Buraka Som Sistema and DJ Sega Blow America’s Mind + New Jams
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Just going to throw it out there: There’s not a whole lot that’s cooler than picking up some tour-only merch. Yeah, we get a little nerdy like that, but whatever. The ever-reliable Mad Decent blog tells us that for Buraka Som Sistema and DJ Sega’s American tour (kicking off with a Buraka show this Friday at Coachella) the dudes are selling mix CDs and 12-inches galore. The site also tells us that the “show is gonna be crazy with the full Buraka experience!” We don’t really know what that means but if Buraka Som Sistema’s remix of Lykke Li’s “Dance Dance Dance” is any indication, it means we are going to make fools of ourselves nearly instantly. Down below you can hear the Lykke Li remix, as well as Sega’s “My Luv is the Ish,” which sounds like the soundtrack to an uptempo middle school dance. Check out the full flyer after the jump, and then sleep until they hit your city so you can have energy for the mega-rager we’re sure this tour will be.
Download: Lykke Li, “Dance Dance Dance” (Buraka Som Sistema Remix)
Audio: DJ Sega, “My Luv is the Ish”
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posted on Apr 15, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Buraka Som Sistema, DJ Sega, electronic/dance, freeload, Lykke Li, Mad Decent, Toy Selectah
On the Street: Copenhagen
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Listening to Lykke Li remixes puts us in the mood for slightly off-kilter side buns. Of all the girls we spotted doing this do on our last trip to Scandinavia, this one was definitely piled up to Lykke perfection.
Freeload: Lykke Li, “Dance Dance Dance (Grandtheft RMX)”
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We were listening to this breathless electro remix by Canadian DJ/producer Grandtheft this morning, and it has this super Garrison Keillor-style fiddle in the middle, which on paper sounds iffy, but in the mix, amidst layered harmonies and cowbell, it works. We pictured ourselves going up into the clouds on an endless escalator with neon handrails. Then this homeless dude’s knapsack accidentally hit us in the head.
Download: Lykke Li, “Dance Dance Dance (Grandtheft RMX)”
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Freeload: Love is All, “Pappas Tant” (Tant Strul cover)
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It takes a group with an identity as refined as FADER #37 cover stars Love is All to be so deeply into cover songs (i.e. their precociously lewd interpretation of “Darling Nikki”). Every prefab track they take on gets splayed and quartered through wacky impressionistic sax and kewpie-pie vocals (i.e. the devastatingly dramatic “I Ran”). But it feels like Tant Strul’s “Pappas Tant” was actually written for them, its punk cheer perfectly fits their wild lovely spirits. Oh yeah, Tant Strul is Lykke Li’s mom’s old punk band and this song is from 1980! And she sounded like Lykke, Bjork and the Nina Hagen-y singer from the German band MIA kinda! But it’s all in Swedish!
Download: Love is All, “Pappas Tant” (Tant Strul cover) (via Gorilla vs. Bear)
Dear Winter, Eat It — Round Two: The Röyksopp Edition Starring Lykke Li and Robyn
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As we mentioned yesterday, it is on between us and Old Ass Man Winter. Today it’s supposed to be 60 degrees in New York — nice try — but it’s raining and the temperature is supposed to drop back into the low 40s tomorrow. So, Winter, please continue to kiss our asses. Here are two more effervescent Scandinavian soft jams courtesy of Norway’s Röyksopp and the two lovely Swedes, Lykke Li and Robyn, from Röyksopp’s new album Junior.
THE FADER vs WINTER: ROUND TWO:
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posted on Mar 11, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Eat It Winter, electronic/dance, Lykke Li, Norway, Röyksopp, Robyn, Sweden
Video: Lykke Li, “Tonight”
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The first time we saw Lykke Li perform a year ago she had a bullhorn and ten billion necklaces. She’s had a serious year since then (not just anyone gets to perform at the MTV Woodies [ahem, Asher Roth]). Looks like she’s mellowing out for 2009, setting the pace in crisp black and white, showing just her face. Her hair is wet. She looks like a young mom dropping her kid off at school.
CMJ Elsewheres: Stereogum Jumpoff
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We are, of course, throwing our own CMJ party known as The Levi’s®/FADER Fort NYC, but we also keep the fire lit long after we are done at our space. All week long we’ll be covering everything we manage to see via our intrepid edit staff.
After watching Lykke Li sing, dance, and play her own necklace (there was a kazoo attached to it) at the V Magazine party, I was already sufficiently tired, crowd-weary and beer-soaked, but I’m glad that three tacos later, I found myself walking into the Stereogum showcase at the newly-opened “Studio” at Webster Hall.
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posted on Oct 22, 2008 in MUSIC NEWS tags CMJ, Crystal Stilts, Lykke Li, Marnie Stern, Ponytail, rock
FADER 54: Lykke Li Feature
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Lykke Li’s new video for “Breaking It Up” wisely focuses on her ill accessorizing and marionette-ish dance moves — two attributes which first drew us to her, along with, of course, her excellent music. We were so sure about her allure that we gave her a feature story in our Aaliyah Icon issue, and now you can read it in its entirety after the jump. And make sure to check out Lykke live as she tours Europe and North America this summer and fall.
Freeload: Lykke Li, “I’m Good, I’m Gone (Fred Falke Remix)”
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Last Thursday, we managed to shoehorn our entire editorial staff into the Bowery Ballroom to catch Lykke Li (featured in our FADER 54) swing her peace sign and flaunt her ill blouse game to a ridiculously and incredibly fervorous crowd of New Yorkers, including the crazy hedge fund dude next to us who kept yelling to people around him that she was going to be a star. Uh Yah Dude. And since we’re not allowed to just put her whole album up, we found this little gem floating around the internet for you to enjoy before Lykke Li makes her way back to the best country in the world… Sweden. Wait no, before she leaves the best country in the world… this place!
Download: Lykke Li, “I’m Good, I’m Gone (Fred Falke Remix) (from Good Weather For Airstrikes)
Freeload: Lykke Li, “Everybody But Me (diskJokke Remix)”
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If you’d like to meet a FADER editor in person this week, you can find us all at one of Lykke Li’s two shows in New York on Wednesday and Thursday. We will be draped in Swedish flags and our breaths will have the sweet pungency of pickled herring. That’s how we do it: FULL SUPPORT SQUAD. For, you see, Lykke is in the next issue of The FADER (F54) and we are all not-so-secretly in love with her. RCRD LBL just put up this exclusive download of Lykke’s “Everybody But Me” remixed by Norwegian favorite diskJokke, who we spoke to back in February. It is härlig! Next month we’ll hit up someone in Denmark and it’ll be a wrap for FADER Scandinavia.
Download: Lykke Li, “Everybody But Me (diskJokke Remix)”
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posted on May 6, 2008 in MP3 / STREAMS tags diskJokke, electronic/dance, freeload, Lykke Li, RCRD LBL
