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Music: Snow in Mexico, The Radio Dept., Tesla Boy

vanshnookenraggen — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:27:17 +0000

Snow in Mexico is a shoegaze, dream-pop band out of Rome with a chill, laid back drone to it. They have a free EP of 4 songs to download on their website/MySpace. It’s really good but it sounds like they need to clean up a few choppy edits. Definitely a band to watch.

The Radio Dept., the Swedish electro-dream-pop band just put out a new song called “Freddi and the Trojan Horse”. It has a dancier and darker sound than most of their other stuff which I really like (don’t get me wrong, I like their old stuff too!)

Tesla Boy came to me by way of the VALERIE collective and really knocked my socks off. Coming out of Moscow, this is some bad ass 80s style electro-pop. Listening to it so many times I’ve realized that there isn’t much ground breaking here (it’s like the 80s didn’t happen in Europe so they are do it now to catch up) but when it’s done so clean and well, who cares?

Snow in Mexico – Velvet

The Radio Dept. – Freddie and the Trojan Horse

Tesla Boy – Spirit of the Night

Music: CFCF, Computer Perfection

vanshnookenraggen — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:37:48 +0000

Two new artists I’ve come to really dig recently are Montreal’s CFCF and Computer Perfection from Michigan.

CFCF, like xcuse.fi!ipa, first caught my ear from a Crystal Castles remix. He just put out an EP, Panesian Nights, on the Paper Bag Digital label (which by the looks of it I need to spend more time with). Panesian Nights is really good, but the track I have up, “You Hear Colors”, was part of a 7″ he put out last year. The instrumental track has a slow dream-pop vibe to it with ribbons of electo, a good beat, and a guitar that feels like a sorrowful mourner, giving bursts of pent up emotion at points.

Computer Perfection is a band I happened upon while looking through the line up for this years NYC Popfest. I want to describe them as a psychedelic jam band but I don’t want to make them sound like Phish. They are very much pop, though you can clearly hear that they are not some throw away twee band. I love a song that really builds, has many ups and downs, and draws out the end (Life Without Buildings “Newtown” comes to mind), and their song “Sweetie Pie” does this very well (this track, along with a few others, are available for free on the bands website.) Computer Perfection is playing Saturday, May 16th at The Bell House in NYC along with Eux Autres, The Secret History, Pants Yell!, and The Radio Dept (which promises to be a truly amazing night.)

CFCF – You Hear Colors

Computer Perfection – The Fool is Hurt

CFCF MySpace

Computer Perfection MySpace

Music: xcuse.fi!ippa

vanshnookenraggen — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:45:16 +0000

xcuse.fi!ippa

I first head about this Swedish DJ late last year when Crystal Castles released a free compilation of fan remixes. One of my favorites was by this guy, xcuse.fi!ippa with a remix of Crimewave. Well x.f just put out two free releases, one of original material and one of remixes (including said Crimewave remix). Both have a lot of gems in them but the one that I have had on repeat for the last hour this this track, Human Attitude, a remix of NWA’s Straight Outta Compton. The links to the releases are on his MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/excusefilippa

xcuse.fi!ippa – Human Attitude

http://www.myspace.com/excusefilippa

Music: Röyksopp – Happy Up Here video

vanshnookenraggen — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:50:24 +0000

Happy Up Here from Röyksopp on Vimeo.

Music: Moscow Olympics, School of Seven Bells

vanshnookenraggen — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:28:01 +0000

Another one of my passions is music. One of the first things I do every morning is sift through a multitude of music blogs and webzines. Living in a city with such an amazing music scene, one where so many bands come through, I am always finding out about new bands and music. I often take pictures at the shows I go to, though I have tended to not take pictures at the shows that I really want to experience because of how the camera makes you step back from what is going on (this is something I need to change). So now I’m going to start writing about new bands or new songs I’ve discovered and publishing shots from the shows I go to to promote the music I love and shine some light on these artists that fill my life with so much joy.

Wow, that was a long winded and sappy way to announce that I’m adding music to my blog. Screw it. First up is an indie pop band from Indonesia, Moscow Olympics, and then it’s the School of Seven Bells who are now on tour with M83 (I already have my tickets for that show).

Moscow Olympics – Still

School of Seven Bells – Connjur