Denton, TX’s Ghosthustler should mean something to you by now. However, if it doesn’t, get primed with these tracks that took blogtown by storm last month. Now, just a month later, Ghosthustler are hustlin’ again. Rick Rossin’ it! Please enjoy this tune in a cherry’d out T-top with a fancy auto-reverse cassette player cranked full blast (but, I guess your little beige computer speakers will do okay too).
Ghosthustler will be present at the the nation’s premier independent music conference and festival, SxSW in Austin, Texas, at Gorilla vs. Bear’s blogcentric, and cleverly titled, “Gorilla vs. Booze” party. Peep the Ghosthustler MySpace for that and other gigs as these kids get snapped up and up and up.
Get excited! More from the Los Angeles dwelling, six-armed party monster known as, Royal Rumble. The Royal Rumble gang goes head up against another three-man team, ATL’s rapper clique, Supreeme. The results are so heeat—perhaps they wear backpacks, but it didn’t weigh them down a bit, as the ascended to the Warner Brothers Records ranks (wait, are major labels relevant anymore?). The remix grabs a sample from pioneering krautrock band Can’s 1974 track ‘Mother Upduff’. The end product is decidedly electro, but the raw materials are spanning genres.
Folks in L.A. can catch Royal Rumble at their Sunday night weekly, Sudden Death at Vine Bar in Hollywood. The rule is: No laptops and lots of classic tunes. Spun by Rumble and the other residents, Blu Jemz of Turntable Lab, DJ Pubes & Cosmic Kids (plus guests. This upcoming Sunday it’s Acid Girls). How sweet is that?
Lend your ears to Little Boots, of Blackpool, London, who’s one solitary track is very impressive and, dare I say, an early contender for song of the year? The must have song right now? We think so! The song is ‘Stuck on Repeat’, produced by Joe Goddard of Hot Chip, with vocals by one Victoria Hesketh, or Little Boots, formerly one-third of hip electro-pop indie rockers Dead Disco:
Little Boots reached out to us at the same time our friends at Big Stereo blogged the original mix, that’s been receiving gushing responses. But, Missingtoof, we held back, because the files that reached us were an unacceptable 96kbps, but now—no less than one dozen emails & forwarded contacts later—we are happy to have Little Boots, as it should be heard, in glorious 320kpbs audio. If you downloaded it before somewhere else, download it again. 96kbps is a scourge on blogtown.
Here’s another Dub mix that’s similar to the original, but just different enough for y’all to notice. Take yr pick:
The Little Boots project may prompt questions about the state of Dead Disco. Are they no more? Are they disbanded? It’s hard to say, after Little Boots departure and a departure from 679 Recordings, Dead Disco may be down, but not necessary out. Last year’s Dead Disco hit ‘You’re Out’, with its Frankmusik remix, was one of our favorite tracks—you can download it over here. Also enjoy these other remixes from Dead Disco’s 2007 ep ‘You’re Out’ (with Victoria included). Remixes courtesy of Londoner Rufaust:
Little Boots’ ‘Stuck on Repeat’ will be released on white label wax in approximately four weeks. Sit tight at the edge of the chair. A full LP is to follow, produced by Greg Kurstin of L.A. indie rock outfit The Bird & the Bee and jazzy alt. rocker outfit Geggy Tah. Good things are coming.
Sébastien Tellier, that French craftsman of sound, has created what amounts to one of the year’s first outstanding albums. With his third long player album, ‘Sexuality’, Tellier makes sensual and airy electronica with hints of French pop and a heavy dose of traditional singer/songwriter crooning. It’s Classic Tellier, and the first we’ve heard from the maestro since the Steak film score we touched on last year. More notches in the ever fuller discography of Sébastien Tellier, get fully acquainted at Discogs.
Oh, and is it worth mentioning that the ‘Sexuality’ LP is produced by the man behind the mask, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, better known as 1/2 of Daft Punk? Yes? Thought so.
Enjoy these choice cuts among an album of choice cuts. The advance album has been in my playlist almost daily for over a month now:
MP3: Sébastien Tellier - Kilometer
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MP3: Sébastien Tellier - Pomme
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MP3: Sébastien Tellier - Sexual Sportswear
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Wow, it’s like sex for your ear with no messy cleanup! But, baby, we ain’t pulled out yet. Get a load of this mix by frequent collaborator, SebastiAn, of Ed Banger fame, provides a signature choppy electrofied remix of the fashionable ‘Sexual Sportswear’:
The album ‘Sexuality’ will be released this upcoming Monday, February 25th, on the premier label of French band AIR, Record Makers. Seriously worth your duckets, even at high stakes import prices—all that Amazon currently offers.
But before you go, for shits and giggles, and ’cause we all stay gully, here’s a mash-up from one of the few folks who’s mash-ups we always dig—The Hood Internet—fitting that #1 stunna by the name, Birdman, into some snug ‘Sexual Sportswear’:
Visit Sébastien Tellier on MySpace and scope out the dozens of European tour dates! Read an interview with Sebastien Tellier about the development of ‘Sexuality’ over at Popjustice.
