Deep from within the crystal caves of southern France emerging from his cocooned chamber of foot-stomping, leg-writhing, positively asymptotic electric bliss comes Monsieur Arbenz, Mr. Vitalic. Oh my. There is a new album coming out and even though my foot is sprained and swoll from Logan jogging, it is going to fall off on November 3rd while my landlady next door complains to her upstairs neighbor about the bass for the second time.
Actually, the Vicious Pink track I've been searching for a while now after hearing it on a random mix. I feel like it's a worthy addition to the fag jams. The repetitive sample contrasted with the smoothed out backing vocals always works. One of these days I'll put together a song just to show off all the things I've learned about making pop music. Contrasting, combining, and juxtaposing a 'smoothed out' sound rather than one that is more staccato is a fantastic effect that Vicious Pink did very well here. Exhibit 2:
Notice the bongo's and synth chords with the over-emphasized, crescendoing sustain for ~16bars and then go into the jug-jug-jug-jug base line. Just before the transition they reduce all the other parts of the track to ~solo the sustained synth. That's hot.
cred: punkreas Every time i'm listening to a song and I surf to punkreas, this guy shows up. He's always right on.
Every now and again I talk to some far off friend of mine, and being the music pusher that I am, I feel obligated to share some stuff with them that I figure that they would dig. My most recent trade (20min ago) was with Sabrina, a real character. I gave her some Memory Tapes and she gave me Shadi. Shadi Toloui Wallace has a beautiful voice. Notice that I didn't say sexy because I want to preserve the innocence that is my friend. I haven't listened to the album yet, but if this Strokes cover is any indication of it, I need to get it right now. By the way, shouldn't those guys be making a new album or something? I guess they aren't running out of money yet..
So I can't tell you how much I love this girl and this album. I think the CD laser is going to burn through it by the end of the month.
Not only is she beautiful, but her voice pierces my heart with femininity darts.
However, (there's a however?!), yes however I don't think she's matched up with the right production people. Already I've got 20 different remixes, with 10 just for Bulletproof, that different people have mixed. Her voice and lyrics are fantastic, but the current instrumentalism behind her is lacking. I can understand it's synthpop and I love that sort of sound, but sometimes it is just downright cheesy (Cover my Eyes, As if by Magic). After seeing the same thing for the video for 'I'm Not Your Toy', I almost feel that whoever is managing Elly is taking advantage of her talents.
Decent video:
Bad video:
Great Video:
AWESOME:
WAIT According to La Roux's myspace, she's supposed to be playing at Schuba's on 21Oct. I don't see anything yet, but I will be there for sure if it's the case. Checking tomorrow.
UPDATE I emailed the booking manager at Schuba's and he tells me that she's scheduled to play Schuba's new venue. It is occupying the space where the Three Penny Cinema on north Lincoln avenue used to take up. Excellence.
After reading about the new album by Pissed Jeans on Sub Pop and this guy saying that it's best album of the year recorded by any label (Sub Pop here), I found myself desiring to put up some of the more intense stuff that I love. This is the foot-breaking-because-you-stomp-so-hard and two-minute-sweat-generation-four-minute-pass-out music that I'd need 3-4 timeouts during a show in order to recuperate.
Although the goal here is to make more people aware of music that's out there (that I like), if you are would rather not see the music posted on the site because you own the copyright, send an email to duconrad at gmail dot com and I'll remedy that.
