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Sebastien Tellier
The Disco Biscuits
Sebastien Tellier
Penguin Prison
Casxio
Tittsworth
Sammy Bananas
Music Go Music
Othello Woolf
Penguin Prison
The four dead deer inspectors in that photograph are Sisters Of Transistors, a quartet of female organ players from Manchester. Someone missing from that picture is Graham Massey, founding member of legendary Mancunian house outfit 808 State. Massey plays drums live with his Sisters and it's his conceptual project. Conceptual?! Yeah, prog-talk, but the concepts here are ones even dead deer could dance to, as these stunning remixes from UK producers Untold (bass) and eLDOKO (disco) attest.
Sounds Like: Flying Lotus, LCD Soundsystem, 808 State
Sisters of Transistors - Solar Disco (Untold Remix)
Sisters of Transistors - Solar Disco (eLDOKO Remix)
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Sisters of Transistors - The Don (Acid Girls Grey Disco Remix)
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Fan Death has always made disco sound dangerous. But this killer remix by Toronto duo CCENTURIESS whips “Reunited” into black sky oblivion. Weaving in and out of Dandilion and Marta’s milk-soaked vocals is a roller-derby darkness that devolves into claps and clangs, and finally, a tinny, apocalyptic wheeze that’ll put a stint in your aorta a day early.
Fan Death - Reunited (CCENTURIESS Remix)
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Every part of this Best Coast song adds to its effortlessness: the slow open, the major/minor chord changes, the harmonies that blow in for the refrain, the bridge mantra ("I hate sleeping alone.") This is what we wish Weezer records still sounded like, obvious gender issues aside. Buy the full single from Black Iris over at iTunes.
Best Coast - When I'm With You
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(Photo: Marty Watson)
Instrumental metal is either your thing or it isn't, unless we're talking about Pelican. They're not Sunn O))), you know? Dudes aren't soft, but the sludge they kick around is more cerebral than it is oppressive. And you don't have to know Calculus to find the first beat of a measure. And some dude who really worships Phil Anselmo isn't deepthroating the mic. It's approachable stuff. "Specks Of Light" is from their new LP for Southern Lord, What We All Come To Need. They're also headed out on tour come Saturday–those dates are after the break.
I know what you're thinking, but Othello Woolf isn't just a copy of that other theatrical singing Wolf from London. One less 'o' for a start, and his sound is more louche and relaxed than Patrick's heavy breathing, Golden Silvers' remix of "Stand" acknowledging that with bass that bomps along neatly and funked guitars that strut like a man who's cool with what he's got.
Sounds Like: David Byrne and Brian Eno, new Late Of The Pier, Cameo's "Word Up"
(Photo: Will Calcutt)
The Audion live show known as Hecatomb finally reaches New York this Saturday (11/28), specifically the main room of Bleecker St.'s Le Poisson Rouge. We're giving away a pair of tickets to this one-time performance–to enter, email contests@rcrdlbl.com with the subject "AUDION" and we'll holler on Friday if you've won. For those searching for a taste of the experience, these videos should offer some insight.
Audion - It's Full Of Blinding Light
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We’re feeling the basement baby slide of Phil and the Osophers’ unreleased and woeful lounge ballad “Wandering Soul,” slated to score the upcoming indie flick Un Petite Zone De Turbulences. If the track’s any indication, we expect long shots of Marseilles and Unione Corse corpses in back alleys (please let this be true). More ramshackle, wallpaper-peeling surf is available below; album Parallelo is out now and can be snapped up here.
Sounds like: Abe Vigoda, Black Lips
Phil and the Osophers - Wandering Soul
Phil and the Osophers - Cheap Livin
Phil and the Osophers - Uses Of A Man
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Phil and the Osophers - Third World American
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The original version of Casxio's "Seventeen" showed up in March, but Plant and The:Hours just released it all proper like with versions from the Glass and Skrillex, the former's sounding like it was submerged in liquefied leather and dried out on a subwoofer. Should the free MP3 stir your interest, it's available on wax over at Turntable Lab.
Casxio - Seventeen (The Glass Remix)
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The Glass - Superhero (Bit Thief Remix)
The Glass - Mad At You (Supertroels Mix)
Robbers On High Street - Married Young (The Glass Remix)
The Glass - Come Alive (Rinôçérôse Remix)
Antipop feat. Asia Argento - Vampy (The Glass White Money Remix)
The Glass - Mad At You (Arveene & Misk Remix)
The Glass - Mad at You (Hot Pink Delorean Remix)
(Photo: Michael Mann)
Bok Bok listed some favorite new dubplates for self-titled.
Major Lazer unveiled their new, insanely weird video for "Keep It Goin' Louder."
Small Black played in The Tripwire's kitchen.
Stereogum premiered a new video from Sleepy Sun.
The FADER interviewed Mary Anne Hobbs and Danny Wang.
Drowned In Sound had 10 Questions for James Murphy.
Woods played at the Whitney for Pitchfork TV.
The Bug's King Midas Sound project put together the newest FACT mix.
Fool's Gold art director Dust La Rock selected some jams for 12 Oz. Prophet. Via Loren.
IFC's new Dinner With The Band show, featuring Kid Sister, YACHT and others, premieres tonight at 11PM. Via Hillary.
And Geologist of Animal Collective talked with Vulture about their new EP and sampling the Grateful Dead.
2009 was mostly absent of Shy Child, as the New York drums and keytar duo took their time working on new LP Liquid Love, which is due in March. When announcing the album earlier this month, they also let go of "Criss Cross," a brawny, saturated disco cut that is going to be super hard for two dudes to replicate live, unless they somehow grew a few arms while they were away. Thing has layers. For now, London is the only place to see it unfold live–their sole December show is at the Camden Barfly on December 11th.
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