Video: Douster, Triassic EP Teaser

Hugo Douster was one of our favorite interviews in a while (we featured him in FADER 63, downloadable here for free in pdf form). We talked about his Triassic EP (out today on ZZK!), how he creates little movies in his head while making songs, and how this album was clearly about dinosaurs and imagining the jungle. Then he told us his next stuff is based on Mel Gibson in Braveheart. This video is appropriate, a stop motion animation tale of life in the day of a bunch of dinosaurs hiding in a cave, running away from T-Rex, and ultimately finding god just before the dinosaur rapture (plus a Busy Signal sample). The whole EP is this awesome, lego blocks of weirdness built on drum patterns influence by reggaeton.

Ghetto Palms 74: Erup vs. Poirier! / Free King Coya Mix! / Exclusives!

When it rains it cold monsoons around here. As it happens, two different exclusives I’ve been scheming on for several weeks—1) a sneak preview of Poirier’s version of “Click Mi Finger” from the forthcoming Truckback remix EP and 2) a full, free download of the unreleased ZZK vol. 7 mixtape from Buenos Aires braincase King Coya—came to fruition simultaneously. In short, pretty much everything I’m running in this week’s blend is a crazy exclusive of some kind so let me just jump into the tracks.

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Douster & Arcade, “Wasted” (The Ultimate Internet Meme Video)

It’s hard to tell if Douster and Arcade’s new one for “Arcade/ “Wasted” is the alpha or omega of bootleg music videos because after watching it 10 times we want to both adopt a YouTube child as our own and throw away our computers forever. Thus is the dilemma of these modern times. Check Douster in FADER #63, about to go off newsstands but available indefinitely for free here.

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The ABSOLUT FADER Visionary Podcast #3 — Differently

The first and second installments of the Visionary Podcast series, curated by The FADER and presented by ABSOLUT as part of our ongoing efforts to advance and advocate the art and music we love, dealt with “Doing” and “Things.” So of course, as these words—Doing Things Differently Leads to Something Exceptional—would indicate, “Differently” is up next.

We took this one a little more literally, the accompanying visual interpretation by director Rupert Sanders of roped letters in a field leading us on a journey from bucolic London vamp rock to the synthetic tropics with a French by way of Argentina producer and on to frozen Finland for some ring modulation. Download Visionary Podcast #3 with music from King Charles, Douster and Shogun Kunitoki. Check the tracklist after the jump, and come back Tuesday to hear where it “Leads to.”



Download: The ABSOLUT FADER Visionary Podcast #3 — Differently

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Stream: Douster f. Spoek Mathambo, “Punani”

When we spoke to French producer Douster in FADER #63, he told us he was influenced by dinosaurs and medieval times like in Braveheart, and that he had to imagine a movie-like tale when he made music. We’re thinking this “Punani” track was set sometime in ancient Egypt, and we can totally see charismatic Sweat.X’s Spoek Mathambo wearing some sort of loincloth and pharaoh helmet instructing his Salome harem to jiggle their booties in the pyramid foyer—he makes the word punani sound kind of hallowed, even. Douster also told us he generally takes the reggaeton drum pattern and freaks it out, which you can hear in this track’s otherworldliness.

Stream: Douster f. Spoek Mathambo, “Punani”(Via Spoek’s blog)

Video: Douster, “King of Africa”

In our latest issue, available for free right here, we feature French by way of Buenos Aires producer Douster, whose eclectically composited club jams have been all up in our iTunes since early this year and who has a healthy obsession with both Lost and dinosaurs (who doesn’t). And apparently that obsessive behavior has spread to YouTube, as his latest video for the brand new “King of Africa” edits together documentary footage of people dancing, little kids doing the Harlem Shake, George Bush, The Lion King and some chubby pre-teens to good comedy effect. Douster also put the track up on Soundcloud, and while we were there, we grabbed a couple other recent favorites, the first heavy metal xylophone remix we can recall hearing, and twitchy redo of all-time fave Busy Signal. If you’re dying to get the jump on this kind of stuff, we recommend following Douster’s Twitter. And ours. Why not!

Douster – King of Africa by douster

Slap And Dash ft. Spoek – Move too fast (Douster remix) by douster


Download:Busy Signal, “Da Style Deh (Douster Dagga Remix)”

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The FADER Issue 63 Podcast MP3

Our annual Fall Fashion issue is covered by the unlikeliest of stars—Drake, the former teen heartthrob turned hottest thing in rap, and Girls, whose main man escaped a Christian cult to write ragged pop songs. We’re all about switching up life plans this autumn and opting for the unexpected—partially inspired by these guys, partially by performance arty fashion designer Henrik Vibskov, also featured in the issue, who we’re using as our muse into 2010 (don’t freak out if you see us in the street wearing yarn over our faces). The latest issue podcast reflects our transformational attitudes, with disparate but equally awesome tracks by Pissed Jeans, Glasser, Douster, Kingdom, Free Energy, French Montana, plus a ton more, and of course the aforementioned cover stars. Download it below while asking yourself, “HOW CAN I BE MORE AWESOME THIS AUTUMN (if that is even possible)?” And keep TheFADER.com on lock, for on September 1st, we shall post the PDF of our entire issue for free, because we’re just that into you.

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Stream: Douster, “Alleluja” MP3

When we built with France-born, Argentina-based producer Hugo Douster for our latest issue (on stands now, readable online two weeks from Tuesday), we learned of the dinosaur obsession that inspired his fiercely unique forthcoming EP, Triassic Genesis; that he has to envision an epic, movielike scene when he composes his music; and that he is next working on an album based on medieval times. It’s like the Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus up in here, and this latest song is no exception: He calls it “Indo-christianisme + LY Funky” which, if you consider the chanty vocal sample and the vaguely UK Funky drum pattern (we’re guessing the “LY” refers to his homebase of Lyon, France), that’s exactly what it is. But channeled through his mind, it extends into the realm of completely creative, slightly but unoffensively cartoony, and utterly about to be your shit.

Stream: Douster, “Alleluja”

Douster, “For Weirdos Only (Momma’s Boy RMX)” MP3

French house producer Douster is tweaky enough in his own works, but add a layer of Berliner Momma’s Boy and what was initially a normally off-hook house affair is now total madcap wall-bouncery complete with a dude telling you to fuck off. It’s just like the old New York, the audio equivalent to Scorcese’s trippyass first film After Hours! If you are not trying to get flashed in the subway or harrassed by some scrappy street toughs you can just go with the regular Douster track over on Institubes imprint Sound Pellegrino.



Download: Douster, “For Weirdos Only (Momma’s Boy RMX)”

Sound Pellegrino Rainforest Frog Symphony Mixtape

Based on the people involved—Teki and Orgasmic of TTC/Institubes—and the sleeve work that’s on some throwback Deutsche Grammophon shit, we basically had no choice but to put new label Sound Pellegrino on our watch list this year. Plus, they put out a record by Douster as their third release and we’re pretty much obsessed with that dude right now (see future issues). Below is the newest mix by the label’s founders under the moniker Thermal Team, which probably has something to do with coochie, if we know them like we think we do. It’s awesome. Tracklist after the jump.

Download: Sound Pellegrino Team Thermal Rainforest Frog Symphony Mix (zshare)
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