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)

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

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

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."

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

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

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

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.

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.

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)

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.)

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!

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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!?

Chateau Flight: Baltringue

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

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

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