HUNGER (playlist)

greetings from Miami, the capital of Latino America where i've spent all my christmases, birthdays & new year celebrations since my folks left Caracas, Venezuela in 1999...  i have enough downtime right now to post another playlist i made this year.  this is by no means a best of 2013, just a few tunes i like, old & new...  

click on the photo above to access the folder then sort it by name to keep the tracks in order.  in the top right corner of the page, there's an option to download the entire folder to drag it into your itunes... enjoy & share the wealth!

MY GIRLS... YES PLEASE!

Tears For Fears covering Animal Collective is pure bliss...

...more about it here

JA'MAZING!!!

i am so freaking excited about this; can't wait!!!


in case you've been living under a rock, here's more about Ja'mie:

RICK OWENS S/S14 $$$

FUCK YEAH!!!  i absolutely love Rick Owens for his choice of models this season! whether you like his clothes or not, you got to respect him for such a brilliant fashion show! enjoy Diane Pernet's video capture from her front row seat:

...and HERE's the entire show courtesy of Vogue.

COOL SONG № 2

Omar Little is back in MGMT's badass video by Isaiah Seret:

Lose Yourself???

from the get go, Lose Yourself To Dance was my favourite song of Random Access Memories.  what a bummer this new video shows more clapping than actual dancing.  in fact, if Soul Train was an inspiration, why isn't anyone losing their shit with crazy ass dance moves?! considering how much money they've made with this album, doesn't Daft Punk get enough of a budget to go nuts & do something a lot less boring or lazy?  at the very least, a bit different from the previous video?!  then again, this is what happens when you let artists think they can direct their own videos instead of trusting an accomplished filmmaker do the job...  i still love the jackets, but c'mon, they're so last spring already (i.e. Get Lucky).  sighhh!  Doin' It Right quickly became my other fave; still is.  i hope they allow for a far more creative collaboration & get it right if they pick it for their next video! 

NEW BEGINNINGS

New York City Ballet presents NEW BEGINNINGS on September 12, 2013. Filmed at sunrise on the 57th floor of 4WTC in lower Manhattan, this short film captures an extraordinary and moving performance of Christopher Wheeldon's After the Rain. It is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, and a tribute to the future of the city that New York City Ballet calls home. #newbeginnings

MUSIC
Spiegel Im Spiegel by Arvo Part
with kind permission of Universal Edition AG Vienna
Courtesy of Naxos of America, Inc.

CHOREOGRAPHY
After the Rain by Christopher Wheeldon

DANCERS
Maria Kowroski
Ask la Cour

VIDEO
Directed by Davi Russo
Produced by @radical.media

Executive Produced by Gregg Carlesimo & Maya Brewster

Developed in collaboration with DDB New York
© 2013 New York City Ballet, Inc.

New York City Ballet on September 11, 2001
On September 11, 2001, the New York City Ballet was on a European tour that had taken the company from Edinburgh, Scotland to Athens, Greece and finally to Parma, Italy, where the company was scheduled to perform as part of the Verdi Festival at the Teatro Reggio that evening. As news of the events unfolding at home in New York began to make its way to the dancers of the New York City Ballet, the sense of fear and loss became more and more overwhelming, and Ballet Master in Chief Peter Martins ultimately decided to cancel the evening's performance.

By curtain time, the sold-out audience had arrived at the Teatro Reggio, and stood in silence and mourned with the Company and the rest of the world. Martins addressed the audience from the stage, saying "We came here to dance, it is what we do, but our hearts are breaking and it is simply not possible for us to perform this evening. But we will be back tomorrow, and we will be honored to perform for all of you then."

NYCB did perform at the Teatro Reggio the following evening, September 12th, 2001, and 12 years to the day after, New York City Ballet offers NEW BEGINNINGS, which features an international team of collaborators, including director Davi Russo who was born and raised in New York City, British choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, American dancer Maria Kowroski, Danish dancer Ask la Cour, and a ballet set to a score by the Estonian composer Arvo Part, which provides a moving backdrop to a film of profound and powerful beauty.

GRAVITY

THIS has the be the best space film since 2001: A Space Odyssey!

...more about it on this page!

HER

there is no other movie i want to see more than Alfonso Cuarón's GRAVITY... except maybe Spike Jonze's very own take on science fiction - HER: 

SMASHING HEARTS

there's something about these kids from Oakland, California, and i dig it... they're called Smashing Hearts & Raphael Saadiq whom i love is behind them,  here's their very first video for their intro track - Red Cup...  i'll toast to that!

