The debut album of Digitalism will reach us officially on May 18, but is already flying around on the Internet.
"Tank Girl" could have been a Digitalism song, but it's not. Although Jens Moelle & Ismail Tuefekci picked it up and catapulted it into there DJ sets.
Benny Sings (A.K.A. Tim van Berkestijn) finally dropped his new album called "Benny ... At Home". As always it's pure quality.
In case you never heard of Benny Sings (shame on you) check out his debut "Champagne People", or watch the video of "Style Beats Liberationfronts".
"It's a year to shine and be dumb"
A few weeks ago if you’d asked me about the Venezuelan music scene I would have looked at you like you were nuts. Now, ask me the same question and my face will light up.
Nuuro is a wiz-kid from Caracas: "I had made those songs simply to express myself during a kind of troubled phase in my life ... ultimately though, I think that’s what makes the record so honest."
Todosantos are also from Venezuela (although Mariana Martín moved to Brooklyn, NYC). Their grimey acid wave is completely unique.
Nuuro's debut album "All Clear" and Todosantos' EP "Acid Girlzzz" are available through Poni Republic.
The allstar line up of Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake and Timbaland doesn't disappoint. This is spot on. Why isn't this track on "Shock Value"?
Produced by Timbaland protégé Danja.
The sight of bridges and balloons
Makes calm canaries irritable
And I caw and claw all afternoon
Catenaries and dirigibles
Brace and buoy the living-room
A loom of metal, warp woof wimble
And a thimblesworth of milky moon
Can touch hearts larger than a thimble
When you hear these lyrics accompanied by a harp in your local discotheque, you know when you've been tango'd by the beauty and brilliance of Joanna Newson and Pocket.
Check out Joanna Newson's "The Milk-Eyed Mender" (2004) for the real thing. And don't forget about last years "Ys". Classical stuff.
Stephen Marley's solo debut album "Mind Control" is in stores. Most recognisable track of the album is "Traffic Jam", the beatbox and reggae backdrop to Marley’s marijuana arrest storytelling featuring Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley.
Volta, Björk’s newest album, isn’t due out until May 7th in Europe, but to keep us happy someone threw the video of the first single "Earth Intruders" on YouTube.
"Earth Intruders" is produced by Timbaland and has additional percussion by Konono Nr. 1. In an interview with Pitchfork Björk said:
"Earth Intruders was the first beat he put on, and it just all came up, that sort of fantasy that maybe a tsunami of people would just come and hit the White House and scrape it off the ground and do some justice and spread these people all around the planet ..."
Right now, when you ask people, "So what's New Rave?" they answer "Oh, you know, Klaxons ....". What's the RAVE in Klaxons' music? I don't get it. It's just another hyped indie band from the UK. Glowsticks? No, thanks!
Even a bigger problem is the fashion that comes along with New Rave. It simply hurts my eyes.
How I wish New Rave would sound like Adam Sky's "Ape X".
P.S. Adam Sky is Adam Tinley. Remember him from 1989?
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