July 9th, 2010 § 0
∆∆ Teengirl Fantasy (DJ set) 12AM http://www.myspace.com/teengirlfantasy
∆ Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang 11PM http://www.myspace.com/jankanabay
∆∆∆ Oberhofer 10PM http://www.myspace.com/oberhofermusic
∆∆∆∆ Phone Tag 9PM http://www.myspace.com/phonetagmusic
DJ TONE TONE will eat it between sets. [full disclosure: that's us]
October 6th, 2009 § 0
just went up.
as always, selections are made by fader, mix and sequence by me.
tracklist:
Family Band, “No Sound”
Volcano Choir, “Island, IS”
Dam-Funk, “Mirrors”
Neon Indian, “Terminally Chill”
Fuck Buttons, “Surf Solar” (7-inch Edit)
Kyle Hall, “I Love Dr. Girlfriend”
Warpaint, “Elephants”
Kurt Vile, “Hunchback”
>>DOWNLOAD<< @ the fader
September 29th, 2009 § 0
holy shit.
i love me some fucking vile.
September 26th, 2009 § 0
[photo by bradford cox via achablive]
nowhere to go,
don’t take me home
(for the first time, in the below live version, i can clearly decipher the words.)
“sunday night” (originally posted as “sunday night in atlanta”) was posted charmingly to the deerhunter / atlas sound/ lotus plaza blog by lockett pundt back in ‘7. as he explains in the post, he had just purchased a new pitch-shifting pedal and went a little wild with it (i wonder how much of the track was improvised with the new pedal).
i remember being enamored of the track right off the bat, and we got to hear a polished version on his debut lp the floodlight collective. in a recent, rare (though maybe not for long, considering deerhunter’s newly-fastened hiatus) live set, deerhunter’s panda bear laid down a super drawn-out, guitar solo-laden rendition of the track at atlanta’s eyedrum. track kicks in around 11:20-11:25.
lotus plaza – live @ the eyedrum, atl (9.22.9) [via their blog/impose]
lockett pundt (lotus plaza) – sunday night in atlanta (original demo via blogpost)
lotus plaza – sunday night (off the floodlight collective) [via covert curiosity]
September 3rd, 2009 § 0
i’ve been hard at work on finishing up my latest mix…. gonna be a doozer.
in the meantime, here’s one of my favos from the mix, where i bring the field’s “the more that i do” together with the track it samples, “lorelei,” along with some extra magic.
enjoy and stay tuned for the full mix.
September 1st, 2009 § 0
surfer blood – swim (to reach the end) – [download]
currently loving this track. it’s a bit buried in the forkcast right now so i thought i’d bring this to attention. great track, definitely playing it next rock set. also, i like that it’s not THAT distorted/fuzzy. TOO much, y’all.
August 30th, 2009 § 0
one of my favorite photosets yet. brought to you by GoldenLight.
August 29th, 2009 § 0
i find myself up at 8:45 am vibing to dj nate on youtube. “lil mama bad as hell.” – this track means many things to me. it’s music devoid of anything but raw expression. this young buck is pumping out some pretty avant-garde lo-fi bedroom juke beats (though more so in his below track and others than the above one).
this one’s a sentimental soft-spot. insanely catchy. the song makes me want to be a high school (hood) girl so i can say “that’s ma song” and think about my boo to it while commenting on youtube.
two of dj nate’s tracks were featured in salem’s great xxjfg mix i posted about previously. download one of them here:
dj nate – ghost (mix) (download)
check out his tracks on his imeem, and let me know if you know where i can find more. dj nate, if you’re reading this, hit me up with your tunes.
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BONUS JUKE:
threat misses – juke ya girl (also via salem). (download)
this track is fucking nasty as well. more insanely hard-to-find, lo-fi, experimental juke gold. like this summer’s fuzzed-out indie flavor, the low fidelity recording here adds something.
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and man, i have a ton of other new tracks to post from this week, my first week in action. i’m still deciding how to go about doing this: a weekly roundup mp3 marathon, multiple-track posts, unhinged rapid posting, a dj mix.. who knows. if there were more of you out there i’d ask for input. most likely i’ll just let it sprout how it wants to.
August 26th, 2009 § 0
here’s another track that’s been on my radar for a while: the warbly, woozy casio melody in this track popped into my head last night, and i feel like it came to me in a dream. it also was the perfect song to fall asleep to (although it’s too short to actually fall asleep to, so maybe a pre-sleep wooze-jam). it’s a bit like indie j dilla.
