Tuesday, September 30, 2008

What was that about Italo?

More stuff not to ignore. You've probably heard the back beat or the first minute mixed many a time:

Giorgio Moroder - I Want to Rock You

And why don't I have this album?

Glass Candy - Digital Versacolor

And I was going to link to the youtube Italo megamix, but it got taken down. That thing had the original videos and songs mixed together! Oh man. Fun Fun and the girl from Radiorama are so hot! Follow this link for another Italo mix series.


Did Fun Fun switch the girls in the videos? Look at this one for Colour My Love and this one for Happy Station and tell me they didn't do a swap?



No 90's revival yet please... I'm not done yet with this stuff!

I love this guy.

Goofy!



and because I actually want that stuff and I've got too much time on a tuesday, go ahead and put this stuff in Excel:

[Fuzz] Records, Zed - Plastic Love, Booby trap, Mya - & the mirror, Alexander Robotnick - C'est la Vie, Danser! naif orchestra, Gina & The Flexix - I wanna believe, Il Generale, Ludus, Anski? - Stupefacente, Living On Video - Trans-X (Digital World), Boys next Door - Lady of the Night (Louisa), Cliff Turner - Moonlight Affair, Time, Stop Jap ...The Stalin, Lärm - Campaign for musical destruction, I Pofondo? Rosso, Kraftwerk - I'm the operator of my pocket calculator, B.G.K. - Jonestown Aloha!, Nervebreakers, Nipdrivers, Phantasm - You're Already Dead (Blood Stained), Greenskeepers, Silent Circle - Stop The Rain [Koda], Tea ês - Captain Terra X (24 More Hours), Kirlian Camera - Blue Room, Maro Fruttero - Fairyland, Kylie Minogue - The One, Modem - Your Fux, Phil Sun - Danse? on the ___, Rockets - Galaxy, [Flash] Records?, Easy Going, New Romantique - Amy Like An Angel, Joy - Hello, Why are you hurtin' me so much, Paul Rutherford, Atlas - UFO Robot, Francesco Salvi - C'e Da spostane? una macchina, Unit4, Magic fly - Space, Menergy, Giorgio Moroder, John Carpenter, Harry Thumann - Underwater, Laser Dance, fizz, Lugio Battisti, EvitaEvitaEvita, Ken Laszlo, The B52's ?, Magic Fly, Passion, C 365, Spatla Disco 2008, Superb Super Pop Session #2, Star Peace - Droids, Black Devil

and another winner by him sans le danse,



If you're in Chicago, the only two places I know of to get stuff like this is Grammaphone and Hot Jams. Hot Jams is ridiculously under the radar with north side folk. Go down Archer already! Oh by the way, Robotnick is coming to Sonotheque on 10Oct. Yes. Last times when I saw him at RedNo and the warehouse party near the river and belmont/elston killed. I don't think people are into Italo as much as I am, but people were really going for it with him.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Spirits...



After reading fluokids, I find my blog not to have as many good looking girls in the pictures. AND she's polish! This shot comes off ffffound!, which is an interesting pic site. Most of the stuff is more artfully-inclined from a photographic sense. You probably won't find too many party shots, but rather more beautiful or thought-provoking things.

and how have I not posted this song yet?

Mystery Jets - Young Love (Shoes Mix)

New Years

I understand that it's not even October yet, and that the Christmas season probably will start on October 30th, but who is thinking about new years now?

me.

I don't know where but I have a good inkling that these guys will be playing in Chicago somewhere. Tonight I'm going to try and find out at good ole darkwave.

Remember dear readers, it's off the record, on the QT, and very... hush hush.

Speaking of which, has anyone seen Andrew lately?

Monday, September 22, 2008

temporary fix

Blogspot barfed my posts yesterday from existence, but at least I'm not the only one that it affected.

Here are the links that I had that were worthwhile:

The Kooks - Kids (MGMT Cover)

Katy Perry - Electric Feel (MGMT Cover)

The Yellow Bellies - I Kissed a Girl (Katy Perry Cover)

MGMT - Kids (Soulwax Edit)
Different from the previous version posted, which is a live version. This is out of the studio.

M.I.A. - Paper Planes (DFA Edit)

Mariah Carey - I'll Be Loving U Long Time (Designer Drugs Remix)
This is the mix that got honorable mention, but didn't win the remix contest due to not being like the other stuff on the radio.

Oh blogspot. Redeem thyself!

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Martin Minus M



Expanding on the policy of 'borrowing' from other blogs, I found this triad of new songs from Fabrizio Moretti's project Little Joy:

Little Joy - Brand New Start
Little Joy - No One's Better Sake
Little Joy - With Strangers

On a side note, no discussion of Fab would be complete without this guy whose early college years I corrupted with Larry:


"Christi, I want to make love to you."

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Death


Not that I knew or even heard of Nagi Noda, but I do know some songs that she directed into music videos like:


Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire



Tiga - Far From Home


Or this silly one: Meg - Precious


...no I never heard of that one before.

I like finding out about new-to-me music video directors, preferably not a the time of their departure...
...obviously.

Another really sweet music video director is Michel Gondry. If you want to know more, you should really see the aptly-titled "The Work of Director Michel Gondry". He did all these and more:

Daft Punk - Around the World


White Stripes - Fell in Love with a Girl


White Stripes - Dead Leaves on a Dirty Ground


White Stripes - The Hardest Button to Button


Cibo Matto - Sugar Water


He's got commercials under his belt too. Go rent the DVD!

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

The Holdover

I'm in Michigan right now, but this video stood out. Thanks to Tim for this one. It is really chill.