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Midnight Magic – Beam Me Up (Jacques Renault Remix)

davidaarong — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:50:22 +0000

This remix is pure disco magic. Midnight Magic is a group from Brooklyn, New York and includes member from Hercules & Love Affair: Andrew Raposo, Morgan Wiley and Carter Yasutake. See this previous post on Hercules & Love Affair for more info on them. Jacques Renault took this already soothing disco track and speed up the tempo a bit and added more ambient disco flare to make this track really sizzle. I love how in the chorus we almost get to that Andy Gibb style vocal with the line,
“Baby don’t, Baby don’t, Baby don’t…”

Midnight Magic – Beam Me Up (Jacques Renault Remix)

Hercules & Love Affair – Blind

Lindstrøm & Christabelle – Lovesick

davidaarong — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:48:55 +0000

Chilled disco house from Norway’s very own Lindstrøm & Christabelle. To my ears, it sounds like Lindstrom is a big fan of Micheal Jackson’s “Off the Wall” album that was produced by the master Quincy Jones. I can hear echo’s of the production through out their full length release, “Real Life Is No Cool”. Lovesick is the standout track for me, with it’s syncopated guitar work and Christabelle’s smooth as silk vocals.

Lindstrøm & Christabelle – Lovesick

bio from Last.fm

After the release of Lindstrøm’s critically acclaimed solo album Where You Go I Go Too, in 2008 and 2009`s collaborative album with Prins Thomas, II, … Norway’s maestro of disco returns once again. This time he teams up with sultry vocalist Christabelle, to bring us Real Life Is No Cool, an edgy pop album of structured chaos and hypnotic beats.

Hans-Peter Lindstrøm actually began work on Real Life Is No Cool before Where You Go I Go Too, it just so happened WYGIGT was finished first. It was his work on this new album, containing 10 short pop songs with vocals, which became the impetus behind creating the epic and colossal masterpiece, WYGIGT (with only 3 long tracks and a opening track clocking in at 28 minutes). Essentially, WYGIGT was a kind of reaction to his work on Real Life Is No Cool. When WYGIGT began making waves around the world, Lindstrøm went back into his studio to complete Real Life Is No Cool.

Christabelle (also known as Solale to Lindstrøm followers) has been working on and off with Lindstrøm since 2001. Their relationship began when she immediately fell in love with his sound after hearing her brother Dennis (a friend of Lindstrøm) play some of his tracks at home. Upon listening, she proceeded to lay down vocals on some of his tracks, and her brother then delivered them to Lindstrøm. His first impression was, “Wow! This sounds totally fresh, wild and quirky”. A meeting was set up and the two found a common ground. ”We found out that we shared many of the same musical references, such as Motown, Grace Jones, 80s soul, Vanity 6, etc.” says Lindstrøm. “We even tried to make a cover of Zapp`s ‘Computer Love’. This meeting led to a collaboration resulting in two 12”s — 2003’s “Music In My Mind” and 2005’s “Let’s Practice” (then under the name Lindstrøm and Solale). They never planned on making an album together, but the collaboration slowly evolved into a collection of songs that ended up becoming Real Life Is No Cool. (The title is a line taken from the album track ‘Keep It Up’ — a track about violent relationships.)

Christabelle, whose full name is Christabelle Silje Isabelle Birgitta Sandoo, was born in 1981 to a Norwegian mother and a father from Mauritius (an island in the Indian ocean) in Oslo, Norway. Her father is a musician and music teacher, her mother a vocalist, and her brother a drummer. “All my life I have been surrounded by music, musicians, and instruments, so it was kind of obvious that I would also make music”. She started working with some of the best producers in Norway, but got off to on the wrong foot as she soon rebelled against their slick sound and attitude. As she said, “There was simply no room for going crazy and having fun, and I didn’t want to sell my nomad soul”. One of the things that attracted Lindstrøm was this rebellion against being “produced”. He would just let Christabelle do what she was inspired to do – she found room for improvisation and was able to let herself loose working with him. She created most of the lyrics on the spot, while the two were jamming, and recorded half of the tracks’ vocals at home and on her own, using a simple Shure SM55 “elvis”-mic, which gave her vocals an intimate and raw character. Lindstrøm would then edit and produce the jams later. Christabelle was not into the house music that Lindstrøm was into at the time, which forced him to think differently. The result was a more loose and improvised sound than what Lindstrøm had done before.

Lindstrøm calls their collaboration “structured chaos”, him being the structure and Christabelle bringing the chaos. This chaos is also very much a part of Christabelle`s personal life. She has always been a nomad — impulsive and restless, she’s a self-described “on-the-road girl”. She moved to London when she was 16, and, since then, has lived in Paris, Marseille, Mauritius, and Stockholm. She now lives in Oslo. She is, in many ways, the total opposite of Lindstrøm, who lives a quiet family life and makes disco nine to five, Monday to Friday, traveling to play one gig a month so that he can have time with his family. Real Life Is No Cool is a meeting of these two different personalities.

Sia – Clap Your Hands (Diplo Remix)

davidaarong — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:14:15 +0000

Loving this remix Diplo just dropped of Sia’s, “Clap Your Hands”. Sia is set to release her 5th full length this June.

Diplo has taken this track to dark territory with an drum n bass style bass line that shifts up and down the frequency spectrum.

