BEHIND THE BEAT :: Pitbull + Nightcrawlers
The best part of Pitbull’s Hotel Room Service is easily the sleazy sax that kicks off the track and reappears under the chorus. Paired with Pit’s come hither and drop those panties rhymes, it provides the perfect complement for a raunchy rendezvous that he wouldn’t need to invite me to twice.
The credit for the memorable […]
House Of Goon :: Madness. Honey. Acid. Resistance.
Welcome to the House Of Goon. Go ahead, take a step inside. Everyone’s welcome here, it’s a haven for house music in all it’s many manifestations, brought to you weekly by our favorite tasteful Minneapolis gentlemen, The Moon Goons. You probably won’t find many of these tracks digitally and fighting off eBay sharks for vinyl […]
My Life Is Painful
I’ve been spending some time lately (digitally speaking) in the company of LA’s Brainfeeder family. Off their roster you’ll immediately recognize Flying Lotus and also, hopefully, Daedelus and The Gaslamp Killer. Their podcast is excellent and I’m slowly working my way down their artist list, getting familiar with the not-so-familiar names.
Brooklyn transplant Lorn in particular […]
Prisms And Ripples
I wasn’t into Real Estate as much as I thought I would be by the time I finally gave their 2009 debut a few proper listenings. Their atmospheric lo-fi surf psychedelia is definitely pretty, but truthfully a little yawn-worthy, blending together in that let down of a way where nothing stands out. I much preferred […]
A Cove To Call My Own
After a year and a half, this blog finally seems to be at the point where the MySpace electro DJs have removed me from their mailing lists and their void is being replaced by personal emails from artists I actually want to write about. I awoke to one such email last week and have […]
WU LYF: Part Trois
WU LYF is everyone.
Consider this post part three (I, II) of an ongoing series where I play internet hide & seek with Manchester band WU LYF. Over the weekend I received a mysterious private dump of a couple more WU LYF demo tracks via SoundCloud. The sender appears to be UK-based, but as to […]
Sweat (On The Walls). Acid (At This House).
photo by CappiT
I love Acid House and in this genre I love no track more than John Tejada’s dark, minimal, sexy 2004 classic, Sweat (On The Walls). I’ve only touched hallucinogenic drugs once in my 29 years and have zero desire to relive the terrifying experience. That is, until the talk-vocals of Tejada’s track hit […]
Hibernation Disco
I don’t know if it’s some sort of hibernation instinct, or just the seasonal evolution of the year of the “Chicago Disco Massive”, but it’s cold and I only want to listen to songs with alarmingly low bpms. I go out and I’m stuck holding this coat. I don’t want to thrash around to party […]
