Restless People Live at The Levi’s/FADER Fort NYC
- story THE FADER
Restless People played first at The Levi’s®/FADER Fort last week, but we were already perspiring as though we were in hour seven of Carnival as augmented by a few too many Trini rum punches. Fortunately, Restless People were prepped for the heat with their punky art dudes’ take on the jubilant rhythms of soca and got the early-afternoon crowd loose for an unstoppable basement dance party, windowless and impervious to the passage of time. By the end of their set, the mantra for the happy day was, ineffably, “HAAAY, RESTLESS PEEEEOOPLE!”
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posted on Nov 2, 2009 in EVENTS CHANNEL, EVENTS LEVI'S/FADER FORT SHOW, FADER TV tags FADER TV, Restless People, The Levi's/FADER Fort NYC
Q+A: Tony Blankets of Restless People on Family Edition
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
In one form or another, most of the members of Restless People have been in our magazine. Whether it’s when we wrote about Professor Murderin F41, Michael Bell-Smith in F61, The Brothers production duo in F53, or one of the million and a half times we’ve covered Tanlines on this very site. Now the dudes have a site/free online-only record label/collective called Family Edition. Thus far they’ve released music from Restless People, mysterious lo-fi weirdos Newborn Huskies, an upcoming series of original ringtones and also a YouTube video of a dude at NASA trying to give another guy a high five. After the jump read our conversation with Restless People member Tony Blankets about the label, music and what may or may not be an actual story behind a certain Rolling Stones album.
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posted on Oct 14, 2009 in MUSIC, MUSIC INTERVIEWS tags Brothers, Family Editionn, Michael Bell-Smith, Professor Murder, Q+A, Restless People, Talines
The ABSOLUT FADER Visionary Podcast #2 — Things
- story THE FADER
And now for part two 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. With these words—Doing Things Differently Leads to Something Exceptional—and accompanying awesome visual interpretations of those words by director Rupert Sanders as inspiration, we set about scouring our music libraries for the new songs that are doing it for us the most these days.
This round is inspired by the word and image for “Things,” which is obviously quite broad, so we decided to make it as random as possible, with songs about computer files (we think), good days, real songs, funky mirrors and digital wildlife. Take these zeros and ones out into the real world and enjoy. Download the Visionary Podcast #2 with music from Get Back Guinozzi, Restless People, Konshens, Dam Funk and Zomby below, check the tracklist after the jump, and come back on Friday for #3, in tribute to the word, “differently.”
Download: The ABSOLUT FADER Visionary Podcast #2 — Things
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posted on Sep 22, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Absolut Visionary Series, Dam-Funk, Get Back Guinozzi, Konshens, Restless People, Zomby
Restless People, “Days of Our Lives (Light in Mix)” MP3
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
To everyone who is in a funk, listen to this Restless People song. It will make you feel good about wherever you live. It will make you not bummed that you are at work. It will make you think, Hey do I like soca? Because this is kind of soca. It will make you go listen to Machel Montano records until they become too much, and then you’ll come back to this and the airhorn combined with the Ibiza/jock jam synths will seem understated by comparison. Have The Tough Alliance heard this yet? Actually, have Wham! heard this yet? Someone get this to Wham! It’s 2009, let’s make this happen.
Download: Restless People, “Days of Our Lives (Light in Mix)”
Restless People Soundtrack Your Next Birthday or Wedding
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
Please do not take it as a diss when we say that Professor Murder had the potential to be an incredible wedding band. Now in a new iteration known as Restless People, they’ve put a bunch of new demos up on their MySpace page, and hanging out over there for ten minutes is like going to a kid’s incredible and vaguely soca-themed birthday party. So maybe they’re now an awesome band that’s appropriate for kids and adults? Crossing borders left and right! This is Machel Montano-level party music, as you can tell by the real life photo of our office having an intense party while listening to Restless People.
Audio: New Restless People songs
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posted on Jul 9, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS, MUSIC tags Machel Montano, Professor Murder, Restless People, soca
Audio: Restless People, “Victimless Crime”
- story THE FADER
In a brief IM conversation about whether or not 1. “Victimless Crime” sounds at all like Operation Ivy and 2. whether or not it is appropriate to say that on TheFADER.com, it was decided that Restless People have started a genre called “new teenager”—because old teenager was Operation Ivy and ska punk (Sidebar: Did you also just rediscover how amazing a song “Friday Night, Saturday Morning” is?) is not what today’s teens are interested in, it’s too naive. Restless People, a new project comprising all of Tanlines and some of Professor Murder, takes the spirit and complicates it. Check the vocal tone and rhythm, the way the shaker sounds like a stroked guitar. But they’ve got an electronic fuss and steady backbeat, too, a fruitful, solid merging of the two groups from which they came. And keeping it futuristic, they’re releasing the music via a new online venture, Family Edition.
Stream: Restless People, “Victimless Crime”
