My Own Language

Texas Medical Center, Houston: July 2008

I'm totally fiending for Houson right now. I seriously miss this place.

Groove Armada: Song 4 Mutya (Linus Loves Dub)

2008-07-20T10:38:00.005-04:00

Coney Island, Brooklyn: April 2008

Hot Chip: Wrestlers (Sticky Dirty Pop Mix)
Tomorrow I'm head out for my yearly summer globe-trot. This time, instead of heading west, by way of Houston, I'm headed to San Juan by way of Houston. This will culminate in a pit stop in Baltimore before arriving back to New York- stay tuned.

2008-07-04T16:01:00.002-04:00

Unit 52D, 2008

The Parallax Corporation: Burning Ignorance

2008-06-27T10:34:00.004-04:00

Baltimore, Maryland: May 2008

Tomas Andersson: Washing Up (Tiga Remix)

2008-06-25T12:48:00.002-04:00

Third North, NYU: December 2004

Die Partei: Fohn In Den Bergen

2008-06-22T13:31:00.002-04:00

Coney Island, Brooklyn: April 2008

The Glimmers: The Sea And The Sky (Padded Cell Remix)

2008-06-21T11:19:00.004-04:00

Eric's Installation, Baltimore, MD: May 2008

Owusu & Hannibal: Delirium (Morgan Geist Unreleased Dub)

2008-06-20T12:07:00.005-04:00

Coney Island, Brooklyn: April 2008

Crash Course In Science: Flying Turns

2008-05-03T07:20:00.005-04:00

Rich Macy In The Pretty Precious Incident, 2004

Ectomorph: Synthesize Her

2008-04-17T06:12:00.003-04:00

Untitled #2, 2008

Acid Jesus: Move My Body (Acid Jesus Original Mix)

2008-03-28T12:14:00.002-04:00

I've been super busy, doing things like this:

But feeling really energized, like this:
Padded Cell: Konkorde Lafayette

2008-02-22T12:09:00.004-05:00

Eric's Apartment- Baltimore, MD: October 2007
Black Devil: Timing, Forget The Timing (128bpm Remix By Kerrier District)

2008-02-21T14:37:00.005-05:00

Greenwood Cemetry, Brooklyn: November 2007
Max Berlin: Elle Et Moi (Joakim Remix)
Poni Hoax: Budapest (Joakim Italo Dub)
Joakim & Morpheus: Give Us Something (Dub)

2008-01-20T15:54:00.000-05:00

Baltimore, Maryland: October 2007

The Parallax Corporation: Theme From Pack (Remix)

2008-01-18T10:50:00.000-05:00

Buffalo Bayou Park- Houston, Texas: August 2007

The first post of 2008 and the first of my 22nd year of life.

Metronomy: You Could Easily Have Me

2007-12-08T14:58:00.000-05:00

Red Hook, Brooklyn: October 2007

Air: Mer Du Japon (The Teenagers Remix)

2007-11-16T09:50:00.000-05:00

Delaware Memorial Bridge: October 2007

A bright and early wake-up call. Tends to put me in a good in the morning:
The Sunshine Underground: Borders (GoodBooks Remix)

2007-11-15T22:06:00.000-05:00

Red Hook, Brooklyn: October 2007

Pier Bucci: Hydra

2007-11-13T10:24:00.000-05:00

Wilmington, Delaware: October 2007

Reminiscent of The Black Dog and Aphex Twin:
2000 & One: Fokuz

2007-11-12T20:54:00.000-05:00

Baltimore, Maryland: October 2007

This totally slipped past me:
The Knife: Heartbeats (OneMusic Session)

2007-11-09T12:43:00.000-05:00

Jersey Turnpike: October 2007

Feel-goods...
Jacno: Triangle
Vivian Vee: Alright
Gay Cat Park: I'm A Vocoder

2007-10-30T13:59:00.000-04:00

Red Hook, Brooklyn: October 2007

M.A.N.D.Y.: No Stoppin' (Hot Chip Remix)

2007-10-26T16:00:00.000-04:00

Simple Minds: Factory
Midwest Product: Swamp
Steadycam: Knock-Need

I got my computer fixed and it's running much better- the issue now is to sift out what music to put on my computer from the thirteen days worth of music I have saved on my external hard drive....

