Air France, “Gothenberg Belongs to Me” MP3 + Video
Air France’s synth-pop is breathless and breezy 100% of the time regardless, but apparently when they’re repping for their hometown Gothenberg, Sweden, they step it up about seven notches and practically start levitating. “Gothenberg Belongs to Me” is part of a full DIY tourist-board style Gothenberg outreach program made simply for the love, complete with a video that will actually make you want to move there and partake in its beauty. Of course, we already discovered its appeal in FADER 56, when we visited the city for our Tough Alliance cover story, but Air France puts it best in their “love letter in three parts,” dedicated “to everyone whose heart skips a beat at the sight of an intersection, feeling dizzy at the amount of routes available, and to everyone who believe that a city is not just a home, it’s a lifelong companion.” Sigh! Their romance is contagious, so big up to New York from the FADER and wherever you come from, too. (via RCRD LBL)
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posted on Sep 10, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Air France, electronic/dance, Gothenberg, Pop, RCRD LBL, Tough Alliance
RCRD LBL Freeload: Canyons, “Blue Snakes”
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Apparently in Australia, where Canyons are from, “Blue Snakes” translates to deep grinding house that sounds like it has been listening to Art Ensemble of Chicago and/or Popo. This song is like, we are in the middle of the Australian desert having a Jodorowsky style spiritual breakthrough, hallucinating sabre-toothed big cats from the, ahem, peyote. THEN! The wind washes over us like the exhaling of god, and we are immediately wizened: know our purpose, our future, the grand plan to follow. We must dance! Barefoot! To house music! And get a pet tiger! Yeah Canyons!
RCRD LBL Freeload: Popo, “Comin’ to Get You” + “Pay the Price”
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Lately we’ve been listening to a whole bunch of bands that sound like they record all their music on a Talkboy in an alley behind a strip club, but so far only Popo have captured the elusive what-would-happen-if-we-made-music-from-the-bottom-of-a-trash-can sound that is pretty much designed to exist on limited edition 7-inches. RCRD LBL has a couple unreleased songs, both of which could very well be the soundtrack to yelling at our parents, skateboarding on a banana board, or every failed high school band dream we ever had. Also, make sure to check the video of them playing on Saturday at The Levi’s®/FADER Fort, especially our new favorite song, “Turn Into Assholes.”
RCRD LBL Freeload: I.U.D., “911″
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Holy shit have we actually not written about I.U.D.’s new record on the internet yet? To amend that, we’re going to let you know that RCRD LBL has a download of “911,” which is awesome, but is more awesome within the context of the entire album. Until the full listening experience is possible (March 24th on Social Registry), read Julianne Shepherd’s review from FADER 60 below.
I.U.D. The Proper Sex (Social Registry)
This album is the perfect audio companion to I.U.D. co-drummer goddess Lizzi Bougatsos’ art pieces: feminist, controlled chaos that is abstract, urgent and, somewhere among its decoupage of lady double drumming and stalagmite noise loops, is a total analogue to a cosmic day-glo penis krazy glued onto a yield sign. If you were one of the people who thought the Muppets weren’t creepy enough, Bougatsos and Sadie Laska sound like puppet cave demons reluctantly headed for exorcism, howling and barking and biting on snarly looped-metal jams like “Girls Just Wanna (Time to Have Sex).” I find a lot of mean noise albums untenable, but when I first got this I actually listened to it four times in a row. Sounds like wildebeest ladies having crazy fun and maybe making odes to intelligent horror movies, or maybe I’m basing the fun part on the titles: “Monk Hummer” and “Glo Balls” are immediately entering my slangxicon. What do they mean? Whatever you want them to. JES
RCRD LBL Freeload: Congorock, “Runark”
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Never mind that Rocco Rampino, Congorock’s real name, makes him sound like a complex superhero or a 1940s gumshoe with a secret past. We are currently visualizing ourselves in an action movie scored by his awesome new party jammer, “Runark,” wherein we are being chased by a robocop in a near future, racing through traffic jams atop the hoods of stopped cars with Dolorean doors. Just call us Franka Potente! Actually, eff it, we’re just going to listen to “Runark” while watching “Run Lola Run” with the sound turned off. So much running!
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
Freeload: The Futureheads, “The Beginning Of The Twist (Atephoald Vs. The Futureheads)”
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We have heard of the Futureheads. We have not heard of Atephoald. However, the Atephoald remix of this Futureheads song is actually more banging than the original because it sounds like Link Wray playing with Wire and Aphex Twin or some shit like that. The original sounds like, um, The Futureheads!
Download: The Futureheads, “The Beginning Of The Twist (Atephoald Vs. The Futureheads)”
FADER TV: Getting Weird With Soft Circle
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A little while ago we caught up with Hisham Bharoocha aka Soft Circle bka renaissance badass at the New Museum’s Get Weird series, where he performed a couple new songs to be released on RCRD LBL. We asked him about those two new songs and his plans for the future (hint: 888), and we put it all on FADER TV. RCRD LBL, in turn, has just put up the exclusive download of the first of the two, which you should get below if you have any soul left at all. Expect the second next month and check Hisham’s tour dates with the Boredoms over there as well.
Download: Soft Circle, “Night Hike” from RCRD LBL
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posted on Mar 27, 2008 in MUSIC LIVE SHOW tags electronic/dance, experimental, psych/folk, RCRD LBL, Soft Circle
RCRD LBL RND UP: 3.14.08
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Because we can’t book every great band at the Levi’s®/FADER Fort, and because our friends at RCRD LBL have set up shop in their Rec Room located inside the Fort itself, we’re going to post up links every morning to their previous day’s content, which consists of streams and downloads of a bunch of bands hustling down here in Austin. After the jump, get acquainted or reacquainted.
RCRD LBL RND UP: Austin 3.13.08
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Because we can’t book every great band at the Levi’s®/FADER Fort, and because our friends at RCRD LBL have set up shop in their Rec Room located inside the Fort itself, we’re going to post up links every morning to their previous day’s content, which consists of streams and downloads of a bunch of bands hustling down here in Austin. After the jump, get acquainted or reacquainted.
