LX-IR

From Paris, France comes Lx-IR an electronic musician with very smooth beats. I got an email yesterday from him with a link to his myspace; I must admit I was expecting something a bit more French pop, but to be honest his style works just fine; it has a small hint of 1950's retro and yes it definitely feels French but instead of bass, he has replaced it with jazzy beats with and synths which is so different form anything out there. The remix he sent was a bit of a shock to me, is the Estelle ft. Kanye West remix, which is a bit of a stretch for me since I'm not a fan of Kanye West (or Satan how I love to call him), but I dig so... dig.

Estelle (ft. Kanye West) - American Boy ( LX-Ir Remix)

Bipolar Badwise

Bipolar Badwise is an Melbourne Australia youngster band, influenced by Australia's growing electro scene. With an electric fusion of disco beats, electro synths and dark basslines, Bipolar Badwise is certainly making a name for themselves; although they are still perfecting their craft, it is actually already so good that anyone can bop along with their music.
Bipolar Badwise - Entwined
Bipolar Badwise - TV Lust

Alex Metric

So every day I listen more and more about Alex Metric, mainly whats more attractive about him are his amazing Remixes, although his original works are really good too. Since I'm running a little short on time I'm just going to post the music, which is the important part, hope you guys can forgive me; I've included two remixes and one original work which had me dancing all afternoon.

Treasure Fingers - Cross the Dance Floor (Alex Metric Remix)

Alphabeat - Boyfriend (Alex Metric Dub Mix)

Alex Metric - Deadly on a Mission

David Rubato Santogold Remix

David Rubato is a French musician who fell in love with electronic music when he was young, now a days Rubato injects his french disco beats into other artist music such as, the Institutes, Midnight Juggernauts, and more recently Santogold. If you remember not long ago all the blogs around got an email about the release of Santogold's latest video "lights out" a very catchy tune form her debut album; Rubato on this release does not alter a lot the rhythm of the song, but by adding some great beats and the distortion of the voice, he makes this song club ready. I'm also including David Rubato's remix of my favorite song by the Midnight Juggernauts.

Santogold - Lights Out (David Rubato Remix)
Midnight Juggernauts - Shadows (David Rubato Remix)

THE DEER TRACKS

The Deer Tracks is a Swedish electro band who, rightfully call their music Northern Lights Electronica. Their latest single "Slow collision" feels like a slow electronic stream of water, and whennever the two voices of David Lehnberg & Elin Lindfors meet the song becomes sheer perfection. Recently they released the video of their first single "slow collision " which I've included in the post as well as links to their website and some live performances in Swedish television.
Slow Collision live

Sex Fyra Live

Web sites:

http://www.myspace.com/thedeertracks

http://www.myspace.com/thedeertracksremixed
The Deer Tracks - Slow Collision
The Deer Tracks - Yes this is my broken shield
The Deer Tracks - Before the Storm (Sizemoreisms de3er in headlights remix)

The Deer Tracks - Slow Collision

Twelves

I really don't know if I should feel ashamed or not, but this would be about the seventh time I post something about The Twelves; to be honest I don't think anyone can help it, with their new original songs, remixes, mixed tapes, and the release of their new Myspace page The Twelves Jams, is virtual impossible for a Blogger to commit the unforgivable sin of not posting about them. The Twelves Jams is the new Myspace page in which the Twelves show once again what amazing musicians they are; preforming in a live studio setting, the Twelves Jam to some awesome music of other artists. Today they also released their new Mixed tape; which shows their amazing DJing skills by showcasing a wide array of amazing artist they've remixed, later on they will show us their monster cocks and will tell us how inadequate we truly are. (that's all we need, right?)
Theatre of Disco - Disco Donnie (The Twelves Jam)
Theatre of Disco - Yoa (Twelves Remx)
Twelves episode II

Monkey Journey to the West

Monkey Journey to the West is a collaboration between Damon Albarn (Gorillaz) Jamie Hewlett (Gorillaz, Tank Girl) and the Chinese director Chen Shi-zheng (Dark Matter) is based in an old Chinese tale made into a Circus/Opera. On September 23 the soundtrack will be releasedb although is already available in iTunes. It is simply amazing how many dimensions Albarn has, this soundtrack has the Albarn signature, but the beauty of it, is that the music also caries the spirit of this ancient tale. I'm including the two songs and also the link of the website were you can read about this amazing work of art.