2007-10-02T16:18:00.000-04:00

New Order: Thieves Like Us

A favorite classic of mine.

2007-09-28T13:39:00.000-04:00

Lowfish: Membrane Switch
Phön: 313 Dumpsta Railing-Phon.O
Dominik Eulberg: Adler

Don't hate- I've been busy doing some assistant editing and working in the lower east side...uh hu....

2007-09-05T15:22:00.000-04:00

Boytronic: Bryllyant

2007-09-04T13:07:00.000-04:00

Eats Tapes vs. Soft Pink Truth: Uh Huh

Forgive me as I get more acquainted with my new job (or basically lack thereof) and my Powerbook deciding to regress in its software ability.

2007-08-21T13:28:00.000-04:00

Black Devil Disco Club: Constantly No Respect (Dub)

So I'll back in Brooklyn tomorrow afternoon- without a job, but back in New York nevertheless.

Had a great time in San Francisco- tripped at Golden Gate Park, found much better vintage clothes (at least for tiny people like me) in Berkeley than in Brooklyn, and saw for myself how amazing Amoeba really is.
Enjoyed Houston and it's ever-growing bar/club scene- Boondocks, Poison Girl, Boys and Girls Club at Shadowbar, and the Stereo party at Rich's, where we danced to Lazaro Casanova's set with some fun Austinites.....

Yeah...it's back to the grind now. For sure.

2007-07-26T11:03:00.000-04:00

Dominik Eulberg: Die Alpenstrandläufer von Spiekeroog

I'm going to Oakland in less than a week, followed by Houston. Any recommendations for places, events, good food, etc. in the Bay Area?

2007-07-17T13:10:00.000-04:00

Luke Abbott: At Pace
Luke Abbott: Prelude (We've Lost the War)

2007-07-16T11:00:00.000-04:00

Digitalism: I Want I Want

2007-07-13T12:18:00.000-04:00

Junior Boys: FM (Tensnake Remix)

2007-07-12T11:54:00.000-04:00

The Parallax Corporation: Slowflight Runner

It's like being in a disco atop of a galaxy-hopping asteroid.

2007-07-11T13:03:00.000-04:00

Dave Ball: Sincerity

This track was handed down to me by a close Robot Ball associate of mine. It's one half of Soft Cell and and one whole great track.

2007-07-10T10:33:00.000-04:00

Mr. Flagio: Take A Chance

2007-07-03T11:48:00.000-04:00

Husky Rescue: Summertime Cowboy (Serge Santiago Version)
Gunjah: Funkwelt
Phonique feat. Erlend Øye: Casualities
Lizz King: Booty Queen
Max Mohr: Old Song

2007-06-07T15:56:00.000-04:00

So this is Michael Human:

And this is his spanking new track: MNSTR

He also likes these two tracks:
Russ Chimes: She's Got The Heat
Basement Jaxx: Cish Cash (Vitalic Remix)

He enjoys Rex the Dog, Kavinsky, Digitalism, and such.

Please stay tuned for more from Mr. Human....

2007-06-04T12:18:00.000-04:00

Apparently, this video has the Daft Punks burnin' with rage. This was tipped off to me by a certain Mr. Jackson. It's basically a Daft Punk "Cribs" scenario as hosted by Jean, the Kitsuné "capo", and produced by La Vida Locash.

And, of course my loyal fans, readers, and subscribers feel free to email me at languageofmyown@gmail.com with any recommended tracks, videos, or information about MoL related material. You know I love that shit! And also, feel free to link My Own Language on your own blog or website. Just let me know so that I can reciprocate!

2007-05-28T08:33:00.000-04:00

Shakedown: Lonely Road (Alan Braxe & Shakedown Mix)

Such a great track to start off a set and welcome summer with!

On a another note my dearly beloved Popular Computer has a new remix out of NYPC. I have to say that I always denied The New Young Pony Club, but then upon realizing that it works well as a post-Y2K answer to Delta 5 or Tom Tom Club, I came to accept them. Check out the Popular Computer remix of "Ice Cream" at his-space.

