Come along to Summer Solstice tomorrow. It’ll be the first full moon summer solstice ever, and also the first Massive event that I’ll get to play at! More details at the Massive website.
I’m on at 1:30am in the Eclectic zone.
Australian 80s revivalists Van She have just come out with their latest single, Cat & The Eye and it sounds really rather good. It also sounds incredibly familiar but I’m really not sure how to place it.
Either way here’s the weirdly nonsensical music video for Cat & The Eye. Enjoy…
If you aren’t familiar with Van She they’ve come out with a few brilliant songs on their self-titled EP, with Kelly and Sex City seeming to be the more recognisable tracks from the remixes floating around the blogosphere. Cut Copy and Alan Braxe have lent their talents to Kelly, while Sex City got the Nightmoves and South Central treatment. All in all excellent remixes of some excellent songs, and to to prove it, here are the unadulterated original versions of both songs.
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Sex City is my favourite of the two. I’m not sure why, it just is. If you want to know how to get your hands on these and other Van She goodies, get their self-titled EP here.
I really enjoy Van She for the songs they come out with and because their sound is quite different to a lot of the club-centric stuff emanating from Australia. Don’t get me wrong, I love that stuff, but it’s nice to have a little variety.
After all, variety is the spice of life.
Hat-tip to Travis over at Bigstereo for the headline and hooking us up with the Van She music video.
A year or so back, Kavinsky’s Testarossa Autodrive completely blew me away. Well, it blew me across the Tasman Sea to see him with SebastiAn, but that’s not the point I’m trying to make. The thing that bugged me at the time was that Kavinsky seemed pretty much a lone voice almost drowned out by the gritty electro that was flooding the blogosphere and the dancefloors.
Well it seems filtered synths are back with a vengeance with Kavinsky’s Gallic countryman Danger stirring things up on the blogosphere. He’s recently signed with Ekleroschock Records (home to DatA and Chewy Chocolate Cookies among others), so things really seem set for the guy.
misstoats over at Bigstereo said that “If Danger had his own car racing Kavinsky’s in the ‘Testarossa Autodrive’ video, this is what he would be listening to”, and I couldn’t agree more.
Danger has a very similar sound to Kavinsky in that dated synth sound we all know and love. Danger is also running with his own cartoon alter ego, a routine Kavinsky’s been rocking quite well since his Teddy Boy EP in 2005, so its no surprise strong comparisons have been made between the two.
All his tracks seem to be time-coded (9h20, 11h30, 14h54, etc.) which seems odd but doesn’t detract from the tracks themselves.
9H20 is the one that seems to be garnering the most attention, and it certainly deserves it.
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11H30 is just as good if a slightly different feel.
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The EP will have hidden gems like 14H54 (which is an absolute stonker of a track – if impatient, listen to the stream on his myspace) so you really ought to mark down on your calendar the 19th of November (ok, maybe I am dyslexic when it comes to dates because the EP came out today, although there’s no sign of it on the NZ itunes store – ugh!) for your copy of Danger’s EP.
Ok, so I’ve been trawling through the songs on my itunes that I’ve listened to more than 9 times but less than 49 times, and it’s an interesting smartlist that brings up a lot of the new tracks that are floating my boat as well as many of the less recent ones I loved and left for whatever reason, and the variety has been really rather enjoyable.
Well, blow me down if this song didn’t pop up one afternoon and capture me from the sharp drums and throbbing bass line.
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Azzido Da Bass – Lonely By Your Side from Kitsuné Maison Compilation 2 [ buy ]
I’d always written off this German DJ as one of the pointless Ibiza-touring wankers that specialise in the mediocrity of the Ministry of Sound sound (which he may actually be, I wouldn’t really know), but I must admit that Lonely By Your Side is seriously floating my boat right now.
Kudos to the folk at Kitsuné Music for their generally excellent taste and the recommendation.
