London’s The Black Ghosts are what’s right with music today. We are excited to be collaborating with The Black Ghosts and IAMSOUND Records to bring to you, a series of music videos featuring The Black Ghosts music, made by talented filmmakers. Get your stream on!

Over the next two months, Missingtoof and our bigger bro, Big Stereo, will be debuting new videos from The Black Ghosts every Monday (alternating between our site and theirs). This will be building up to The Black Ghosts debut self-titled release on July 8th! I know I’m excited. Will the record be this generation’s “The Sounds of Silence” with a bassline? Perhaps! I’m very optimistic.

We typically avoid using press-release information verbatim, but the sentence explaining the video above can’t be improved on: “An ordinary day in the life of a gay couple of thieves with relationship problems.” The video is directed by young Brazilian film maker, Paulinho Caruso.

The next video, for the single, ‘Anyway You Choose To Give It’, will be premiered next Monday, May 12th, on Big Stereo (it alternates, get it?).

More to whet yr chops, here’s The Black Ghosts, ‘Mixtape’ mixtape. Courtesy of IAMSOUND & Southern Fried Records.

Tracklisting:

1. Boy 8-bit – The Suspense is Killing Me
2. Armand Van Helden - Je T’aime (Switch Mix)
3. SMD - Cliktrak
4. Ben Westbeech - Hang Around (Karisma’s Kaytronic Dub)
5. The Black Ghosts - Something New (Live Re-version)
6. Rustie - Pendulum
7. Frankmusik - Three Little Words (The Black Ghosts Mix)
8. Boy 8bit - Fog Bank
9. Trabant - The One (Black Ghosts Mix)
10. Siriusmo - Discosau
11. Proper Villians - Trick Baby
12. Lord Skywave - Something
13. Alter Ego - Fuckingham Palace
14. The Gossip - Listen Up (The Black Ghosts Remix)
15. The Black Ghosts – I want nothing (Extended Mix)
16. Fil Ok - Wink wink (Touché Mix)
17. The Black Ghosts - Some Way Through This (The Replicants Mix)
18. Bonde do Role - Marina Gasolina (Fake Blood Mix)
19. Fake Blood - Mars
20. The Black Ghosts - Face (Switch Mix)
21. The Whip - Muzzle #1 (The Black Ghosts Mix)
22. The Black Ghosts - Anyway You Chose to Give It (Extended Mix)
23. The Black Ghosts - Anyway you choose to give it (Fake Blood Mix)

MP3: The Black Ghosts - Mixtape (63:40 | 108MB)

Currently on tour through the US with Thunderheist, as part of the Colt 45/VICE Tour, The Black Ghosts whirlwind through Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia and New York City all this week (RSVP here!) before returning to shows in Europe and Japan. Full tour information on The Black Ghosts MySpace tour page.

Visit The Black Ghosts on MySpace or their official site, Theblackghosts.co.uk.

More from The Black Ghosts in the Missingtoof archive.

Bay area native and hip hop hero, DJ Shadow has crafted a new soundscape for his home and ours, San Francisco. The song is part of Nokia’s currently running “What Does Your City Sound Like?” contest. DJ Shadow and Nokia are hosting a competition where you are you to capture the essence of a city in music. DJ Shadow sets the tone with the plainly titled, ‘San Francisco’.

MP3: DJ Shadow - San Francisco (2008)

If you want to submit your own city-inspired soundscape: Go to Nokiatrendslab.com, read the rules and submit your stuff by the May 19th, 4:00pm (GMT) deadline.

If you need inspiration, DJ Shadow has forever got you. Enjoy these epic favorites:

MP3: DJ Shadow - Organ Doner (Extended Overhaul) (1998)

MP3: DJ Shadow - Six Days (Soulwax Mix) (2003)

The dude is important. Shop DJ Shadow records on Amazon.

Visit DJ Shadow on MySpace or the official site, Djshadow.com.

More DJ Shadow in the Missingtoof archive.

L.A.’s After Midnight are coming out throwin’ ‘bows on their first remix release for San Francisco’s The Frail. You may remember After Midnight is one-half DJ Farron and one-half Philthy B, formerly of the Villains, whom we introduced you to last month with his ‘It May B Durty but Luv the Jurny‘ mixtape.

