Premiere Stream: El Guincho, “Antillas (Prins Thomas Remix)”
- story Matthew Schnipper
- photo Leonie Purchas (F54)
In his feature about El Guincho in FADER 54, Jace Clayton (aka fellow collage artist DJ /Rupture) outlined their shared nerd-out:
After 15 minutes shooting the shit about Dilla and Guinean label Sylliphone and how focused Dr Dre was when NWA first dropped, I’m outclassed when he starts talking about Frank Sinatra’s use of spring reverb. The conversation drifts from Milton Nascimiento (Zeus in El Guincho’s Pantheon) to calypso king Mighty Sparrow, and he says, “When I started producing, I was obsessed with exotica records.” It’s odd to meet a musician so energetic about other people’s music. Some can’t do it even when you specifically ask them too, but El Guincho’s a guy who big ups Martin Denny’s use of panning right before sharing this thoughts on Trinidadian harmonies, a guy who remembers where the cymbals were placed on that Bowie record.
El Guincho and Prins Thomas both have similarly varied tastes and keen ears, and the ability to reap a cross-section of sounds and house them under one rainbow. For his remix of “Antillas,” now available on 12-inch, Prins Thomas does not scamper far from the source, simply chopping and extending much of El Guincho’s vocal and removing and then teasing the original’s main melody, abstracting many of the song’s ancestral samples. It’s a cut up job, but more a sidestep and extension than a progression or regression.
Stream: El Guincho, “Antillas (Prins Thomas Remix)”
Premiere Stream: DM Stith, “Thanksgiving Moon (Michna Remix)”
- story Peter Macia
- photo Andrew Henderson (F56)
With Turkey Day less than a week away, you may already be thinking about how you’re going to burn off a gallon of egg nog and three pounds of green bean casserole so that you still look good for holiday spooning season. We might have a remedy here in the form of Michna’s heavy duty remix of DM Stith’s brand new “Thanksgiving Moon.” It appears on Stith’s new EP of the same name and just made us jump up and do the most epic Grumpy Chicken of all times. Here’s how it goes: bounce on the balls of your feet so that your heels raise about half an inch, bend your arms at the elbows and flap them to the beat, grow a bunch of white hair and hit on 26-year-olds. So fun and so healthy! The dance of 2010 no doubt. We’re gonna show it to Michna when he plays Plan B in NYC the day after Thanksgiving. Meet us there and be a part of history.
DM Stith, “Thanksgiving Moon (Michna Remix)”
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posted on Nov 20, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags DM Stith, electronic/dance, Grumpy Chicken, Michna, premiere
Sia, “You’ve Changed” MP3
Last year Lauren Flax made one of our favorite songs of the last ten years in “You’ve Changed” featuring her friend Sia, who happened to be in town when Flax was composing it and came by her apartment to lay down some tracks. We are clearly not alone in our admiration because Sia decided to make her own version of “You’ve Changed” for her album proper, imbuing it with a disco treatment that sits as a lovely companion piece to Flax’s breathless house version. You can get with this, but you should also get with that, they’re equally sweet.
Download: Sia, “You’ve Changed”
Stream: Animal Collective, “Graze” (Zamfir Jam)
- story Peter Macia
In a few weeks, Animal Collective will release the Fall Be Kind EP on Domino but as usual the internet released it for them already. One of the previously mysterious tracks from the EP, “Graze,” was picked up by Stereogum on YouTube, and starts out with a few minutes of wavy atmospherics and Avey Tare singing about chilling out and stuff. But then around the three-minute mark, the claps kick in and a maniacal pan flute pipes in from what we can only assume is the seventh dimension of the AC galaxy. If you’re an ’80s or ’90s baby, you might not recognize this bewitching sound as a sample of Romanian master flutist Gheorghe Zamfir, but it is, and it is genius. Here’s Zamfir’s “Romanian Wedding Song”, which isn’t the sample’s source but is also genius. If you can tell us the source in the comments, we’ll buy you a beer tonight somewhere in New York City.