Monkey Journey to the West

Monkey -Monkey Bee

Monkey - Monkey World

Digitalism MMMathias remix

Wow!!! This post was really meant to be, you may ask your self ...why? Well I was going to post abut Digitalism's new single "Taken away" and as if for act of fate I get an email by my favorite German elector musician MMMathias telling me about his new remix...care to take a guess of which song ??? That's correct, Digitalism. If you read my last blog about MMMathias, by the way clicking on the tag below will take you there, I think he is simply amazing; just as amazing as I think he is I think the world about Digitalism so whennever the two combined its just majic.

Digitalism - Taken Away

Digitalism - Taken Away (Mmmathias remix)

Mission Control Designer Drugs Remix

So Designer Drugs announced abut three or four days ago of the release of their newest remix of Mission Control's single "Innerspace", I was busy so I could not post it till today, but better late than never. As always Designer drugs has a nag for picking great music to remix and doing wonders on their end, with kicking electro beats creating head banging music; Mission Control is a band know for their dark sound mix with synths, which makes overall a perfect combination.
Mission Control - Innerspace
Mission Control - Innerspace (Designer Drugs Remix)

Low Slung Episode # 8

Lets go to England with Charlie Ashcroft and his amazing podcast Low Slung Radio. In episode # 8 Ashcroft travels to Edinburgh, London, Los Angeles, Bristol, Leighton Buzzard, and Manchester, while teaching us a lesson on the amazing music form England and the world; I must admit this is one of my favorite episodes of Low Slung, so much in fact, that I thing that if you don't listen to it, you are just plain stupid!!!

Low Slung Episode #8

Episode #8 iTunes

Shane Fontane

So I hit gold today whenever I got an email about Shane Fontane, all morning I've been listening to his remixes, most of them which are available on his myspace. What I love about Shane Fontane is of his knowledge in music, his remixes not only are innovative, but they also complement the original song bringing aspects that you couldn't ever have heard before; its really to be expected form some one who's life long goal is to become the best musician out there. I've included the new remix by Division Kent, I hope you don't mind, I know I posted about them yesterday, but I'm also included a remix of Love Motel; although I still recomend you to go to Shane Fontane myspace and check out some more awesome tunes.

Shane Fontane Myspace

Shane Fontane Website

Love Motel - Nothing Hurts (Shane Fontane remix)

Division Kent - She's going places

Divison Kent

I've been trying to blog about Divison Kent since last moth, but I've had some problems finding a place where they can host their song permanently, having failed at that I've decided to bite the bullet and go for it today. Electric Kent is a new wave group form Swaziland known for their dark electric synth beats; its obviously really good other wise people would stop remixing them. Last moth Keenhouse Keenhouse remixed their single L'heure Bleue, and this month Shook a Dj from the Netherlands remixed the same song putting his own signature into the song.

Division Kent - L'heure Bleue (keenhouse remix)(Zshare:(
Division Kent -L'heure Bleue (Shook Remix) (Zshare)/

Vega

Former front man for Ghosthustler Alan Palomo has been working under the new pseudonym Vega ever since he left Denton Texas; he grabbed New York by a storm DJing and working in other side projects. Today through his own label Vogue College Records he released his new single, "All to Vivid", exacly what the sound you can always expect form Mr. Palomo, and I'm sure there is more to come.

Vega - All to Vivid

Shakeyface

After being on the studio for a few months Doug Smiley, aka Shakeyface from New York comes back with an amazing re-work to pump your party to the next level. "Goons and Goblins" is the new re-work by the Brooklyn DJ in which he re works Lil Wayne song Goons to a Goblin and spins it into a whole electro ball, to be honest I had no idea how Lil Wayne is till now, but I can tell you that Shakeyface's re-work its bumpin'.