2007-05-22T17:40:00.000-04:00

Martini Bros: Big & Dirty (Tiga Remix)
Mat 101: Haunted House
The (Hypothetical Prophets): Person to Person

Figured I'd give my devoted readers and fans a little somtin-somtin before it turns into one full month of no posting!

2007-04-24T21:39:00.000-04:00

Popular Computer: I Can't Forget You (Mr. Negative Remix)
In honor of my grand 50th post, a remix of the very first MoL post ever....

2007-04-18T09:16:00.000-04:00

Ruth: Polaroid Roman Photo

2007-04-14T08:24:00.000-04:00

The Parallax Corporation: Crocodiles In The Sky
The Parallax Corporation is an old project of my one of my favorites, I-F, and Intergalactic Gary (I-G). Taken from their Cocadisco album, the track features Nancy Fortune who appears on other I-F tracks. Yeah, it's totally electroclash, but it's also totally italo and totally dirty and raunchy and sexy and just tastes so good....

2007-04-10T09:10:00.000-04:00

Slam: Bright Lights Fading (Death In Vegas Dub)

2007-04-05T12:55:00.000-04:00

Air: Mayfair Song

2007-04-04T10:50:00.000-04:00

Oliver Koletzki: Der Mückenschwarm (David K Remix)
As if the Eulberg remix wasn't enough. The track just lends itself to such robust incarnations....

2007-04-03T11:31:00.000-04:00

Jurgen Paape: Take That
Yeah, take that motherfucker.

2007-03-21T15:30:00.000-04:00

X-Wife: Realize (Tomboy Remix)
Pleasantly surprised by thier show the other night. Very much in the spirit of The Rapture, but nevertheless a fun time was had.

Telex: How Do You Dance (Tomboy Remix)

2007-03-20T23:30:00.000-04:00

Alice Deejay: Better Off Alone
I'm shameless I know... First time I'd heard it in a while was last St. Patrick's Day- somewhere off of Houston and Orchard with Eric. I had gotten a ticket for undisclosed reasons (everyone knows I always get caught...you know how it goes...) right before coming into some packed, random club. This creeped into the set and somehow I loved it and it worked and it felt like eighth grade all over again...except this time around I knew I was homo. Anyway, I feel fine knowing that ON-OFF included it in a recent set.

Justus Köhncke: Love and Dancing

2007-03-14T13:50:00.000-04:00

Cornelius: Drop (Kings of Convenience Remix)
Something about his voice and a day like today just match up so perfectly, don't you think?

2007-03-13T12:46:00.000-04:00

Mark Stewart: Stranger Than Love
I think this could be one of my favorites of all time.

I also just came to the realization that it kind of reminds me of the 2006 DFA remix of Arthur Russell's "Springfield."

2007-03-10T19:33:00.000-05:00

Peaches: Downtown (Simian Mobile Disco Remix)
Totally excited about seeing Simian Mobile Disco tonight.
Totally bummed out about Crystal Castles' cancellation.....

2007-03-07T13:59:00.000-05:00

So Colin at Devil in the Details reminded me of the mysterious track posted below. Don't know anything at all about it other than the fact that I know it sounds good and that if the Pet Shop Boys had always sounded like this, then maybe their career would still have been as succesful today.

The Pet Shop Boys vs Superpitcher: Dry Heroin (Bumtschak Bootleg)

Anyway, these next two are kind of interesting. Everybody knows "Rubicon", which was epitomized in Erlend Øye's DJ Kicks a few years back; fastforward to not even half a decade later and we have the workings of what I want to say "Rubicon Part Deux." The Subs are working with their own formula that definetly tears shit to shreads, but once it gains speed for about 3:22 into the song, you begin to hear fucking "Rubicon," only semi-distorted by angry snyths and a faint siren. Almost as if they've staight up taken Alan Braxe and Fred Falke's anthem and filtered it for some big, gotti club. I mean, I like it...but orginality points? Hmmmm...I've got a lot more from where this comes from....

Alan Braxe & Fred Falke: Rubicon
The Subs: Substraktion

2007-02-28T16:08:00.000-05:00

Vive La Fête: Assez
Thieves Like Us: Fass
Plastique De Rêve: Aow

2007-02-27T17:53:00.000-05:00

I've gotten my ass back in school, hence I haven't been blogging as much. Anyhow, I hope to at least have 50 posts by MoL's one year anniversary in May. This is post #36.

