic -- besides a strong start (Make Light, Little Secrets) and solid climax (Folds in Your Hands, Eyes As Candles, Sleepyhead), the rest of the tracks sort of run together -- but considering this album had big shoes to fill with all the bloghype, it has filled those shoes quite impressively. And besides, all that extra toe space just shows that this bright-eyed band of kids has room to keep growing.

passion pit - manners

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Passion Pit - Sleepyhead (Neo Tokyo Remix) [mp3]

Passion Pit - The Reeling (Calvin Harris Remix) [mp3]

Pogo is hella trippy

Video remix artist Pogo has released two new videos on his youtube page: a remix of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone with an original track using sounds from the movie called Alohamora, and a remix of The Sword and the Stone with a track called White Magic.







But I don't think either of these new videos can top his original classic, Alice, made up of clips and sounds from Alice in Wonderland.

Classixx brings the summer funk

What's up lovers, this time I'm here to tell you about something funky coming out of LA, a DJ duo (what else?) that goes by the name of Classixx. All the hype has got them a deal with French label Kitsune Maison, bringing them the blog hype but only a bunch of remixes to show for it - including one of LA bro-rap star Schwayze's Buzzin.'

Classixx - Cold Act Ill (Extended Mix) [mp3]

Schwayze - Buzzin' (Classixx Remix) [mp3]

Their next single, "I'll Get You (Feat. Jeppe)", won't be released digitally until June 1, but I was able to find a video by LA culture-pimp Cobrasnake with the song in it. Enjoy it and all its glitzy LA summer-ness glory.

Gui Boratto has a beautiful life

Hello future, past, and present lovers. Welcome to music + love, a place where I tell you what sounds awesome. The skies are a clear blue here in California, the hills are golden, and the bronze rays of the setting sun look amazing through the dense clouds of smog. Yup, summer has officially hit and it is here to stay.

Ah yes, summertime - the season of love. As you kick back, relax, and enjoy everything the bountiful gifts of the sun has to offer -- especially this season's slew of summer festivals -- you may be wondering: what songs will be the soundtrack to the coming months? Because remember: the music you listen to now will form a powerful, irreversible bond of association to this very time and space, a bond indisolluble by even the best musical therapists or post-summer breakups!

That said, allow me to make some recommendations.

This first artist is one who I recently fell in love since seeing him perform live under the fabled desert sun of the Coachella Valley. His name is Gui Boratto, a DJ from Sao Paolo, Brazil. His music has a rhythm heavy, minimalist edge that still manages hits the dance floor hard. (At his live show, he had the knack of leading the crowd on and releasing the build-up at the moment just after you would expect to a disorienting but amazing effect.) All in all, its a lush sound, a sparse but refreshing tropical rainfall of kicks and snares on the eardrums.

If theres one track of his you need to check out its his most well-known: Beautiful Life. If your summer is anything like this song...well, you're livin' the dream then.

Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life [mp3]

Gui Boratto Essential Mix [link]