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Flo Rida feat. Sia - Wild Ones (High Park Remix)
High Park took this piece ov bubblegum and reconfigured it into one dreamy bomb. Cloud MacGyver. Blam x 2.
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Just a quick update about some of my lame ass friends who are getting famous all of a sudden. First up we’ve got Kris, Derek, and Russ who are ATL buzz-band New Animal. I’ve stopped covering their every move since they’re not hurting at all for good press these days, but they seem to have hit their stride recently so I thought a few words (and images) were due. They just opened up for Purity Ring and Washed Out this month. Here’s a video from their set at the Criminal Records benefit show in ATL.
In other news my buddy, Billy, is one half of Two Band Geeks, the production team behind TI’s newest single, “Pyro.” Get used to it now because it’s gonna be everywhere pretty soon. Check it out here.
Meanwhile I’ll just be twiddling my thumbs in Congo…
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Trace Urban
Dude, how pissed must Chromeo be that LMFAO is making top dollar off of their shtick.
Anyways, I’m experiencing some excellent internet right now, and I don’t know if I’m even going out tonight, so I decided to light up the skies with a post.
I have a channel in my hotel called Trace Urban. It’s a pop hop and r&b station that only plays music videos and is almost half African. It’s funckking unreal. Hearing so much good afropop alongside my drake and rhianna, but they play that damn Eminem and Bruno Mars song all day. The jury’s still out on that Sean Paul and Alexis Jordan Joint “Got 2 LUV U.” In any case, last week they started playing that great new - new to the Congo that is - Rhinanna song, “We Found Love.” I especially like that Trace Urban puts the writer credits on the screen so I can see that it was Calvin Harris on the words and music.
While the pounding house bass reminds us that Rhianna’s excellent first album was practically anchored by the unapologetically Euro ”Please Don’t Stop the Music,” it is the music video that draws me into this latest single. Because I learned the song along with the video this is one of those songs that I’ll never be able to seperate from its music video. When they play it on trace, they add subtitles, it’s a French channel after all - but at least they don’t dub it, that’s how i watched My Blood Valentie last night…
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Po-Mo Radio: Top 10 Remixes of the Year
This may or may not be my best post, but it’s the one I broke with. Before I posted this top I had kept it to myself, but this top 36 remixes of 2010 is the one that I used to announce my blog to the world (my friends on facebook).
So this is where my hearts at in 2011, the remix. I’ve written this blog post twice already and I had a beautiul intro that developed the history of the remix and my relationship to it, but I keep accidentally deleted it. Now I’ve learned my lesson, always write things in Word first. Word.
This was a big year for the remix though, the bloghouse phenomenon has now simply been the way that we experience electronic music, with an infinite number of artists communicating instantly. Shit most of these songs have no place other than blaring off computer speakers. You’ll never hear any of this, even on college radio, and you can be damned sure that it’ll never hit your local disco.
Anyways, please enjoy this top 10, and a long list of honorable mentions that nearly made the cut.
The xx – VCR (Four Tet remix): There have been dozens of xx remixes. The young English trio’s potent mixture of sparse instrumental/soft electronic arrangements held together by compelling, intimate vocal melody leaves oodles of space for the potential remix artist to work their magic. After their self-titled debut dropped a wave of remix’s came flowing out of the bloghouse community. Almost a year after this first wave of remix’s, Four Tet took a stab at re-imagining one of my favorite xx cuts, VCR. The result, well listen for yourselves, but IMHO this is the first remix that truly results in a new song, not just a riff on the original.
Edwin Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes – Home (RAC remix): RAC (Remix Artist Collective) does some of the most tasteful remixes out there. The collective applies a soft touch to the jangly, organic sounds of Sharpe n’ the Zeroes signature song. Really all it took was some soft synths and a steady beat and the already dancable song just became instantly more versatile. An instant classic.
Local Natives – Eyes Wide (Fool’s Gold Remix ft. Aristotle Pop a Bottle): The first 5 seconds of this remix transport the listener to a completely different planet than the blue eyed soul of the LA-based Local Natives’ original. The heavy bass intro hints at a possible veer towards dubstep, but then the “oh shit the world’s gonna end” Worellesque synths and the sputtering snare drum remind you that this is a Fool’s Gold remix. The brazenly added verse from whoever the hell “Aristotle Pop a Bottle” is hits all the right notes.
Darwin Deez – Deep Sea Diver (Dezlin remix): Darwin Deez definitely makes the top 10 breakout artists of 2010. His record label, Lucky Number, also makes some kinda list for doing a good job of protecting his music online. It’s really wasy to find a soundcloud of his tunes, but nearly impossible to find available downloads. Therefore I usually experience Deez via remix or while watching a video. Out of the ones I’ve heard, this one struts its stuff with a little more confidence and a little less cheez than the rest.