Daft Punk: Teachers
I've been living in a retro no wave, disco beat as of late:
Quando Quango: Atom Rock (Remix)
[T]ékël actually sampled another one of their tracks on their own track, "Vladivostok".
Betty Botox: Kasablanca Compact
Actually Lipps Inc. This was sampled in Justus Köhncke's Timecode, obviously.
The Hasbeens: Make The World Go Away
Don't know much about them or how I got this track. But it's the song you want to hear when you're feeling rather pessimistic but aren't necessarily craving the melancholy of minimal techno.

2007-01-25T11:12:00.000-05:00

Indian Jewelry: Come Closer
Allie was playing them while pre-gaming before one of her famous wine and cheese nights recently. Upon doing research- what do you know?! They're from my good ol' Houston, Texas! It's pretty awesome shit.

Martin Rev: Temptation
This is Martin Rev from Suicide fame. This appears on New York Noise 3: Music From The New York Underground (1977-1984). It's a nice departure from the previous two compilations.

The Neon Judgement: Factory Walk
And then there's The Neon Judgement- I personally could not ask for more from an eighties Belgian techno band.

2007-01-24T19:05:00.000-05:00

Loving the shit out of these tracks as of late:

Simian Mobile Disco: It's The Beat
Gabriel Ananda: Meine Persönliche Glücksmelodie (Flekk Remix)
Röyksopp: Beautiful Day Without You (Rex the Dog Remix)
GoodBooks: Leni (Crystal Castles Vs GoodBooks)
Shout Out Out Out Out: Self Loathing Rulz (Malente Remix)

2007-01-22T22:38:00.000-05:00

A little sometin-sometin, until I find more time. Given to me by a new friend named Michael from Eugene, Orgegon- this is Dima, pre-Vitalic Vitalic. This tracks sounds like a precursor to "Poney Part 2" if you ask me....

Dima: D Aim

(Might I also add that Dima was also the name of a baby mammoth that was found in 1977 by excavators in Russia. She was barely six months old and had wondered away from the herd when she died way back then.)

2007-01-17T18:01:00.001-05:00

My life has changed in many different ways as of late- for one, I turned of legal age. But even more importantly The Devil and Daniel Johnston really changed my perception of the way I see the relationship between art and artist, object and creator, Man and God. I'm not going to get into it and don't you dare think for once that I'm attempting at conversion because that's as far away as my point is. Just watch this film and you'll know what I mean. I think there needs be some more exposure on Daniel Johnston, because his life isn't merely "The Story of an Artist", it's seriously a journey into the intensity of the mind....As a result I have a new obsession with mentally-struck artists.

Daniel Johnston: Walking The Cow
Daniel Johnston: Story of an Artist

Anybody that knows me, knows very well that normally this kind of music would have already been beat down by yours truly. I like myself a good beat and hipnotizing synth line, but there's something so beauiful in Johnston's extremely lo-fi sound and teenage voice....

On the other hand, I roughly compiled a list of the top ten tracks(in no particular order) that made my 2006:

Alex Smoke: We Like It Insipid
Vitalic: You Are My Sun
Adam Skye: Ape-x
Petter: Everyday Balloon
The Knife: We Share Our Mother's Health(Trentemøller Remix)
The Futureheads: Skip To The End (Digitalism Remix)
Simian Mobile Disco: Hustler
James Figurine: Ruining The Sundays
Telex: How Do You Dance (M83 Remix)
The Knife: Like A Pen (Demo Version)

Happy 2007!

2006-12-30T22:58:00.000-05:00

Telex: How Do You Dance (The Subs 'Dirty Dancing' Remix)

2006-12-18T17:09:00.000-05:00

Alexander Robotnick: Senza Titolo
Tom Tom Club: Genius of Love
Bronski Beat: Hit That Perfect Beat

2006-12-13T11:04:00.000-05:00

Hello there!

I guess you can say that the blog's been a bit gay-themed lately...I mean what can I say? Anyway, here's some fun things...

