back from the bodhi tree

so it's been awhile.//// i've been meditating with buddha's henchmen and frying my brain in sweaty uv for days... so i'm easing back into things.


friendly fires at the troub tonight should help right?

frindly fires jump in the pool



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what kind of breeze do you blow?

[[[listen really loud[[[

phoenix 1901 (what kind of breeze do you blow? a-mix)

at min 1:08 the synth taffy-pull kicks in and next thing you know you're dancing around your little red house....

this guy is only up to min :30 but he'll be feeling it soon.


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when i grow up i want to live near the sea, crab claws and bottles of rum

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>>>nature is pissed.






directed by martin de thurah. this is the second video from karin dreijer andersson as fever ray. below is the first..




here is a less dark but equally killer mix
fever ray if i had a heart (familjen remix)

thematically both videos are pretty blatant. the nature spirits are fighting back; blowing up your pool, killing you, and stealing your children. the animist black-metal norwegian vibe runs strong with everything karin does, here more so than with the knife. so eerie and gorgeous. i can't stop watching either one of these.

below is another de thura/andersson masterpiece with royksopp.





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rich girls spring break no parents party all night

the virgins rich girls (le castle vania's spring break no parents remix)

there really isn't much more to say. go dance.


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we goin' over-seas wit this one (over-seas!)

fist of god. sounds painful.

so far i haven't heard anything as zeitgeist-ily anthemic as all i do is party on this album but who knows, with the millions of remixes already being executed across the world, it may only be a matter of time before something emerges. here are two highlights from fist of god.

mstrkrft heartbreaker (feat. john legend)
mstrkrft it ain't love (feat. lil' mo)


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col-col loves peaches

guest post by colin

ugh! i have to write something?


[ peaches ]

[college memories]
[brings me back]
the new album is fantastic.





- how's that? or do i need to be deeper?

peaches more (prod. by simian mobile disco)




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playmix 9

check out playmix 9 from my good friends taylor and tyler, and me.

playmix 9

1. Asobi Seksu - Sing Tomorrow’s Praise
2. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
3. Phoenix - Lisztomania
4. The Submarines - Submarine Symphonika (Ra Ra Riot Remix)
5. Little Dragon - Twice
6. Say Hi - November Was White, December Was Grey
7. Dead Heart Bloom - Flash In A Bottle
8. Justin Vernon + Aaron Dessner - Big Red Machine
9. Antony & The Johnsons - Kiss My Name
10. M. Ward - Fisher Of Men
11. Fanfarlo - I’m A Pilot
12. Dirty Projectors + David Byrne - Knotty Pine
13. Charlotte Gainsbourg - The Songs That We Sing
14. Fever Ray - When I Grow Up
15. Bat For Lashes - Glass
16. Metric - Help, I’m Alive
17. Passion Pit - Smile Upon Me


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boom vang boom boom

the sea can be a treacherous fickle booming s.o.b///
but nothing we can't dance around... and around and around.
check out this 8-bits in a cathedral spine-tingler from aron dynamite.

aron dynamite four drops

once the seafoam ultramarine party gets busted, the cops will be full on after the salty party dogs, driving up sunset, past whittier, screaming through beverly hills....

fresh lovers beverly hills chase (DIGIKID84 remix)


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radiohead / / /



(holy fuck)




radiohead nude (holy fuck remix)

royksopp happy up here (holy fuck re-interpretation)

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casual sex and strawberries 2 ways

asobi seksu strawberries
asobi seksu strawberries (css remix)




asobi seksu. "casual sex" in japanese.


casual sex can be many things. it can be light, fun, unburdened, much like the playful sexy strawberries. the coquettish japanese voice coos flirtatiously, entices you into a laughing, naked afternoon; finally speeding up into a loud wild fast climax.

casual sex can also be a naughty, aggressive affair. love foxxx and the rest of the css sex crew do this treatment better than anyone, pushing the beat and the vocals into sweaty, synthy salacious territory. a midnight tryst, the neon glow buzzing outside your window.

asobi seksu's new album, hush, is a sublime work of layered, shimmering delight. buy it here.