GRAVITY

i'm dying to see Gravity!  can you imagine anything more terrifying than this?!  i can't...  this trailer has me at the edge of my seat:

ALL AMERICAN

Derek Cianfrance's latest gets me pumped about American football...

and here's the one he did with baseball a few months ago...

Yayoi Kusama: Self-Obliteration

I HOPE SHE NEVER STOPS PAINTING... SHE IS EVERYTHING!

   

...in case you missed it, i had a blast being her last halloween!

DO I WANNA KNOW?

kick ass song by the Arctic Monkeys.  sick video by David Wilson!  watch as the soundwaves become a hallucinatory cartoon.  more info HERE...

...this is so damn sexy i want a lover.  now!

THIS IS IT

new apple ad HERE by Derek Cianfrance... 

BUBBLE BUTT

Eric Wareheim returns with a Buttzilla, seapunkers, strippers, aerobic instructor ravers and aerial acrobats in his latest & consistently sensational video for Major Lazer...

BETTER WITH YOU

Jessie Ware joins The xx in Berlin to cover Modjo's "Lady" & Stardust's "Music Sounds Better With You."  YES PLEASE!

Andreas Nilsson plays HARD!

work hard, play hard, keep partying like it's your job!  woah, that's deep!!!  i'm no fan of David Guetta's uber cheesy music for the masses; it's like really bad 90s eurotrash electronica to me & i'm still baffled at how much of a hit that sound is with bros & their hos...  but this video is so good, i've been willing to endure this muzak for the mega clubs & tacky stores from Hollywood's Melrose to South Beach's Washington & around the world & back,  just to watch it a few times.  this is by far the best video Guetta has ever had!  ANDREAS NILSSON is absolutely brilliant!!!  if the music makes you cringe as well, watch the whole thing anyway because you're gonna love it... 

THIS IS EVERYTHING!

Is Tropical "Dancing Anymore" by Megaforce...

 ...such a funny trip to memory lane!

The Place Beyond... To The Wonder

The Place Beyond The Pines has done really well in LA & NY so far.  today it hits theaters nationwide; go see it!  as for To The Wonder, it's out today as well.  this is my favourite blurb about the film: All footage of the performances by Jessica Chastain, Rachel Weisz, Amanda Peet, Barry Pepper and Michael Sheen were removed from the final cut...  but what's left is brilliant!

SMOKING

ELYSIUM

Neill Blomkamp does it again!  Set in the year 2159, where the very wealthy live on man-made space station Elysium while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth, a man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds...

...find out MORE

PLAYLIST: HARD&STRONG

here are a few more tunes i have on repeat while battling traffic in & around the city of angels.  it's been a while since i last posted music & hope you'll get a kick out of it.  as usual, it has some oldies, a couple faves from last year i still can't get enough of, and some new shit.  click on THIS to download the folder or on arrows below to preview the tracks. enjoy & share the wealth!  peace:)

01. France Gall ▷ Jazz à gogo
02. Portugal. The Man ▷ Evil Friends
03. Cold War Kids ▷ Tuxedos
04. Rhye ▷ The Fall
05. Laura Mvula ▷ Can't Live With The World
06. Beach House ▷ Wishes
07. FCL ▷ It's You (San Soda's Acca Version)
08. Atoms For Peace ▷ Before Your Very Eyes
09. Destiny's Child ▷ Say My Name (Cyril Hahn Rmx)
10. Alice Russell ▷ To Dust
11. !!! ▷ Slyd
12. Ian Pooley ▷ 1983 ft. Högni Egilsson
13. Miss Kittin ▷ Bassline
14. YACHT ▷ Second Summer
15. Bondax ▷ Gold (Moonboots Rmx)
16. Alice Russell ▷ Hard and Strong
17. Laura Mvula ▷ Green Garden (Bondye & Lee Jo Rmx)
18. Lee Foss & MK ▷ Electricity ft. Anabel Englund
19. Rhye ▷ The Fall (Maurice Fulton Rmx)
20. Les Sins ▷ Grind
21. Nico ▷ These Days (Daisy O'Dell Version)
22. Depeche Mode ▷ Heaven (Owlle Rmx)
23. Major Lazer ▷ Get Free ft. Amber (What So Not Rmx)
24. Who's Who ▷ Hypnodance
25. Lusine ▷ First Call
26. Quantic & Alice Russell ▷ I'll Keep My Light in My Window
27. Sarah Vaughan ▷ The Midnight Sun Will Never Set
28. Laura Mvula ▷ Green Garden (Monsieur Adi Rmx)

The Place Beyond The Pines

The Place Beyond The Pines by Derek Cianfrance hits theaters this Saturday March 30th.  you're going to love it, trust!

lovers, sluts & weirdos

girls in music videos are really going through it this week!