Totally Radd? Totally LA? I dunno. It's a great song, though. Thanks, Eric.

The Sounds...can't say I'm a real fan of theirs, but I can't resist them when Rex touches them with gold.

And then there's The Knife/Booka Shade because I think it's been the year of Knife/Shade. Maybe Knife more than Shade, personally, but regardless it's been a great year for their releases.

Totally Radd!!: Dressed Up
The Sounds: Tony The Beat (Rex the Dog Remix)
The Knife: Marble House (Booka Shade Remix)

2006-12-07T12:07:00.000-05:00

So a few days ago my iTunes (always on random) decided to play a Stuart Price remix of Britney Spears' "Breath On Me". And then yesterday as I was getting my hair cut at a cute Japanese salon off of St. Marks- what do you know, the Thin White Duke Mix of "What You Waiting For" came on!

Hence this post will be called Guilty Pleasures (Or Maybe Not So Guilty Pleaures) #1. This week's issue?

Faggy Stuart Price remixes!

Britney Spears: Breath On Me (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Mix)
Gwen Stefani: What You Waiting For (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Mix)
Madonna: Hollywood (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Mix)

2006-12-05T15:07:00.000-05:00

So ever since the M83 Remix of Telex's How Do You Dance fell on my lap, dance fever's been making me sick...

Bobby Orlando: I'm So Hot For You
[T]ékël: Vladivostok
Stereo Total: Chelsea Girls (Thieves Like Us Mix)
The Egg: Walking Away (Tocadisco Remix)
Hong Kong Counterfeit: Metal Disco (Legowelt vs. Orgue Electronique Remix)

2006-12-01T13:56:00.000-05:00

Aphex Twin: Curtains
Trentemøller: While The Cold Winter Is Waiting
Broker/Dealer: Feel Free

I don't know, but this whole electro-dance-rock-nu:rave thing may be getting a little out of control for me. Mind you I love a good dance number, but Klaxons sound like Van She who sound like Gang Bang (or Bang Gang or whatever they're called) who sound like The Valentinos who sound like any other MSTRKRFT track. And you know, I love me the Kitsuné catalogue, but why, why, why are they releasing Gun'n'Bombs?! It sounds like every other shit that comes out: Daft Punk being butchered (not even burned) at the stake!

Don't really know where I'm going with this...I'll keep things spiced up.

PS: Scary Spice is pregnant with Eddie Murphy's baby!?

2006-11-22T19:07:00.000-05:00

Chateau Flight: Baltringue

Röyksopp: Remind Me (Ernest St. Laurent Moonfish Mix)

Dntel: (This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan (Superpitcher Kompakt Remix)

2006-11-14T15:14:00.000-05:00

So The Knife swept the city with a force and went west. It was indeed quite a show; such reverence from the audience...incredible....

The Knife: Like A Pen (Demo Version)

On the other hand, Rex the Dog is back with more retro-infused high energy synth-pop house! Hurrah!

Rex the Dog: Everyday (Could Be The Last Day)

And I depart with a tantalizing tekno trak:
Oxia: Domino

2006-10-25T16:04:00.000-04:00

Black Strobe: Me & Madonna

Yesterday found myself sitting and watching Madonna's Truth or Dare from 1991 and I must say that it was truly delightful, insightful, and completely irreverent. A must watch.

Charles Manier: Change You
Telex: How Do You Dance? (M83 Remix)

2006-10-19T21:31:00.000-04:00

This will have to be a definite purchase (along side Alex Smoke's Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi. compilation):

Felix da Housecat Feat. Miss Kittin: What Does it Feel Like (Röyksopp Return the Sun Remix)
Aphex Twin: Ptolemy
DMX Krew Feat. Tracy: Make Me
The Knife: Bird
Trentemøller: Miss You

2006-10-04T13:40:00.000-04:00

Must say that Drew Daniel (half Matmos, whole Soft Pink Truth) is sexy.

Anyway, his Bjork remix with the analog synth and the cymbals may be confused with a Peaches/The Knife crossbreed. It's not though. It works, even though I try to dismiss Bjork in this blog even though she's had a great impact on our music blah, blah, blah, but I can't help but enjoy this track.

