Audio Drums

Caribou – Odessa

“I got excited by the idea of making dance music that’s liquid in the way it flows back and forth, the sounds slosh around in pitch, timbre, pan…dance music that sounds like it’s made out of water rather than made out of metallic stuff like most dance music does,” Snaith says

Sounds great to me!

Tons Of Friends is the appropriately named first full length from Crookers due out March 8th.  The album sees Crookers joining forces with the likes of Roisin Murphy, Kid Cudi, Soulwax, will.i.am, and others on a massive 22 track album.

The collaborations I am most looking forward to are Roisin Murphy and Kid Cudi.  And what didn’t disappoint is this single from the album which features Miike Snow.  Great, great music here.

Crookers – Remedy (ft. Miike Snow)

Here’s the first single called Rocket taken from Goldfrapp’s new album, “Head First”  which is due out in March.  Has a strong 80’s influence,  such as the synths and drums that are used on this track.  I’m enjoying the depart from their Seventh Tree release in 2008, even though I thought that was a solid album from them as well.

Goldfrapp – Rocket

Lyrics:

Starting something,
thought it could be fun
I started something,
couldn’t go wrong

Danger, heartache,
I’d always knew
There’s no winner,
in this game you lose

But I still wanna know
How she got in the door uninvited

Oo-ooh I got a rocket
Oo-ooh you’re going on it
Oo-ooh you’re never coming back

This is secrets, stories unfold
Flow by pleasure, losing control

Danger, heartache,
Something has died
No good pretending,
I’m leaving this time

But i still wanna know
How she got in the door uninvited

Oo-ooh I got a rocket
Oo-ooh you’re going on it
oo-ooh you’re never coming back

Oo-ooh I got a rocket
Oo-ooh you’re going on it
Oo-ooh you’re never coming back

You’re never coming back
You’re never coming back again no no
You’re going out on your own

You’re never coming back
You’re never coming back again oh no
You’re going out on your own

Oo-ooh I got a rocket
Oo-ooh you’re going on it
Oo-ooh you’re never coming back

Oo-ooh i got a rocket
Oo-ooh you’re going on it
Oo-ooh you’re never coming back
(you’re never coming back)

5-4-3-2-1
We have lift off

Coury Palermo has just released is first EP, “boxsideoutV.1″ which can be purchased on iTunes.   And as an added bonus is releasing a new remix of his cover version of Eurythmics, “Here Comes The Rain Again”.  This particular cover is remixed by Odd Year.

Coury Palermo – Here Comes the Rain Again (Odd Year)

Groovy little number from Beni which features the vocals of Sam Sparro.

Beni – Maximus (ft. Sam Sparro)

sketch by Adrian Gilliland

Dark  and mesmerizing, but propelled by a hypnotic beat and the sultry voice of Hope Sandoval.   From Massive Attack’s 2010 release, “Heligoland” which is set to be released on Feburary 8th.

Massive Attack – Paradise Circus (Ft. Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star)

Background from wiki:

The album release was preceded on October 4, 2009 by an EP, Splitting the Atom. During its gestation, it was often referred to as “LP5″, a reference to it being their fifth studio album (not counting Danny the Dog) or “Weather Underground” (Robert Del Naja’s early working title for the record) in the media.^[3]

Many other artists recorded sessions during the duo’s post-100th Window era but are not featured on the album: Jhelisa (Anderson – also recorded for 100th Window and was not included on that album either), Stephanie Dosen, Yolanda (Quarty of Phantom Limb), Aku and Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh of Dragons of Zynth, Elizabeth Fraser, Dot Allison, Debbie Clare, Mike Patton, Fredo Viola, Beth Orton and Terry Callier. Backing tracks from Grant Marshall’s side of Massive Attack’s writing are known to have been sent to Alice Russell, Patti Smith and David Bowie during this era but collaboration did not come to fruition, nor did talks with Tom Waits or Tricky, in terms of featuring as guest vocalists on the record. Mos Def and Leslie Feist were also mooted as artists to be recorded, back at the beginning of the era in 2004^[4]. Despite online suggestions to the contrary, no recording sessions with Sia ever took place. Post-punks, Mark Stewart and Keith Levine also came into Del Naja’s 100 Suns studio in 2009, but it does not appear that they have made any contribution to the album. From the new songs that were played during previous tours many were not included on the record, including songs nicknamed as “All I Want”, “Red Light”, “Kingpin”, “Heartcliff Star”, “Marakesh” (an ‘08 track completely different musically from, though lyrically similar to, another song also provisionally entitled “Marakesh” that became Atlas Air), “Marooned” and “Dobro”.

Burial has been supplied with Heligoland’s tracks to remix. This connection has been compared to the remix relationship with Mad Professor in the nineties which led to the No Protection album and all of Mezzanine’s tracks being given dub remix treatment, many (though not all) having been released on the singles from that LP.

The limited edition of Heligoland will include a special 28-page booklet and a bonus disc of other material, which it is thought will include a number of the commissioned remixes. An EP including songs known from previous tours (such as the working-titled “Dobro”) but not included on the album is planned for release in May 2010, according to Robert Del Naja.^[5]

Ok folks, what do you get if mix Danny Elfman with Anotony Hegarty (of Anthony and the Johnsons) and Cirque De Solei?  Well, The Irrepressibles of course!  Jamie McDermott (the voice of The Irrepressibles) leads an orchestra of 9 and on this particular track, which will take you on a sonic journey with Jamie’s voice as the narrator over time and space.  Sheer beauty…  Don’t believe me?  Take one listen and tell me that’s not divine.

The Irrepressibles – In This Shirt

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