Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - American Dream Part II
Awesome video for an awesome dance track. Video collaboration between TEED and ADAM. Playfully heavy, catchy yet unpredictable. TEED’s tracks are surprising and fun without being obnoxious and repetitive.
Chris
Pryda (Eric Prydz) - Allein
Can’t think of a better album release to celebrate the completion of my first year of school than Eric Prydz Presents Pryda On. Just from listening to the samples he’s been posting on YouTube, I can tell Eric Prydz is going to change the way I listen to dance and electronic music again.
On “Allein,” Prydz samples from Polarkreis 18’s track “Allein Allein” (German for “Alone Alone”) and delivers a sweeping, reinvigorating track chalk full of his trademark subtlety. Once again, Eric Prydz has shown me that there is zero correlation between your fear to fly and your talent to produce unique, evocative electronic dance music. If anything it makes you better.
Chris
Simian Mobile Disco - Put Your Hands Together
All I can say is…welcome back, lads. A new cut from their forthcoming album “Unpatterns”, which arrives to us on May 14. I’m hoping to get to their May 25 DJ set at Webster Hall in NY and get within their awesome aura. I’m loving this. It’s summoning my trancey proclivities. Take it for a Sunday morning test drive!
margaux.
Poliça - Lay Your Cards Out
Well, we officially get worst parents of the year award for our month-long abandonment of little TMW. I swear we all had our good reasons, and thankfully a blog does not need much in the way of food, water and Sesame Street re-runs. Second chances abound!
I had the wonderful fortune of having this song referred via good old Twitter and fell in love pretty hard. I’ve been listening to it in the mornings doing my work, but it’s like one of those hard-to-find-perfumes that is equally fitting by day or by night. I’ve been gravitating more to its morning qualities this week, but I am about to test it out on some night drives, and feel confident it is going to be just as appropriately awesome. Poliça is a Minneapolis-based band composed of many off-shoot bands and stylings, and the project took wing in its first public performances last fall. Now, I have not had the pleasure of seeing them live, but Natalie Gallagher at Gimme Noise most certainly has, and by all accounts it sounds like a ticket to invest in. If you are looking for a short and sweet impression of their sound, Natalie boils it down accurately to “auto-tuned majesty, with a heavy bassline and a sexy, lonely rhythm.” This formulation has been my preferred soundscape for the last few months, and when I heard “Lay Your Cards Out” I was all over the exquisite blend of just these elements. Hopefully they are on their way to a city near you, as they on a pretty fierce tour hustle at the moment.
Thought-provoking P.S.: Lead singer Channy Moon Casselle made this comment about the band’s latest music video ‘Amongster’: “I want to be able to make music & have music videos to oppose the stupid shit that leads people to act like sex is still about stealing a bounty or serving a man’s needs.” Werq, Channy. Love that.
Download here.
margaux.
The Gaylads - Soul Sister
my last day in london town before the big move. when i was out on friday night the dj was playing great ska and reggae records from the 60s and 70s and this got lodged firmly in my brain. if you don’t smile, ya lame. rocksteady!
margaux.
James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream (Gina Turner Bootleg V05)
“i don’t know about my love, i don’t know about my lovin’ anymore”
We’ve definitely shown James Blake love here before at TMW but he deserves every ounce of it. Read Chris’s post on the original version of “The Wilhelm Scream”, which is excellent, and have a refresher course. I found this version in the past week on a blog somewhere in cyber space, tucked into a long list of recommended remixes. I think I’ve been rocking this song for the past few days because it’s great melding of styles: the best of what’s unique to the UK dubstep scene, and what’s unique to the New York house scene (Gina Turner is a New York/Amsterdam-based house/salsa/techno DJ, though originally from NY). The vocal is so simple and minimal and gorgeous. Good music for when you are preoccupied with your thoughts but need your body to be getting around quickly - or exactly the background brain music for somebody who’s packing up their life in four days. I hope it gets you moving, too.
download here.
margaux.
DC Salas - Gimme (Preview)
DC Salas is a young gun artist from Brussels who, by the sounds of it (literally!), is poised to get very big very fast with his super fresh tracks. This is only a preview of what’s to come, and I’m hooked and hanging on to hear the whole number. Hold onto your hat when that synth bass comes banging in, it’s infectious in the best way.
margaux
Varien - Cloak and Dagger
“Cloak and Dagger” has noises that have been used over and over already especially considering Mr. Skrilly and his hipster glasses, but I’m a sucker for symphonic sounds. Note: Varien remastered Skrillex orchestrally on his new EP Bangarang.
Kevin
Surtek Collective - Sex-o-tronik
Guys. Got linked to Surtek Collective tonight via referral of Boys Noize. Not personally, obviously (I flippin’ wish). I am trying to find out more about them, but so far it seems they are an electronic music collective from Santiago, Chile. My twitter stalkage of them finds that recently a magazine told them they invented moombahton, when they had intended to invent “aciton” (or acid + reggaeton) but were beaten to the punch (or the hashtag maybe). I don’t believe we’ve had the moombahton talk yet on TMW. It’s one I’ve been gearing up for and I can’t wait to share some of the tracks I’ve come across, they are out of control good. I heard one song on their soundcloud and had to listen to everything, I was transfixed. It reminded me of the reggaeton I used to hear on the reg outside my old apartment in the Bronx, totally hypnotic and stupidly danceable. Homesick much? Check this and let it build.
margaux.
