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On Friday night we put on our dancing shoes and took the train uptown for the latest installment of the One Step Beyond series at The American Museum of Natural History, where DJ Mehdi and The Rapture's Mattie Safer played classic tracks for the bedecked crowd (hello, sequined tops). As we danced around the moon rocks, we noticed there were quite a few people getting dangerously close on the floor. It was like a scene from Barbarella in there. Although we can't be sure any interstellar connections were made, we might try our luck at romance at the next OSB, when Nick Catchdubs and Michna take over DJ duties on November 21st.

Special FX wizard Syndrome is back for T-Pain's next video with Chris Bridges, off Thr33 Ringz. We'd like to sugest that they put all of these videos on a 3-D DVD, so we can see a piece of T-Pain's face fly directly at us through a krumper's legs.

Although we follow Animal Collective with a tenacity usually reserved (by others) for dubious jam bands, we're still pretty consistently baffled by some of the music that ends up on their label. For example: we've been spending most of the morning trying to figure out what is going on with Dent May and His Magnificent Ukuele, a one man ukulele band who's debut album was recorded in his own home by Rusty Santos. We're not sure if this is going to start Old Timey Music Resurgence 2.0, but we are pretty sure that whoever the Wes Anderson of the future is will be using these songs to soundtrack his films.


Download: Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele, "Meet Me In The Garden"

Diplo threw up two versions of his remix for the 'Head this weekend with a fair amount of explanation about unmastered leaks and re-remixes. About Version 2, he wrote:

…eventually i came up up with something else even.. i really like it too, a lil more clubworked in the end.. the originaly idea was to make the biggest drum break of all TIME! but then it got scarey.. so here is the tame kangaroo version


Download: Radiohead, "Reckoner (DIPLO REMIXMIXREMIXv.2)"


Download: Radiohead, "Reckoner (DIPLO REMIXMIXREMIXv.1)"

For a minute there we thought Mom had leaked some footage from the garage tapes, but thankfully, it's just Eric Wareheim, of Tim and Eric Awesome Show. Great Job!, making a video for MGMT.

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We were feeling pretty old after realizing the source of this sample, Soul II Soul's "Back to Life", and the movie scene that forever cemented it in our cultural memory, the Belly title sequence, are twenty and ten years old, respectively. But then we perked up knowing Maino is just now hitting his stride after what seems like ten or twenty years of trying to break—okay three or four—with a solid, and hopefully less trend-inspiring, follow-up to "Hi Hater."


Download: Maino, "However Do You Want It"

Here in the style department we're often so focused on what's next—foraging stripy dresses (so very Dries, darlings) for the spring and stashing itty bitty rompers for next summer—that we completely forget about what's actually factually happening right now. Of course it's always important to take a good, hard look at what's going on with your fall/winter wardrobe just to figure out what sort of style loopholes need patching up—a good pair of boots or a coat for example. Velour is a Swedish label we came across earlier this year at Capsule, and we touched on it briefly in a review of the tradeshow. What we saw there was actually Spring '09 (stay with us), awesome classic pieces with a Scandinavian twist. Velour started out with a store selling deadstock vintage clothing, and the little classicisms in their line kind of make sense when you think back to those origins. Anyway, working backwards in the collection and forwards in our closets, Fall/Winter '08 Velour is full of amazing basics—great knits and tailored pants, all subtly updated with a modern fit and color palette. As much as we loved the spring collection, the Swedes are obviously better equipped when it comes to designing with colder climes in mind. And there are plenty of things to help us keep us cozy and stylish right now—the double-breasted Owen cardigan in oatmeal, the James shawl sweater in orange, and the London coat in grey. For the girls: the dark denim Samantha Chinos and oversized Nadia plaid shirt. Check the pics after the jump. more...