(*sneak peek alert/// stay tuned to the playmix group for a taste of hush)

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laser class...

...on a warm day with 12kt puffs, pressure on the sails, cool spray hitting your face and the caribbean sun on your neck.

this kind of sailing is beautiful but also strenuous and aggressive. it doesnt sound like any of the nu-balaeric, slow-disco, downtempo stuff you'll find below. ...but the pictures look like the music sounds.

sorcerer + windsurf = hatchback ...no seriously. the two artists who call themselves sorcerer and windsurf, respectively, join forces and perform as hatchback. a wonder-twin analogy is apt in my opinion and deserves some dorky yet illustrative unpacking, so indulge me if you will.

the wonder twins each had specific powers of morphological transformation. zan transformed into any form of water and jayna into any animal. combined, the twins were much stronger than apart, defeating foes cosmic and pedestrian.

windsurf is zan, the water twin: breezy, atmospheric, placid.
windsurf windsurf
sorcerer is jayna, the animal twin: rhythmic, downtempo, percussive.
sorcerer hawaiian island
put them together you get hatchback: vintage, sun-bleached, dreamy... and in my opinion much stronger than either artist on his own.
hatchback everything is neu


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midnight snack

flying through the night///

here's a little midnight snack //passion pit sleepyhead//.

sounds like the avalanches with aaron behrens of ghostland observatory wailing over it. damn i wish the avalanches would drop a new album already. their myspace says "putting the finishing finishing touches on album 2." touch it boys! it's been 7 years.

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tobago 2 'fer

tv on the radio heroes (david bowie cover)
hot chip transmission (joy division cover)

i couldn't decide between these two pictures so there, you have both. i couldn't decide which track to pull from this covers project album , so you get 2.

album's called war child: heroes vol.1. war child is a canadian nfp that advocates for children in war torn regions like south ossetia and sri lanka. help a good cause (besides helping the artists themselves and enjoying great music, which are also worthy causes) and buy it.

for this benefit album the original artists chose new acts to cover their songs. duffy KILLS paul mccartney's live and let die. elbow gets quiet and poignant with u2's running to stand still. peaches creams iggie pop. hold steady invigorates bruce springsteen etc etc. really i could have put any two of these up here. it's a brilliant and brilliantly executed concept.

so why these 2.

tvotr rocks this. kyp and tunde's voices are always insane, and they definitely do ziggy stardust justice here.

hot chip makes you dance. joy division is joy division. plus the steel drums are where i'm at right now. ya know, ////with the turtles.////

neon tangerine

i'll be getting into this new CA downtempo explosion (implosion?) in more detail soon because it's totally blowing (chilling?) my mind!

...but for now just look at the picture, close your eyes and listen to this >>> hatchback white diamond


///vintage, sun-bleached, downtempo, neon-tangerine dream...

hawksbill blues

hawksbill turtles can live to be 200 years old. they spend most of that time swimming the oceans by themselves, alone. i wonder if they hum anything in their turtle heads while cruising the oceans, eating jelly fish.

i imagine the easy drone-rock organ, reverbed guitars and gauzy vocals of beach house playing on a constant, 200 year loop.

devotion is one of my favorite albums of 2008. ...and it just happens to have a stand out track called >>

beach house turtle island

and

beach house gila

midnight rising sun

1:35 AM // 20 kts
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morgan geist ruthless city

futurecop! class of 1984 [anoraak remix]



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phaseone, two, and three

the experience of being underwater is primal. it's terrifying and weightless, silent and suspended. it makes sense that astronauts train underwater before taking off into the stars.

phaseone is from st. louis where there is no ocean. maybe he doesn't even know how to swim. ///based on these three remixes, however, i'd say he knows what it's like to move in 3 dimensions and get very very very deep./// you can almost feel the pressure.

panda bear i'm not. already beach boy-on-acid vocals sound even more like they're transmitting from across a pool, the hand-claps and hi-hat beat rippling the surface.

burial archangel. burial is a master of forcing your ear to strain, trying to catch each small muffled creak, then smothering your brain in bass and static fuzz. like diving to 100 ft., hearing a distant clink of a bottle tapping a head of coral while feeling the vibration of a huge tanker passing overhead. phaseone's mix pushes the tempo, making the lyrics sound more urgent and aggressive.

grouper heavy water. enough said.

war takk

maori peace demonstration for sri lanka in auckland.

