cleveland based supervisor releases ambient, LSD-friendly tune

i admittingly know very little if anything about this band, but i do know that this track sounds like something explosions in the sky would produce, and that is a very promising prospect. the ballerina music-box intro blends into this beautiful, haunting crooning that soon becomes accompanied by these crashing cymbals that evolves it into something simply hypnotic, a beautiful dreamy number that is going to be on my playlist well into the new year.

supervisor-detronome

this song makes me want to motorboat my speakers

zeds dead has only been together for the latter half of 2009, and since forming have been putting out some really fucking massive remixes. they have a knack for making those hairs on the back of your neck stand up, and possibly begin dancing. they seem extremely versatile, having produced hip-hop before switching to dubstep this versatility shines from the glitchy, bouncing retake they did on the pretender to their dub-heavy, horrorshowheadfuck track dark side dub that you should probably listen to with the lights on.

zeds dead-the pretender(zeds dead ruckus remix)

zeds dead-dark side dub

There's shit in my stocking

Julian Casablancas recently performed "I Wish It Was Christmas Today" on Jimmy Fallon's late night talk show alongside Jimmy and Horatio Sanz . These are the things I'm finding difficult to understand:

1) His feather earring. There is no way he has been hanging out with Natasha Khan (Bat for Lashes) but I can't think of any other explanation.
2) He is solo. promoting his solo album. and singing like he's in the Strokes. These are the heavy vocals I was waiting to hear on 'Phrazes For The Young' to no avail.
3) This song is a cover of an SNL version. ::clears throat:: I repeat, this is a cover of an SNL song (which he recorded months before being on Fallon's show (?) and you can now buy on itunes).

At first he's slightly heartwarming and at one point even (kind of) seems to be enjoying himself. Then he blows his cover and I remember- this is the guy that refuses to sign autographs: Jimmy and Horatio begin the Ashlee Simpson jig; Julian pulls a classic hipster move by shoving his hands in his pockets and scratching his head as the judgement seeps out from behind his blues brother Ray Bans and he exits stage right.

Julian Casablancas has no idea who he is as a solo artist and maybe he never did-- but he is not JT. And this is not Rock and Roll.

Fk Me

i cant really explain riptides sound, all i can say is that it's huge. this song rolls about with this bouncing, buzzsaw sample that builds and builds until it finally crashes along with this filthy distortion that will simply own you. this track demands to be played at top volume and pregnant women along with people who have heart complications need to remain at a safe distance when this song is playing.

riptide-Fk Me

trash yourself

trash yourself will be bashing skulls in with their eclectic blend of neck jerking, overdrive-heavy thrash electro at halfway to forecastle in january. they teamed up with my favorite parisian producer, the toxic avenger, for a quaint little number entitled "die" where heidi cannon's hypnotic chanting gives way to a signature toxic avenger beat, that's reminiscent of a drug-crazed-synthesizer being hooked up to a car battery with rusty barbwire. i absolutely cannot wait to see what kind of show these guy's put on, but it's most definitely going to be worth checking out if your within 500 miles of Louisville on Jan. 23rd.

trash yourself feat. the toxic avenger-die

trash yourself-fuck the police

warp 1977

my beloved beetroots just recently released "christmas vendetta: spares of romborama" on complete fuckbag steve aoki's (aka kid benihana) Dim Mak lable. the reason's i hate steve aoki are aplenty, but ill save that for another post. anyways, it seems as if the bloody beetroots have pretty much milked this whole warp thing for all it's worth, i mean fuck the song came out months ago and they are still remixing it, i think there are 4 to date, and that's just beetroot remixes. anyways, this installment is especially chaotic, featuring highly distorted vocals and the same scourging, slaughterhouse synths that made warp a hit to begin with.



the bloody beetroots-warp 1977

a xxx-mas story

i admit, i have watched a christmas story in it's entirety every year for as long as i can remember, and will continue to do so because it retains a certain nostalgia that stems far back into my childhood memories of christmas, it just isn't christmas time until i have watched that movie. however, from now on, when i view the scene of ralphie's friend "flick" getting his tongue stuck on a pole, i won't feel so bad for the kid. this is because, as kids do, scott schwartz, or flick, grew up and starred in "scotty's x-rated adventure," a film where, presumably, there are no scenes of his tongue being stuck on a pole, rather it is his pole that is stuck on someone else's tongue.

connie boswell-let it snow

kid cola wants to eat your face

not really, but im sure he wants you to check out this remix he did for the crystal fighters. i just recently found out about kid cola, and his songs seem to be entirely hit or miss, and this one is most definitely the former. he takes the original track, which fucking blows in my opinion, and adds a ripping, rolling, infectious bassline throughout the song that is just flat out addicting. along with cleaning and chopping up the vocals a bit to not sound so whiny and tweaking the original intro to better accommodate his frankenstein-mind-fuck-bassline, kid cola delivers a fix that is sure to satisfy.

crystal fighters-i love london(kid cola remix)

AC slater uses fucktard's henry rollins' spiteful commentary on rave music and turns it into a wonderful wobbly little gem

the best part about this song is that superstar producer and all around badass AC Slater takes vocal snippets from a henry rollins standup sketch, and turns the hateful, dim rantings of a wannabe badass, washed up "comedian" into a thrilling, fist pumping tune full of wobbles and sirens that is typical of slaters production. rollins seems to be praising "rave music" towards the end of it, which he damn well should be since it's loads better than anything that meathead, white stain could ever even conceive of producing.

ac slater-play the record again

student killed by exploding chewing gum

life lesson#1 don't get into the habit of dipping your chewing gum into any type of substance before putting it in your mouth
life lesson #2 don't get in the habit of dipping your chewing gum into unidentified substances that have the potential to blow your face off before putting it in your mouth

hot chip release boring, droning video to accompany newest single.

this video was seemingly produced with the proceeds from some british girls lemonade stand. the whole fish-eye lens thing gets played out within the first twenty seconds, and although I like the song, the band should have left the single alone. instead they tainted it with some cut-rate, dizzying footage that looks like it was shot with a broken cell phone.

Hot Chip - One Life Stand (MySpace Exclusive)

Hot Chip | MySpace Music Videos

le castle vania unleash a chaotic dancefloor monster

this song gave my neighbor a nosebleed. it thrashes and tears about like a rabid shark and will wrap its ugly jaws around your head and will not let go until you turn it off, or the song ends. this banger will surely be devastating a dance floor near you.

le castle vania-nobody gets out alive

crookers and soulwax collaborate for a techy, tripped out boner inducing synth jam

crookers have been on my playlist for the past couple years now, and it has been far too long since they have put something out worth mentioning, "put your hands on me" is a terrible, TRL worthy shitshow that I am going to pretend never happened. we love animals has that telltale, snappy crookers funk to it and soulwax throws in their two cents with that warm analaog synth that croons in the background and really kicks in at the break. definitely worth the download.

crooker ft. soulwax and mixhell-we love animals