Edit: We’ve removed the download links for the LP tracks at the request of Record Makers. But Record Makers have promised us a ‘Divine’ remix by Midnight Juggernauts for us to share with everyone very soon!
Bordeaux, France has a new powerhouse for hard-hitting techno and glitchy house in Strip Steve. The 20th release in the growing Boysnoize Records catalog (the new imprint founded by Berlinian electrophile Boys Noize, of course), Strip Steve’s debut EP, ‘Skip School’, is a credit to to the emerging label; it keeps pace with the ubiquitous mix friendly releases that have come before, from artists such as D.I.M., Shadow Dancer, Les Petits Pilous, PUZIQUe, and, naturally, Boys Noize. Here’s a pair from ‘Skip School EP’:
Strip Steve made his first noise on Ed Banger affiliate label Arcade Mode, with the 2007’s B-side single ‘Skatin” (split with Das Glow’s ‘Sunburnt’ on the A-side):
Strip Steve has shown his remix skill in this work for moody French pop-rock act Adam Kesher and one mysterious Chromeo remix that’s been floating around (even rearing its head in the recent Clifford Lidelle mix on this here blog) has presumably morphed into an instrumental track of it’s own, titled ‘You & I’ on the ‘Skip School EP’—just FYI. Now here’s Adam Kesher:
One of the best things ever, and perhaps the cover that’s given me the most joy over the years: Iconic rapper Biz Markie’s cover of iconic pop “diva” Elton John’s ‘Benny and the Jets’, as it appeared on Beastie Boys‘ year 2000 anthology, ‘The Sounds of Science’:
Visit a place where Astralwerks brand indietronica intersects sexy, classic Motown-sound rhythm & blues by playing this little Hot Chip cover of the late-great Marvin Gaye’s ode to lovemaking.
Those familar with Calvin Harris’s dance’d up show of bravado on his single, ‘The Girls’, from his brilliant 2007 debut LP, ‘I Created Disco’, will surely love this cover by ‘toof favorites, indie-pop heroes, Dragonette. The cover gives equal time to the un-fairer sex. Here, now, is the Calvin Harris original and Dragonette’s gender-swapped cover.
Let’s close with something Daft Punk, because one can never have enough. This track by Nicky Vanshe of the ridiculously talented Australian rock/techno crossover act Van She and Dangerous Dan of Australian party monsters The Bang Gang isn’t labeled a “cover”, per se, but in effect, it’s just the same:
Ka So Re is the new production project of our favorite Finnish DJ, Kimarr, of ‘Pose It Up’ mixtape fame. Since arriving in our playlist last week, these tracks have really grown on us. It’s modest electro with modern hard hitting baselines and roots digging directly into classic ’80s electro stylings (OMG vocoders! Let’s boogaloo! Now!). The production is crisp for the bedroom, the dive bar, and the big room with the sound activated lazers. Say “Greetings” to Ka So Re:
Indie darlings, Mystery Jets, have a new video and single on the cusp with a March 10th release date. The track is produced by, the man, Erol Alkan and mixed by top-talent Nick Launay. The song is sweet indie-pop with no pretensions about its intentions: This is ‘Young Love’, a playful collaboration with folksy British songstress Laura Marling.
While we’re on topic, be sure you’re up on Mystery Jets’ LA Riots remix in the archives and these other remix favorites from UK re-rub champ Riton that’s the MFin’ jumpoff and another from the insurmountable Justice, that’s proves to be some of their mellowest to date.
All you LA heads should head over to the spot tonight for this amazing line up. And did I mention the free keg on the dancefloor? The Cobrasnake snaking photos of you rubbing up on your girls best friends. Booze, broads and beats; be there.
Larry Tee you clever clever man! Mr. Tee, the often experimental and left-of-center producer and accepted inventor of “Electroclash”—or at least the namesake, for better or worse—has created something unique and special with his upcoming single, ‘I Love U’. With ‘I Love U’, Larry Tee brilliantly tapped into a bountiful new sample resource: adorable little girls saying adorable little things!
The video above for the song is cute x5000. It was put together just in time to be this Valentines Day’s “it” meme—with a little help from glam’d up fashion designers Heatherette, new media artist Andrew Strasser, music video producer Francis Legge, and, most importantly, one little girl with a lot of personality.
Although this tune and video are sure to be the must-see novelty of the week, I like to think that this tune will outlive the novelty, and take on a life as the carefree dance anthem that it really is. Helping to cement ‘I Love U’ into playlists well beyond V-Day are hittin’ remixes by int’l house heavyweights: Netherlands’ Bart B More, EDM mainstay Christopher Just & Cape Town’s biggest and bestest The Bulgarian.
To further express our adoration for Larry Tee’s ‘07 club-smasher, ‘Licky’ with N.Y.’s O.G. sex’d up white-girl rapper Princess Superstar, particularly the Hervé remix, that we blog’d over and over, here’s yet another mix by French techno/house maestro Sébastien Léger
Also, we can’t pass up the chance to tack on the track, ‘My Pussy’ with guest vocals by transgender diva, muse, and fashion icon Amanda Lepore, talking about pussy! The original is hard, but this self-remix under the alias Swanque cranks it up some decibels:
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