///sigur ros two ways.

go ahead, try and connect these things in your brain. they actually have much in common i think.

saeglopur-mmmatthias-remix.mp3
Sigur Ros - Saeglopur (Crash Overdrive rmx).mp3

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i'm up in the woods. i'm down on my mind. i'm building a still, to slow down the time.

>party in the woods is done<. you're contemplating and basking in the cool after-glow. you close your eyes and watch the color show projecting onto your lids as bon iver's lux vocoder vox whispers in your ears. as the harmonies and chords develop and swell you feel his bluesy ache sink in to your chest, building, evolving. at min. 3:30 the falcetto transcends into a cry and the ache becomes a rush, then a fire-burst, radiating out of the top of your head.

yeah i know. autotune. but think about this. someone was playing the cello before yo yo ma got a hold of it too. doesn't mean the instrument was bad. it just hadn't yet been expressed in such capable//loving//talented hands.

why don't we do it in the woods

have you ever wanted to run into ///the woods///, a forrest, or a small copse of trees on mulholland, set up speakers and some turn tables (ipod?), throw cave lights on your heads and perpetrate a throw-down dirty dance party? ok good, because i think this all the time. and i this is what it sounds like, i think.
space and the woods(grum remix) -- late of the pier ::removed per label request::
in the woods -- woodhands

the pains of being pure at heart

let's just leave the heartbreakingly emo band-name aside for the time being. come saturday is fast, joyful, jump around fare, recalling the best, propulsive, sad/happiness of bands like saves the day, meat is murder-era the smiths, and early new order. the "oohs" and boy-girl vocals are perfect for rainy days staring out your window at clusters of nature-tourists huddling for warmth, staring at something in the sand. //// what are they looking at?

this is for my dogs

or more specifically someone else's boston terrier, mookie.

radiohead is way funky. this is revealed once you take away thom yorke's vocals and replace them with, ahem, the flow of the century. usually, thom's voice beautifully weaves in and out of the beat like another instrument in the band without creating much in the way of a melody. on wrong prayer, a mashup of i might be wrong off of amnesiac and jay-z's pray, jay's cadence and delivery put the emphasis back on the 1 and squarely on jonny greenwood's dirty bounce guitar lick. the mashup-ist is a kid from upstate ny called minty fresh and the free album is, creatively titled, jaydiohead.

glowing raglan loves royksopp

raglan is the best wave i have ever surfed. the whole bay sections into perfect lefts: whale bay, manu bay, and indicators. the air is so clean here that even a half moon provides enough light for a flashlight-free night hike. we took one down the hill from our sustainable eco-"hotel" made of refurbished boxcars and took pictures on the cliff overlooking the bay. i love new zealand.

i also LOVE royksopp's new single. few acts get me the way these two scandanavians can. happy up here bounces with farmilair blips and handclaps; as a friend described, "eple's all grown up and got lyrics!" and it's true. the boys noize remix is expectedly hard and heavy and will have your head banging and your ass shaking.

newschool of 7 belles and whistles

school of seven bells is the guitarist from secret machines and a set of twins. part age-of-aquarius hippie chant, part blonde redhead beauty-drone. perfect for getting back to nature.

this is iamundernodisguise and this is iamundernodisguise remix by prefuse 73.

humdrum holiday

this is what NZ sounds like. these guys are swedes, call themselves pallers but they nailed this place. it's a green, progressive, innocent humdrum of silver fern blown synths, maori rhythm thumps, and sea-blown salt vocals shaping silver sails between the islands.