Neon Indian – Deadbeat Summer (Database remix): So this was the song of the summer of 2009, and it’s sticking around for the 2010 list, boo-freakin-hoo. Database put just enough techno gloss on this song to make it last another 12 months before it goes on the nostalgia pile. Good on ya!
TIE: Deerhunter – Helicopter (Diplo & Lunice remix) / Helicopter (STAR SLINGER remix): These two remixes almost hit the blogs simultaneously, right around the release date of Deerhunter’s ridiculously good forth album, Halcyon Digest. The two take different and almost contradictory approaches to the lead single from the Atlanta group. Counter-intuitively, Diplo, who in 2010 released “Diplo’s Guide to Dubstep” and genre-crossing hip-hop wunderkind, Lunice’srework trades on a bubly key lines, trance synths, and rich layers of effects. On the otherhand, break-out remix artist of 2010 STAR SLINGER, arguably takes the easy road and goes all dubstep with it, but that’s not all. STAR SLINGER sits comfortably at the crossroads of dupstep and chillwave, and this remix is a glorious setpiece of how the two emergent genres can sit side by side, even on a remix of a beautiful, pining, paean to the heavens.
Major Lazer - I’m Not Your Lemonade + Heroes n Villans Remix ft. Gucci Mane: This song formed the perfect storm of 2010 music trends. La Roux representing the wave of deeply personal and intimate vocalists that have come pouring out of Britain recently (see The xx, Ellie Goulding), and the Heroes n Villain remix to Lemonade introducing the world to the trapstep style that has been making the rounds in ATL for a minute now – combining down south trap music with dub step lo-end rhythms and theories.
Via Tania – Fields (Lemonade Remix): So good that I’ve never even bothered to check out the original. Lemonade blew me away at this year’s MtyMx festival in Monterrey Mexico, and I’m ashamed that I forgot to put their EP, Pure Moods, on my top 10 albums list. This edgy, angular track’s start n stop dums are smoothed out by the pleasant, simple lyrics and earnest, folksy delivery. The organ sample is also pretty fire. How to talk about this song? It’s more than the sum of its parts, just take a listen.
The Hood Internet - Feel It On The South Side (Birdman feat. Lil Wayne “Southside” vs. Washed Out “Feel It All Around” remix): Every time I played this song, and I played it 1000 times this year, anyone within earshot got scurred. It then became my job to be al like, hey now, don’t be scurred, it’s just Birdman and Washed Out, have you ever heard anything more natural. Despite the fact that Washed Out is the posterboy of chillwave, what sets him apart within the genre is his just-below-the-surface hip hop sensibilities, which the Hood boys from Chicago exploit to maximum effect on this mashup masterpiece.
Kanye West – Power (remix ft. Jay-Z & Swiss Beatz): Finally, a straight hip-hop remix. The first single of Kanye West’s 2010 “enter my world if you like it or not” experience, Power didn’t impress me too much. That’s until I saw his BET Awards opening performance. With enough weight around his neck to make Mike Vick proud, Kanye became Kanye2K before our eyes. When’s the last time we’ve seen an entertainer become a demi-god before our eyes? Let alone one who can’t sing or dance. Yeah, I’ve always enjoyed Kanye’s lyrical potency, since back when me and my boys were screaming “Stack your money til it gets sky high,” but damn Yeezy, when did you get that flow? Jay-Z becomes utterly forgettable, as Kanye rips the last verse to shreds over ummeruffin Snap!. Oh and biggest disappoint of 2010, that the power clap didn’t catch on. LAME.
Honorable Mentions
Surfer Blood – Floating Vibes (Twin Shadow remix)
The Hood Internet – Real You (Lil B vs Gold Panda)
Passion Pit – Sleepyhead (DYM Dubstep Remix)
The Hood Internet – Blowin’ Money at the Deli (Drake x Birdman x Delorean)
Big Boi – Shine Blockas (remix Ft. Gucci Mane, Bun B & Project Pat)
NazcarNation – Beeswax (unouomedude remix)
M.I.A. - Steppin’ Up (Nacey remix)
Drake - Over (dj eSenTRiK remix)
La Roux – Bulletproof (The Dirty Tees remix)
Animal Collective – Daily Routine (Phaseone remix)
Justin Bieber – Runaway Love (remix ft. Kanye West and Raekwon)
Fol Chen – In Ruins (Baths remix)
Miike Snow – Billie Holliday (LightsoverLA remix)
Small Black – Photojournalist (STAR SLINGER remix)
Charlotte Gainsbourg – Time of the Assassins (XXX Change remix)
Gucci Mane – My Shadow (Salem remix)
The xx – Islands (CHLLNGR remiXX)
Beach House – 10 Mile Stereo (Cough Syrup remix)
ETHEREA – College (Animal Collective remix)
Gucci Mane – Dangers not a Stranger (Diplo remix)
Darwin Deez – Up in the Clouds (Mr. Flash remix)
Crystal Castles – Crimewave (Midnight Conspiracy remix)
Birdman ft. Drake – Money to Blow (Xaphoon Jones remix)
Azari & III – Into the Night (Nicolas Jaar remix)
Arcade Fire – We Used to Wait (Krusha remix)
Also, I swear that I’ll have comments working soon, but in the mean time, and anytime feel free to email me at pomoradio@gmail.com
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I imagine later tonight it’s going to be like this in NYC.