Shankeyface - Goons and Gobins (Lil Wayne Re-work)

Sam Cooke - Sugar Dumpling (Shakeyface Remix)

Natalie Portman's Shaved Head

Natalie Portman's Shaved Head that for blogging purposes I'm going to call NPSH, are a group of cool kids form Washington who released their new album "Glistening Pleasure" that is full of Synth-Pop sounds and fun music. I was really happy to hear about them because they have a heavy load of funky beats, so much that you could compare them as a mixture of MGMT and the Black Kids; no matter what is a nice alternative to the music payola that some blogs have going on.
Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - L.A. Noir

Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - Iceage Babeland

For fun!!

Natalie Portman - Gangster Rap

natalie portman's shaved head - sophisticated side ponytail from thatgo on Vimeo.

And the answer is, "Yes" all the blogs got the same email about this video. Sorry I haven't posted much this week but I've had some car problems that I've had to take care of; to bad in Texas is rare to find a place were you can ride your bike to get anywhere.

Leerone

California Native Leerone Leerone is a talented beautiful artist; although two completely styles, it kind of reminds me of my all time favorite artist St Vincent, in that they both are simply unique, talented, and creative. Whenever I first listened to her music I was expecting to hear some Folk, Sheryl Crow, mildly boring music (don't ask me why, I get this horrible gut feelings), I was pleasantly surprised to hear that it was completely the opposite; her music was so uplifting and with running the risk of being redundant a breath of fresh air. As soon as I listen to "All" of her music on Myspace I started to look for some videos of her performances live (cause the proof is always in the Puddin'), and yes ladies and Gentleman this is truly Worth listening, she has the mad piano skills, voice range (aka. she don't sound like everyone), and she can preform.

Leerone - To Fill the Void
Leerone - Care for some whiskey

Endless

I don't really blog on Saturday, but I completely ran out of time yesterday, and I didn't want to miss my mental window and not post this song so... "Merry Christmas". Yes is the brand new song by my favorite Mexican Bufi, of whom I've blogged before and I'll continue to do so until he stops making good music; its simple you see, I'm just doing my job.

Bufi - Endless

"As a bonus we will include a free mop head absolutely free (just pay shipping and handling)." Or may be just an extra song by the Muscles, of whom I thought I had blogged before, but then I remembered that after a while I opted not to, the lead singer's voice gives me a headache.

Musicles - Sweaty (Shazam Remix)

autoKratz

Yesterday Kitsune announced the release of autokratz latest song "Stay the Same" , I must say its a pretty cool song, so I decided to post it, only problem is the file is kind of big and so I have to use Zshare.

autoKratz - Stay the Same

Great Summer Games Stuff

So the Olympics start today, or started today I don't know, one thing I can tell you is I'm not waking up early to watch it. For those of you who need a little incentive or just want to listen to some great dance music form around the world, the people from Great Stuff have gather musicians form around the world to create great dance anthems inspired from the summer games; as a sample of the music they've send me three songs, one from Australia, one from Germany, and one form Tibet.

Where to purchase:

Beat Port

Music:

Great Stuff - Tommy Trash (Australia)

Great Stuff - Swen Weber (Germany)

Great Stuff - Makossa and Megablast Ft. Kuchok Yoenten (Tibet)

Plastilina Mosh

One of my favorite bands of all time is P Mosh, the reasons is because they embody at its plenitude the word "Chido". Plastilina Mosh normally writes on Spanish and their lyrics as well as their beats are funky; however this new CD P Mosh takes the journey that many artist like, the Twelves, CSS, Justice, have taken and used the English to brings their awesomeness to all the world, but not to worry, they still utilize their amazing ability to fuse different styles and beats to bring their funkiness. I've included some new stuff as well as some old school, for those of you who aren't familiar with this guys.

