SUNDAZE MP3Z

here's another side of the valentine playlist i will post in a few hours! 2 fierce ladies who tell it like it is; 2 bands i can't get enough of! they really lay it all out on the table & each time i hear these songs it's like i'm right there with them... we've all been there at some point! well i have... fuck yeah!!! maybe you can somehow relate as well:

MARRIED, BUT NOT TO EACH OTHER - MP3
• ǝןןɐsɐן ǝsıuǝp •



LEFTOVERS - MP3
• uosʞɔɐɾ ǝıןןıɯ •



ON GIVING UP - MP3
• sǝɔɐןd ɥƃıɥ •



LOVE COMES CLOSE - MP3
• ǝʌɐɔ pןoɔ •

here's one more i posted yesterday.

tonight i'll probably go dance here:


any grammy related party is going to have celebs,
wannabes, star fuckers & lame ass music
you'd only want to dance to wasted,
so the douster set will be the
best for my happy feet!

then there's always this party (pics here & here):

Wolf Moon MP3

STARRY EYED MP3
penguin prison remix of ellie goulding featuring theophilus london


the grand star jazz club is at 943 north broadway in chinatown.
more info about party & show at the tail end of this link.
last time i went i took some pics; look for the
disco party on saint nic's in here.

BRUNCH (7 MP3Z)

RITON & SEIJI - COMPUTER JUICE (tai & d.i.m. remix) - MP3

THE ANTLERS - TWO (buffet libre remix) - MP3

BREAKBOT FT. IRFANE - BABY I'M YOURS - MP3

JUSTICE - BEGINNING OF THE END - MP3

CARIBOU - ODESSA - MP3

THE POSTMARKS - GOODBYE (james iha remix) - MP3

IN FLAGRANTI - EX EX EX (botin remix) - MP3

click here for more previews of the upcoming cupid playlist.
FULL FRONTAL DISCO IS TONIGHT! WOLF MOON DANCE TIME:

BON-TRON (3 MP3Z)

PILOTPRIEST - BODY DOUBLE - MP3

this 12 minutes long Pilotpriest track is part of the Tron Legacy soundtrack. not much happens for the first 2 or 3 minutes, then subtle vocals kick in & build up into an epic beat about 5 minutes into it. i can't remember the last time a piece of music has gotten me so excited about seeing a movie on the big screen!!! i posted the trailer in here last summer, with a few more links to cool people working on it. to the best of my knowledge, it's the only one the studio has released so far... moving on - since the weekend is upon us:

CASSIAN - FRIDAY NIGHT - MP3

MATT VAN SCHIE - SATURDAY NIGHT (G.L.O.V.E.S RMX) - MP3

here are two more tracks from my new yet to be posted cupid mix... & i highly recommend my old college roommate frosty's mix. luv it!

Hollywood MP3Z

i love LA after the rain. the air is crisp & clear. the east side i live in is clean while venice becomes that distant place where the debris meets the sea... meeting friends for coffee under the sun soaked skies almost inspires me to order coffee with a twist of lemon!!! anyhew, marina and the diamonds can do no wrong. i love gonzales' new version of her ode to hollywood. check out the performance video!

HOLLYWOOD (gonzales version) - MP3

HOLLYWOOD (monarchy gliese remix) - MP3

these 2 versions made it in my new valentine playlist! i'll upload the entire mix later this week... the 15th track in this playlist posted last week is another fun upbeat version of the same song. enjoy...

find here mowgli's road video & i am not a robot video...

here's another cool video:

Japayork created & animated the video himself.
music aside, i also dig his artwork...

PARTY ON & DRIVE SAFELY!