...Passion Pit video by The Daniels

...Yeah Yeah Yeahs video by Megaforce

BEAT MAKING LAB

Cho Cho Cho is the first song and music video produced and written by the youth of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. created in a Beat Making Lab, the song was inspired by a popular call-and-response chant in Goma, and the video was filmed during Yole!Africa's SKIFF Festival dance competition.  

my mother might have been born in Cape Town where my Belgian grandparents lived during WWII, but she subsequently grew up in the Belgian Congo for the first 15 years of her life, precisely in Bukavu (right next to Goma)... i myself grew up knowing it as Zaire, which was still relatively calm & much safer than it is now, well, as long as my parents were in business with Mobutu & if they didn't directly profit from his presidential reign, or should i say dictatorship, then their source of income was in some way feeding his incredible wealth as well... then the cold war ended, Mobutu fell & fled to the French Riviera with his billions of dollars, interpol came down on Mobutu's former profiteers & with that my father's business went down the toilet, such as everything else in Zaire, and the country was renamed the Democratic Republic of Congo. fortunately by that time my parents had divorced & i was off to South America with my mom & my stepfather, for a much less tumultuous life that came with diplomatic immunity... anyway, all of this to say that somehow, in some way, the Congo will always have a special place in my heart. almost everyone in my mother's family lived there in colonial times & thanks to them i will one day inherit a lot of ivory & malachite for the house that i will one day be able to afford on my own (hey just keeping it superficial here, that's my thing). some of my relatives still travel to the Congo with the best interest of its people in mind & i hope i can too one day; it's the Belgian version of "white guilt" i suppose... so i'm always happy to see people get in there in spite of how dangerous & messy it has become. i love to see artists bring people together & into the light!  SUPPORT BEAT MAKING LAB!

RACE FOR LIFE

beating the shit out of cancer has never been this fun...

...video by David Wilson

Beach House: WISHES

Eric Wareheim of TIM & ERIC just directed a brilliant video for BEACH HOUSE... i love the song & the video is perfect for it!

...more funny stuff from Tim & Eric right HERE

Chris Milk ▷ Beck ▷ Bowie

although Chris Milk's HELLO AGAIN with Beck technically came out more than a week ago, Chris Milk finally finished it the way he intended.  click on image below to get to the site!

a few pointers:
(1) you'll need to do it on an actual computer, not a phone or an ipad... (2) go for the HD, even though it takes a while to download... (3) use the time to quit programs and close browser windows. It's gonna eat your CPU... (4) use headphones, but make sure the R and L are on the correct ears to hear the special binaural sound... (5) try the different camera lenses in the upper left corner. they're my favorite part...

DANCE PONY DANCE

THIS IS EVERYTHING!!!  DOUGAL WILSON F@@K YEAH:

Never underestimate the power of a stocky little pony.
Make someone's day with your own pony mashup at:
ThePonyMixer.com #DancePonyDance


 

the COOLNESS i LOVE!

Atoms For Peace plays loudly in my car, sunroof open & windows down... here's Ingenue starring Thom York & Fukiko Takase:

David Bowie is back!!!  i'm loving The Stars Are Out Tonight & i'll watch anything with Tilda Swinton in it.  she's boss!!!  check this out: 

LisaTV @ Jeremy Scott F/W 2013

YAY!  LisaTV hits the the Jeremy Scott show at NY fashion week...

Lisa makes everything better! more magic here & here & here!  other than that, Jeremy Scott seems stuck, like he's recycling himself again & trying too hard to stay "young." maybe i'm just bored with his junk, or the fact that he's not putting any effort whatsoever into re-imagining the work of those he steals from (i.e. Jimbo Phillips).  only Lisa could pull it off & make it look more interesting, no doubt!  it's her love & appreciation for Jimbo Phillips & the other visual references, as well as her non-judgmental take on Jeremy Scott's appropriations that make this piece even more endearing.  LONG LIVE LISA TV!

CHRIS MILK + BECK doing BOWIE

Chris Milk is brilliant!  his collaboration with Beck is everything!!!  watch this cover of David Bowie's Sound & Vision with 167 other musicians.  give it a few minutes & experience the pure magic it becomes, all through the end!  for more details, read on gizmondo...

i was so lucky to be one of the guests that night; we sat on a platform that rotated around the circular stage Beck performed on, while voyaging through the waves of musicians behind us; this is what Chris Milk is recreating for an interactive experience, still in post at this time...  i took a few iphone snaps along the way.  click on them to enlarge:

and here's a little behind the scenes...

