Jetpilot Music Reviews

For giving far too much credit to acts like the atrocious Arctic Monkeys and diabolical Sandi Thom. For dragging us along one profile to the next only to find ourselves somewhere quite unrecognisable from where we started. For the terrible layout and enabling so many myspacers to throw together profiles so garish that soldiers are actually turning in their graves from the fruit born of their brave sacrifice.

On the upside, myspace means I can more easily keep an eye on a lot of the acts that really float my boat and come to find out more about the acts I’d like to get to know better. Myspace also sees the occasional treasure pop up and one that has smiling from ear to ear is Cheb AstiAn’s Marakech Edit of Kavinsky’s seminal Testarossa Autodrive.

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Kavinsky – Testarossa Autodrive (Cheb AstiAn’s Marakech Edit) ripped from his myspace.

It brings up memories of Damascus and Aleppo and Istanbul, of plump belly-dancing women, of shisha pipes and weird little men in suits, of large hairy men in music videos seen warbling along the rippling edge of some anonymous waterway, of music blaring on tinny stereos and so distorted from being the fourth copy of a copy of a tape someone had 18 years ago.

Suffice to say I love it.

As a basis for comparison, here is SebastiAn’s remix of Kavinsky’s Testarossa Autodrive…

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Kavinsky – Testarossa Autodrive (SebastiAn Remix) from his EP 1986 [ buy ]

… and Kavinsky’s unadulerated original in all its glory.

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Kavinsky – Testarossa Autodrive from his EP Teddy Boy [ buy ]

Now I know the Cheb AstiAn sounds almost unrecognisable to the SebastiAn and the original but give it a couple listens and you’ll feel it nestled behind the thick plumes of shisha smoke that suddenly fill the room.

Kavinsky @ myspace

SebastiAn @ myspace

My next gig is an outdoor one in Wellington – come along! It’s another Wellington Dance Collective event and partly a fund raiser for the Pink Moa camp I was part of at Kiwiburn. The WDC was gracious enough to let the Pink Moa use their gear. Thanks WDC!

Held at secret location (check here on the day for site and directions), 1st March from 10pm, with Jetpilot, Helix, Rich D Rich, fiDJit and a guest DJ. $10 at the gate.

I’m not in a romantic frame of mind right now, so I wasn’t in any position to put together a lovey dovey mix. Instead here’s a dirty lusty mix, full of explicit lyrics and vocals, and bouncing beats. Don’t listen if you are easily offended by such things.

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Jetpilot – A Dirty Valentine’s [ 51:58 - 52.1 MB ]

Tracklisting behind the cut…

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Apologies for the extended hiatus but it seems neither of your hosts have felt particularly willing or able to post about the music that moves and excites us. For my own sins I’m afraid I’ve been suffering under the tyranny of choice what with all the new and not-altogether-official releases that have sprouted from the blogosphere undergrowth and onto my ipod. How do you choose between hot tracks that suit the summer we’re currently living through here in the Antipodean South Pacific? How do you move beyond Daft Punk after gazing upon the electronic pyramid and its many-splendoured light show?

And so here we are. Yes. Hmm.

Ok!

The Kids from Trashbags scored quite the coup by bringing French DJ (and future father of my children) Danger over for a few live sets in Sydney this week. Although Sydney seems so close, it turns out my less than prudent fiscal ways meant Sydney was so very very far away. Ladies and gentlemen, dear readers, I am afraid I wasn’t able to sort my shit out in time to make it across to see the masked man drop his tunes, blow my mind and break my body.

Thankfully the internet has come to the rescue with those brave boys and girls (I assume their group is heterogendered, and no I don’t know if that is a real word) at Trashbags popping out from their virtual womb a recording of his live set at last weekend’s Trashbags. This set is 58 minutes of deliciousness and you really don’t know how difficult it is for me to sit here and type with it blasting in the background.

Head here to grab his live set, and while it is downloading you really should head here to read all about the night he made Sydney his own.

To tide you over in the time it takes you to download the live set, and for those who have yet to fall in irrational aural lust with Danger, here is the better known of his time-coded tracks 11H30…

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Danger – 11H30 from his EP 09/14 2007 [ buy ]

… but I would argue that 14H54 is the best of the songs he has released thus far.

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Danger – 14H54 from his EP 09/14 2007 [ buy ]

Hat-tip and hella thanks to the Kids from Trashbags for bringing the man over and sharing the Danger love with those of us who couldn’t quite make it to see him live.

UPDATE : It seems Danger is making a one night only appearance in my favourite Australian city, Melbourne, so head on over to Fashion Keyboard this Friday night. The flyer looks fairly budge(t) but hey, it’s Danger!

Danger @ myspace