One of the most unique and innovative electronic artists out there, Four Tet, releases his most recent album There Is Love In You. Amazing and very highly recommended.
First off, come out to Bardot tonight if you're in LA, as we are presenting a show with Abe Vigoda, with Niki and I DJing.
Second, here's What I've Been Listening To
The In Crowd: The Ultimate Mod Collection From The Original Style Movement 1958-1967
Zomby - Back to '92 Mixtape (Download here)
Pinch - Underwater Dancehall
Frog Eyes - Paul's Tomb: A Triumph
Sleigh Bells - Treats
A million different Todd Terje edits (Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, etc.)
Aaliyah - One In A Million
MJ Cole – Sincere (Naked Music Migs Petalpusher Vocal Remix)
This makes me extremely excited: Pantha du Prince is finally touring America.
6/15 Washington, DC - U Street Music Hall
6/16 Philadelphia, PA - TBA
6/17 New York, NY - Santos Party House
6/18 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
6/19 San Francisco, CA - TBA
Salem - New Album Demos TBD
Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey
The Strokes - Is This It
The Franks - Duh EP
Millionyoung - Be So True EP
MJ Cole - Sincere
The Tallest Man On Earth - Wild Hunt
Ratatat - LP4
Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms
Inspired by FACT Magazine's weekly listings of their office soundtracks, I've decided to do the same. Here's what I've been listening to this week
MEN - TBA Debut Album
The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Restless People - TBA Debut Album
Kode9 & The Spaceape - Memories of the Future
DJ Screw - 3 'N The Mornin (Part Two)
Mystery Jets - Flash A Hungry Smile [New Single]
Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid - NYC
Ikonika - Contact, Want, Love, Have
IO Echo - Various Demos
Prince - Purple Rain
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
The first Whitest Boy Alive album, Dreams, was released in 2006, and I was pretty into it - "Above You" was my jam, and the fact that Erlend Øye of Kings of Convenience was the frontman was pretty good reason to keep interest. However, their second album, Rules, came out last year and for some godawful reason, I didn't even notice? Note to whoever was the online PR for the album: hound me more next year, I don't pay enough attention to my emails and the hundreds of press releases I get every day.
Well anyway, this past weekend I was, of course, at Coachella Festival, and while I missed The Whitest Boy Alive's performance, I kept on hearing about the day after, and how it was one of the most amazing of the night, so that prompted me to look them up again and see what was going on with them - lo and behold, they had an album last year that completely slipped under my radar. I quickly got my greedy paws on a copy and am now thoroughly enjoying it. It's dance music in the way that LCD makes it (organic and warm) and soulful and soft like Kings of Convenience. Not too shabby...
Any way, I am attempting to right my wrong of not paying any attention to this last year, so here it goes. Go get this album.
Shot in a mausoleum at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, the video for Fool's Gold's "Nadine" gives the song a much more haunting anchor from which to view the song and album as a whole. Loving it, of course.
Now, Moving Units may have fallen a bit out of favor with the hip set in the past year or so (it's been a few years since they released "Anyone," their best song) as the whole dance-punk thing has subsided, but the band are still touring around, recently hitting KL-Live in Kuala Lumpur. Akmal Naim, HSB's resident photographer for the past few years, attended and send over these pictures.
