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FEATURED: Morgan Geist On FADER TV's "Studio Time"
We’ve been spending some evenings with the break-room techno of Morgan Geist’s forthcoming album Double Night Time (out Tuesday through Environ), so watching this FADER TV in-the-studio interview with him was good because we got a glimpse of his modest bunker studio and learned stuff like how he wrote the album with QuickTime sounds first and how sadness and happiness are really sort of interchangeable in pop music. Actually, we already knew that second one. We already knew he rocked a shiney dome, too.
Morgan Geist On "Studio Time" At FADER TV
Stream: Morgan Geist - Most Of All
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: The Juan Maclean - Find A Way
If the glorious throwback rhythms of “Happy House” were any indication, we should have been expecting some bombs from The Juan Maclean's new stuff. Unsurprisingly, dude has delivered. “Find A Way”—available for exclusive download here at RCRD LBL—was recorded during the sessions that yielded the forthcoming full-length The Future Will Come (DFA), but was left off the final sequencing of the album. Now it’s landed on the tour-only CD of the same name, giving those who’ve been checking out Juan’s heavily-lauded live shows a glimpse of what he's been working on for the past three years. After the opening one/two drum/synth slam, the guts of "Find A Way" are really just some elastic piano puddles (like “Happy House”) and the dueling vocals of Nancy Whang and Juan, indicative of a sophisticated, pop-oriented direction for TFWC. Download the track below, and click through to check tour dates and an amazing clip of Juan and drummer Jerry Fuchs getting into it about in-ear-montiors and some bad deeds done in Albuquerque.
Sounds like: Holy Ghost!, Jacques Renault, Soulwax
Exclusive Download: The Juan Maclean - Find A Way
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Stream: The Juan Maclean - Happy House
Stream: The Juan Maclean - Happy House (Lee Douglas Remix)
Stream: The Juan Maclean - Happy House (Prince Language Dub)
DOWNLOAD: Holy Hail - Samo Son (Ghost Note Ltd. Remix)
While some might lament the rise of the “nu-disco” tag as a parallel to last year’s Justice-led “electro resurgence”, for a minute we're still content to lose our minds to clanging 120bpm breaks, especially if they’re butted up against some seriously mean timbale work and the requisite wobbly bass line that’s Falling All Over Our Faces. In anticipation of their awesomely-titled debut LP Independent Pleasure Club (out Nov. 11 through Kanine), Brooklyn disco-anything troupe Holy Hail have released Alexander Posell’s remix of album track "Samo Son". Posell, the group’s touring drummer, cues up a bevy of versioning tools—70s soundtrack samples, handclaps, heaps of echo, some vintage synth flourishes, what sounds like Garbage truck sirens (seriously)—but what really makes the song crack is the aforementioned timbale flares. In our dreams, “nu disco” music is actually played by the drumline Kanye got for his “Love Lockdown” performance at last week’s VMAs, not just a bunch of skinny dudes from Europe who wear linen.
Sounds like: Lindstrøm, The Juan Maclean, Holy Ghost
DOWNLOAD: The Death Set - Negative Thinking (Treasure Fingers Remix)
Brooklyn-via-Atlanta beardo Treasure Fingers continues his streak of wobbly disco house and stuttering vocoder domination, this time re-touching Baltimore spazzers The Death Set and their video-game rager “Negative Thinking”. Mr. Fingers (no, not Larry Heard) only keeps the original’s SimpleText sample and builds something entirely new around it, all arpeggiated Ferrari synths and smoke-machine guile. Definitely something you’d hear dropped well through the night to give everyone their second wind. Grab the track below and make sure to also pick up Treasure Fingers’ debut single “Cross The Dancefloor”, available digitally and on wax right now through our very good bros at Fools Gold.
Sounds like: Midnight Juggernauts, Cut Copy, Muscles
Download: The Death Set – Negative Thinking (Treasure Fingers Remix)
Download: Treasure Fingers – Cross The Dancefloor (Lifelike Remix)
Download: The Death Set – Negative Thinking
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Quintron - Waterfall + The Boss Wants To Party With You
Like me, Mister Quintron is an inventor of sorts. But rather than delve into the world of say, ice cream sandwich machines or candy hats like yours truly, the New Orleans-native (hope everything's okay) has developed ideas of serious use, the most notable perhaps a hot dog of a contraption named "The Drum Buddy."
What does it do? No clue! But it looks a lot like what you might expect, given the psychedelic, organ-fueled party poetry Quintron whips up as both one-man band and beat lothario. Today we've got an exclusive download from dude's upcoming full-length on Goner, Too Thirsty 4 Love. Listen to it and be merry, but also remember: It's very possible that in the very near future, babes are going to be as in to Drum Buddies as they are Camaros or candy hats. Invest now!