Sia – Clap Your Hands (Diplo Remix)

Here’s the original:

Sia – Clap Your Hands

Silver Columns – Brow Beaten

davidaarong — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:54:42 +0000

Think Jimmy Somervile meets Hercules Love Affair on this one,which is a delightful mix. Not much is on the web about these guys (Adem Ilhan and Johnny Lynch), but here is there myspace page.

Silver Columns – Brow Beaten

Here’s a remix of the track by Joe Goddard of Hot Chip:

Silver Columns – Brow Beaten (Joe Goddard Remix)

Here are various remixes of tracks from their forthcoming full length:

Silver Columns – Cavalier (The Time And Space Machine Remix)

Silver Columns – Yes and Dance (Silver Columns Remix)

Silver Columns – Yes and Dance (Weirdo Police Remix)

Silver Columns are due to release ‘YES AND DANCE’ on May 24th.

Tracklisting:

1. Cavalier
2. To Wake You
3. Yes and Dance
4. Always On
5. Brow Beaten
6. Columns
7. Warm Welcome
8. Is It Still You
9. Heart Murmurs
10. Way Out

Beni – Maximus (ft. Sam Sparro)

davidaarong — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:28:12 +0000

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

Beni – Maximus (ft. Sam Sparro)

sketch by Adrian Gilliland

Who Made Who – Keep Me In My Plane

davidaarong — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:02:15 +0000

Who Made Who reminds me, on this particular track, of a more disco infused Junior Boys track with smooth and warm vocals over a disco-esque rhythm section.

Who Made Who – Keep Me In My Plane

BTW: Beautifully shot video for this track, love the stoic look through out:

Bio from Facebook:

WhoMadeWho may lack a question mark after their name but their music will certainly have you asking after them. Why do they dress up in skeleton suits when they play live? Why does a band supposedly known for disco punk start their second album with an outbreak of omnious sounding woodwind? And why do they fill their most breezy pop moments with teutonic synths? The Danish trio are difficult to pin down but their music sounds as effortless as it is stylistically and sonically adventurous. WhoMadeWho are on a mission to eschew convention.

Holy Ghost! – I Will Come Back

davidaarong — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:53:11 +0000

Hot new 12″ from Holy Ghost!. Holy Ghost! are currently in studio working on their first full length. They will be releasing a new video for, “I Will Come Back”. This particular tracks lies somewhere between Junior Boys mid tempo electronics beats mixed with disco inspired tracks of Morgan Geist and a touch of Michael McDonald on the chorus — I know sounds weird, but it works.

Holy Ghost! – I Will Come Back

Bio:

Holy Ghost! consists of two individuals, Nicholas Millhiser and Alexander Frankel. Both grew up a few blocks from each other in New York City and began collaborating on music at an early age. their first foray into the music world came in the shape of their first band, Automato, while attending high school. Shortly after signing to Capitol Records in 2000, they teamed up with DFA founders Tim Goldsworthy and James Murphy to handle production duties on Automato’s debut. After recording with Tim and James, Alex and Nick began lending their skills to various DFA productions, including remixes and as touring and recording members of The Juan Maclean. All the while, Nick and Alex began working towards their own record and finally, Holy Ghost! is a product of their obsessions with analog synthesizers, rare disco, and ancient production techniques. Worth to hold on to!Alex and Nick gave up some valuable ‘sleep’ time whilst on a flying visit to London and talked us through some of their favourite cuts – disco or otherwise!

Lyrics:

Can we slow it down, just for a moment see
Some things never get old
Let us Rearrange, we go perfectly
At least that’s what I’ve been told

And your mother won’t leave you alone
And your father won’t leave you alone
In a minute things can change, at least until you get home

It’s the middle of the night
That’s my favorite part
Keeps me under the gun

There’s a part of me
That keeps coming through
And I will come back
To you …

What a change of plans
I can’t wait to see
What you come up with next

Point somewhere on the map
It’s ok to leave
You can always come back

And your mother won’t leave you alone
And your father won’t leave you alone
So you book yourself a room, where a video plays on a loop

It’s the middle of the night, the night
That’s my favorite part
Keeps me under the gun
There’s a part of me
That keeps coming through
And I will come back (I will come back)
To you….

Men – Credit Card Babie$

davidaarong — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:12:41 +0000

Hailing from New York and rising from the ashes of Le Tigre comes “Men“. Sound is somewhere between Disco, House, Electronic, with a pinch of Reggae.

Band Memebers are:
JD Samson, Michael O’Neill and Ginger Brooks Takahashi – with contributions from Johanna Fateman and Emily Roysdon.

Men – Credit Card Babie$

Men – Off Our Backs

Video:

Siriusmo – Last Dear

davidaarong — Sat, 31 May 2008 19:34:15 +0000

From Berlin, Siriusmo is the side project of the male part of German Duo DANA & SIRIUSMO. This track is Fresh, funky, and has energetic house flare, enjoy!

Siriusmo – Last Dear

Moby – Disco Lies

davidaarong — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:00:32 +0000

Here’s a new track from the forthcoming full release from Moby. It’s o.k., not great, not really bad, but just ok… so what do YOU think?

[Moby - Disco Lies]

To download this track just right click on the link and select, “Save Link As…”