The Frail, who’s 2007 EP, ‘Count on This’ has been building steam and accolades on its own, are ready for another level. The level is the cluuuub. Travel teh levelz. ZOMG! Original and the remix:

MP3: The Frail - Addiction (After Midnight Remix)

MP3: The Frail - Addiction (Pre-studio version)

Hot sauce! Here’s more sauce from Leeds-based producer DoBERMAN, and Parisian electro-madman The Toxic Avenger.

MP3: The Frail - Count On This (DoBERMAN Remix)

MP3: The Frail - The Lights (Toxic Avenger vs. The Frail)

After Midnight can be seen in Hollywood at their residencies: Friday night at Vanguard and Saturday’s at Republic.

Visit After Midnight on MySpace.
Visit The Frail on MySpace.

N.Y.’s Designer Drugs are the dopest (pun intended). Designer Drugs have been steady racking up a discog of club bangin’ remixes and for their efforts have earned hella blog and mixtape love (the evidence). The two live crew dropped off this brand new remix of Vancouver BC’s Fake Shark Real Zombie!—an indie-hardcore-dance-rock band who’s 2007 album, ‘Zebra Zebra’ has been filling the void in my life that was put there by the untimely death of their contemporaries, UK’s Test Icicles. ‘Zebra Zebra’ happens to feature a song named ‘Designer Drugs’. Designer Drugs remixes ‘Designer Drugs’? This was meant to be:

MP3: Fake Shark Real Zombie! - Designer Drugs (Designer Drugs Remix)

DJs need oven mitts these club-biscuits are so hot! Keep the dance party going with the these delicious remixes from Designer Drugs bakery (it’s not really a bakery, it’s not even a mob controlled money laundering bakery-front for drugs, it’s probably more of a bedroom studio, but the former sounds more fun and I digress). Enjoy remixes of French synth-rockers FLOU, Philly Indie kids Hail Social, New England indie kids Protokoll, Melbourne indie darlings Midnight Juggernaut, & UK electronica act, QUEENOFWAR. Dig in.

MP3: FLOU - Les Gens Pour Ce Quils Sont (Designer Drugs Remix)

MP3: Hail Social - Heaven (Designer Drugs Remix)

MP3: Protokoll - Moving Forward (Designer Drugs Remix)

MP3: Midnight Juggernauts - Tombstone (Designer Drugs Belated Re-Edit)

MP3: QUEENOFWAR - Sex Up My Brain (Designer Drugs Remix)

Through May and June, Designer Drugs are coming through Los Angeles, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Atlanta, Philly, DC, Charlotte & Las Vegas. See what’s up with these and future tour dates on Designer Drugs tour schedule.

Visit Designer Drugs on MySpace.

Cryptonites are a pair of bang-’em-out dudes from Switzerland who’ve been collecting blog nods and spots in DJs playlists more and more over the past year for their hitting electro. Now, on their eve of their debut EP, ‘Hands of God’, let’s give the boys a full push, because this is some hype business.

We first got hipped at Hupendi Muziki, then the crew, Discodust, BigStereo and pretty much e’rybody else. Good reason, as evidenced below. Peep the O.G. production. ‘Glow’ is the new track Cryptonites just sent over, ‘Hands of God’ is the single, the rest are mo’ bangers done bang’d out over the last ~12 months.

MP3: Cryptonites - Glow

MP3: Cryptonites - Hands of God

MP3: Cryptonites - Can’t Give You Up

MP3: Cryptonites - Trippin’

Beyond that, the Cryptonites have recently fiddled with Swiss indie kids Love Motel’s ‘Je Pleure’. It’s just the latest in a series of good remixes (bootleg or not), others from L.A. singer/songwriter John Neilson, London clubber Russ Chimes & British indie champs Arctic Monkeys.

MP3: Love Motel - Je Pleure (Cryptonites Remix)

MP3: John Nielsen - Hollywood Hills (Cryptonites Remix)

MP3: Russ Chimes - She’s Got the Heat (Cryptonites Remix)

MP3: Arctic Monkeys - Old Yellow Bricks (Cryptonites Tease the Monkey Remix)

Visit Cryptonites on MySpace.