Carla Morrison

it's been a while since i've been this excited about an artist i haven't seen yet! Carla Morrison is from south of the border & i can't wait till she makes it up to a stage in LA! she covers a beautiful song by the great Manu Chao whom i've always been a big fan of since high school. back then, i went to practically every Mano Negra concert in Quito... enough said! put your headphones on & pump it up:

she also writes her own songs & dedicates this one to her dad:

isn't she brilliant? ok, one more lovely song to cap it off:

SLICKNESS X 5

Karin Dreijer, from Swedish electro-bands Fever Ray and The Knife, sets a new acceptance speech standard at a Swedish awards show:

Karin is the shit! i was lucky to meet her brother Olof & her when The Knife came to LA for the 1st time back in 2006. i'll take Karin over lady caca anytime!!! look into Tomorrow In A Year, an excerpt of which i posted at the tail end of this entry... Swedes rule!

this new trailer for the console game Spec Ops is bad ass:

Marco Brambilla directed while Tronic designed, animated, produced and modeled the characters and environments from scratch in this ambitious portrayal of a destroyed near future Dubai...

Björk lent her talents to give it the otherworldly feel that Dubai certainly elicits. Q Department supervised, composed & designed the über slick soundtrack...
Spec Ops: The Line is a provocative and gripping third-person modern military shooter that challenges players’ morality by putting them in the middle of unspeakable situations where unimaginable choices affecting human life must be made... hmmm, that's intense! sticking to the wii once in a while might be enough for me. nevertheless, the trailer is sick!

BBC's 2010 Winter Olympics animated tailer is the slickest so far:

directed by Studio Aka's Marc Craste... i dig this inuit hero!!!

onto a whole different kinda slick! last october i had the privilege of seeing Maluca perform in LA; pics in here... check out the hotness:

i rarely discuss politics & haven't blogged about it since this entry... however, Cornell West's recent address to Obama is pretty slick:

update (playlist+stuff)

at the Fonda here in LA, Radiohead just raised nearly $600K for Haïti!!! amazing... here's a new song they performed that night:

scroll down for info on a benefit going on monday night in LA.

some higher power has descended upon my blog & removed songs in my box account for violating copyright laws. this happened way past the hundreds of downloads so it seems you're all set... it's true that the 2000s will be remembered as the decade in which the music business died, or should i say the former excesses of those in the bizz. nevertheless, artists today have many more new ways & formats to expose their work without having to go through all the constraints of yesterday. the amount of music being produced, recorded & released today is greater than ever. as Ghostly's Sam Valenti IV pointed out, artists (and their fans) are the ones who really move the music culture. besides, we have all become a whole lot savvier at marketing & targeting an audience while bypassing the traditional hierarchies.

anyhew, i shall abide by those higher powers who feel threatened by those of us who simply share our appreciation for music in ways that do not always conform to copyright laws. why fight it? as far as i know, my little blog has very limited exposure. so i will chose to be flattered that some other force feels threatened, and i won't repost anything that has been removed. no looking back. besides, the music will keep circulating through more channels than i'm even aware of. indeed, music & the love of music transcend all boundaries! just be sure to support your favorite artists by attending their live shows & purchasing their music whenever you can afford it! meanwhile, i have the utmost respect for everyone & anyone who works in the music field, in particular in those who run independent record labels!!! i'll be happy to remove anything from my post if you feel it doesn't support your cause, agenda or mission to make our lives richer & better.

finally, here's the entire playlist i threw together back in Miami, a grand total of 101 MP3Z. this shared folder will survive the wrath of the powers at be... for now... just for today! here we go:

PHREAKY ME UP (folder)

not previously uploaded are Dazz Band to Gill Scott-Heron, KillaQueens to Kings Of Convenience, Nite Funk to Phoenix, Sinead O'Connor to Calvin Harris, Pantha du Prince to Peaches,...

here's the new video to "Me And The Devil" (track #40):


more info on other artists featured in the playlist:

UNO • DOS • TRES • CUATRO • CINCO • SEIS

in case you missed it, the mediafire downloads still contain it all:

24 $EVEN (playlist)

last friday at the Hyperion Tavern i caught up with friends to the tune of Jimmy Tamborello at the decks. he's one of my faves! you might know him better under one of his monikers: Dntel, The Postal Service or James Figurine. here's a really cool selection of his. i love Dublab! i recently included one of his music videos in this entry...

monday night, come to Mustache Mondays @ La Cita for some guilt free fun; your dollars will go towards the edeyo & yéle relief efforts:

Telephone MP3+VID

this might very well be the gayest thing i've ever done!!! here we go, for the first time ever in my whole entire blogging life, i'm posting a Lady Gaga song. i don't like her. it's like with some people, for whatever reason, you take one look at them & you just wanna slap them. that's how i feel about her... now, to her credit, she does have a decent voice & she writes her own songs. her ridiculous outfits are more often misses than hits, but at least they usually cover her face, thank gawwwd! anyhew, i'm gonna get bad karma if i keep writing about her, so i'm just gonna say props to this "lady" for writing her own songs, covering her face & featuring Beyonce in this new song:

Lady Gaga featuring Beyonce - Telephone (MP3)

Crookers Vocal Remix

next to Beyonce's hotness, she really should have kept her face covered!!!

24 $EVEN (playlist)

since the HOT CHIP love is so strong, i just made this playlist
with more of their songs, old & new. in preparation for
seeing Vikter Duplaix tonight, i also threw in a few of
his classics. then there's the usual spanking new
remixes & other faves from today & yesterday:

24 $EVEN - 29 MP3Z (folder)

if you prefer individual downloads,
those with an asterisk are from Hot Chip's One Life Stand:

01. Hot Chip "We're Looking For A Lot Of Love" - MP3
02. Yarbrough & Peoples "Don't Stop The Music" - MP3
03. Hot Chip "Thieves In The Night" - MP3 *
04. David Byrne & Fatboy Slim "Please Don't" (ft. Santigold) - MP3
05. Hot Chip "Playboy" - MP3
06. Chantal Goya "Tu m'as trop menti" - MP3
07. Hot Chip "Sexual Healing" - MP3
08. Vikter Duplaix "Sensuality" - MP3
09. Vampire Weekend "Giving Up The Gun" (LOL Boys Bootleg) - MP3
10. Rye Rye ft. M.I.A. "Bang" (Addeboy vs. Cliff Remix) - MP3
11. Boys Noize "Jeffer" - MP3
12. The Juan MacLean "The Future Will Come" (Canyon Remix) - MP3
13. Hot Chip "Keep Falling" - MP3
14. DCUP "Style" (Hemingway Remix) - MP3
15. Marina & The Diamonds "Hollywood" (Fenech-Soler Remix) - MP3
16. Fierce City "La Musique Fantastique" - MP3
17. Vikter Duplaix "That Night" - MP3
18. Hot Chip "We Have Love" - MP3 *
19. Data/Debt "California Special" (E & C Remix) - MP3
20. Riva Starr ft. Trim "Dance Me" - MP3
21. Arthur Russell "Planted A Thought" - MP3
22. Hot Chip "Brothers" - MP3 *
23. Miles Fisher "This Must Be The Place" - MP3
24. Escort "Starlight" (Darshan Jersani Parks Dept. Dub) - MP3
25. Hot Chip "Take It In" - MP3 *
26. Eagles Of Death Metal "Whorehoppin (Shit, Goddamn)" - MP3
27. Vikter Duplaix "I See The Sun" - MP3
28. Hot Chip "Keep Quiet" - MP3 *
29. Dan Black ft. Kid Cudi "Symphonies" - MP3

these were pulled from The Worst whose photos are fun.
the music selection on his blog is great as well.
•••
here are some of mine, the usual low fi mobile kind:

One Life Stand (7 MP3Z)

2009 was all about The xx!!!
Matthew Dear recently did this amazing remix:

VCR - MP3
check out the video in high res

here's a perfectly good reason to be excited about 2010:



on February 1st, the new HOT CHIP album finally comes out.
i'm digging the fun calypso percussion popping in & out.
these are my 3 new favourites right now:

SLUSH - MP3

ONE LIFE STAND - MP3

I FEEL BETTER - MP3


i haven't posted this Naum Gabo remix before:

OVER AND OVER - MP3


this recreation is pretty cute:


i've posted Hot Chip's remix of Junior Boys before
but i've also included it in my new playlist:

IN THE MORNING - MP3

check out the video right here.

i've shared "Colours" several times & will never hear it enough.
i very recently included it in this playlist.

the One Pure Thought video is at the bottom of this link.

wrapping this up & going full circle... years ago,
Hot Chip added their special touch to Matthew Dear's song:

DON AND SHERRI - MP3

i love these guys! their live shows are so much fun!!!

MLK (20 MP3Z)

in 1962 Jimmy "Bro" Hayes invited the 30 or 40 guys he
had been singing with at a basketball court to his house
to get together a little group. four guys showed up, and
they went on to form pioneering a cappella legends
The Persuasions.
"I Have a Dream" is a Solomon Burke song
based on the words of
Martin Luther King:

I HAVE A DREAM - MP3
The Persuasions


"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

on this note, lets remember Bayard Rustin for
organizing the March on Washington.

•••

back to the music!
more tunes from the playlist i put together in Miami:

I FEEL IT ALL - MP3
Diplo remix of Feist

ANTS - MP3
EdIT

CRUEL INTENTIONS - MP3
Heartbreaks's slow action remix of Simian Mobile Disco ft. Beth Dito

I CAN'T WAIT - MP3
Nu Shooz

MOMMA'S PLACE - MP3
Róisín Murphy

MOVEMENT III - MP3
The Swiss

GIRL I LOVE YOU - MP3
She Is Danger remix of Massive Attack ft. Horace Andy

LOVE HARDER - MP3
Mighty Mouse remix of Ali Love

SILVIA - MP3
Sinden remix of Miike Snow

ICE CREAM - MP3
Borgore

DEADBEAT SUMMER - MP3
Afghan Raiders remix of Neon Indian

UNDERCOVER MARTYN - MP3
Whatever-Whatever remix of Two Door Cinema Club

SWEAT (ON THE WALLS) - MP3
John Tejada

GOLDEN STRINGS - MP3
Rockets

COMO LA LUNA - MP3
Claudine Longet

WARMER - MP3
Rockets

FALLING FROM THE SUN - MP3
The Album Leaf

RAINMAKER - MP3
Jori Hulkkonen remix of Villa Nah

SKYLARKER - MP3
Horace Andy

click here for more.

i'm stoked about Róisín Murphy's new album coming out!
i've been a fan ever since she hit the airwaves with Moloko's
"Sing It Back" (track #2 in the Nineties Perfect playlist).

i posted here other new songs of hers.

i love how Sinden adds some throbbing funk
to Miike Snow's "Silvia"

Borgore's dubstep kicks ass. it's rude but not as
dirty as Phreaky Muthafucker posted here.

on my last night out in Miami, i had a blast at Chocolate Sunday,
well once a more "mature" deejay took over the decks. prior to that,
this hot girl was spinning some good tunes until she decided to
play what she thought was cool about 90's acid house & techno.
obviously the irony of it all was lost on her & i had to step away
from the dancefloor. her selection was hiddeous! anyhew,
John Tejada's "Sweat" is from 2004 i think, but if i'm gonna
indulge in a little acid, i'd throw this one in the mix. so i did!

also from 2004, i threw in some glitchy beats by EdIT
whom i started partying with back when we were at USC
and he was just learning to play drum'n bass
records, which was painful at times. Ed has
certainly become a pro since then!

sandwiched between 2 epic disco tracks by Rockets,
Claudine Longet softens things up in
Miami's first language!

ENJOY & SHARE THE WEALTH!