Bjork: It's In Our Hands (Soft Pink Truth Remix)
DMX Krew: DMX Krew Rocks the Beatbox
[T]ékël: Sac D'os

2006-10-01T14:32:00.000-04:00

The first one is not to be confused by the Kitsuné released version. Same band, same charming crooning man, different version- if anything it's the new "real" version of it?

The last one is from The Knife's self-titled first version...aaandd....below that is an image from the America-bound Silent Shout Tour as can be viewed on theknife.net.

The Whitest Boy Alive: Inflation
Matthew Dear: Dog Days
The Knife: I Take Time

2006-09-25T14:07:00.001-04:00

A little e- pop to soothe the soul.

Vive La Fête: Touche Pas
Broadcast: America's Boy
Appareil: I Will Betray You
Chikinki: Like It Or Leave It
Erlend Øye: The Athlete

Feel free to comment. Drop a line. Say hello. Cast me to hell.
Say something.
Please?

2006-09-19T18:11:00.000-04:00

Cosmicity: The Moment

2006-09-16T08:39:00.000-04:00

Death in June: Wicker Man Song
Silicone Soul: Under a Werewolf Moon (Martinez Full Moon Madness Remix)

Two tracks whose names sound autumnal. At least to me.

2006-09-02T18:46:00.000-04:00

Don't know much about Twice A Man, except that they have that super sexy minimal-wave sound that just drives me insane. Apparently their Swedes and now they're some art collective.
I also love remixes of Spektrum tracks.
Yes.

Twice A Man: Happy Life
Spektrum: Mayday (DJ T. Remix)

2006-08-29T00:16:00.000-04:00

So I'm slowly getting back in the game. In an attempt to find a free file host, I established a Mac account. Hopefully it works. Let me know if it's a failure. Here's a few treats while I'm at it.

James Figurine: Ruining the Sundays
DAF: Der Mussolini
Sam Koivikko: Pääjääsä

Aug 31: Ghostly International @ Tribeca Grand
Sept. 29: Ladytron @ Webster Hall/ DJ set at Hiro (?)
Nov. 1: The Knife @ Wesbter Hall

2006-07-27T13:51:00.000-04:00

Christopher & Raphael Just: Popper (Shinichi Osawa Disortion Disco Edit)
King Roc: Diesel Tribe
Adam Sky: Ape-x

Trying to hang in there during these dog days. I'll be in Houston on the fifth and will return until the fourteenth- hopefully with a new plan of action.

2006-06-27T17:34:00.000-04:00

The first one is an old favorite of mine that I will always love and never get tired of- I can even sing the lyrics at her pitch if I try enough.
The second is a newfound favorite of mine that I'm totally in love with right now.
And last but definetly not least is a pairing of two of my favorites- a reunion if you will, of Rex the Dog reworking The Knife. I must add that it really didn't live up to my expectations; I mean it had to live up the remix of "Heartbeats" otherwise it would fail. I doesnt fail; but nay- it does falls short. I still like it of course. I am dreaming of the day when the pup throws it back like "I Look Into Mid Air" and releases a full album....
But as for now, I'd rather pop in Christoper & Rapheal Just's "Popper"- especially the Discotown original. And the Shinichi Osawa Distortion remix. And even the track plus the Fox n' Wolf vocals. Did I mention I'm in love with this song also? And Kitsune?

Hanayo: Joe Le Taxi
Serge Santiago: Bad Passion
The Knife: Marble House (Rex the Dog Remix)

By the way, why is it that Houston begins to shine when I've long gone moved away? This shit never happened when I lived there!: The Boys & Girls Club

2006-06-19T00:59:00.000-04:00

A little electro house, a little early electro, a little disco, a little goth. Anything else?

Gina X Performance: No G.D.M.
James Holden: Lump
The Vanishing: Lovesick
Chromatics: Glass Slipper
Chikinki: Like It Or Leave (Tom Neville Remix)

2006-06-16T18:14:00.000-04:00

Photocall: Silver Clouds
New Baccara: Tokyo By Night

The first track's from the Go Commando compilation; the second, a self-discovered piece of italo-disco/synth-pop trash. Pure cheese, in the sense that it's one of those tracks you could only find amusing drunk at home with a buddy. Otherwise, it'd be totally fagulous. Just pay attention to the lyrics about 2:20 minutes in- she's not really saying "Fuck me, fuck me" in a faux Japanese accent, is she?

