The Let Out: Carl
- story THE FADER
This week on the Let Out, The FADER’s weekly East Village Radio show, Carl Bennett the ultimate man of mystery/guy who had a weird show on Vice TV called Hot Dogs and knows a lot about music will be coming through to play records, hang out and drop knowledge jewels left and right. Listen live to the Let Out this and every Friday from 6-8 pm on East Village Radio, but specifically listen to this one.
Premiere: Bonjay, “Gimme Gimme (Wire Hanger RMX)” MP3
Bonjay’s forthcoming single “Gimme Gimme” is kinda like T-Dot diasporic lo-fi dancehall, singer Alanna singing slyly over a super pared down and clappy riddim before it flips out into weird and psychedelic. That drops November 20 (you can hear it on their myspace) but as a teaser, Bonjay remixed their own jam under the “Wire Hanger” moniker with a little more electronic blurbage, so that it works as a transition track for a washed out rave or soundtrack for your own personal Run Lola Run.
Download: Bonjay, “Gimme Gimme (Wire Hanger RMX)”
Stream: Yeasayer, “Ambling Alp” (DJ/Rupture Remix)
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
- photo Guy Martin (F49)
Last week Yeasayer officially released sophomore album single “Ambling Alp,” and today DJ/Rupture’s version popped up on the internet in what feels like record turnaround time. The remix makes sense too: live, Yeasayer have always approached a more intense club thump, and Rupture furthers that idea, pushing “Ambling Alp” from spacey inspiration into deep bass tones and manipulated vocals. Both versions are great, it just depends if you want to feel happy about the world or like you’ve been swimming in thick mud for a couple hours. Stream it over at Stereogum.
Serani, “Polka Dot” MP3
- story Peter Macia
A superstar in the FADERverse, Serani just released his new, long-awaited No Games album and it, along with new albums from Sean Paul and Vybz Kartel, built a small brick wall on the Billboard charts, selling a collective NOT THAT MUCH recently. To this we say to the music buying public, is the new Weezer album really that good? Cuz y’all scarfed that up like it could pay your mortgage. We’re biased as hell because we’ve been playing some of these songs during memorable times over the last two years, but even if we hadn’t, it’s about to get brick outside for the next few months and this album is end-to-end heaters for the ramping shop, people, and it only costs a few bucks. Go get it and enjoy the Brasco bonus cut below with Serani on the hook.
Download: Serani, “Polka Dot”
Brasco f. Serani, “Money Train”
Matias Aguayo Q+A + “Rollerskate (Radio Edit)” MP3
- story Claire Lobenfeld
Matias Aguayo’s nurture of his creative community is transcontinental. When he is not working in Paris, Matias lives in Buenos Aires, the birthplace of the BumBumBox parties—a communal affair where he and his Comeme compatriots gather in public outdoor spaces, armed with ghettoblasters playing pre-made mixes, like a drum circle that avoids improvised hippie snags. In clubs as a DJ, Aguayo connects to his audience by performing live vocals over the music, the singalong enveloping him into the audience. His most recent release Ay, Ay, Ay is also informed by his international sensibilities, transcending language, as he almost strictly uses his voice as the musical content of each song and has no preferred dialect when approaching lyrics. Aguayo talks to us about his belief in comradery, expectations of club shows and rollerskates—the topic of the chirpy first single off of the album. Check the song below and the interview after the jump. Aguayo really likes ellipses.
Download: Matias Aguayo, “Rollerskate (Radio Edit)” MP3
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posted on Nov 6, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS, MUSIC, MUSIC INTERVIEWS tags electronic/dance, Matias Aguayo
Javelin, World MIDI Classics Volume 2
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
This is all hypothetical, but we imagine the dudes of Javelin don’t ever leave their apartment, instead just listen to records without ever putting them back in their sleeves, recording 20 second snippets and then throwing that all together into one mp3. Nothing sticks around long enough to make a strong impression, but this also isn’t some Girl Talk memory bait either. Instead it’s just Nerds Being Nerds And Sharing It, also known as exactly why we got into this shit in the first place.
