A Random Mp3 Trilogy (Atlas Sound, Beirut, Diplo/Radiohead)

Yesterday instead of receiving my pre-ordered Microcastle LP, I was informed that the vinyl release is being pushed back to early December. Lame. But, I have a digital copy of it and Weird Era Cont. that i am listening to until then, so it’s ok. If you pay any attention around here, you know that I clearly love it already, but I will have a full review next week on the double album and the Halloween show in a Deerhunter super-post. For now, I give you one of two new Atlas Sound Halloween dances you can get here. See you Friday night:

Atlas Sound : Danse Macabre

A new Beirut single has appeared in blog land. While I do love some good European gypsy music when I’m in the right mood, I’ve never been able to fully jump on the Beirut bandwagon. I do like both full lengths, but that sort of stuff is a bit one dimensional and i can’t ever seem to stay interested for very long. This new single sees Zach Condon taking things in an electronic direction, which I’ve discovered is what he was doing pre-Beirut. I’m not sure if I’m completely sold on this direction either, but this single has certainly caught my ear:

(Correction: this single is a year old and I had missed it, but it’s still interesting)

Beirut : My Night With The Prostitute From Marseille

Diplo had a remix in Radiohead‘s “Reckoner” contest, but he wasn’t quite finished with it. So he recently reworked his remix. The result is very impressive. He has a new album out today and he’ll be at The Masquerade November 10th.

Radiohead : Reckoner (Diplo remix V.2)

Torrent Of The Day: Beirut (11-26-2007)



BEIRUT 2007-11-26 Black Session (FLAC)

BEIRUT
Black Session
Radio France (Studio 105)
November 26, 2007

Lineage : FM Master (from numeric Radio FM)
recorded live to HD with Audacity > editing & tracking with Audacity > Wav > Traders’ Little Helper (SB aligned/Flac level 6) > Flac files.

01 – Nantes
02 – Brandenburg
03 – Sunday smile
04 – Scenic world
05 – Mount Wroclai
06 – In the Mausoleum
07 – La fête
08 – Elephant gun
09 – The penalty
10 – After the curtain
11 – Le moribond (Jacques Brel cover)
12 – Postcards from italy
13 – Cherbourg

Total time : 48’57″
Artwork Included
Notes : BEIRUT were broadcasted live from “studio 105″ for the radio “France Inter” at Radio-France (Paris).
Sorry about the DJ chatting over some songs, Bernard Lenoir speaks too much…

Line up :
Zach Condon (trumpet/ukulele/vocals)
Nicholas Petree (drums)
Perrin Cloutier (cello, accordion)
Jason Poranski (guitar, mandolin)
Paul Collins (bass, piano, ukulele)
Jon Natcez (baritone sax, clarinet and glockenspiel, ukulele, mandolin, etc…)
Kristin Ferebee (violin)
Tracy Pratt (trumpet, euphonium, flugel horn)

Friday Free-Style

The 2nd Beirut album is due out October 9th and most notably will include string arrangements and guest vocals from Ohnpark favourite Owen Pallett aka Final Fantasy. Here is Beirut‘s Zach Condon covering Grizzly Bear‘s “Knife” in an almost satirical scene:

Ok, here’s some dates to put down in your calendar:

06/27/2007: Voxtrot (The Drunken Unicorn)
06/30/2007: Disco Biscuits, Umphrey’s McGee (Masquerade Music Park)
07/05/2007: People Noise (ISP)
07/07/2007: Fiery Furnaces, Deerhunter (The Earl)
07/07/2007: Bob Weir and Ratdog, Keller Williams (Chastain Park)
07/11/2007: St. Vincent (The Earl)
07/11/2007: Ruby Isle, Spectralux (The Drunken Unicorn)
07/13/2007: The Decemberists with The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Chastain Park)
07/14/2007: Graboids (Lenny’s)
07/19/2007: 311, Matisyahu (Hi Fi Buys)
07/20/2007: Morrisey (Chastain Park)
07/23/2007: Silverchair (The Roxy)
07/25/2007: Untied States 7″ inch release show (The Earl)
07/26/2007: Marnie Stern, Lid Emba (The Drunken Unicorn)
07/28/2007: Marilyn Manson, Slayer (Hi Fi Buys)
07/31/2007: Pelican (The Drunken Unicorn)
08/02/2007: “Rock The Bells” Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, Talib Kwali, many more… (Hi Fi Buys)
08/07/2007: Portugal. The Man (The Drunken Unicorn)
08/07/2007: Ben Kweller (Variety Playhouse)
08/08/2007: Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, Birds Of Avalon (Whirly Ball)
08/09/2007: One Hand Loves The Other (The Earl)
08/13/2007: Neko Case (Tabernacle)
08/20/2007: Willie Nelson (Chastain Park)
09/04/2007: Midlake (The Earl)
09/07/2007: Dark Star Orchestra (Variety Playhouse)
09/12/2007: Peter Bjorn And John (The Variety Playhouse)
09/12/2007: The Meat Puppets (The Earl)
09/13/2007: Andrew Bird (Variety Playhouse)
09/22/2007: Girl Talk (MJQ)
09/26/2007: Animal Collective (Variety Playhouse)
09/27/2007: Deerhunter (The Drunken Unicorn)
10/13/2007: Sunset Rubdown (The Drunken Unicorn)
10/22/2007: Boris (The Earl)
10/26/2007: Low (The Earl)

Deerhunter is opening for two of the Smashing Pumpkins shows in Asheville, NC.

The Smashing Pumpkins are releasing 4 different versions of their new album.

The Go! Team are dropping their new album on September 11th. Here’s a new video:

Austin City Limits Festival has posted its schedule. After looking at it, I decided not to go to this as i was planning, not so much that they did a bad job on the schedule, but the line-up just didn’t seem as good as it initally seemed to me.

The Mars Volta are currently recording their fourth full length that should get released in the fall. Hells Yeah.

Radiohead‘s new album is also due out this fall.

Listen to tracks off of the new Animal Collective album here.

Despite some confusion earlier, it turns out Mastodon is headling Corndogarama. Here’s a vid:

Largeheartedboy is keeping a list of all the Bonnaroo 2007 downloadables.

Speaking of Bonnaroo downloadables, you can get a DVD of The Flaming Lips‘ 2003 Bonnaroo appearance here.

Here’s the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs video:

You can watch Queens Of The Stone Age on The Henry Rollins show here.

You can watch Menomena‘s MTV debut video here.

I’ll leave you with a Snowden video:

Live Show: Beirut (3-16-2007) SXSW

Beirut
March 16, 2007
South By Southwest
KLRU Studios
Austin, TX

SOURCE:
KEXP Uncompressed 44.1kHz PCM Stream [1,411kB/sec] > Total Recorder v6.0

LINEAGE:
WAV [44.1kHz] > CD Wave Editor v1.94.4 > Flac Level 8 > You (Your copy will be CDR(1) if burnt)

GENERATION:
WAV [44.1kHz] > FLAC

LENGTH: 55:54

SETLIST: (click to listen)

01 Island Song
02 Carousels
03 After The Curtain
04 Moribond
05 My Family Role
06 Elephant Gun
07 Sunday Smile
08 Closing Song
09 Mount Vroclai
10 The Gulag Okestar
11 Brazil
12 Scenic World
13 The Canals Of Our City

NOTES:
-Recorded via KEXP’s uncompressed 1.411kB/s stream.

BAND INFO:
-http://www.http://www.beirutband.com
-http://www.myspace.com/beirut
-http://www.kexp.org

RECORDED BY:
Dave Caley / dcaley(AT)torontotapers.org (2007.03.17)

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