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So Mad Decent announced their block party lineup for the South Street seaport on July 30. That looks to be an absolute beast of a day that I’m only too pleased to be in town for.
Panda Bear was also just back in town after his Music Hall of Williamsburg show earlier this month. This time to play his album opener, “You Can’t Count on Me,” for Jimmy Fallon:
Yeah, it’s nice music, but seeing him live, the drugs help.
Also, remember how I mentioned a few days ago that I was going to start writing reviews for QRO Mag? Well the first one just went up last night! Check it out-uh!
Hopefully there’ll be a lot more where that came from, and remember, I post new music links and news (along with some more socially conscious ish) all the time on my twitter @pomoradio
Finally I’d like to send a quick shout out to my newest follower Byte Cult. If my blog is the family living room, then hers is the kitchen, similarly themed tumblrs unite!
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Here are some pictures of The Glitch Mob getting down in Atlanta on July 15. The show was originally schedule for The King Plow Arts Center on the West Side of Atlanta, but a last minute change due to a lack of necessary ampage moved the show to the Heaven stage of The Masquerade.
I got to the venue close to 11PM, Com Truise was already playing an underwhelming set to my great dissapointment, I’ve spilled a lot of ink on that dude over the last couple of months. He ended up just playing a solo show where he uses synths and pads to recreate his album tracks. I more or less expected this, but I think it would have gone over better if he unleashed some of his remixes into a nice opening DJ set. The largely 18-21 year old crowd was left unmoved.
New York’s own Phantogram played next with the addition of a bearded drummer. The three piece unleashed about 50 minutes of poppy electro-rock on a packed house, and the kids got down. It’s funny, there were so many shirtless/body-painted/glow-sticked kiddies getting down to the groove that I couldn’t help but imagine that only 2-3 years ago this same crew would have been getting down to The Disco Biscuits or Umphrey’s McGee. Let the Kids Techno, I guess.
Finally The Glitch Mob took the stage. Initially I was unsure as to which act would be the headliner that evening between Phantogram and Glitch Mob, but the organizers got it right. G-Mob packed a knockout punch with impressive lights, matching costumes, and MPC mayhem for about an hour and a half. I was never really a fan of their tracks that top the charts of Hype Machine on a regular basis, but the crowd really responded to their crunchy bass-heavy (though not dubstepy) rhythms. At one point the kid behind me started yelling for dub, and eventually the group responded, performing a dubstep remix of Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes, to much applause.
Atlanta’s a dubstep town these days, has been for a while. The brosteppers were also out in force, shirtless and hopped up in Molly. At the end of the day though, they were all just trying to have a good time, and The Glitch Mob delivered, so yes, if this tour rolls through your town and you’ve got the urge to sweat through your clothes or else take them off, go for it brah!
Daft Punk - Derezzed (The Glitch Mob Remix) by The Glitch Mob
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I do distro for shopaper.
It’s cool, I do it to find a scene to be a part of. I also want to start a band. I hope to meet people through the showpaper scene to play music with. I played with a couple of kids when I moved to new york and it was not the best, they playd grunge and it wasn’t fun.
My friend Jeremy’s band, on the other hand, has been playing music together for at least as long as when I met him about 5 years ago. They are on tour this summer, visit Piano’s in the LES on August 7. I’m going to holler at showpaper folk to see if I can’t find them a gig in Brooklyn on the 8th. I actually live in neither the LES nor Brooklyn, but in Gnocchi. An ap was recently launched to demystify the chinatown dining scene, and at $1.99 I’d say that it’s probably worth the money. The reviews for the ap look good and if the developers really have anything near comprehensive knowledge of even half the restaurants down here, then they’ll save you a lifetime of research and guesswork. Also, restaurants flip so often, even in Chinatown, that the regular updates would be mighty helpful. I like yelp and all, but really once a place has received over 100 reviews, its hard to know what to make of it, I need less choices when it comes to certain things, so I’ll trust a reliable and knowledgable single reviewer over a noisy din of yelpers any day…and I guess that makes me a fascist.
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