Download: Javelin, World MIDI Classics Volume 2 (via P4K)
The Count & Sinden, “Mega (Camo UFOs RMX)” MP3
We could barely resist screaming “BIGGGG CHUNNNNE” when Toddla T dropped the original “Mega” at his Flashing Lights gig a few weeks back, and we never thought the Count & Sinden’s massive brain-thrower could possibly get any bigger. Enter the Camo UFOs’ earnest excursion in pure-ass junglism, and a song that threw our resident Brit ex-raver Chioma Nnadi for a loop when she heard these dudes live in Los Angeles and had not teleported in from the “Helter Skelter” rave at club Telepathy, Central London, 1996, which was her first rave: “I had to buy an outfit specifically for it.” What did you wear? “This cropped Adidas shirt with long sleeves and a combat skirt.” Of course, and “cropped Adidas and combat skirt” is the essence of this song, all swampy triplets, jiggling breaks, saucy sub-bass in the quasi-bridge, vocal sample so metallic and doing guttural shimmies. Camo UFOs are Mike B and Nate Day and we’re hoping this track sparks up a full-on revivalist movement with its eyes to the trippy sky. Meantime, though, download Sinden’s sick new podcast for Bodytonic over here, which includes the original and several of our top tunes of right now, cause he’s just good like that.
(Via Nicholas P. Catchdubs over at Fools Gold)
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posted on Nov 5, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Camo UFOs, electronic/dance, jungle, Mike B, Nate Day, Sinden, The Count
Pill, “Hear Somebody Comin” MP3
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
Toward the end of “Hear Somebody Comin,” Pill stops his Kool G Rap-esque flow to breathe heavily before launching right back in, and the whole time it sounds like he’s having fun. All we can ask is: is anyone out there still complaining that hip-hop is dead? Any dinosaur rap backpackers lamenting a dearth of lyricism? What’s up with that? What are you listening to?
Download: Pill, “Hear Somebody Comin”
Pocketknife, “Get Around To It (Ray Burst Remix)” (Arthur Russell Cover) MP3
- story Claire Lobenfeld
Electric Minds‘ tribute album to Arthur Russell features a cover of his song “Get Around to It” as re-imagined by Brooklyn-based DJ, Pocketknife. It is decidedly more disco than the original, but Joe Worricker’s vocal tones are almost tantamount to Russell’s, feeling like an update Russell would have given himself. Rough Trade’s Ray Burst continues the transformation by remixing the cover into whirl-y millennial disco that is fun on its own, but finds itself most attuned with the original song’s theme of desperation by obscuring Worricker’s vocals. They are muted into indecipherable parts of the beat that loom over the track, dissenting from Burst’s sanguine interpretation. A noted revisionist with a propensity for abandoning projects entirely, Russell would have appreciated all of the tinkering.
Stream: Black to Comm, Alphabet 1968 (We Hadn’t Heard of it Until Yesterday, Either)
- story Matthew Schnipper
Pretend you are a baby and very tired but simultaneously very fascinated by your new universe, thus at a loss about whether you should sleep or just glaze over and stare at your own toes because, Holy shit you have toes. Then imagine you got a crazy mobile. It’s got colors and wind chimes and the light reflects off it and it spins, but never in too many full circles because that would get boring. This mobile is a microcosm of all of the earth’s natural wonders. There is the pounding stream of rivers, the thin air of mountaintops, the green grass of pastures, the warm silk of a horse’s coat. You’re there, you’re fucking in there little baby you, right in morning Scotland—you’re running with hunting dogs and the dew is fading and the sun creaked up above the horizon and there’s a crack and it’s your bone, you’ve fallen against a rock you missed in your furious pursuit. There’s pain but there’s so much light. You’ve never been so alone before but it’s surprisingly serene. Who could have imagined there was so much time and space in such a stockpiled world, people buzzing around into each other like cockroaches. You’re alone and it hurts acutely, but you’re a baby. You know it’s not real but you haven’t yet figured out what reality is. So you cry, and, now sharp, you see this mobile for what it is, a bunch of cheap plastic that just hums a tiny bit. But you know now it’s your portal and you stop crying because, as you are just beginning to learn, there is always understanding in ambiance. Anyway, that’s what listening to this Black to Comm album is like. Thanks for sending us this link yesterday, Simon. In a cold world it’s nice to have caring friends.
