November 20 2009
Sometimes we listen to technical music because it's nice to know that there are still people out there who practice their instruments 9000 hours a day, and sometimes when in that mood we listen to Cougar, who are precise and sharp and dense but also have a little bounce to them. They let go of "Rhinelander," from their recent album Patriot, on the eve of a show at New York's Mercury Lounge this Sunday (11/22). It sounds like Gregorian prog.
Cougar - Rhinelander
Previously:
Cougar - Foil Épée Sabre
Cougar - Stay Famous (Mike Ladd Remix)
Cougar - Stay Famous
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Tittsworth just released his "Maneater"-nodding, Nina Sky and Pitbull-featuring "Here He Comes" as a single through Plant, which is good news for fans of boomy Baltimore club and appropriated Hall & Oates hooks. This version from DJ Day, which is basically a classic disco/Bmore hybrid, isn't on that release since it came out on the 12 Steps Remixes EP through T&A last year. But, now we have an excuse to post it, and the passage of time doesn't make it any less next level.
Tittsworth - Here He Comes (feat. Nina Sky & Pitbull) (DJ Day Remix)
Previously:
Tittsworth - Broke Ass Nigga (feat DJ Assault, Kenny B, Jinxx & Frankie Baby)
Tittsworth - Drunk As Fuck (feat. The Federation)
Tittsworth - 911 (feat. Stimulus)
Tittsworth - Here He Comes (feat. Nina Sky & Pitbull)
Tittsworth - WTF (Featuring Kid Sister & Pase Rock)
Tittsworth - Broke Ass Nigga (The Glass Remix)
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We thought 2009 was the year of Audion for Matthew Dear, what with all those singles and the live A/V extravaganza that is currently blowing through the States. But here's this release as Jabberjaw, an alias he's only used once before, for a 2003 EP on German techno powerhouse Perlon. We'll give you that the resuscitation seems a little random, but who can be mad at more floor-focused Dear material? People we don't want to hang out with anyway? Stream "The Connie Shake" below and cop the record from our buds at Ghostly.
Jabberjaw - The Connie Shake
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Holiday Shores (Floridians, CMJ darlings, and all around affable guys) have a new tour-only cassette called Through The Thin Cloud and today they're gifting one of its exclusive tracks. Below, the band channels lounge lizards past in this boozy little cover of Arthur Russell’s “Your Motion Says,” replete with downtempo chords and cowbell. Hit up MySpace for tour info on where to lift the tape, or return the love by picking up their album.
Holiday Shores - Your Motion Says (Arthur Russell Cover)
Previously:
Holiday Shores - Phones Don't Fued
Holiday Shores - Edge Of Our Lives
8Bitch isn't the most elegant of monikers, but the Glasgow-via-Ljubljana producer's remix of "Diamonds On A Boat" is all about grace, good taste and glide. Even when Samuel's phone goes off halfway through, it still somehow manages to retain its composure, aching out over the wreckage of a dying party.
Sounds Like: Teengirl Fantasy, a Nokia 3210, Drexciya
Samuel And The Dragon - Diamonds On A Boat (8Bitch Remix)
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We're going to be real with you: this Ancestors song is over thirteen minutes long. You might've surmised from the photo that these dudes aren't into brevity, but really you guys this is an almost quarter-hour of swashbuckling, organ-smeared doom riffage. It's a freaking leviathan. In terms of getting the most bang for you download or whatever, this trumps everything else. Should you need more, the album from whence it came is available from Tee Pee.
Ancestors - The Ambrose Law
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November 19 2009
(Photo: Dan Pak)
Because what's Thursday without indulging in a ten-minute krautrock cut with keyboards that sound like ooze dripping from our corneas and drums that had to have been played by someone with ten arms? (Answer: boring.) Ulysses is New York resident Elliot Taub, one half of the Neurotic Drum Band and seasoned NYC nightlife dude (that's him standing in front of the old club Fun, where he threw the Regressive Technologies parties in the early 2000s). He just put out a 12-inch of some more club-appropriate stuff on Wurst, go buy that here when you get to the other side of this unreleased epic.
Sounds like: Faze Action, Permanent Vacation, Liars at their most wasted
Ulysses - Toucan (Demo Mix)
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Birds & Batteries’ new EP Up To No Good came out this week and there’s been some talk about honky-tonk layering, Halloween freak boogie and lost in the woods funk. Also, cough syrup-induced dancing. Below, a little more throat coat with “Sneaky Times” and "Out In The Woods" until the full length anodyne drops in 2010.
Birds & Batteries - Out In The Woods
Birds & Batteries - Sneaky Times
Previously:
Birds & Batteries - The Villain
Birds & Batteries - Lightning (UTNG Version)
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Fool's Gold just put out a record with Sydney party denizens Bag Raiders, collecting some remixes from FG associates and a new original with Donnis for the North American exclusive Big Fun EP. This mega retro version of their single "Fun Punch" by Sammy Bananas and Brooklyn singer Carrie Wilds was held just for us, and since it sounds like Gloria Estefan as heard through a pack of Starburst, we are obviously psyched to share. Download's below; for the Big Fun EP hit up Beatport or iTunes.
Bag Raiders vs. Sammy Bananas - Fun Punch (feat. Carrie Wilds)
Previously:
Bag Raiders - Turbo Love (K.I.M Remix)
Bag Raiders - Turbo Love (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars (Shazam Dub Mix)
Sammy Bananas - Tha Stepper
Sammy Bananas - Ladies
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