I know a lot of blogs have me foaming at the mouth for an installment of tunes to have me foaming over the mouth come the weekend. In a busy week think of this as our plead for forgiveness at the lack of posts.
Mp3: Klaxons - Gravitys's Rainbow (Van She Remix)
This is one of those dancefloor smashers. Wednesday night saw myself and the rest of the whiteboydancefloor crew head down to Candy's Apartment yet again to be danced til we drop by some of the best djs Sydney has to offer. Needless to say when Van She (or Van She tech) whatever... when they dropped "Klaxons - Gravitys's Rainbow (Van She Remix)" it was like if the dancefloor was a person, their head would have exploded. Apart of me thought chix and Van She mmmmmm but after a mind boggling set, I must concede these shielas wouldnt even stop to avoid me on the road. And with good reason, they are fuckin brutal good.
Mp3: Justin Timberlake -Sexyback (Linus Loves Remix)
Anything you can do, Linus does better... he can do anything better than you. This includes Justin Timberlake. Put simply Linus takes a hot song and throws a bit of electro dirt on it. It doesn't stray too far from Timberlake's tree but I mean it's the subtle additions Linus makes to anything he touches which gives the track a bit of Linus cred. Im yet to hear Linus fuck up... yet.
Mp3: The Presets - Are you the one? (Van She Tech NYC Rush Mix)
Ok so while they take away a bit of the sexy action that makes "Are you the one?" a dancefloor stomper, they have easily made the best mix of it I've heard. "Are you the one?" has been morphed into a four to the floor electro punk ripper. I cannot explain why but the song fits in with a Tapes n Tapes - Cowbell paradigm on music, like I said I havent any significant evidence to back that, but in the same vein... somehow.
Anyway, Wednesday night @ Candy's Apartment showed me one very clear thing many other fine tuned bloggers already know, but some don't pronounce it often enough. Without a doubt or question or query or murmur, Australia has the most envied music scene out of any country in the world. Right now if you look around, the only thing the blogs are talking about (well the ones with any kind of cred) is Australian music. Particularly when it comes to music of the electro, dance, house (whatever other name you wanna give it) genre.
If you disagree I challenge you to make a list better than this:
* The Presets
* Van She
* Van She Tech
* Midnight Juggernauts
* Cut Copy
* Bang Gang (Ajax is without doubt the coolest person I have ever or will ever meet).
* K I M (from Presets ofcourse)
* Bag Raiders
* Teenagers in Tokyo
* The Valentinos / Knife Machine
That list took longer to type than it did to think of. My point, Australia is clearly the pinnicle of everything electro, so rather than going to all those American blogs for whats hot, save yourself the time and energy and stick with the Aussie blogs.
Sandwich Club / Who the Hell / A Reminder / Open Your Eyes / Get Big Little Kid / Brown Cardigan / Twelve Major Chords / And many many more ofcourse!
*Addition: How could i forget Boudist & Rocking Hoarse Two of the most unique and original blogs their are!!!
Leave your Stereogums and Pitchforks and Gorilla vs whatever's behind for the real tastemakers. Im not saying all non oz blogs are crap or all non domestic music is crap but If nothing else we atleast have better names! It's like Channel Seven winning the news ratings with Ian "Roscoe"Ross, it just makes sense!
Phew well I am all blog-fucked out... so there is nothing left to do but wish my amazingly beautiful friend Ashley (the blonde lass in my display pic) a very very very happy and booze filled birthday as she is turning 20 I do believe. While she won't probably get to read this until she's hungover and skipping university on Monday, im sure it will all be worth it. Love ya ash!
9 comments:
Amen brotherman.
You've also got to give Modular props for incubating and promoting a lot of those acts.
spewing i missed it. heard very good things about the tunes AND the girls
how good are those acts. australia is finally turning its self around after years of being a wasteland of psudeo-ac/dc bogan guitar rock i.e. jet and you am i and is finally turning out interesting and undeniably cool music.
i think the NME are calling this wave of music 'nu-rave' in order to appear to be some sort of tastemaker, but really we in australia known about all this gold for a long time, i know weve been hyping it since we started this blog and is just another attempt by that farcical publication to be hip and edgy
another side note, did anyone get bdo tickets? i know i didnt and im seething.
/end rant
tastemaker..
i like it. i like it a lot!
yo christophus, check out 'Debbie'. a sydney crew with that do the indie dance thing real good. and sexy.
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how the bloody hell did i miss boudist and rocking hoarse :| wats wrong with me.
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jet are crap, but are these bands any better?
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