PYTHON OBSESSION

HAPPY YEAR OF THE SNAKE... TO ME:

...sneakers, sandals & boat shoes aside, i only wear MARGIELA!!!

I'M ALIVE!

MORE LISA TV!!!

here are 2 new episodes of LisaTV... 

Girl, get your ghoul on!  so fun...

...past episodes here & here!

HEAVEN - Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode is back with  Heaven and a fantastic video collaboration with director/photographer/artist Timothy Saccenti...  enjoy & share the wealth:

ANOTHER PLAYLIST!

click on album cover above to download the folder, or click on gif below to listen to tunes individually... here's the tracklist:

01. Nicole ▷ Make It Hot (ft. Missy Elliott & Mocha)
02. Jesse Ware ▷ Night Light (Wild Beast Rmx)
03. Ssion ▷ Luvvbazaar
04. Rudimental ▷ Not Giving In (Bondax Rmx)
05. Flume ▷ Holdin' On
06. RAC ▷ Hollywood ft. Penguin Prison (Escort Rmx)
07. Jürgen Paape ▷ So weit wie noch nie
08. Trust ▷ Sulk
09. The Knife ▷ Full Of Fire
10. Benmar ▷ Boy U Got Me
11. Jacques Greene ▷ Tell Me (Kingdom Edit)
12. Dave Aju ▷ Listen to Your Heartbeat
13. ESG ▷ Moody
14. Doorly ▷ Rush ft. Soraya Vivian (Problem Child Vocal Mix)
15. Djemba Djemba ▷ Oh Ok Yeah That's Cool
16. Flume ▷ Sleepless ft. Jezzabell Doran (Cosmo's Midnight Mix)
17. Walter Murphy ▷A Fifth Of Beethoven (Flight Facilities Edit)
18. Bondax ▷ Gold (Snakehips Bootleg)
19. La Lupe ▷ Besito Pa Ti
20. The Ghetto Brothers ▷ Got This Happy Feeling

Spit GOLD Under An Empire

take a breather & enjoy Emily Kai Bock's contribution to Sundance Channel's New American Noise... uninspired with the commercial rap that dominates the radio, this new guard of hip hop enthusiasts are seeking the purity of early hip hop - away from the industry & keeping things real, underground & intimate.  mad props to cinematographer Adrien Bertolle for such a splendid job:

...more on the series here

THAT B.E.A.T.

Bounce music is about expressing yourself through dance. Bounce creates an infectious repetitive hook and beat to get the crowd moving.  Abteen Bagheri's documentary profiles the phenomenon of Bounce music, including artists such as Big Freedia, tracing its origins in New Orleans... this is a scene or movement Diplo has been covering for many years already, but this film is definitely worth it...

...more of the New America Noise right here

MIND MISCHIEF

it's such a bummer when a talented band i LOVE like The Knife, who has worked with some of the most talented directors in the past, is now looking no further than the Berlin pub scene & choses to work with a director who does a crappy job instead.  look, i'm all about giving your friends a shot, unless their work is lazy & lame...  on the flipside, it's totally exciting when a band i'm so into right now like Tame Impala choses to work with one of the most brilliant young directors around - David Wilson.  Mind Mischief is such a win-win band/director collaboration! enjoy & share the wealth:

Chanel et le diamant

FULL OF FIRE

I LOVE THE KNIFE!!! they just unveiled Full Of Fire from their forthcoming album Shaking The Habitual.  more about the killer song & the not so killer video on here & here...

L'écume des jours

MICHEL GONDRY applies his DIY visual effects, his deliriously fantastic touch & his gentle poetic sensibilities to adapting Boris Vian's "L'écume des jours" for the big screen...  the new trailer is splendid & i'm already madly in love with the movie before even seeing it.  i can't wait!!!  the English title of the film is Mood Indigo:

love on the ice

just like this!!!

3 PLAYLISTS!!!

it's time for my first playlist of 2013!  just a few tunes i'm really feeling at the moment...  wishing everyone a kick ass year & tons more fun, prosperity & personal victories.  meanwhile, click on picture to download the mix kicked off with Brandy's heart stopping Almost Doesn't Count...  whatever, embrace the cheese & remember: Almost, well, it doesn't quite cut it...  GIVE ME EVERYTHING!!! BRING IT, ENJOY & SHARE THE WEALTH!