Plastilina Mosh - My Party
Plastilina Mosh - Toll Free

Old school shit:
Plastilina Mosh - Pinche Stereo Band

Brazilian Girls

This Tuesday Brazilian Girls released their newest album called "New York". New Yorker band Brazilian Girls are known for Electro french beats, infused with loads and loads of sex; on their new album on "my opinion" they take a different approach, into the fun side it still has that sexy edge on them; however its has less chilled beats and more trumpets around.

Brazilian Girls - Good Time

Brazilian Girls - Ricardo

And for some old school Brazilian Girls:

Brazilian Girls - Jique

Shortwave Set Vs. Mirwais

I've been listening to the remix by the , Mirwais of Now till 69 by The Shortwave Set , and I must admit that is really enigmatic, I just can't stop listening to it so I've decided to post it.

The Shortwave Set -Now Til 69(Mirwais club Remix)

The Shortwave Set - Now Til 69

Van She

Australian band Van She have been making a name for themselves by their remixes of Feist and the Klaxons songs, as well as the release of their ep, but come August the 9th they will release their debut album under the Modular label, which is available to sample on their Myspace page now. It is getting great reviews all over the bloggersphere, and I must say that after a few listens I must add my self into the group of praises.

Van She - Sex City

Van She -Sex City (Teenagers Remix)

Van She - Srangers

Too lazy to upload it, sorry:(

CSS Vs. Cut Copy

This is a quick one, I just wanted to point out how humorous is that after a while, you can easily tell who the remixer is by certain characteristics; if you can't, then listen to the two following tracks.
CSS - Move (Cut Copy Remix)
Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire

Cubehead

Coming to us from Pennsylvania, Cubehead is something different from my usual postings full of electro beats and remixes; never the less different can also be good. Loaded with massive drums, guitars, and the occasional synths, Cubehead is a band that is loaded with testosterone, which should be the pick me up for every one's Monday. Cubehead really embodies what independent really means, the rawness in all their songs reminds me of those elements great bands like CSS and others used to have but as they grew more mainstream, they lost it leaving a great void which fans usually miss. In their song "No Kuller" cubehead give us an adrenaline shot with a old school punk riot; then Cubehead gives us the ballad "the Ice Block Song" a song which embodies what a real garage band sound really should sound.
http://myspace.com/eatmycube

Cubehead - The Ice Block Song

Low Slung Radio

Low Slung Radio is a new friend of our blog coming to us form the UK, there you can listen to obscure, unsigned, independent artist form all over Europe. Charlie Ashcroft the host of this amazing podcast, takes you on a musical journey in each episode through out Europe's coolest bands; in the latest cast Ashcroft features bands from England and Denmark, who are invigorating and fresh. I've included a link to Low Slug Radio's latest podcast, as well as a link to his Myspace and Facebook; also to give you a taste of the music you will be listening I've included a song by Denmark band Strving Vines and their song "Colder than Icecream" which is amazing.

Striving Vines - Colder than Icecream

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August Play List

I haven done a playlist for a while, mainly because its kind of time consuming; however I had everything ready and set up, plus I'm on a weeks time off so there is nothing stopping me. This list is basically a recap of older post of the month, as well as some things that I did not blogged but they are part my play list on my car, hope you enjoy it.

1. Black Kids - Making eyes at you
2. Keedz - Stand on the World
3. Spells! - Our Modern Love
4. Twelves - When you Talk
5. CSS - Left Behind
6. MIT - Rauch
7. Evil Nine - They Live
8. Krunx - Hipster
9. Mount Sims - Grave
10. Midnight Juggernauts - Into the galaxy (Grand Master Flash Remx)
11. Lovelock -Love Reaction
12. Tahiti80 - All around the world (Yuksek Remix)
13. Golden Finger - Solid Gold (Zshare)
    

Boy Crisis

Boy Crisis are a New York based band, who for a while were touring with MGMT, the reason is that they are BFFs except for one lives in Cali and the other in NY. I really like the beat of the song; even though you have your base drums and all the mixture of synths makes this a very cool song to bop to (don't judge me I'm ancient).

Boy Crisis - Dressed to digress