(via Stereogum
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posted on Nov 20, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Animal Collective, electronic/dance, psych/folk, Zamfir
Kevin Greenspon, “Softened” + Two More MP3s
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
Since we sent Dee Dee of Mayfair Set/Dum Dum Girls to talk to bands all over the California coast for a story in FADER 62, you’ve probably been wondering what’s up with the dudes at Family Time Records. If your initial thought was, not much is up with the dudes at Family Time Records, you’d be wrong but forgiven because they’ve been steadily cranking out releases to little fanfare. And surprise, surprise! In the midst of all our sleeping on Family Time, they’ve released some jams from Kevin Greenspon, head of Bridgetown Records, who is releasing a Cloud Nothings CD-R. Should we be making a map of this? We’re already getting confused. Although we’re posting them on Thursday, the best look would be to save these pieces of pillowy guitar washed bedroom pop for a lazy Sunday afternoon.
Download: Kevin Greenspon, “Softened”
Download: Kevin Greenspon, “Sundowner Lane”
Download: Kevin Greenspon, “Reveille” (all three via Get Off the Coast)
Fan Death, “Cannibal” MP3
- story Matthew Schnipper
- photo Matt Lutton (F58)
For all you New Yorkers and people who may one day visit New York, please make your way to Brooklyn’s Bedouin Tent on Atlantic Avenue between Bond and Nevins (closer to Bond). They make the most sumptuous pita you’ll ever eat. They also bump major Arabic jams while you eat off wooden plates, many of which sound mysteriously similar to the tangy opening disco moments of Fan Death’s “Cannibal.” A Canadian duo of self-confessed Cure lovers, they’ve opened their door to Bollywood and balalaikas on this plucky track. They’re still well within their comfort zone of goth-disco—admittedly, a strange enclosure to be comfortable in—but they make it work, brushing against the ends with soft opium strokes. Actually they’re Canadian so it’s probably not opium so much as whatever beer is on sale at Tim Horton’s. They play Canadian disco in the donut drive-through we heard.
Download: Fan Death, “Cannibal”
Ghetto Palms 80: DJ Rekha / RajStar / Exclusive Major Lazer Bhangra Refix
- story Eddie "Stats" Houghton
I’m not sure if this is Desihall III or Indocrunk Part Few, but any way you chop it its been a banner week for weird fusions of Bollywood dancehall and Bhangra-more club, aftershocks from the eruption of daku-consciousness into First World brainspace that was Slumdog Millionaire. First, the reigning queen of bhangra DJ Rekha (full disclosure: my partner from Basement Bhangra) hit me with a preview of her bhangrified dub of Major Lazer’s “Pon di Floor.” Then she texted to say she was backing Wyclef and Cyndi Lauper (??) on the Letterman show, as they performed a track called, yes, “Slumdog Millionaire.”
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posted on Nov 18, 2009 in GHETTO PALMS tags bhangra, caribbean, desi, electronic/dance, GHETTO PALMS
Small Black, “Pleasant Experience” MP3
- story Peter Macia
If you don’t yet know who Small Black is, first go here, let that be your favorite song for a few minutes, then come back and listen to this song, maybe take a power nap while it glides through your synapses and then go buy the new EP from whence both songs come. After that, don’t know, maybe eat a grilled cheese and some tomato soup and wonder how two kinda scrawny dudes from Brooklyn make Duran Duran sound like babies.
Download: Small Black, “Pleasant Experience” (via Transparent)
CFCF, “Big Love” MP3
- story Peter Macia
- photo Kitra Cahana (F62)
If you follow The FADER you know that on one of our favorite dudes in the world is New York writer and bon vivant T Cole Rachel. Cole has a DJ night where he almost exclusively plays Fleetwood Mac (and we get kinda drunk), but we also know him to like some dance music. So consider this CFCF cover of the Mac’s 1987 new age jam a dedication to Cole, but take it for yourself as well—it’s like balearic weed pop, or hairy wizard disco or something. If you like it, there’s plenty more on CFCF’s new album Continent, now available from Paper Bag Records.
Video: Zomby, “Aquarium”
Here is what this video says to us: A. Zomby keeps mitochondria as pets B. Zomby is down with French-Polish experimental filmmaker Piotr Kamler C. Zomby’s musical palette is consistently more extensive D. Someone maybe dosed our morning coffee? (via Zomby Twitter)