Sounds Like: of Montreal, Scissor Sisters, Oblivians
Exclusive New Download: Quintron - Waterfall
DOWNLOAD: of Montreal - Nonpareil Of Favor
Holy, holy, holy shit.
"Nonpareil Of Favor" is the opening track—and book-ending cousin to "Id Engager"— on the very excellent, highly-anticipated Skeletal Lamping. But it's a much different animal than its cuz: less chaos, more tightly knit families of melody, a harpsichord opener that somehow murders game, and a breathless coda that'll leave a dude bruised and dazed. Four words is about all it takes to describe its scope and effect. They are sitting just under the guy in red pants.
Sounds Like: Olivia Tremor Control, Apples In Stereo
Download: of Montreal - Nonpareil Of Favor
DOWNLOAD: Xaver Naudascher - Lost
Breaking away from the 12" model on which it's built its name, Death From Abroad (DFA Records' internationalist arm) has released its first compilation, Death From Abroad Presents Supersoul Recordings - Nobody Knows Anything. Rather than merely collect random tunes here and there, this double CD collects the entire Supersoul discography and adds exclusive cuts to it. Home to talents such as Skatebård, Walter Jones, Strangelets, Plastique De Rêve, Mogg and label owner Xaver Naudascher, Supersoul traffics in vintage-sounding Italo/electro/disco/house music with a 21st century edge. So while the synths and drum machines have dusty, historic roots, the fervernt energy they're played with shakes away the cobwebs and lights a fire under dancers' assets. The tune we have for you comes from head honcho, Naudascher, whose "Lost" revs like a motorcycle careening wildly over the surface of the moon, with just enough gravity left to stomp your feet on the dance floor.
Sounds Like: Yaz, Kraftwerk, Soft Cell
Download: Xaver Naudascher - Lost
Supersoul Recordings @ Myspace
Buy Death From Abroad Presents Supersoul Recordings - Nobody Knows Anything
FEATURED: Hercules & Love Affair Interview At XLR8R TV
When I watched this conversation between Andrew Butler and RCRD LBL Contributing Editor David Bevan, I got distracted at the mention of DJ Garth and spent half an hour looking at photos from Garth’s Wicked Sound System raves in the nineties over at their MySpace page. Shots of turntables overlooking the barren desert at Burning Man and all-nighters in Golden Gate Park is totally justifiable nerding out to me. All Andy Butler DOES in the video is nerd out, gushing about his discovery of disco, repeatedly playing the dub mix to Yazoo’s “Situation, and what his first DJ gig was like at the age of 15. Head over to XLR8R to meet the man and watch the clip.
Hercules & Love Affair Interview At XLR8R TV
Stream: Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules Theme
DOWNLOAD: Daniel Wang - Berlin Sunrise
The glittering disco revival which has really been pumping over the last few years owes a lot to California native and current Berlin resident, Daniel Wang. While attending school in New York City and Chicago, Wang seemed to learn the most while cutting loose in the cities clubs. In 1993 he launched the label Balihu for his own deep-house/disco fusion tunes, and in the late 90's joined forces with (and quite possibly influenced) Morgan Geist's Environ label -- the future home of the vaunted Metro Area. Wang's sleek and sheik productions sound as if they've been rescued from a dusty bin of Italo disco and acid house records, but remixed with subtle hints of futurism. So dancers shaking it to the loping grooves of his Ghostly debut, "Berlin Sunrise," may struggle to determine if they're listening to the past or the present. The "Die Dämmerung" (dawn) mix is an easy favorite, with vividly colorful synth arpeggios peaking over the horizon, a fat low end wiggling not far behind. This is the tune you'll want to hear while dancing at daybreak.
Sounds Like: Kelley Polar, Metro Area, Lindstrom
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Treasure Fingers - Cross The Dancefloor (Lifelike Remix)
Treasure Fingers’ debut single “Cross The Dancefloor” (out now on Fool's Gold) rolls all our footwork necessities into one twenty-first century disco burrito: Vocodered call-and-response chorus lines, roller-rink grooves, slimy moog dashes, frolicking on shag carpet with your boo (ok, maybe I just imagined that), it’s all there. So we’re excited our FG partners hooked up a fantastic exclusive remix of the track from Lifelike, heir-apparent to the Braxe/Falke/Falcon throne of French-touch house. Dude chops the original’s sample up into tiny elastic shards, scattering them around a solid low-end thump and finishing it with the familiar French sounds of funk guitar swipes and jaggedly edited fills. It’s addictive as hell, so be careful you don’t unknowingly tell your boss to “Shake it cross the dancefloor,” when you’re jamming this on the iPod in the elevator. Also, if you're down under, be sure to check the Atlanta native on a short Aussie tour he's got going on next week. Dates are up at his MySpace.
Sounds like: DJ Falcon, K.I.M., Justice
Exclusive Download: Treasure Fingers - Cross The Dancefloor (Lifelike Remix)
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