01. Brandy ▷ Almost Doesn't Count (Acapella)
02. Purity Ring ▷ Obedear
03. Yuna ▷ Live Your Life (DJ Ayres & Scott Melker Rmx)
04. Major Lazer ▷ Get Free ft. Amber (What So Not Rmx)
05. Trust ▷ F.T.F.
06. Depeche Mode ▷ Martyr (Antony Toga Rmx)
07. Ultraísta ▷ Smalltalk (Four Tet Rmx)
08. Mark De Clive-Lowe ▷ Take the Space Trane
09. Duke Dumont ▷ The Giver
10. Kill Paris ▷ Shades of Funk
11. Steve Bug ▷ No Adjustments (ft. Foremost Poets)
12. Disclosure ▷ What's In Your Head
13. Toro Y Moi ▷ Say That
14. Alex Metric ▷ Rave Weapon (Aeroplane Droid Mix)
15. Flying Lotus ▷ Putty Boy Strut
16. Grizzly Bear ▷ Gun-Shy
17. For Tet ▷ Pinnacles
18. Solange ▷ Locked in Closets
19. Tame Impala ▷ Feels Like We Only Go Backwards (Memory Tapes Rmx)
20. Active Child ▷ His Eye Is On The Sparrow
21. Frank Ocean ▷ Wise Man

in case you missed them, here are 3 more i posted in 2012:
01. SUNSHINE & SHARKS
02. SUMMER SCHOOL
03. MOVEMBER MIX

since i'm feeling generous, here are two more good ones i didn't post last year that are still really fun...  just click on images to download:



01. Jamie Woon ▷ Night Air
02. Jessie Ware ▷ Running (Disclosure Rmx)
03. Faze Action ▷ I Wanna Dancer (Special Disco Mix)
04. Talking Heads ▷ Girlfriend Is Better (Bit Funk Edit)
05. Mark Foster + A-Trak + Kimbra ▷ Warrior
06. Rye Rye ▷ Boom Boom (Wayne & Woods Rmx)
07. Die Antwoord ▷ I Fink U Freeky (FreQ Nasty Rmx)
08. Evelyn King ▷ Love Come Down (Rayko edit)
09. Only Children ▷ Richard Morris
10. Disclosure ▷ Tenderly (Kidnap Kid Rmx)
11. Beni ▷ Last Night (Brodinski Rmx)
12. Aaliyah ▷ One In A Million (Squarehead Bootleg)
13. tUnE-yArDs ▷ My Country
14. Grimes ▷ Be A Body
15. Zimmer ▷ Looking At You (Moullinex Rmx)
16. Dublin Aunts ▷ No Holding Back
17. Only Children ▷ Down Fever
18. The Supermen Lovers ▷ Say No More (Jupiter Rmx)
19. Wilhem Tell Me ▷ Favourite Sound (The Coconut Wireless Rmx)
20. Arcade Fire ▷ Sprawl II (Soulwax Rmx)
21. George McCrae ▷ I Get Lifted (SMQ delay edit)
22. Amadou & Mariam ▷ Chérie



01. New Look ▷ Nap On The Bow
02. Jesse Ware ▷ 110%
03. Walter Sobcek ▷ Miami (Pharao Black Magic Rmx)
04. Angel Funke ▷ Piano Magic
05. Blood Orange ▷ Champagne Coast
06. Lou Reed ▷ Walk On The Wild Side (Holtoug Bootleg)
07. iamamiwhoami ▷ Idle Talk
08. Little Dragon ▷ Ritual Union (Bufi Rmx)
09. Joe and Will Ask ▷ Freya
10. Disclosure ft. Sinead Harnett ▷ Boiling
11. Whitey ▷ Brief & Bright
12. Joakim ▷ Nothing Gold (Todd Terje Rmx)
13. alt-J ▷ Tessellate (BlackBox Rmx)
14. Todd Terje ▷ Inspector Norse
15. Bonde do Rolê ▷ Kilo (Turbotito Reggae Party Rmx)
16. Touch Sensitive ▷ Body Stop
17. Enzo Siragusa ▷ As We Are (Seb Zito Rmx)
18. RAC ft. Penguin Prison ▷ Hollywood (The Magician Rmx)
19. Imagine Dragons ▷ It's Time (Penguin Prison Rmx)
20. U-Tern ▷ You Dont Know Me
21. Whitey ▷ People
22. The Irrepressibles ▷ In This Shirt (Röyksopp Rmx)