So this Bloc Party...



is so much better than Franz, yo.

Listen Here

and they're playing the Metro on March 31st.

Who's with Zach and Nate?

Some more songs...

I have a couple selections going on over at the stypod - check it!

(they should be up for a couple days)

Oh dear Michael...



DJC "Billy Jungle Version"

Those weary of the above two faces or the amen break, steer clear. the rest of you, have at it. also, if there's anyone with the slightest idea of where to find a decent jungle comp - forward that on to me.

Here's another song to prove that my urge to give my dear friends a chance to hear very random music isn't a fluke.

I'm not sure any description is necessary for this song, but at very least I can direct y'all to this song's origins, or at least what I can make of them:

from the grapes of google, this song was put up on a mix-cd at MODSQUARE here by the site's editor, no less. MOD SQUARE's web title lists off the string of scary names including "idm" and "geektronica," but they are separated by "wtf." the title also has "etc." hopefully etc becomes a genre and hopefully i'll be able to be the one to coin it.

dance is dead? (in preparation for daft punk's eulogies)



Since I have no urge to contribute much writing these days, I'm just going to start my Club Lonely of one. Buni encouraged me, so if anything I post offends you, please forward hate mail to her (as I'm too sensitive for that stuff anyway)...

These links will work for a week, so download fast and furious people. Click on the link and click on download the file...

Boards of Canada - Trapped (EXPIRED!)
This is off one of those early bootleg sets of Boards of Canada stuff. I was obsessed with this song, until I found out that it was actually just a tweaked out version of the Classic Chicago House song by Colonel Abrams.



Since I'm constantly trying to build my dance/electronic history ass-backward, it takes me a couple months to stumble on these fucking great classics. But there's still something appealing about this reportedly BOC-version. The BOC touches take just enough of the original song, but add the analog synth as completely ominous presence, the drum breakdown practically sublimated into the barrage of breakbeats and the presence of that damningly brief french horn. And the gospel choir sounds just melodramatically correct for the song's lyrics with the BOC musical counter-point.


Spektrum - Kinda New (Tiefschwartz Dub) (EXPIRED!)
On a Playhouse 12" (#87, I believe), Tiefschwartz's two remixes of Spektrum are just maddingly overwhelming. Simon Reynolds called for macro-house a couple years ago in one of his year-end wrap-ups and it seems tiefschwartz came calling. The bloated excesses of this remix and well, all of electro-house by definition, create this identity by scavenging through dance, 303s and all. With the introductory lick, and the metronomic click that sounds like it's just tapping - waiting for you - just builds builds builds builds and so on. With the vocals appearing after 2 1/2 minutes of this build, the original song's "we all live and die" never sounded so right. by the end of the song, the "death" sounds like a group creating such a monolith that the thrill out of making it trip as much as possible under its own weight has never been so fun.