Ridiculous Tunes

Due to a recent hard drive failure I lost a lot of the working project files for some songs I was messing with. Frustrating to say the least, but for a few of the songs I made mp3s at different stages of tinkering. I figured since the files are pretty much gone forever I might as well post some of them.

The first song is a mashup I started messing with after hearing a friend complain about how they were not into MIA’s Paper Planes in it’s original version or any of the subsequent remixes. Around that same time I picked up one of Chloe’s latest records on Kill The DJ and thought one of them would work really well backing the vocals for Paper Planes.

The second is an edit I did of that Kanye / Daft Punk collaboration ‘Stronger’. I did a quick edit so I had it as an instrumental and at around 130bpm so I could use it in one of the earlier Good Morning Stardust mixes.

Emergency Friend Bazaar

There is something to do tonight if you are in the city. Make a friend, meet friends or count drinks.

Mental Black Hole

At the beginning of Opening Ceremony’s 72 hour Olympic inspired retail marathon, the DJ played Aaliyah’s “Are You That Somebody?” to a bunch of drunks like my friends and me who arrived much too early for Hercules and Love Affair, but not too early to pre-game for Friday night.

After making the sign of the cross (†) and saying “R.I.P Aaliyah”, as I must do whenever her name or music is mentioned or played, we discussed the absurdity of the music video, with its motorcycles, secret hideouts, hawks, and giant projections of Eddie Murphy on mirrored walls.

So, on that topic of strange music videos with movie tie-ins, here is a much different video that will probably do a fair amount of harm to your mind. If you know of anything more damaging, post the link in the comments, please.

Good Morning Stardust VI

01 Forensics - Most Of It Is Missing
02 Pogo - Lost
03 Grizzlehand - It’s Disco Dub
04 Kasper Bjorke - Doesn’t Matter (Rework)
05 Morten Sorensen - Start Something
06 Parker Frisby - Brain against Heart
07 Autokratz - Last Show
08 Machines Don’t Care - Junk
09 Melee Beats - Wondering
10 The Presets - This Boy’s In Love (Zombie Nation Remix)
11 Young MC - Bust A Move (Diplo Instrumental)
12 Daft Punk - Around The World (I:Cube Remix)
13 Metronomy - On Dancefloors
14 Daedelus - Get Off Your Hi-hats
15 DVAS - Ambient Room (Symbol One Remix)
16 Chemical Brothers - Midnight Madness
17 Soft Cell - So
18 Underworld - Crocodile (Innervisions Orchestra Mix)
19 Kelley Polar - Entropy Reigns (Pearson & Usher Remix)
20 Da Fresh - Madness
21 Melee Beats - Ordinary (SMS To God)
22 Buraka Som Sistema - Sound Of Kuduro
23 Kavinsky - 1986
24 Treasure Fingers - Cross The Dancefloor (Lifelike Remix)
25 Lee Curtiss - Soul Shower
26 Darmstadt - Out Of The Blue (DIM Remix)
27 CSS - Move
28 Sam Sparro - 21 Century Life (Mac Project Instrumental)
29 Kid Sister - Pro Nails (Gant Man Remix)
30 Eric Prydz - Pjanoo (Fred Falke Remix)
31 Japanese Popstars - Dr. Frenchy Bernard
32 Morgan Geist - Detroit
33 Pluxus - Rodval Blaval
34 Solvent - When The Sun Hits

Happy Birthday (Party) Leigh!

I know your birthday was actually the other day when you were off fighting spiders in a tropical location, but happy birthday all the same. The party was fun and the birthday cupcakes tasted like butter (which works pretty well until you get to the halfway point).

The impromptu photo shoot was also very chic and elegant. Scott was my assistant.

Coolio turns 45 today.

I hope it’s been a fantastic voyage.  Happy Birthday.

But every time I grab the ring it’s always–BRASS!

Some videos get it so right. There is so much glamor in these two that it makes me feel like I’ve broken a Glittercake Fabulous Society rule for eating a bag of Gardetto’s.

Record Of The Week: The Limited

The album opens up with an introduction*. The song is more or less a sound check for the mood, vibe and atmosphere of the songs to follow on The Limited - Melee Beats album of compiled work from the past few years’ releases. The songs mainly fall within the upbeat spectrums of French House, New Disco and Electro with a few slower paced exceptions like Never See. The nice thing about all of the tracks is the production quality that leaves you feeling like these tunes could have been culled from an era when similar producers were at their peak and you are just late in discovering them.

A good portion of the material is sprinkled with vocals. The songs’ lyrics range from being more raw and honest as in Coming Out Tonight to filtered and set more within the upbeat melodies.

But all of this musical evidence begs a question. Is Nic Bertino’s Parisian citizenship the only thing missing in this picture? It would seem that with his Melee Beats productions he is well on his way to being on par with all the great French House names.

My favorite tune is Wondering. Sure you could freak out to other songs like Girlhype or Distraction, but for me Wondering takes the cake. Just listen to it. Go to his site and download it, don’t bother with any ‘previewing’ process.

Melee Beats was also kind enough to spare some time for an interview. Click to hear what he had to say.

Buddy Hang Out Monument

Back this week with Blonde Acid Cult performing LIVE!

Also, Sean had a stomachache last month and is (hopefully) back this month to make his DJ debut.
60s french pop, garage, soul, dancy dancy.

Record Of The Week: Ai022LP

For it’s 22nd release UK label Ai Records offers up a various artists disc on clear polka dot vinyl. Present on the disc are The Third Man, Najem Sworb and Plant43 who each provide two tracks each. All of these artists were also part of the label’s recent polka-dot sleeved series of colored clear vinyl EPs which are worth hunting down.

Over all this release is a good representation of the current sound and spirit of the label. Smart clicky subtle electro (electro electro) amongst a palette of rich synthetic melodies. This collection of songs would be playing in Rick Deckard’s headphones. I’ve been following this label since the Claro Intelecto release and it only seems to get stronger and more consistent. In all honesty this is more a label recommendation than a specific release review.

My favorite tune is Padreduct by Najem Sworb. This is partly due to it reminding me of older late 90s Ken Ishii in some updated way. I guess the song is all about memory or indistinct feeling.

Try Ai Record’s for the limited vinyl or buy digitally at Beatport or Bleep.