By the way, that particular track is dedicated to the humilated, yet hilarious Japanese girl on So You Think You Can Dance- yet another item on my list of guilty pleasures.

2006-06-15T21:29:00.000-04:00

This reminds me of my best friend Eric in Baltimore and the Are We Not Men (No Rave) party at The Depot:

DMX Krew: The Glass Room

2006-06-14T18:07:00.000-04:00

To get you wiggling.

Booka Shade: Darko
Solvent: Remote Control

2006-06-03T16:14:00.000-04:00

I've been lazy lately...what, with monsoon season hanging out over the city....

Matthew Dear: Send You Back
Jona: Yellowstone
Alex Smoke: Left Drift

2006-05-25T18:53:00.000-04:00

Throwing in a little modern synth-pop; one a little edgier than most, I'd say.

Solvent: Spin Cycle
Tetine: Men In Uniform
Chikinki: Something More (Tiefschwarz Vocal Remix)

2006-05-25T09:37:00.000-04:00

Waking and baking with M.A.N.D.Y:

Zwicker: Monkey Mood

2006-05-19T22:11:00.000-04:00

Oh Alex Smoke...I've seriously been obessing over the new album for the past few days now. Albeit, it's gloominess has been rubbing off on me a lot though. That and the stupid weather.

So Daniel Wang, here. Just realized that I also have track another with him, collaborting with Erlend and Kaos, hidden in my iTunes- "Lessons in Love." This track, however is from the Ghostly crew and it's definetly cruising on a hot day with a lemonade slushy, stuck on the freeway, sunglasses beaming, skyline reflecting kind of music. I can't help but think that at some moments the track feels a little too loungy, but it feels all better again when the crescendo surfaces and my head begins to bob up and down.

Daniel Wang: Berlin Sunrise

2006-05-15T19:40:00.000-04:00

So after spending literally an entire day at court (public drinking- St. Patrick's Day, I mean c'mon!) I decided to go music shopping. Right about now, I feel, is the time when all the fun shit comes out. I mean we have Rex the Dog coming out with what are going to be yet another two amazing remixes- one for Röyksopp and a reunion remix for The Knife! And then, one of my many musical obsessions, Mr, Erlend Øye, is releasing his side project's, The Whitest Boy Alive's, first album next month. And then on top of it all Kitsuné is releasing Kitsuné Maison 2 in June!

And without further ado, I give the gifts of my own language:

Exchpopture: Lost and Found

Don't know much about them. But this one's on the original Kitsuné Maison and I totally love the camp of it all. It kind of reminds me of something that would have been on the Party Monster soundtrack- I don't care what you say, but I've always obsessed over that soundtrack. I'm such a gay.

On a similar electro 2001 scale, I present I-F, whose known more as Ferenc. This one's from his wesome Fucking Consumer 12". He's actually from The Hague, Holland and this particular song has always just made me just move like an alien. Naturally it's called:

I-F: Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass

Which brings me to this one, which I picked up off of Idol Tryouts: Ghostly International Vol. 1. Apparently it was released previously on the label on a post-electroclash compilation entitled Disco Nouveau: Addendum. I may not exactly know what I'm talking about with this one. Give it a shot.

Charles Manier: At the Bottle

So I grabbed the new Alex Smoke, Paradolia, today. It totally got me by surprise. I just didn't even really notice that it was about to come and upon seeing it so neatly displayed...of course I had to get it. The first track's from his previous album, Incommunicado, and was the first Smoke song to grab me and hold me mentally sedative in all the good ways. His style of minimal house music has a voice of its own that's morbidly sweet yet brilliantly melancholic at the same time. The second track is jut a brilliant piece from Paradolia.

Alex Smoke: No Consequence
Alex Smoke: We Like It Insipid

And finally Dj T. from Get Physical. I painfully forgot my Boogie-Playground visting my best friend Eric, in Baltimore. So I bought the Cd because it had three additional tracks than the vinyl copy.

DJ T.: Rave d'Amour