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August 16, 2008 ♦ Comment?
Advanced Afrobeat For Beginners Volume 1
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: “It was the sound of post-independence Nigeria, not Vampire Weekend.” Suffice it to say that Afrobeat has become an increasingly prominent element in today’s fusion music. Yet we seldom stop to think where these unique tones originated. So this compilation marks the beginning of a series dedicated to investigating the peaks and troughs of a glossed-over genre. After all, no musical victory is without its unsung heroes.
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August 3, 2008 ♦ 1 Comment
Broadcast 2000 - Building Blocks EP | Brave And Beauteous
The slight air of xylophone clinks, modest orchestration and cyclical fluctuations of acoustic guitar has never been so much as a commanding figure. But North London’s Broadcast 2000, the successors to acoustic troubadours Artisan, have successfully employed such delicate forces in the most arresting manner feasible. And, as always, the power lies in front man Joe Steer’s ability to stray from not only convolution but also the thick glaze of production which plagues most modern-day recordings.
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Sack of Songs
August 14, 2008 ♦ Comment?
Sack of Songs Volume 37
Ladyhawke - “Dusk Till Dawn (Canyons Garage Disco Mix),” Low Motion Disco - “Love Love Love (Soft Rocks Remix),” Metronomy - “Our Raid,” Black Kids - “Hurricane Jane (The Cansecos Remix),” Magistrates - “Make This Work,” Pacific! - “Sunset Blvd (Fryars Remix),” Van She - “Changes,” M83 - “Kim & Jessie (DatA Remix),” Tape - “Moth Wings,” Grampall Jookabox - “The Girl Ain’t Preggers,” Rio En Medio - “Let’s Groove (Earth Wind & Fire Cover)”
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August 7, 2008 ♦ Comment?
Sack of Songs Volume 36
Friendly Fires - “Skeleton Boy,” Wallpaper - “T Rex,” Booka Shade vs Plastic Operator - “Night Falls, Won’t Back Down,” Klaxons - “Golden Skans (SebastiAn Remix),” The Twelves - “When You Talk,” Lama - “Innocent Bystander,” Sigur Rós - “Heima,” Laura Marling - “Blackberry Stone,” BadenPederStruck - “123 feat. Louise Alenius,” Golden Spirits - “Rain Dance (Rough Demo),” Fabienne Delsol - “Laisse Tomber Les Filles”
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July 31, 2008 ♦ Comment?
Sack of Songs Volume 35
The Magic - “Mr Hollywood,” Ra Ra Riot - “Oh, La,” Lake - “Oh, The Places,” Women - “Black Rice,” Strength - “Wilderness,” FrankMusik - “Three Little Words (The Black Ghosts Remix),” The Avalanches - “Since I Left You (Stereolab Remix),” Half Cousin - “The Absentee (Fujiya & Miyagi Remix),” DJ Mehdi - “Lucky Boy (Outlines Remix),” The Black Ghosts - “Any Way You Choose To Give It”
Live Reviews
July 28, 2008 ♦ 1 Comment
MGMT at McCarren Pool 07/27/08
Last Sunday afternoon marked the culmination of a relatively Brooklyn-based band’s career. Whether or not you witnessed their performance in a dingy club behind the Domino Sugar Factory in South Williamsburg just four months prior, any number of Brooklynites could supply a lengthy dissertation on MGMT’s short road to success. For a short while it was merely regarded as the product of happenstance and epoch-making psychedelic pop music.
Sack of Songs
July 24, 2008 ♦ Comment?
Sack of Songs Volume 34
Erlend Øye - “Sudden Rush (The Twelves Remix),” The Pharcyde - “Runnin’ (Philippians RMX),” AOKI Takamasa - “See That Girl,” Prince Paul - “Flattery,” Lynsey De Paul - “Sugar Me,” Oh No Ono - “Practical Money Skills for Life,” Orange Black - “Dream Team,” Faded Paper Figures - “The Persuaded,” Lackthereof - “Ask Permission,” Neo Maya - “I Won’t Hurt You”
Album Reviews
July 23, 2008 ♦ 3 Comments
Gangi - A | Where The Wild Things Are
Welcome to Matt Gangi’s extremely stylized yet vaguely recognizable world. Gangi’s debut, A, acquires strength from not only the exemplary songwriting, but the vast array of musical personalities that the band displays. In a span of minutes, they could turn from Neil Young to Jethro Tull. And to that end, Gangi certainly shows signs of musical schizophrenia—juxtaposing various elements that shouldn’t mesh, and yet somehow they do.
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July 23, 2008 ♦ Comment?
Hot Chip Remixes Pharcyde
In case you were on the fence about Delicious Vinyl, who’s head honcho happens to be Rick Ross, feast your ears on Hot Chip’s remix of Pharcyde’s “Passin’ My By.” This spaced-out version, which features a slow churn of reverberant keys and wailing solos, comes courtesy of RMXXOLOGY—a remix-heavy compilation that finds Eminem, Peaches and Hot Chip, among others, re-interpreting classic hip-hop hits.
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July 22, 2008 ♦ Comment?
Dungen - “Sätt Att Se”
Stockholm-based psych-rockers Dungen are poised to release 4 via Subliminal Sound this coming fall. However, the first single, “Sätt Att Se,” reveals a starkly different, folk-tinged side of the band. Each record they seem to become more and more submersed in a hazy, psych-induced vision. But 4’s leading track promises an inventive and fresh approach.
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July 22, 2008 ♦ Comment?
Primary 1’s Studio Diary | Highlarious
Primary 1 has only graced the pages of this website once. But the London-based electro-pop singer holds a special place in Bwank!’s little heart. His acerbic understanding of all that surrounds him is downright droll. Even his formal proceedings, like recording in a studio, are leavened with humor. And that brilliant wit has now manifested in the form of some great 4th-grade-style depictions.