[off their jamz n jemz record, out now]
August 26th, 2009 § 0
so i was kind of deciding on which track to post, but i decided to just post all ‘em.
yesterday at pitchfork HQ, they were showing me some tunes and pulled together a rough mix in prep for their p4k ATP fest dj set. we came across this jam from nu shooz, a great song in itself but this remix itself is just mint, just elevates the track to another level. transcendent dancefloor stuff.
these remixes have all taken already great tracks and thrown in some mental elements that elevate them to another level. these tracks are all fucking great, the all have a sort of signature 80s sound, and they make you feel oh so good. sure to rock your next dance party. maria magdalena in particular is a huge favorite of mine, but really i love them all.
human league – the things that dreams are made of (original dub edit) – download
fine young cannibals – she drives me crazy (justin strauss remix) – download
nu shooz – point of no return (12″ mix) – download
sandra – maria magdalena (remix) / the original (is fantastic) – download
BONUS:
loose joints – tell you (today) (extended) – download [one of my all-time favs]
SUPERBONUS:
my re-edit/remix of the above track, which i named “the new groove” ::::
light leak – the new groove (loose joints edit) – download
August 24th, 2009 § 0
this song was stored in my subconscious since i heard it on the salem mix that made the rounds a few months ago. finally, after 48 hours of racking my brain and my music library, i remembered where i got it from. the salem mix is one of the most abrasive/skull-piercing things i’ve ever heard, and almost all the tracks on it are ridiculously hard to track down. these guys especially seem to bask in mystery: on myspace, you can’t add them as a friend unless you know them by “last name” (??). whatever. as noted just a few posts back, it doesn’t really matter. cause jesus be damned, i’m rocking this tune hard right now.
August 21st, 2009 § 0
going through p2k this week i hit the handy play button pretty much all the tracks i didn’t know. i came upon this track at #152. apparently, it’s the reason they got signed, and while i’ve discovered i can’t really sit through their entire album, this track is a great postrock/scat gem.
says p4k,
It’s beautiful for many reasons– Robert Johnston’s lyrical guitar work and Sue Tompkins’ genius-baby sing-speak embody pure delight. But mostly, it’s beautiful because it feels like the stuff of spontaneous inspiration, the splatter-paint syllables falling into unrepeatable patterns. Remarkably, this is an illusion, as the faithful version captured on Live at the Annandale Hotel attests. The dense wordplay and Rorschach-blot diction make the hundredth listen feel almost as fresh as the first (in 2009, for instance, opening line “If I lose you” sounds an awful lot like “Fallujah”). But the emotional baseline, bursting with love and quavering with doubt, remains satisfyingly constant –Brian Howe
August 21st, 2009 § 0
the fader issue 63 podcast went up yesterday.
as always the selections are made by fader and the mixing is done by me.
tracklist
Real Estate, “Beach Comber”
Douster, “Journey to Tethys Sea”
Pissed Jeans, “False Jesii Part 2″
Kingdom, “Mindreader”
Glasser, “Apply”
Drake f. Lil Wayne and Trey Songz, “Successful”
Girls, “Hellhole Ratrace”
Monsters of Folk, “Say Please”
Francis and the Lights, “WYN”
French Montana f. Jadakiss, “New York Minute”
Vivian Girls, “When I’m Gone”
Free Energy, “Free Energy”
download at the fader
August 20th, 2009 § 0
so this post has been my motivation to finally look into this artist, as this has been my summer jam since i first heard it on the great underwater peoples comp last month. (which i think will go down as one of the best-timed releases in [indie] history.)
turns out it’s just one dude with help from friends. some of his other stuff sounds like straight-ahead indie rock, some of it quirky folk, and some like lo-fi bedroom pop. this track, however, is the perfect summer song: sunny and shallow. it’s also just in the way this dude just sounds perpetually sundazed… too lazy to try to sing, too lazy to write much more than the repetitive “weyoh” and “come on away.” but it’s a perfectly fitting kind of lazy, and just floats on and then away like a summer mantra.
the compilation has been highly blogged but this track is an overlooked jewel.
dana jewell – baby come on (download)
August 17th, 2009 § 1
since my music taste is obsessive and fickle, i have found that i seem to have a soundtrack to each day. a track that i can’t stop playing and feel the need to tell others about.
for a long time i’ve thought about posting these up. and now, i’ve decided, why not.
much like everything else i do, there are very few rules. on some days, i may have multiple, and often, i may have none.
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the informations – for the rest of my day
for today it’s a random hypem find from sunday, a day i spent searching long for a new good song. frustrated, i came up dry until at midnight when this track randomly came on. it grabbed me as soon as the vocal kicked in, a sort of forced and strained high falsetto. weird enough that your ‘normal friends’ will ask you to ‘change that shit,’ but held together by a good melody and warm forward bounce.
it’s been two days since sunday, and i’m still enjoying this. but who is this band? ironically, it’s seriously difficult to find information on the un-googlable informations. looking at their myspace, they are from either sweden or japan (though the blogs that posted this all seem to be in french). maybe bands like this bask in the mysteriousness for a reason, and maybe it’s for the better. the song is good. makes me wonder how much everything else even matters.
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