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Welcome to the first of many Monday Mystery Tour contests featured here on Pasta Primavera. Here’s how it works:
1. I post a five song mix.
2. You listen to it.
3. You tell me what songs are on this mix within 6 days.
4. If you are right, you gain mad props from me and are immortalized forever on the sidebar of this ‘lil blog.
So if you are up for the challenge, listen away:
Monday Mixdown #1
The Knife have been nominated for an mtvU Woodie Award. They’re up for a “Left Field Woodie” which is all about breakin’ the mold of normal music. They’ve got some competition though. Also nominated are Madvillain, The Klaxons, CSS, and Rodrigo Y Gabriela. It’s tough to vote against Madvillain, but I think I’m gonna have to. You’ve got until November 2nd to vote, so get clickin’:
http://woodies.mtvu.com
Just a reminder of how good The Knife and Madvillain are:
The Knife – Neverland
Madvillain – Figaro(ST101 Remix -Four Tet)
More The Knife –> website –> buy –> mp3s
More Madvillain –> website –> buy –> mp3s
Okay. It’s Friday! It’s been a long week. Doesn’t everyone deserve to rock out? I mean come on. This week I’ve walked in the door of my place of employment and found things in shambles. There sitting on the desk, a note reading “fix it”. And though there were hours of agonizing, eyeball burning repairs, I actually made it to the end of the week without cursing anyone out. So now is the time I get to rock out. Quit jivin’ me turkey! Ya got ta sass it! Yeah, that’s what I’m talkin’ ’bout. It’s time to look foolish on the car ride home. I’ll be that person playing my steering wheel like a snare drum and slapping my knee like a high hat. Here’s a couple that just might let your inner rocker out…
Radiohead – My Iron Lung
The Ettes – No More Surprises
Figurines – Ambush
Wolf Parade – It’s A Curse
Sometimes new music is very inspiring. Today was a humdrum kind of day. Nothing special. Then a song I never remembered hearing before comes on the old sound box. Medium tempo with subtle melodies and strumming guitars. I admit I’m humming to it. Then just when I thought it was all peace and love in the song, a little edge comes through. Some angst hidden but embraced like a lovers warm deathly kiss(huh?). I LIKE THINGS LIKE THAT. SUPRISES ARE GOOD. So if your in the mood for something melodic, strummy, and angst infused, then Pseudosix is the music for you.
Pseudosix – Under the Waves
More from Pseudosix–> website –> buy
I sometimes feel like OJ is my generations JFK. Everyone knows where they were when they saw OJ being chased in that white Bronco. With O.J. back in the news again it’s felt like 1994 all over again. So to put myself in the right frame of mind i have been listening to all my favorite albums form that year. Here are just a few: Beastie Boys – Ill Communication, Weezer – Weezer(blue), Nas – Illmatic, Manhattan Transfer – Manhattan Transfer meets Tubby the Tuba. All classics in their own right. So I suggest to everyone to strap up your rollerblades pull your anti skip walkman out of your fanny pack and rock out an album from 1994.
Here’s more music floating around my vast database of sound.
Rogue Wave – Lake Michigan
Wax Tailor – Positively Inclined feat. Marina Quaisse
The first one is off of Rogue Wave’s newly released “Asleep at Heavens Gate”. Pretty much everything these guys produce is fantastic, so don’t hesitate to pick this one up. They also have a completely change of pace cover of the Pixies’ “Debaser” available to stream on their site.
The second is from a french dj Wax Tailor. I picked up a couple albums of his on Emusic. Most is standard trip hop. Not bad, but over time it could fade in my music library. There are some stand outs like Positively Inclined that make getting these albums worthwhile. If you can read french you should check out his myspace page.
Sometimes you just crave something different. When I use the word different, I mean Daedelus. He is the definition. Known as Daedelus Digitalis Darlington aka Vinegar Valentine, he puts together music that sounds like “hopefully sleepy kittens, more like nervous bunnies.” He’s a master of putting together forgotten sounds with intricate beats and off-kilter tempos. He’s not for everyone, but deserves a good long listen. His albums can take hold and transport you out of this mundane life into a world where colors turn sepia and flowers bloom inside…huh…sorry…just listen
Daedelus – At My Heels from Denies The Day
Daedelus – Impending Doom from Exquisite Corpse
Daedelus on myspace
Video:
Daedelus – Sundown
Sometimes you just crave something different. When I use the word different, I mean Copy. He is the definition. Known also as Marius Libman, Copy describes his music like “A Computer and a Man hanging out and, you know, ‘Getting to Know Each Other’.” I guess I can’t say it much better than that but I’ll try. His music comes across as video games with a dance beat. The 8-bit sound just oozes out of it. Some may say it’s too simplistic for them, but if you take a minute to enjoy it you will realize that there’s more there then you thought you heard. He layers simple synth together to create fantastic and complex pop melodies. They flow so easy that the first thing that comes to you is simplicity. That’s the beauty in it I guess. Did I mention that I like the beats. I do.
Copy – Backward from Mobius Beard
Copy – Could You Like Her from Hair Guitar
Muse quite deservedly won the 2007 Vodafone “Tour of the Year” award. I don’t know how you quantify something like that, but its a great excuse to show some live Muse video.
Here Knights of Cydonia from Philadelphia on August 10, 2007.
I was about half way between the camera and the girl on someones shoulders.
The full set is available here.
BTW, thats not an encore. That’s how they STARTED the Show. Good grief.
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